258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-429.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 429 Chemistry: electrical current producing apparatus, product, and process. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:03:31 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120034534/description.html

Application Number:  20120034534

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Advani, Suresh G.; Palanichamy, Krishnan; Prasad, Ajay K.

A lithium ion battery is provided which contains a cathode, an anode, an electrolyte and a separator, wherein the anode employs polythiocyanogen as an active ...
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Application Number:  20120034533

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Kim, Dong-Su; Lee, Byoung-Bae; Hong, Yeon-Suk; Oh, Jae-Seung; Park, Ji-Won; Lee, Hyo-Jin

Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a lithium salt, an organic solvent and additives. The additives include: 1 to 10% by weight of a mixture of a particular halogenated cyclic carbonate and a compound containing a vinylene or vinyl group; and 0.1 to 9% by weight of a nitrile compound having a C₂-C₁₂ alkoxyalkyl group. A lithium secondary battery including the non-aqueous electrolyte ...
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Application Number:  20120034532

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Yoon, Su-Jin; Cho, Jeong-Ju; Kim, Soo-Jin; Ha, Yong-Joon; Lee, Chul-Haeng; Koh, Jeong-Hwan

A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery comprises a lithium salt and an organic solvent. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution further comprises a specific siloxane compound and a sulfonate compound. This non-aqueous electrolyte solution solves the capacity degradation phenomenon, which appears in a lithium secondary battery using a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing only a specific siloxane compound when the lithium secondary battery is used for a long time, ...
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Application Number:  20120034531

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Yamamoto, Kenta; Nakayama, Yuri; Senda, Yui; Ito, Reina

A secondary battery capable of safely improving a battery performance is provided. An electrolyte with which a separator 13 is impregnated contains an alkyl sulfone and a low-polar solvent (a solvent having a relative permittivity of 20 or less) together with an aluminum salt. The alkyl sulfone facilitates the redox reaction of aluminum, and further reduces the reactivity of the electrolyte. Additionally, the low-polar solvent suppresses the block of the redox reaction of aluminum. In ...
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Application Number:  20120034530

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  TEAGLE, John A.; SCHILLING, Oliver

An electrolytic manganese dioxide improved for tool wear reduction, methods for preparing the improved electrolytic manganese dioxide and for preparing a positive-electrode precursor, and a primary battery are provided. One method includes displacement-washing neutralized electrolytic manganese dioxide with a solution including a corrosion inhibitor configured to be at a first predetermined concentration. The method further includes drying the washed electrolytic manganese dioxide to collect ...
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Application Number:  20120034529

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Hayashi, Akitoshi; Hama, Shigenori; Ueno, Yukiyoshi; Tsuchida, Yasushi; Nagase, Hiroshi; Tatsumisago, Masahiro; Kawamoto, Koji; Kamiya, Masato

The main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with less hydrogen sulfide generation amount. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material obtained by using a raw material composition containing Li₂S and sulfide of an element of the fourteenth family or the fifteenth family, characterized by not substantially containing cross-linking sulfur and ...
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Application Number:  20120034528

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Wendman, Mark A.

High electrical energy density storage devices are disclosed. The devices include electrochemical capacitors, electrolytic capacitors, hybrid electrochemical-electrolytic capacitors and secondary batteries. Advantageously, the energy storage devices may employ core-shell protonated perovskite submicron or nano particles in composite films that have one or more shell coatings on a protonated perovskite core particle, proton bearing and proton conductive. The shells may be formed of proton ...
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Application Number:  20120034527

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Nishijima, Motoaki; Yao, Takeshi; Esaki, Shogo

A cathode active material of the present invention for use in a nonaqueous secondary battery includes: a main crystalline phase including a lithium-containing transition metal oxide containing manganese and having a spinel structure; and a sub crystalline phase which is in a layer shape and which is contained in the main crystalline phase, the sub crystalline phase being identical in oxygen arrangement to the lithium-containing transition metal oxide and different in elementary composition from ...
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Application Number:  20120034526

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Kurahashi, Tomoyoshi

This lithium ion secondary battery includes a cathode (3) including multiple oxide containing lithium as a cathode active material and Li₂MnSiO₄ which is different from the cathode active material and which is mixed or blended into the cathode active material as a doping material of lithium ions, and an anode ...
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Application Number:  20120034525

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Nagase, Ryuichi; Kajiya, Yoshio; Satoh, Hirohito

Disclosed is a positive electrode active material that provides an improved capacity density. Specifically disclosed is a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion battery with a layered structure represented by Li_x(Ni_yM_1-y)O_z (wherein M represents at least one element selected from a group consisting of Mn, Co, Mg, Al, Ti, Cr, Fe, Cu, and Zr; x is in the range from 0.9 to 1.2; y is in the range from 0.3 to 0.95; and z is in the range from ...
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Application Number:  20120034524

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Habib, Youssef M.; Caracciolo, Robert

A battery anode comprised of metallic nanowire arrays is disclosed. In one embodiment the lithium battery uses Silicon nanowires or another element that alloy with Lithium or another element to produce high capacity lithium battery ...
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Application Number:  20120034523

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  SONG, Eui-Hwan; SHEEM, Kyeu-Yoon; ISHIDA, Sumihito; LEE, Young-Seak

Disclosed are a negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. The negative active material may include a metal oxide in an amount of about 20 wt % or more, and has a specific surface area of about 500 m²/g or less. The negative active material may be fiber including carbon black in which a metal oxide is internally impregnated and combined. This fiber includes only carbon black and a metal oxide internally doped. ...
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Application Number:  20120034522

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Sheem, Kyeu-Yoon; Ishida, Sumihito; Song, Eui-Hwan

An active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable battery, the active material including an active material core; and a thin film graphite layer on the ...
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Application Number:  20120034521

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Honda, Takashi; Ichikawa, Satoru; Tanaka, Yasuyuki; Horie, Hideaki; Ibuka, Shigeo; Matsuyama, Chizuru; Nitta, Yoshiaki; Kaseda, Manabu; Kubota, Tomoya; Saito, Haruyuki; Shimamoto, Keisuke; Sato, Kana; Kato, Yukinari

A current collector for a secondary battery (1) of the present invention includes a resin layer (2) having electrical conductivity, and an ion barrier layer (3) provided on the surface of the resin layer (2). The ion barrier layer (3) contains ion trapping particles (6) in which metal compounds (5) are provided on the surfaces of metal containing particles (4). The ion trapping particles (6) are continuously provided from an ...
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Application Number:  20120034520

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Huang, Kevin; Lu, Chun; Shull, James L.; Liu, Shih-Yu W.

The outer surface of a metal electrode 202 of a rechargeable oxide-ion battery (ROB) cell is covered by its own dense electrolyte 204 and interconnection 206, where the dense electrolyte 204 and interconnection 206 hermetically seal the metal electrode away from oxygen-containing environment to prevent direct contact between active metal and oxygen which would lead to self discharge, thus, producing a self-sealed metal electrode of a ROB cell without ...
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Application Number:  20120034519

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Brant, Patrick; Crowther, Donna J.; Kono, Koichi; Miyaoka, Satoshi; Ishihara, Takeshi

The invention relates to microporous membranes comprising polymer and having well-balanced permeability, shutdown temperature, and pin puncture strength. The invention also relates to methods for making such membranes, and the use of such membranes as battery separator film in, e.g., lithium ion secondary ...
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Application Number:  20120034518

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Brant, Patrick; Crowther, Donna J.; Ishihara, Takeshi; Kono, Koichi; Miyaoka, Satoshi

A microporous membrane comprising polyolefin copolymer, the membrane having a shutdown temperature≦130.5° C. and a shutdown activation energy E2≧3.5×10^{3 ...
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Application Number:  20120034517

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  UTSUGI, Koji; KUSACHI, Yuki; KATOU, Tsuyoshi

There is provided a lithium secondary battery which has excellent characteristics such as energy density and electromotive force and is excellent in cycle life and storage stability. An electrolyte solution for secondary battery comprising at least an aprotic solvent having an electrolyte dissolved therein and a compound represented by the general formula ...
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Application Number:  20120034516

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Bae, Joon Sung; Goh, Eun-Young; Koo, Chang-Wan

Disclosed herein is a cathode active material including a lithium transition metal oxide based on at least one transition metal selected from a group consisting of Ni, Mn and Co. The lithium transition metal oxide contains fluorine, and most of the fluorine is present on a surface of the lithium transition metal oxide, and at least one metal selected from a group consisting of Mg, Ti, Zr, Al and Fe as well as sulfur (S) are further contained in the lithium transition metal ...
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Application Number:  20120034515

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  KANG, Feiyu; XU, Chengjun; LI, Baohua; DU, Hongda

The present invitation discloses a rechargeable zinc ion battery, in which anodic zinc will be electrochemically dissolved as Zn²⁺ions, diffuses to the cathodic electrode/electrolyte interface through the electrolyte, and zinc ions are subsequently intercalated into manganese dioxide during discharging. In charging, above-mentioned process will be reverse. The rechargeable zinc ion battery comprises a cathode formed from a compressed mixture of alpha manganese dioxide particles, ...
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Application Number:  20120034514

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  BAEK, Woon-Seong

A battery pack having excellent assembling efficiency and strength against drop impact. The battery pack includes: an electrode assembly; a case that has a space accommodating the electrode assembly and includes a wing portion having a plurality of through-holes in at least one direction of the outer circumference; and a frame that includes a frame body disposed to encompass the outer circumference of the case and a frame coupling unit integrally formed with the frame body and coupling the case ...
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Application Number:  20120034513

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Kim, Daekyu

A secondary battery is disclosed. In one embodiment, the battery includes i) an electrode assembly and ii) first and second electrode tabs spaced apart from each other and extending from the electrode assembly, wherein the first and second electrode tabs have first and second outer surfaces, respectively. The battery may further include i) an electrolyte, ii) a movement prevention tape attached to at least a portion of at least one of the first and second outer surfaces, wherein at least part ...
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Application Number:  20120034512

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Khan, Saad A.; Zhang, Xiang-wu; Fedkiw, Peter S.

A carbon/nanoparticle nanofiber includes a carbon base structure and a plurality of nanoparticles that include a lithium alloy or a lithium alloy precursor. One or more nanofibers may be formed into a nonwoven fabric. The fabric may be utilized as an electrode, such as for example in a battery. The carbon/nanoparticle composite nanofiber may be fabricated by forming a polymer/nanoparticle nanofiber, such as for example by a spinning technique, and carbonizing the polymer/nanoparticle ...
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Application Number:  20120034511

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  KITAMURA, Ryosuke

A sealed battery with an electrode assembly and electrolyte enclosed in a battery case is provided, where a connection member can be attached to the battery case without requiring large space while avoiding increasing the length of the lead wire. The sealed battery includes: a battery case enclosing an electrode assembly and electrolyte, for serving as a terminal of one polarity of the electrode assembly; an external terminal provided on the battery case in such a way that it is electrically ...
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Application Number:  20120034510

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Kitaura, Masaaki

A method for producing a battery includes forming a space by expanding a liquid housing portion, the liquid housing portion being present at one end of an outer package that houses a battery element, through supply of gas from an opening portion formed at the other end of the outer package; injecting an electrolytic solution from the opening portion to store the electrolytic solution in the space of the liquid housing portion; degassing the outer package through the opening portion in a vacuum ...
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Application Number:  20120034509

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Kim, Jong-Hwan; Lee, Han-Ho; Hong, Seung-Taek; Bae, Yoon-Jung; Kim, In-Chul

A separator includes a monolayer-type polyolefin-based micro-porous film having a porosity of 40 to 60%, an average pore diameter of 60 nm or less, and an air permeability of 350 s/100 mL or less; and a porous coating layer formed on at least one surface of the micro-porous film and made of a mixture of a plurality of inorganic particles and a binder polymer. An electrochemical device having the above separator has excellent thermal stability and allows a high power while minimizing the ...
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Application Number:  20120034508

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Eylem, Cahit; Davis, Stuart M.; Boulton, Jonathan M.; Mao, Ou

A battery includes a separator with a trapping layer that traps dissolved metal ...
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Application Number:  20120034507

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Harada, Susumu; Tsurumi, Yoshihisa; Matsumoto, Takehiro; Homma, Hideki

An electricity storage module includes a casing 110 that includes an intake port 114 through which a cooling medium is taken in located at one end of the casing, and an outlet port 115 through which the cooling medium is let out, located at another end of the casing. A plurality of electricity storage elements 140 are arrayed from the intake port 114 toward the outlet port 115 with clearances set between the electricity storage elements, and the ...
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Application Number:  20120034506

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Liu, Ta-Wei; Hu, Chih-Kai; Chen, Chien-Hung

A battery pack of a handheld device has two coupling sections configured at a side surface in the face of a battery slot of the handheld device, where the coupling sections correspond to a coupling structure of the battery slot. As the battery pack is installed in the battery slot, the coupling sections engage with the coupling structure respectively for keeping the battery pack from detaching out of the battery slot. The battery pack may also have an upturned position to be installed in a ...
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Application Number:  20120034505

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  ZHU, Jiang

An anode and a lithium battery comprising the same are disclosed. The anode comprises a current collector, and an anode material coated on or filled within the current collector. The anode material comprises a carbon material and an adhesive, and the adhesive comprises a hydrophobic polymer binder and a sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, in which an average molecular weight of the sodium carboxymethyl cellulose ranges from about 10×10⁵ to about 12×10⁵, a substitution degree ...
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Application Number:  20120034504

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Kaneda, Mayumi

Innermost parts (8A, 9A) of bent portions of an electrode group (1) are positioned opposite each other relative to a center line ...
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Application Number:  20120034503

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  TOYAMA, Tatsuya; KOHNO, Kazushige

A positive electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery that can stably inhibit heat generation, a lithium-ion secondary battery comprising the positive electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery as a positive electrode material that is excellent in safety during charging, and a secondary battery module using the lithium-ion secondary battery are provided. The positive electrode material for a lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention is characterized in ...
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Application Number:  20120034502

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Nieh, Kai Wei; Shih, Tung-Hsiu

A rechargeable battery comprises a battery cell comprising a plurality of battery component films on a substrate, the battery component films including at least a pair of electrodes about an electrolyte. A current limiter is electrically coupled to the battery cell to limit the current flowing through the battery cell when (i) the current flowing through the battery cell exceeds a predefined current, (ii) the temperature of the battery cell exceeds a predefined temperature, or (iii) ...
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Application Number:  20120034501

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Kohn, Scott Ira; Beck, David G.; Hermann, Weston Arthur

A battery pack, or battery pack module, is provided that is configured to respond to a short circuit of moderate current in a manner that minimizes the risk of an initial thermal runaway event propagating throughout the battery pack/battery pack module. In general, the battery pack/battery module allows pre-selection of which cell of the cells comprising the battery pack/battery pack module will be the last cell to respond to the short circuit. As a result, a thermal isolation barrier may be ...
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Application Number:  20120034500

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Kaun, Thomas D.

An electrochemical device comprising alternating layers of positive and negative electrodes separated from each other by separator layers. The electrode layers extend beyond the periphery of the separator layers providing superior contact between the electrodes and battery terminals, eliminating the need for welding the electrode to the terminal. Electrical resistance within the battery is decreased and thermal conductivity of the cell is increased allowing for superior heat removal from the ...
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Application Number:  20120034499

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Meehan, Henry M.

An apparatus includes a thermal strap that connects a first terminal of a first battery cell and a second terminal of a second battery cell. The thermal strap has high thermal and electrical conductivity. A wall link connects the thermal strap to a wall having high thermal conductivity. The wall link includes a first portion having high thermal and electrical conductivity and a second portion having high thermal conductivity but low electrical conductivity. The second portion is located between ...
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Application Number:  20120034498

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  HSU, FU-MING; CHEN, JEN-HAO

A fuel cell, a plate having through-plane conductivity and a manufacturing method of the plate are disclosed. The plate having through-plane conductivity includes a substrate and a plurality of linear conductors. The linear conductors are respectively coated with a metal material, and are oriented by a magnetic field to arrange in the substrate with an extending direction perpendicular to a plane surface of the substrate. The substrate is made of an epoxy resin material, the linear conductors ...
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Application Number:  20120034497

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Kohn, Scott Ira; Hermann, Weston Arthur; Gadda, Christopher David; Kreiner, Paul Bryan

A battery pack, or battery pack module, is provided that achieves improved battery pack performance, system reliability and system safety while impacting only a small region of the battery pack/battery module, and thus having only a minor impact on battery pack cost, complexity, weight and size. The battery pack/battery module is designed such that the fusible interconnects associated with a single battery, or a specific fusible interconnect associated with a single battery, will be the last ...
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Application Number:  20120034496

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Langhoff, Wolfgang; Beck, Till

The present invention relates to a high current connection device for contacting multiple energy storage units of an energy storage in parallel and/or in series, having the following characteristics: two poles for connecting the high current connection device to a current consumer, at least two positive terminal contacting connections for connecting to positive terminals of the energy storage units, at least two negative terminal contacting connections for connecting to negative terminals of ...
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Application Number:  20120034495

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Lee, Wonil

A battery pack comprises a battery cell, a circuit module electrically connected to the battery cell, a first case covering one side of the battery cell, a second case covering an opposite side of the battery cell and one side of the circuit module, wherein the second case is coupled to the first case, and a third case covering an opposite side of the circuit module, wherein the third case is coupled to the first case and the second ...
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Application Number:  20120034494

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Yoon, Heui-Sang; Lee, Sang-Joo; Kim, Woo-Choul

An external terminal assembly for establishing a connection between a battery pack and an electrical connector of an external device and a battery pack including the same, the external terminal assembly including an external terminal, the external terminal being electrically connectable to the electrical connector of the external device; a terminal holder on a protection circuit substrate, the terminal holder fixing a position of the external terminal; and a top case covering the protection ...
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Application Number:  20120034493

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Spatz, Joachim; Rustom, Amin

An electrode device (100) set up for membrane-potential shunting to cells (1) with membrane casings (2) comprises a cell holder (10) designed to hold the cells, and an electrode support (20) having at least two electrodes (21) of a first polarity, wherein the electrodes (21) are designed as protrusions which extend over one surface of the electrode support (20) and are electrically insulated relative to the surface of the electrode ...
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Application Number:  20120034463

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Endo, Morinobu; Tsujiko, Akira; Kim, Yong Jung

A method of producing a carbon material which is mainly composed of graphene-containing carbon particles is provided. The method includes a step of producing carbon particles from an organic material by maintaining a mixture containing the organic substance as a starting material, hydrogen peroxide and water under conditions of a temperature of 300° C. to 1000° C. and a pressure of 22 MPa or more. The method further includes a step of heat-treating the carbon particles at a higher temperature ...
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Application Number:  20120033845

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Maleki, Hossein; Hallmark, Jerald A.

A battery pack with reduced magnetic field emissions includes a plurality of cells (1301,1302) coupled electrically together by a first electrical conductor (1307) and a second electrical conductor (1308). The first electrical conductor (1307) couples positive terminals (1305,1306) to a terminal block (1311), while the second electrical conductor (1308) couples the negative terminals (1303,1304) to the terminal block (1311). Each ...
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Application Number:  20120033416

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Ballard, Jay A.

According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a power module that includes a power source. The apparatus also includes a power consumption module that is configured to consume power from the power source. Further, the apparatus includes a power control module that is configured to selectively regulate power from the power source to the power consumption module. Each of the power module, power consumption module, and power control module includes a positive power terminal, a negative power ...
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Application Number:  20120032643

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Susumu, Segawa; Hwang, Eui-Jeong; Sim, Se-Sub; Yun, Han-Seok; Kim, Jin-Wan; Yang, Jong-Woon; Kim, Beom-Gyu

A battery pack, a charging system including the battery pack, and a method of controlling the charging system are disclosed. The battery pack includes a plurality of rechargeable battery cells and a protection circuit for protecting the battery cells. The protection circuit includes an analog front end (AFE) integrated circuit (IC) and a microcomputer. The AFE IC is for supplying an operating voltage of a microcomputer to the microcomputer and to a charging device. Thus, when the battery pack ...
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Application Number:  20120032639

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Hwang, Eui-Jeong; Segawa, Susumu; Sim, Se-Sub; Yun, Han-Seok; Kim, Jin-Wan; Yang, Jong-Woon; Kim, Beom-Gyu

A battery pack, a charger, and a charging system. The battery pack includes a rechargeable battery, and a protection circuit to control charging and discharging of the battery, wherein the protection circuit includes a micom to output an operating state signal representing an operating state of the micom and a malfunction transferring unit to transfer information on whether the battery is malfunctioning based on the operating state signal. Accordingly, when an error is detected by the ...
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Application Number:  20120031852

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventor:  Aglietto, Ivano

An electrode is described completely made of graphenes or containing high amounts of these compounds in mixture with nanostructured or non-nanostructured carbon-based materials. An electrooxidation process for the removal of contaminants from liquids, and a reactor for performing the process, based on the use of said electrodes, are also ...
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Application Number:  20120030146

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Crighton, Alan D.

A right-angle electrical connector is configured to be mounted onto an upper mounting surface of a substrate that defines a bottom surface opposed from the upper mounting surface so as to define a thickness. The connector includes a connector housing and a plurality of electrical contacts retained by the connector housing. The connector housing overhangs an edge of the substrate and extends down with respect to the upper surface to a depth from the upper mounting surface that is less than the ...
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Application Number:  20120028168

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  SHINOHARA, Akihiro; HASEGAWA, Naoki; YAMADA, Koji; YAMAGUCHI, Susumu

Provided is an electrolyte equipped with a hydrophilic portion having a cyclic quaternary ammonium salt and a hydrophobic portion bonded to the hydrophilic portion; and a fuel cell, a Li secondary battery, secondary battery and a primary battery using the electrolyte. The electrolyte has preferably a structure represented by the formula (A) or (B), wherein P′ represents a hydrophobic portion, R₁ and R₂ each represents hydrogen, fluorine, a hydroxy group, or a hydrocarbon ...
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