Patents Issued in August 24, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170244055
    Abstract: A field effect transistor including a dielectric layer on a substrate, a nano-structure material (NSM) layer on the dielectric layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the NSM layer, a gate dielectric formed on at least a portion of the NSM layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode, a T-shaped gate electrode formed between the source electrode and the drain electrode, where the NSM layer forms a channel of the FET, and a doping layer on the NSM layer extending at least from the sidewall of the source electrode to a first sidewall of the gate dielectric, and from a sidewall of the drain electrode to a second sidewall of the gate dielectric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Sarunya Bangsaruntip, Michael Engel, Shu-Jen Han
  • Publication number: 20170244056
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electronic device, particularly a device including a flexible and/or low-cost substrate and/or carbon nanotubes, and also relates to electronic devices produced using said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicants: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports de I'Amenagement et des Reseaux
    Inventors: Costel-Sorin Cojocaru, Fatima Zahra Bouanis, Kitchner Max Garry Rose
  • Publication number: 20170244057
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is a method that includes exchanging at least a portion of a first cation of a perovskite solid with a second cation, where the exchanging is performed by exposing the perovskite solid to a precursor of the second cation, such that the precursor of the second cation oxidizes to form the second cation and the first cation reduces to form a precursor of the first cation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Kai Zhu, Mengjin Yang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Nitin P. Padture
  • Publication number: 20170244058
    Abstract: The present invention relates to curable barrier encapsulants or sealants for electronic devices that have pressure sensitive adhesive properties. The encapsulants are especially suitable for organic electronic devices that require lower laminating temperature profiles. The encapsulant protects active organic/polymeric components within an organic electronic device from environmental elements, such as moisture and oxygen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Yuxia LIU, Mark KONARSKI, Charles W. PAUL, Peter D. PALASZ
  • Publication number: 20170244059
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a cathode, an anode, a light-emitting layer, a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer is provided between the cathode and the light-emitting layer. The second layer is provided between the light-emitting layer and the third layer and includes a region in contact with the third layer. The third layer is provided between the second layer and the anode and includes a region in contact with the anode. The first layer and the third layer each include an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal. The second layer includes a material that has a function of transporting an electron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Toshiki SASAKI, Riho KATAISHI, Ryohei YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20170244060
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes an electrode layer, a first metal layer, an organic material layer and a second metal layer stacked sequentially. The first metal layer includes a first metal portion and a second metal portion separated from the first metal portion at a first lateral distance, and the first metal portion and the second metal portion have a first period. The organic material layer includes a first emitting region separating the first metal portion and the second metal portion. The first lateral distance and the first period enable a lateral plasma coupling generated between the first metal portion and the second metal portion, such that light generated by the organic material layer at the first emitting region has a gain in a first waveband, or a peak wavelength of the light generated by the first emitting region shifts to the first waveband.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Ping Lin, Jung-Yu Li, Guan-Yu Chen, Shih-Pu Chen, Jin-Han Wu, Cheng-Chang Chen
  • Publication number: 20170244061
    Abstract: A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel comprises a substrate including a display region and a non-display region; a display element disposed in the display region of the substrate; and at least one bank disposed in the non-display region of the substrate and surrounding the display region. The at least one bank comprises at least one inorganic layer and at least one metal layer, and the at least one inorganic layer encapsulates the at least one metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Jian JIN, Congyi SU
  • Publication number: 20170244062
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. One inventive aspect includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a first insulation layer, a metal layer and a second insulation layer formed on the first insulation layer. The metal layer is formed on the first insulating layer and has a first through hole. The second insulation layer is formed on the metal layer and has a second through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Dae-Won Lee
  • Publication number: 20170244063
    Abstract: A display device, including a display region formed of a plurality of pixels and a frame region formed on an outer side of the display region, includes a sealing film configured to cover the display region, a blocking portion formed in the frame region surrounding the display region, and buffering portions formed at least at two positions so as to be separated from each other on at least one straight line path extending from the display region to reach the blocking portion. In one embodiment of the present invention, the buffering portions have a wave shape in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masamitsu FURUIE
  • Publication number: 20170244064
    Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting element layer that emits light in a way that unit pixels each forming a pixel are respectively controlled in brightness, a sealing layer provided on the light-emitting element layer, an ultraviolet absorbing layer provided on the sealing layer, and a flattening layer provided on the ultraviolet absorbing layer and made of organic resin having ultraviolet curability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori KAMIYA, Hiroki OHARA
  • Publication number: 20170244065
    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: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Ji-Min KIM, Sang-Hoon OH
  • Publication number: 20170244066
    Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting element layer that emits light with a luminance controlled for each of a plurality of unit pixels constituting an image, and a sealing layer provided on the light-emitting element layer and including a plurality of layers. The plurality of layers of the sealing layer includes at least an inorganic layer provided on the light-emitting element layer, an organic layer provided on the inorganic layer, and an inorganic layer that is an uppermost layer. A density of the inorganic layer that is the uppermost layer in a thickness direction changes in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akinori KAMIYA, Daisuke Kato
  • Publication number: 20170244067
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an insulating substrate including a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area, the insulating substrate including a first through hole formed in the second area which is formed thinner than the first area, a pad electrode disposed above the first through hole, a signal line electrically connected to the pad electrode, a line substrate including a connection line and disposed below the insulating substrate, a conductive material disposed inside the first through hole to electrically connect the pad electrode and the connection line, a first protection member disposed below the first area, and a second protection member disposed below the first protection member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takumi SANO, Yasushi Kawata
  • Publication number: 20170244068
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure disclose an electroluminescence display device and a fabrication method thereof. The device comprises a color filter substrate. The color filter substrate comprises: a first substrate, and a first electrode, an organic electroluminescence layer and a second electrode sequentially provided on the first substrate. The color filter substrate further comprises: a first protective layer, provided on the second electrode and covering the second electrode and the organic electroluminescence layer below the second electrode; and a first connection electrode, provided on the first protective layer and connected to the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hongfei Cheng, Yuxin Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170244069
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate comprising a display area and a peripheral area and a first reflective member positioned in both the display area and the peripheral area. The first reflective member includes a first opening formed in a light-emitting region of the display area and a second opening formed in the peripheral area. The second reflective portion has openings having the same shape as openings formed in the first reflective portion. Thus, a reflectivity of the first reflective portion may be substantially the same as a reflectivity of the second reflective portion, and the first reflective portion and the second reflective portion may be perceived as an integral reflective member. Therefore, a bezel-less mirror organic light emitting display device may be manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Joonyoup KIM, YOUNGWOO SONG, JINKOO CHUNG, JUNHO CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170244070
    Abstract: A system for depositing one or more layers, particularly layers including organic materials therein, is described. The system includes a load lock chamber for loading a substrate to be processed, a transfer chamber for transporting the substrate, a vacuum swing module provided between the load lock chamber and the transfer chamber, at least one deposition apparatus for depositing material in a vacuum chamber of the at least one deposition chamber, wherein the at least one deposition apparatus is connected to the transfer chamber; a further load lock chamber for unloading the substrate that has been processed, a further transfer chamber for transporting the substrate, a further vacuum swing module provided between the further load lock chamber and the further transfer chamber, and a carrier return track from the further vacuum swing module to the vacuum swing module, wherein the carrier return track is configured to transport the carrier under vacuum conditions and/or under a controlled inert atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan BANGERT, Uwe Schüßler, Jose Manuel DIEGUEZ-CAMPO, Dieter HAAS
  • Publication number: 20170244071
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a white organic light-emitting device (white OLED) including a first electrode, a hole transport layer, a white light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a second electrode which are sequentially formed on a substrate, the method including manufacturing a red ink by mixing a red light-emitting host and a red light-emitting dopant, manufacturing a green ink by mixing a green light-emitting host and a green light-emitting dopant, manufacturing a blue ink by mixing a blue light-emitting host and a blue light-emitting dopant, and forming a white light-emitting layer as a monolayer on the hole transport layer by separately electrospraying the red ink, the green ink, and the blue ink on the hole transport layer, wherein the white light-emitting layer includes a plurality of red light-emitting domains, a plurality of green light-emitting domains, and a plurality of blue light-emitting domains on the hole transport layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIYAZAKI, Yasushi KOISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170244072
    Abstract: An exemplary battery cell assembly includes, among other things, an extruded case that provides an open area, and an electrode of a battery pack of an electrified vehicle. The electrode is held within the open area. An exemplary electrode housing method includes, among other things, positioning an electrode of an electrified vehicle battery pack within an open area of an extruded case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Joseph Robert, Kent Snyder, Renata Michaela Arsenault
  • Publication number: 20170244073
    Abstract: A battery pack is provided with a plurality of battery blocks each including a peripheral surface on one end of which a first connector is provided, a connecting unit which connects a plurality of battery blocks to each other such that two first connectors are opposed to each other, and a second connector which fits in the two first connectors opposed to each other. The battery block is rotationally fixed to the connecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroshi YUSA, Hideo URYU
  • Publication number: 20170244074
    Abstract: A cell module includes: a cylindrical cell; a fixing member having a through-hole in which one end of the cylindrical cell is held; and a solidified adhesive bonding together the cylindrical cell and the fixing member. The through-hole has an outer part and an inner part. A shape of the outer part is partially enlarged compared with a shape of the inner part so as to form a liquid pocket, and matches the shape of the inner part on the side opposite from the liquid pocket. Relative to the fixing member, the cylindrical cell is held in an inclined state, such that another end of the cylindrical cell is located closer to the liquid pocket side than the one end of the cylindrical cell is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keita MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20170244075
    Abstract: Provided is an energy storage apparatus which includes: an energy storage device; an opposedly facing member which opposedly faces the energy storage device in a first direction; and an adjacent member which is disposed adjacently to the energy storage device in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The opposedly facing member and the adjacent member are engaged with each other such that the adjacent member and the opposedly facing member are relatively movable to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Eiji YUASA, Kentaro Shibuya
  • Publication number: 20170244076
    Abstract: Provides is an energy storage apparatus which includes: a plurality of energy storage devices disposed in a row in a first direction, and a bus bar configured to connect external terminals of energy storage devices to each other, wherein the bus bar includes a first member having a first connection portion connected to the external terminal of one energy storage device and a first extension portion extending from the first connection portion; and a second member having a second connection portion connected to the external terminal of another energy storage device and a second extension portion extending from the second connection portion, and the first extension portion has a first conductive surface, and the second extension portion has a second conductive surface which is made to overlap with the first conductive surface in a separable manner in a state where the second conductive surface faces the first conductive surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Eiji YUASA, Kentaro Shibuya
  • Publication number: 20170244077
    Abstract: Provided is an energy storage apparatus including an energy storage device, an opposedly facing member which opposedly faces the energy storage device in a first direction, and an adjacent member which includes a body portion disposed adjacently to the energy storage device in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and containing a connection portion partially connected to the opposedly facing member at an end portion of the body portion in the first direction. The body portion of the adjacent member contains a cavity portion which opens at an end portion of the body portion in a direction orthogonal to the second direction and extends in the direction orthogonal to the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Eiji YUASA, Kentaro SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20170244078
    Abstract: An assembly may include an auxiliary power unit housing, a battery box, and a pair of brackets. The battery box may include a base, a first cover and a second cover. The first cover may be removably attached to the base. The auxiliary power unit housing may be mounted to the second cover. The first cover may include a lip that engages a flange of the second cover. The brackets may extend laterally outward from lateral sides of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: John D. SWEAZEY, Mark A. FANCHER, Robert H. JORDAN
  • Publication number: 20170244079
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage device containing a case where a corner portion is formed by a first wall portion and a second wall portion, an opposedly facing member which opposedly faces the first wall portion, and an insulator covering at least a region of the opposedly facing member which opposedly faces the energy storage device. The opposedly facing member contains a body disposed along the first wall portion and an extension portion extending from the body along the second wall portion. The insulator contains a cover portion which extends to a distal end of the extension portion from a boundary position between the extension portion and the body along an opposedly facing surface of the extension portion which opposedly faces the second wall portion, is folded back at the distal end, and extends along an outer surface of the extension portion opposite to the second wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Yosuke NISHIMURA, Hiroaki KAKIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170244080
    Abstract: A housing is disclosed. The housing contains one or more components, where at least one of the components is an electrical component and where the components do not fill the housing completely and a cavity remains within the housing. One or more filling elements are provided in the cavity which fill more than half of the cavity on contact with water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Torqeedo GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Hartmeyer
  • Publication number: 20170244081
    Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an outer case, and an energy storage device housed in an inside of the outer case. The outer case includes a ventilation chamber which makes the inside and an outside of the outer case communicate with each other. The ventilation chamber includes a front wall in which a through hole communicating with the outside is formed, a back wall disposed at a position where the back wall opposedly faces the front wall, a first wall disposed between the through hole and the back wall, and a first side wall disposed in an extending manner along a first direction which intersects with the front wall with a gap formed between the first side wall and the first wall. The gap is formed over a distance from the front wall to the back wall along the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Masamitsu TONONISHI, Yuta KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20170244082
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a housing accommodating a battery cell and having a throughhole; and a pressure equalization device coupled to the throughhole and equalizing internal and external pressures of the housing, wherein the pressure equalization device includes a first pressure equalization member configured to equalize the internal and external pressures of the housing when a variation in the internal pressure of the housing is smaller than a reference pressure variation; and a second pressure equalization member configured to equalize the internal and external pressures of the housing when the variation in the internal pressure of the housing is greater than the reference pressure variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Sanghyeok Ahn, Daehun Lee, Heonhee Kim
  • Publication number: 20170244083
    Abstract: A core prevents a battery separator wound there a round from moving and becoming misaligned on an outer circumferential surface of the core in a widthwise direction of the core. The core allows a separator to be wound around the outer circumferential surface thereof and is made of resin. The core includes a groove formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof, the groove extending in a direction substantially equivalent to a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Daizaburo YASHIKI
  • Publication number: 20170244084
    Abstract: To prevent adherence of foreign matter such as wear powder to a film, an expander device (21) includes: an expander roller (22) configured to apply a tension to a film (F) in the width direction of the film (F); and a sucking section (26) configured to suck foreign matter into the expander roller (22) through a sucking port provided at an outer peripheral surface of the expander roller (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Koichiro WATANABE, Daizaburo YASHIKI
  • Publication number: 20170244085
    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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: John Arnold, Gary E. Voelker, Joe Fasolo
  • Publication number: 20170244086
    Abstract: Provided is a separator for a battery in which, when a ratio of a total length of line segments (Sa), in which an arbitrary straight line (La) intersects with resin fibers (4), to a total length of the straight line (La) on a cross-section of the separator in a thickness direction (TD) is represented by s (%) and when a thickness of the separator is represented by d (?m), 0<s?100, 3?d?50, and 300?d×s?1500 are satisfied, the straight line (La) being parallel to a first main surface (40a) and crossing the cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroya UMEYAMA, Harunari SHIMAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170244087
    Abstract: Provided is an insulating tape to be used in a nonaqueous secondary battery, the insulating tape being capable of maintaining its insulating property even under a severe environment, e.g., even when being heated, and being capable of improving the safety of the nonaqueous secondary battery. Specifically, provided is an insulating tape for a nonaqueous battery, including a base material, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged on one side, or each of both sides, of the base material, in which the base material and/or the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer each contain/contains an insulating inorganic filler. Also provided is an insulating tape for a nonaqueous battery, including a base material with an insulating layer, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged on one side, or each of both sides, of the base material with the insulating layer, in which the insulating layer contains an insulating inorganic filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeki KAWABE
  • Publication number: 20170244088
    Abstract: The invention resolves the problem of swelling of sealing electrochemical cells of prismatic format when they are assembled side by side in a grouping box by proposing a battery comprising at least two electrochemical cells (1a, 1b) of prismatic format, wherein the electrochemical cells are separated by a rigid wedge (2) having a hardness greater than or equal to 90 Shore A according to the standard ASTM D 2240 and by a flexible wedge (3) having a hardness of up to 60 Shore A according to the standard ASTM D 2240, the rigid wedge and the flexible wedge being electrically insulating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: SAFT
    Inventors: Alexandre NARBONNE, Jérôme CALMEJANE
  • Publication number: 20170244089
    Abstract: A membrane includes a porous membrane or layer made of a polymeric material having a plurality of surface treated (or coated) particles (or ceramic particles) having an average particle size of less than about 1 micron dispersed therein. The polymeric material may be selected from the group consisting of polyolefins, polyamides, polyesters, co-polymers thereof, and combinations thereof. The particles may be selected from the group consisting of boehmite (AlOOH), SiO2, TiO2, Al2O3, BaSO4, CaCO3, BN, and combinations thereof, or the particles may be boehmite. The surface treatment (or coating) may be a molecule having a reactive end and a non-polar end. The particles may be pre-mixed in a low molecular weight wax before mixing with the polymeric material. The membrane may be used as a battery separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: C. Glen Wensley, Lie Shi
  • Publication number: 20170244090
    Abstract: A battery pack bussing plate, method, and system for providing battery vendor identification capable of surviving a thermal failure event of a battery pack for an information handling system. By receiving a designation of a distinctive current director shape of an extended current director, the extended current director comprising a current director with at least one extension at an angle to a line between a first terminus of the current director and a second terminus of the current director, the distinctive director shape adapted to uniquely identify a battery pack vendor, and transforming sheet metal stock into a battery pack bussing plate, the battery pack bussing plate defining the extended current director, a battery vendor can be identified from a battery pack even after thermal failure of the battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Rick C. Thompson, Bruce A. Miller
  • Publication number: 20170244091
    Abstract: Provided is an energy storage apparatus which includes: a plurality of energy storage devices which respectively have an external terminal and are arranged in a row in a first direction; an adjacent member disposed between the energy storage devices disposed adjacently to each other in the first direction; and a bus bar which connects the external terminals of the energy storage devices disposed on both sides of the adjacent member to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Eiji Yuasa, Kentaro Shibuya
  • Publication number: 20170244092
    Abstract: A battery balancing system for parallel connected batteries for balancing batteries that are at dissimilar voltages. The system has first and second buses, connected by a current limiter. A high bus takes energy from the highest voltage battery or batteries in the system and transfers the energy through the current limiter to the low bus, which in turn delivers energy to the lowest voltage battery or batteries in the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Revision Military S.a.r.L.
    Inventors: Steve Carkner, Eric John Georges Andrasi, Paul Lynes
  • Publication number: 20170244093
    Abstract: A battery can include a separator, a first current collector, a protective layer, and a first electrode. The first current collector and the protective layer can be disposed on one side of the separator. The first electrode can be disposed on an opposite side of the separator as the first current collector and the protective layer. Subjecting the battery to an activation process can cause metal to be extracted from the first electrode and deposited between the first current collector and the protective layer. The metal can be deposited to at least form a second electrode between the first current collector and the protective layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Jiang Fan
  • Publication number: 20170244094
    Abstract: Composite materials having domains of lithium oxometallates in an electronically conductive matrix, and methods of making such composite materials are provided. Exemplary lithiated metals oxides include, for example, doped or undoped lithium oxometallates of the formula Li8MaO6 and/or Li7MbO6, wherein Ma represents Zr and/or Sn, and Mb represents Nb and/or Ta. Such composite materials can be used in lithium ion batteries, for example, as an active material such as an electrode that can store charge in the form of lithium ions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Stein, Anh Dinh VU, Yuan Fang, Benjamin Edwin Wilson
  • Publication number: 20170244095
    Abstract: A material for slurry composition-use for example is a paste composition including a negative electrode active material that contains a silicon-based negative electrode active material in an amount of at least 30 mass % and a water-soluble polymer in an amount of at least 3 parts by mass and less than 500 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the silicon-based negative electrode active material. The water-soluble polymer includes at least 20.0 mass % and no greater than 79.5 mass % of structural units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid compound (A) and at least 20.0 mass % and no greater than 79.5 mass % of structural units derived from a copolymerizable compound (B) that has an ethylenically unsaturated bond and a water solubility of at least 7 g/100 g at 20° C., and the water-soluble polymer has a degree of swelling in electrolysis solution of less than 120%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenya SONOBE, Yasuhiro ISSHIKI, Masanori SHIBUYA
  • Publication number: 20170244096
    Abstract: A positive electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to the present invention is provided with a porous positive electrode active material layer that contains a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material layer is formed so that a logarithmic differential pore volume distribution curve thereof, which shows the relation between pore diameter and pore volume of pores in the positive electrode active material layer, is a single-peak type curve. The distribution curve has a main peak having a full width at half maximum of from 0.001 ?m to 0.05 ?m inclusive, and the sum of the pore volumes of the pores within a pore diameter range corresponding to the full width at half maximum is 70% or more of the total pore volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: ELIIY Power Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke KUZUSHIMA, Tomitaro HARA
  • Publication number: 20170244097
    Abstract: A method is provided where an anode of an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery is easily doped with lithium and to provide a small resistance at a low battery capacity. The method includes a manufacturing method of a cathode including mixing at least a conductive assistant (C1) and a sulfide solid electrolyte (E1) to obtain a mixture; and mixing at least one cathode active material, a solid electrolyte (E2) and the mixture obtained from the first step to obtain a cathode mixture, wherein an amount of energy added to the sulfide solid electrolyte (E1) is larger than an amount of energy added to the solid electrolyte (E2), and the mixture is a material that releases lithium ions at a potential lower than a potential at which the cathode active material releases and occludes lithium ions. Manufacturing methods for a cathode and an all-solid-state lithium ion secondary battery including the cathode mixture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Norihiro OSE, Hikaru ASO, Keisuke OMORI, Hajime HASEGAWA, Mitsutoshi OTAKI, Hideyuki KOGA
  • Publication number: 20170244098
    Abstract: An energy storage device can include a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein the first electrode or the second electrode includes elemental lithium metal and carbon particles. A method for fabricating an energy storage device can include forming a first electrode and a second electrode, and inserting a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, where forming the first electrode or the second electrode can include combining elemental lithium metal and a plurality of carbon particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hieu Minh Duong, Porter MITCHELL, Mohammed-Yazid SAIDI
  • Publication number: 20170244099
    Abstract: A negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a negative active material including a titanium-containing oxide and amorphous carbon. The titanium-containing oxide is present in a larger amount than the amorphous carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Sun-IL PARK, Young-Kee KIM, Joon-Kil SON, Soojeong LEE
  • Publication number: 20170244100
    Abstract: A process for solution-based formation of a nanostructured, carbon-coated, inorganic composite includes selecting a supply of inorganic material in a solution, selecting a supply of a carbon-containing solution, and synthesizing the composite by causing the inorganic material to react in the carbon-containing solution. The synthesized composite may be conductive-carbon-coated, and may be for electrochemical applications such as battery cathodes and anodes. The selecting step may involve varying relative amounts of polar fluid, microblender and water components to synthesize a crystalline inorganic composite. There may be a step of retaining and reusing the supply of carbon-containing solution that remains after the synthesizing, and testing the supply of carbon-containing solution that remains to determine whether it can be used again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventor: Ramez Elgammal
  • Publication number: 20170244101
    Abstract: This invention relates to a negative electrode material for lithium-ion batteries comprising silicon and having a chemically treated or coated surface influencing the zeta potential of the surface. The active material consists of particles or particles and wires comprising a core comprising silicon, wherein the particles have a positive zeta potential in an interval between pH 3.5 and 9.5, and preferably between pH 4 and 9.5. The core is either chemically treated with an amino-functional metal oxide, or the core is at least partly covered with OySiHx groups, with 1<x<3, 1?y?3, and x>y, or is covered by adsorbed inorganic nanoparticles or cationic multivalent metal ions or oxides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Stijn PUT, Jan GILLEIR, Kris DRIESEN, Jean-Sébastien BRIDEL, Nicolas MARX, Delphine LONGRIE, Dan V. GOIA, John I. NJAGI
  • Publication number: 20170244102
    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: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Pu Chen, Jing Wang, Yang Liu
  • Publication number: 20170244103
    Abstract: A cathode active material contains a compound having a crystal structure of space group FM-3M and represented by composition formula (1): LixMeyO2 . . . (1). In the formula, Me represents any of the following: Mn; Mn and one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe, Sn, Cu, Mo, Bi, V, and Cr; Ni, Mn, and one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co, Fe, Sn, Cu, Mo, Bi, V, and Cr; and one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Ni, Co, Fe, Sn, Cu, Mo, Bi, V, and Cr. In addition to this, the following conditions are met: 0.5?x/y?3.0; and 1.5?x+y?2.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: RYUICHI NATSUI, ISSEI IKEUCHI, KENSUKE NAKURA
  • Publication number: 20170244104
    Abstract: A cathode active material contains a compound having a crystal structure of space group FM-3M, represented by composition formula (1), and having a half-width in 2? of 0.9° or more and 2.4° or less for a (200) diffraction peak in powder X-ray diffraction (XRD): LixMeyO2. . . (1). In the formula, Me represents one or two or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mn, Nb, Ti, Ni, Co, Fe, Sn, Cu, Mo, Bi, V, and Cr. In addition to this, the following conditions are met: 0.5?x/y?3.0; and 1.5?x+y?2.3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: RYUICHI NATSUI, ISSEI IKEUCHI, KENSUKE NAKURA