Manganese (e.g., Manganate, Etc.) Patents (Class 423/599)
  • Patent number: 11949100
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a cathode active material used for a lithium ion secondary battery which has a large charge-discharge capacity, and excels in charge-discharge cycle properties, output properties and productivity, and, a lithium ion secondary battery using the same. The cathode active material used for a lithium ion secondary battery comprises a lithium transition metal composite oxide represented by the following Formula (1); Li1+aNibCocMndMeO2+?, where, in the formula (1), M is at least one metal element other than Li, Ni, Co, and Mn; and a, b, c, d, e, and ? satisfy the following conditions: ?0.04?a?0.04, 0.80?b<1.00, 0?c?0.04, 0<d<0.20, b+c+d+e=1, ?0.2<?<0.2, and c and d in the Formula (1) satisfy c/d?0.75.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Toyama, Shin Takahashi, Hisato Tokoro, Genei Nakajima, Shuichi Takano, Akira Gunji, Akihiko Noie
  • Patent number: 11811058
    Abstract: A primary battery includes a cathode having a non-stoichiometric metal oxide including transition metals Ni, Mn, Co, or a combination of metal atoms, an alkali metal, and hydrogen; an anode; a separator between the cathode and the anode; and an alkaline electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: DURACELL U.S. OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Albert Christian, Yichun Wang, Nikolay Krastev Iltchev, Kirakodu S. Nanjundaswamy, Jennifer Anne Nelson, Fan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11712676
    Abstract: Disclosed are a reaction tower, a production system, and a production method for producing potassium manganate. The reaction tower includes a reaction tower body and a bubble generator. The reaction tower body has a reaction chamber. The bubble generator includes an outer housing. The outer housing is disposed in the reaction chamber and has a gas flow channel therein. The outer housing is configured to direct an external reactant gas into the gas flow channel. The outer housing is provided with multiple first pores each having a diameter less than 10 mm, via which the gas flow channel communicates with the reaction chamber. The reaction tower is used in the production system. The reactant gas is introduced into the reaction chamber in the form of small bubbles by the action of the bubble generator, to increase the area of contact of the reactant gas with manganese ore powder and lye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN HANGXIN TRADING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guan Yang, Liangqin Lin, Junliang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11682756
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing lithium-metal nitride including suspending a lithium-metal-oxide-powder (LMOP) within a gaseous mixture, incrementally heating the suspended LMOP to a holding temperature of between 400 and 800 degrees Celsius such that the LMOP reaches the holding temperature, and maintaining the LMOP at the holding temperature for a time period in order for the gaseous mixture and the LMOP to react to form a lithium-metal nitride powder (LMNP).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Randolph Carlton McGee
  • Patent number: 11670767
    Abstract: Embodiments of inorganic electrode materials that utilize nanostructure surface modifications via functionalization via carbonate/carboxylate to achieve superior electrochemical performance and methods of producing same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventor: Benjamin Kalman Lesel
  • Patent number: 11664497
    Abstract: A rechargeable manganese battery includes: (1) a first electrode including a porous, conductive support; (2) a second electrode including a catalyst support and a catalyst disposed over the catalyst support; and (3) an electrolyte disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode to support reversible precipitation and dissolution of manganese at the first electrode and reversible evolution and oxidation of hydrogen at the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Yi Cui
  • Patent number: 11367870
    Abstract: A rechargeable manganese battery includes: (1) a first electrode including a porous, conductive support; (2) a second electrode including a catalyst support and a catalyst disposed over the catalyst support; and (3) an electrolyte disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode to support reversible precipitation and dissolution of manganese at the first electrode and reversible evolution and oxidation of hydrogen at the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Yi Cui
  • Patent number: 11205776
    Abstract: A method for forming lithium metal oxides comprised of Ni, Mn and Co useful for making lithium ion batteries comprises providing precursor particulates of Ni and Co that are of a particular size that allows the formation of improved lithium metal oxides. The method allows the formation of lithium metal oxides having improved safety while retaining good capacity and rate capability. In particular, the method allows for the formation of lithium metal oxide where the primary particle surface Mn/Ni ratio is greater than the bulk Mn/Ni. Likewise the method allows the formation of lithium metal oxides with secondary particles having much higher densities allowing for higher cathode densities and battery capacities while retaining good capacity and rate performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Yu-Hua Kao, Murali G. Theivanayagam, Jui-Ching Lin, Jianxin Ma, Liang Chen, Michael Lowe, Hideaki Maeda, Ing-Feng Hu
  • Patent number: 11152615
    Abstract: A secondary alkaline battery includes an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. The cathode includes a current collector, a cathode mixture in electrical contact with the current collector. The cathode mixture comprises: manganese oxide, a copper compound comprising copper, a salt of copper, an alloy thereof, or any combination thereof, a bismuth compound comprising bismuth, a salt of bismuth, or any combination thereof, and a conductive carbon. The secondary alkaline battery can also include a first composition in contact with the current collector and disposed between the current collector and the cathode mixture that includes copper, a salt of copper, an alloy thereof, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Gautam G. Yadav, Michael Nyce, Sanjoy Banerjee
  • Patent number: 10991972
    Abstract: An electrolyte solution, a positive electrode, and a lithium-ion battery containing the electrolyte solution and/or the positive electrode are provided. The electrolyte solution comprises a lithium salt, an electrolyte solvent, and an additive, wherein the additive is an aniline compound having a structure of Formula 1 or a derivative thereof: in which R1 and R2 are each independently selected from at least one of —H, —(CH2)n1CH3, and —(CH2)n2CF3, where 0?n2?3, and 0?n2?3; and M1-M5 are each independently selected from at least one of —H, —F, —Cl, —Br, —(CH2)n3CH3, and R3—S—R4, where 0?n3?3, and at least one of M1-M5 is selected from a thioether group R3—S—R4, where R3 is selected from —(CH2)n4—, in which 0?n4?1, and R4 is selected from one or two of an aniline group or —(CH2)n5CF3, where 0?n5?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Feiyan Qiao, Sheng Wang
  • Patent number: 10978734
    Abstract: Described herein is an aqueous aluminum ion battery featuring an aluminum or aluminum alloy/composite anode, an aqueous electrolyte, and a manganese oxide, aluminosilicate or polymer-based cathode. The battery operates via an electrochemical reaction that entails an actual transport of aluminum ions between the anode and cathode. The compositions and structures described herein allow the aqueous aluminum ion battery described herein to achieve: (1) improved charge storage capacity; (2) improved gravimetric and/or volumetric energy density; (3) increased rate capability and power density (ability to charge and discharge in shorter times); (4) increased cycle life; (5) increased mechanical strength of the electrode; (6) improved electrochemical stability of the electrodes; (7) increased electrical conductivity of the electrodes, and (8) improved ion diffusion kinetics in the electrodes as well as the electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Everon24, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahul Mukherjee, Kripa Kiran Varanasi, Trevor John Simmons, Mukesh Chatter, Nikhil Ashok Koratkar
  • Patent number: 10950862
    Abstract: A method for producing a cathode that can lower a sintering temperature is provided. The method comprises: acid-treating particles of a lithium containing composite oxide that has a layered rock-salt structure; obtaining a mixture by mixing the acid-treated particles with a lithium salt whose melting point is lower than that of the lithium containing composite oxide; and heating and sintering the mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatsugu Kawakami, Shingo Ohta
  • Patent number: 10822690
    Abstract: A process for the formation of an LiM02 (e.g., LiCoO2) sputtering target with a bi-modal grain size distribution (as in a hollow cylinder target body) that includes a CIP-based process involving, for example, forming or sourcing an LiMO2 (e.g., Li—CoO2) powder; dispersion and milling (e.g., wet milling); binder introduction; drying (e.g., spray drying) to form a granulate; CIP processing of the granulate into a molded shape; and a heating cycle for debinding and sintering to form a densified sintered shape. The target body produced is suited for inclusion on a sputtering target assembly (as in a rotary sputtering target assembly with a plurality of cylindrical target bodies attached to a backing support). The invention is inclusive of the resultant target bodies formed under the CIP based process as well as an induction heater based process for attachment (e.g., metal solder bonding) of the low conductivity target body(ies) of LiMO2 (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: UMICORE
    Inventor: Jong-Won Shin
  • Patent number: 10804536
    Abstract: Substituted ?-MnO2 compounds are provided, where a portion of the Mn is replaced by at least one alternative element. Electrochemical cells incorporating substituted ?-MnO2 into the cathode, as well as methods of preparing the substituted ?-MnO2, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Energizer Brands, LLC
    Inventors: George Louis Schimek, Robert M. Estanek, Steven J. Limmer, Guanghong Zheng
  • Patent number: 10749170
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are graphene-coated lithium manganese oxide spinels cathodes for high-performance batteries Li-ion batteries and methods for making thereof. A single-layer graphene coating is shown to significantly reduce manganese loss in the cathodes while concurrently promoting the formation of a well-defined solid electrolyte interphase layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: Mark C. Hersam, Laila Jaber Ansari, Kanan P. Puntambekar, Michael M. Thackeray
  • Patent number: 10727491
    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: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: Positec Power Tools (Suzhou) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Pu Chen, Jing Wang, Yang Liu
  • Patent number: 10658662
    Abstract: Provided are an electrode active material for a magnesium battery, including a complex transition metal oxide which is represented by a Formula 1 below and which includes ?-MnO2 phase having a cubic structure at a percentage of 60% or higher, an electrode and a magnesium battery including the same, and a method of preparing the electrode active material for a magnesium battery: <Formula 1> MxMnyOz In the Formula 1, 0<x?1, 0.25?y?1, and 1?z<3; and M is at least one metal selected from Mg2+, Ca2+, Na+, K+, and Zn2+.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jusik Kim, Seoksoo Lee, Ryounghee Kim, Wonseok Chang
  • Patent number: 10576440
    Abstract: A continuous process for producing a material of a battery cell using a system having a mist generator, a drying chamber, one or more gas-solid separators and a reactor is provided. A mist generated from a liquid mixture of two or more metal precursor compounds in desired ratio is dried inside the drying chamber. Heated air or gas is served as the gas source for forming various gas-solid mixtures and as the energy source for reactions inside the drying chamber and the reactor. One or more gas-solid separators are used in the system to separate gas-solid mixtures from the drying chamber into solid particles mixed with the metal precursor compounds and continuously deliver the solid particles into the reactor for further reaction to obtain final solid material particles with desired crystal structure, particle size, and morphology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Inventor: Liang-Yuh Chen
  • Patent number: 10535870
    Abstract: An electrical device having a power generating element which includes a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material, and a separator, in which the coating amount of a negative electrode active material layer is set at 4 to 11 mg/cm2, the negative electrode active material represented by Formula (1), the positive electrode active material represented by Formula (2), and in that case, as a solid solution positive electrode active material to be contained in a positive electrode active material layer, a material represented by Formula (3) and having a particle surface that is provided with a certain amount of coating layer which is formed of an oxide or complex oxide of a metal that is selected from the group consisting of Al, Zr and Ti is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chihiro Honda, Shinji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10522829
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a positive electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery includes preparing lithium manganese complex oxide particles, preparing coated particles by forming a coating including a Li+-conductive oxide on a surface of each lithium manganese complex oxide particle, introducing fluorine into at least a part of the coated particles, preparing a fluid composition by mixing the coated particles at least a part of which fluorine is introduced into, a conductive material, an aqueous binder, and an aqueous solvent, forming a positive electrode mixture layer by disposing the fluid composition on a surface of a collector, and drying the positive electrode mixture layer. The thickness of the coating is 5 nm or more and 10 nm or less. Fluorine is introduced such that the ratio of fluorine to manganese in terms of the number of atoms in the coated particles reaches 1.95 or more and 3.1 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yukiko Hori
  • Patent number: 10507446
    Abstract: A continuous process for producing a material of a battery cell using a system having a mist generator, a drying chamber, one or more gas-solid separators and a reactor is provided. A mist generated from a liquid mixture of two or more metal precursor compounds in desired ratio is dried inside the drying chamber. Heated air or gas is served as the gas source for forming various gas-solid mixtures and as the energy source for reactions inside the drying chamber and the reactor. One or more gas-solid separators are used in the system to separate gas-solid mixtures from the drying chamber into solid particles mixed with the metal precursor compounds and continuously deliver the solid particles into the reactor for further reaction to obtain final solid material particles with desired crystal structure, particle size, and morphology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Inventor: Liang-Yuh Chen
  • Patent number: 10493423
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for performing a purification treatment on a harmful substance-containing liquid, the method enabling an efficient purification treatment of a harmful substance-containing liquid by using dissolved ozone being an oxidizing agent with high level of safety, and a harmful substance-containing liquid purification treatment apparatus for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: FUTAMURA KAGAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Izumi, Yusuke Ideta, Ryuta Nishide, Toru Kawakami, Akira Nishio, Seigo Miyashita, Satoru Nakayasu
  • Patent number: 10461373
    Abstract: An assembled electrochemical cell is formed comprising an anode containing sub-micrometer and micrometer-size particles of an anode material for cyclically intercalating and de-intercalating lithium ions or sodium ions, a cathode containing like-sized particles of a cathode material for intercalating and de-intercalating the ions utilized in the anode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte composed for transporting ions between the anode and cathode. Nanometer-size particles of a basic metal oxide or a metal nitride are mixed with at least one of (i) the particles of electrode material for at least one of the anode and cathode and (ii) the electrolyte. The composition and the amount of the metal oxide or metal nitride is determined for chemically neutralizing acidic contaminants formed in the operation of the electrochemical cell, adsorbing incidental water, and to generally prevent degradation of the respective electrode materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Zhiqiang Yu, Dewen Kong, Meiyuan Wu
  • Patent number: 10305101
    Abstract: A cathode active material including a layered lithium transition metal oxide, wherein the layered lithium transition metal oxide includes a metal cation having an oxidation number of +4, and wherein the metal cation is disposed in an octahedral site of a lattice of the layered lithium transition metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youhwan Son, Dongwook Han, Jaegu Yoon, Dongwook Shin, Yongnam Ham
  • Patent number: 10069143
    Abstract: An electrode material comprising a composite lithium metal oxide, which in an initial state has the formula: y[xLi2MO3.(1?x)LiM?O2].(1?y)Li1+dMn2-z-dM?zO4; wherein 0?x?1; 0.75?y<1; 0<z?2; 0?d?0.2; and z?d?2. M comprises one or more metal ions that together have an average oxidation state of +4; M? comprises one or more metal ions that together have an average oxidation state of +3; and M? comprises one or more metal ions that together with the Mn and any excess proportion of lithium, “d”, have a combined average oxidation state between +3.5 and +4. The Li1+dMn2-z-d M?zO4 component comprises a spinel structure, each of the Li2MO3 and the LiM?O2 components comprise layered structures, and at least one of M, M?, and M? comprises Co. Cells and batteries comprising the electrode material also are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: Michael M. Thackeray, Jason R. Croy, Brandon R. Long, Joong Sun Park, Eungje Lee
  • Patent number: 10050258
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxide active material surface-treated with a lithium compound, a method for preparing the same, and an all-solid lithium secondary battery capable of effectively suppressing an interface reaction in a solid electrolyte by adopting the same. In the all-solid lithium secondary battery comprising an electrode containing a positive electrode active material and a sulfide-based solid electrolyte, the positive electrode active material according to the present invention can significantly improve battery characteristics since a coating layer formed of a lithium compound is formed while surrounding a particle surface to act as a functional coating layer which suppresses the interface reaction of the sulfide-based solid electrolyte and the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
    Inventors: Dong Wook Shin, Junghoon Kim, Woosup Kim, Sun Ho Choi, Youngmin Lee
  • Patent number: 9979011
    Abstract: A method of preparing a homogeneously dispersed chlorine-modified lithium manganese-based AB2O4 spinel cathode material is provided. Furthermore, a homogeneously dispersed chlorine-modified lithium manganese-based AB2O4 spinel cathode material is provided. In addition, a lithium or lithium ion rechargeable electrochemical cell is provided incorporating a homogeneously dispersed chlorine-modified lithium manganese-based AB2O4 spinel cathode material in a positive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Terrill B. Atwater, Paula C. Latorre, Ashley L. Ruth
  • Patent number: 9960423
    Abstract: Provided is a spinel-type lithium metal composite oxide that makes it possible to achieve excellent high-temperature storage characteristics when used as a positive electrode active material of a lithium battery. The spinel-type (Fd-3m) lithium metal composite oxide is characterized by the oxygen occupancy (OCC) thereof as determined by the Rietveld method being 0.965-1.000, the lattice strain thereof as determined by the Williamson-Hall method being 0.015-0.090, and the ratio (Na/Mn) of the molar content of Na to the molar content of Mn satisfying 0.00<Na/Mn<1.00×10?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitohiko Ide, Daisuke Washida, Yuji Hoshi, Yoshimi Hata
  • Patent number: 9911977
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a cathode active material including a lithium manganese oxide, in which the lithium manganese oxide has a spinel structure with a predetermined constitutional composition represented by Formula 1 described in the detailed description, wherein a conductive material is applied to the surface of lithium manganese oxide particles, so as to exhibit charge-discharge properties in the range of 2.5 to 3.5V as well as in the 4V region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Hyun Kuk Noh, Sin Kyu Kim, Geun-Chang Chung, Song-Taek Oh, Sanguck Lee, Jong Chan Kim
  • Patent number: 9893355
    Abstract: Provided is a new spinel type lithium manganese transition metal oxide for use in lithium batteries, which can increase the capacity retention ratio during cycling, and can increase the power output retention ratio during cycling. Disclosed is a spinel type lithium manganese transition metal oxide having an angle of repose of 50° to 75°, and having an amount of moisture (25° C. to 300° C.) measured by the Karl Fischer method of more than 0 ppm and less than 400 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Mitsumoto, Hitohiko Ide, Shinya Kagei, Yoshimi Hata, Natsumi Shibamura
  • Patent number: 9865874
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrothermal synthesis device for continuously preparing an inorganic slurry using a hydrothermal method. The hydrothermal synthesis device includes a mixer to mix at least one precursor solution for preparing an inorganic material, injected via at least one supply tube, to prepare an intermediate slurry, a connection tube provided at a side of the mixer, continuously discharging the prepared intermediate slurry to a reactor, and having an inner surface contacting a precursor solution mixture on which abrasive polishing has been performed, and the reactor performing hydrothermal reaction of the intermediate slurry supplied from the connection tube by receiving a liquid stream heated to supercritical or subcritical conditions using a heat exchanger and connected to the connection tube into which the intermediate slurry prepared from the mixer is introduced and to at least one injection tube into which the heated liquid stream is injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Kuk Noh, Ji Hoon Ryu, Wang Mo Jung, Hong Kyu Park, Sang Seung Oh, Chi Ho Jo
  • Patent number: 9843035
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hydrothermal synthesis device for continuously preparing an inorganic slurry using a hydrothermal method. The hydrothermal synthesis device includes a mixer to mix at least one precursor solution for preparing an inorganic material, injected via at least one supply tube, to prepare an intermediate slurry, a connection tube provided at a side of the mixer, continuously discharging the prepared intermediate slurry to a reactor, and having a hydrophobic coating on an inner surface of a portion thereof adjacent to the reactor, and the reactor performing hydrothermal reaction of the intermediate slurry supplied from the connection tube by receiving a liquid stream heated to supercritical or subcritical conditions using a heat exchanger and connected to the connection tube into which the intermediate slurry prepared from the mixer is introduced and to at least one injection tube into which the heated liquid stream is injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Kuk Noh, Hong Kyu Park, Chi Ho Jo, Ji Hoon Ryu, Sang Seung Oh, Wang Mo Jung
  • Patent number: 9834854
    Abstract: A process for producing a lithium-manganese-nickel oxide spinel material includes maintaining a solution comprising a dissolved lithium compound, a dissolved manganese compound, a dissolved nickel compound, a hydroxycarboxylic acid, a polyhydroxy alcohol, and, optionally, an additional metallic compound, at an elevated temperature T1, where T1 is below the boiling point of the solution, until the solution gels. The gel is maintained at an elevated temperature until it ignites and burns to form a Li—Mn—Ni—O powder. The Li—Mn—Ni—O powder is calcined to burn off carbon and/or other impurities present in the powder. The resultant calcined powder is optionally subjected 1 to microwave treatment, to obtain a treated powder, which is annealed to crystallize the powder. The resultant annealed material is optionally subjected to microwave treatment. At least one of the microwave treatments is carried out. The lithium-manganese-nickel oxide spinel material is thereby obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: CSIR
    Inventors: Kenneth Ikechukwu Ozoemena, Charl Jeremy Jafta
  • Patent number: 9761862
    Abstract: The performance of a lithium ion-cell where the cathode is a layered-layered lithium rich cathode material xLiMO2(1-x)Li2MNO3, M being a transition metal selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, or Mn, is improved by coating the surface of the cathode with a sulfonyl-containing compound, such as poly(1,4-phenylene ether-ether-sulfone), inhibits the reactivity of the electrolyte with the oxidized electrode surface while allowing lithium ion conduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Boutros Hallac, Yanting Luo
  • Patent number: 9748568
    Abstract: Manganese oxide nanoparticles having a chemical composition that includes Mn3O4, a sponge like morphology and a particle size from about 65 to about 95 nanometers may be formed by calcining a manganese hydroxide material at a temperature from about 200 to about 400 degrees centigrade for a time period from about 1 to about 20 hours in an oxygen containing environment. The particular manganese oxide nanoparticles with the foregoing physical features may be used within a battery component, and in particular an anode within a lithium battery to provide enhanced performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: CORNELL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Héctor D. Abruña, Jie Gao, Michael A. Lowe
  • Patent number: 9705131
    Abstract: An object is to provide a positive electrode active material which can exhibit sufficient cycle characteristics in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention is represented by Composition Formula (2): Lix[Ni(1/3-a)[M]aMn2/3]O2 (in the formula, M represents at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cu, Zn, Mg, Fe, Al, Co, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Ga, Ge, Bi, Sn, Ca, B, and Zr, 0?a??, and x represents the number of Li satisfying the atomic valence). In addition, the positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is characterized in that it is obtained by reduction-ion exchange of a precursor of the positive electrode active material that is represented by Composition Formula (1): Na2/3[Ni(1/3-a)[M]aMn2/3]O2 (in the formula, M and a are as defined in Composition Formula (2)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9593024
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods of preparing positive electrode materials for electrochemical cells and batteries. It relates, in particular, to a method for fabricating lithium-metal-oxide electrode materials for lithium cells and batteries. The method comprises contacting a hydrogen-lithium-manganese-oxide material with one or more metal ions, preferably in an acidic solution, to insert the one or more metal ions into the hydrogen-lithium-manganese-oxide material; heat-treating the resulting product to form a powdered metal oxide composition; and forming an electrode from the powdered metal oxide composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: Michael M. Thackeray, Sun-Ho Kang, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Jason Croy
  • Patent number: 9543572
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that comprises an electrode body comprising a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The positive electrode has an upper operating voltage limit of 4.5 V or higher relative to lithium metal. The electrode body comprises a lithium titanate-containing layer. The lithium titanate-containing layer is isolated from the negative electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ippei Toyoshima
  • Patent number: 9515313
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a positive electrode collector core material; and a sheet body including a plurality of granulation bodies. The sheet body is disposed on the positive electrode collector core material. The granulation bodies each contain a first positive electrode active material particle, a second positive electrode active material particle, and expanded graphite, the first positive electrode active material particle including lithium-nickel composite oxide, the second positive electrode active material particle including lithium iron phosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroya Umeyama, Tatsuya Hashimoto, Yusuke Fukumoto, Yuji Yokoyama, Koichi Toriyama
  • Patent number: 9496066
    Abstract: The present application discloses boron-doped lithium rich manganese based materials for cathodes of lithium ion batteries. The disclosed cathode materials can be prepared by co-precipitation and sol-gel methods. The chemical formula of this cathode material is Li[LiaMnbCocNidBx]O2 (a+b+c+d+x=1, a, b, x>0, c?0, d?0, c+d>0). Lithium ion batteries using these cathode materials show impressive improvements in performance and increased tap density at low level of boron doping. The co-precipitation method is particularly suitable for large-scale industrial production. The sol-gel method is simple and can produce fine and uniform particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Peking University
    Inventors: Biao Li, Jin Ma, Dingguo Xia
  • Patent number: 9327996
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a positive electrode active material for lithium ion battery, having excellent tap density, at excellent production efficiency, and a positive electrode active material for lithium ion battery. The method for producing a positive electrode active material for lithium ion battery including a step of conducting a main firing after increasing mass percent of all metals in lithium-containing carbonate by 1% to 105% compared to the mass percent of all metals before a preliminary firing, by conducting the step of a preliminary firing to the lithium-containing carbonate, which is a precursor for positive electrode active material for lithium ion battery, with a rotary kiln.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawahashi, Yoshio Kajiya
  • Patent number: 9327257
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a continuous process for in secco nanomaterial synthesis from the emulsification and detonation of an emulsion. The said process combines the simultaneous emulsification and detonation operations of the emulsion, thus assuring a production yield superior to 100 kg/h. When guaranteeing that the sensitization of the emulsion occurs mainly upon its feeding into the reactor, it is possible to avoid the accumulation of any class-1 substances along the entire synthesis process, thus turning it into an intrinsically safe process. Afterwards, dry collection of the nanomaterial avoids the production of liquid effluents, which are very difficult to process. Given that there's neither accumulation nor resort to explosive substances along the respective stages, the process of the present invention becomes a safe way of obtaining nanomaterial, thus allowing it to be implemented in areas wherein processes with hazardous substance aid are not allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: INNOVNANO—MATERIAIS AVANCADOS, S.A.
    Inventors: Sílvio Manuel Pratas Da Silva, João Manuel Calado Da Silva
  • Patent number: 9281519
    Abstract: Provided is a lithium ion positive electrode active material for a secondary battery that can realize a high operating voltage and a high capacity while suppressing capacity drop with cycles by using a low-cost material. A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, which is a lithium manganese composite oxide represented by the following general formula (I) Lia(MxMn2?x?yYy)(O4?wZw)??(I) wherein in the formula (I), 0.5?x?1.2, 0<y?0.3, 0?a?1.2, and 0<w?1; M contains at least Fe and may further contain at least one selected from the group consisting of Ni, Cr and Cu other than Fe; Y is at least one selected from the group consisting of Li, Be, B, Na, Mg, Al, K, Ca, Ti and Si; and Z is at least one of F and Cl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: NEC ENERGY DEVICES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makiko Uehara, Takehiro Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9214674
    Abstract: The problem of the present invention is to provide a coated active material having a soft coating layer and capable of improving a contact area. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a coated active material comprising a cathode active material and a coating layer for coating the above-mentioned cathode active material, containing an Li ion conductive oxide, wherein the above-mentioned coating layer further contains lithium carbonate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9163328
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for preparing trimanganese tetroxide with low BET specific surface area and methods for controlling particle size of trimanganese tetroxide and trimanganese tetroxide product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Guizhou Redstar Developing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhiguang Jiang, Dong Hua, Zhengtao Liu, Kaiwen Zeng
  • Patent number: 9126844
    Abstract: A positive electrode is disclosed for a non-aqueous electrolyte lithium rechargeable cell or battery. The electrode comprises a lithium containing material of the formula NayLixNizMn1-z-z?Mz?Od, wherein M is a metal cation, x+y>1, 0<z<0.5, 0?z?<0.5, y+x+1 is less than d, and the value of d depends on the proportions and average oxidation states of the metallic elements, Li, Na, Mn, Ni, and M, if present, such that the combined positive charge of the metallic elements is balanced by the number of oxygen anions, d. The inventive material preferably has a spinel or spinel-like component in its structure. The value of y preferably is less than about 0.2, and M comprises one or more metal cations selected preferably from one or more monovalent, divalent, trivalent or tetravalent cations, such as Mg2+, Co2+, Co3+, B3+, Ga3+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Al3+, and Ti4+.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Johnson, Sun-Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 9039926
    Abstract: A production process for composite oxide expressed by a compositional formula: LiMn1-xAxO2, where “A” is one or more kinds of metallic elements other than Mn; and 0?“x”<1, obtained by preparing a raw-material mixture by mixing a metallic-compound raw material and a molten-salt raw material with each other, the metallic-compound raw material at least including an Mn-containing nitrate that includes one or more kinds of metallic elements in which Mn is essential, the molten-salt raw material including lithium hydroxide and lithium nitrate, and exhibiting a proportion of the lithium nitrate with respect to the lithium hydroxide (Lithium Nitrate/Lithium Hydroxide) that falls in a range of from 1 or more to 3 or less by molar ratio; reacting the raw-material mixture at 500° C. or less by melting it; and recovering the composite oxide being generated from the raw-material mixture that has undergone the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Ryota Isomura, Hitotoshi Murase, Naoto Yasuda
  • Patent number: 9028726
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sputtering target suitable for producing an amorphous transparent conductive film which can be formed without heating a substrate and without feeding water during the sputtering; which is easily crystallized by low-temperature annealing; and which has low resistivity after the crystallization. An oxide sintered compact containing an indium oxide as a main component, while containing tin as a first additive element, and one or more elements selected from germanium, nickel, manganese, and aluminum as a second additive element, with the content of tin which is the first additive element being 2-15 atom % relative to the total content of indium and tin, and the total content of the second additive element being 0.1-2 atom % relative to the total content of indium, tin and the second additive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Masakatsu Ikisawa, Masataka Yahagi
  • Publication number: 20150104644
    Abstract: To provide metal-containing trimanganese tetraoxide combined particles with which a metal-substituted lithium manganese oxide excellent as a cathode material for a lithium secondary battery can be obtained, and their production process. Metal-containing trimanganese tetraoxide combined particles containing a metal element (excluding lithium and manganese). Such metal-containing trimanganese tetraoxide combined particles can be obtained by a production process comprising a crystallization step of crystalizing a metal-substituted trimanganese tetraoxide not by means of metal-substituted manganese hydroxide from a manganese salt aqueous solution containing manganese ions and metal ions other than manganese.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: TOSOH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Iwata, Miki Yamashita, Yasuhiro Fujii
  • Publication number: 20150105246
    Abstract: The effect of aging temperature on oxygen storage materials (OSM) substantially free from platinum group (PGM) and rare earth (RE) metals is disclosed. Samples of ZPGM-ZRE metals OSM, hydrothermally aged at a plurality of high temperatures are found to have significantly high oxygen storage capacity (OSC) and phase stability than conventional PGM catalysts with Ce-based OSM. ZPGM-ZRE metals OSM includes a formulation of Cu—Mn stoichiometric spinel structure deposited on Nb—Zr oxide support and may be converted into powder to be used as OSM application or coated onto catalyst substrate. ZPGM-ZRE metals OSM, after aging condition, presents enhanced level of thermal stability and OSC property which shows improved catalytic activity than conventional PGM catalysts including Ce-based OSM. ZPGM-ZRE metals OSM may be suitable for a vast number of applications, and more particularly in underfloor catalyst systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Zahra Nazarpoor, Stephen J. Golden