Patents by Inventor Szu-Nan Yang
Szu-Nan Yang 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: 12272796Abstract: The invention discloses a lithium battery structure and the electrode layer thereof. The lithium battery structure includes two battery units with the two negative active material layers being disposed in face-to-face arrangement. The negative current collector includes a conductive substrate with a plurality of through holes and an isolation layer. The isolation layer is covered on one surface of the conductive substrate and extended along the through holes to another surface to cover the edge of the openings of the through holes. It can be effectively avoided the lithium dendrites depositing near the openings of the through holes on the conductive substrate. Also, the face-to-face arrangement of the negative active material layers is effectively control the locations of the plated lithium dendrites. Therefore, the safety of the battery and the cycle life of the battery is greatly improved.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PROLOGIUM HOLDING INC.Inventor: Szu-Nan Yang
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Publication number: 20240390932Abstract: The invention provides a slot die coating apparatus and the coating method thereof. The flow path is divided into a first flow path and a second flow path by the shim group. The first flow path is utilized to coat from the middle portion of the coating nozzle and the second flow path is utilized to coat from the two sides of the coating nozzle. The nozzle lips at the two sides of the slot die coating apparatus are extended to close the substrate to prevent to hit the obstacle of the substrate during coating. Also, the height for coating of the slot die coating apparatus is controllable to achieve the optimized coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chia-Ming LIN, Szu-Nan YANG, Chia-Chi HUANG
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Publication number: 20240390933Abstract: The invention provides a slot die coating apparatus and the coating method thereof. The flow path is divided into a first flow path and a second flow path by the shim group. The first flow path is utilized to coat from the middle portion of the coating nozzle and the second flow path is utilized to coat from the two sides of the coating nozzle. The height for coating of the slot die coating apparatus is adjustable, and the slurry may be exposed from the first flow path or the second flow path. Therefore, hitting the obstacle of the substrate can be avoided during coating to achieve the optimized coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2024Publication date: November 28, 2024Applicant: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chia-Ming LIN, Szu-Nan YANG, Chia-Chi HUANG
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Patent number: 12142756Abstract: The invention discloses an active material ball composite layer. The active material ball composite layer includes a plurality of active material balls and an outer binder. The active material ball include a plurality of active material particles and a first conductive material. An inner binder is used to adhere the active material particles and the first conductive material to form the active material balls. Then, the outer binder is used to adhere the active material balls to form the composite layer. The elasticity of the inner binder is smaller than the elasticity of the outer binder. Therefore, the scale of expansion of the active material particles is efficiently controlled during charging and discharging. The unrecoverable voids would be reduced or avoided.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PROLOGIUM HOLDING INC.Inventor: Szu-Nan Yang
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Patent number: 12119478Abstract: The invention discloses an active material ball electrode layer structure, which mainly includes the active material balls made of the active material particles, a first mixed electrolyte located inside the active material balls, and a second mixed electrolyte located outside the active material balls. The first mixed electrolyte is mainly made of the deformable electrolyte. The second mixed electrolyte is mainly made of the electrolyte with relatively lesser deformation than the deformable electrolyte of the first mixed electrolyte. The invention utilizes the first mixed electrolyte to effectively active material ball reduce the derived problems of the volume change of the active materials. Moreover, the different configuration of the first mixed electrolyte and the second mixed electrolyte inside and outside the active material balls is utilized to reduce the charge transfer resistance. Also, the expansion resistance is provided for the active material balls.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PROLOGIUM HOLDING INC.Inventor: Szu-Nan Yang
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Patent number: 12107207Abstract: A flexible battery is disclosed in the present invention. One of a first active material layer, an intermediate layer, a second active material layer, a first interface located between the first active material layer and the intermediate layer, and a second interface located between the second active material layer and the intermediate layer includes a first adhesive. The first adhesive includes at least one first linear polymer and at least one first crystallization inhibitor. Therefore, the active material layers, the intermediate layer or the interfaces have sufficient adhesion and flexibility. The electrochemical reaction element would not easy to be cracked or separated after bending, and the ionic and electrical conductivities of the battery is greatly improved.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PROLOGIUM HOLDING INC.Inventor: Szu-Nan Yang
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Patent number: 12107246Abstract: A thermal runaway suppression element, adapted for a lithium battery having an electrochemical reaction system. The thermal runaway suppression element includes: a passivation composition supplier, having a metal ion and an aluminum etching ion; and a polar solution supplier, configured to release a polar solvent to carry the metal ion and the aluminum etching ion to an aluminum current collector of the lithium battery. The aluminum current collector is configured to be etched by the aluminum etching ion to provide an aluminum ion. The metal ion and the aluminum ion are carried by the polar solvent to the electrochemical reaction system to terminate an electrochemical reaction.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PROLOGIUM HOLDING INC.Inventor: Szu-Nan Yang
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Publication number: 20240250285Abstract: The invention provides a method for suppressing thermal runaway of lithium batteries, which is included a step of providing a lithium battery capable of performing charging and discharging, which includes an electrochemical reaction system. When the temperature of the lithium battery reaches to a predetermined temperature, a metal ion (A) and an amphoteric metal ion (B) are applied to the positive active material layer and the negative active material layer of the lithium battery to passivate the positive active material layer and the negative active material layer. The metal ion (A) is selected from a non-lithium alkali metal ion, an alkaline earth metal ion or a combination thereof to prevent the thermal runaway from occurring.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Applicants: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Prologium Holding Inc.Inventor: Szu-Nan YANG
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Patent number: 12002920Abstract: The invention provides a method for suppressing thermal runaway of lithium batteries, which is included a step of providing a lithium battery capable of performing charging and discharging, which includes an electrochemical reaction system. When the temperature of the lithium battery reaches to a predetermined temperature, a metal ion (A) and an amphoteric metal ion (B) are applied to the positive active material layer and the negative active material layer of the lithium battery to passivate the positive active material layer and the negative active material layer. The metal ion (A) is selected from a non-lithium alkali metal ion, an alkaline earth metal ion or a combination thereof to prevent the thermal runaway from occurring.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PROLOGIUM HOLDING INC.Inventor: Szu-Nan Yang
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Patent number: 11978873Abstract: The invention provides a battery module with cooling cartridge and battery system thereof. The cooling cartridge is utilized to be disposed between the battery units stacked in a single axis. The supporting portion of the cooling cartridge is directly contacted in a large area to the current collecting sheet of the battery unit. And the wing portions, extended from the two sides of the supporting portion, are directly contacted to the inner sidewalls of the metal housing. Therefore, a large-area heat dissipating path for the battery cell is provided, and the performance and stability of the battery cell are greatly improved.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PROLOGIUM HOLDING INC.Inventors: Szu-Nan Yang, Meng-Hung Wu
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Publication number: 20240136596Abstract: The invention discloses a lithium battery structure and the electrode layer thereof. The lithium battery structure includes two battery units with the two negative active material layers being disposed in face-to-face arrangement. The negative current collector includes a conductive substrate with a plurality of through holes and an isolation layer. The isolation layer is covered on one surface of the conductive substrate and extended along the through holes to another surface to cover the edge of the openings of the through holes. It can be effectively avoided the lithium dendrites depositing near the openings of the through holes on the conductive substrate. Also, the face-to-face arrangement of the negative active material layers is effectively control the locations of the plated lithium dendrites. Therefore, the safety of the battery and the cycle life of the battery is greatly improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Prologium Holding Inc.Inventor: Szu-Nan YANG
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Publication number: 20240088400Abstract: The invention discloses a lithium electrode. The electrically conductive structure layer has a recess with one-side opening, and the lithium metal layer is disposed on the bottom of the recess. The solid electrolyte layer and the electrolyte storage layer are disposed thereon sequentially. When the lithium metal is plated, the plated lithium metal is restricted by the solid electrolyte layer to push and compress the electrolyte storage layer. Therefore, the growth of the lithium dendrites is limited efficiently. The penetration through issue of the lithium dendrites will not be occurred so that the safety of the lithium metal battery is improved greatly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicants: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Prologium Holding Inc.Inventor: Szu-Nan YANG
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Patent number: 11881560Abstract: The invention discloses a lithium battery structure and the electrode layer thereof. The lithium battery structure includes two battery units with the two negative active material layers being disposed in face-to-face arrangement. The negative current collector includes a conductive substrate with a plurality of through holes and an isolation layer. The isolation layer is covered on one surface of the conductive substrate and extended along the through holes to another surface to cover the edge of the openings of the through holes. It can be effectively avoided the lithium dendrites depositing near the openings of the through holes on the conductive substrate. Also, the face-to-face arrangement of the negative active material layers is effectively control the locations of the plated lithium dendrites. Therefore, the safety of the battery and the cycle life of the battery is greatly improved.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PROLOGIUM HOLDING INC.Inventor: Szu-Nan Yang
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Patent number: 11862802Abstract: The invention discloses a lithium electrode. The electrically conductive structure layer has a recess with one-side opening, and the lithium metal layer is disposed on the bottom of the recess. The solid electrolyte layer and the electrolyte storage layer are disposed thereon sequentially. When the lithium metal is plated, the plated lithium metal is restricted by the solid electrolyte layer to push and compress the electrolyte storage layer. Therefore, the growth of the lithium dendrites is limited efficiently. The penetration through issue of the lithium dendrites will not be occurred so that the safety of the lithium metal battery is improved greatly.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Prologium Holding Inc.Inventor: Szu-Nan Yang
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Publication number: 20230378562Abstract: The invention provides a battery module with cooling cartridge and battery system thereof. The cooling cartridge is utilized to be disposed between the battery units stacked in a single axis. The supporting portion of the cooling cartridge is directly contacted in a large area to the current collecting sheet of the battery unit. And the wing portions, extended from the two sides of the supporting portion, are directly contacted to the inner sidewalls of the metal housing. Therefore, a large-area heat dissipating path for the battery cell is provided, and the performance and stability of the battery cell are greatly improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicants: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Prologium Holding Inc.Inventors: Szu-Nan YANG, Meng-Hung WU
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Publication number: 20230352666Abstract: The invention discloses an active material ball composite layer. The active material ball composite layer includes a plurality of active material balls and an outer binder. The active material ball include a plurality of active material particles and a first conductive material. An inner binder is used to adhere the active material particles and the first conductive material to form the active material balls. Then, the outer binder is used to adhere the active material balls to form the composite layer. The elasticity of the inner binder is smaller than the elasticity of the outer binder. Therefore, the scale of expansion of the active material particles is efficiently controlled during charging and discharging. The unrecoverable voids would be reduced or avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicants: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Prologium Holding Inc.Inventor: Szu-Nan YANG
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Publication number: 20230335751Abstract: The present invention provides an auxiliary film comprising a body and a plurality of microstructures formed on a first surface of the body, the microstructures include a concave-convex appearance on the first surface, and the microstructures have two ends extending to the periphery of the first surface respectively. When the auxiliary film is attached to a pre-protected surface of a substrate, the microstructures and the surface of the substrate form several open air channels to increase the separation efficiency of the main body from the substrate and reduce the overall process time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: SZU-NAN YANG, CHEN-CHI WU, HUNG-LIANG HSU, CHIH-YUAN LIN, CHIH-LUNG HSIAO, MING-YUEH HSU
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Publication number: 20230324324Abstract: The present application provides a package structure for a chemical system, which comprises an inner glue frame and a first outer glue frame. The inner glue frame forms an accommodating space for accommodating a chemical system. The first outer glue frame is further disposed outside the inner glue frame and used for isolating the ambient environment and thus avoiding the influence of the ambient environment on the chemical system. A second outer glue frame is further disposed for avoiding damages such as side bumps and falls of the chemical system or contact with foreign metals. Thereby, the performance of the chemical system can be maintained.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: SZU-NAN YANG, CHIN-LIANG LIU, MENG-HUNG WU, WEN-XIN FEI
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Publication number: 20230321971Abstract: A film peeling method is disclosed to peel off a film covered on the surface of an object. The method includes the steps of: setting a fulcrum located at outer side of the object; setting a lift-off position on the film; and picking up the film from the lift-off position with the fulcrum as the axis, and applying a circular traction force with a variable radius on the film for peeling off the film from the object. The film peeling method can peel off the film covered on the surface of the object by different peeling stages, to reduce the peeling path and reduce the force required for peeling the film, thereby reducing the peeling time and improving the peeling efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: SZU-NAN YANG, CHIA-CHIEN HUNG, JIAN-HUA SU
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Patent number: 11757143Abstract: The invention provides a battery module with cooling cartridge and battery system thereof. The cooling cartridge is utilized to be disposed between the battery units stacked in a single axis. The supporting portion of the cooling cartridge is directly contacted in a large area to the current collecting sheet of the battery unit. And the wing portions, extended from the two sides of the supporting portion, are directly contacted to the inner sidewalls of the metal housing. Therefore, a large-area heat dissipating path for the battery cell is provided, and the performance and stability of the battery cell are greatly improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Prologium Holding Inc.Inventors: Szu-Nan Yang, Meng-Hung Wu