Patents by Inventor David Ensling
David Ensling 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).
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Publication number: 20250038361Abstract: An electrochemical energy storage element includes an electrode-separator assembly that includes an anode, a cathode, and at least one separator or solid electrolyte. The anode and cathode each include an anode current collector in the form of an electrically conductive substrate having a top side, a bottom side, and an edge. The anode current collector and/or the cathode current collector includes a main region loaded on both sides with a layer of electrode material and an edge region not loaded with the electrode material that extends in a strip-shaped manner along the edge of the current collector. The electrode-separator assembly has a side from which a respective edge protrudes. A respective edge region extending along the respective edge is partially or completely coated with an electrically non-conductive layer of a support material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2024Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: David Ensling, Rainer Hald, Alexander Hoefling, Raffael Ruess, Jonathan Schimmele
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Publication number: 20250015406Abstract: An energy storage cell includes an electrode-separator assembly winding with a first terminal end face, a second terminal end face, and a winding shell located therebetween. The energy storage cell further includes an airtight and liquid-tight housing that includes a metallic housing cup with a terminal circular opening, a lid assembly with a circular edge, and an annular seal that encloses the circular edge and electrically insulates the housing cup and the lid assembly from one another. The metallic housing cup includes a central section and a closure section. In the closure section, the annular seal is in press contact with the lid assembly and the metallic housing cup has an opening edge that is bent radially inwards over the circular edge of the lid assembly. A wall thickness of the radially inwardly bent opening edge is greater than a wall thickness of the central section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2022Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Edward PYTLIK, Dominik KIENINGER, David ENSLING
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Publication number: 20240283100Abstract: An energy storage element includes an air- and liquid-tight housing. The housing includes a metallic, cup-shaped housing part with a housing bottom and a terminal opening. The housing further includes a lid component welded into and closing the terminal opening of the cup-shaped housing part, the lid component including a metallic lid plate and a negative terminal passed through an aperture in the lid plate and electrically insulated from the lid plate. The energy storage element also includes an electrode-separator assembly having a first flat terminal end face, a second flat terminal end face, an anode with an anode current collector having a first edge and a second edge parallel thereto, and a cathode with a cathode current collector having a first edge and a second edge parallel thereto. A contact sheet metal member is seated on the first edge of the anode current collector and connected thereto by welding.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2022Publication date: August 22, 2024Inventors: Reiko STUTZ, Stefan STOCK, Herbert SCHEIN, Edward PYTLIK, David ENSLING, Stefanie CADUS
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Publication number: 20240006654Abstract: A secondary lithium ion cell includes an electrode-separator assembly in the form of a winding with two terminal end faces. The electrode separator assembly comprising an anode, a cathode, and a separator. The anode comprises an anode current collector comprising a first longitudinal edge, a second longitudinal edge, a strip-shaped main region, and a free edge strip extending along the first longitudinal edge. The strip shaped main region of the anode current collector is loaded with a layer of negative electrode material and the free edge strip of the anode current collector is not loaded with the negative electrode material. The layer of negative electrode material comprises metallic lithium. The cathode comprises a cathode current collector comprising a first longitudinal edge, a second longitudinal edge, a strip-shaped main region, and a free edge strip extending along the first longitudinal edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Edward PYTLIK, David ENSLING
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Publication number: 20230420800Abstract: An energy storage element includes an assembly comprising a plurality of anodes, each respective anode of the plurality of anodes comprising an anode current collector having a main region loaded with a layer of negative electrode material and a free edge strip. The energy storage element further includes a plurality of cathodes, each respective cathode comprising a cathode current collector having a main region loaded with a layer of positive electrode material and a free edge strip. The anodes and the cathodes are stacked and are separated by separators or layers of a solid state electrolyte and the assembly is enclosed in a prismatic housing. The free edge strips of the anode current collectors protrude from one side of the assembly and the free edge strips of the cathode current collectors protrude from another side of the assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Edward PYTLIK, David ENSLING
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Publication number: 20230352765Abstract: The invention relates to an energy storage cell (100) in the form of a cylindrical round cell having an outside diameter of al least 30 mm, comprising an electrode-separator composite (104) having the following sequence: anode, separator, cathode. The electrode-separator composite (104) is in the form of a hollow cylindrical winding having two terminal end faces and having a winding casing lying therebetween. The energy storage cell comprises a housing, which surrounds a hollow cylindrical interior.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Edward PYTLIK, David ENSLING
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Publication number: 20230344048Abstract: An energy storage element includes a sealed housing and an electrode-separator assembly disposed therein. The housing includes a metallic cup-shaped housing part having a housing bottom, a circumferential side wall, and a terminal opening, and a lid assembly closing the terminal opening of the cup-shaped housing part. One edge of an anode current collector or of a cathode current collector is electrically connected to the housing bottom and another edge is electrically connected to a contact sheet metal member which is directly seated on this edge. The lid assembly includes a metallic cover plate and a terminal pole which is guided through an aperture in the cover plate and is electrically insulated from the cover plate. The terminal pole is seated directly on the contact sheet metal member and is connected thereto by welding. Furthermore, the terminal pole is electrically insulated from the cover plate by a cured potting compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: David Ensling, Waldemar Frank, Michael Geiger, Edward Pytlik
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Publication number: 20230307802Abstract: An energy storage cell includes a housing comprising a metallic, tubular housing with a circular opening. The energy storage cell further includes an electrode-separator assembly winding having two terminal end faces and a wound jacket, the electrode-separator assembly comprising an anode, a cathode, and a separator. The energy storage cell additionally includes an at least partly metallic contact element in direct contact with and connected to current collector by welding. The contact element comprises a circular edge and closes the terminal circular opening of the tubular housing portion in a gas- and liquid-tight manner. The contact element is or comprises a metallic membrane electrically connected to a current collector. The metallic membrane is configured to, in response to a pressure in the housing exceeding a threshold, bend such that electrical contact between the contact element and the current collector is lost.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Stefan Stock, Martin Fuerst, David Ensling, Martin Elmer
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Publication number: 20230291080Abstract: A lithium-ion cell includes a housing comprising a metallic tubular housing part made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy with a terminal circular opening. The cell further includes a contact element that closes the terminal circular opening of the tubular housing part, the contact element comprising a metal disk, a contact sheet metal member, a metal pole pin and an insulator. In addition, the cell includes an electrode-separator assembly having an anode, a cathode, and a separator with the sequence anode/separator/cathode. The electrode-separator assembly is in the form of a cylindrical winding with two terminal end faces and a winding shell located therebetween. The electrode-separator assembly is disposed in the winding and is axially aligned so that the winding shell abuts an inside of the tubular housing part.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Edward PYTLIK, David ENSLING
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Publication number: 20230275331Abstract: A an energy storage cell includes an electrode-separator assembly comprising an anode, a cathode, and a separator in a form of a cylindrical winding having two terminal end faces and a winding shell. An anode current collector includes a first longitudinal edge, and a cathode current collector includes a first longitudinal edge. The energy storage cell also includes a tubular housing portion in which the cylindrical winding is aligned axially. An at least partly metallic contact element with a circular edge is in direct contact with and connected the first longitudinal edge of the anode current collector or the first longitudinal edge of the cathode current collector. The energy storage cell further includes an annular seal made of an electrically insulating material that surrounds the circular edge of the contact element. The contact element together with the seal closes a terminal circular opening of the tubular housing portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Edward PYTLIK, David ENSLING
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Publication number: 20230261208Abstract: A method for producing a component of an electrochemical cell includes applying at least one layer of an electrode material to a strip-shaped current collector passing through a coating apparatus such that the current collector, after passing through the coating apparatus, comprises one or more coated strip-shaped sections oriented in a longitudinal direction and being coated with electrode material and one or more uncoated strip-shaped sections oriented in the longitudinal direction. The method further includes assigning a respective uncoated strip-shaped section of the one or more uncoated strip-shaped sections a machine-readable coding that identifies the respective uncoated strip-shaped section. The machine-readable coding is assigned in the form of through holes into the respective uncoated strip-shaped section, or the coding is applied onto the respective uncoated strip-shaped section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Klaus Schoebel, Philipp Renschler, David Ensling, Martin Elmer
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Publication number: 20230238569Abstract: A lithium-ion cell includes a ribbon-shaped electrode-separator assembly having an anode, a separator, and a cathode in a sequence anode/separator/cathode. The anode has a ribbon-shaped anode current collector having a first longitudinal edge, a second longitudinal edge, and two ends, wherein the anode current collector has a strip-shaped main region loaded with a layer of negative electrode material and a free edge strip extending along the first longitudinal edge that is not loaded with the electrode material. The cathode has a ribbon-shaped cathode current collector, wherein the cathode current collector has a strip-shaped main region loaded with a layer of positive electrode material and a free edge strip extending along the first longitudinal edge that is not loaded with the electrode material. The negative electrode material containing the at least one active material in a range of from 20 wt % to 90 wt %.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Edward Pytlik, David Ensling
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Publication number: 20230223658Abstract: A lithium-ion cell includes a ribbon-shaped electrode-separator assembly having an anode, a cathode, and a separator. The electrode-separator assembly is in the form of a winding with two terminal end faces. The anode has a ribbon-shaped anode current collector with a free edge strip extending along a first longitudinal edge that is not loaded with negative electrode material. The cathode has a ribbon-shaped cathode current collector with a free edge strip extending along a first longitudinal edge that is not loaded with positive electrode material. The separator has at least one inorganic material that improves its resistance to thermal stress. The lithium-ion cell further includes a housing enclosing the electrode-separator assembly and a metallic contact element. The metallic contact element is connected to a respective first longitudinal edge of one of the current collectors by a weld.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Edward Pytlik, David Ensling
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Publication number: 20230223581Abstract: An electrochemical cell includes a winding comprising a ribbon-shaped negative electrode with an anode current collector and a ribbon-shaped positive electrode with a cathode current collector. An assembly comprises the negative electrode and the positive electrode, the assembly is wound spirally around a winding axis to form the winding, the winding comprises a central cavity, two terminal end faces, and a circumferential winding shell. The electrochemical cell further includes a contact sheet metal member in direct contact with a protruding longitudinal edge of the anode current collector or the cathode current collector. In addition, the electrochemical cell includes a housing, a sensor apparatus configured detect changes in a state of the winding, and a display and/or a contact configured to display measured values and/or via which the measured values can be transmitted.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Stefan Stock, Edward Pytlik, David Ensling, Martin Elmer
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Publication number: 20230223551Abstract: A lithium ion cell includes a ribbon-shaped electrode-separator assembly having an anode, a separator, and a cathode. The electrode-separator assembly has two terminal end faces or two terminal sides. The anode comprises a ribbon-shaped anode current collector having a first longitudinal edge, the cathode comprises a ribbon-shaped cathode current collector having a first longitudinal edge, and the electrode-separator assembly is enclosed in a housing. The first longitudinal edge of the anode current collector protrudes from one of the terminal end faces or terminal sides of the stack and the first longitudinal edge of the cathode current collector protrudes from the other. A contact sheet metal member is in direct contact with a respective longitudinal edge. A part of the housing serves as the contact sheet metal member and/or the contact sheet metal member forms a part of the housing enclosing the electrode-separator assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Markus Pompetzki, Michael Gottschalk, David Ensling, Martin Elmer
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Publication number: 20230207833Abstract: A lithium ion cell includes a ribbon-shaped electrode-separator assembly comprising an anode, a separator. The electrode-separator assembly is formed as a winding. The anode comprises, as an anode current collector, a ribbon-shaped metal foil having a first longitudinal edge. The anode current collector has a strip-shaped main region loaded with a layer of negative electrode material and a free edge strip extending along the first longitudinal edge that is not loaded with the negative electrode material. The cathode comprises, as a cathode current collector, a ribbon-shaped metal foil having a first longitudinal edge. The cathode current collector has a strip-shaped main region loaded with a layer of positive electrode material and a free edge strip extending along the first longitudinal edge that is not loaded with the positive electrode material. The strip-shaped main region of the anode current collector or the cathode current collector has a plurality of apertures.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Edward PYTLIK, Michael GOTTSCHALK, David ENSLING, Martin ELMER
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Publication number: 20230207789Abstract: A lithium-ion secondary electrochemical cell includes a negative electrode formed as a composite electrode comprising an anode current collector and a first electrochemically active component capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions. The lithium-ion electrochemical cell further includes a positive electrode formed as a composite electrode comprising a cathode current collector and a second electrochemically active component capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions. The lithium-ion electrochemical cell also includes a lithium reserve formed at a current collector reserve region that is at least partly free of the first and the second electrochemically active components, the current collector reserve region being a portion of the anode current collector and/or the cathode current collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Edward PYTLIK, David ENSLING, Ihor CHUMAK
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Publication number: 20220231301Abstract: An electrochemical cell including an electrode-separator composite having an anode, at least one separator and a cathode, wherein the anode comprises an anode current collector having a surface consisting of at least one metal and has been laden with at least one layer of a negative active electrode material, the cathode comprises a cathode current collector having a surface consisting of at least one metal and has been laden with at least one layer of a positive active electrode material, and the surface of the anode current collector and/or the surface of the cathode current collector comprises at least one clear region not laden with the respective active electrode material, and in the at least one clear region the surface of the anode current collector and/or the surface of the cathode current collector has been coated with a support material of greater thermal stability than the surface coated therewith.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Bernd Beck, David Ensling, Rainer Hald, Edward Pytlik, Stefan Stock
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Patent number: 11121410Abstract: A secondary energy storage element includes a reference electrode or a constituent thereof positioned between at least one ply of a separator layer and one of electrode layers and electrically insulated from the electrode layer by an insulating means, the reference electrode or the constituent thereof positioned such that there is at least one metal filament or a sheet-shaped metallic coating on a surface of the at least one ply of the separator layer or a surface of the insulating means, within an overlap region the at least one metal filament or the sheet-shaped metallic coating is arranged on the surface of a ply of the separator layer or a surface of the insulating means, and the at least one metal filament or the sheet-shaped metallic coating covers on the surface an area of a maximum of 5% of the area over which the overlap region extends.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: VARTA Microbattery GmbHInventors: David Ensling, Stefanie Scholz, Stefan Stock, Ihor Chumak
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Patent number: 10516282Abstract: A secondary electrochemical cell includes a negative electrode including as an output conductor, a metallic or metal-coated open-pore form or a metallic or metal-coated nonwoven, as a carbon-based storage material that enables storage of electrical charge in the electrode through formation of an electrical double layer (Helmholtz double layer), activated carbon having a BET surface area of at least 800 m2/g, a non-carbon-based H2 storage material that can chemisorb hydrogen and/or store it as a metal hydride, a positive electrode including as an output conductor, a metallic or metal-coated open-pore form or a metallic or metal-coated nonwoven, and nickel hydroxide and/or nickel oxyhydroxide, a porous separator that separates the negative electrode and the positive electrode from one another, an aqueous alkaline electrolyte with which the electrodes and the separator are soaked, and a housing that encases the electrodes, the separator and the electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: VARTA Microbattery GmbHInventors: David Ensling, Edward Pytlik, Stefanie Scholz, Claudio Schula