Patents Examined by Patrick Ryan
  • Battery pack
    Patent number: 9799862
    Abstract: Provided is a battery pack. The battery pack includes: a case including a cavity; a core pack that inserts into the cavity and comprising a plurality of batteries; a first cover coupled to a side of the case; and a second cover coupled to the other side of the case. The case further includes a plurality of guide grooves formed in inner corners of the case and extending in a length direction of the case, and the core pack further includes a plurality of ridges that respectively slide into the guide grooves in the length direction of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: No-Hyun Kwag, Sang-Hoon Lee
  • Cathode with silver material and silicate dopant and method of producing
    Patent number: 9799886
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel cathodes having a reduced resistivity and other improved electrical properties. Furthermore, this invention also presents methods of manufacturing novel electrochemical cells and novel cathodes. These novel cathodes comprise a silver material that is doped with a silicate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: ZPower, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey V. Ortega, Hongxia Zhou, George W. Adamson
  • Battery system safety shield
    Patent number: 9799876
    Abstract: Storage batteries connected in series in an uninterruptable or back-up power supply system may have voltage potential differences between exposed terminals or conductors that exceed safety limits. A demountable insulating shield having apertures may be positioned so that the series string may be broken into a plurality of series sub-strings having a lesser potential difference has a cover over the aperture through which the series string configuration may be connected and disconnected. The cover may be an insulating material removably fastened to the insulating shield or a sliding cover that is captivated to the insulating shield. When the series string has been divided in to the sub-strings, the insulating shield may be demounted from the structure housing the batteries so that the batteries or their connections may be serviced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: C & C POWER, INC.
    Inventors: N. William Conrardy, James R. Lupinek, William Fechalos, Christopher D. Heinz, Paul Blake, Michael Osko
  • Feed-through
    Patent number: 9799860
    Abstract: A feed-through, for example a battery feed-through for a lithium-ion battery or a lithium ion accumulator, has at least one base body which has at least one opening through which at least one conductor, for example a pin-shaped conductor, embedded in a glass material is guided. The base body contains a low melting material, for example a light metal, such as aluminum, magnesium, AlSiC, an aluminum alloy, a magnesium alloy, titanium, titanium alloy or steel, in particular special steel, stainless steel or tool steel. The glass material consists of the following in mole percent: 35-50% P2O5; 0-14% Al2O3; 2-10% B2O3; 0-30% Na2O; 0-20% M2O, with M being K, Cs or Rb; 0-35% Li2O; 0-20% BaO; and 0-10% Bi2O3, the glass material being free of lead except for contaminants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Frank Kroll, Helmut Hartl, Andreas Roters, Hauke Esemann, Dieter Goedeke, Ulf Dahlmann, Sabine Pichler-Wilhelm, Martin Landendinger, Linda Johanna Backnaes
  • Putting into service of a lithium ion battery
    Patent number: 9799915
    Abstract: Circuits and methods for putting into service a lithium ion battery including a first charging step under a current of at most a few tens of microamperes per square centimeter for a plurality of hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (TOURS) SAS
    Inventors: Severin Larfaillou, Delphine Guy-Bouyssou
  • Remote access to personal video profile
    Patent number: 9800839
    Abstract: A system for providing a user-specific list of programs for online viewing based on a user profile stored in a DVR of a user, said system comprising: (a) a preference server linked to a wide area network and in communication with said DVR and at least one content server having a library of programs available for online delivery to a remote device; and (b) a User Menu hosted by said preference server and particular to said user, said User Menu providing said user-specific list of programs based on said user profile stored in said DVR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Schwartz, Bruce Hertzfeld, Eric Budin
  • Battery, separator, and laminated microporous film
    Patent number: 9799864
    Abstract: A battery is provided. The battery includes a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and a separator; wherein the separator comprises a base which is formed from a non-woven fabric, and a surface layer which is formed on at least one of the surfaces of the base and includes a resin material and inorganic particles, and the separator is formed by a pressurizing process being carried out on at least one of the surfaces of the surface layer, a thickness of the base is 12 ?m or more and 30 ?m or less, an average particle diameter of primary particles of the inorganic particles is 0.3 ?m or more and 0.8 ?m or less, a thickness of the surface layer is 1 ?m or more and 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Okamoto
  • Lithium battery
    Patent number: 9799922
    Abstract: A lithium battery including a negative electrode including a lithium metal or a lithium alloy; a positive electrode; and a polymer gel electrolyte contacting the negative electrode, wherein the polymer gel electrolyte has an ionic conductivity of about 10?3 S/cm or greater, a lithium ion transference number of about 0.15 or greater, and a lithium ion mobility of about 10?6 cm2/V×sec or greater, wherein the polymer gel electrolyte includes a lithium salt, a polymer capable of forming a complex with the lithium salt, an insulating inorganic filler, and an organic solvent, wherein the organic solvent is inert with respect to the lithium metal, wherein an anionic radius of the lithium salt is about 2.5 Angstroms or greater, and wherein a molecular weight of the lithium salt is about 145 or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-sik Park, Dong-joon Lee, Sang-bok Ma, Dong-min Im, Won-sung Choi, Osamu Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Imanishi
  • Button cells and method of producing same
    Patent number: 9799913
    Abstract: A button cell includes a housing cup and a top separated by a seal and forms a housing with parallel flat bottom and top areas, and an electrode-separator assembly including a flat positive and negative electrode and connected by one flat separator, wherein the electrodes are aligned essentially at right angles to the flat bottom and top areas and the assembly is a spiral winding having end faces defining side surfaces of the winding facing in an axial direction relative to the flat bottom and top areas, one of the electrodes connects to the flat bottom or top area via an output conductor including a foil resting between an end face of the winding and the flat top or bottom area, and at least one insulator preventing direct mechanical and electrical contact between the end faces of the winding and the flat bottom and top areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Inventors: Eduard Pytlik, Jürgen Lindner, Ulrich Barenthin, Winfried Gaugler
  • Temperature-control device and method for the temperature control of an energy store
    Patent number: 9797631
    Abstract: The invention relates to a temperature-control device for the temperature control of an energy source, wherein the temperature-control device comprises a temperature-control unit, which has at least one Peltier element which is arranged between an accommodation area for the energy source and a fluid area in a thermally effective manner. Furthermore, the temperature-control device comprises a control unit for supplying voltage to the Peltier element, wherein the control unit is designed to supply a voltage to the Peltier element, which causes the Peltier element to transfer heat from the hotter part of the accommodation area or fluid area to the colder part of the accommodation area or fluid area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Jürgen Grünwald, Manuel Wehowski
  • Barrier layer for thin film battery
    Patent number: 9799914
    Abstract: A thin film battery comprises a substrate, anode and cathode current collector layers formed over the substrate, anode and cathode layers formed over and in electrical contact with respective ones of the current collector layers, and an electrolyte layer formed between the anode and cathode layers. The thin film battery further comprises a barrier layer formed from a material such as tin oxide, tin phosphate, tin fluorophosphate, chalcogenide glass, tellurite glass or borate glass. The barrier layer is configured to encapsulate the thin film battery layers and substantially inhibit or prevent exposure of the thin film battery layers to air or moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Bruce Gardiner Aitken, Todd Parrish St. Clair, James R Lim, Prantik Mazumder, Mark Alejandro Quesada
  • High voltage positive active material and lithium secondary battery comprising the same
    Patent number: 9799878
    Abstract: Disclosed are a cathode active material for high voltage and a lithium secondary battery including the same. More particularly, a cathode active material including spinel-type compound particles having a composition represented by Formula 1 below; Li1+aMxMn2?xO4?zAz??(1) where a, x and z are defined in a specification of the present invention, and metal oxides or metal hydroxides present on surfaces of the spinel-type compound particles, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Minsuk Kang, Seong Hoon Kang, Ho Suk Shin, Byung Chun Park, Sang Min Park, Geungi Min
  • Lithium secondary battery and method for producing same
    Patent number: 9793547
    Abstract: This invention provides a lithium secondary battery capable of bringing about greater cycle characteristics, being in a 4.2 V or higher class. The lithium secondary battery provided by this invention is a 4.2 V or higher class lithium secondary battery using a lithium transition metal composite oxide as a positive electrode active material. The lithium secondary battery comprises a negative electrode at or around which a silicon-containing cyclic compound and/or a reaction product thereof are present. The silicon-containing cyclic compound comprises at least one silicon atom in its ring and has a vinyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yamaguchi
  • Method of depositing nanoscale materials within a nanofiber network and networked nanofibers with coating
    Patent number: 9793548
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method of manufacturing a nanoscale coated network, which includes providing nanofibers, capable of forming a network in the presence of a liquid vehicle and providing a nanoscale solid substance in the presence of the liquid vehicle. The method may also include forming a network of the nanofibers and the nanoscale solid substance and redistributing at least a portion of the nanoscale solid substance within the network to produce a network of nanofibers coated with the nanoscale solid substance. Also provided herein is a nanoscale coated network with an active material coating that is redistributed to cover and electrochemically isolate the network from materials outside the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: WELLSTAT BIOCATALYSIS, LLC
    Inventor: Evgeniya Freydina
  • Shared electrode battery
    Patent number: 9793570
    Abstract: A shared electrode battery includes multiple electrodes of one type (e.g., two or more cathodes) that share an electrode of another type (e.g., a shared anode). The multiple electrodes of the same type (e.g., the multiple cathodes) can have different characteristics, such as different chemistries, particle sizes and distributions, capacities, and so forth that are designed to provide particular features such as high energy density, high power density, high cycle life, fast charge, safety, and so forth. Multiple cathode-anode pairings of one of the multiple electrodes of the same type with the shared electrode are possible. Switching hardware is operable to select one of the multiple pairings at any given time, allowing the battery to provide power using the cathode having the desired characteristics at that given time. A single battery is thus able to provide these multiple different features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ranveer Chandra, Eric Horvitz, Anirudh Badam, Julia L. Meinershagen, Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha, Christopher Dekmezian
  • Negative electrode for rechargeable lithium battery, rechargeable lithium battery including same and method of preparing rechargeable lithium battery
    Patent number: 9793539
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery that includes a negative active material layer including a carbon-based material having a peak of about 20 degrees to 30 degrees at a (002) plane in an X-ray diffraction pattern using a CuK? ray, and an SEI (solid electrolyte interface) passivation film including at least one material selected from an organic material and an inorganic material and having an average thickness of about 10 nm to about 50 nm on the surface of the active material layer of the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyeu-Yoon Sheem, Jake Kim
  • Battery management system having an increased robustness against negative voltages
    Patent number: 9793578
    Abstract: A battery management system includes at least one cell monitoring unit with a plurality of cell voltage terminals, supply lines coupled to the cell voltage terminals, and a cell monitoring circuit made of a plurality of electronic semiconductor modules connected in parallel via the supply lines. The battery management system is configured to monitor a plurality of battery cells via the cell monitoring unit. The battery cells are in each case connected on both sides with their respective positive battery cell terminal and negative battery cell terminal to the battery management system via the cell voltage terminals. Furthermore, one or several supply lines are provided with a melt fuse so that in each battery cell that is connected to the battery management system at least one supply line coupled to the battery cell comprises a melt fuse in its current path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Holger Fink
  • Lithium secondary cell including an electrolytic solution including cyclic acid anhydrides
    Patent number: 9786952
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a high-capacity, long-life lithium secondary cell suppressing a reduction in capacity particularly with respect to use under a high-temperature environment, and having improved cycle properties. The lithium secondary cell comprises a positive electrode active material layer containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode active material layer containing a silicon-based material as a negative electrode active material, and an electrolytic solution in which the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer are immersed, the electrolytic solution contains one or more of specific cyclic acid anhydrides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Suguro, Midori Shimura
  • Lithium-ion secondary battery
    Patent number: 9786896
    Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary battery includes: an electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are stacked or wound through a separator; a plurality of positive electrode tabs drawn from the electrode body; a plurality of negative electrode tabs drawn from the electrode body; a joint portion between the positive electrode tabs and a positive electrode lead tab; and a joint portion between the negative electrode tabs and a negative electrode lead tab. Apart of a metal plate is disposed on a surface of the positive electrode tab or positive electrode lead tab in the joint portion and on a surface of the negative electrode tab or negative electrode lead tab in the joint portion and joined integrally thereto, and a remaining part of the metal plate is wound around the joint portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: NEC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takao Daidoji
  • Electrode assembly of secondary battery
    Patent number: 9786889
    Abstract: Provided is an electrode assembly of a secondary battery, including: a first electrode unit and a second electrode unit; a separation membrane interposed between the first electrode unit and the second electrode unit; and a first coating unit having an insulating member which is made of a metal oxide material and is coated along front and rear edge portions of the first electrode unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SK INNOVATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Seong Kim