Patents Issued in June 13, 2017
  • Patent number: 9680110
    Abstract: A composition for use in fabricating opto-electrical devices comprising a solution processable triazine host material and a phosphorescent moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: CDT OXFORD LIMITED, SUMITOMO CHEMICAL CO. LIMITED
    Inventors: Nigel Male, Jonathan Pillow
  • Patent number: 9680111
    Abstract: This invention relates to a composition including (a) a dopant, (b) a first host having at least one unit of Formula I, and (c) a second host compound. Formula I has the structure where Q is a fused ring linkage having the formula In Formula I: R1 is the same or different at each occurrence and is D, alkyl, aryl, silyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, cyano, vinyl, or allyl; R2 is the same or different at each occurrence and is H, D, alkyl, or aryl, or both R2 are an N-heterocycle; R3 is the same or different at each occurrence and is H, D, cyano, alkyl or aryl; and a is the same or different at each occurrence and is an integer from 0-4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Jerald Feldman, Norman Herron, Michael Henry Howard, Jr., Nora Sabina Radu, Vsevolod Rostovtsev, Kerwin D Dobbs, Adam Fennimore, Weiying Gao, Weishi Wu, Ying Wang, Charles D McLaren
  • Patent number: 9680112
    Abstract: An electronic device, such as a thin-film transistor, includes a semiconducting layer formed from a semiconductor composition. The semiconductor composition comprises a polymer binder and a small molecule semiconductor. The small molecule semiconductor in the semiconducting layer has a crystallite size of less than 100 nanometers. Devices formed from the composition exhibit high mobility and excellent stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yiliang Wu, Sandra J. Gardner, Anthony James Wigglesworth, Ping Liu, Nan-Xing Hu
  • Patent number: 9680113
    Abstract: Phosphorescent metal complexes comprising a pendant redox-active metallocene are disclosed. These complexes are useful as emitters for phosphorescent OLEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Jui-Yi Tsai, Chuanjun Xia
  • Patent number: 9680114
    Abstract: A flexible organic light emitting display and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method is: sequentially forming a first buffer layer, a switch array layer, a display unit layer, and a thin film package layer on a flexible underlay substrate. When the flexible organic light emitting display bends along the flexible underlay substrate, a first bending deformation force is generated. The first buffer layer is used to absorb the first bending deformation force, and the material of the first buffer layer is an organic insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiangbo Yao
  • Patent number: 9680115
    Abstract: A light-emitting device having a curved light-emitting surface is provided. Further, a highly-reliable light-emitting device is provided. A substrate with plasticity is used. A light-emitting element is formed over the substrate in a flat state. The substrate provided with the light-emitting element is curved and put on a surface of a support having a curved surface. Then, a protective layer for protecting the light-emitting element is formed in the same state. Thus, a light-emitting device having a curved light-emitting surface, such as a lighting device or a display device can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yohei Momma, Tomohiko Suganoya, Saki Obana
  • Patent number: 9680116
    Abstract: Vacuum transistors with carbon nanotube as the collector and/or emitter electrodes are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming a vacuum transistor includes the steps of: covering a substrate with an insulating layer; forming a back gate(s) in the insulating layer; depositing a gate dielectric over the back gate; forming a carbon nanotube layer on the gate dielectric; patterning the carbon nanotube layer to provide first/second portions thereof over first/second sides of the back gate, separated from one another by a gap G, which serve as emitter and collector electrodes; forming a vacuum channel in the gate dielectric; and forming metal contacts to the emitter and collector electrodes. Vacuum transistors are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Qing Cao, Kangguo Cheng, Zhengwen Li, Fei Liu
  • Patent number: 9680117
    Abstract: A thin film organic photovoltaic device or solar cell in one embodiment includes an organic active bilayer and an ultrathin two-dimensional metallic nanogrid as a transparent conducting electrode which receives incident light. The nanogrid excites surface plasmonic resonances at an interface between the nanogrid and active bilayer from the incident light to enhance photon absorption in the active bilayer below the nanogrid. In another embodiment, spatially separated nanograting electrodes may alternatively be formed by double one-dimensional nanogratings disposed on opposite sides of the organic active bilayer. The spatially separated nanogratings may be oriented perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Inventors: Filbert Joseph Bartoli, Beibei Zeng
  • Patent number: 9680119
    Abstract: Disclosed is a white organic light emitting display device comprising first and second electrodes, and a first emitting part between the first and second electrodes, the first emitting part including a red emitting layer and a blue emitting layer adjacent to the red emitting layer, wherein the red emitting layer includes a first host material which does not absorb a blue light emitted from the blue emitting layer, and an organic light emitting display apparatus using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Soo Park, Hong Seok Choi, Seung Ryong Joung, SoYeon Ahn, Min Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 9680120
    Abstract: An object is to provide a light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants and has high emission efficiency. In one embodiment of the present invention, a light-emitting device, a light-emitting module, a light-emitting display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. Attention is paid to Förster mechanism, which is one of mechanisms of intermolecular energy transfer. Efficient energy transfer by Förster mechanism is achieved by making an emission wavelength of a molecule which donates energy overlap with the longest-wavelength-side local maximum peak of a graph obtained by multiplying an absorption spectrum of a molecule which receives energy by a wavelength raised to the fourth power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Shunpei Yamazaki, Takahiro Ishisone
  • Patent number: 9680121
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and an electronic device, wherein the OLED includes a first carrier transport layer and a second carrier transport layer that are set opposite to each other, and a light-emitting layer; the light-emitting layer includes a first light-emitting sub-layer with a hollow structure, and a second light-emitting sub-layer which includes a body part and a projecting part, wherein the projecting part projects from the body part and is accommodated in the hollow structure; wherein a surface of the first light-emitting sub-layer and a surface of the projecting part form the first surface of the light-emitting layer, and a surface of the body part forms the second surface of the light-emitting layer. By the present invention, the working voltage is lowered, the power consumption is reduced, and in addition, the manufacturing process is simplified due to the reduction of the number of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuanhui Guo, Feng Qin, Hui Wang, Chun Wang, Yisan Zhang
  • Patent number: 9680122
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device may include: a cell array comprising gate lines and data lines intersecting each other on a substrate so as to define a plurality of pixel areas, a plurality of thin film transistors formed at intersections between the gate lines and the data lines to correspond to the plurality of pixel areas, and a protective film evenly formed over the substrate to cover the thin film transistors; a plurality of first electrodes formed such that portions of an metal oxide layer corresponding to emission areas of the respective pixel areas, is made conductive, the metal oxide layer evenly disposed on the protective film; a bank constituting the remaining portion of the metal oxide layer in which the first electrodes are not formed and formed so as to have insulating properties; an emission layer formed over the metal oxide layer; and a second electrode formed on the emission layer so as to face the first electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun-Sik Seo, Jong-Woo Kim, Kyung-Han Seo
  • Patent number: 9680123
    Abstract: A light emitting device including a substrate, a first electrode structure, an organic light emitting structure and a second electrode structure is provided. The first electrode structure includes a first transparent conductive layer, a patterned conductive layer and a second transparent conductive layer disposed on the substrate in sequence, so that the patterned conductive layer is interposed between the second transparent conductive layer and the first transparent conductive layer in a thickness direction of the substrate. The organic light emitting structure and the second electrode structure are disposed on the substrate, and the organic light emitting structure is located between the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure in the thickness direction of the substrate. An electrode structure and a manufacturing method thereof are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chang-Ying Chen, Hsi-Hsuan Yen, Chun-Ting Liu
  • Patent number: 9680124
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second electrode and an organic light emitting layer. The first electrode has an upper face. The organic light emitting layer is provided on the first electrode. The second electrode is provided on the organic light emitting layer. The second electrode includes a plurality of conductive parts. The conductive parts extend in a first direction parallel to the upper face and are arranged in a second direction. The second direction is parallel to the upper face and intersects with the first direction. When a length of each of the conductive parts in the second direction is set to W1 (micrometer), and a pitch of each of the conductive parts is set to P1 (micrometer). The W1 and the P1 satisfy a relationship of W1??647(1?W1/P1)+511 and a relationship of W1??882(1?W1/P1)+847.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Daimotsu Kato, Hayato Kakizoe, Tomoaki Sawabe, Keiji Sugi, Atsushi Wada, Yukitami Mizuno, Tomio Ono, Shintaro Enomoto, Tomoko Sugizaki, Akio Amano, Yasushi Shinjo
  • Patent number: 9680125
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent lighting device that can reduce the occurrence of short-circuiting caused by inrush current. The organic electroluminescent lighting device includes: transparent substrate 1; positive electrode film 2 that is formed on the surface of transparent substrate 1 and includes terminal 2a formed at one end or both ends and electrode 2b formed continuously from terminal 2a; negative electrode terminal film 3 that is formed separate from positive electrode film 2 on the surface of transparent substrate 1 and includes first resistive region 7; organic light emitting film 4 formed on the surface of electrode 2b of positive electrode film 2; and negative electrode film 5 continuously formed from the surface of organic light emitting film 4 to the surface of negative electrode terminal film 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: NEC LIGHTING, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 9680126
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) that includes an OLED panel; a back cover supporting the OLED panel and including a reinforcing bent portion; and a heat dissipation member between the OLED panel and the back cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-Cheol Kang, Gi-Hyon Jun
  • Patent number: 9680127
    Abstract: In an organic EL display device, an improvement in the performance of a barrier film that blocks entry of a substance that causes degradation, such as moisture, into an organic electroluminescent element is achieved. The organic EL display device includes the barrier film, which is a stacked film including a barrier base material layer made of silicon oxide or silicon nitride and a base material coating layer in contact with an impregnated barrier base material layer. The barrier film blocks transmission of a substance that degrades the organic electroluminescent element. Nano-ink is applied on a surface of the barrier base material layer, and the barrier base material layer is impregnated with the nano-ink. The barrier base material layer subjected to the impregnation treatment serves as the impregnated barrier base material layer, while the nano-ink after impregnation serves as the base material coating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kazufumi Watabe
  • Patent number: 9680128
    Abstract: A foldable organic light emitting display (OLED) device comprises a substrate including a display region and a non-display region, the non-display region located at a periphery of the display region; an emitting diode in the display region; and an encapsulation film covering both the emitting diode and an entirety of the display region, and the encapsulation film covering and a part of the non-display region without covering at least another part of the non-display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Min Kim, Sang-Hoon Oh
  • Patent number: 9680129
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic light emitting element equipped with a transparent substrate, an internal light extracting layer, and a transparent metal electrode includes: forming the internal light extracting layer on the transparent substrate, and forming the transparent metal electrode on the internal light extracting layer. The step of forming the internal light extracting layer includes: applying a coating solution onto the transparent substrate into a predetermined pattern, the coating solution containing a light scattering particle having an average particle size of 0.2 ?m or more and less than 1 ?m and a refractive index of 1.7 or more and less than 3.0 and a hydroxy-containing solvent, and drying the applied patterned coating solution through irradiation with infrared light having a proportion of 5% or less of a spectral radiance at a wavelength of 5.8 ?m to a spectral radiance at a wavelength of 3.0 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takaaki Kuroki
  • Patent number: 9680130
    Abstract: A display device, a display panel and a manufacturing method therefor are disclosed. The display panel can include a cover plate; an array substrate disposed opposite to the cover plate; an organic light emitting layer, which is of a top-emitting type or a bottom-emitting type, disposed between the cover plate and the array substrate; and at least one first transparent resin layer disposed between the organic light emitting layer and the cover plate. With the solution in the disclosure, the method for manufacturing the display panel is simplified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liyuan Liu, Canjun Xiao, Mu Lou, Zhiyong Xiong, Zhengzhong Chen
  • Patent number: 9680131
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The OLED panel comprises: a base substrate, a plurality of OLED units formed on the base substrate, and a reflective structure formed on the base substrate, disposed along the periphery of the OLED units and configured to partially or completely encircle the OLED units. The OLED unit includes an anode layer, an organic emission layer and a cathode layer. The reflective structure is provided with a reflective surface which is configured to reflect light emitted from a side terminal of the organic emission layer to the outside of the OLED panel. The OLED panel can improve the utilization rate of light emitted by the OLED units and hence improve the display quality of the OLED panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lujiang Huangfu, Wenyu Ma, Lei Shi, Can Zhang, Yinan Liang
  • Patent number: 9680132
    Abstract: A display device including a substrate, a light absorption layer, an optical matching layer, a first transparent electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second transparent electrode is provided. The light absorption layer is disposed on the substrate, and the optical matching layer is disposed on the light absorption layer. The first transparent electrode is disposed on the optical matching layer, the light emitting layer is disposed on the first transparent electrode, and the second transparent electrode is disposed on the light emitting layer. An output luminance and a reflectance of ambient light are controlled by adjusting refractive indices of the optical matching layer and the light absorption layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Shou Tsai, Kuo-Chang Lee, Shin-Tson Wu, Guan-Jun Tan, Rui-Dong Zhu
  • Patent number: 9680133
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a light emitting region; and a light blocking layer provided on a side of the plurality of pixels on which light is output. In each of the plurality pixels, the light blocking layer has a plurality of openings allowing light from the light emitting region to be output. In one embodiment, in the light blocking layer, the openings adjacent to each other may be located line-symmetrically. In one embodiment, in the light blocking layer, the openings adjacent to each other may be located point-symmetrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: HaoChun Lee, Toshihiro Sato, Masaya Adachi, Shigeru Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 9680134
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a packaging method, a packaging structure and a display device. The packaging method comprises forming a pattern of a packaging adhesive on a packaging area of a first substrate, and forming a heat dissipating structure on the packaging area of any of the first substrate and a second substrate; attaching the first substrate and the second substrate, and aligning the packaging area of the first substrate with that of the second substrate; illuminating the pattern of the packaging adhesive by a laser beam to melt and frit it, so as to form a packaging adhesive structure between the first and second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiuxia Yang, Feng Bai, Ruiyong Wang
  • Patent number: 9680135
    Abstract: A pouch-type flexible film battery, including: (a) a cathode structure including a cathode pouch, a cathode conductive carbon layer, and a cathode layer; (b) an anode structure including an anode pouch, an anode conductive carbon layer, and an anode layer; and (c) a polymer electrolyte layer that is provided between the cathode and anode structures, that is bonded to the cathode layer and to the anode layer, and that is a gel-type electrolyte having adhesive properties and including a cellulose-based polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Gi Lee, Kwang Man Kim, Min Gyu Choi, Kunyoung Kang
  • Patent number: 9680136
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery including a case; a cap plate installed on the case; and a terminal, the terminal including a terminal pillar protruding from the cap plate, and a terminal plate coupled to the terminal pillar, wherein the terminal pillar includes a first pillar coupled to the terminal plate; second pillar coupled to the first pillar, and a welding member on an exterior of the first pillar or the second pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungyeol Yoo, Huijun Lee
  • Patent number: 9680137
    Abstract: A battery charger includes a battery attachment section configured to have a rechargeable battery releasably attached thereto. The battery attachment section includes a flat attachment surface having a width corresponding to a width of a bottom surface of a case of the battery to be charged and a length greater than a length of the bottom surface of the case of the battery to be charged; a plurality of locking hooks provided on the attachment surface; a charger terminal configured to contact a terminal of the battery to be charged, the charger terminal including a plurality of plate-shaped contact pieces configured to be inserted into engaging grooves of the battery to be charged; and an attachment projection adjacent to the attachment surface and configured to secure the battery to the charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshio Takeshita, Kei Tashiro, Takashi Kondou, Yoshihito Tamesue
  • Patent number: 9680138
    Abstract: Battery cells are fixed by a cell holder and are housed inside a case in a state where both electrodes are sandwiched by a positive-electrode current collecting plate and a negative-electrode current collecting plate, and springs are arranged above and under the current collecting plates. Claws are provided on side surfaces of the case, which can temporarily fix the springs to the current collecting plates at the time of assembly and prevents the case from being ejected suddenly when a fastener is released at the time of disassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuneyuki Ejima
  • Patent number: 9680139
    Abstract: The invention provides for a high occupancy or heavy-duty vehicle with a battery propulsion power source, which may include lithium titanate batteries. The vehicle may be all-battery or may be a hybrid, and may have a composite body. The vehicle battery system may be housed within the floor of the vehicle and may have different groupings and arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Proterra Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Hill, Michael Walker, Shaun Onorato, Donald Morris, Stephen Misencik, John Winkel
  • Patent number: 9680140
    Abstract: A battery anode component for a battery cell including a current collector component having a lithium receiving side in which at least two spatially separated recesses are formed as lithium receiving chambers, at least two lithium-based anode material units which are situated in the at least two lithium receiving chambers, and a protective cover which covers the lithium receiving side at least partially and with the aid of which outer surfaces of the at least two lithium-based anode material units which are exposed by the current collector component are covered. A method is also described for manufacturing a battery anode component for a battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Tenzer
  • Patent number: 9680141
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a separator comprising the steps of: providing a sheetlike porous substrate, a solvent, ceramic particles and an adhesion promoter; preparing a slip by mixing the solvent, the adhesion promoter and the ceramic particles; coating the substrate with the slip and thermally drying the coated substrate to obtain the separator. The problem addressed is that of specifying a process useful for producing separators having a higher ceramic content. The problem is solved when the solvent used is a mixture of water and at least one organic component; the adhesion promoter used is a mixture of silanes and at least one thermally crosslinkable acrylic polymer; the slip is admixed with a carboxylic acid preparation and also with a defoamer component free from silicone oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Litarion GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf-Walter Terwonne, Witold Friedemann Rex, Matthias Pascaly, Michael Kube, Christian Hying
  • Patent number: 9680142
    Abstract: A polyolefin microporous membrane, the membrane having, when measured by DSC, a degree of crystallinity of from 65 to 85%, a lamellar crystal/crystal ratio of from 30 to 85%, a crystal length of from 5 nm to 50 nm and an amorphous length of from 3 nm to 30 nm, and a polyolefin microporous membrane, the membrane having, when measured by X-ray diffractometry, crystal size of from 12.5 nm to 13.5 nm and a degree of crystallinity of from 64 to 68%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TEIJIN LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroki Sano, Satoshi Nishikawa, Takashi Yoshitomi
  • Patent number: 9680143
    Abstract: Porous, electrically insulating, and electrochemically resistant surface coatings that strengthen and protect separators and that improve the operational safety of electrochemical devices using such separators, the use of ultraviolet (UV) or electron beam (EB) curable binders to secure an electrically insulating, porous, ceramic particle coating on separators, and methods of producing polymer-bound ceramic particle separator coatings, separators and electrochemical devices by UV or EB curing slurries of reactive liquid resins and ceramic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Miltec UV International LLC
    Inventors: John Arnold, Gary E. Voelker, Joe Fasolo
  • Patent number: 9680144
    Abstract: An electrode assembly that includes a positive electrode assembly including a number of positive electrodes each having a positive electrode non-coating portion at a certain position, and a positive electrode tab coupling all the positive electrode non-coating portions, a negative electrode assembly including a plurality of negative electrodes each having a negative electrode non-coating portion at a certain position, and a negative electrode tab coupling all the negative electrode non-coating portions, and a separator disposed between each positive electrode and each negative electrode to insulate a region between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrodes of the positive electrode assembly and the negative electrodes of the negative electrode assembly are stacked alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hosik Shin
  • Patent number: 9680145
    Abstract: A prismatic nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a convex portion on a stepped portion of a stepped through hole of a positive electrode external conduction member. An upper end side of a caulked portion of a positive electrode terminal member is caulked by being inserted from a side of a small-diameter portion into the stepped through hole of a positive electrode external conduction member, and a convex portion of the positive electrode external conduction member is covered with a tip side of the caulked portion. Therefore, a terminal member and an external conduction member have a great bond strength, and rarely rotate with respect to each other. Thus, there is less concern that a conductivity decreases even when the battery is used under an environment including a lot of vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hattori, Yasuhiro Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9680146
    Abstract: A device (1) and method for filling at least one cell (2) of a rechargeable battery (3) with electrolyte liquid (30) has an evacuatable sealing container (20) to accommodate a filling apparatus (10) and the rechargeable battery (3). A feed means (11) passes through the container wall (21) to supply the filling apparatus (10) with electrolyte liquid (30). The filling apparatus (10) has at least one reservoir (13) for electrolyte liquid (30) that is in a state of pressure balance with the interior of the sealing container (20) when filled above the level (31) of the electrolyte liquid. Via at least one outlet (12) located below the level (31) of the electrolyte liquid, the reservoir (13) can be flow-connected to a filling opening (4) of the cell (2) that is to be filled, while the interior (5) of the cell (2) is sealed so as to be pressure-tight vis-à-vis the interior (22) of the sealing container (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CMWTEC technologie GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Wipperfuerth
  • Patent number: 9680147
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a battery having an electrode structure using long metal fibers, and to a production method therefor. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the battery has an electrode structure comprising: an electrically-conductive network which is formed by physical connection or chemical bonding between one or more long metal fibers; and a first electrically active material which is bound to the electrically-conductive network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: JENAX INC.
    Inventor: Kwonseok Kim
  • Patent number: 9680148
    Abstract: This invention provides for a functionalized porous carbon particle comprising a porous carbon particle linked to a functional group having affinity for a polysulfide, a porous solvent infused carbon particle comprising the porous carbon particle thereof, and a positive electrode comprising the porous carbon particle thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: NOHMS Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Surya Moganty, Gabriel Torres, Jonathan Lee
  • Patent number: 9680149
    Abstract: An electrode material includes an electrode active material having a carbonaceous film formed on a surface is used and which is capable of suppressing voltage drop when high-speed charge and discharge is carried out in a low-temperature environment. The electrode material has a particulate shape and is formed a carbonaceous film on surfaces of electrode active material particles. An average of discharge capacity ratios between a 35C discharge capacity at ?10° C. of a single particle of the electrode material and a 1C discharge capacity at ?10° C. of a single particle of the electrode material is 0.50 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO OSAKA CEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Kitagawa, Hiroyuki Mine, Hirofumi Yasumiishi
  • Patent number: 9680150
    Abstract: To provide a means by which an electrical device such as a lithium ion secondary battery that has a positive electrode using a solid solution positive electrode active material can be provided with satisfactory performance in terms of rate characteristics while sufficiently making use of the high capacity characteristics that characterize solid solution positive electrode active materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9680151
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an anode or an electrolytic capacitor electrode including an active anode material containing a chalcogen-containing-germanium composition in which the germanium:chalcogen atom ratio is between 80:20 and 98:2. The disclosure also relates to an anode including an active anode material containing a lithium and germanium-containing alloy wherein the lithium:germanium atom ratio is 22:5 or less. The anode also includes a non-cycling lithium chalcogenide. The disclosure further relates to lithium ion batteries including such anodes. The disclosure additionally relates to capacitor electrodes containing similar materials and capacitors containing such electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
    Inventors: Charles Buddie Mullins, Paul Abel, Adam Heller, Kyle C. Klavetter
  • Patent number: 9680152
    Abstract: A transition metal hexacyanoferrate (TMH) cathode battery is provided. The battery has a AxMn[Fe(CN)6]y.zH2O cathode, where the A cations are either alkali or alkaline-earth cations, such as sodium or potassium, where x is in the range of 1 to 2, where y is in the range of 0.5 to 1, and where z is in the range of 0 to 3.5. The AxMn[Fe(CN)6]y.zH2O has a rhombohedral crystal structure with Mn2+/3+ and Fe2+/3+ having the same reduction/oxidation potential. The battery also has an electrolyte, and anode made of an A metal, an A composite, or a material that can host A atoms. The battery has a single plateau charging curve, where a single plateau charging curve is defined as a constant charging voltage slope between 15% and 85% battery charge capacity. Fabrication methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhao Lu, Hidayat Kisdarjono, Jong-Jan Lee, David Evans
  • Patent number: 9680153
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a power generating element including a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer and a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer. A main plane having the smaller area, between a main plane of the positive electrode active material layer and a main plane of the negative electrode active material layer, has an approximately rectangular shape with a short side having a length of 132 mm or more. The positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer are provided such that the main plane of the positive electrode active material layer and the main plane of the negative electrode active material layer face each other with a separator interposed therebetween, and the positive electrode active material layer contains a binder in an amount of 2 mass % or more and 3.5 mass % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: AUTOMOTIVE ENERGY SUPPLY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Tanjo, Yoshihiro Niida
  • Patent number: 9680154
    Abstract: A battery, including a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte; the cathode including a cathode active material capable of reversibly intercalating-deintercalating ions; the anode including an anode current collector that does not participate in the electrochemical reaction; the electrolyte including a solvent capable of dissolving solute, the solute being ionized to at least an active ions that can be reduced to a metallic state during a charge cycle and be oxidized from the metallic state to the dissolved ion state during a discharge cycle and/or an intercalation-deintercalation ions that can deintercalate from the cathode active material during the charge cycle and intercalate into the cathode active material during the discharge cycle; the anode further comprising an anode active material formed on the anode current collector capable of being oxidized and dissolved to active ion state during the discharge cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignees: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pu Chen, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 9680155
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable-type secondary battery having a horizontal cross section of a predetermined shape and extending longitudinally, comprising: an inner electrode comprising a wire-type inner current collector having a first metal tab formed to be extended in a predetermined length at one end thereof, and an inner electrode active material layer formed on the surface of the inner current collector; a separator layer formed on the outer surface of the inner electrode active material layer; and an outer electrode formed on the outer surface of the separator layer, and comprising an outer electrode active material layer and an outer current collector having a second metal tab formed to be extended in a predetermined length at one end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yo-Han Kwon, Sang-Wook Woo, Hye-Ran Jung, Je-Young Kim
  • Patent number: 9680156
    Abstract: A composition including a compound having a fluorine functional group, a polymer as a polymerization product of the composition, an electrode and an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, which include the composition or the polymer thereof, and a fuel cell including at least one of the electrode and the electrolyte membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Seong-woo Choi, Jung-ock Park
  • Patent number: 9680157
    Abstract: A bonding layer used to join individually formed fuel cell units together to create a solid oxide fuel cell stack can include particles contained within a carrier material. The particles can have at least one material component in common with a porous electrode of a first type and a bimodal particle size distribution. In some embodiments, the particles of a first mode of the bimodal particle size distribution are small enough to fit at least partially into the porosity of the electrodes bonded together, while the particles of the second mode of the bimodal particle size distribution are larger than the porosity of the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventor: Morteza Zandi
  • Patent number: 9680158
    Abstract: A fuel cell includes: (1) an anode; (2) a cathode; and (3) an electrolyte disposed between the anode and the cathode. At least one of the anode and the cathode includes an electro-catalyst dispersed on a hybrid support, the hybrid support includes a first, carbon-based support and a second support different from the first, carbon-based support, and a weight percentage of the second support is at least 10% relative to a combined weight of the first, carbon-based support and the second support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Yu Huang, Yujing Li
  • Patent number: 9680159
    Abstract: The present application is directed to mesoporous carbon materials comprising bi-functional catalysts. The mesoporous carbon materials find utility in any number of electrical devices, for example, in lithium-air batteries. Methods for making the disclosed carbon materials, and devices comprising the same, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Aaron M. Feaver, Henry R. Costantino, Richard D. Varjian
  • Patent number: 9680160
    Abstract: Metal nanotubes are provided comprising a composition having formula (M1)NT: wherein M1=Pt, Pd, or Au; wherein the nanotubes have: a wall thickness of from 2 to 12 nm; an outer diameter of from 30 to 100 nm; and a length of from 5 to 30 ?m. Metal nanowires are also provided comprising a composition having formula (M2)NW: wherein M2=Ag or Cu; wherein when M2=Ag, the nanowires have a diameter of from 25 to 60 nm and a length of from 1 to 10 ?m; and when M2=Cu, the nanowires have a diameter of from 50 to 100 nm and a length of from 10 to 50 ?m. In other embodiments, fuel cells are also described having at least one anode; at least one cathode; an electrolyte membrane between the at least one anode and at least one cathode; and a catalyst comprising either of the above described metal nanotubes or nanowires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: The Regents of The University of California
    Inventors: Yushan Yan, Shaun Alia