Abstract: A lead wire for a nonaqueous electrolyte battery has a conductor, and an insulating film having a plurality of layers and covering at least a part of the outer peripheral surface of the conductor, wherein the insulating film has a conductor-covering layer laminated on a surface of the conductor, a first insulating layer laminated on an outermost surface of the insulating film, and a second insulating layer laminated on an inner surface of the first insulating layer; the conductor-covering layer contains an acid-modified polyolefin; and the ratio (E1/E2) of an elastic modulus E1 of the first insulating layer at any one temperature in the range of 80° C. or more and 125° C. or less to an elastic modulus E2 of the second insulating layer at the same temperature as in the first insulating layer, is 0.10 or more and 10.00 or less.

Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase, and having a composition represented by NaxSi136, wherein 1.98<x<2.54.

Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a battery cell, a manufacturing method and a manufacturing system therefor, a battery and an electric device. The battery cell according to an embodiment of the application includes: a casing having an opening; an electrode assembly, accommodated in the casing and including a tab portion; an end cover assembly, including an end cover configured to cover the opening and an electrode terminal mounted on the end cover, the end cover being provided with a first through hole; and a current collecting member, configured to electrically connect the electrode terminal and the tab portion. According to the application, impurities attached to the electrode assembly can be reduced during assembly, thereby improving the safety performance of the battery cell.

Abstract: A cylindrical secondary battery module includes: a plurality of cylindrical secondary battery cells respectively having a battery case in which an electrode assembly and an electrolyte are accommodated; a cell frame at which the plurality of cylindrical secondary battery cells are disposed; and a lid coupled to the cell frame and having a flame outlet. The cell frame includes: a plurality of plate members bent and coupled to intersect each other; and a space formed between the plurality of plate members so that the cylindrical secondary battery cells are disposed therein.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for producing a battery carrier for an electric battery module of a vehicle configured to electrically operate, the method may include: providing a material blank with a blank region; providing a heat exchanger structure in the blank region, that comprises hollow channels that are inseparably connected to the material blank, wherein the hollow channels are provided to regulate a temperature of the electric battery module using a fluid; and forming the material blank into a support tray with a tray base configured to support the electric battery module and with sidewalls that delimit the tray base at the sides of the tray base, wherein the tray base is developed from the blank region.

Abstract: A cell case of a secondary battery having a rectangular tube-shaped can body, a can bottom double seamed to a bottom end of the can body, and a can lid double seamed to a top end of the can body, in which cell case of a secondary battery, an area ratio S1 of part of the can bottom, including a portion 1 between a plane vertical to the can body a distance of 0.5 mm above a bottom end of a double seam of the can body and the can bottom and a plane vertical to the can body a distance of 1.0 mm below the bottom end of the double seam, with respect to a cross-sectional area of the can body at the bottom end of the double seam is 50% or more, and a battery module having a plurality of such cell cases are provided.

Abstract: An adapter assembly, an energy storage device and a power consuming apparatus are provided. The adapter assembly includes an adapter and a limiting member. The adapter includes a first connecting portion, a second connecting portion, and a bendable connecting portion connected between the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion. The limiting member is located between the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion foldable with respect to each other, and is insulated from the adapter. The limiting member has a limiting face configured to abut against the bendable connecting portion, and the bendable connecting portion is configured to rotate and bend around the limiting face.

Abstract: A method of rebalancing electrolytes in a redox flow battery system comprises directing hydrogen gas generated on the negative side of the redox flow battery system to a catalyst surface, and fluidly contacting the hydrogen gas with an electrolyte comprising a metal ion at the catalyst surface, wherein the metal ion is chemically reduced by the hydrogen gas at the catalyst surface, and a state of charge of the electrolyte and pH of the electrolyte remain substantially balanced.

Abstract: In a preparation process of a method for manufacturing a power generating cell stack, a stacking table provided with a vibratable stack guide portion projecting upward and a stack unit provided with a positioning portion guided by the stack guide portion are prepared. In the placing step, the stack unit is stacked on the stacking table by dropping the stack unit toward the stacking table while the positioning portion is stacked along the stack guide portion which is vibrated in the vertical direction.

Abstract: A fuel-cell stack has a first end plate and a second end plate and a plurality of fuel cells arranged between the end plates. At least one elastic tensioning element is tensioned in the stack direction between the end plates. Furthermore, a re-tensioning element is arranged between the tensioning element and a surface section of the fuel-cell stack. The re-tensioning element has a tensioning body and at least one adjusting element arranged between the tensioning body and the surface section. A distance between the tensioning body and the surface section can be variably adjusted and fixed by the at least one adjusting element.

Abstract: Provided are a solid electrolyte composition including an inorganic solid electrolyte, binder particles which include a polymer having an SP value of 10.5 cal1/2 cm?3/2 or more and have an average particle diameter of 10 nm or more and 50,000 nm or less, and a dispersion medium, a sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, an electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery, and an all-solid state secondary battery for which the same solid electrolyte composition is used, and methods for manufacturing the electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery and the all-solid state secondary battery.

Abstract: A fuel cell system comprises a clamping system for a fuel cell stack, the clamping system including a plurality of disc springs. The disc springs are connected together in a bonded and/or force-fitting manner on a plane perpendicular to an axis of rotational symmetry running through the center of the circle described by the disc.

Abstract: A battery cell comprises at least one galvanic cell, a first cell housing element, and a second cell housing element. The two cell housing elements jointly substantially completely enclose the galvanic cell. The first cell housing element has inner recesses on the inner surface thereof, which inner recesses are, on an outer surface of the first cell housing element lying immediately opposite the inner surface, outer protrusions for electrically contacting a first further battery cell. First compensation elements are complementary to the inner recesses in such away and are arranged in the inner recesses in such a way that the first compensation elements, together with the inner recesses, form a substantially flat inner surface of the first cell housing element.

Abstract: A fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel cell stack, a hydrogen gas supply pipe for supplying a hydrogen gas to the fuel cell stack, and injectors provided at positions along the hydrogen gas supply pipe, for injecting the hydrogen gas to the fuel cell stack. The hydrogen gas supply pipe includes a buffer, provided on the upstream side of the injectors, and the hydrogen gas can flow through the buffer. The buffer includes a branch pipe branched from the hydrogen gas supply pipe, and the buffer tank coupled to the branch pipe so as to allow the hydrogen gas to flow through the buffer tank.

Abstract: An active material and a surface treatment method of the active material are provided. A surface of the active material may be treated with a coating layer including a first metal oxide containing lithium, and a second metal oxide.

Abstract: A battery module includes battery cells being arrayed, a cell-monitoring unit configured to monitor each battery cell of the battery module, a battery cell side circuit board electrically connected to the battery cells, and a cell-monitoring unit side circuit board electrically connected to the cell-monitoring unit and the battery cell side circuit board. The battery cell side circuit board and the cell-monitoring unit side circuit board are connected to each other and voltage detection lines on the battery cell side circuit board and a voltage detection lines on the cell-monitoring unit side circuit board are electrically connected. The electric circuits of the voltage detection lines on the battery cell side circuit board are aligned in order of their electric potentials and the electric circuits of the voltage detection lines on the cell-monitoring unit side circuit board are aligned in order of their electric potentials.

Abstract: A reactant gas channel part provided outside an auxiliary machinery case of a fuel cell system is connected to a case through hole. A plurality of channel seal members are provided between the auxiliary machinery case and the reactant gas channel part, where the channel seal members are arranged side by side in the radial direction of the case through hole and surround the case through hole. The reactant gas channel part has an opposing surface that faces a surrounding portion of the auxiliary machinery case that surrounds the case through hole. The channel seal members include an inner seal member abutting on the opposing surface and an outer seal member disposed radially outside of it. A connection channel communicating with an internal space of the auxiliary machinery case is formed between the inner seal member and the outer seal member.

Abstract: There may be provided a fuel cell stack unit comprising: a first gas separating plate; a first sealing gasket; a metal support, an end cell, and an air inlet being formed in the outer peripheral side of the center portion; a second sealing gasket; and a second gas separating plate stacked on the lower side of the second sealing gasket, wherein air introduced from the air inlet of the first gas separating plate successively passes through the air inlets formed in the first sealing gasket, the metal support, and the second sealing gasket, respectively, and flows from one side of the end cell to the other side thereof along a stacking boundary between the lower side of the end cell and the upper side of the second gas separating plate; and the second sealing gasket is recessed inward from an edge of the second sealing gasket.

Abstract: Provided is a fuel-cell unit cell having a first gas diffusion layer that is laid on a first surface of a membrane-electrode assembly such that an outer peripheral edge portion thereof protrudes from the first surface of the membrane-electrode assembly. At a first part of the fuel-cell unit cell: the fuel-cell unit cell has a bonding layer; between the membrane-electrode assembly and a portion of the first gas diffusion layer on an inner side from the outer peripheral edge portion thereof, the bonding layer bonds the membrane-electrode assembly and the portion together; and between a support frame and the outer peripheral edge portion of the first gas diffusion layer, between the support frame and a first separator, and/or between the support frame and a second separator, the bonding layer bonds the support frame and the outer peripheral edge portion or the separator together.

Abstract: A cooling system and cooling method for a fuel cell onboard a vehicle, wherein the fuel cell includes a gasifier configured to expand liquid hydrogen to gaseous hydrogen for feed to the fuel cell, the cooling system including a coolant system sized for less than peak power operation of the vehicle; and an auxiliary coolant system configured to provide supplemental cooling to the fuel cell, wherein the supplemental coolant system is configured to by-pass coolant to the gasifier and employ heat of gasification of the liquid hydrogen to provide supplemental cooling for the fuel cell during peak vehicle operation.