Patents by Inventor Hyea-Eun Han
Hyea-Eun Han 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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Patent number: 12482855Abstract: A solid-state battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte membrane between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the solid electrolyte membrane including a first solid electrolyte layer and a second solid electrolyte layer, is provided. The first solid electrolyte layer faces the positive electrode and includes a first sulfide-based solid electrolyte, and the second solid electrolyte layer includes a second sulfide-based solid electrolyte having an average particle diameter (D50) larger than an average particle diameter (D50) of the first sulfide-based solid electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 25, 2025Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Hye-Ri Jung, Jung-Pil Lee, Hoe-Jin Hah, Hyea-Eun Han
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Patent number: 12404173Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel material used as a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to a sulfide-based solid electrolyte including lithium, sulfur, phosphorus and zinc elements, and a method for preparing the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 2, 2025Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Vin-Na Jo, Hyea-Eun Han, Je-Yne Lyoo, Seung-Tae Hong
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Patent number: 11908993Abstract: A solid electrolyte membrane and method of preparing, including a plurality of polymer filaments arranged crossed as a 3-dimensional structure in the form of a net of nonwoven fabric-like shape, and a plurality of inorganic solid electrolytes inserted and uniformly distributed in the structure. By this structural feature, a large amount of solid electrolyte particles are uniformly distributed and filled in the electrolyte membrane, contact between the particles is good, and ionic conduction paths are sufficiently provided. Additionally, the durability of the solid electrolyte membrane is improved by the 3-dimensional structure, and the flexibility and strength increase. The nonwoven fabric composite solid electrolyte membrane has an effect in preventing inorganic solid electrolyte particle from being disconnected therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ju Cho, Ho-Suk Shin, Seung-He Woo, Sung-Joong Kang, Hyea-Eun Han
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Patent number: 11811043Abstract: The present disclosure may obtain an electrode for an all-solid-state battery with low porosity by adjusting the concentration of an electrode active material layer-forming slurry and a solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry. The all-solid-state battery uses a solid electrolyte material, not a liquid electrolyte material, and thus it needs to have a close contact between the constituent materials of the battery such as an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte material, and when the manufacturing method according to the present disclosure is applied, the electrode active material layer is filled with the solid electrolyte material, bringing the components into close contact, thereby improving the interfacial resistance characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventors: Hye-Ri Jung, Lak-Young Choi, Hyea-Eun Han
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Publication number: 20230335874Abstract: A method for manufacturing a solid-state battery, the method preventing a reaction between lithium metal in a negative electrode and a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material in a solid electrolyte membrane during a pressurization process for binding electrode members with each other, and the method providing a solid-state battery which has low porosity in a positive electrode and the solid electrolyte membrane and reduced generation of a short-circuit, and the method providing an improved battery production yield.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Hye-Ri JUNG, Hoe-Jin HAH, Hyea-Eun HAN
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Publication number: 20230275260Abstract: A solid-state battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte membrane between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, the solid electrolyte membrane including a first solid electrolyte layer and a second solid electrolyte layer, is provided. The first solid electrolyte layer faces the positive electrode and includes a first sulfide-based solid electrolyte, and the second solid electrolyte layer includes a second sulfide-based solid electrolyte having an average particle diameter (D50) larger than an average particle diameter (D50) of the first sulfide-based solid electrolyte.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Hye-Ri Jung, Jung-Pil Lee, Hoe-Jin Hah, Hyea-Eun Han
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Publication number: 20230127602Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid state battery comprising silicon (Si) as a negative electrode active material. The solid state battery according to the present disclosure does not comprise a conductive material and a solid electrolyte in the negative electrode and comprise a minimum amount of binder. According to this structural feature, the battery according to the present disclosure has good electrical and chemical properties including heat resistant stability, energy density, life characteristics and Coulombic efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicants: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD., THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Jeong-Beom LEE, Hye-Ri JUNG, Hyea-Eun HAN, Hoe-Jin HAH, Sung-Rok BANG, Ying Shirley MENG, Huan Shen Darren TAN
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Patent number: 11631839Abstract: An electrode for a solid state battery is provided. The electrode active material layer of the electrode shows improved mechanical properties, such as elasticity or rigidity, of the electrode layer through the crosslinking of a binder resin. Thus, it is possible to inhibit or reduce the effect of swelling and/or shrinking of the electrode active material during charging/discharging. Therefore, the interfacial adhesion between the electrode active material layer and an electrolyte layer and the interfacial adhesion between the electrode active material layer and a current collector are maintained to a high level to provide a solid state battery having excellent cycle characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ju Cho, Ho-Suk Shin, Seung-He Woo, Sung-Joong Kang, Hyea-Eun Han
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Publication number: 20230017977Abstract: A solid state battery is described, which has a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer including silicon (Si) as a negative electrode active material. The Si may be present as particles, e.g., microparticles, having an average particle size (D50) of 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m. The negative electrode active material layer may include the silicon (Si) in an amount of 75 wt % or more, 95 wt % or more, 99 wt % or more, or 99.9 wt % or more, based on 100 wt % of the negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer can be free or substantially free of conductive material, carbon, solid state electrolyte, and/or binder. Preferably, after charge/discharge cycles, the negative electrode active material layer forms densified and interconnected large particles of Li—Si alloy, e.g., the Li—Si alloy may have at least one columnar structure and at least one void.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicants: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD., THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Jeong-Beom LEE, Hye-Ri JUNG, Hyea-Eun HAN, Hoe-Jin HAH, Sung-Rok BANG, Ying Shirley MENG, Huan Shen Darren TAN
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Publication number: 20220289569Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a novel material used as a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to a sulfide-based solid electrolyte including lithium, sulfur, phosphorus and zinc elements, and a method for preparing the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Vin-Na JO, Hyea-Eun HAN, Je-Yne LYOO, Seung-Tae HONG
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Publication number: 20220255117Abstract: A solid electrolyte membrane and method of preparing, including a plurality of polymer filaments arranged crossed as a 3-dimensional structure in the form of a net of nonwoven fabric-like shape, and a plurality of inorganic solid electrolytes inserted and uniformly distributed in the structure. By this structural feature, a large amount of solid electrolyte particles are uniformly distributed and filled in the electrolyte membrane, contact between the particles is good, and ionic conduction paths are sufficiently provided. Additionally, the durability of the solid electrolyte membrane is improved by the 3-dimensional structure, and the flexibility and strength increase. The nonwoven fabric composite solid electrolyte membrane has an effect in preventing inorganic solid electrolyte particle from being disconnected therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ju CHO, Ho-Suk SHIN, Seung-He WOO, Sung-Joong KANG, Hyea-Eun HAN
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Patent number: 11342578Abstract: A solid electrolyte membrane and method of preparing, including a plurality of polymer filaments arranged crossed as a 3-dimensional structure in the form of a net of nonwoven fabric-like shape, and a plurality of inorganic solid electrolytes inserted and uniformly distributed in the structure. By this structural feature, a large amount of solid electrolyte particles are uniformly distributed and filled in the electrolyte membrane, contact between the particles is good, and ionic conduction paths are sufficiently provided. Additionally, the durability of the solid electrolyte membrane is improved by the 3-dimensional structure, and the flexibility and strength increase. The nonwoven fabric composite solid electrolyte membrane has an effect in preventing inorganic solid electrolyte particle from being disconnected therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ju Cho, Ho-Suk Shin, Seung-He Woo, Sung-Joong Kang, Hyea-Eun Han
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Publication number: 20210328206Abstract: The present disclosure may obtain an electrode for an all-solid-state battery with low porosity by adjusting the concentration of an electrode active material layer-forming slurry and a solid electrolyte layer-forming slurry. The all-solid-state battery uses a solid electrolyte material, not a liquid electrolyte material, and thus it needs to have a close contact between the constituent materials of the battery such as an electrode active material and a solid electrolyte material, and when the manufacturing method according to the present disclosure is applied, the electrode active material layer is filled with the solid electrolyte material, bringing the components into close contact, thereby improving the interfacial resistance characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2020Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Hye-Ri Jung, Lak-Young Choi, Hyea-Eun Han
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Patent number: 11069895Abstract: An electrode assembly for a solid state battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. In addition, the binder disposed at the interface between the negative electrode and the solid electrolyte layer, the interface between the positive electrode and the solid electrolyte layer and/or at a predetermined depth from the interface is crosslinked to form a three-dimensional network. In other words, in the electrode assembly, the binder contained in the negative electrode and the solid electrolyte layer and/or the binder contained in the positive electrode and the solid electrolyte layer is crosslinked to improve the interfacial binding force between the negative electrode and the solid electrolyte layer and/or between the positive electrode and the solid electrolyte layer, and thus ion conductivity is maintained to a significantly high level.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ju Cho, Ho-Suk Shin, Seung-He Woo, Sung-Joong Kang, Hyea-Eun Han
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Patent number: 10910630Abstract: An electrode for an all solid type battery is designed such that fibrous carbon materials serving as a conductor are densely arranged crossed into a 3-dimensional structure in the form of a mesh of a nonwoven fabric-like shape, and an inorganic solid electrolyte and electrode active material particles are impregnated and uniformly dispersed in the structure. By this structural feature, the electrode for an all solid type battery has very good electron conductivity and ionic conductivity.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ju Cho, Ho-Suk Shin, Seung-He Woo, Sung-Joong Kang, Hyea-Eun Han
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Patent number: 10714743Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing an electrode including a polymer electrolyte and an electrode obtained thereby. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to an electrode for a wide voltage battery which has improved reactivity on the surface of the electrode active material. The electrode provides an increased reactive site between an electrode active material and a polymer electrolyte and an improved ratio of the amount of active material in the electrode, and thus can provide a battery with improved energy density.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Jung-Pil Lee, Hyea-Eun Han, Eun-Bee Kim, Ji-Young Kim, Eun-Kyung Mok, Hye-Ri Jung
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Publication number: 20190372149Abstract: A solid electrolyte membrane and method of preparing, including a plurality of polymer filaments arranged crossed as a 3-dimensional structure in the form of a net of nonwoven fabric-like shape, and a plurality of inorganic solid electrolytes inserted and uniformly distributed in the structure. By this structural feature, a large amount of solid electrolyte particles are uniformly distributed and filled in the electrolyte membrane, contact between the particles is good, and ionic conduction paths are sufficiently provided. Additionally, the durability of the solid electrolyte membrane is improved by the 3-dimensional structure, and the flexibility and strength increase. The nonwoven fabric composite solid electrolyte membrane has an effect in preventing inorganic solid electrolyte particle from being disconnected therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ju CHO, Ho-Suk SHIN, Seung-He WOO, Sung-Joong KANG, Hyea-Eun HAN
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Publication number: 20190237747Abstract: An electrode for an all solid type battery is designed such that fibrous carbon materials serving as a conductor are densely arranged crossed into a 3-dimensional structure in the form of a mesh of a nonwoven fabric-like shape, and an inorganic solid electrolyte and electrode active material particles are impregnated and uniformly dispersed in the structure. By this structural feature, the electrode for an all solid type battery has very good electron conductivity and ionic conductivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ju CHO, Ho-Suk SHIN, Seung-He WOO, Sung-Joong KANG, Hyea-Eun HAN
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Publication number: 20190237757Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing an electrode including a polymer electrolyte and an electrode obtained thereby. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to an electrode for a wide voltage battery which has improved reactivity on the surface of the electrode active material. The electrode provides an increased reactive site between an electrode active material and a polymer electrolyte and an improved ratio of the amount of active material in the electrode, and thus can provide a battery with improved energy density.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Jung-Pil LEE, Hyea-Eun HAN, Eun-Bee KIM, Ji-Young KIM, Eun-Kyung MOK, Hye-Ri JUNG
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Publication number: 20190229328Abstract: An electrode for a solid state battery is provided. The electrode active material layer of the electrode shows improved mechanical properties, such as elasticity or rigidity, of the electrode layer through the crosslinking of a binder resin. Thus, it is possible to inhibit or reduce the effect of swelling and/or shrinking of the electrode active material during charging/discharging. Therefore, the interfacial adhesion between the electrode active material layer and an electrolyte layer and the interfacial adhesion between the electrode active material layer and a current collector are maintained to a high level to provide a solid state battery having excellent cycle characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2018Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Ju CHO, Ho-Suk SHIN, Seung-He WOO, Sung-Joong KANG, Hyea-Eun HAN