Patents by Inventor Fantai Kong
Fantai Kong 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: 11788241Abstract: A road embedded battery includes a first encapsulation layer disposed on top of a road grade base. A first conductor mesh is disposed on top of the first encapsulation layer and an anode material is embedded into to first conductor mesh. A permeable membrane is disposed on top of the anode material. A second conductor mesh is disposed on top of the permeable membrane and a cathode material is embedded into the second conductor mesh. A second encapsulation layer is disposed on top of the cathode material.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Hunt Energy Enterprises, L.L.C.Inventors: Mark Griffin, Fantai Kong
-
Publication number: 20230146748Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electrode for a battery. The electrode including a current collector frame and an electrode substrate coupled to the current collector frame. An electrically conductive adhesive layer can be between the current collector frame and the electrode substrate and the electrically conductive adhesive layer can include a polymer binder and a conductive filler. The electrode substrate includes a porous material and active electrode material within the porous material. The porous material is copper foam, nickel foam, stainless steel foam, titanium foam, carbon felt, carbon cloth, or a carbon paper conductive polymer. The active electrode material includes one or more of manganese oxide, nickel oxide, vanadium oxide, titanium oxide, iron oxide, zinc metal, lead oxide, or lead.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Denyce Alvarez, Nestor Pimentel Solorio, Fantai Kong
-
Publication number: 20230144194Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for a privacy cover in an electronic device. The battery system can be configured to monitoring one or more condition of a battery using a battery electrolyte controller that is separate from the battery, adjusting one or more properties of an electrolyte in an electrolyte conduit, where the electrolyte conduit is coupled to an inlet and an outlet on the battery, and activating a pump to move the electrolyte with the adjusted one or more properties into the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Nestor Pimentel Solorio, Denyce Alvarez, Fantai Kong
-
Publication number: 20230065988Abstract: Battery systems, methods of in-situ grid-scale battery construction, and in-situ battery regeneration methods are disclosed. The battery system features controllable capacity regeneration for grid-scale energy storage. The battery system includes a battery comprising a plurality of cells. Each cell includes a cathode comprising cathode electrode materials disposed on a first current collector, an anode comprising anode electrode materials disposed on a second current collector, a separator or spacer disposed between the cathode and the anode an electrolyte to fill the battery in the spaces between electrodes. The battery system includes a battery system controller, wherein the battery system controller is configured to selectively charge and discharge the battery at a normal cutoff voltage and wherein the battery system controller is further configured to selectively charge and discharge the battery at a capacity regeneration voltage as part of a healing reaction to generate active electrode materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Fantai Kong, Mark Griffin, Jin-Myoung Lim
-
Publication number: 20220384789Abstract: Cathode composition including a core cathode body composed of nickel oxide crystallite particles and a surface cathode coating layer contacting and at least partially surrounding an outer surface of the core cathode body. The surface cathode coating layer includes one or more of a transition metal or post-transition metal oxide or fluoride and one or more of lanthanide row atoms having a concentration in a range from about 0.1 to 10 mol %, has a thickness in a range from about 0.5 to 30 nm, and has an amorphous, polycrystalline or composite amorphous/polycrystalline atomic structure. Method of manufacture including preparing a cathode composition includes forming a core cathode body composed of nickel oxide crystallite particles, and, forming by atomic layer deposition, a surface cathode coating layer contacting and at least partially surrounding an outer surface of the core cathode body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Kyeongjae Cho, Fantai Kong
-
Patent number: 11469452Abstract: Battery systems, methods of in-situ grid-scale battery construction, and in-situ battery regeneration methods are disclosed. The battery system features controllable capacity regeneration for grid-scale energy storage. The battery system includes a battery comprising a plurality of cells. Each cell includes a cathode comprising cathode electrode materials disposed on a first current collector, an anode comprising anode electrode materials disposed on a second current collector, a separator or spacer disposed between the cathode and the anode an electrolyte to fill the battery in the spaces between electrodes. The battery system includes a battery system controller, wherein the battery system controller is configured to selectively charge and discharge the battery at a normal cutoff voltage and wherein the battery system controller is further configured to selectively charge and discharge the battery at a capacity regeneration voltage as part of a healing reaction to generate active electrode materials.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Hunt Energy Enterprises, L.L.C.Inventors: Fantai Kong, Mark Griffin, Jin-Myoung Lim
-
Patent number: 11469460Abstract: A subsurface battery comprises an anodic fracture disposed within a subsurface stratum and a cathodic fracture disposed with the subsurface stratum. A first well electrode contacts the anodic fracture and a second well electrode contacts the cathodic fracture.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: HUNT ENERGY ENTERPRISES, L.L.C.Inventors: Mark Griffin, Fantai Kong
-
Publication number: 20220320597Abstract: Zinc ion battery systems and methods for battery regeneration are disclosed. The Zinc ion battery system includes a battery including a plurality of cells, each cell including a cathode comprising cathode electrode materials disposed on a current collector, an anode comprising anode electrode materials disposed on a current collector, a separator or spacer disposed between the cathode and the anode, an electrolyte to fill the battery in the spaces between electrodes and an electrolyte circulation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Fantai Kong, Denyce Alvarez, Nestor Orlando Pimentel Solorio, Jin-Myoung Lim
-
Publication number: 20220293921Abstract: Cathode materials, batteries, and methods of forming one or more electrodes for batteries are disclosed. A coated cathode material includes a lithium battery cathode material, a first sub-nanoscale lithium metal oxide coating on the lithium transition metal oxide and a sub-nanoscale metal oxide coating on top of the first sub-nanoscale lithium metal oxide coating. The first sub-nanoscale lithium metal oxide and the sub-nanoscale metal oxide coating are each less than 1 nm thick.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Jin-Myoung Lim, Fantai Kong, Mark Griffin
-
Publication number: 20220246920Abstract: A composite anode for a zinc-based battery device is disclosed. The composite anode includes a pretreated Zn layer with one or more first coating layers, where in the Zn layer comprises a Zn film and a pretreated current collector substrate with one or more substrate coating layers. The pretreated Zn layer is pretreated by one or more of polishing, grinding, sanding, etching, and cleaning and the pretreated current collector substrate is pretreated by one or more of polishing, grinding, sanding, etching, and cleaning.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventors: Jin-Myoung Lim, Fantai Kong
-
Patent number: 11342556Abstract: Batteries, methods for recycling batteries, and methods of forming one or more electrodes for batteries are disclosed. The battery includes at least one of (i) a cathode including a nickel-rich material and a first sub-nanoscale metal oxide coating on the nickel-rich material; and (ii) an anode including an anode material and a second sub-nanoscale metal oxide coating disposed on the anode material.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: HUNT ENERGY ENTERPRISES, L.L.C.Inventors: Jin-Myoung Lim, Fantai Kong, Mark Griffin
-
Publication number: 20210226201Abstract: Batteries, methods for recycling batteries, and methods of forming one or more electrodes for batteries are disclosed. The battery includes at least one of (i) a cathode including a nickel-rich material and a first sub-nanoscale metal oxide coating on the nickel-rich material; and (ii) an anode including an anode material and a second sub-nanoscale metal oxide coating disposed on the anode material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Jin-Myoung Lim, Fantai Kong, Mark Griffin
-
Publication number: 20210143488Abstract: Battery systems, methods of in-situ grid-scale battery construction, and in-situ battery regeneration methods are disclosed. The battery system features controllable capacity regeneration for grid-scale energy storage. The battery system includes a battery comprising a plurality of cells. Each cell includes a cathode comprising cathode electrode materials disposed on a first current collector, an anode comprising anode electrode materials disposed on a second current collector, a separator or spacer disposed between the cathode and the anode an electrolyte to fill the battery in the spaces between electrodes. The battery system includes a battery system controller, wherein the battery system controller is configured to selectively charge and discharge the battery at a normal cutoff voltage and wherein the battery system controller is further configured to selectively charge and discharge the battery at a capacity regeneration voltage as part of a healing reaction to generate active electrode materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Fantai Kong, Mark Griffin, Jin-Myoung Lim
-
Publication number: 20190368141Abstract: A road embedded battery includes a first encapsulation layer disposed on top of a road grade base. A first conductor mesh is disposed on top of the first encapsulation layer and an anode material is embedded into to first conductor mesh. A permeable membrane is disposed on top of the anode material. A second conductor mesh is disposed on top of the permeable membrane and a cathode material is embedded into the second conductor mesh. A second encapsulation layer is disposed on top of the cathode material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Mark Griffin, Fantai Kong