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  • BATTERY AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A BATTERY
    Publication number: 20130141049
    Abstract: The method for operating a battery including several electrochemical cells and a battery control unit, includes collecting operating parameter data of the battery, transmitting the operating parameter data to the battery control unit, and determining whether a predefined relationship of the collected operating parameter data with regard to predefined operating parameter values exists for the battery, and carrying out normal operation of the battery if it does. If, it has been determined that the predefined relationship with respect to the predefined operating parameter values does not exist, a query is transmitted to a decision unit as to whether an exception operation of the battery is to be carried out, and a response to the query by the decision unit is determined. The response is then transmitted to the battery control unit, and an exception operation of the battery is performed by the battery control unit depending on the response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Li-Tec Battery GmbH
    Inventor: Li-Tec Battery GmbH
  • MICROPOROUS POLYMERIC MEMBRANE, BATTERY SEPARATOR, AND BATTERY
    Publication number: 20130309548
    Abstract: The invention relates to microporous polymeric membrane having a good balance of rupture temperature and air permeability. The invention also relates to a battery separator formed by such a microporous membrane, and a battery comprising such a separator. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method for making the microporous polymeric membrane, a method for making a battery using such a membrane as a separator, and a method for using such a battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Toray Battery Separator Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toray Battery Separator Film Co., Ltd.
  • BATTERY MARVEL 1.0
    Publication number: 20130127611
    Abstract: A battery monitor comprising a memory and a processor is provided. The processor is in communication with the memory. The processor is configured to determine a state of a battery. The processor further determines whether to generate an alert based at least in part on the state. If the processor determines to generate the alert, the memory is configured to store a type of the alert and the state of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: BATTERY MARVEL, LLC.
    Inventor: Battery Marvel, LLC.
  • Battery with at least two electrochemical energy converters and method of operating said battery
    Publication number: 20130193929
    Abstract: A battery with a converter including at least two electrochemical energy converters provided to convert chemical energy into electrical energy and to supply electrical energy particularly to a consumer has the energy converters electrically connected to one another. The converter arrangement includes two configuration connectors of different polarity at which a configuration voltage is present, and the configuration voltage corresponds to the electrical voltage of the converter. Two battery connectors of different polarity are also included and make the electrical connection to the consumer. The battery connectors are electrically connected to the configuration connectors The battery also includes a device connected at least indirectly to the configuration connectors which can be converted from a first state into a second state. In the first state, the configuration connectors are electrically insulated from one another and in the second state they are electrically connected to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Li-Tec Battery GmbH
    Inventor: Li-Tec Battery GmbH
  • FLOODED LEAD-ACID BATTERY AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130149611
    Abstract: Positive active material pastes for flooded deep discharge lead-acid batteries, methods of making the same and lead-acid batteries including the same are provided. The positive active material paste includes lead oxide, a sulfate additive, and an aqueous acid. The positive active material paste contains from about 0.1 to about 1.0 wt % of the sulfate additive. Batteries using such positive active material pastes exhibit greatly improved performance over batteries with conventional positive active material pastes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: TROJAN BATTERY COMPANY
    Inventor: Trojan Battery Company
  • Lithium Iron Disulfide Battery
    Publication number: 20130095358
    Abstract: A lithium-iron disulfide battery with improved high temperature performance is disclosed. The separator characteristics are deliberately selected to be compatible with the electrolyte at the intended temperature. Additional or alternative modifications can be made in the form of a scaffold or laminated structure. A preferred polymer for such separators is polyimide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: EVEREADY BATTERY COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Eveready Battery Company, Inc.
  • BATTERY ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20130052506
    Abstract: The invention relates to a battery arrangement (1) comprising at least one, but particularly a plurality of electrochemical cells (2), the at least one electrochemical cell (2) comprising at least one current conductor (3) extending through a casing (4) of the electrochemical cell (2), characterized in that said at least one current conductor (3) is electrically conductively connected to at least one connecting pin (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: LI-TEC BATTERY GMBH
    Inventor: LI-TEC BATTERY GMBH
  • High Discharge Capacity Lithium Battery
    Publication number: 20130034762
    Abstract: A lithium/iron disulfide electrochemical battery cell with a high discharge capacity. The cell has a lithium negative electrode, an iron disulfide positive electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The iron disulfide of the positive electrode has a controlled average particle size range which allows the electrochemical cells to exhibit desired properties in both low and high rate applications. In various embodiments, the iron disulfide particles are wet milled, preferably utilizing a media mill or milled utilizing a non-mechanical mill such as a jet mill, which reduces the iron disulfide particles to a desired average particle size range for incorporation into the positive electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Eveready Battery Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Eveready Battery Company, Inc.
  • LITHIUM METAL ELECTRODE, METHOD FOR PREPARING THE SAME, AND LITHIUM RECHARGEABLE BATTERY USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170263936
    Abstract: A lithium metal electrode includes a lithium metal plate and a protective layer coated on a surface of the lithium metal plate. The protective layer includes an organic-inorganic hybrid polymer comprising a repeating unit. The repeating unit includes a silicon atom, a methacryloyloxy group or an acryloyloxy group, and at least two alkoxy groups. The alkoxy groups and the methacryloyloxy group or the acryloyloxy group are respectively joined to the silicon atom. A method for preparing the lithium metal electrode and a lithium ion battery is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicants: JIANGSU UNIONENERGY LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., JIANGSU HUADONG INSTITUTE OF LI-ION BATTERY CO., LTD., TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Peng Zhao, Li Wang, Xiang-Ming He, Jian-Jun Li, Yu-Ming Shang, Ju-Ping Yang, Jiang Cao, Yu-Feng Zhang, Jian Gao, Yao-Wu Wang
  • NANOSIZED PARTICLES USED IN ANODE FOR LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERIES, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130316238
    Abstract: A nanosized particle has a first phase that is a simple substance or a solid solution of element A, which is Si, Sn, Al, Pb, Sb, Bi, Ge, In or Zn, and a second phase that is a compound of element D, which is Fe, Co, Ni, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Ba, lanthanoid elements (not including Ce and Pm), Hf, Ta, W or Ir, and element A, or a compound of element A and element M, which is Cu, Ag, or Au. The first phase and second phase are bound via an interface, and are exposed to the outer surface. The surface of the first phase other than the interface is approximately spherical. Furthermore, a lithium ion secondary battery includes the nanosized particle as an anode active material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicants: THE FURUKAWA BATTERY CO., LTD, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., THE FURUKAWA BATTERY CO., LTD
  • Battery strip dispenser
    Patent number: 5957358
    Abstract: A battery strip dispenser for dispensing user-selectable combinations of batteries to consumers. The battery strip dispenser includes a dispensing mechanism for holding batteries, and further includes a battery strip containing a plurality of batteries packaged in flexible packaging material. The battery strip includes a plurality of packages, each containing a battery, and has perforations formed in the packaging material between adjacent packaged batteries. The battery strip can be dispensed from the dispensing mechanism, and packaged batteries can be separated from other batteries in the battery strip by tearing at the perforations to separate a desired number of batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Eveready Battery Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Rose A. Getz, Lewis F. Urry
  • Batteries, battery systems, battery submodules, battery operational methods, battery system operational methods, battery charging methods, and battery system charging methods
    Patent number: 11289918
    Abstract: Batteries, battery systems, battery submodules, battery operational methods, battery system operational methods, battery charging methods, and battery system charging methods are described. According to one aspect, a battery includes a first battery terminal, a second battery terminal, and a plurality of submodules individually comprising a first submodule terminal, a second submodule terminal, a plurality of rechargeable cells electrically coupled between the first and second submodule terminals, and switching circuitry configured to electrically couple one of the first and second battery terminals with one of the first and second submodule terminals of one of the submodules during an engaged mode of operation of the one of the submodules and to electrically isolate the one of the first and second battery terminals from the one of the first and second submodule terminals of the one of the submodules during a disengaged mode of operation of the one of the submodules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Lithion Battery Inc.
    Inventors: Russell M. Troxel, Joel E. Sandahl
  • System for utilizing battery operating data
    Patent number: 11300624
    Abstract: Described herein are system for evaluating operation of a battery by utilizing battery operating data for the battery and utilizing battery operating data for a plurality of other batteries. A system for evaluating operation of a first battery based on measured temperature and voltage monitored in the first battery and in a plurality of other batteries, the system comprising: a battery monitor circuit and a remote device in communicative connection with the battery monitor circuit, wherein the battery monitor circuit wirelessly transmits temperature and voltage information for the first battery to the remote device, wherein the remote device receives temperature and voltage information associated with a plurality of other batteries, and the remote device is configured to evaluate a condition of the first battery as a function of both: (i) the temperature and voltage information of the first battery and (ii) the temperature and voltage information of the plurality of other batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: NORTHSTAR BATTERY COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Don Karner, Frank Fleming, Ulf Krohn, Christer Lindkvist
  • Battery pack and backup power supply device utilizing the battery pack
    Patent number: 6636016
    Abstract: A battery pack for use as a backup power supply device for various electronic devices has a rechargeable battery group having a plurality of cylindrical rechargeable batteries connected in series and/or parallel and arranged in horizontal flat arrays as a flat block, and an electronic circuit for controlling charging of the rechargeable battery group. Two heat radiating plates sandwich opposite surfaces of the rechargeable batteries of the rechargeable battery group and are held against circumferential surfaces of the rechargeable batteries. A battery case houses an electronic circuit positioned at an end in the direction of the arrays of the rechargeable batteries and surrounds the rechargeable battery group to accommodate them therein. The battery case supports the heat radiating plates so as to be exposed to the exterior. The battery pack is compact and free of thermal problems with the rechargeable batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: Toshiba Battery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Tanaka, Yutaka Takata, Masakazu Nakamura
  • Battery pack and backup power supply device with battery pack
    Publication number: 20020043959
    Abstract: A battery pack for use as a backup power supply device for various electronic devices has a rechargeable battery group having a plurality of cylindrical rechargeable batteries connected in series and/or parallel and arranged in horizontal flat arrays as a flat block, and an electronic circuit for controlling charging of the rechargeable battery group. Two heat radiating plates sandwich opposite surfaces of the rechargeable batteries of the rechargeable battery group and are held against circumferential surfaces of the rechargeable batteries. A battery case houses an electronic circuit positioned at an end in the direction of the arrays of the rechargeable batteries and surrounds the rechargeable battery group to accommodate them therein. The battery case supports the heat radiating plates so as to be exposed to the exterior. The battery pack is compact and free of thermal problems with the rechargeable batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: TOSHIBA BATTERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Tanaka, Yutaka Takata, Masakazu Nakamura
  • Booster battery assembly
    Patent number: 5194799
    Abstract: A booster battery assembly is provided, where the booster battery is intended for use to provide additional energy to vehicle batteries, while connected in parallel with such vehicle batteries, so that a sufficient source of cranking current is available. Moreover, it is important for the terminal voltage of the vehicle battery as boosted by the booster battery assembly to be about 6.0 to 8.4 volts for an average automobile in order for ignition to be initiated and maintained during cranking. The booster battery assembly is portable, or it may be permanently installed in the vehicle, but isolated from the vehicle battery. In any event, the booster battery assembly of this invention comprises a battery of the same terminal voltage as the vehicle battery but of much smaller capacity. The booster battery may be charged from the vehicle battery during a time when the vehicle alternator is operating, or it may be recharged from an AC source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Battery Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Klaus Tomantschger
  • Sealed lead-acid battery tray assemblies and motive power vehicles using such battery tray assemblies
    Patent number: 5437939
    Abstract: A sealed lead-acid battery assembly for motive power vehicles is provided for. The battery tray assembly comprises a battery tray having a tray base adapted to support one or more sealed lead-acid batteries. The battery tray has three upstanding tray walls, consisting of two side walls and a front wall, which are connected to the tray base, a tray top connected to the upstanding tray walls, and one or more divider walls. The tray base, side walls, front wall, tray top, and divider wall define one or more compartments adapted to receive batteries and a compartment adapted to receive a battery charger. The battery tray has a generally open back which provides access for loading batteries into the battery compartments and for loading a charger into the charger compartment. Otherwise, the battery and charger compartments are substantially enclosed by the battery tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Assignee: GNB Industrial Battery Company
    Inventor: Gordon C. Beckley
  • Battery event monitoring system for thermal managed battery
    Patent number: 11936015
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for determining when a battery, or one or more batteries within a battery pack, undergoes an undesired thermal event such as thermal runaway. A sensor pack is mounted in close proximity to, or in contact with, an external surface of the battery or batteries to be monitored and communicates battery information, including battery compartment information, to a battery package monitor outside the battery compartment. Cloud connectivity can be provided via a mobile application to a battery thermal management package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Global Battery Solutions LLC
    Inventor: David W Baarman
  • VEHICLE BATTERY REPLACING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20120233850
    Abstract: A battery replacing apparatus includes a battery mount portion, vehicle hoist members, and a lifting-lowering means for lifting and lowering the battery mount portion. When attaching a battery unit to or detaching a battery unit from the battery support portion of an electric vehicle, the vehicle hoist members are moved together with the battery mount portion to be brought into contact with the vehicle body. The vehicle hoist members are formed like rods extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle. The vehicle hoist members are arranged on the left and right sides of the battery unit placed on the battery mount portion. The battery unit is attached to the battery support portion of the vehicle or detached from the battery support portion from below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: VEHICLE BATTERY REPLACING APPARATUS
    Inventors: Mamoru HOZUMI, Yoshio OJIMA, Takahiro FUKAGAWA, Takashi MURASE
  • Apparatus for positioning batteries and hoisting batteries into a battery formation tub
    Patent number: 4363593
    Abstract: An apparatus for forming and transferring a matrix arrangement of batteries which has two interrelated parts. A matrix-forming device which receives a plurality of batteries therein on base rollers space the batteries and which arranges the batteries on the base rollers into a matrix of rows of batteries. Pivoted spacing rollers from the battery adjacent thereto, and a shuttle moves the batteries transversely across the base rollers. Limit switches are provided to control the movement of the shuttle. Secondly, a transfer frame fits within the matrix-forming device, and fits around and expands tightly against the batteries in the matrix-forming device to hold the batteries tightly on at least two sides thereof. The transfer frame is adapted to to lifted so that the batteries may be lifted from the matrix-forming device in their matrix formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1982
    Assignee: General Battery Corporation
    Inventor: William J. Eberle
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