With Measuring, Testing, Or Indicating Means Patents (Class 429/90)
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Patent number: 11522234Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of monitoring the state of a battery or the like is provided. The states of a plurality of batteries in a battery module is easily acquired. The semiconductor device that can be attached to an electrode of a battery or the like includes a first substrate, an element layer, and first to third conductive layers. The element layer includes a first circuit and a second circuit and is provided on a side of a first surface of the first substrate. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are provided on a side of a second surface positioned opposite to the first surface of the first substrate. The first circuit is electrically connected to each of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer through an opening provided in the first substrate. The third conductive layer is provided to be stacked on a side opposite to the first substrate side of the element layer and electrically connected to the second circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Ryota Tajima, Hideaki Shishido, Kensuke Yoshizumi
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Patent number: 11515597Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of stacked battery assemblies and an insulating spacer. The battery assemblies are provided with a pair of unit cells stacked in a thickness direction. Each unit cell includes a cell body having a power generation element and a flat shape, and an electrode tab protruding out from the cell body. The spacer is disposed between electrode tabs of the pair of the unit cells holding the electrode tabs and is electrically connected in the battery assemblies. A pair of the electrode tabs has distal end portions electrically connecting adjacent battery assemblies of the battery assemblies to each other. The distal end portions are bent in the stacking direction on a side of a surface of the insulating spacer. The distal end portions are positioned on opposite sides of the cell body. The distal end portions that are bent are electrically connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Envision AESC Japan Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Nakamoto, Gen Takayama
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Patent number: 11486942Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to processor and chipset continuity testing of package interconnect for functional safety applications are described. In an embodiment, voltage divider logic circuitry divides a reference voltage. Controller logic circuitry compares a divided voltage value from a node of the voltage divider logic circuitry and a threshold voltage value. A first end of the voltage divider logic circuitry is coupled to receive the reference voltage and a second end of the voltage divider logic circuitry is coupled to a Non-Critical-To-Function (NCTF) solder ball. The controller logic circuitry generates an error signal in response to a mismatch between the divided voltage value and the threshold voltage value. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Matthew Lee, Benedict C. Ofuonye, Erich Ewy, Jeffrey Willcoxon
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Patent number: 11480473Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an electrical temperature measuring instrument configured to measure the temperature of a temperature sensitive section electrically; a heat transfer part formed of an elastomer in which the temperature sensitive section is embedded; and a heat insulation part formed of an elastomer covering a single surface of the heat transfer part. The heat transfer part has a thermal conductivity that is greater than a thermal conductivity of the heat insulation part. A mounting section is formed at the heat insulation part, and is to be mounted at a mounting location.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Inventor: Hiroki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11469456Abstract: A diagnostic apparatus for a secondary battery includes a control device. The control device acquires an electricity storage amount that is the amount of electricity stored in the secondary battery, and V/K indicating the magnitude of change in OCV of the secondary battery with respect to temperature change of the secondary battery. The control device determines whether or not an SOC unevenness occurs in an electrode surface of the secondary battery by using the acquired electricity storage amount and V/K.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryo Kanada, Kenji Takahashi
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Patent number: 11467221Abstract: A degradation-determination system includes at least four strain gauges that are installed on a principal surface of a lithium-ion battery and each of which is configured to detect pressure of a battery surface at a corresponding installation position, and a degradation determining unit configured to determine degradation of the lithium-ion battery based on measured values at the strain gauges. The degradation determining unit is configured to estimate a maximum expansion position where volume expansion is maximal in a region defined by the strain gauges, of the surface of the lithium-ion battery.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.Inventor: Shigemi Masuda
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Patent number: 11460509Abstract: A system and method for detecting electrode tabs of a PACK flexible packaging battery relate to the field of PACK battery technologies. The system comprises a bus plate and a distance sensor, wherein through slots are disposed on the bus plate, and electrode tabs of a battery to be detected are inserted into the through slots during detection; and the distance sensor directly faces protruding portions of the electrode tabs of the battery to be detected after passing through the through slots, and is used for measuring the distance between the distance sensor and a protruding portion of an electrode tab nearest to the distance sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: WUHAN YIFI LASER CORP., LTD.Inventors: Xuan Wu, Conggui Cheng, Changlin Ran, Wuyue Xiong, Bo Lei
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Patent number: 11444359Abstract: A composite battery cell includes a plurality of electricity supply elements connected to each other in series/parallel to form the electricity supply element groups. The electricity supply element groups are connected to each other in parallel/series and packed to form the battery cell with high capacity and high voltage. Each electricity supply element is an independent module and the electrolyte system does not circulate therebetween. There only have charges transferred rather than electrochemical reactions between the adjacent electricity supply elements. Therefore, the electrolyte decomposition would not occur result from the high voltage caused by connecting in series. Both series and parallel connection are made within the package of the battery cell to achieve high capacity and high voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: PROLOGIUM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., PROLOGIUM HOLDING INC.Inventor: Szu-Nan Yang
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Patent number: 11411407Abstract: A battery system with a large-format Li-ion battery pack powers attached equipment by discharging battery cells distributed among a plurality of battery packs. A limp home notification is generated from a smart lithium-ion battery pack to one or more application devices using an analog signal. The battery pack may provide broadcast messages over electronic communication lines, that includes state of charge (SoC), fault status, etc. which can be read by one or more application devices to enter limp home mode. In another example, a “fully charged” notification is generated from the smart lithium-ion battery pack to one or more application devices using an analog signal. The end device powered by the battery pack system receives and reacts to the outputted fully charged signal by modifying the state of the circuitry on the end device.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Inventus Power, Inc.Inventors: William Tenorio, Anvin Joe Manadan
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Patent number: 11411243Abstract: One aspect of the present invention provides an all-solid battery including a laminated electrode body having a structure portion in which an electrode mixture material layer and a solid electrolyte layer are laminated, and a sealing part for covering a lamination end face of the laminated electrode body. The electrode mixture material layer includes an active material and a binder resin. The sealing part includes a sealing resin and an insulation particle. The absolute value of the difference between the solubility parameter of the binder resin included in the electrode mixture material layer and the solubility parameter of the sealing resin included in the sealing part is 1.9 (cal/cm3)0.5 or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kei Oura
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Patent number: 11391784Abstract: A battery system may include multiple battery cells grouped into modules. Each battery module may have a diffuser plate to direct the hot gases and molten material that are ejected during cell failure. The gas and material may be directed away from the nearest neighboring cells in the event of a single cell thermal runaway. Residual thermal energy is wicked away, absorbed or contained to keep heat away from the neighboring cells. These and other features may manage the blast energy and residual thermal energy of a single cell failure event. This may prevent a cascading failure of the larger battery system, thereby mitigating the risk of injury to personnel and property.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: General AtomicsInventors: Gilberto Fernando Rodriguez, Boris Tyrol, Scott Brian Mahar, Gordon F. Smith, II, Corey John Jaskolski
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Patent number: 11378627Abstract: A battery and an electrical battery monitoring device are disclosed having a first group of sensing switches connected in series on a first monitoring circuit, the sensing switches, a second group of electrical sensing switches connected in series on a second monitoring circuit, an input unit to provide an input to the first and second monitoring circuits, a monitoring unit to receive an output from the first and second monitoring circuits, wherein the monitoring unit receives at least two outputs from two measuring points of the first monitoring circuit, the two measuring points being separated by at least one sensing switch. The location of a defective battery cell may be early detected and precisely located by the monitoring of the battery cells in rows and columns.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignees: AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND GmbH, AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GmbHInventors: Philipp Weinreiter, Kristian Zimmermann
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Patent number: 11382211Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board includes: a trunk portion; and a pair of branch portions as two portions branched from the trunk portion and arranged on a battery including multiple arrayed cells, in which for at least one branch portion of the pair of branch portions, bending is performed using a pair of parallel bending lines extending apart from the other branch portion as extending apart from the trunk portion, and the at least one branch portion is bent such that a direction of bending at one bending line of the pair of parallel bending lines and a direction of bending at the other bending line are directions opposite to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: NIPPON MEKTRON, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Tomita, Tomoki Kanayama, Shuzo Yamada
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Patent number: 11374266Abstract: A system for permanently marking at least one battery component includes at least one marking element which is assigned to the battery component. The system includes a battery management system for operating the battery component in dependence on a state of the marking element. At least one marking device can be electrically connected to the marking element in such a way that a permanent change in the state of the marking element can be carried out by the marking device. The marking element is provided outside the battery management system such that operation of the battery component is permanently adaptable by the change of state.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Intilion GmbHInventors: Norman Winkler, Thomas Nawrath
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Patent number: 11374270Abstract: A vehicle includes a secondary battery and a display device. The secondary battery is mounted on the vehicle as a power source. The display device is configured to display an indicator that indicates a capacity retention rate of the secondary battery at a current point in time. The capacity retention rate is a ratio of a capacity of the secondary battery at the current point in time to a reference capacity of the secondary battery. The reference capacity is set in advance based on a virtual capacity of the secondary battery after a lapse of a predetermined period from manufacture of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki Kubo, Yoshihiro Uchida, Junta Izumi, Masaki Uchiyama
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Patent number: 11366168Abstract: An analysis device determines, by the Maharanobis-Taguchi system using a plurality of explanatory variables, to which of a first group and a second group a module representing a nickel metal hydride battery will belong when the module is subjected to capacity restoration processing, the first group being defined as a group of modules of which battery capacity is lower than a reference capacity, the second group being defined as a group of modules of which battery capacity is higher than a reference capacity. The plurality of explanatory variables include a plurality of feature values extracted from a Nyquist plot of the module. The plurality of feature values include at least two AC impedance real number components plotted in a semicircular portion, at least two AC impedance imaginary number components plotted in the semicircular portion, and at least one AC impedance imaginary number component plotted in a linear portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiko Mitsui, Junta Izumi
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Patent number: 11346890Abstract: The life of a secondary battery has not been able to be prolonged due to deterioration of the secondary battery. In one step, whether a difference between an average value of a negative electrode capacity deviations calculated in a different step and a negative electrode capacity deviation calculated in another step is larger than a predetermined value is determined. In a case where the average value of the measured negative electrode capacity deviations is larger than the ideal negative electrode capacity deviation, and deterioration of the negative electrode capacity deviation is proceeding, a secondary battery is controlled to operate at a high voltage in a further step. With the control, the deterioration of the negative electrode capacity deviation is suppressed and the life of the secondary battery is prolonged.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Vehicle Energy Japan Inc.Inventors: Masanari Oda, Shuichi Suzuki, Shigeki Makino, Takenori Ishizu, Ryohhei Nakao
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Patent number: 11340120Abstract: A sensor mounting structure includes an insulator and a temperature sensor. The insulator is attached to a wall of a case of an electric storage component to hold an electrode terminal projecting from the case and insulating the electrode terminal from the case. The temperature sensor includes a temperature sensing portion, a locking portion, and a spring portion. The temperature sensing portion holds a temperature sensing component and includes a temperature sensing surface that contacts the wall of the case. The locking portion is locked to the insulator. The spring portion presses the temperature sensing portion to hold the temperature sensing surface in close contact with the wall of the case.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Matsumura, Shinichi Takase, Yusuke Suzuki, Atsushi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11329350Abstract: A bus bar module includes a case assembled to a battery assembly including single cells, a bus bar held in the case and fastened to electrodes of the single cells, a circuit body connected to the bus bar and is wired in the case, and a circuit board to which the circuit body is connected. The case includes a case main body including a board accommodation space, and a lid body attached to one side at which the board accommodation space in the case main body is open. The circuit body is led from an opening portion into the board accommodation space, the opening portion being formed on a surface of the other side opposite to the one side of the board accommodation space in the case main body. The circuit body is soldered to the circuit board from the one side.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Yanagihara, Takuto Goto
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Patent number: 11329329Abstract: Various arrangements for a battery module cooling system are presented. A thermal tower may be contoured to contact one or more battery cells. The thermal tower may include a holding member and a cooling member. A hollow interior region having a top aperture may be defined by the holding member. A portion of each of the one or more battery cells may be contacted by the cooling member to provide localized cooling to each of the one or more battery cells. A seal may be formed between the holding member and the cooling member by positioning the cooling member on the top aperture of the holding member. Optionally, the portion that the cooling members may contact to provide localized cooling may include a hot region having a higher temperature than other portions of each of the one or more battery cells.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: CHONGQING JINKANG POWERTRAIN NEW ENERGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Jiaxian Wang
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Patent number: 11329345Abstract: A shock absorbing device for a rechargeable battery, in particular for supplying a machine tool with electrical energy, wherein the rechargeable battery includes a housing for accommodating at least one energy storage cell. The shock absorbing device includes at least one shock absorbing element for absorbing shock energy exerted on the housing of the rechargeable battery.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Hilti AktiengesellschaftInventors: Markus Holubarsch, Stefan Schmid, Tobias Koeniger, Michael Göttlinger, Katharina Marsiglia, Julian Harbaum, Bernd Ziegler, Dieter Profunser, Ralf Meixner, David Klingen
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Patent number: 11269015Abstract: A battery pack circuit controls the charging and discharging of a battery pack including a first standard cell having a first standard cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve and a shift cell having a shift cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve. The shift cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve mirrors the standard cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve but is offset from the standard cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curve by a predetermined amount along a reference axis of the shift cell and standard cell capacity coefficient/voltage characteristic curves. A memory stores a potential difference characteristic curve for the standard and shift cells. A processor detects a present potential difference between the standard cell and the shift cell.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kosuke Sano
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Patent number: 11271205Abstract: A composition containing a carbon monofluoride admixture is provided. The carbon monofluoride admixture is generally in the form of layer having opposing upper and lower surfaces. Usually, an ion conducting or a solid electrolyte layer is position on one of the upper or lower layers of the monofluoride admixture. In some configurations, the ion conducting or a solid electrolyte layer can be alkaline metal aluminum oxide or alkaline metal aluminum fluoride. The alkaline metal is commonly lithium, and the alkaline metal aluminum oxide or alkaline metal aluminum fluoride is more commonly MzAlXy (M is one of alkali metals, X=O, F), Z commonly can have a value from about 0.5 to about 10 and y can have a value from about 1.75 to about 6.5, more commonly z can have a value from about 1 to about 5 and y can have a value from about 2 to about 4. The carbon monofluoride admixture can include a polymeric binder and one or more of a conductive carbon black and conductive graphite.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: ADA Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Weibing Xing
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Patent number: 11264609Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a cathode composite for an all-solid-state battery and a method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery including the same. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a cathode composite for an all-solid-state battery in which the cathode composite is manufactured by mixing a solid electrolyte, a conductive material and a cathode active material with a solvent, and then performing two-step vacuum drying, whereby interfacial resistance between the cathode active material, the solid electrolyte and the conductive material is reduced to thus increase ionic conductivity, thereby improving battery performance and capacity, and a method of manufacturing an all-solid-state battery including the same.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: In Woo Song, Ju Yeong Seong, Yun Sung Kim, Hong Seok Min, Yong Jun Jang
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Patent number: 11228064Abstract: A battery module includes: a cell laminated body; a first and a second end plates which are provided at both end portions of the cell laminated body; and a sensor device which is mounted on a mounting surface and detects the voltage of each cell in the cell laminated body. The sensor device includes: a sensor device body; and a sensor fixing portion which is fixed to the first end plate by a fastening member. In the perpendicular direction, an end surface of the fastening member is located to be lower than or equal to an end surface of the sensor device body, the mounting surface of the cell laminated body is located to be lower than a bottom surface of the sensor fixing portion, and an end surface of the first end plate is located to be lower than the mounting surface of the cell laminated body.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroki Itaya, Kazuhisa In, Takaaki Iijima, Atsushi Nakano
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Patent number: 11217815Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pouch casing material including two cups forming an electrode assembly receiving portion and formed integrally in one pouch film. The pouch casing material includes an upper pouch member and a lower pouch member formed integrally with each other, and the connection between the upper pouch member and the lower pouch member does not protrude toward the outside. Thus, the total length of a battery is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Inventors: Mi-Geum Choi, Hang-June Choi, Jeong-O Mun
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Patent number: 11207944Abstract: A method of controlling an air-conditioning system of a vehicle when the vehicle is in an ignition-off state during vehicle stopping or parking, includes receiving, in the ignition-off state, a set air-conditioning time for operating an air-conditioning system of the vehicle and a set air-conditioning target temperature; determining the required air-conditioning energy for operating the air-conditioning system of the vehicle on a basis of the set air-conditioning time and a difference between the set air-conditioning target temperature and an outside temperature of the vehicle; and increasing, by the controller, a set minimum charge amount to be secured in a battery of the vehicle to secure the required air-conditioning energy.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Ick Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 11205817Abstract: Disclosed is a battery pack. The battery pack includes: a plurality of battery modules each having a plurality of battery cells therein; and a guide member coupled to each of the battery modules, the guide member being configured to guide movement of the battery modules when the plurality of battery modules are assembled adjacent to one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Inventors: Ho-June Chi, Dal-Mo Kang, Jin-Hak Kong, Jeong-O Mun, Jin-Yong Park
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Patent number: 11201366Abstract: A pouch battery contains a pouch, an electrode material and a safety protection device. The electrode material is located in the pouch. The safety protection device is configured to generate an action based on a change in gas pressure within the pouch. In this way, even if the pouch battery is abnormal, its internal circuit can be cut off in time to avoid providing power to external devices while being under abnormal conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITEDInventors: Hei Man Raymond Lee, Ming Jun Zhuang
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Patent number: 11171369Abstract: Modular sealed battery packs configured to provide enhanced performance and safety features, along with associated apparatus, systems, and methods for monitoring and controlling operation and use of such battery packs and associated coupled devices and systems are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: SeeScan, Inc.Inventors: Mark S. Olsson, Alexander L. Warren, David A. Cox, Joseph B. Phaneuf, Paul G. Stuart
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Patent number: 11131716Abstract: Estimating a charge state for a flat-voltage profile battery can be accomplished using impedance measurements. For example, an impedance measurement can be used to form a fuel gauge for a lithium-air (Li-Air) battery. As the impedance of a Li-Air battery increases during discharge, it corresponds to a state of charge (i.e., a charge state). The impedance can be used to create charge state data to use with a fuel gauge.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventor: Naoki Matsumura
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Patent number: 11127973Abstract: A method for manufacturing an all-solid battery is provided to press a laminate of a cell becoming a battery unit at a high pressure, and resin-sealing the peripheral thereof. The method includes disposing a laminate, which includes a plurality of cells composed of an anode, a solid electrolyte, and a cathode, and a current collecting plate having the plurality of cells stacked thereon in series and disposed on both end portions thereof in the stacking direction, into a mold in an opened state. The mold is then closed and the laminate is pressed. A battery unit is formed by press-fitting resin from a resin injection port to solidify the resin in the pressed state of the laminate.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Hashimoto Takenori
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Patent number: 11038162Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrode material that includes a solid core particle having an outer surface and including at least one of a Group II element, a Group III element, a Group IV element, a Group V element, and/or a Group VI element, and a layer including a polymer, where the solid core particle has a characteristic length between greater than zero nanometers and 1000 nm, the layer substantially covers all of the outer surface, the layer has a thickness between greater than zero nanometers 100 nm, and the layer is capable of elastically stretching as a result of expansion and contraction by the solid core.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLCInventors: Chunmei Ban, Seoung-Bum Son, Markus Daniel Groner
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Patent number: 10992008Abstract: A battery including a pack housing and a plurality of battery modules accommodated in the pack housing, the pack housing has first and second sides, the first and second sides having openings, and the openings of the first side correspond to respective openings of the second side, the pack housing has a plurality of guide grooves, and each battery module is accommodated into or removed from an inner space of the pack housing through a respective opening by sliding along the guide grooves.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.Inventors: Sung-Won Seo, Dal-Mo Kang, Jeong-O Mun, Yoon-Koo Lee, Ho-June Chi
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Patent number: 10985429Abstract: A connection module includes: an insulating protector that holds a plurality of bus bars to connect between electrode terminals; and a flexible printed circuit that is held by the insulating protector, and includes a detection line that is connected to the each of the bus bars and detects a state of the power storage element. The insulating protector includes a protector horizontal part including a holding part which holds each of the bus bars and is formed at one end; and a vertical part that is extended in a vertical direction from the protector horizontal part in at least a part of another end, opposite to the one end, of the protector horizontal part. The flexible printed circuit includes: a substrate horizontal part that is held by the protector horizontal part; and a bent part that is bent perpendicularly to the substrate horizontal part and held by the vertical part.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichi Takase, Yasuhiko Kotera, Yusuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 10965130Abstract: A battery management system comprising: at least one battery comprising two or more sets of cells, each set of cells comprising one or more cells; a multiplexing switch apparatus connected to each set of cells; and at least one controller configured to use the multiplexing switch apparatus to selectively discharge the sets of cells based on at least one criterion. A battery pack comprising: at least one battery comprising two or more sets of cells, each set of cells comprising one or more cells; and an integrated switching control system comprising at least one switch connected to each set of cells, wherein the integrated switching control system is configured to control the at least one switch to discharge the sets of cells sequentially or selectively based on at least one criterion. A battery management method or a battery pack control method.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Sion Power CorporationInventors: Yuriy V. Mikhaylik, Glenn Alan Hamblin, Chariclea Scordilis-Kelley, John Joseph Christopher Kopera
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Patent number: 10950839Abstract: A battery pack includes a plurality of unit cells, a plurality of busbars, a support member and a busbar holder. The unit cells have electrode tabs. The busbars have connection portions joined to the electrode tabs. The support member supports the electrode tabs. The busbar holder retains the busbars. The busbar holder has pressing parts that press the connection portions of the busbars toward the electrode tabs supported by the support member, and deforming parts that urge the pressing parts with a repulsive force in a direction in which the pressing parts are caused to move toward the electrode tabs. The deforming parts have leg parts that extend so as to project in a direction away from the busbars.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Envision AESC Japan Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Morisato, Yuta Motohashi
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Patent number: 10938449Abstract: A battery system. The battery system comprises an electric battery and a radio frequency identity (RFID) chip. The electric battery comprises an internal metal plate and an exterior package skin. The RFID chip is retained by the exterior package skin of the electric battery and comprises a non-transitory memory, a processor, a radio transceiver coupled to the processor, an antenna, a first impedance matching component coupling the radio transceiver to the antenna, and a second impedance matching component coupling the internal metal plate of the electric battery to the radio transceiver, wherein the radio transceiver is configured to transmit radio frequency signals through the second impedance matching component to the internal metal plate and the internal metal plate is configured to radiate the radio frequency signals as radio waves.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Clinton H. Loman, Lyle W. Paczkowski
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Patent number: 10938012Abstract: A battery module comprising a first battery group having at least one secondary battery; a second battery group having at least one secondary battery that does not belong to the first battery group; a first bus bar to which an electrode lead of the secondary battery belonging to the first battery group is contacted and coupled; a second bus bar spaced apart from the first bus bar so that an electrode lead of the secondary battery belonging to the second battery group is contacted and coupled thereto; a sub bus bar interposed between the first bus bar and the second bus bar to electrically connect the first bus bar and the second bus bar; and an elastic member having a portion coupled and fixed to the sub bus bar to give a restoring force for separating the sub bus bar from the first bus bar and the second bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: LG Chem, Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Uk Ryu, Ji-Su Yoon, Dal-Mo Kang, Jeong-O Mun
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Patent number: 10938003Abstract: Systems and methods to power electric vehicles are disclosed. A battery pack to power an electric vehicle is provided. The battery pack residing in the electric vehicle. The battery pack can include a plurality of battery modules. Each of the plurality of battery modules can include a plurality of battery blocks. A first battery block can include a plurality of cylindrical battery cells. Each of the plurality of cylindrical battery cells can have a pair of battery cell terminals and can have a voltage of up to 5 volts across the pair of battery cell terminals. The plurality of cylindrical battery cells can be electrically connected in parallel within the first battery block. Each cylindrical battery cell of the plurality of cylindrical battery cells can be spatially separated from each of at least one adjacent cylindrical battery cell within the first battery block by less than 2 millimeter (mm).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: CHONGQING JINKANG NEW ENERGY VEHICLE CO., LTD., SF Motors Inc.Inventors: Nathalie Capati, Duanyang Wang, Jacob Heth, Binbin Chi
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Patent number: 10910647Abstract: The invention is directed towards an electrochemically active cathode material for a battery. The electrochemically active cathode material includes a non-stoichiometric beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide. The non-stoichiometric beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide has a chemical formula. The chemical formula is LixAyNi1+a-zMzO2•nH2O where x is from about 0.02 to about 0.20; y is from about 0.03 to about 0.20; a is from about 0.02 to about 0.2; z is from about 0 to about 0.2; and n is from about 0 to about 1. Within the chemical formula, A is an alkali metal. The alkali metal includes potassium, rubidium, cesium, and any combination thereof. Within the chemical formula, M comprises an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a non-transition metal, and any combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: DURACELL U.S. OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Jennifer A. Nelson, Paul Albert Christian, Stephen A. Hackney
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Patent number: 10910035Abstract: Provided are a dynamic semiconductor memory device and a memory system including the same.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chui Hwan Choo, Kwang Hyun Kim
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Patent number: 10879571Abstract: A wire connection bus bar includes a bus bar member that includes a flat plate-shaped bus bar main body electrically connected to an electrode terminal, an arm body that is a part extending from the bus bar main body in a direction crossing a reference plane of the bus bar main body and has an electrical connection portion to which a first terminal portion is physically and electrically connected, and at least one protruding body protruding from the bus bar main body in the direction crossing the reference plane, and the protruding body is formed such that a protruding amount from the reference plane in an orthogonal direction with respect to the reference plane is equal to or larger than a maximum protruding amount from the reference plane of a connection body, formed of the arm body and a connecting terminal, in the orthogonal direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuaki Saito, Kazuhiro Naito
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Patent number: 10862323Abstract: An intelligent rechargeable battery pack having a battery management system for monitoring and controlling the charging and discharging of the battery pack is described. The battery management system includes primary and secondary protection circuits for monitoring the charging and discharging of the battery. Individual battery cells forming the battery pack are connected by a main bus to a connector for connection to a battery charger or a device to be powered, and the main bus may be interrupted by a switch controlled by the battery management system to prevent damage to the battery during charging or discharging of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Zoll Circulation, Inc.Inventors: Orlando Banos, David Deam, Richard Smith
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Patent number: 10850838Abstract: The present disclosure is related to unmanned aerial vehicles or drones that have a capability of quickly swapping batteries. This may be accomplished even as the drone continues to fly. A drone consistent with the present disclosure may drop one battery and pickup another using an attachment mechanism. Attachment mechanisms of the present disclosure may include electro-magnets, mechanical actuators, pins, or hooks. Systems consistent with the present disclosure may also include locations where replacement batteries may be provided to aircraft via actuation devices coupled to a physical location.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Dennis Dale Castleman, Ruxin Chen, Frank Zhao, Glenn Black
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Patent number: 10845419Abstract: An assembled battery is formed from multiple standard cells each having a standard capacitance and a single twofold cell having a capacitance twofold larger than the standard capacitance. When detecting the SOC of a reference standard cell, a system control circuit acquires from a memory a potential difference-SOC characteristic curve indicating the relationship between the potential difference between the reference standard cell and the twofold cell and the SOC of the reference standard cell. Moreover, the system control circuit detects the potential difference between the reference standard cell and the twofold cell, and then compares the detected potential difference with the potential difference-SOC characteristic curve to detect the SOC value of the reference standard cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Kosuke Sano
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Patent number: 10840555Abstract: There is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte battery including a first electrode having a strip shape, a second electrode having a strip shape, a first electrode lead, a second electrode lead, a separator having a strip shape that is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. A laminated electrode body, which is obtained by laminating the first electrode and the second electrode through the separator in such a manner that the second electrode lead is disposed at the other end portion of the second electrode not opposite to one end portion of the first electrode to which the first electrode lead is connected, is wound in a longitudinal direction with one end to which the first electrode lead is connected made as an initial end, and a wound electrode body is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masayuki Iwama, Kenichi Kawase, Tomoo Takada
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Patent number: 10828694Abstract: A casting device in which refrigerant is pressure-fed to a cooling passage formed in a die, leakage of refrigerant in the die can be reliably detected in a short time without a significant modification applied to the conventional device. A casting device includes a pressure-feed device that pressure-feeds refrigerant to a cooling passage formed in a die, and a release agent coating applicator that applies a release agent to the die, and further includes a unit that mixes a fluorescent agent into the refrigerant (fluorescent agent tank), a unit that irradiates the die surface of the die with black light while the refrigerant containing the fluorescent agent mixed therein is pressure-fed to the die, and an imaging device that captures an image of the die surface. The imaging device is integrally assembled with the release agent coating applicator.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MEC INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD., MEIWA E-TEC CO., LTD., NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Serino, Fumio Kawahara, Yuzo Matsuda, Tetsushi Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Kawahara, Sakayuki Ishikawa, Takuto Takahashi, Naoshi Sakaguchi, Hiroyuki Kayaba, Takahiro Michimoto
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Patent number: 10809310Abstract: Systems and methods of determining physical conditions of a battery, such as state of charge (SOC), state of health (SOH), quality of construction, defect, or failure state include driving two or more acoustic signals of two or more amplitudes, each acoustic signal having two or more frequencies, into the battery and detecting vibrations generated in the battery based on the two or more acoustic signals. Nonlinear response characteristics of the battery for the two or more acoustic signals are determined from the detected vibrations. The physical conditions of the battery are determined based at least in part on the nonlinear response characteristics, using nonlinear acoustic resonance spectroscopy (NARS) or nonlinear resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (NRUS).Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, FEASIBLE, INC.Inventors: Andrew Gaheem Hsieh, Barry James Van Tassell, Robert Charles Mohr, Anne Wilkinson, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, Shaurjo Biswas
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Patent number: 10811669Abstract: Provided is a battery capable of surely interrupting current at the time of temperature rise so that excessive heat generation does not occur at the occurrence of an abnormality. The battery 1 includes a battery element 10 including a positive electrode and a negative electrode, an inner package 13 which forms a first chamber 13a for enclosing the battery element 10, an outer package 14 which encloses the inner package 13 such that the outer package 14 forms a second chamber 14a which surrounds the first chamber 13a, and a pair of terminals 11, 12 electrically connected to the positive electrode and the negative electrode and led out to the outside of the outer package 14. One terminal 11 of the pair of terminals 11, 12 has a first terminal 11a and a second terminal 11b arranged so as to be electrically connected in the second chamber 13a.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiko Inoue, Kenichi Shimura