Cell Enclosure Structure, E.g., Housing, Casing, Container, Cover, Etc. Patents (Class 429/163)
  • Publication number: 20150118544
    Abstract: An encapsulation device comprises at least one assembly containing particles comprising at least a first material. The assembly has an open porosity. The particles: are distributed over a geometric structure that has a degree of compactness of said particles of greater than around 50% and preferably of greater than 60%, and are covered conformally by at least one layer referred to as an infiltration layer; the thickness of at least the infiltration layer closing off the porosity of the assembly comprising the particles covered by at least the layer, in the form of pores that are not connected to one another. A process for producing the encapsulation device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Sami OUKASSI
  • Publication number: 20150118533
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery. The secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly including a positive electrode plate, a separator, and a negative electrode plate wound around a first axis extending in a first direction, having a thickness in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and a length in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and having a curvature with respect to the first axis while the length is greater than the thickness; an electrode case including a body and a cover having a curvature corresponding to the curvature of the electrode assembly and having different stiffnesses; and a first electrode tab and a second electrode tab connected respectively to the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate and protruding from the electrode assembly in a direction perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Jeong-Doo Yi
  • Patent number: 9017871
    Abstract: A negative-electrode terminal for a cell in which separation between a first metal layer and a second metal layer hardly takes place is provided by suppressing excess formation of an intermetallic compound on a bond interface between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. This negative-electrode terminal for a cell includes a clad portion formed by bonding a first metal layer made of Al or an Al alloy and a second metal layer containing Ni and Cu and consisting of one or a plurality of layers to each other. The first metal layer includes a connected region connected with a cell terminal connecting plate and a stacked region adjacent to the connected region on the side of the same surface, while the second metal layer is bonded to the first metal layer in the stacked region and configured to be connectable to cell negative electrodes of cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignees: Neomax Materials Co., Ltd., Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Oda, Masaaki Ishio
  • Patent number: 9017863
    Abstract: In case a similar component-to-be-loaded is erroneously loaded on a main body side apparatus, contact of terminals are avoided. To this end, a video camera (main body side apparatus) 1 has a main body side terminal 30, and a battery pack (component-to-be-loaded) 100 has a battery side terminal (component-to-be-loaded side terminal) 120.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Takeshita, Yoshiyuki Katsuno, Nobuhito Ebine, Kei Tashiro
  • Patent number: 9017843
    Abstract: A prismatic secondary battery includes a prismatic hollow outer body having a mouth and a bottom and storing an electrode assembly, a positive electrode collector, a negative electrode collector, and an electrolyte, a sealing plate sealing up the mouth of the prismatic hollow outer body, and a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal attached to the sealing plate; the sealing plate includes a gas release valve at the center between the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal and includes an electrolyte pour hole on one side of the gas release valve and, on the other side on the front face, a concaved flat face with a height lower than that of the peripheral portion; and the concaved flat face is formed with an identification code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hattori, Eiji Okutani, Yoshinori Yokoyama, Yasuhiro Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9017852
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a pair of electrodes separated from each other by a separator, a battery case including a front portion bonded to a back portion to produce wing portions at opposite edges of the battery case, the electrode assembly being arranged within an accommodating portion of the battery case, the accommodating portion being arranged between the wing portions, an insulating member arranged at each of said wing portions of the battery case and a bonding portion arranged at each of said wing portions to attach said wing portions to the accommodating portion of the battery case. The bonding portion may be a double sided tape and may be integrally provided with the insulating member to simplify manufacturing process thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Sik Pak, Ki-Sung Hong
  • Publication number: 20150111071
    Abstract: An example electric vehicle battery current communication device includes a terminal landing and a transition from the terminal landing having an area that is both bent and tapered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Utley, Debbi Callicoat, Keith Kearney
  • Publication number: 20150111090
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a relatively large capacity due to reducing a width of an uncoated portion and increasing a width of a coated portion by improving welding strength through a combination of ultrasonic welding and laser welding, and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method of the secondary battery includes preparing at least one electrode assembly including an uncoated portion, provisionally welding the uncoated portion by ultrasonic welding, coupling a current collector having an elastic property to the provisionally welded uncoated portion, and welding the uncoated portion and the current collector by laser welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junyong Lee, Huijun Lee, Seungyeol Yoo
  • Publication number: 20150111092
    Abstract: A multi-layer shrink film. The shrink film can exhibit a significant amount of shrink within a certain temperature range that is above the onset temperature of the film. The film can exhibit a shrinkage that is at least about 50% of the total shrink within a temperature range T1 above the onset temperature of the film. In one aspect, the shrink film comprises a core layer and skin layers disposed about opposite surfaces of the core layer, and tie layers disposed between the core and the skin layers, the skin layers individually comprising a polyester, e.g., a glycol-modified polyester, and the tie layers individually comprising an anhydride modified material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Paul Janousek, Vadim Zaikov, Farid Ghiam, Robert Quattlebaum, Walter Mueller
  • Publication number: 20150111091
    Abstract: A rechargeable secondary battery including: a case; an electrode assembly accommodated in the case, the electrode assembly including an active material coating portion and an active material non-coating portion; a light absorbing member coupled to the electrode assembly; and a collector plate welded to the electrode assembly and contacting the active material non-coating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junyong LEE, Seungyeol YOO, Huijun LEE
  • Patent number: 9012065
    Abstract: A secondary battery including a case having an opening; an electrode assembly housed in the case; at least one current collector coupled to an uncoated portion of the electrode assembly and forming an electrode terminal, wherein the case has a coupling groove recessed toward the at least one current collector; and a cap plate coupled to seal the opening of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Minhyung Guen
  • Patent number: 9012063
    Abstract: A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells aligned in one direction, first and second end plates, the plurality of battery cells being positioned between the first and second end plates, and a top plate covering top surfaces of the battery cells, the top plate including first and second ends connected to the first and second end plates, respectively, via first and second fastening portions, respectively, the first and second fastening portions being different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Myung-Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 9012067
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of manufacturing a battery cell having an electrode assembly of a cathode/separator/anode structure disposed in a battery case made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy together with an electrolyte in a sealed state, the method including (a) anodizing an entire surface of the battery case in a state in which a connection opening section, to which charge pins used to activate the battery cell are connected, is formed at a bottom of the battery case, (b) mounting the electrode assembly in the battery case and connecting a cap plate to an open upper end of the battery case by laser welding, (c) injecting an electrolyte through an electrolyte injection port of the cap plate and activating the battery cell, and (d) replenishing the electrolyte and sealing the electrolyte injection port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hee Gyu Kim, Sooryoung Kim, Jung Hwan Kim, Geon Tae Park
  • Patent number: 9012060
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, an assembly of tubular cell insulator casings is provided. The assembly includes a plurality of tubular cell insulator casings, wherein each cell insulator casing is open at a top end and configured to surround at least one of a plurality of electrically interconnected electrochemical cells, wherein said plurality of tubular cell insulator casings comprises a monolithic unit. The battery pack also includes a plurality of insulator plugs and a sump plate configured to support said plurality of insulator plugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Raymond Krahn, Kristopher John Frutschy, Narayan Subramanian, William Patrick Waters, Daniel Qi Tan, William Hubert Schank
  • Publication number: 20150104695
    Abstract: A lithium-ion battery can include anode electrode material; anode collector material; cathode electrode material; cathode collector material; a full electrode that includes a layer of one of the collector materials disposed between and adjacent to two layers of a corresponding one of the electrode materials; a half electrode that includes a layer of one of the collector materials disposed adjacent to a layer of a corresponding one of the electrode materials; and lithium-ion conductive separator material folded to align the full electrode and the half electrode and disposed between one of the two layers of the electrode material of the full electrode and the layer of the electrode material of the half electrode. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Bouziane YEBKA, Joseph Anthony HOLUNG, Tin-Lup WONG, Philip John JAKES
  • Publication number: 20150104697
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a cathode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery, where the cathode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a silicon-based active substance and a nitrogen-doped carbon material. The silicon-based active substance is encased in the interior of the nitrogen-doped carbon material, and the silicon-based active substance is one or more of a nanoparticle and a nanowire; a micropore is arranged on at least one of the exterior and the interior of the nitrogen-doped carbon material; and a material of the nitrogen-doped carbon material is a nitrogen-doped carbon network. The cathode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery solves a problem in the prior art that a silicon material, when used as a cathode active material, easily falls from a current collector due to a great volume change and has a low conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Shengan Xia, Jun Yang, Pinghua Wang
  • Publication number: 20150102768
    Abstract: A device for the accumulation of electrical energy contains a gas-electric battery having a hollow housing, partially filled with an electrolyte solution, and electrodes, positioned inside the hollow housing and made of a conductive adsorbent of the electrolysis gases. The electrodes are divided by a gas-permeable separator. Current-collectors linked to the electrodes are connected to a charge-discharge converter designed to allow for a periodic change in the polarity of the charge current during the charging process. The device makes it possible to provide a long operating life with minimal environmental pollution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Amit Tereshchenko
  • Publication number: 20150104696
    Abstract: A second battery including: a separator including a surface and an other surface facing away from the surface; a first electrode including a plurality of first electrode wires on the surface of the separator, each first electrode wire being adjacent to an other of the plurality of first electrode wires, and a plurality of first active material layers being on respective outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of first electrode wires; a second electrode including a plurality of second electrode wires on the other surface of the separator, each second electrode wire being adjacent to an other of the plurality of second electrode wires, and a plurality of second active material layers being on respective outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of second electrode wires; and a pouch configured to encapsulate the separator, the first electrode, and the second electrode, is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Bong-Kyoung Park, Hye-Jung Lee, Feygenson Naum
  • Patent number: 9005803
    Abstract: A secondary battery that can easily adjust power by disposing a plurality of jelly-rolls for the secondary battery in a case and connecting electrodes of the jelly-rolls in either electrical series or in electrical parallel, with corresponding welds. The secondary battery is constructed with a plurality of jelly-rolls each having a first electrode tab and a second electrode tab protruding from the jelly-roll, a case having an opening accommodating insertion of the jelly-rolls, and a cap plate sealing the opening of the case and bearing electrode terminals on a bottom side of the cap plate facing the jelly-rolls. The first electrode tabs protruding from the jelly-rolls are electrically connected to the electrode terminals and the second electrode tabs protruding from the jelly-rolls are electrically connected to the cap plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min-Jung Yoo
  • Patent number: 9005783
    Abstract: A secondary battery comprises an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, a separator for insulating the first electrode and the second electrode from each other, a first electrode tab extending from the first electrode, a second electrode tab extending from the second electrode, and a pouch including a body and a cover. The body includes a receiving part for accommodating the electrode assembly, and a body sealing part extending from the receiving part. The cover includes a covering part corresponding to the receiving part of the body, and a cover sealing part corresponding to the body sealing part. At least two insulation layers and a conductive are provided at the body and the cover, respectively. The first electrode tab and the second electrode tab are electrically connected to the conductive layers of the body and the cover, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Changbum Ahn
  • Patent number: 9005787
    Abstract: A secondary battery, in which working pressure and rupture pressure of a safety vent are effectively controlled with respect to a slope of the safety vent and shapes of rupturable grooves. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly arranged within a can, a cap assembly coupled to the can and including a lower portion arranged above the electrode assembly and having a through-hole arranged at a center thereof, a safety vent electrically connected to the electrode assembly through the through-hole and an insulator arranged between the safety vent and the lower portion of the cap assembly, wherein a first distance between a portion of the safety vent arranged at a region near the through-hole and the lower portion of the cap assembly is smaller than a second distance between a portion of the safety vent positioned furthest from the through-hole and the lower portion of the cap assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daekyu Kim, Ikkyu Kim, Seokjoon Yoon
  • Patent number: 9005797
    Abstract: A battery includes a stack of bipolar individual battery cells, each of which includes an electrode stack and two sheet metal covers bounding the individual battery cell at least in the stacking direction. The electrode stack is connected to at least one of the sheet metal covers by at least one weld. In the region of the at least one weld, the sheet metal cover welded to the electrode stack and/or the sheet metal cover of the adjacent individual battery cell in contact with the sheet metal cover is/are of a set-back design. As a result, the sheet metal covers of adjacent individual battery cells do not have any contact in the region of the at least one weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Dirk Schroeter, Jens Meintschel, Martin Ertle, Rainer Kaufmann, Claudia Brasse, Claus-Rupert Hohenthanner, Joerg Kaiser
  • Publication number: 20150099161
    Abstract: To achieve a power storage unit that can be repeatedly bent without a large decrease in charge and discharge capacity. In the flexible power storage unit, the content of a binder in an active material layer containing an active material is greater than or equal to 1 wt % and less than or equal to 10 wt %, preferably greater than or equal to 2 wt % and less than or equal to 8 wt %, and more preferably greater than or equal to 3 wt % and less than or equal to 5 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Aya HITOTSUYANAGI, Teppei OGUNI, Takuya MIWA, Hiroyuki MIYAKE
  • Patent number: 8999567
    Abstract: A lithium polymer battery comprising an internal sheath, reinforcement members, and an external sheath and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The lithium polymer battery comprises a pouch-type internal sheath with an electrode assembly positioned therein and a protective circuit module that is attached to the surface thereof to control the charging and discharging processes of the electrode assembly. The battery further comprises reinforcement members that couple with surfaces of the internal sheath and an external sheath for integrally enclosing the internal sheath and the reinforcement members. The external sheath may comprise a tube, a thermally contractible tube, or a melted resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyung Bok Lee
  • Patent number: 8999539
    Abstract: A secondary battery including an electrode assembly; first and second collector plates connected to respective first and second electrodes of the electrode assembly; a case accommodating the electrode assembly, the first collector plate, and the second collector plate; a cap plate sealing an opening of the case; a first electrode terminal electrically connected to the first collector plate and passing through the cap plate; a second electrode terminal electrically connected to the second collector plate and passing through the cap plate; and a short-circuit member electrically connected to the first collector plate and passing through the cap plate, the short-circuit member including a duct part in communication with an inside of the case; and a deformable part covering a top portion of the duct part and being deformable by a gas pressure inside the case to electrically connect the first electrode to the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Dukjung Kim
  • Patent number: 8999562
    Abstract: A secondary battery capable of suppressing deterioration of rate characteristics and cycle characteristics even under a high-temperature environment is provided. The secondary battery according to an exemplary embodiment is a secondary battery having an electrode element in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are arranged so as to face each other, an electrolytic solution and an outer package packaging the electrode element and the electrolytic solution, in which the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active material to a negative electrode collector, with a negative electrode binder; and the electrolytic solution contains an organic sulfurane compound. The secondary battery electrolytic solution according to the exemplary embodiment contains an organic sulfurane compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yoko Hashizume, Daisuke Kawasaki, Masahiro Suguro, Midori Shimura, Kazuaki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8999560
    Abstract: A prismatic type secondary battery including an electrode assembly, the electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first and second electrodes; a case accommodating the electrode assembly, the case having an open upper end and at least two pairs of surfaces facing each other; a cap assembly sealing the open upper end of the case; and an insulation tube surrounding a lateral periphery of the case and the cap assembly within a region up to a certain height or greater, the insulation tube including at least one elasticity part at a side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Yongsam Kim, Sangwon Byun, Jeongwon Oh
  • Patent number: 8999545
    Abstract: A battery module including a plurality of battery cells aligned in a direction; first and second end plates respectively arranged at outer sides of the plurality of battery cells; and a bottom plate supporting bottom surfaces of the battery cells and including at least a portion including a pattern structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Myung-Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 8999565
    Abstract: An improved battery construction for increasing the life of a storage battery is disclosed, the storage battery including a lid addition integral with the battery case or jar which condenses escaping dielectric fluid and causes the condensed liquid to return to the main supply of dielectric fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Doyle Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Doyle
  • Patent number: 8999566
    Abstract: A pouch-type lithium secondary battery including: a battery unit comprising a positive electrode plate, a separator, and a negative electrode plate, wherein the separator is disposed between the positive and negative electrode plates; electrode tabs extending from each of the positive and negative electrode plates of the battery unit, respectively; a case having a space to accommodate the battery unit and sealing surfaces formed along the periphery of the space, wherein the case is sealed at the sealing surfaces by thermal fusion; and a protection circuit board 600 electrically connected to the electrode tabs. The protection circuit board is disposed parallel to an outer wall of the case. Since the electrode tabs are bent in an upright position with respect to the sealing surfaces, and the protection circuit board electrically connected to the bent electrode tabs is disposed between the outer wall of the case and the electrode tabs, the size of the sealing surfaces of the case can be minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Jei Chung, Hyung-Bok Lee
  • Patent number: 8999568
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes a case and an electrode assembly in the case that includes a first electrode plate, a separator, and a second electrode plate. The secondary battery also includes a cap plate coupled with the case and a first electrode terminal electrically connected to the first electrode plate. The first electrode terminal includes a first collecting plate connected to the electrode assembly, a first connecting part extending from the first collecting plate, and a first terminal part extending from the first connecting part. The first connecting part passes through a gap between the cap plate and the case, and the first connecting part extends to an outer surface of the cap plate. The first terminal part protrudes beyond the cap plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Minhyung Guen
  • Patent number: 8999561
    Abstract: An electrochemical device includes a thermally-triggered intumescent material or a gas-triggered intumescent material. Such devices prevent or minimize short circuits in a device that could lead to thermal run-away. Such devices may include batteries or supercapacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: UChicago Argonne, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Vissers, Khalil Amine, Michael M. Thackeray, Arthur J. Kahaian, Christopher S. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8999563
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery pack which includes: a battery case comprising a first case member and a second case member, which in combination define an enclosed space, the first case member comprising a first sealing portion, the second case member comprising a second sealing portion, wherein the first and second sealing portions adhere to each other for sealing the enclosed space; an electrode assembly contained in the enclosed space, the electrode assembly comprising a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator disposed between the first and second electrode plates; an electrolyte contained in the enclosed space; and a pocket formed in at least one of the first and second sealing portions, wherein the pocket contains an ionic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang-Bum Ahn
  • Patent number: 8998017
    Abstract: The present invention provides a container, a lid body and a method of seaming a container, in which the influence of a load at the time of seaming can be made as small as possible, in the container having a seaming flange portion and a seaming curl portion notched. In a container of a structure in which a seaming flange portion formed at an open end portion of a container body, and a seaming curl portion formed on a periphery of a bottom lid are seamed to be joined to each other, and in which a notch is formed in at least one of the seaming curl portion and the seaming flange portion, a short and small curl portion in which a width of protrusion of the seaming curl portion is partially short is formed in at least one of circumferentially opposite sides of the notched portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Oohori, Kazuhiko Tsukada, Ryuichi Amagai
  • Publication number: 20150093630
    Abstract: Provided are extruding a raw material into a prismatic hollow material having both open ends (Step (a)), drawing the hollow material a plurality of times so as to have a desired thickness (Step (b)), manufacturing a main body by cutting the drawn hollow material to a predetermined length (Step (c)), forming a sealing cover having a shape corresponding to an open end of the main body (Step (d)), and adhering the sealing cover to the open end of the main body (Step (e)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hyung Seok HAN, Sang Bong NAM, Hyang Mok LEE, Wook Hee JANG, Sang Sok JUNG
  • Publication number: 20150093632
    Abstract: A rechargeable electrochemical battery cell with a housing, a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte which contains SO2 and a conducting salt of the active metal of the cell, whereby at least one of the electrodes contains a binder chosen from the group: Binder A, which consists of a polymer, which is made of monomeric structural units of a conjugated carboxylic acid or of the alkali salt, earth alkali salt or ammonium salt of this conjugated carboxylic acid or a combination thereof or binder B which consists of a polymer based on monomeric styrene structural units or butadiene structural units or a mixture of binder A and B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Christian Pszolla, Laurent Zinck, Markus Borck, Claudia Wollfarth, Julia Thummel, Heide Biollaz, Christiane Ripp
  • Publication number: 20150093631
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a secondary battery, comprising an electrode element comprising a positive electrode and a negative electrode placed opposite to each other, an electrolyte, and an outer package housing the electrode element and the electrolyte; wherein the negative electrode is formed by binding a negative electrode active material, which comprises a metal (a) capable of being alloyed with lithium, a metal oxide (b) capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium ions, and a carbon material (c) capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium ions, to a negative electrode current collector with a negative electrode binder; and the electrolyte comprises a lithium salt dissolved in a solvent comprising 65 vol % or more of a phosphate ester compound, and more than 0 vol % and less than 20 vol % of a fluorinated carbonate compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Daisuke Kawasaki, Kazuaki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20150093633
    Abstract: A lithium ion secondary battery with a high electrode density and an excellent rate discharge characteristic. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material of a compound represented by Lia(NixCoyAl1?x?y)O2 (0.95:?a?1.05, 0.5?x?0.9, 0.05?y?0.2), and carbon adhered to the surface of the material, in the Raman spectrum using a laser of 532 nm, the positive electrode includes a peak PA (D band) at 1200˜1450 cm?1, a peak PB (G band) at 1450˜1700 cm?1 and a peak PC at 400˜600 cm?1, and when the intensities are normalized by regarding the maximum intensity as 1 and the minimum intensity as 0 in the wavenumber domain of 200˜1800 cm?1, Raman intensity of the minimum (V band) between the two peaks of said peak PA and said peak PB is 0.6 or less, and Raman intensity of said peak PC is 0.1 or more and 0.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYABARA, Hiroki KITAMURA, Yukiko HIRABAYASHI, Masaki SOBU, Tetsuo TAKAISHI
  • Patent number: 8993149
    Abstract: A battery housing is comprised of a unitary, seamless base member having a generally planar, quadrilateral bottom face with a side wall extending therefrom. The length dimension of the bottom face is at least twice the height of the side wall. The base member has an open top face. The housing includes a cover which closes the open top face and is engageable with the side wall of the base. An electrically resistive sealing gasket is configured to contact the cover member and the side wall so as to provide a fluid-tight seal. The components are mechanically interlocked by crimping or hemming. The housing is specifically configured to accommodate stacking of individual batteries into power assemblies, and the geometry of the housing optimizes thermal management. Further disclosed are batteries and battery assemblies including the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: A123 Systems LLC
    Inventor: Viet Vu
  • Patent number: 8993155
    Abstract: In a prismatic secondary battery, an internal negative electrode terminal is electrically connected to a collector through through-holes formed in a sealing plate, a gasket, and an insulating member in a manner electrically insulated from the sealing plate. The sealing plate has one face on which a protrusion is formed, an insulating plate has a face that is on the sealing plate and on which a concave portion fitted to the protrusion is formed, each of the protrusion and the concave portion of the insulating plate is provided at one position on respective sides of the through-hole, and at least one of the protrusions has a top face on which a concave portion is formed. The battery having such a structure is unlikely to cause rotary displacement between the insulating plate and the sealing plate even when a rotary torque is applied to the internal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Okutani, Yoshinori Yokoyama, Takayuki Hattori, Yasuhiro Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20150086854
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an embodiment includes an electrode group including a cathode collector, a cathode having a cathode active material layer formed on the cathode collector, an anode collector, an anode having an anode active material layer formed on the anode collector, and a separator placed between the cathode and the anode, an exterior member housing the electrode group, and a nonaqueous electrolyte filled in the exterior member. In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, the anode collector is at least one metal selected from among Fe, Ti, Ni, Cr, and Al, or an alloy containing at least one metal selected from among Fe, Ti, Ni, Cr, and Al. In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a coating containing at least one metal selected from Au and Cu is formed on at least one of the surfaces of the anode collector excluding the anode active material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUNO, Takashi KUBOKI, Keiko OKAMOTO, Norikazu OSADA, Sara YOSHIO
  • Publication number: 20150086850
    Abstract: In this anode for a secondary battery, method for producing same, and secondary battery, an anode active material is laminated on a surface of a metal foil, the anode active material contains at least titanium dioxide, and the titanium dioxide contains a Brookite crystal phase and contains an amorphous phase in a ratio of 1 vol % to 20 vol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yokouchi, Masahiro Ohmori, Chiaki Sotowa, Masayuki Sanbayashi
  • Publication number: 20150086849
    Abstract: A preparation method of an oligomer-polymer is provided. A maleimide is reacted with a barbituric acid to form a first oligomer-polymer. The first oligomer-polymer is then reacted with a phenylsiloxane oligomer to form a second oligomer-polymer. The phenylsiloxane oligomer is a compound represented by formula 1: Ph-Si(OH)xOy ??formula 1, wherein x is 0.65 to 2.82 and y is 0.09 to 1.17.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Fu-Ming Wang, Bing-Joe Hwang, Chorng-Shyan Chern, Jung-Mu Hsu, Wen-Han Li
  • Publication number: 20150086851
    Abstract: The present invention provides a non-aqueous electrode secondary battery supplied with a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising an overcharge additive. The positive electrode material layer constituting the positive electrode in the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is characterized by having a differential pore volume peak A as well as a peak B located on the smaller pore diameter side than the peak A in a pore diameter range of 0.05 ?m to 2 ?m in a pore size distribution curve measured by a mercury porosimeter, wherein the pore size distribution curve has a minimum C corresponding to a minimum differential pore volume between the peak A and the peak B, such that a ratio (XC/XL) of the minimum C's differential pore volume XC to a differential pore volume XL, which is the larger between the peak A's differential pore volume XA and the peak B's differential pore volume XB is 0.6 or larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Morita, Yutaka Oyama, Takahiro Tsubouchi, Atsushi Saito, Yukihiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20150086853
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an embodiment includes an exterior member, a cathode including a cathode active material layer housed in the exterior member, an anode including an anode active material layer housed in the exterior member and spatially separated from the cathode by a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolyte filled in the exterior member. The cathode active material layer contains lithium-copper oxide and copper oxide. A peak intensity ratio d(002)/d(010) between a plane index d(010) derived from the lithium-copper oxide and a plane index d(002) derived from the copper oxide is not lower than 0.1 and not higher than 0.5 at an X-ray diffraction peak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUNO, Norikazu OSADA, Keiko OKAMOTO, Tomokazu MORITA, Takashi KUBOKI
  • Publication number: 20150086820
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes: a case; and an electrode assembly accommodated in the case and including a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator between the positive and negative electrode plates. At least one of the positive and negative electrode plates includes: a first sub-electrode plate including a first coating surface coated with an active material and a first non-coating surface facing oppositely away from the first coating surface and not coated with the active material; and a second sub-electrode plate including a second coating surface coated with an active material and a second non-coating surface facing oppositely away from the second coating surface and not coated with the active material. The first non-coating surface of the first sub-electrode plate faces the second non-coating surface of the second sub-electrode plate to allow the first and the second sub-electrode plates to slip relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hye-Jung Lee, Bong-Kyoung Park, Feygenson Naum
  • Publication number: 20150086852
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an embodiment includes an exterior member; a positive electrode housed in the exterior member, a negative electrode containing an active material and housed in the exterior member so as to be spatially separated from the positive electrode via a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolyte filled in the exterior member. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer on the negative electrode current collector. A tensile strength of the negative electrode is 400 N/mm2 or more and 1200 N/mm2 or less. A peel strength between the negative electrode current collector and the negative electrode active material layer is 1.5 N/cm or more and 4 N/cm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shinsuke MATSUNO, Takashi KUBOKI, Keiko OKAMOTO, Norikazu OSADA, Sara YOSHIO
  • Publication number: 20150086848
    Abstract: A lithium accumulator with a housing comprising at least one cell with two electrodes (2a, 2b) provided with current collectors (3a, 3b) and separated by a separator (4) wherein each electrode (2a, 2b), free of organic binders, is pressed down onto both sides of the current collector (3a, 3b) made of a perforated metal strip in the form of metal network, expanded meal or perforated metallic foil. The minimum thickness of the electrodes (2a, 2b) is three times the thickness of the perforated metal strip (3a, 3b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: HE3DA S.R.O.
    Inventors: Jan Prochazka, JR., Jaroslav Polivka, Jiri Postler
  • Patent number: 8986875
    Abstract: Provided is a battery pack formed by coupling a cover case and a bare cell. The battery pack includes: a bare cell including a cap plate having a surface in which at least one screw receiving groove is formed; a cover case disposed at a side of the cap plate, and having a surface in which at least one mounting groove is formed and a hole penetrating a center of the mounting groove; and at least one tapping screw including a head part and a body part that are mounted in the mounting groove of the cover case, wherein the body part penetrates the hole and is coupled to the screw receiving groove of the cap plate; wherein the cap plate includes a protruding unit formed in the second surface of the cap plate in correspondence to the screw receiving groove of the cap plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woon-Seong Baek, Sang-Joo Lee, Heui-Sang Yoon, Jong-Pil Kim
  • Patent number: 8986880
    Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes: an electrode group including a positive electrode and a negative electrode; and a nonaqueous electrolyte including an electrolytic solution, the electrode group including an insulating layer, the insulating layer containing a ceramic, the electrolytic solution including an electrolyte salt and an additive, the electrolyte salt including the compound of formula (1), and the additive being at least one of the compounds of formulae (2) to (14), and the compound of formula (1) being contained in 0.001 mol/L to 2.5 mol/L with respect to the electrolytic solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Odani, Tadahiko Kubota