Patents by Inventor Michel Armand

Michel Armand 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).

  • Publication number: 20170271648
    Abstract: A method of preparing an electrochemical electrode which is partially or totally covered with a film that is obtained by spreading an aqueous solution comprising a water-soluble binder over the electrode and subsequently drying same. The production cost of the electrodes thus obtained is reduced and the surface porosity thereof is associated with desirable resistance values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: HYDRO-QUÉBEC
    Inventors: Karim ZAGHIB, Michel ARMAND, Abdelbast GUERFI, Michel PERRIER, Elisabeth DUPUIS, Patrick CHAREST
  • Patent number: 9768441
    Abstract: Process for the preparation of electrodes from a porous material making it possible to obtain electrodes that are useful in electrochemical systems and that have at least one of the following properties: a high capacity in mAh/gram, a high capacity in mAh/liter, a good capacity for cycling, a low rate of self-discharge, and a good environmental tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: HYDRO-QUEBEC
    Inventors: Karim Zaghib, Abdelbast Guerfi, Patrick Charest, Robert Kostecki, Kimio Kinoshita, Michel Armand
  • Publication number: 20170250406
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sodium-ion battery comprising a positive electrode compartment comprising a positive electrode, said positive electrode comprising a Na-insertion compound; a negative electrode compartment comprising a negative electrode, said negative electrode comprising metallic sodium; and an electrolyte composition comprising a solid sodium-ion conductive ceramic electrolyte and a catholyte comprising a metallic salt with formula MY, wherein M is a cation selected from an alkali metal and an alkali-earth metal; and Y is an anion selected from [R1SO2NSO2R2], CF3SO3?, C(CN)3?, B(C2O4)2? and BF2(C2O4)?, wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from fluorine or a fluoroalkyl group. The device is able to operate below the melting point of the anode component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Michel ARMAND, Teofilo ROJO, Gurpreet SINGH, Laida OTAEGUI AMEZTEGUI, Frederic AGUESSE, Lucienne BUANNIC
  • Patent number: 9722240
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with novel compounds derived from polyquinonic ionic compounds and their use in electrochemical generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: ACEP INC., SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE, UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Christophe Michot, Nathalie Ravet
  • Publication number: 20170187029
    Abstract: A method of preparing an electrochemical electrode which is partially or totally covered with a film that is obtained by spreading an aqueous solution comprising a water-soluble binder over the electrode and subsequently drying same. The production cost of the electrodes thus obtained is reduced and the surface porosity thereof is associated with desirable resistance values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: HYDRO-QUÉBEC
    Inventors: Karim ZAGHIB, Michel ARMAND, Abdelbast GUERFI, Michel PERRIER, Elisabeth DUPUIS, Patrick CHAREST
  • Patent number: 9692040
    Abstract: A method of preparing an electrochemical electrode which is partially or totally covered with a film that is obtained by spreading an aqueous solution comprising a water-soluble binder over the electrode and subsequently drying same. The production cost of the electrodes thus obtained is reduced and the surface porosity thereof is associated with desirable resistance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: HYDRO-QUEBEC
    Inventors: Karim Zaghib, Michel Armand, Abdelbast Guerfi, Michel Perrier, Elisabeth Dupuis, Patrick Charest
  • Publication number: 20170179491
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers used as rolling lubricating agents, to compositions comprising said polymers, and to alkali metal films including the polymers or compositions on the surface(s) thereof. The use of said polymers and compositions is also described for strip-rolling alkali metals or alloys thereof in order to obtain thin films. Methods for producing said thin films, which are suitable for use in electrochemical cells, are also described. The present invention proposes an improved lubricant according to formula I, which, for example, achieves enhanced conductivity, and/or enables the production of electrochemical cells having an improved life span in cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: HYDRO-QUÉBEC
    Inventors: Karim ZAGHIB, Michel ARMAND, Patrick BOUCHARD, Serge VERREAULT, Julie HAMEL-PÅQUET, Gabriel GIRARD
  • Patent number: 9590245
    Abstract: The present arrangement provides compounds (I) AaMm(YO4)yZz(I) that are obtained from precursors of the constituent elements by a method having steps that can include dispersion of the precursors in a liquid support having one or more ionic liquids made up of a cation and an anion the electric charges of which balance out to give a suspension of the precursors in the liquid. The suspension is heated to a temperature of 25 to 380° C. and the ionic liquid and the inorganic oxide of formula (I) are separated from the reaction of the precursors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique, Uníversite De Picardie Jules Verne
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Tarascon, Nadir Recham, Michel Armand
  • Patent number: 9559356
    Abstract: Synthesis process for new particles of Li4Ti5O12, Li(4-?)Z?Ti5O12 or Li4Z?Ti(5-?)O12, preferably having a spinel structure, wherein ? is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 0.5 (preferably having a spinel structure), ? representing a number greater than zero and less than or equal to 0.33, Z representing a source of at least one metal, preferably chosen from the group made up of Mg, Nb, Al, Zr, Ni, Co. These particles coated with a layer of carbon notably exhibit electrochemical properties that are particularly interesting as components of anodes and/or cathodes in electrochemical generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: HYDRO-QUEBEC
    Inventors: Karim Zaghib, Michel Gauthier, Fernand Brochu, Abdelbast Guerfi, Monique Masse, Michel Armand
  • Publication number: 20160372746
    Abstract: Synthesis process for new particles of Li4Ti5O12, Li(4-?)Z?Ti5O12 or Li4Z?Ti(5-?)O12, preferably having a spinel structure, wherein ? is greater than 0 and less than or equal to 0.5 (preferably having a spinel structure), ? representing a number greater than zero and less than or equal to 0.33, Z representing a source of at least one metal, preferably chosen from the group made up of Mg, Nb, Al, Zr, Ni, Co. These particles coated with a layer of carbon notably exhibit electrochemical properties that are particularly interesting as components of anodes and/or cathodes in electrochemical generators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: HYDRO-QUEBEC
    Inventors: Karim ZAGHIB, Michel GAUTHIER, Fernand BROCHU, Abdelbast GUERFI, Monique MASSE, Michel ARMAND
  • Patent number: 9452987
    Abstract: A pentacyclic anion salt is provided for use thereof in electrolyte compositions. The compound has an inorganic, organic or organometallic cation M of valency m (1?m?3) and m anions corresponding to the formula (I) in which Rf is a —CFZ?Z? group in which Z? is F or a perflouroalkyl group having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and Z? is an H, F or Cl group, an optionally fluorinated or perfluorinated alkoxy group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms, an optionally fluorinated or perfluorinated oxaalkoxy group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms or an optionally fluorinated or perfluorinated alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; Z? being other than F when Z? is F. An electrolyte composition comprises said salt in solution in a liquid solvent or a polymer solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Inventors: Michel Armand, Sylvie Grugeon, Stephane Laruelle, Maria Bukowska, Przemyslaw Szczecinski, Wladislaw Wieczorek, Leszek Niedzicky, Bruno Scrosati, Stefania Panero, Priscilla Realle
  • Patent number: 9444102
    Abstract: A fluoro material is provided for use as an electrode active material as well as a process tar producing it. The material includes particles of a fluorosulfate which corresponds to formula (I) L1-yFe1-xMnxSO4F (I) in which 0<x?1 and 0?y<1. The material includes a phase of triplite structure and optionally a phase of tavorite structure, the phase of triplite structure representing at least 50% by volume. The material may be obtained from precursors of the elements of which it is constituted, via a ceramic route, via an ionothermal route or via a polymer route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Tarascon, Prabeer Barpanda, Mohamed Ati, Jean-Noel Chotard, Michel Armand
  • Publication number: 20160254530
    Abstract: The invention relates to materials for use as electrodes in an alkali-ion secondary (rechargeable) battery, particularly a lithium-ion battery. The invention provides transition-metal compounds having the ordered-olivine or the rhombohedral NASICON structure and the polyanion (PO4)3? as at least one constituent for use as electrode material for alkali-ion rechargeable batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Michel Armand, John B. Goodenough, Akshaya K. Padhi, Kirakodu S. Nanjundaswamy, Christian Masquelier
  • Patent number: 9431677
    Abstract: The invention relates to a BA diblock or BAB triblock copolymer, in which the A block is a non-substituted poly-oxyethylene chain having a mean molecular weight that is no higher than 100 kDa, and the B block is an anionic polymer which can be prepared using one or more monomers selected from among the vinyl monomers and derivatives thereof, said monomers being substituted with a (trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (TFSI) anion. The invention also relates to the uses of such a copolymer, in particular for preparing an electrolyte composition for lithium metal polymer (LMP) batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVESITE D'AIX-MARSEILLE
    Inventors: Renaud Bouchet, Abdelmaula Aboulaich, Sebastien Maria, Trang Phan, Didier Gigmes, Denis Bertin, Rachid Meziane, Jean-Pierre Bonnet, Michel Armand
  • Patent number: 9394205
    Abstract: A method for preparing ceramic powders in the presence of a carbon powder including a step which consists in homogenizing a mixture of particles capable of resulting in a ceramic by heat treatment. Said method can be carried out in the presence of an accelerated solvent and provides, at reduced energy consumption, carbon-coated ceramic powders and then ceramics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: HYDRO-QUEBEC
    Inventors: Karim Zaghib, Abdelbast Guerfi, Michel Armand, Patrick Charest
  • Patent number: 9362562
    Abstract: The invention relates to materials for use as electrodes in an alkali-ion secondary (rechargeable) battery, particularly a lithium-ion battery. The invention provides transition-metal compounds having the ordered-olivine or the rhombohedral NASICON structure and the polyanion (PO4)3? as at least one constituent for use as electrode material for alkali-ion rechargeable batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: HYDRO-QUEBEC
    Inventors: Michel Armand, John B. Goodenough, Akshaya K. Padhi, Kirakodu S. Nanjundaswamy, Christian Masquelier
  • Publication number: 20160156017
    Abstract: A method of preparing an electrochemical electrode which is partially or totally covered with a film that is obtained by spreading an aqueous solution comprising a water-soluble binder over the electrode and subsequently drying same. The production cost of the electrodes thus obtained is reduced and the surface porosity thereof is associated with desirable resistance values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: HYDRO-QUEBEC
    Inventors: Karim ZAGHIB, Michel ARMAND, Abdelbast GUERFI, Michel PERRIER, Elisabeth DUPUIS, Patrick CHAREST
  • Publication number: 20160093889
    Abstract: The invention relates to materials for use as electrodes in an alkali-ion secondary (rechargeable) battery, particularly a lithium-ion battery. The invention provides transition-metal compounds having the ordered-olivine or the rhombohedral NASICON structure and the polyanion (PO4)3? as at least one constituent for use as electrode material for alkali-ion rechargeable batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Michel Armand, John B. Goodenough, Akshaya K. Padhi, Kirakodu S. Nanjundaswamy, Christian Masquelier
  • Patent number: 9293767
    Abstract: A material is made up of particles of an optionally-doped fluorosulphate. The fluorosulphate has a distorted Tavorite type structure of formula (A1?aA?a)x(Z1?bZ?b)z(SO4)sFf (I) where A=Li or Na, A? 0 a hole or at least one doping element, Z=at least one element selected from Fe, Co and Ni, Z?=a hole or at least one doping element, the indices a, b, x, z, s, and f are selected to assure the electroneutrality of the compound and a?0, b?0, x?0, z>0, s>0, f>0, the respective quantities a and b of dopant A and Z? being such that the Tavorite type structure is preserved. The material is obtained from the precursors thereof by an ionothermal route or ceramic route in a closed reactor. The material is of particular use as an active electrode material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Tarascon, Nadir Recham, Michel Armand
  • Patent number: 9293769
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of preparing an electrochemical electrode which is partially or totally covered with a film that is obtained by spreading an aqueous solution comprising a water-soluble binder over the electrode and subsequently drying same. The production cost of the electrodes thus obtained is reduced and the surface porosity thereof is associated with desirable resistance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: HYDRO-QUEBEC
    Inventors: Karim Zaghib, Michel Armand, Abdelbast Guerfi, Michel Perrier, Elisabeth Dupuis, Patrick Charest