Patents Issued in April 18, 2017
  • Patent number: 9627631
    Abstract: Boron-nitrogen polyaromatic compounds having a fused aromatic ring system are provided, where the compounds include a [1,2]azaborino[1,2-a][1,2]azaborine which is optionally fused to one or more aromatic rings or fused aromatic rings; wherein the fused aromatic ring system is substituted by one or more substituents, R, that are not fused to the aromatic ring system, selected from the group consisting of deuterium, halide, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, acyl, carbonyl, carboxylic acids, ester, nitrile, isonitrile, sulfanyl, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof; and wherein any two adjacent substituents, R, are optionally joined to form one or more non-aromatic rings. Devices, such as organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) that comprise light emitting materials are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Raymond Kwong
  • Patent number: 9627632
    Abstract: An uncharged compound of the formula (1) M(L)n(L?)m(L?)o??Formula (1) containing a substructure M(L)n of the formula (3) or (4) M is a transition metal; E is identical or different on each occurrence and is in each case a sp2-hybridized carbon or nitrogen atom; Z is identical or different on each occurrence and is in each case C(R)2 or NR; Cy1 and Cy2 are identical or different on each occurrence and are in each case a substituted or unsubstituted heterocycle which coordinates to M via the N atom and may have a bond to the group Z. The compound can also be used in an oligomer, polymer, dendrimer or an electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Hermann Mayer, William Kaska
  • Patent number: 9627633
    Abstract: The invention relates to dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells, and in particular, to perylene functionalized porphyrin dyes for dye-sensitized solar cells. The invention further relates to a dye molecule comprising perylene functionalized porphyrin moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Jishan Wu, Jie Luo, Changyun Jiang, Jie Zhang
  • Patent number: 9627634
    Abstract: Provided is a heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light-emitting diode including the same:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun-Jae Jeong, Seok-Hwan Hwang, Young-Kook Kim, Hye-Jin Jung, Jun-Ha Park, Eun-Young Lee, Jong-Woo Kim, Jin-O Lim, Sang-Hyun Han, Kwang-Hyun Kim, Soo-Yon Kim
  • Patent number: 9627635
    Abstract: A novel light-emitting device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. The light-emitting device includes a framework, a flexible first light-emitting panel supported by the framework so as to form a first developable surface, and a flexible second light-emitting panel supported by the framework so as to form a second developable surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Daiki Nakamura, Hisao Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9627636
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus includes a first flexible substrate including carbon, a second flexible substrate on the first flexible substrate, a metal layer between the first flexible substrate and the second flexible substrate, a barrier layer on the second flexible substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) on the barrier layer, and an organic light-emitting device (OLED) electrically connected to the TFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Heo, Sungguk An, Sungsik Bae
  • Patent number: 9627637
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes: a flexible panel having a bending portion that is configured to bend about a radius with respect to an inner peripheral surface of the bending portion, and a housing supporting the flexible panel. The bending portion has one or more recesses at the inner peripheral surface of the bending portion, and an entry width of each of the recesses, a number of the recesses, and a thickness of the flexible panel meet the relation equation of ?d=nG, where G denotes the entry width of each of the recesses, n denotes the number of the recesses, and d denotes the thickness of the flexible panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ohjune Kwon
  • Patent number: 9627638
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including an anode, a cathode, an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the organic layer containing a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer and an emission layer containing a host material, wherein the hole injection layer, the hole transport layer and the emission layer each contain a phosphorescent light-emitting material, wherein the hole injection layer contains the phosphorescent light-emitting material in an amount of 10% by mass or more but less than 50% by mass, and wherein a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the hole transport layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer, and a concentration of the phosphorescent light-emitting material contained in the emission layer is lower than that in the hole injection layer and higher than that in the hole transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventor: Naoyuki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9627639
    Abstract: Disclosed are an organic light emitting display device and lighting apparatus for vehicles using the same. The organic light emitting display device includes a first layer including a first organic layer and a first emission layer on a first electrode, a second layer including a second emission layer and a second organic layer on the first layer, a second electrode on the second layer, and a third organic layer between the first layer and the second layer. A thickness of the first emission layer is equal to or greater than a thickness of each of the first organic layer and the second organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: SeHee Lee
  • Patent number: 9627640
    Abstract: A multicolor light-emitting element in which light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are stacked and color adjustment is easily made is provided. A multicolor light-emitting element which is inexpensive and has favorable emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element in which at least two light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are formed in contact with each other and the light emitted from the two light-emitting layers is obtained from exciplexes is provided. In addition, the light-emitting element in which the exciplexes emit delayed fluorescence is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoe Matsubara, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 9627641
    Abstract: The device for charge carrier modulation is a current-controlled component, which has semiconductor layers arranged on top of each other. The organic semiconductor layers arranged on top of each other are an electron transport layer, which is arranged between a first and a second hole transport layer, and/or a hole transport layer, which is arranged between a first and a second electron transport layer. The respective central layer is the modulation layer having a contact for a modulation voltage. By applying a modulation voltage, a modulation current flow is generated over the modulation layer. The modulation current flow influences the component current flow which flows from the first into the second hole or electron transport layer via the respective modulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Günter Schmid, Dan Taroata
  • Patent number: 9627642
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (“OLED”) display includes: a substrate divided into a pixel area, and a peripheral area enclosing the pixel area; an OLED in the pixel area and including a first electrode, an organic emission layer and a second electrode; a common voltage line in the peripheral area and transmitting a common voltage to the second electrode; and a reaction blocking part overlapping the common voltage line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Mok Hong, Gun-Tae Park, Ho-In Lee
  • Patent number: 9627643
    Abstract: Various embodiments may relate to an optoelectronic component, including a substrate, a first electrically conductive electrode layer, a second electrically conductive electrode layer, an organic layer structure, and a conductor track layer. The first electrically conductive electrode layer, the second electrically conductive electrode layer and the conductor track layer are formed in each case from an optically transparent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Wehlus
  • Patent number: 9627644
    Abstract: In an aspect, an organic light emitting diode device including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an emission layer positioned between the first electrode and second electrode, wherein the first electrode includes samarium (Sm) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo-Ra Jung, Kyu-Hwan Hwang, Seok-Gyu Yoon, Eung-Do Kim, Dong-Chan Kim, Won-Jong Kim, Young-Woo Song, Jong-Hyuk Lee, Sung-Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 9627645
    Abstract: A mask plate for manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) transparent display panel, the OLED transparent display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The mask plate includes a substrate and a plurality of hollowed-out areas and a plurality of opaque areas disposed on the substrate, and a pattern of the hollowed-out areas correspond to a pattern of a cathode of the OLED transparent display panel to be manufactured; and all the hollowed-out areas are communicated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ziwei Cui, Hao Wu, Hongyan Xing, Jing Xue, Yanyan Yin
  • Patent number: 9627646
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for encapsulating an electronic arrangement against permeants, in which a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition based on vinylaromatic block copolymers is provided, and in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition is applied onto and/or around the regions of the electronic arrangement which are to be encapsulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: tesa SE
    Inventors: Jan Ellinger, Thorsten Krawinkel, Klaus Keite-Telgenbüscher, Anja Staiger
  • Patent number: 9627647
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display includes an organic light-emitting display device including a first electrode, an intermediate layer including an organic emission layer, and a second electrode; a first inorganic encapsulation layer on the second electrode; a second inorganic encapsulation layer on the first inorganic encapsulation layer; and an organic encapsulation layer on the second inorganic encapsulation layer. A refractive index of the first inorganic encapsulation layer is higher than a refractive index of the second inorganic encapsulation layer. The first inorganic encapsulation layer has an extinction coefficient of 0.02 to 0.07 and a refractive index of 2.1 to 2.3 at a blue wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaehyun Kim, Yongjun Park, Cheho Lee
  • Patent number: 9627648
    Abstract: A highly reliable light-emitting device is provided. Damage to an element due to externally applied physical power is suppressed. Alternatively, in a process of pressure-bonding of an FPC, damage to a resin and a wiring which are in contact with a flexible substrate due to heat is suppressed. A neutral plane at which stress-strain is not generated when a flexible light-emitting device including an organic EL element is deformed, is positioned in the vicinity of a transistor and the organic EL element. Alternatively, the hardness of the outermost surface of a light-emitting device is high. Alternatively, a substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion of 10 ppm/K or lower is used as a substrate that overlaps with a terminal portion connected to an FPC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Shingo Eguchi
  • Patent number: 9627649
    Abstract: Discussed is an organic light emitting display device. An OLED including a transparent anode formed of one conductive transparent material and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) including a cavity anode formed of a plurality of conductive materials are provided in one panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Heume Il Baek, Ho Jin Ryu, Young Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 9627650
    Abstract: To provide a novel light-emitting device, a light-emitting device that emits light of a plurality of colors includes a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element. The first light-emitting element includes a first lower electrode, a first light-emitting layer over the first lower electrode, a second light-emitting layer over the first light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode over the second light-emitting layer. The second light-emitting element includes a second lower electrode, the first light-emitting layer over the second lower electrode, the second light-emitting layer over the first light-emitting layer, and the upper electrode over the second light-emitting layer. An emission spectrum of the first light-emitting layer peaks at a longer wavelength than an emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9627651
    Abstract: In a method of manufacturing an optical sheet, a stacked structure may be formed by alternatively and repeatedly stacking at least one transparent layer and at least one light scattering layer. A first cut face may be formed by partially cutting the stacked structure. A second cut face may be formed by partially cutting the stacked structure. The second cut face may be parallel to the first cut face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Seo Kim, Rang-Kyun Mok, Jong-In Baek
  • Patent number: 9627652
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (10) includes a substrate (20), a first electrode (12), an emissive active stack (14), and a second electrode (18). At least one of the first and second electrodes (12, 18) is a light extracting electrode (26) having a metallic layer (28). The metallic layer (28) includes light scattering features (29) on and/or in the metallic layer (28). The light extracting features (29) increase light extraction from the organic light emitting diode (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V.
    Inventors: Abhinav Bhandari, Harry Buhay
  • Patent number: 9627653
    Abstract: Provided is an organic EL element having both excellent light extraction efficiency and excellent weather resistance. The organic EL element (10) has a configuration comprising: an organic EL element main body (1) including an organic compound layer (13) including a light-emitting layer; and a light extraction sheet (2) provided on the light-extraction side of the organic EL element main body (1). In addition, the organic EL element (10) is characterized by: the light extraction sheet (2) including a silicon compound; the haze value of the light extraction sheet (2) being at least 90; and the total light transmittance of the light extraction sheet (2) being at least 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Uezawa, Masakazu Tonishi
  • Patent number: 9627654
    Abstract: An OLED display includes a first substrate, a first electrode on the first substrate, a pixel defining layer having a first aperture exposing the first electrode, an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the organic light emitting layer, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, a black matrix disposed on the second substrate and having a second aperture, and a lens disposed to cover at least a part of the second aperture and protruding toward the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Shik Shim, Chul Ho Jeong, Jae Ik Lim
  • Patent number: 9627655
    Abstract: There is provided a display apparatus that can suppress the occurrence of a crack in a circularly polarizing plate in its manufacturing process without reducing designability and mass productivity. A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display element; and a circularly polarizing plate placed on a viewer side of the display element. The circularly polarizing plate includes a polarizer and a retardation film. In-plane retardations of the retardation film satisfy a relationship represented by the below-indicated expression (1); and an angle ?1 formed between a slow axis of the retardation film and a direction in which a wiring crimping portion provided along at least one side of a peripheral edge portion of the display element extends satisfies a relationship represented by the below-indicated expression (2): Re(450)<Re(550)??(1) ?1?70°??(2) where Re(450) and Re(550) represent in-plane retardations measured at 23° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Yaginuma, Kentarou Takeda, Takashi Shimizu, Kazuki Uwada, Nao Murakami
  • Patent number: 9627656
    Abstract: In an aspect, an organic light-emitting display apparatus is provided, including a display substrate; a sealing substrate configured to face the display substrate; a sealing material for bonding the display substrate and the sealing substrate and surrounding a circumference of the display unit; and a bonding layer comprising a plurality of through holes, wherein the plurality of through holes comprise partition walls therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Man Lee, Seung-Joon Yoo, Hyun-Soo Choi, Jae-Wook Shin
  • Patent number: 9627657
    Abstract: An alkaline storage battery includes: a cylindrical case having a side wall including an opening end portion and a bottom; a sealing plate; a gasket interposed between the sealing plate and the opening end portion; and a sealant between the gasket and the opening end portion. The side wall has an annular groove opened at an outer surface thereof, and an inwardly curl portion at the opening end portion. In at least part of the groove, the minimum width L1 is within 0.2 mm. The sealant includes a polyamide resin formed such that when two test-plate materials are bonded together at bonding faces facing each other via a bonding portion of the sealant, and moved in parallel with the bonding faces and in opposite directions to have a relative displacement within 0.5 to 5 mm, a stress at least 0.02 N/mm2 is applied to the bonding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Sumiyama, Fumio Kato, Hideaki Ohyama, Kiyoshi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9627658
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes a container, an electrode group, an electrolytic solution, a sealing plate, a terminal, an injecting port, a sealing plug, a lead and a pressing member. The injecting port is opened in the sealing plate. The sealing plug closes the injecting port of the sealing plate, and is made of an elastic material. The lead electrically connects a positive electrode or a negative electrode of the electrode group to the terminal. The pressing member is integrated with the lead. The pressing member presses the sealing plug to the sealing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoshio Takenouchi, Kenichi Takahashi, Mitsugi Ogura
  • Patent number: 9627659
    Abstract: An insulation sheet is disposed between a rectangular housing and an electrode body. A first side wall of the insulation sheet is disposed between a large-area side surface of the rectangular housing and the electrode body. The first side wall includes a first folded portion that is folded along an edge of the first side wall near a sealing plate. The first folded portion extends from an edge of the first side wall near the sealing plate toward a bottom surface of the rectangular housing and is disposed between the large-area side surface and the electrode body in such a way that the first folded portion overlaps the first side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Yamada, Eiji Okutani, Yasuhiro Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9627660
    Abstract: A lithium-ion battery outer package material includes a base layer, a first adhesive layer, a metallic foil layer, a corrosion prevention treatment layer, a second adhesive layer, and a sealant layer sequentially layered on one of the surfaces of the base layer. When a tensile test is performed in a 23° C. and 40% RH environment, with the specimen width being 15 mm, the distance between gauge points being 50 mm, and the tensile speed being 100 mm/min, the tensile elongation and tensile stress of the specimen are measured. A ratio of tensile elongation measured in a first direction to tensile elongation measured in a second direction is from 135:85 to 140:75, and a ratio of tensile stress measured in the first direction to tensile stress measured in the second direction is from 195:225 to 200:229.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 9627661
    Abstract: The present application discloses a battery assembly, an electronic cigarette using the battery assembly, and a method for assembling the battery assembly. The battery assembly is configured to be connected with an atomizing assembly to form the electronic cigarette. The battery assembly comprises a battery sleeve, a battery, an end cover, a control module, and an electronic wire. The end cover defines an assembling hole configured to mount the control module therein, and the end cover further defines at least one wire holding groove in an inner wall of the assembling hole and configured to enable the electronic wire to pass through. The wire holding groove can effectively prevent the electronic wire from being squeezed and scraped by the battery sleeve and the end cover. Open-circuit and short-circuit of the circuit in the battery assembly can be avoided, and the product quality of the battery assembly can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. SHENZHEN BRANCH
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 9627662
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, a case that accommodates the electrode assembly, a cap plate that seals the case, an electrode terminal assembled to penetrate through the cap plate, and a short-circuit inducing member that is fixed to a top surface of the cap plate, the short-circuit inducing member being displaceable according to a deformation of the cap plate to induce a short-circuit by contact with the electrode terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Soon Jang, Seok-Joon Yoon
  • Patent number: 9627663
    Abstract: A battery pack includes at least one unit cell with a top end, the unit cell including a vent hole, and a pack cover over the top end of the unit cell. The pack cover includes a discharge part having a bottom member that is sloped with respect to the top end of the unit cell. The bottom member of the pack cover including an aperture corresponding to the vent hole of the unit cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyung-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 9627664
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery module including a base plate on which unit modules, each with two or more secondary batteries therein, are stacked in a vertically erected state, a pair of end plates disposed in tight contact with outer surfaces of outermost unit modules while bottoms of the end plates are fixed to the base plate, and supporting bars connected between opposite sides of upper or side parts of the end plates so as to support the end plates, wherein each of the end plates includes a main body contacting a corresponding one of the unit modules, and a top wall, a bottom wall, and a pair of side walls protruding outward from the perimeter of the main body, the thickness of each of the side walls being increased from the top to the bottom wall, thereby dispersing pressure (bending load) from the unit modules and the supporting bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: YeonSeok Choo, Jin Kyu Lee, Ye Hoon Im, Kwanyong Kim
  • Patent number: 9627665
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a battery module is firstly to produce two integrated electrodes. An electrode plate has a plurality of electrode openings, and two electrode side plates have individual side-plate screw contact openings. The side walls of the two electrode side plates have individually inner-wall surfaces facing to each other. Two screw members are then bonded to the inner-wall surfaces of the two electrode plates. Two holder frames cover the electrode plate and the two screw members to form an integrated holder frame. Two holder frame side openings of the two holder frames are located respective to the side openings. A plurality of battery cells, each of which has a first and a second electrode, is combined to the two integration-battery-holder frames. The second electrode electrically connect one of the integrated electrodes, and a plurality of wires connects the first electrode to a plate bonding portion, such that a battery module can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: J-TEK INCORPORATION
    Inventors: Ming-Da Hsu, Jui-Yi Chien, Tzone-Yuan Kuo
  • Patent number: 9627666
    Abstract: An exemplary battery pack filtering device includes, among other things, a frame that provides at least one passageway to communicate air through the frame to an interior of a battery pack, a desiccant held by the frame, and a membrane configured to block liquid from communicating through the at least one passageway to the interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Steven Baldwin
  • Patent number: 9627667
    Abstract: In a lid for a battery case where an annular thin portion is formed integrally with a lid main body by coining, a pair of ribs formed integrally with the lid main body so as to bulge from the lid main body and extending in a short direction of the lid main body are disposed on both sides of the annular thin portion in a long direction of the lid main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: NISSHIN STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masato Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 9627668
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery separator, comprising two fiber regions comprising glass fibers, and a middle fiber region disposed between them comprising larger average diameter fibers and specified amounts of silica, or fine fibers, or both; and processes for making the separator. Also disclosed is a battery separator, comprising a fiber region and either one or two silica-containing region(s) adjacent thereto, each of the regions containing a specified amount of silica; and processes for making the separator. Such separators are useful, e.g., in lead-acid batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Hollingsworth & Vose Company
    Inventors: Akshay Ashirgade, Zhiping Jiang
  • Patent number: 9627669
    Abstract: A separator which includes a covering layer in which a fine framework of polyolefin resin is coated with a glass layer and an exposed layer in which the polyolefin resin is exposed is provided. A battery is provided having a cathode and an anode, an electrolyte, and a separator where the separator has the covering layer in which the fine framework of polyolefin resin is coated with the glass layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kajita, Yukako Teshima, Hiroshi Imoto, Takehiko Tanaka, Hiroshi Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 9627670
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a battery cell including a porous membrane, the porous membrane including transformed semiconductor material. The porous membrane separates a first half-cell from a second half-cell of the battery cell. The porous membrane comprises channels allowing ions and/or an electrolyte to move between the first half-cell and the second half-cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Goller, Michael Sorger, Magdalena Forster, Katharina Schmut
  • Patent number: 9627671
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming a metal battery electrode with a pyrolyzed coating. The method provides a metallorganic compound of metal (Me) and materials such as carbon (C), sulfur (S), nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), and combinations of the above-listed materials, expressed as MeXCYNZSXXOYY, where Me is a metal such as tin (Sn), antimony (Sb), or lead (Pb), or a metal alloy. The method heats the metallorganic compound, and as a result of the heating, decomposes materials in the metallorganic compound. In one aspect, decomposing the materials in the metallorganic compound includes forming a chemical reaction between the Me particles and the materials. An electrode is formed of Me particles coated by the materials. In another aspect, the Me particles coated with a material such as a carbide, a nitride, a sulfide, or combinations of the above-listed materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Long Wang, Jong-Jan Lee
  • Patent number: 9627672
    Abstract: A multilayer porous membrane comprising a porous membrane containing a polyolefin resin as a main component; and a porous layer containing an inorganic filler and a resin binder and laminated on at least one surface of the porous membrane; wherein the porous membrane has an average pore size d=0.035 to 0.060 ?m, a tortuosity ?a=1.1 to 1.7, and the number B of pores=100 to 500 pores/?m2, which are calculated by a gas-liquid method, and the porous membrane has a membrane thickness L=5 to 22 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei E-materials Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Murata, Hiroshi Hatayama, Yuki Uchida, Masaki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9627673
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a secondary battery that is able to inhibit the growth of a dendrite that can generate from an electrode comprising alkali metal and a separator used therein. A secondary battery, comprising: a positive electrode; a negative electrode comprising alkali metal; a separator comprising a layer of tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) polymer or copolymer that reacts with a dendrite of the alkali metal, the separator being hydrophilized at a rate of not less than 10% and not more than 80%; and a layer that does not react with a dendrite of the alkali metal located between the separator and the negative electrode, and a separator used therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kotaro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9627674
    Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells, each including terminal portions on a first surface thereof, the plurality of battery cells being aligned in a first direction; and a terminal connecting member configured to connect terminal portions of first and second battery cells of the plurality of battery cells that are adjacent to each other, and the terminal connecting member includes first and second contact portions spaced apart from each other to respectively come in surface contact with the terminal portions of the first and second battery cells, and a body portion connecting the first and second contact portions to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ik-Jae Jeong, Min-Cheol Bae, Kyoung-Hwan Noh, Ji-Ho Lee, Hong-Keun Choi
  • Patent number: 9627675
    Abstract: A power-supply unit and a bus bar module which can reduce die cost of an insulating cover are provided. Each of the two insulating covers is provided so as to cover both a first receiving portion and a second receiving portion. For this reason, the two insulating covers arranged on a plate and aligned in an overlapping direction of a battery can be formed in the same shape and same size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Ogasawara, Michio Ota
  • Patent number: 9627676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lithium ion battery employed by connecting the positive electrode side to a negative electrode portion made of Cu or a Cu alloy by a bus bar made of Al or an Al alloy and provides a negative electrode terminal for a lithium ion battery capable of providing sufficient bonding strength between the negative electrode portion and the bus bar when the negative electrode portion and the bus bar are metallurgically bonded to each other by resistance welding or the like, for example. This negative electrode terminal for a lithium ion battery is made of a clad material having a first metal layer made of Al or an Al alloy and a second metal layer made of Cu or a Cu alloy bonded to each other through a reaction-suppressing layer suppressing a reaction therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Oda, Masaaki Ishio, Yasuto Nozawa
  • Patent number: 9627677
    Abstract: A battery includes a plurality of electrode assemblies arranged in a case, each electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an interior safety member including an interior plate between the electrode assemblies, the interior safety member being electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of electrode assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: In Kim, Duk-Jung Kim, Joong-Heon Kim
  • Patent number: 9627678
    Abstract: A battery module having a controllable external heat sink and methods of operating the battery module are provided. According to an aspect of the invention, the battery module includes a battery cell, an external circuit connected to the battery cell, and a controller that controls the external circuit. The external circuit includes a first switch and a heat sink. If an internal short circuit within the battery cell is detected, the controller closes the first switch in order to generate heat in the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Simon Lux, Max Von Groll
  • Patent number: 9627679
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for suppressing welding faults caused in sealing a case of a sealed battery by laser welding. A step for manufacturing a sealed battery having a case sealed by a sealing plug and a sealing plate, which includes a sealing step for fitting the sealing plug into a pouring hole formed in a recess of a lid portion and inserting the sealing plate into the recess, and a welding step for joining the sealing plate to the recess by laser welding. In the sealing step, a heat-insulating member is provided in a minute space defined by the recess, the sealing plug and the sealing plate so as to block at least a part of the boundary portion between the sealing plate and the recess. In the welding step, welding is completed at a position where the heat-insulating member is present in the boundary portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junta Takasu, Takashi Harayama, Kazuyuki Kusama
  • Patent number: 9627680
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing surface-treated oxide particles which can be used in an active-material layer for a positive electrode or a negative electrode in a storage battery. Oxide particles in which an alkaline compound is contained in a part or the whole area of the surface of each of the particles are brought into contact with a gas containing a volatile acidic compound to produce a neutralization product by a gas phase reaction, thereby producing surface-treated oxide particles in which the neutralization product is contained. The alkaline compound comprises at least one compound selected from compounds respectively containing lithium (Li), sodium (Na) and magnesium (Mg), the volatile acidic compound comprises at least one compound selected from compounds respectively containing boron (B), phosphorus (P) and silicon (Si), and the oxide particles comprise an alkali-composited oxide containing at least one transition metal selected from manganese, cobalt, nickel, iron and titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Yukinobu, Yoshihiro Otsuka