Materials Chemically Specified Patents (Class 429/245)
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Patent number: 12074280Abstract: An all-solid secondary battery and a method of manufacturing the all-solid secondary battery. The all-solid secondary battery includes: an anode including an anode current collector and a first anode active material layer; a cathode including a cathode active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer between the anode and the cathode, wherein the first anode active material layer includes an anode active material and an ionic compound, the ionic compound includes a binary compound, a ternary compound, or a combination thereof, and the ionic compound does not include a plurality of sulfur (S) atoms.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO , LTD., SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyorang Kang, Minsuk Lee, Dooyeon Lee
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Patent number: 12062780Abstract: A process for preparing carbon spheres coated on a nickel (Ni) foam/polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate, as well as the use of the obtained product in the field of hydrovoltaic energy generation.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2024Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: KING FAISAL UNIVERSITYInventors: Adil Alshoaibi, Majid Khan
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Patent number: 11909049Abstract: A positive electrode includes at least a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer. The positive electrode active material layer is disposed on a surface of the positive electrode current collector. The positive electrode current collector includes an aluminum foil and an aluminum hydrated oxide film. The aluminum hydrated oxide film covers a surface of the aluminum foil. The aluminum hydrated oxide film has a thickness not smaller than 50 nm and not greater than 500 nm. The aluminum hydrated oxide film contains a plurality of types of aluminum hydrated oxides. The ratio of boehmite to the plurality of types of aluminum hydrated oxides is not lower than 20 mol % and not higher than 80 mol %.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Koji Torita, Takuya Asari, Akihiro Ochiai, Yusuke Fukumoto, Naoyuki Wada
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Patent number: 11757160Abstract: This disclosure presents an electrode lead plate (6) for a cylindrical secondary cell (1) comprising a terminal part (4) and an electrode roll (3) comprising a conductive sheet (3a). The electrode lead plate (6) comprises an inner contact region (6c) configured to be arranged in direct electrical contact with the terminal part (4), an outer contact region (6e) configured to be arranged in direct electrical contact with the conductive sheet (3a), and a fuse region (6d). Further, a terminal part (4) and a cylindrical secondary cell (1), as well as uses and methods of manufacture, are presented.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NORTHVOLT ABInventors: Tetsuya Makino, Brendan Sexton, Kenya Shatani, Marouene Ben Messaoud
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Patent number: 11728541Abstract: An energy storage module includes: a cover member including an internal receiving space configured to accommodate battery cells each including a vent; a top plate coupled to a top of the cover member and including ducts respectively corresponding to the vents of the battery cells; a top cover coupled to a top portion of the top plate and including discharge holes located in an exhaust area and respectively corresponding to the ducts; and an extinguisher sheet located between the top cover and the top plate, and configured to emit a fire extinguishing agent at a temperature exceeding a certain temperature, and the top cover includes protrusion parts located on a bottom surface of the top cover, covering the exhaust area, and coupled to an exterior of the ducts.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Taek Kim, Eun Ok Kwak, Jin Bhum Yun, Jang Hoon Kim, Jong Yeol Woo, Kwang Deuk Lee, Woo Sung Choi
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Patent number: 11611064Abstract: This application relates to an electrode plate, an electrochemical apparatus, and an apparatus thereof. The electrode plate includes a current collector, an electrode active material layer provided on at least one surface of the current collector, and an electrical connection member electrically connected to the current collector. The electrode active material layer is provided at a zone referred to as a membrane zone on a main body portion of the current collector, the electrical connection member and the current collector are welded and connected at a welding zone referred to as an adapting welding zone at an edge of the current collector, and a transition zone is referred to as an extension zone, where the transition zone is of the current collector between the membrane zone and the adapting welding zone and coated with no electrode active material layer. The current collector is a composite current collector.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Wei Li, Qingrui Xue, Jing Li, Zige Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yang Lu, Pengxiang Wang
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Patent number: 11575134Abstract: This application relates to a positive electrode plate and an electrochemical device. The positive electrode plate comprises a metal current collector, a positive electrode active material layer and a safety coating disposed between the metal current collector and the positive electrode active material layer; the safety coating comprises a polymer matrix, a conductive material and an inorganic filler; the positive electrode active material layer comprises Li1+xNiaCobMe(1?a?b)O2, wherein ?0.1?x?0.2, 0.6?a<1, 0<b<1, 0<(1?a?b)<1, and Me is at least one of Mn, Al, Mg, Zn, Ga, Ba, Fe, Cr, Sn, V, Sc, Ti and Zr; and the metal current collector is a porous aluminum-containing current collector. The positive electrode plate can improve safety and electrical performances of an electrochemical device (such as a capacitor, a primary battery, or a secondary battery).Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., LimitedInventors: Wei Li, Qingrui Xue, Jing Li, Zige Zhang, Jianbao Xu
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Patent number: 11557756Abstract: The disclosure set forth herein is directed to battery devices and methods therefor. More specifically, embodiments of the instant disclosure provide a battery electrode that comprises both intercalation chemistry material and conversion chemistry material, which can be used in automotive applications. There are other embodiments as well.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: QUANTUMSCAPE BATTERY, INC.Inventors: Tim Holme, Weston Arthur Hermann
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Patent number: 11476468Abstract: The present invention provides an electrode assembly, in which a plurality of electrodes are laminated, and a separator is inserted between adjacent electrodes. The outermost electrode disposed at an outermost layer of the electrode assembly includes a slurry applied to one surface of a current collector, and a protection layer adhered to the other surface of the current collector. Further, the outermost electrode is laminated to allow the slurry to contact the separator. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing the electrode assembly comprises applying a slurry to one surface of a current collector and laminating a protection layer on the other surface of the current collector to form an outermost electrode; allowing the outermost electrode to pass between a pair of press-rollers to perform a rolling process; and laminating the rolled outermost electrode to be disposed on an uppermost layer or a lowermost layer of the electrode assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventors: Il Hong Kim, Joon Kwon, Gi Su Jeong
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Patent number: 11444284Abstract: The present application relates to a secondary battery and an electrode member thereof. The electrode member includes an insulating substrate, a conducting layer and an active material layer. The conducting layer is provided on a surface of the insulating substrate, and the conducting layer includes a main portion and a protruding portion extending from the main portion, the main portion is coated with the active material layer, the protruding portion is not coated with the active material layer. The active material layer includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion is positioned at an end of the active material layer away from the protruding portion, the second portion is positioned at a side of the first portion close to the protruding portion, and a thickness of the first portion is less than a thickness of the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Zige Zhang, Wei Li, Qingrui Xue, Jing Li, Pengxiang Wang, Yang Zhang
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Patent number: 11437613Abstract: This secondary battery positive electrode includes: a positive electrode current collector; an intermediate layer provided on the positive electrode current collector; and a positive electrode mixture layer provided on the intermediate layer and including a positive electrode active material, wherein the intermediate layer includes a conductive material, a metal phosphate, and an inorganic compound which is not a metal phosphate and has a lower oxidizing power than the positive electrode active material.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Takahashi, Hideharu Takezawa, Tomoki Shiozaki
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Patent number: 11380962Abstract: A non-woven fiber mat for lead-acid batteries is provided. The non-woven fiber mat includes glass fibers coated with a sizing composition, a binder composition, and organic active compounds, wherein the organic active compounds are effective in reducing or preventing sulphation in lead-acid batteries.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventor: Robert Huusken
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Patent number: 11380898Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery and a method of producing the same, and more particularly, to an electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery, which has little change in a physical property of a copper foil before and after vacuum drying in a process of producing an electrolytic copper foil, thereby exhibiting excellent cycle life in a battery test at a high-density negative electrode, and preventing cracking. The electrolytic copper foil for a secondary battery is produced from a plating solution containing Total Organic Carbon (TOC), zinc, and iron by using a drum, in which a ratio of the TOC to the zinc and the iron contained in the electrolytic copper foil follows Formula 1 below: TOC/(zinc+iron)=1.3 to 1.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: ILJIN MATERIALS CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun Hyoung Lee, Tae Jin Jo, Seul-Ki Park, Ki Deok Song
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Patent number: 11355758Abstract: A current collector for a lithium ion battery includes a first conductive resin layer and a second conductive resin layer. The first conductive resin layer includes a first conductive filler. The second conductive resin layer is formed on the first conductive resin layer and includes a second conductive filler. The first conductive filler is a conductive carbon. The second conductive filler contains at least one kind of metal element selected from the group consisting of platinum, gold, silver, copper, nickel, and titanium. A volume % of the second conductive filler in the second conductive resin layer on a first surface side, which is a first conductive resin layer side, is higher than that on the second surface side that is opposite to the first conductive resin layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignees: GUNZE LIMITED, APB CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Onishi, Masahiro Uchimaru, Ryosuke Kusano, Sonomi Fukuyama, Shun Kudoh, Yasuhiro Tsudo, Hideaki Horie
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Patent number: 11326010Abstract: Provided is an agent for dispersing an electrically conductive carbon material, in which the agent consists of a polymer which has an oxazoline group in a side chain and which is obtained by using an oxazoline group-containing monomer such as that represented by formula (1) for example, and in which the agent exhibits excellent dispersion of an electrically conductive carbon material and produces a thin film that exhibits excellent adhesion to a current collection substrate when formed into a thin film together with the electrically conductive carbon material. (In the formula, X denotes a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond-containing group, and R1-R4 each independently denote a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group optionally having a branched structure having 1-5 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6-20 carbon atoms, or an aralkyl group having 7-20 carbon atoms.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Hatanaka, Yuki Shibano, Takuji Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 11316236Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries which comprises a PTC resistor layer containing an insulating inorganic substance and in which electronic resistance is low. The production method is a method for producing an electrode for solid-state batteries, wherein the method is a method for producing an electrode for use in a solid-state battery comprising a cathode, an anode and an electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode and the anode; wherein the electrode is at least one of the cathode and the anode, and the electrode comprises a current collector, an electrode active material layer and a PTC resistor layer disposed between the current collector and the electrode active material layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Norihiro Ose, Tomoya Suzuki, Hajime Hasegawa, Kazuo Yaso, Hideaki Nishimura, Yuki Matsushita
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Patent number: 11309574Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrical energy storage apparatus which forms an interpenetrating, three dimensional structure. The structure may have a first non-planar channel filled with an anode material to form an anode, and a second non-planar channel adjacent the first non-planar channel filled with a cathode material to form a cathode. A third non-planar channel may be formed adjacent the first and second non-planar channels and filled with an electrolyte. The first, second and third channels are formed so as to be interpenetrating and form a spatially dense, three dimensional structure. A first current collector is in communication with the first non-planar channel and forms a first electrode, while a second current collector is in communication with the second non-planar channel and forms a second electrode. A separator layers separates the current collectors.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Board of Regents, The University of Texas SystemInventors: Eric Duoss, Juergen Biener, Patrick Campbell, Julie A. Jackson, Geoffrey M. Oxberry, Christopher Spadaccini, Michael Stadermann, Cheng Zhu, Bradley Trembacki, Jayathi Murthy, Matthew Merrill
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Patent number: 11171336Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrode for a secondary battery, characterized in that a carbon nanotube sheet is provided on one surface or both surfaces of a current collector, and an electrode mixture layer containing an electrode active material is applied on the carbon nanotube sheet.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Inventors: Min Kyu You, In Sung Uhm, Eun Kyung Mok
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Patent number: 11152646Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a microelectronic device, successively including: forming a first current collector on a face of a substrate; forming a first electrode on, and in electrical continuity with, a portion of the first current collector; heat treating the first electrode wherein: forming the first collector comprises forming a first collector layer on the face of the substrate and forming a second collector layer covering at least one part to produce a covered part of the first collector layer and having a first face in contact with the first electrode, the second collector layer is configured to protect the covered part during the heat treating, such that the heat treating does not oxidise the covered part.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Christophe Dubarry, Olivier Zanellato
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Patent number: 11121374Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery comprising a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer coated and formed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector, wherein the positive electrode current collector includes a non-coated portion protruded with no positive electrode active material layer coated thereon, and wherein an irreversible material composed of lithium oxide is coated on the non-coated portion, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jooyong Song, In Chul Kim, Juri Kim, Hyun Min Kim
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Patent number: 11043677Abstract: The present application relates to a secondary battery and an electrode member thereof. The electrode member includes an insulating substrate, a conducting layer and an active material layer. The conducting layer is provided on a surface of the insulating substrate, and the conducting layer includes a main portion and a protruding portion extending from the main portion, the main portion is coated with the active material layer, the protruding portion is not coated with the active material layer. The active material layer includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion is positioned at an end of the active material layer away from the protruding portion, the second portion is positioned at a side of the first portion close to the protruding portion, and a thickness of the first portion is less than a thickness of the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Zige Zhang, Wei Li, Qingrui Xue, Jing Li, Pengxiang Wang, Yang Zhang
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Patent number: 11024855Abstract: An electrode (1) for use in a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell includes: a current-collecting foil (10); an electrode mixture layer (2) that is formed on a portion of the current-collecting foil (10); and an oxide film (6) provided on the current-collecting foil (10) in at least a region that extends from the boundary (5) between a forming section (3) and a non-forming section (4) of the electrode mixture layer (2) and over a portion of the non-forming section (4).Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2014Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Envision AESC Energy Devices Ltd.Inventor: Tomoyuki Ohta
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Patent number: 10964954Abstract: A stretchable electrode includes: a current collector; and, disposed on a surface of the current collector, a metal layer or an electrode active material layer, wherein the current collector includes a spiral-type coil spring and an elastic polymer, the spiral-type coil spring including a coil spring wound in a spiral pattern around a point, and wherein the elastic polymer is disposed in at least a portion of an inside of the coil spring, in at least a portion of a space between spiral coils of the spiral-type coil spring, or both.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYInventors: Minsang Song, Kai Liu, Yi Cui
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Patent number: 10950866Abstract: An energy storage device including an anode, a cathode, at least one of the anode and the cathode including a carbon nanosheet having an active material, such as selenium, in and/or on the carbon nanosheet, and an electrolyte. A carbon material including a carbon nanosheet derived from a biological precursor, such as nanocrystalline cellulose, including a plurality of micropores and an active material impregnated into at least a portion of the micropores of the carbon nanosheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Sparkle Power LLCInventors: David Mitlin, Jia Ding
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Patent number: 10923705Abstract: A negative electrode active material, a first carbon material, a thickener, and a solvent are mixed to prepare a first dispersion solution. The first dispersion solution and a second carbon material are mixed to prepare a second dispersion solution. The second dispersion solution and a binder are mixed to prepare a negative electrode paint. The negative electrode paint is applied to a surface of a negative electrode current collector and dried to produce a negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The negative electrode active material has a BET specific surface area of 3 m2/g or more and 8 m2/g or less. The first carbon material has a BET specific surface area of 30 m2/g or more and 100 m2/g or less. The second carbon material has a BET specific surface area of 200 m2/g or more and 500 m2/g or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryosuke Ohsawa, Kaoru Inoue, Naoto Onodera
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Patent number: 10892491Abstract: A battery grid is disclosed. The battery grid includes a pattern of grid wires. The pattern includes a grid wire having a first segment with a first corrosion resistance and a second segment with a second corrosion resistance which is less than the first corrosion resistance. The second segment corrodes at a rate which is faster than the corrosion rate of the first segment so as to dynamically release internal stress and control grid growth of the battery grid during its service life. A battery includes said grid and a method of forming said grid are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: CPS Technology Holdings LLPInventors: M. Eric Taylor, Jianxun Hu, Glenn W. Andersen, Joseph F. Mathews, Bart William Sauer, James S. Symanski, Feng Xue, Mohamadkheir Alkhateeb
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Patent number: 10833358Abstract: To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte electricity-storage element including a positive electrode including a positive-electrode active material capable of inserting and releasing anions, a negative electrode including a negative-electrode active material capable of inserting and releasing cations, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, wherein the positive-electrode active material is porous carbon having pores having a three-dimensional network structure, and wherein a changing rate of a cross-sectional thickness of a positive electrode film including the positive-electrode active material defined by Formula (1) below is less than 45%.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Naoto Abe, Yoshio Itoh, Tatsuya Dan, Yuka Araki, Shuhei Takeshita
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Patent number: 10818976Abstract: A lithium rechargeable lithium battery including a conductive substrate, a cathode material layer disposed over the conductive substrate, a solid electrolyte material layer disposed over the cathode material layer, an anode material layer disposed over the solid electrolyte material layer, and a conductive layer disposed over the anode material layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Kevin W. Brew, Oki Gunawan, Singh Saurabh, Teodor K. Todorov
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Patent number: 10748715Abstract: An energy storage device is provided in which a decrease in power caused by repetitive charge-discharge in a high-temperature environment is suppressed. In the present embodiment, an energy storage device and a method for manufacturing the energy storage device are provided, the energy storage device including an electrode which includes: an active material layer including a particulate active material; and a conductive layer layered on the active material layer and including a conduction aid. An average secondary particle diameter of the active material is 2.5 ?m or more and 6.0 ?m or less. A surface roughness Ra of the conductive layer on a side on the active material layer is 0.17 ?m or more and 0.50 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Kawaguchi, Akihiko Miyazaki, Sumio Mori
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Patent number: 10741848Abstract: Provided is a copper foil. The copper foil includes a copper layer and a protective layer disposed on the copper layer, wherein a surface of the protective layer has a maximum height roughness (Rmax) of 0.6 ?m to 3.5 ?m, a peak density (PD) of 5 to 110, and an oxygen atomic amount of 22 at % (atomic %) to 67 at %.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: KCF TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTDInventors: Seung Min Kim, Shan Hua Jin
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Patent number: 10587012Abstract: Electrolyte compositions comprising a) an ionic liquid and b) a protic acid and/or an organic solvent are suitable for use in electrochemical cells, e.g. metal hydride batteries. The electrolyte compositions may replace the currently employed 30% by weight aqueous KOH. Suitable protic acids include carboxylic acids, mineral acids, sulfonic acids and the like. Suitable organic solvents include organic carbonates, ethers, glymes, ortho esters, polyalkylene glycols, esters, lactones, glycols, formates, sulfones, sulfoxides, amides, alcohols, ketones, nitro solvents, nitrile solvents and combinations thereof. Present batteries may achieve a nominal open-circuit voltage of >1.2 V (volts) and up to about 6 V. The electrolyte compositions allow enlargement of the electrochemical window, thus allowing the use of further cathode active materials.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: BASF CorporationInventors: Tiejun Meng, Kwo Young, Diana Wong, Jean Nei
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Patent number: 10530007Abstract: An electrolytic copper foil for a lithium secondary battery, which is applied as a negative electrode current collector of a lithium secondary battery, wherein when a correlation between a thermal treatment temperature of the electrolytic copper foil for a lithium secondary battery, which corresponds to a variable x, and an elongation increment ratio of the electrolytic copper foil for a lithium secondary battery, which corresponds to a variable y, is expressed as y=ax+b (100?x?200) on an x-y two-dimensional graph, the “a” value is in the range of 0.0009 to 0.0610.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: KCF TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Seung-Min Kim, Soo-Yeol Kim, Dae-Young Kim, Jeong-Gil Lee
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Patent number: 10505177Abstract: A nonaqueous electrolyte battery electrode according to an embodiment includes a current collector and a mixed layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the current collector. The mixed layer includes an active material and a binding agent. The ratio I2/I1 of the highest peak intensity I2 in peaks appearing in the wavelength range of 1400 to 1480 cm?1 to the highest peak intensity I1 in peaks appearing in the wavelength range of 2200 to 2280 cm?1 is 10 or more and 20 or less in an infrared absorption spectrum measured according to a total reflection measurement method. Alternatively, in the mixed layer, the ratio I3/I2 of the highest peak intensity I3 in peaks appearing in the wavelength range of 1650 to 1850 cm?1 to the highest peak intensity I2 in peaks appearing in the wavelength range of 1400 to 1480 cm?1 is 0.1 or more and 0.8 or less in an infrared absorption spectrum measured according to a total reflection measurement method.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Keigo Hoshina, Wen Zhang, Yusuke Namiki, Yoshiyuki Isozaki, Norio Takami
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Patent number: 10439207Abstract: A battery electrode composition is provided comprising core-shell composites. Each of the composites may comprise a core and a multi-functional shell.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Sila Nanotechnologies, Inc.Inventors: Gleb Nikolayevich Yushin, Bogdan Zdyrko, Igor Luzinov, Vojtech Svoboda, Alexander Thomas Jacobs, Eugene Michael Berdichevsky, Hyea Kim
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Patent number: 10424784Abstract: An example of a negative electrode includes silicon nanoparticles having a carbon coating thereon. The carbon coating has an oxygen-free structure including pentagon rings. The negative electrode with the silicon nanoparticles having the carbon coating thereon may be incorporated into a lithium-based battery. In an example of a method, silicon nanoparticles are provided. A carbon precursor is applied on the silicon nanoparticles. The carbon precursor is an oxygen-free, fluorene-based polymer. Then the silicon nanoparticles are heated in an inert gas atmosphere to form the carbon coating on the silicon nanoparticles. The carbon coating formed on the silicon nanoparticles has an oxygen-free structure including pentagon rings.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Li Yang, Mei Cai, Meng Jiang, Martin S. Ruthkosky
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Patent number: 10411227Abstract: Provided is an energy storage device which includes: an electrode assembly where electrodes are layered to each other; and current collector joined to the layered electrodes in a state where the current collector overlaps with the electrodes. The electrode and the current collector are welded to each other or are joined to each other by ultrasonic bonding at a first joint portion. At least one of the electrode and the current collector includes a wall surface which projects from a periphery of the first joint portion or a region adjacent to the periphery along a stacking direction of the electrode and the current collector, and surrounds the first joint portion. The wall surface is disposed on both sides of the first joint portion in the stacking direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD.Inventor: Takeshi Sasaki
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Patent number: 10367230Abstract: A battery packet includes a first electrode, a second electrode, as well as a dielectric layer and an electrolysis material that are disposed between the first and second electrode. The electrolysis material can be NaCl or CF6Li.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Inventor: Tsung-Chi Wang
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Patent number: 10256508Abstract: The invention aims to allow carbon dioxide, which is generated upon decomposition of lithium carbonate contained in a positive electrode mixture layer, to easily flow toward the outside of a flat wound electrode body, and further aims to rapidly raise the pressure inside a battery and to reliably operate a pressure-sensitive current interrupt mechanism before the temperature inside the battery rises to such an extent as causing an abnormal state, e.g., smoking, firing, or a burst. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery (10) according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a pressure-sensitive current interrupt mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Eiji Okutani
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Patent number: 10205193Abstract: A lead acid battery including: a positive electrode plate including a positive electrode grid and a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode plate including a negative electrode grid and a negative electrode active material; an electrode plate group including the positive electrode plate, the negative electrode plate, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate; a battery container including a plurality of cell chambers each accommodating the electrode plate group and an electrolyte; and a lid sealing an opening of the battery container. A ratio P/N of mass P of the positive electrode active material to mass N of the negative electrode active material is 1.25 or more and 1.65 or less. The negative electrode grid contains bismuth in an amount of 1 ppm or more and 300 ppm or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Izumi, Yoshinobu Sato, Etsuko Ogasawara, Takeshi Chiba, Yu Kojima, Kazuhiro Sugie
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Patent number: 10164295Abstract: A lead acid battery including: a positive electrode plate including a positive electrode grid and a positive electrode active material; a negative electrode plate including a negative electrode grid and a negative electrode active material; an electrode plate group including the positive electrode plate, the negative electrode plate, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate; a battery container including a plurality of cell chambers each accommodating the electrode plate group and an electrolyte; and a lid sealing an opening of the battery container. A ratio P/N of mass P of the positive electrode active material to mass N of the negative electrode active material is 1.25 or more and 1.65 or less. The negative electrode grid contains bismuth in an amount of 1 ppm or more and 300 ppm or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Izumi, Yoshinobu Sato, Etsuko Ogasawara, Takeshi Chiba, Yu Kojima, Kazuhiro Sugie
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Patent number: 10147953Abstract: A lead-acid battery grid made from a lead-based alloy containing tin, calcium, bismuth and copper and characterized by enhanced mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, less battery gassing, lower sulfation and water loss, and no post-casting treatment requirements for age hardening. In one embodiment, the battery grids are formed from a lead-based alloy including about 2.0% tin, about 0.0125% copper, about 0.065% calcium, and about 0.032% bismuth. Preferably, the battery grid is free of silver beyond trace levels in the alloy.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: EXIDE TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Xiangjun Wang, David Robert Mihara, Prosper Adanuvor, Edward Mattan
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Patent number: 10079386Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a pressure-sensitive current shut-off mechanism, wherein a positive electrode core body exposed portion is disposed at one end portion of a flat rolled electrode assembly, a negative electrode core body exposed portion is disposed at the other end portion, lithium carbonate is contained in a positive electrode mix layer, and a protective layer is disposed along the border with the positive electrode mix layer at the position opposite to a separator on the positive electrode core body exposed portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Shingo Tode, Toyoki Fujihara, Toshiyuki Nohma
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Patent number: 10033067Abstract: An ion conductive glass ceramics having the formula Na2S—P2S5, wherein the Na2S in the ion conductive glass ceramics is contained in an amount of from 70 to 75 mole %, and wherein the ion conductive glass ceramics has a state where crystal parts are dispersed in the glass ingredient of an amorphous state and where the crystal parts contain tetragonal Na3PS4.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCYInventors: Akitoshi Hayashi, Masahiro Tatsumisago
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Patent number: 9966634Abstract: A heat resistant battery includes a positive electrode including a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material fixed on the positive electrode current collector, wherein the positive electrode active material includes a sodium-containing transition metal compound capable of electrochemically storing and releasing a sodium ion; a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material fixed on the negative electrode current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a sodium-containing titanium compound and a non-graphitizable carbon, each of the sodium-containing titanium compound and the non-graphitizable carbon capable of storing and releasing a sodium ion at a lower potential than a potential of the sodium-containing transition metal compound; and a sodium ion-conductive electrolyte provided at least between the positive electrode and the negativeType: GrantFiled: July 2, 2013Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Koma Numata, Shinji Inazawa, Koji Nitta, Shoichiro Sakai, Atsushi Fukunaga, Eiko Itani
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Patent number: 9899666Abstract: A volume Ve of an electrode group thereof is calculated by Ve=(Sp+Sn)×D/2, where Sp represents an electrode plate area of a positive electrode plate, Sn represents an electrode plate area of a negative electrode plate, D represents the internal dimension of a container in the direction in which the electrode plates of the electrode group are laminated. A ratio (Vp+Vn)/Ve is 0.27 to 0.32, where Vp+Vn is the sum volume of the total pore volume Vp of a positive active material and the total pore volume Vn of the negative active material contained in the electrode group, and Ve is the volume of the electrode group. A ratio Vp/Ve is 0.13 to 0.15, where Vp is the total pore volume of the positive active material and Ve is the volume of the electrode group.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: GS Yuasa International Ltd.Inventor: Masaaki Kyo
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Patent number: 9887044Abstract: The invention relates to a current collector foil for batteries, accumulators or capacitors, comprising a carrier material and at least one electrically conductive layer made from a metal. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for producing a corresponding current collector foil as well as to the advantageous use thereof. The object of providing a current collector foil for batteries, accumulators or capacitors, which is optimized in relation to the contact surface and the adhesive properties and which results in an improved service life, is achieved as a result of the fact that the at least one electrically conductive layer is produced at least partially by electrodepositing a metal and has a texture.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Hydro Aluminium Rolled Products GmbHInventors: Ulrich Hampel, Kathrin Eckhard, Simon Jupp, Andreas Siemen
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Patent number: 9859552Abstract: An electrode material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of an embodiment includes a silicon nanoparticle, and a coating layer coating the silicon nanoparticle. The coating layer includes an amorphous silicon oxide and a silicon carbide phase. At least a part of the silicon carbide phase exists on a surface of the silicon nanoparticle.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takayuki Fukasawa, Kenji Essaki, Tomokazu Morita, Takashi Kuboki, Mitsuhiro Oki, Yasuhiro Goto
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Patent number: 9812316Abstract: A mixed material for vapor deposition of lithium contains lithium oxide M1 in an amount of 90% or more, sodium chloride (at least one material selected from oxides, sulfides, chlorides, and fluorides of alkali metals) M2 having a melting point lower than the melting point of lithium oxide M1, and magnesium oxide (at least one material selected from oxides and sulfides of alkaline-earth metals) M3 having a melting point higher than the melting point of lithium oxide M1.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Manabu Niboshi, Yuto Tsukamoto, Yoshiyuki Isomura, Satoshi Inoue, Hideki Uchida, Shinichi Kawato, Katsuhiro Kikuchi
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Patent number: 9812703Abstract: The present invention generally relates to electrodes for use in lead-acid battery systems, batteries and electrical storage devices thereof, and methods for producing the electrodes, batteries and electrical storage devices. In particular, the electrodes comprise active battery material for a lead-acid storage battery, wherein the surface of the electrode is provided with a coating layer comprising a carbon mixture containing composite carbon particles, wherein each of the composite carbon particles comprises a particle of a first capacitor carbon material combined with particles of a second electrically conductive carbon material. The electrical storage devices and batteries comprising the electrodes are, for example, particularly suitable for use in hybrid electric vehicles requiring a repeated rapid charge/discharge operation in the PSOC, idling-stop system vehicles, and in industrial applications such as wind power generation, and photovoltaic power generation.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignees: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION, THE FURUKAWA BATTERY CO., LTDInventors: Jun Furukawa, Daisuke Monma, Lan Trieu Lam, Rosalie Louey, Nigel Peter Haigh
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Patent number: 9768467Abstract: The adhesion between metal foil serving as a current collector and a negative electrode active material is increased to enable long-term reliability. An electrode active material layer (including a negative electrode active material or a positive electrode active material) is formed over a base, a metal film is formed over the electrode active material layer by sputtering, and then the base and the electrode active material layer are separated at the interface therebetween; thus, an electrode is formed. The electrode active material particles in contact with the metal film are bonded by being covered with the metal film formed by the sputtering. The electrode active material is used for at least one of a pair of electrodes (a negative electrode or a positive electrode) in a lithium-ion secondary battery.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Minoru Takahashi