Patents Examined by Stewart Fraser
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Patent number: 11837721Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a slurry capable of forming an all solid state battery with low ion resistivity. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a slurry comprising a sulfide solid electrolyte and a solvent, and the solvent includes a first solvent and a second solvent, a boiling point of the first solvent is 80° C. or more and less than a crystallization temperature of the sulfide solid electrolyte, the first solvent is acyclic ether based solvent, acyclic ester based solvent, or acyclic ketone based solvent, and a boiling point of the second solvent is the crystallization temperature of the sulfide solid electrolyte or more.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kei Oura, Masaki Adachi
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Patent number: 11835850Abstract: A reticle in an apparatus for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) exposure includes a substrate having an image area and a black border area surrounding the image area, a multi-layer structure on the image area and the black border area of the substrate, the multi-layer structure to reflect EUV light, a capping layer covering the multi-layer structure, first absorber layer patterns on the capping layer in the image area and the black border area, and an absorber structure on the capping layer in the black border area, the absorber structure including one of the first absorber layer patterns, a hard mask pattern, and a second absorber layer pattern sequentially stacked, the absorber structure covering an entire upper surface of the capping layer in the black border area.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sanghyun Kim, Jinho Jeon
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Patent number: 11837761Abstract: A vehicle includes a fuel cell stack, an ejector, a first injector, a second injector, and a controller. The fuel cell stack is configured to generate power to propel the vehicle. The fuel cell stack has an anode side. The ejector is configured to deliver hydrogen to the anode side. The ejector has a nozzle configured to accelerate and direct the hydrogen toward the anode side. The first and second injectors are configured to deliver hydrogen to the nozzle. The controller is programmed to, in response to a command to deliver hydrogen to the anode side, open each of the first and second injectors and subsequently close the second injector while the first injector remains open.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Craig Winfield Peterson, Chris Weinkauf
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Patent number: 11831017Abstract: The present invention relates to novel combinations of redox active compounds for use as redox flow battery electrolytes. The invention further provides kits comprising these combinations, redox flow batteries, and method using the combinations, kits and redox flow batteries of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CMBlu Energy AGInventors: Jan Hartwig, Peter Geigle, Evgeny Larionov
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Patent number: 11830990Abstract: A battery system includes a rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) having battery cells, and a battery controller network configured to execute two-level logic to detect a thermal runaway condition. The network includes RESS-embedded cell monitoring units (CMUs) electrically connected to a respective cell group, and measuring and wirelessly transmitting cell data. A battery control module (BCM) is in communication with the CMUs. Thermal runaway sensors are mounted on the CMUs and/or the BCM. A master controller connected to the BCM includes a thermal runaway detection algorithm configured to detect a thermal runaway condition occurring within the RESS. The BCM uses data from the CMUs and thermal runaway sensors to execute first logic level which determines when to wake up the master controller. The master controller, in response to receipt of a wakeup signal, executes a second logic level to execute the algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Fang Wang, Fiona E. Meyer-Teruel, Tao Wang, Thomas Timpf, Jr., Andrew C. Baughman
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Patent number: 11831048Abstract: A fuel cell system including an exhaust merging unit at which a cathode exhaust fluid containing water discharged from a cathode of a fuel cell stack merges with an anode exhaust fluid containing water discharged from an anode of the fuel cell stack, wherein the exhaust merging unit includes a cathode exhaust outlet for discharging the cathode exhaust fluid, an anode exhaust outlet for discharging the anode exhaust fluid, and a partition separating the cathode exhaust outlet and the anode exhaust outlet on an upstream side of a merging section at which the cathode exhaust outlet and the anode exhaust outlet merge.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryoichi Yoshitomi, Yuta Hoshi
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Patent number: 11822230Abstract: In a method of de-mounting a pellicle from a photo mask, the photo mask with the pellicle is placed on a pellicle holder. The pellicle is attached to the photo mask by a plurality of micro structures. The plurality of micro structures are detached from the photo mask by applying a force or energy to the plurality of micro structures before or without applying a pulling force to separate the pellicle from the photo mask. The pellicle is de-mounted from the photo mask. In one or more of the foregoing and following embodiments, the plurality of micro structures are made of an elastomer.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Wen-Yao Wei, Chi-Lun Lu, Hsin-Chang Lee
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Patent number: 11824198Abstract: A porous silicon composite includes: a porous core including a porous silicon composite secondary particle; and a shell disposed on a surface of the porous core and surrounding the porous core, wherein the porous silicon composite secondary particle includes an aggregate of silicon composite primary particles, each including silicon, a silicon suboxide on a surface of the silicon, and a first graphene on a surface of the silicon suboxide, wherein the shell include a second graphene, and at least one of the first graphene and the second graphene includes at least one element selected from nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Inhyuk Son, Mijong Kim, Jumyeung Lee, Minwoo Lim, Junghyun Choi, Sungsoo Han
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Patent number: 11824240Abstract: Disclosed is a technique for capturing, refining and storing byproduct hydrogen generated by a seawater electrolyzer, using the byproduct hydrogen in an energy system, and producing high-purity magnesium oxide from alkali byproducts additionally produced after seawater electrolysis.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: KWATERCRAFT CO., LTD.Inventor: Soon Pyo Kwon
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Patent number: 11815801Abstract: Disclosed is a blankmask for EUV includes a substrate, a reflection film that is stacked on the substrate; and an absorbing film that is stacked on the reflection film. The absorbing film is constituted by an uppermost layer and a plurality of layers under the uppermost layer. The uppermost layer contains Ta and O. The plurality of layers contain Ta and are configured so that a content of N increases upward. As a result, a CD deviation of a pattern of the absorbing film is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: S & S TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Cheol Shin, Jong-Hwa Lee, Chul-Kyu Yang, Gil-Woo Kong
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Patent number: 11811039Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery stack having a plurality of prismatic batteries being stacked. The battery pack further includes a cooling plate extending in a stack direction of the prismatic batteries in the battery stack. The cooling plate includes a plurality of coolant passages and a plurality of grooves. The coolant passages extend in a perpendicular direction substantially perpendicular to the stack direction of the prismatic batteries, and allow a coolant to flow in the coolant passages. The grooves constitute heat conduction inhibitors configured to inhibit heat conduction in the stack direction of the prismatic batteries.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Chifumi Murayama, Shinya Motokawa, Keisuke Shimizu
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Patent number: 11807783Abstract: A liquid composition for manufacturing electrodes contains a radical polymerizable composition containing an ethylenically unsaturated compound having an oxyethylene group and a polymerization inhibitor, wherein infrared absorption spectra before curing the radical polymerizable composition include a first absorption band in a range of 1640 to 1620 cm?1, a second absorption band in a range of 1430 to 1400 cm?1, and a third absorption band in a range of 820 to 800 cm?1, and the second absorption band has a greater absorption intensity than the third absorption band, and the third absorption band has a greater absorption intensity than the first absorption band, and wherein the infrared absorption spectra after curing the radical polymerizable composition are substantially free of the first absorption band, the second absorption band, and third absorption band.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hiromitsu Kawase, Yuu Zama, Okitoshi Kimura, Kohji Matsuoka, Ryuji Higashi, Yusuke Kanno, Hideo Yanagita, Masahiro Masuzawa
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Patent number: 11811022Abstract: A secondary battery that includes an electrode assembly having a plurality of electrode configuration layers, each electrode configuration layer including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and an exterior body enclosing the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly has a substantially circular plan view shape with a single partial notch.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Toru Kawai
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Patent number: 11804600Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes particles of a lithium-transition metal composite oxide that contains nickel in the composition thereof and has a layered structure. The particles have an average particle size DSEM based on electron microscopic observation in a range of 1 ?m to 7 ?m in which a ratio D50/DSEM of a 50% particle size D50 in volume-based cumulative particle size distribution to the average particle size based on electron microscopic observation is in a range of 1 to 4, and a ratio D90/D10 of a 90% particle size D90 to a 10% particle size D10 in volume-based cumulative particle size distribution is 4 or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignees: NICHIA CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Ogawa, Soshi Kawamura, Toru Sukigara, Hiroto Maeyama, Kenichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11799129Abstract: A solid ion conductor compound includes lithium (Li), phosphorus (P), hafnium (Hf), and sulfur (S), wherein if oxygen (O) is present, a content of the O is less than an amount of the Hf, and wherein the solid ion conductor compound has an argyrodite crystal structure, and in the argyrodite crystal structure the Hf is on a portion of the P crystallographic sites.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyunseok Kim, Soyeon Kim, Shintaro Kitajima
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Patent number: 11799098Abstract: To provide a fuel cell system configured to suppress the occurrence of partial fuel gas deficiency in a fuel cell. A fuel cell system wherein at least one injector selected from the group consisting of a first injector and a second injector is driven by duty ratio control to maintain a fuel gas pressure to the fuel cell within a predetermined range, in accordance with an output current value; wherein a controller determines whether or not the output current value is larger than a predetermined first threshold; and wherein, when the controller determines that the output current value is larger than the predetermined first threshold, the controller drives the first injector by duty ratio control, and the controller drives the second injector by duty ratio control to open a valve of the second injector at least while a valve of the first injector is closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuuki Kasahara, Masayuki Ito, Satoshi Andoh
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Patent number: 11799089Abstract: The present disclosure relates to antioxidant for a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell electrode catalyst, which includes cerium hydrogen phosphate (HCe2(PO4)3(H2O)) in the form of a nanofiber, and an electrode and a membrane-electrode assembly including the same. The electrode for a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell of the present disclosure, wherein the antioxidant is dispersed, can improve the mechanical strength of an electrode catalyst layer and can minimize deterioration of chemical durability even after long-term operation. And, a fuel cell including the same can exhibit high output performance and can operate stably even after long-term operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: So Young Lee, Seung Ju Lee, Jin Hyeon Choi, Jeawoo Jung, Hyoung-Juhn Kim, Sung Jong Yoo, Hee-Young Park, Bora Seo, Jin Young Kim, Jong Hyun Jang
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Patent number: 11799107Abstract: An oxygen supply apparatus and method for a fuel cell of an aircraft are provided. The oxygen supply apparatus includes a compressor that generates compressed air by compressing air in the atmosphere and supplies the compressed air to a fuel cell stack, an oxygen tank having a predetermined amount of oxygen stored therein. An aircraft monitoring device monitors the aircraft and determines whether oxygen supply from the oxygen tank is required, and an oxygen supply means switching device switches an oxygen supply means for the fuel cell stack from the compressor to the oxygen tank, or vice versa depending on an outcome of the monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Joung Ho Lee, Nam Woo Lee, Hee Sung Yoon
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Patent number: 11799162Abstract: An aerospace battery may include a housing, a retaining seat disposed in the housing, and a battery pack core supported by the retaining seat in the housing. The battery pack core may include at least one cell district comprising a plurality of pouch cell batteries and at least one flexible cold plate disposed between at least two adjacent pouch cell batteries of the plurality of pouch cell batteries. The retaining seat may define a fluid delivery channel configured to couple to an inlet of a cooling channel of the flexible cold plate and a fluid return channel configured to couple to an outlet of the cooling channel of the flexible cold plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: Rolls-Royce Singapore Pte. Ltd., Rolls-Royce plcInventors: Michael Adam Zagrodnik, Teh Yee Siang, Mathivanan Anand Prabhu, Krishnamoorthi Sivalingam, Stephen Mountain
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Patent number: 11799100Abstract: A fuel cell system includes, in an auxiliary device case, a first layer, a second layer and a third layer in order from the end plate side, a coolant discharge pipe arranged in the first layer, cathode-side discharge pipes respectively connected to a plurality of oxygen-containing gas lead-out through holes which interpose the coolant discharge pipe, a plurality of first penetrating portions penetrating the first layer in the thickness direction, and a first connecting part provided in the second layer, extending in the layer direction of the second layer so as to straddle the coolant discharge pipe on the outer side, and connecting the plurality of first penetrating portions.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ryoichi Yoshitomi