Patents by Inventor WENJUAN LIU MATTIS

WENJUAN LIU MATTIS 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: 20240145884
    Abstract: A battery connection structure includes a plurality of battery units connected in series. At least one battery unit is connected in series to other battery units through a temperature switch; the temperature switch includes a first connection member connected to a first electrode terminal of the battery unit and a second connection member connected to a second electrode terminal of the battery unit; at normal operating temperature, the first connection member and the second connection member are disconnected, and the first connection member and the second connection member are respectively connected to the two electrode terminals of the battery unit; when the temperature is higher than the normal operating temperature, the first connection member and/or the second connection member are/is deformed and disconnected from the corresponding electrode terminal(s) of the battery unit, and the first connection member and the second connection member are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD., MICROVAST, INC.
    Inventors: Yang WU, Ningqiang XIAO, Yun ZHAO, Wenjuan Liu MATTIS
  • Publication number: 20240120529
    Abstract: The disclosure provides preparation methods of a solid-state battery and a battery array, and a solid-state battery. The above preparation method adopts powder sintering 3D printing manufacturing technology, which can increase the interfacial contact among different materials, and improve the contact interface between the electrode and the solid-state electrolyte, thereby obtaining a better ion conduction path. Through printing, annealing and cooling layer by layer, the internal stress, the interlayer effect and the interface effect are eliminated, and defects are reduced, which makes the structure of the prepared positive electrode, negative electrode, solid-state electrolyte and the entire solid-state battery more stable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Microvast, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang WU, Jiangping Yi, Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Zhenliang He
  • Publication number: 20240072334
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an energy storage battery system, including a battery cluster, a first communicating unit and a second communicating unit. The battery cluster includes at least one battery module, and the battery module includes at least one battery cell. The first communicating unit and the second communicating unit are both communicated with the battery cell. The first communicating unit is used to connect with an air extraction device, and the gas in the battery cell and the first communicating unit can be extracted using the air extraction device. The second communicating unit is used to connect with a low-pressure pump, and external cooling fluid can be transmitted to an interior of the battery cell using the low-pressure pump. The disclosure further provides a control method of battery thermal runaway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd., Microvast, Inc.
    Inventors: Ningqiang XIAO, Heng ZHAO, Wenjuan Liu MATTIS, Shengxian WU, Guoyou DENG
  • Publication number: 20240072300
    Abstract: A solid state electrolyte is provided, which includes a ligand composed of a ceramic powder and a nitrogen containing aromatic copolymer, the ceramic powder is the core and the receptor, the nitrogen containing aromatic copolymer is comprised by a first polymer and a second polymer, the first polymer is aromatic polyamide, the second polymer is selected from the group consisting of P2VP, P4VP, PVA, PEO and PAN. The solid state electrolyte can form good contact interfaces at the anode and cathode electrodes. A lithium-ion battery including the solid state electrolyte is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd., Microvast, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenjuan Liu MATTIS, Jinbo HE, Bryan YONEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240072333
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an energy storage battery system, including a battery cluster and a first communicating unit. The battery cluster includes at least one battery module, and the battery module includes at least one battery cell. The first communicating unit is used to connect with a high-pressure pump, and external cooling fluid can be pressurized by the high-pressure pump and transmitted to the first communicating unit to cause the first communicating unit to burst, and after the first communicating unit bursts, the cooling fluid is sprayed to the battery cell. The disclosure further provides a control method of battery thermal runaway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicants: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd., Microvast, Inc.
    Inventors: Ningqiang XIAO, Heng ZHAO, Wenjuan Liu MATTIS, Shengxian WU, Guoyou DENG
  • Publication number: 20230178865
    Abstract: A battery cell is provided. The battery cell is provided with circulation elements for circulating between inside and outside of the battery cell, and the circulation elements are connected with the battery cell. Substances inside the battery cell are capable of being discharged out of the battery cell through the circulation elements, and substances outside the battery cell also capable of entering the interior of the battery cell through the circulation elements. The battery cell is carried with its own circulation elements, the battery cell is not injected with electrolyte during production, transportation and assembly, and the electrolyte is injected into the battery cell after the installation of the battery cluster. Therefore, the battery cluster is not charged during transportation and installation of the battery cluster, to eliminate the safety risk of the battery cluster during transportation and installation. A battery unit and a battery cluster are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd., Microvast, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang WU, Ningqiang XIAO, Heng ZHAO, Wenjuan Liu MATTIS
  • Publication number: 20230147558
    Abstract: A negative electrode material includes a dopant containing a first dopant and a second dopant, the first dopant contains a boron element, and the second dopant contains at least one selected from a group consisting of a nitrogen element, an oxygen element, a fluorine element, a phosphorus element, and a sulfur element. Two or more types of dopants are added in the particle producing process, so that the negative electrode material prepared has excellent high and low temperature cycle performance and rate performance. Furthermore, a carbonization coating process is omitted which is compatible with the preparation process of the conventional graphite negative electrode, thus the preparation process is simpler, the equipment required is less, and the cost is lower. A preparation method thereof is provided as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicants: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd., Microvast, Inc.
    Inventors: Ting GUO, Xianglian WANG, Xiao ZHANG, Jiangping YI, Wenjuan Liu MATTIS
  • Publication number: 20220410763
    Abstract: Disclosed are an electric vehicle thermal management system, a battery thermal management method and an electric vehicle. The electric vehicle thermal management system comprises a first loop, a second loop, a first temperature control mechanism, a second temperature control mechanism, a conveying mechanism and a release mechanism, wherein the first loop transmits a first heat conducting agent; a battery and the first temperature control mechanism are respectively connected to the first loop; the second loop transmits a second heat conducting agent; the second temperature control mechanism and a driving motor are respectively connected to the second loop; the conveying mechanism is respectively connected to the first loop and the second loop; and the release mechanism is connected to the first loop, such that a battery fire disaster is effectively prevented from occurring, and the safety of the vehicle is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanfeng TIAN, Bin LI, Shengxian WU, Wenjuan Liu MATTIS, Yang WU
  • Patent number: 11038166
    Abstract: The present application provides a coated anode material and a method of preparing the same. The coated anode material has a core-shell structure, wherein the core-shell structure includes an inert core and a shell coated on the inert core, the shell comprises an anode active material, and the inert core comprises a non-active material. In the coated anode material, the anode active material of the shell is distributed over the non-active material of the inert core, and the coated anode material can overcome the volume change problem of silicon particles during lithium insertion/deinsertion to a certain extent and obtain a better cycle performance and rate performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Jianhai Luo
  • Patent number: 10921380
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for measuring an internal resistance of a battery, after discharging/charging the battery under a preset constant-current, acquiring voltages of the battery within a period from ending the discharging/charging to a time when the voltage reaches stable, and then calculating different corresponding internal resistances caused by ohmic polarization, electrochemical polarization and concentration polarization separately. Since it is different for the orders of the magnitude of the characteristic time which these different polarizations need to get back into new equilibrium state after ending the discharging/charging, the method of the present disclosure classifies the internal resistances caused by these polarizations and calculated different internal resistances corresponding to the polarizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng Fang, Xuezhong Dong, Qiru Li, Po Gao, Wenjuan Liu Mattis
  • Patent number: 10797363
    Abstract: Provided is a method for recycling and refreshing a cathode material, a refreshed cathode material and a lithium ion battery. The method for recycling and refreshing the cathode material includes: 1) a cathode material recycled from a waste battery is mixed with a manganiferous salt solution; 2) an alkali aqueous solution is added to the mixture to react to obtain a manganese hydroxide coating cathode material; and 3) the manganese hydroxide coating cathode material is sintered with a lithium resource to obtain a refreshed cathode material. The refreshed cathode material has no obvious impurity phase and has good crystallinity, high initial charge-discharge efficiency and good cycling performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Bryan T. Yonemoto, Yuehui Yin, Xiangchao Kong, Xuelei Sun
  • Patent number: 10782272
    Abstract: An analytical method for precipitated particles using a co-precipitation reaction in includes feeding streams and a tracking metal into a reaction vessel; collecting a precipitated product containing the tracking metal from the reaction vessel in increments of time to obtain product samples; filtering each collected product sample to separate precipitated particles from filtrate; and performing elemental analysis for the tracking metal in the precipitated particles of each collected product sample and measuring a concentration of the tracking metal in the precipitated particles, to obtain a residence time distribution of the precipitated particles in the reaction vessel according to the concentration of the tracking metal in the precipitated particles. Therefore the preferred residence time of the precipitated particles in the reaction vessel can be ascertained, so that it is clear when the precipitated particles should be collected from the reaction vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bryan Yonemoto, Xiao Zhang, Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Zhifeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 10763539
    Abstract: A method for preparing an inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry includes: mixing an inorganic solid electrolyte powder with a first solvent and wet grinding an obtained mixture to form a preparatory slurry A; mixing a binder with a second solvent to form a preparatory slurry B; mixing the preparatory slurry A with the preparatory slurry B to obtain the inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry. The inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry prepared by the present disclosure effectively solves the problem that it is difficult to reduce the inorganic solid electrolyte powder particle size in the preparation process, or it is difficult to fully dry the inorganic solid electrolyte powder after sand milling. The present disclosure further provides an inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry prepared by the method, an application of the inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry, and a lithium-ion battery having the inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhangbo Liu, Xingzhi Mei, Jinjie Chen, Yi Fang, Zhuoqun Zheng, Yuehui Yin, Wenjuan Liu Mattis
  • Patent number: 10756399
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a battery module. The battery module includes a battery stacked body, which includes stacked batteries; cooling plates that are installed at the tail ends in a battery stacking direction of the battery stacked body, and the cooling plates and the battery stacked body are installed in a thermal insulation mode; and heat transfer device that are in thermal contact with the cooling plates, and heat of the batteries is transferred to the cooling plates through the heat transfer device; wherein in a normal charging-discharging state, the battery with the highest temperature in the battery stacked body is a battery A; and between a single cooling plate and the battery A, a thermal resistance between each battery and the heat transfer device is reduced along with the increase of a distance between the each battery and the cooling plate in the battery stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Microvast Power Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaosong Liu, Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Shengxian Wu
  • Publication number: 20200243841
    Abstract: An anode, which includes a current collector and an anode material stack coated on the current collector, the anode material stack includes an anode active material layer, which includes porous carbon material and a first binder, and the porous carbon material is mixed with the binder. The anode material stack further includes a carbon intermediate layer sandwiched between the current collector and the anode active material layer. It also provides a method for preparing the anode. Further, it provides a lithium ion battery including the anode above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: SHENGCHEN YANG, KAIQIANG WU, ZHUOQUN ZHENG, XIANG LI, SUMIHITO ISHIDA, WENJUAN LIU MATTIS
  • Publication number: 20200131046
    Abstract: A method for producing cathode particles is provided. The method includes: providing a plurality of precipitation zones from i=1 to N, wherein the precipitation zones are connected in series, each precipitation zone comprises a feed stream (ai) providing the precipitation cations, a feed stream (bi) providing the precipitation anions, a continuous outflow (ci) of precipitation particle slurry to the next precipitation zone, and a continuous inflow (ci?1) of precipitation particle slurry from the prior precipitation zone, and forming, in the precipitation zones, precipitated particles, and finally to form, in the precipitation zone N, precursor particles comprised of N layers, wherein layer i of each particle is precipitated and formed in the precipitation zone i, wherein N is not less than 3, and when i=1, there is no inflow (ci?1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: BRYAN YONEMOTO, WENJUAN LIU MATTIS, ZHIFENG ZHANG, XIAO ZHANG
  • Patent number: 10633552
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of supplementing lithium for an anode used for lithium secondary battery. Particularly, the present invention relates to lithium-supplementing slurry and a method for preparing the same, as well as an anode prepared with the slurry and a lithium secondary battery including the same. In the present invention, the prepolymer is used as a binder for supplementing lithium, the process for preparing the prepolymer is easy to operate and has low cost; the lithium-supplementing method using said prepolymer is easy to operate and has low cost, and it is easy to control the amount of lithium supplemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Xufeng Zang, Jiawei Yin
  • Publication number: 20200028180
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anode, which includes a current collector and a carbon fiber layer that is coated onto the current collector and includes oxygen-containing functional groups. The present disclosure also provides a method for preparing the anode, especially preparing the carbon fiber layer. In addition, the present disclosure provides a lithium ion secondary battery including the anode above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: SUMIHITO ISHIDA, SHENGCHEN YANG, WENJUAN LIU MATTIS, ZHUOQUN ZHENG, XIANG LI, YANG WU
  • Patent number: 10431819
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing an anode slurry used in a lithium ion battery. The method includes the following steps: providing at least one anode active material, at least one conductive agent, at least one monomer or a prepolymer and at least one solvent. Mixing the anode active material, the conductive agent and the monomer or the prepolymer with the solvent; dispersing uniformly to form a mixture. Adding an initiator into the mixture; polymerizing the monomer or the prepolymer at a certain temperature; and yielding the anode slurry. Besides, the present invention also provides an anode slurry prepared by the above method, and an anode plate prepared by the anode slurry, and a lithium ion battery including the anode plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignees: MICROVAST POWER SYSTEMS CO., LTD., OCHEM CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenjuan Liu Mattis, Tianshu Deng, Ruanbing Hu, Chaofeng Ning
  • Publication number: 20190260022
    Abstract: The present application provides a coated anode material and a method of preparing the same. The coated anode material has a core-shell structure, wherein the core-shell structure includes an inert core and a shell coated on the inert core, the shell comprises an anode active material, and the inert core comprises a non-active material. In the coated anode material, the anode active material of the shell is distributed over the non-active material of the inert core, and the coated anode material can overcome the volume change problem of silicon particles during lithium insertion/deinsertion to a certain extent and obtain a better cycle performance and rate performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: WENJUAN LIU MATTIS, JIANHAI LUO