Patents by Inventor Ben Liu

Ben Liu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12633570
    Abstract: An electrolyte solution includes an electrolyte salt, a solvent, and a polyether. A secondary battery includes the electrolyte solution. A method for preparing a secondary battery electrolyte solution includes adding an additive and a cyclic ether compound into a composition containing an electrolyte salt and a solvent, and performing in-situ polymerization for at least 24 hours to obtain the secondary battery electrolyte solution. The additive is a Lewis acid or a Lewis acid precursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Xinxin Zhang, Bingkun Guo, Ben Liu, Shikang Yao, Qicheng Zhou, Jiadian Lan
  • Publication number: 20260024804
    Abstract: A secondary battery, an electrolyte, and an electric apparatus. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode plate, an electrolyte, a separator, and a negative electrode current collector, where the electrolyte includes a non-aqueous solvent, an electrolytic salt, and an additive; the non-aqueous solvent includes an ether organic solvent; the additive includes a first additive; and the first additive includes one or more of a phosphite additive or a borate additive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2025
    Publication date: January 22, 2026
    Inventors: Kai WU, Xiaolong LI, Bingkun GUO, Xinxin ZHANG, Shigang CHEN, Shikang YAO, Ben LIU, Qicheng ZHOU, Jiadian LAN
  • Publication number: 20260018658
    Abstract: An electrolyte, a sodium secondary battery and an electric device. The electrolyte comprises a first sodium salt and a first solvent, wherein the first sodium salt comprises sodium trifluoromethanesulfonate, and the first solvent has a structure as shown in formula I, with the mass ratio of the first sodium salt to the first solvent being 0.01-0.4. The electrolyte has a good low-temperature ionic conductivity, which is beneficial for improving the low-temperature cycling performance and low-temperature coulombic efficiency of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2025
    Publication date: January 15, 2026
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited
    Inventors: Kai WU, Xiaolong LI, Bingkun GUO, Xinxin ZHANG, Shigang CHEN, Shikang YAO, Ben LIU, Qicheng ZHOU, Jiadian LAN
  • Publication number: 20250273738
    Abstract: The present application provides a sodium ion battery, comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate and an electrolyte. The negative electrode plate comprises a negative electrode current collector and a primer coating layer formed on the surface of the negative electrode current collector. The electrolyte comprises a first sodium salt, and the first sodium salt includes at least one of a sulfur-containing organic sodium salt and a boron-containing organic sodium salt, and the sodium ion battery satisfies the following relationship: 0.84?Y?0.01X?5.84, wherein X g/m2 is the areal density of the primer coating layer, and Y % is the mass content of the first sodium salt, based on the total mass of the electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2025
    Publication date: August 28, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Xinxin Zhang, Bingkun Guo, Ben Liu, Shikang Yao, Qicheng Zhou, Jiadian Lan
  • Publication number: 20250273691
    Abstract: A current collector with a coating, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electrical device are disclosed. The coating includes at least a surface modification layer. The coating is formed on at least one side of the current collector. A thickness of the surface modification layer is 100 nm to 10 ?m. The coating formed on at least one side of the current collector can effectively block direct contact between a negative electrode metal and an electrolyte solution constituent, thereby reducing side reactions between the negative electrode metal and the electrolyte solution, significantly reducing gas generated by the battery during cycling, and improving the cycle performance and safety of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2025
    Publication date: August 28, 2025
    Inventors: Ben Liu, Chuying Ouyang, Xinxin Zhang, Bingkun Guo, Xiaolong Li, Shikang Yao, Xiaoxia Chen, Shigang Chen, Jiadian Lan, Wenguang Lin
  • Publication number: 20250273693
    Abstract: This application provides a current collector with a coating, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electrical device. The coating includes at least a surface modification layer. The coating is formed on at least one side of the current collector. A thickness of the surface modification layer is not greater than 50 nm. The coating formed on at least one side of the current collector can effectively block direct contact between a negative electrode metal and an electrolyte solution constituent, thereby reducing side reactions between the negative electrode metal and the electrolyte solution, significantly reducing gas generated by the battery during a long period of cycling, and improving the cycle performance and safety of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2025
    Publication date: August 28, 2025
    Inventors: Ben Liu, Chuying Ouyang, Xinxin Zhang, Bingkun Guo, Xiaolong Li, Shikang Yao, Shigang Chen, Xiaoxia Chen, Jiadian Lan, Wenguang Lin
  • Publication number: 20250266523
    Abstract: A sodium metal battery cell and a preparation method thereof, a battery, and an electrical device. The sodium metal battery cell includes: an electrolyte solution, where the electrolyte solution includes a first additive, and the first additive includes an organic compound containing an unsaturated group; and a catalyst, where the catalyst includes at least one of a transition-metal pure element or an alloy thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: Yida XU, Xinxin ZHANG, Bingkun GUO, Xiaolong LI, Shigang CHEN, Shikang YAO, Ben LIU
  • Publication number: 20250253407
    Abstract: An electrolyte for sodium secondary battery, a sodium secondary battery, a battery module, and an electric apparatus. The electrolyte for sodium secondary battery includes a sodium salt, an ether solvent, and a fluoroether solvent. The electrolyte includes ether solvent molecules and fluoroether solvent molecules that form a co-solvation structure with sodium ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Shigang CHEN, Bingkun GUO, Xinxin ZHANG, Xiaolong LI, Ben LIU, Shikang YAO
  • Publication number: 20250253399
    Abstract: An electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery, the sodium secondary battery, and an electric device. The electrolyte for the sodium secondary battery includes a diluent, where the diluent includes an alkyl alkoxy silane compound. The sodium secondary battery includes the electrolyte described above. The electric device includes the sodium secondary battery described above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaolong LI, Bingkun GUO, Xinxin ZHANG, Shigang CHEN, Ben LIU, Shikang YAO, Wenguang LIN, Qicheng ZHOU, Jiadian LAN
  • Publication number: 20250246681
    Abstract: An electrolyte solution includes an electrolyte salt, a solvent, and a polyether. A secondary battery includes the electrolyte solution. A method for preparing a secondary battery electrolyte solution includes adding an additive and a cyclic ether compound into a composition containing an electrolyte salt and a solvent, and performing in-situ polymerization for at least 24 hours to obtain the secondary battery electrolyte solution. The additive is a Lewis acid or a Lewis acid precursor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaolong LI, Xinxin ZHANG, Bingkun GUO, Ben LIU, Shikang YAO, Qicheng ZHOU, Jiadian LAN
  • Publication number: 20250219143
    Abstract: This application provides an electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery, a sodium secondary battery, and an electrical apparatus. An electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery is provided, where the electrolyte includes an additive, and the additive includes a fluorinated ether compound. In this application, through the addition of an additive, including a fluorinated ether compound, in the electrolyte, the high-temperature cycling performance of the battery can be improved, the high-temperature gas generation phenomenon of the battery can be alleviated, and the electrochemical performance and safety performance of the battery can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Bingkun Guo, Xinxin Zhang, Ben Liu, Shigang Chen, Shikang Yao, Qicheng Zhou, Jiadian Lan, Wenguang Lin
  • Publication number: 20250219144
    Abstract: This application provides an electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery, a sodium secondary battery, and an electric device. An electrolyte for a sodium secondary battery is provided, where the electrolyte includes an additive, and the additive includes a sulfate ester compound or a sulfonate ester compound. In this application, through the addition of an additive, including a sulfate ester compound or a sulfonate ester compound, in the electrolyte, the high-temperature cycling performance of the battery can be improved, the high-temperature gas generation phenomenon of the battery can be alleviated, and the electrochemical performance and safety performance of the battery can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Bingkun Guo, Xinxin Zhang, Shigang Chen, Ben Liu, Shikang Yao, Qicheng Zhou, Jiadian Lan, Wenguang Lin
  • Publication number: 20250219145
    Abstract: This application provides a sodium secondary battery electrolyte, a sodium secondary battery, and an electric apparatus. The sodium secondary battery electrolyte is provided, and the electrolyte includes a diluent, where the diluent includes alkane with a formula CnH2n+2, where n is 8 to 13. The diluent can improve high-temperature cycling performance of a battery, reduce high-temperature gas production of the battery, and enhance electrochemical performance and safety performance of the battery at high temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Xiaolong Li, Chuying Ouyang, Bingkun Guo, Xinxin Zhang, Ben Liu, Shigang Chen, Shikang Yao, Qicheng Zhou, Jiadian Lan
  • Publication number: 20250219151
    Abstract: A sodium secondary battery includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a first electrolyte located on the side of the positive electrode plate, and a second electrolyte located on the side of the negative electrode plate, where the first electrolyte and the second electrolyte contain different organic solvents, the first electrolyte contains an ester solvent, a sulfone solvent, or a fluoroether solvent, and the second electrolyte contains an ether solvent or an amide solvent. With different organic solvents matched with the positive/negative electrode plate respectively, the electrochemical stability window width of the battery is optimized while gas generation and swelling of the battery are alleviated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Shigang CHEN, Bingkun GUO, Xinxin ZHANG, Xiaolong LI, Shikang YAO, Ben LIU
  • Publication number: 20250201915
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte, a preparation method thereof, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electric apparatus are described. The solid electrolyte includes a compact layer and a porous layer located on at least one side of the compact layer, where a porosity of the porous layer is greater than a porosity of the compact layer. The porous layer helps to improve the wettability of an interface between the solid electrolyte and a positive electrode plate/negative electrode plate, and also facilitates filling of positive and negative electrode active substances into pores, thereby reducing interface resistance of a battery and improving rate performance and low-temperature performance of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigang CHEN, Bingkun GUO, Xinxin ZHANG, Ben LIU, Xiaolong LI, Qicheng ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20250183355
    Abstract: This application provides a sodium secondary battery electrolyte, a sodium secondary battery, and an electrical device. The sodium secondary battery electrolyte includes a solvent. A percentage of an amount of substance of a free solvent in relation to a total amount of substance of the solvent in the electrolyte is not greater than 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaolong LI, Xinxin ZHANG, Bingkun GUO, Ben LIU, Shikang YAO, Qicheng ZHOU, Jiadian LAN
  • Publication number: 20250174716
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electric apparatus are described. A contact angle of molten sodium on a surface of the solid electrolyte is less than 82°. This helps to improve the interface wettability between the solid electrolyte and a positive electrode plate/negative electrode plate, reduce the interface resistance, improve the interface kinetic performance, and improve the low-temperature performance of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigang CHEN, Bingkun GUO, Xinxin ZHANG, Ben LIU, Xiaolong LI, Qicheng ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20250149598
    Abstract: This application provides a current collector and a preparation method thereof, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an electric apparatus. The current collector includes a metal substrate and a surface treatment layer formed on at least one side of the metal substrate, where the surface treatment layer includes oxide and/or nitride of the metal substrate. The surface treatment layer can protect the metal from corrosion by anions in the electrolyte solution or optimize the metal nucleation behavior, improve the coulombic efficiency and cycle capacity retention rate of the battery, and improve the storage performance of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Contemporary Amperex Technology (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventors: Shigang CHEN, Bingkun GUO, Xinxin ZHANG, Ben LIU, Xiaolong LI
  • Publication number: 20240416977
    Abstract: A train positioning method based on a dynamic map includes: performing train positioning initialization based on a positioning source, and obtaining key point information for creating the dynamic map; generating key point coordinates according to the key point information, and creating the dynamic map; updating a train position on the dynamic map according to train displacement and beacon information; updating the dynamic map, and updating the train position based on the updated dynamic map; and, converting an updated train position in the updated dynamic map into a standard track map, to achieve train positioning. A plurality of initialized positioning sources are used to obtain initialization positioning information of train key points, and creation of a dynamic map is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Zimin GUO, Ben LIU, Xing FANG, Xuchao WANG, Jingen HU, Ming CHANG, Xinjun LV
  • Patent number: 12126023
    Abstract: A hard carbon. A total quantity of adsorbed nitrogen under a relative pressure P/P0 of nitrogen between 10?8 and 0.035 is V1 cm3 (STP)/g and a total quantity of adsorbed nitrogen under a relative pressure P/Po of nitrogen between 0.035 and 1 is V2 cm3 (STP)/g in a nitrogen adsorption isotherm determined at a temperature of 77 K for the hard carbon. The hard carbon satisfies: V2/V1?0.20 and 20?V1?150, where P represents an actual pressure of nitrogen, and P0 represents a saturated vapor pressure of nitrogen at a temperature of 77 K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaoxia Chen, Xinxin Zhang, Chuying Ouyang, Yongsheng Guo, Jiarui Tian, Yu Ma, Ben Liu, Xiaoji Zheng