Volume 53 Number 3
ISSN: 001-8627
March 2017
Ultralife Receives LiMnO2 Battery Contract Ultralife Corp. of Newark, New York, has received a firm-fixed price, indefinite quantity contract for purchases not to exceed $21.4 million from the U.S. government’s Defense Logistic Agency (DLA) for its lithium manganese dioxide (LiMnO2), non-rechargeable BA-5390 batteries. The award consists of a three-year base contract with two one-year option periods. The amounts and timing of deliveries under this contract is at the discretion of the DLA.
Meek becomes Branson Ultrasonics’ new president. (See story below.)
AROUND THE INDUSTRY Emerson Announces New Branson President Emerson Electric of Danbury, Connecticut, has appointed John Meek as president of Branson Ultrasonics Corp. In his new role Meek has responsibility for overseeing the worldwide operations of Branson, a global leader in customer focused solutions for plastic joining, ultrasonic metal joining and precision processing. Branson has more than 1,800 employees and 70 sales and service centers worldwide. He is succeeding Joseph Dillon who has been appointed as president of Emerson subsidiary ASCO Industrial Americas in Florham Park, New Jersey. Meek has 37 years of Emerson leadership experience and has been president of multiple businesses including Fusite, Fisher Regulators, and Chromalox. For the past 13 years, he has held the position of president Americas for ASCO - Automatic Switch, of Emerson Electric in Florham Park, New Jersey. Meek holds a B.S. degree from the State University of New York at Albany and an MBA from Cornell University.
New Battery Pilot Manufacturing Facility Eastman Kodak Co., in partnership with New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium, Inc. (NY-BEST) will install two multi-user battery cell assembly lines at their Eastman Business Park (EBP) site in Rochester. The site will serve battery and capacitor development and production companies. The new lines will complement existing roll-to-roll (R2R) coating capability and expertise at Kodak; a battery assembly prototype lab at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT); and the BEST Test and Commercialization Center, a battery cell commercialization and testing center in the same building at EBP. This combination of capabilities expands the energy ecosystem and creates a world-class tool-set for the development and production of new battery and capacitor technologies. The battery cell assembly facility, which will be operated by Kodak in partnership with NY-BEST, will utilize equipment supplied by Kodak. This includes a dry room and specialized manufacturing equipment, such as
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Advanced Battery Technology The unit will be utilized primarily for frequency regulation and charging/discharging cycles in durations of less than one hour. GridBanks use a patented inorganic electrolyte, Alevolyte™, which demonstrates no degradation in power capacity after thousands of full battery cycles. POSCO Expanding Rechargeable Anode Capacity POSCO of Pohang, South Korea, will invest Won 300 billion ($260.9 million) over the next three years to expand and enhance production of anodes for rechargeable batteries to meet increasing applications, reports Pulse News. Kwon Oh-joon, chief executive officer of the world’s fourth largest steelmaker, says the company will spend an additional Won 300 billion until 2020 in anodes, the primary cell in rechargeable batteries. POSCO ESM is a manufacturer of anode materials that are used to make batteries for electric vehicles, laptops and mobile phones. The company has been a supplier of general anode materials, but also has started supplying
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POSCO Gradient-Nickel Cobalt Manganese (PG-NCM), high-capacity electrodes to LG Chem Ltd. for batteries in low-speed electric cars. “We are looking into other material sectors such as magnesium and nickel wet smelting for other growth engines,” says an official from POSCO. Eguana and LG Chem Expand Partnership Eguana Technologies Inc. has expanded its energy storage partnership with LG Chem. Development has begun to optimize integration and delivery of LG Chem’s new JH3 battery cell technology for stationary storage systems as a part of Eguana’s AC Battery portfolio. Since the product was first announced, the US Residential AC Battery, based on LG Chem’s JH2 cell technology, has been certified to meet U.S. national standards and passed rigorous internal testing at both Page 4
March 2017 Eguana and LG Chem. Deployments in the Hawaii and California markets have taken place in homeowner and utility applications. “Our engineering team has evaluated Eguana’s integration of our lithium batteries into their AC Battery product and we have been very impressed by the reliability and the performance of their solution,” says Peter Gibson, U.S. sales director of LG Chem. “We look forward to seeing the results of the next generation systems in 2017.” Eguana will also expand its AC Battery product line to introduce a 15kVA/37kWh commercial energy storage product based on the JH3 cell in the same standalone module format in the second quarter 2017. Bitrode Expands International Sales Representatives Bitrode Corp. of St. Louis, Missouri, has signed agreements with four new sales and distribution agencies bringing their total global network up to 20 partners. Bitrode’s first new sales representative and distributor is Wise-Tech Group located in Rosh Ha’ayin, Israel. WiseTech will be handling the sales and service of Bitrode battery testers throughout the Israel territory. The second sales representative and distributor Bitrode has signed is PSP Brasil located in São Paulo, Brazil. The team at PSP Brasil will be handling the Brazil territory as well as surrounding areas in the South American market. The third sales representative and distributor is Caltest Instruments GMBH of Kappelrodeck, Germany. The new collaboration with Caltest Instruments will expand Bitrode’s influence in the already thriving German and Austrian battery testing market. Bitrode’s fourth new distributor is Quantum Technologies Global Pte Ltd. Quantum is a unique asset to Bitrode due to their large footprint in the Southeast Asian market with their personnel in Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
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Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of nearly 20,000 square kilometers (7,523 square miles) in northeastern South Africa. The energy storage system at Kruger National Park
March 2017 follows Aquion’s first installation in Africa, at the Loisaba wildlife conservancy in Kenya. ZAF Energy Systems Appoints New CEO and VP Randy Moore (right), the former president of EaglePicher Technologies, has been appoined as president and CEO of the Columbia Falls, Montana-based zinc battery developer, ZAF Energy Systems. Tom Shireman, the former plant manager at EaglePicher also joins the company as vice president of manufacturing operations. Moore is a founding member, former chairman and director of NAATBatt. He says the firm’s nickel zinc batteries are “poised to disrupt the $50+ billion lead acid battery market. ZAF’s nickel-zinc battery is one of the most disruptive technologies available today as a competitive replacement for lead acid and nickel cadmium batteries.” Compared with conventional lead acid batteries used in
Aquion Delivers System to South Africa Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Aquion Energy Inc., manufacturer of Aspen saltwater batteries and energy storage systems, has installed and off-grid microgrid at a nature lodge resort in Kruger National Park in South Africa. The microgrid consists of a 55kWh Aquion Aspen battery bank paired with a 10kW solar array. The solar array and Aquion’s Aspen batteries provide full power for the camp, which consists of four luxury “tents,” a central lounge, swimming pool, and a water pressure pump for drinking water. The batteries have been sized to comfortably support the site’s loads during overcast Page 5
motive sectors such as stop-start and deep-cycle industrial and recreational applications, Moore reports that ZAF’s nickel zinc offering yielded twice the energy density and, on a cost per kWh basis, worked out as half the cost.
U.S. BATTERY AND FUEL CELL PATENTS Compiled by Eddie T. Seo Email: seoeddie@gmail.com Littleton, Colorado Official Gazette, Vol 1434 (January 2017)
U.S. 9,533,273 (20170103), Systems and methods for isolating a particulate product when recycling lead from spent lead.acid batteries, Eberhard Meissner, Matthew A. Spence, and Patrick M. Curran, Johnson Controls Technology Co. U.S. 9,533,475 (20170103), Crosslinking polymer-supported porous film for battery separator and method for producing battery using the same, Yoshihiro Uetani, Keisuke Kii, and Satoshi Nishikawa, Nitto Denko Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,533,595 (20170103), Vehicular battery system and vehicle equipped with same, Toshihiro Sakatani, Hiromasa Sugii, Makoto Ochi, and Ryuuji Kawase, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,533,598 (20170103), Method for battery state of charge estimation, Tae-Kyung Lee, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,533,600 (20170103), Structurally integrated propulsion battery, Leo F. Schwab, Tao Wang, and Phillip D. Hamelin, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,533,886 (20170103), Vapour deposition process for the preparation of a phosphate compound, Brian Elliott Hayden, Christopher Edward Lee, Duncan Clifford Alan Smith, Mark Stephen Beal, Xiaojuan Lu, and Chihiro Yada, Ilika Technologies Ltd. (GB) and Toyota Motor Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,534,097 (20170103), Poly(phenylene alkylene)-based lonomers, Michael R. Hibbs, Sandia Corp. U.S. 9,535,129 (20170103), Systems and methods for estimating battery pack capacity during charge sustaining use, Kurt M. Johnson, Patrick Frost, Joon Hwang, and Damon R. Frisch, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,535,131 (20170103), Method for determining response characteristics of battery, Makoto Kawano, Tomomi Akutsu, Nobuhiro Tomosada, Tetsuo Yano, and Souichirou Torai, Yokogawa Electric Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,535,132 (20170103), Systems and methods for determining battery system performance degradation, Sudhakar Inguva, Vijay P. Saharan, and Mark W. Verbrugge, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,535,480 (20170103), Power coordination system for hybrid energy storage system, Yanzhu Ye and Ratnesh Sharma, NEC Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,536,672 (20170103), Storage module, Shigemi Kobayashi, Shuuichi Araki, Kazumasa Honda, and Masami Takeda, UD Trucks Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,536,678 (20170103), Stability enhancing additive for electrochemical devices, George Lane and Ken Rudisuela, Ioxus, Inc. U.S. 9,536,679 (20170103), Trenched super/ultra capacitors and methods of making thereof, Johnny Duc Van Chiem. U.S. 9,537,120 (20170103), Polymer battery module packaging sheet and a method of manufacturing the same, Takanori Yamashita, Masataka Okushita, Kazuki Yamada, Rikiyama Yamashita, Hiroshi Miyama, and Youichi Mochizuki, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,121 (20170103), Secondary battery and secondary battery pack having a flexible collecting tab extending through a cap plate, Dukjung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE).
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March 2017 U.S. 9,537,124 (20170103), Variable insulating battery pack system and method, Joe Stanek and Chris Adam Ochocinski, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,537,125 (20170103), Battery module, Shi-Dong Park, JongHan Rhee, Tae-Yong Kim, Jun-Woo Cho, and Seong-Joon Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,126 (20170103), Battery pack, Jae Heon Song, LG Electronics Inc. (KR). U.S. 9,537,127 (20170103), Low profile battery assembly for electrified vehicles, Stuart Schreiber, Patrick Daniel Maguire, Rajaram Subramanian, Edward Popyk, and Keith Kearney, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,537,128 (20170103), Assembled battery, Atsushi Sekine, Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,129 (20170103), Batteries prepared by spinning, Kevin James Rhodes and James A. Adams, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,537,130 (20170103), Battery module, Ji-Hyeong Yoon, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,537,131 (20170103), Battery anode with preloaded metals, Long Wang, Yuhao Lu, and Jong-Jan Lee, Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. U.S. 9,537,132 (20170103), Battery having a plurality of battery modules arranged in battery strings, and method for operating the battery, Stefan Butzmann, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE) and Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,133 (20170103), Electric storage device and power source module, Masamitsu Tononishi, Shogo Tsuruta, and Ryutaro Nishikawa, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,134 (20170103), Rechargeable battery, Hong-Hyeon Lee, Sang-Won Byun, and Jeong-Wan Haam, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,135 (20170103), Terminal of rechargeable battery and method of manufacturing the same, Sangwon Byun, Youngkee Shin, Jinhwan Chang, Myungjin Jeong, Sangshin Choi, Jeongwon Oh, and Sooseok Choi, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,537,136 (20170103), Battery pack, Jae-Uk Ryu, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,137 (20170103), Cathode active material, cathode active material layer, all solid state battery and producing method for cathode active material, Yasushi Tsuchida, Hiroshi Nagase, Shigeki Sato, Masashi Kodama, and Haruhisa Hirokawa, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,537,138 (20170103), Method for preparing a mixture of an electrode active compound powder and an electronic conductor compound powder, resulting mixture, electrode, cell and battery, Sebastien Patoux, Carole Bourbon, and Lise Daniel, Commissariat a l fenergie atomique et aux energies alternatives (FR). U.S. 9,537,139 (20170103), Negative electrode for non-aqueous secondary battery, and a non-aqueous secondary battery, Naokage Tanaka, Akira Inaba, Keiichiro Uenae, Masayuki Yamada, and Kazunobu Matsumoto, Hitachi Maxell Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,140 (20170103), Manganese spinel-type lithium transition metal oxide, Natsumi Shibamura, Yanko Marinov Todorov, Shinya Kagei, and Yoshimi Hata, Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,141 (20170103), Method for making Li-ion battery electrode, Jia-Ping Wang, Kai-Li Jiang, and Shou-Shan Fan, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 9,537,142 (20170103), Method for manufacturing negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Tetsuo Nakanishi, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,143 (20170103), Lead acid cell with active materials held in a lattice, Peter G. Berrang, Epic Ventures Inc. (CA). U.S. 9,537,144 (20170103), Single Li-ion conductor as binder in lithium.sulfur or silicon.sulfur battery, Xiaosong Huang, Mei Cai, Mark W. Verbrugge, and Li Yang, Troy, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,537,145 (20170103), Negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the same, Norikazu Osada, Takashi Kuboki, and Shinsuke Matsuno, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 9,537,146 (20170103), Positive electrode material for sodium batteries and method for producing same, Masafumi Nose, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,537,147 (20170103), Anode structure having silicon
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Advanced Battery Technology methods for testing a battery, Rachid Yazami and Kenza Maher, Nanyang Technological University (SG). U.S. 9,552,901 (20170124), Li-ion batteries with high energy density, excellent cycling capability and low internal impedance, Shabab Amiruddin, Subramanian Venkatachalam, Bing Li, Charles Bowling, Yezi Bei, Deepak Kumaar Karthikeyan, Herman Lopez, and Sujeet Kumar, Envia Systems, Inc. U.S. 9,552,929 (20170124), Polymer.nanocarbon composites, methods of making composites, and energy storage devices including the composite, Mark E. Roberts, Apparao M. Rao, Ramakrishna Podila, and Robert Emmett, Clemson University. U.S. 9,552,930 (20170124), Anode for Li-ion capacitor, Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree, Rahul Suryakant Kadam, and Andrew Fleitz Husted, Corning Incorporated. U.S. 9,552,931 (20170124), Polarizable electrode material and electric double layer capacitor using same, Hiroyuki Norieda, W L Gore & Associates, Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,552,932 (20170124), Highly porous separator foil, Detlef Busch, Bertram Schmitz, and Dominic Klein, Treofan Germany GmbH & Co KG (DE). U.S. 9,552,933 (20170124), Storage module and method for manufacturing storage module, Terunobu Nakajyo, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,285 (20170124), Battery reinforcement method, Takeshi Yasooka and Mitiyuki Tezuka, Nissan Motor Co, Ltd. (JP) and Automotive Energy Supply Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,553,286 (20170124), Battery pack for reducing damage from external static electricity, Dea-Yon Moon and Sang-Hun Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,287 (20170124), Battery pack, Myung-Chul Kim, JangGun Ahn, Hee-Joon Jin, and Young-Bin Lim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,288 (20170124), Step configuration for traction battery housing, Saravanan Paramasivam, James Lawrence Swoish, and Daniel Miller, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,553,289 (20170124), Battery module, Jang-Wook Lee and Jang-Yeong Im, Samsung SDI Co, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,290 (20170124), Gas discharge structure for battery cover, Rumi Nagano and Toyoki Iguchi, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,291 (20170124), High temperature melt integrity battery separators via spinning, Roy Martinus Adrianus L fAbee, Richard Peters, Erich Otto Teutsch, Huiqing Wu, Yanju Wang, Qunjian Huang, Wujun Rong, and Jacob Scott LaBelle, SABIC Global Technologies BV (NL). U.S. 9,553,292 (20170124), Rechargeable lithium battery and method of fabricating the same, Moon-Sung Kim, Woo-Cheol Shin, Sang-Il Han, Sang-Hoon Kim, Byung-Joo Chung, Duck-Hyun Kim, MyungHwan Jeong, Jung-Yi Yu, Seung-Tae Lee, Tae-Hyun Bae, Mi-Hyun Lee, Eon-Mi Lee, Ha-Rim Lee, In-Haeng Cho, E-Rang Cho, Dong-Myung Choi, Vladimir Egorov, Pavel Alexandrovich Shatunov, Alexey Tereshchenko, Denis Chernyshov, Makhmut Khasanov, and Jung-Hyun Nam, Samsung SDI Co, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,293 (20170124), Rechargeable lithium battery, JungHyun Nam, Jong-Hwan Park, Yeon-Joo Choi, Eon-Mi Lee, and Hoon Seok, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,294 (20170124), Electric storage device, manufacturing method of electric storage device, and bus bar used for electric storage device, Toshiki Yoshioka and Toshiki Kusunoki, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,295 (20170124), Battery pack, Sangyeon Kim and Yun Nyoung Lee, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,296 (20170124), Magnetic pulse welding in medical power manufacturing, Xiangyang Dai and Gary Freitag, Greatbatch Ltd. U.S. 9,553,297 (20170124), Battery pack, Michael Kolden and Samuel Sheeks, Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. U.S. 9,553,298 (20170124), Pouch type case, battery cell, and method of manufacturing battery cell, Hong Seok Shim, Se Hyun Kim, Min Su Kim, and Jung Kyu Woo, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,299 (20170124), Lithium-ion secondary battery, Koji Takahata and Hideki Sano, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,553,300 (20170124), Electrode material, and battery, nonaqueous-electrolyte battery, and capacitor all incorporating the material, Kazuki Okuno, Kengo Goto, Koutarou Kimura, Hajime Ota, Junichi Nishimura, and Akihisa Hosoe, Sumitomo Electric Industries,
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March 2017 Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,301 (20170124), High capacity Li-ion battery formation protocol and corresponding batteries, Shabab Amiruddin and Bing Li, Envia Systems, Inc. U.S. 9,553,302 (20170124), Electrode assemblage and rechargeable battery using the same, Man-Seok Han, Sung-Soo Kim, Nam-Soon Choi, Sae-Weon Roh, and Jin-Kyu Hong, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,303 (20170124), Silicon particles for battery electrodes, Benjamin Yong Park, Genis Turon Teixidor, Heidi L. Houghton, and Ian R. Browne, Enevate Corp. U.S. 9,553,304 (20170124), Method of making silicon anode material for rechargeable cells, Philip John Rayner, Nexeon Ltd. (GB). U.S. 9,553,305 (20170124), Anode active material, anode and lithium battery containing the same, and preparation method thereof, Kyu-Nam Joo, Tae-Sik Kim, Deok-Hyun Kim, and Jae-Myung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,306 (20170124), Lithium secondary battery, Mitsuru Sakano and Hisao Yamashige, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,553,307 (20170124), Negative active material, negative electrode, and lithium battery, Su-Kyung Lee, So-Ra Lee, Kyu-Nam Joo, Yu-Jeong Cho, Ui-Song Do, Chang-Su Shin, Ha-Na Yoo, Sang-Eun Park, and Jae-Myung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,308 (20170124), Negative electrode material for sodium secondary battery and method for producing same, negative electrode for sodium secondary batter, and sodium secondary battery, Koichiro Ikeda, Yuta Ikeuchi, Takashi Mukai, Tetsuo Sakai, Taichi Sakamoto, Kunihiko Tani, Kiichiro Yamaguchi, and Naoto Yamashita, Isuzu Glass Co., Ltd. (JP) and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (JP). U.S. 9,553,309 (20170124), Silicon oxide particles, making method, Li-ion secondary battery, and electrochemical capacitor, Hirofumi Fukuoka, Susumu Ueno, and Koichiro Watanabe, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,310 (20170124), Secondary battery, Hiroki Nagai, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,553,311 (20170124), Positive electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and production method for same, precursor for positive electrode active material, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using positive electrode active material, Katsuya Kase, Syuhei Oda, Ryuichi Kuzuo, and Yutaka Oyama, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (JP) and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,553,312 (20170124), Nickel composite hydroxide and production method thereof, cathode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and production method thereof, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Mitsuru Yamauchi, Kazuomi Ryoshi, and Kensaku Mori, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,313 (20170124), 3V class spinel complex oxides as cathode active materials for lithium secondary batteries, method for preparing the same by carbonate coprecipitation, and lithium secondary batteries using the same, Yang Kook Sun, Sang Ho Park, and Sung Woo Oh, IUCF-HYU (Industry.University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University) (KR). U.S. 9,553,314 (20170124), Pulsed laser chemical vapor deposition and surface modification, Jyotirmoy Mazumder, The Regents of the University of Michigan. U.S. 9,553,315 (20170124), Direct liquid fuel cell having ammonia borane or derivatives thereof as fuel, Fernando Patolsky, Boris Filanovsky, and Eran Granot, Ramot at Tel Aviv University Ltd. (IL). U.S. 9,553,316 (20170124), Lithium.oxygen batteries incorporating lithium superoxide, Jun Lu, Khalil Amine, Larry A. Curtiss, Kah Chun Lau, Yang-Kook Sun, Yun Jung Lee, and Xiangyi Luo, UChicago Argonne, LLC. U.S. 9,553,317 (20170124), Ceramic cathode material of solid oxide fuel cell and manufacturing method thereof, Sea-Fue Wang, YungFu Hsu, and Yi-Xin Liu, National Taipei University of Technology (TW). U.S. 9,553,318 (20170124), Surfactant removal from palladium nanoparticles, Minhua Shao, Audi AG (DE). U.S. 9,553,319 (20170124), High water-content membranes, Ryan Malcolmson and Daniel Greenhalgh, ITM Power (Research) Ltd. (GB). U.S. 9,553,320 (20170124), Fuel cell system, Tetsuya Ogawa, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,322 (20170124), Fuel cell system and operation method
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Lim Shim, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). Thin film battery having improved efficiency of collecting electric U.S. 9,543,569 (20170110), Graphene-supported metal oxide current, Sang Cheol Nam, Ho Young Park, Ki Chang Lee, Gi-Baek Park, monolith, Marcus A. Worsley, Theodore F. Baumann, Juergen Biener, Dong- Hyuk Cha, Joon-Hong Park, and Young-Woon Kwon, Applied Monika A. Biener, Yinmin Wang, Jianchao Ye, and Elijah Tylski, Lawrence Materials, Inc. Livermore National Security, LLC. U.S. 9,543,588 (20170110), Aluminum alloy foil for electrode U.S. 9,543,570 (20170110), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary collectors and production method therefor, Masakazu Seki, Satoshi battery, Hideaki Morishima, Takashi Kobayashi, Masaomi Nakahata, and Suzuki, Kenji Yamamoto, and Tomohiko Furutani, UACJ Corp. (JP) and Kazuhiko Mori, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). UACJ Foil Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,543,571 (20170110), Precursor of a cathode active material U.S. 9,543,589 (20170110), Lead.acid battery construction, Shane for a lithium secondary battery, cathode active material, method for Christie, Yoon San Wong, Grigory Titelman, and John Abrahamson, manufacturing the cathode active material, and lithium secondary ArcActive Ltd. (NZ). battery including the cathode active material, Jun Ho Song, Young Jun U.S. 9,543,590 (20170110), Catalyst layer composition for fuel Kim, Jeom-Soo Kim, Woo Suk Cho, Jae-Hun Kim, Jun Sung Lee, Jin Hwa cell, electrode for fuel cell, method of preparing electrode for fuel cell, Kim, and Kyoung Joon Lee, Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KR). membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell, and fuel cell system using U.S. 9,543,572 (20170110), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary the membrane electrode assembly, Tae-Yoon Kim, Sang-Il Han, Sungbattery, Ippei Toyoshima, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). Yong Cho, Hee-Tak Kim, Kah-Young Song, Myoung-Ki Min, and Geun-Seok U.S. 9,543,573 (20170110), Method of producing iron phosphate, Chai, Kolon Industries Inc. (KR). lithium iron phosphate, electrode active substance, and secondary U.S. 9,543,592 (20170110), Method of manufacturing anode battery, Yuji Kintaka, Murata Manufacturing Co, Ltd. (JP). core.shell complex for solid oxide fuel cell using hydrazine reducing U.S. 9,543,574 (20170110), Process for producing electrode agent and surfactant, Byung Hyun Choi, Mi Jung Ji, Min Jin Lee, Sun Ki materials, Bastian Ewald, Ivana Krkljus, and Jordan Keith Lampert, BASF Hong, and Young Jin Kang, Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and SE (DE). Technology (KR). U.S. 9,543,575 (20170110), Silicon-based anode and method for U.S. 9,543,593 (20170110), Electrode compartment for an manufacturing the same, Gleb Nikolayevich Yushin, Igor Luzinov, Bogdan electrochemical cell, a refreshing system for it and an emulsion to be Zdyrko, and Alexandre Magasinski, Georgia Tech Research Corp. and used therefore, Rutger Alexander David Van Raalten, Krishna Narayan Clemson University. Kumar Kowlgi, and Gerardus Joseph Maria Koper, CarbonX BV (NL). U.S. 9,543,576 (20170110), Methods of making metal-doped U.S. 9,543,594 (20170110), Method of manufacturing metal nickel oxide active materials, Jennifer Anne Nelson, Paul Albert Christian, separator for fuel cell, Yasuhiro Watanabe and Masaaki Sakano, Honda Kirakodu S. Nanjundaswamy, and Fan Zhang, Duracell U.S. Operations, Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). Inc. U.S. 9,543,595 (20170110), Separator plate with intermediate U.S. 9,543,577 (20170110), Active material, electrode injection of gas, fuel cell, method of feeding a fuel cell, Christian including the active material and manufacturing method thereof, and Quintieri, AREVA Stockage d fEnergie (FR). secondary battery, Kazutaka Kuriki, Mitsuhiro Ichijo, and Toshiya Endo, U.S. 9,543,596 (20170110), Seal member for fuel cell and fuel Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (JP). cell seal body using same, Kenji Yamamoto, Hirokazu Hayashi, Kaoru U.S. 9,543,578 (20170110), Negative electrode active material Yasui, and Shinji Kita, Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (JP). for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for U.S. 9,543,597 (20170110), Fuel-cell power generation system and manufacturing the same, Tetsuo Nakanishi, Yoshiyasu Yamada, and method of manufacturing the same, Yasuhiro Arai, Takayuki Shinohara, Kazuyuki Taniguchi, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). Jun Udagawa, Kenzo Tonoki, and Norihito Togashi, Kabushiki Kaisha U.S. 9,543,579 (20170110), Li-ion secondary battery, Eiji Seki, Toshiba (JP) and Toshiba Fuel Cell Power Systems Corp. (JP). Naoki Kimura, and Seogchul Shin, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,580 (20170110), Nickel.cobalt composite hydroxide and process for manufacturing same, Katsuya Kase and Yasutaka Kamata, TM Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,581 (20170110), Alumina dry-coated cathode material precursors, Jens Paulsen, Ji Hye Kim, and Heon Pyo Hong, Umicore (BE). U.S. 9,543,582 (20170110), Method for preparing lithium iron phosphate nanopowder, In Kook Jun, Seung Beom Cho, and Myoung Hwan Oh, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,543,583 (20170110), th th Composite electrode material, Takeshi Nakamura, Nobuaki Ishii, and Masataka Takeuchi, Showa Denko KK (JP). Marketing Manchester U.S. 9,543,584 (20170110), B i n d e r fo r s e c o n d a r y b a t t e r y providing excellent cycle property, Ok Sun Kim, Young-Min Kim, and Min Ah Kang, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,543,585 (20170110), Electrode binder composition for nonaqueous electrolyte battery, For further information on the International Flow Battery Forum please visit: electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte battery, and nonaqueous electrolyte www.flowbatteryforum.com. If you would like to join our mailing list please battery, Toshiyuki Sekine, Zeon Corp. (JP). email us at: info@flowbatteryforum.com U.S. 9,543,587 (20170110),
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Advanced Battery Technology elements, Andy Keates, Intel Corp. U.S. 9,537,148 (20170103), Positive electrode active substance, positive electrode material, positive electrode, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Manabu Kaseda, Shigeo Ibuka, Hiroaki Tanizaki, Kodai Nagano, and Kenta Uwai, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,149 (20170103), Method for manufacturing a lithium transition metal phosphate, Chun Joong Kim, Yun Jung Park, Dong Gyu Chang, Ji Ho Park, and Woo Young Yang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,150 (20170103), Electrode for secondary battery and production process for the same and secondary battery, Tsuyoshi Yano, Tetsuhiro Ishikawa, Shinji Saito, and Takehiko Sawai, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) and SEI Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,537,151 (20170103), Li-ion battery electrode, Jia-Ping Wang, Ke Wang, Kai- Li Jiang, and Shou-Shan Fan, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 9,537,152 (20170103), Collector for bipolar Li-ion secondary batteries, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Masami Yanagida, Kohei Ogawa, Satoshi Oku, Masahiro Kojima, Takashi Kikuchi, and Takashi Ito, Nissan Motor Co, Ltd. (JP) and Kaneka Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,537,153 (20170103), Current collector for a lithium battery, Marianne Chami and Severine Jouanneau-si Larbi, Commissariat a l fenergie atomique et aux energies alternatives (FR). U.S. 9,537,154 (20170103), Anode for secondary battery and secondary battery having the same, Yo-Han Kwon, Sang-Wook Woo, and Je-Young Kim, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,155 (20170103), Non-carbon mixed-metal oxide electrocatalysts, Nilesh Dale, Ellazar Niangar, Taehee Han, Kan Huang, and Gregory DiLeo, Nissan North America, Inc. U.S. 9,537,156 (20170103), Method for making membrane. electrode assembly for fuel cell and method for making fuel cell system comprising the same, Hee-Tak Kim, Hae- Kwon Yoon, and Young-Mi Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,158 (20170103), Oxidation resistant ferritic stainless steel including coppercontaining spinel-structured oxide, method of manufacturing the steel, and fuel cell interconnect using the steel, Dong-Ik Kim, Byung Kyu Kim, Ju Heon Kim, Young-Su Lee, In Suk Choi, Jin-Yoo Suh, Jae-Hyeok Shim, Woo Sang Jung, and Young Whan Cho, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KR). U.S. 9,537,160 (20170103), Operational method for a simplified fuel cell system, Steven G. Goebel, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,537,161 (20170103), Freeze-tolerant valve, Jeffrey A. Rock, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,537,162 (20170103), Device and method for controlling cold start of fuel cell system, Soon Woo Kwon and Joon Yong Lee, Hyundai Motor Co. (KR). U.S. 9,537,163 (20170103), Fuel cell system and method of controlling the fuel cell system, Yuki Yoshimine, Honda Motor Co, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,164 (20170103), Through-stack communication method for fuel cell monitoring circuits, David D. Rea and Kenneth L. Kaye, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,537,165 (20170103), Fuel cell module, Tetsuya Ogawa and Yuki Yoshimine, Honda Motor Co, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,166 (20170103), Method for the production of an electrochemical cell, Todd Snelson, Raymond Puffer, Daniel Walczyk, Jake Pyzza, and Lakshmi Krishnan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. U.S. 9,537,167 (20170103), Methods and apparatus of an anode/ cathode (A/C) junction fuel cell with solid electrolyte, Rongzhong Jiang, Dat Tien Tran, and Deryn D. Chu, The United States of America. U.S. 9,537,168 (20170103), Membrane electrode assemblies, Zhenyu Liu, Yu-Min Tsou, and Emory De Castro, BASF SE (DE). U.S. 9,537,169 (20170103), Electrochemical device comprising composite bipolar plate and method of using the same, Cortney K. Mittelsteadt and William A. Braff, Giner, Inc. U.S. 9,537,170 (20170103), Biofuel cell and electronic device, Hiroki Mita, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,537,171 (20170103), Fuel cell module, Keiji Tsukamoto, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,172 (20170103), Sealed secondary battery and manufacturing method of sealed secondary battery, Naotada Okada and Kenta Fukatsu, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 9,537,173 (20170103), Pouch type lithium secondary battery,
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March 2017 Sang Hun Kim, Jong Hwan Kim, Han Ho Lee, and Jong Hyun Chae, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,174 (20170103), Sulfide solid electrolyte, Masahiro Tatsumisago, Akitoshi Hayashi, Shigenori Hama, Koji Kawamoto, and Takamasa Ohtomo, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,537,175 (20170103), Material for solid electrolyte, Yuji Kintaka, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,176 (20170103), Material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode, Tetsuhiro Kobayashi, Shota Kobayashi, Takashi Wakahoi, Yasuhiro Tada, and Naohiro Sonobe, Kureha Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,537,177 (20170103), Electrode assembly and secondary battery including the same, Young-Woo Lee, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,178 (20170103), Electrode assembly and lithium secondary battery including the same, Sung Joon Park, Seung Don Choi, Yong Kyu Ju, Ji Hoon Jeon, and Hye Jin Kang, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,179 (20170103), Intermediate temperature sodium. metal halide battery, Sai Bhavaraju, Ashok V. Joshi, Mathew Robins, and Alexis Eccleston, Ceramatec, Inc. U.S. 9,537,180 (20170103), Low energy activation fault tolerant battery cell bypass device and system, Craig H. Becker-Irvin and Allen R. Powers, The Boeing Co. U.S. 9,537,181 (20170103), Battery pack, Byung-Kook Ahn and Il-Oh Kang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,182 (20170103), Process and device for ensuring operational readiness of batteries, Volker Allgaier and Andreas Isenmann, VEGA Grieshaber KG (DE). U.S. 9,537,184 (20170103), Li-ion secondary battery, Kenichi Takahashi, Hirokiyo Mamyoda, Kiyoshi Senoue, and Tatsuya Hashimoto, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 9,537,185 (20170103), Welding techniques for polymerized Li-ion battery cells and modules, Matthew R. Tyler and Kem M. Obasih, Johnson Controls Technology Co. U.S. 9,537,186 (20170103), Battery pack providing improved distribution uniformity in coolant, Chae Ho Chung, Ji Young Choi, Bum Hyun Lee, Won Chan Park, and Yong Seok Choi, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,187 (20170103), Battery pack having novel cooling structure, Chae Ho Chung, Jae Hun Yang, Dal Mo Kang, and Ye Hoon Im, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,188 (20170103), Temperature control device, Manuel Gross, Dr Ing hcF Porsche Aktiengesellschaft (DE). U.S. 9,537,189 (20170103), Temperature control system for a high-temperature battery or a high-temperature electrolyzer, Uwe Lenk and Alexander Tremel, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (DE). U.S. 9,537,190 (20170103), Battery cell separators, Patrick Daniel Maguire, Saravanan Paramasivam, and James George Gebbie, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,537,191 (20170103), High efficiency iron electrode and additives for use in rechargeable iron-based batteries, Sri R. Narayan, G. K. Surya Prakash, Robert Aniszfeld, Aswin Manohar, Souradip Malkhandi, and Bo Yang, University of Southern California. U.S. 9,537,192 (20170103), Battery with low temperature molten salt (LTMS) cathode, Yuhao Lu, Sean Andrew Vail, Gregory M. Stecker, and Jong-Jan Lee, Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. U.S. 9,537,193 (20170103), Fuel cell system, Tetsuya Ogawa, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,310 (20170103), Method of controlling the operation of a hybrid system, Donald Corson, Belenos Clean Power Holding AG (CH). U.S. 9,537,325 (20170103), Battery state estimation system, battery control system, battery system, and battery state estimation method, Naoyuki Igarashi and Keiichiro Ohkawa, Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,537,326 (20170103), Batteries, battery systems, battery submodules, battery operational methods, battery system operational methods, battery charging methods, and battery system charging methods, Russell Troxel and Joel Sandahl, Valence Technology, Inc. U.S. 9,537,327 (20170103), Battery cell balancing control system and battery management method thereof, Chiou-Chu Lai, Ming-Yao Cheng, Chia-Tse Liang, Chia- Fu Yeh, and Chien-Chu Chen, Lite-On Electronics (Guangzhou) Co, Ltd. (CN) and Lite- On Technology Corp. (TW). U.S. 9,537,328 (20170103), Battery management system and
Advanced Battery Technology method of driving the same, Seong-Joong Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,329 (20170103), Battery management circuit maintaining cell voltages between a minimum and a maximum during charging and discharging, Joe Pernyeszi, General Electronics Applications, Inc. U.S. 9,537,331 (20170103), Battery pack, Bongyoung Kim and Kiho Shin, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,537,332 (20170103), Apparatus, system and method for charge balancing of individual batteries in a string of batteries using battery voltage and temperature, and detecting and preventing thermal runaway, Stephen D. Cotton, Brian Hanking, Cathy Snetsinger, Jason W. Toomey, Michael Carmel, Tony Yu, Patricio A Triveri, and Douglas Sheppard, Canara, Inc. U.S. 9,537,340 (20170103), Method for sending an electrical current between a battery and a device, Richard W. Aston and Michael John Langmack, The Boeing Co. U.S. 9,537,342 (20170103), Method and device for charging batteries by linearly increasing the charging voltage, Juergen Binder and David Eitelsebner, Fronius International GmbH (AT). U.S. 9,539,448 (20170110), Fire suppression apparatus for a battery pack, Seung-Hun Jung, Dong-Seok Shin, and Young-Joon Shin, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,539,548 (20170110), Devices including a membrane formed from a curable composition, Harro Antheunis, Jacko Hessing, and Bastiaan Van Berchum, Fujifilm Manufacturing Europe BV (NL). U.S. 9,539,558 (20170110), Hydrogen membrane separator, Andrew J. Curello, Michael Curello, and Constance R. Stepan, Intelligent Energy Ltd. (GB) and Commissariat a l fenergie atomique et aux energies alternatives (FR). U.S. 9,539,568 (20170110), Process for the preparation of crosslinked fluorinated polymers, Luca Merlo and Claudio Oldani, Solvay Specialty Polymers Italy SPA (IT). U.S. 9,539,606 (20170110), Member for slot die coater, movable member for slot die coater, and slot die coater including the members to produce electrode, Sung Hyun Park, Chae Gyu Lee, and Ye Hoon Im, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,539,665 (20170110), Feed-through, Frank Kroll, Helmut Hartl, Andreas Roters, Hauke Esemann, Dieter Goedeke, Ulf Dahlmann, Sabine Pichler-Wilhelm, Martin Landendinger, and Linda Johanna Backnaes, Schott AG (DE). U.S. 9,539,730 (20170110), Holding apparatus for fuel cell electrolyte membrane, Kei Ono, Norifumi Horibe, Masaya Yamamoto, Kenichi Toyoshima, and Takayuki Terasaki, Nissan Motor Co, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,539,897 (20170110), Fuel cell vehicle, Nariyuki Yoshinaga and Hideharu Naito, Honda Motor Co, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,539,912 (20170110), Battery capacity estimation using state of charge initialization-on-the-fly concept, Yonghua Li, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,539,963 (20170110), Battery system and method of operating the battery system, Tomomi Kageyama, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, and Fujio Nomura, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 9,540,239 (20170110), Hydrogen generator with improved fluid distribution, Russell H. Barton and Jason L. Stimits, Intelligent Energy Ltd. (GB). U.S. 9,540,312 (20170110), Non-flammable electrolyte composition including carbonate-terminated perfluoropolymer and phosphate-terminated or phosphonateterminated perfluoropolymer and battery using same, Alexander Teran, Benjamin Rupert, Eduard Nasybulin, and Joanna Burdynska, Blue Current, Inc. U.S. 9,540,738 (20170110), Electrochemical process and device for hydrogen generation and storage, John J. Vajo, Wen Li, Ping Liu, and Frederick E. Pinkerton, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,541,516 (20170110), Electrolyte solution, method for producing electrolyte solution, and electrochemical device, Yuri Nakayama, Hideki Kawasaki, and Hiroyuki Morioka, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,541,608 (20170110), Apparatus and method for measuring insulation resistance of battery, Hyun-Ju Hong and Jin-Su Jang, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,543,054 (20170110), Method of fabricating electrodes including high-capacity, binder-free anodes for lithium-ion batteries, Chunmei Ban, Zhuangchun Wu, and Anne C. Dillon, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC.
March 2017 U.S. 9,543,055 (20170110), Positive active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, method of manufacturing the positive active material, electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method of manufacturing the secondary battery, Daisuke Endo, Yoshihiro Katayama, Tetsuya Murai, and Masafumi Shibata, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,077 (20170110), Separator with heat resistant insulation layer, Takashi Honda, Kazuki Miyatake, Haruyuki Saito, Tamaki Hirai, and Hironobu Muramatsu, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,078 (20170110), Structural composite battery with fluidic port for electrolyte, Martyn John Hucker, Jason Karl Rew, and Michael Dunleavy, BAE Systems plc (GB). U.S. 9,543,079 (20170110), Production process for electrode material, electrode and electric storage device, Ryo Tanaka, Kouji Senoo, Takahiro Shimizu, Yukio Hosaka, Fujio Sakurai, Satoshi Shimobaba, Motoki Okaniwa, Nobuyuki Miyaki, and Yuuichi Eriyama, JSR Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,543,550 (20170110), Battery cell module, battery, and motor vehicle, Ralf Angerbauer and Conrad Bubeck, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE) and Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,543,551 (20170110), Lightweight and rigid structure of battery unit, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Yoshinori Yamaguchi, Hidehiro Kinoshita, and Hiroaki Higuchi, DENSO Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,543,552 (20170110), EMF-shielded plastic prepreg hybrid structural component, Julian Haspel and Jurgen Selig, LANXESS Deutschland GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,543,553 (20170110), Sealing member and battery comprising the same, Xi Shen, Keli Yang, Xuefeng Zhang, Luxia Jiang, and Jianhua Zhu, Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Co. Ltd. (CN). U.S. 9,543,554 (20170110), Battery device that holds batteries, Shinichi Takeda, Jin Kasuya, Yoshiaki Kameda, Kosuke Kusaba, Masanori Kodera, Yukihiro Isogai, Kazuhiro Noro, and Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (JP) and Kyoho Machine Works, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,555 (20170110), Battery module, Seong-Joon Park, Ri-A Ju, Suk-Kyum Kim, Hyun Kim, and Ji-Hong Lim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,543,556 (20170110), Battery assembly, Bhaskara Boddakayala, Thomas M. Gunther, and Rajaram Subramanian, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,543,557 (20170110), Traction battery assembly, Tommy M. Gunther, Rajaram Subramanian, Stuart Schreiber, John Jardine, and Keith Kearney, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,543,558 (20170110), Battery holder and isolation assembly, Jon Clayton Templeman and Brock Christian Templeman, King Products, LLC. U.S. 9,543,559 (20170110), Square secondary battery, Kazuaki Urano, Yoshikazu Noiri, and Masafumi Shiwa, Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,560 (20170110), Device for producing packaged electrode and method of producing packaged electrode, Hiroshi Yuhara, Takahiro Yanagi, and Manabu Yamashita, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,561 (20170110), Battery, Jae Myoung Lee, Eun Jin Kim, and Jae Yun Min, SK Innovation Co, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,543,562 (20170110), Secondary battery, Myungro Lee, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,543,563 (20170110), Electric storage device including current interruption device, Atsushi Minagata, Motoaki Okuda, and Hiroyasu Nishihara, Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki (JP). U.S. 9,543,564 (20170110), Protective coatings for conversion material cathodes, Rainer Fasching, Joseph Han, Jon Shan, Ghyrn E. Loveness, Eric Tulsky, and Timothy Holme, QuantumScape Corp. U.S. 9,543,565 (20170110), Actinic and electron beam radiation curable electrode binders and electrodes incorporating same, Gary E. Voelker and John Arnold, Miltec Corp. and ACTEGA Radcure, Inc. U.S. 9,543,566 (20170110), Electrode with feedthrough pin for miniature electrochemical cells and methods of making, Hailiang Zhao and Christian S Nielsen, Medtronic, Inc. U.S. 9,543,567 (20170110), Method for manufacturing cathode active material for lithium secondary battery, Naoto Ohira, Ryuta Sugiura, Shohei Yokoyama, Miho Endo, Koji Kimura, and Tsutomu Nanataki, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,568 (20170110), Electrode including multi-layered electrode active material layer and secondary battery including the same, Nak Gi Sung, Duk Hyun Ryu, Cha Hun Ku, Jung Jin Kim, and Hye
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Advanced Battery Technology U.S. 9,548,485 (20170117), Valve regulated lead.acid battery, Kazuma Saito, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,548,486 (20170117), Battery, Tomohiro Abe and Motomi Suzuki, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,548,487 (20170117), Organic active materials for electrochemical energy storage, Fabio Rosciano, Riccardo Ruffo, Luca Beverina, Mauro Sassi, and Matteo Marco Salamone, Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA (BE). U.S. 9,548,488 (20170117), Method for manufacturing electrode, Lars Fredriksson and Neil H. Puester, Nilar International AB (SE). U.S. 9,548,489 (20170117), Composition of Si/C electroactive material, Mamdouh Elsayed Abdelsalam and Fazil Coowar, Nexeon Ltd. (GB). U.S. 9,548,490 (20170117), Anode active material, lithium battery comprising the same, and method of preparing the anode active material, Junhwan Ku, Seungsik Hwang, Jonghwan Park, Inhyuk Son, Jeongkuk Shon, Jaemyung Lee, Yeonji Chung, and Jaeman Choi, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. U.S. 9,548,491 (20170117), Positive electrode active material for rechargeable lithium battery, manufacturing method of same, and rechargeable lithium battery including same, Chae-Woong Cho and Seung-Hun Han, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,548,492 (20170117), Plating technique for electrode, John D. Affinito, Chariclea Scordilis-Kelley, and Yuriy V. Mikhaylik, Sion Power Corp. U.S. 9,548,493 (20170117), Porous composite and manufacturing method thereof, Jung Woo Yoo, Yong Ju Lee, Yoon Ah Kang, Mi Rim Lee, and Je Young Kim, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,548,494 (20170117), Stable dispersions of single and multiple graphene layers in solution, Reinhard Nesper and Tommy Kaspar, Belenos Clean Power Holding AG (CH). U.S. 9,548,495 (20170117), Nonaqueous electrolyte battery, Tetsuro Kano, Hikaru Yoshikawa, Hidesato Saruwatari, and Kazuya Kuriyama, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 9,548,496 (20170117), Paper-based lithium-ion batteries, Nojan Aliahmad, Sudhir Shrestha, Khodadad Varahramyan, and Mangilal Agarwal, Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. U.S. 9,548,497 (20170117), Layered composite current collector with plurality of openings, methods of manufacture thereof, and articles including the same, Boris Ravdel and Frank Puglia, EaglePicher Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,548,498 (20170117), Electrocatalyst for fuel cells and method for producing said electrocatalyst, Barbara Klose-Schubert, Daniel Herein, Marco Lopez, and Carsten Becker, Umicore AG & Co. KG (DE). U.S. 9,548,499 (20170117), Carbon catalyst, method for manufacturing the carbon catalyst, and electrode and battery using the carbon catalyst, Jun-ichi Ozaki, Yuka Koshigoe, and Takeaki Kishimoto, Nisshinbo Holdings Inc. (JP). U.S. 9,548,500 (20170117), Carbon supported catalyst, Sarah Caroline Ball, Graham Alan Hards, Marlene Rodlert, Jonathan David Brereton Sharman, and Michael E. Spahr, Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Ltd. (GB) and Imerys Graphite & Carbon Switzerland Ltd. (CH). U.S. 9,548,501 (20170117), Supported catalyst, Chuan-Jian Zhong, Brigid Wanjala, Jin Luo, Peter N. Njoki, Rameshwori Loukrakpam, Minhua Shao, Lesia V. Protsailo, and Tetsuo Kawamura, The Research Foundation of State University of New York, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP), and Audi AG (DE). U.S. 9,548,502 (20170117), Fuel cell stack, Kentaro Ishida, Seiji Sugiura, Yoshihito Kimura, and Yukihito Tanaka, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,548,503 (20170117), Fuel cell system and operating method thereof, Hayato Chikugo, Kenji Yonekura, and Ken Nakayama, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,548,504 (20170117), Utilizing phase change material, heat pipes, and fuel cells for aircraft applications, Joseph Sherman Breit, Casey Joe Roberts, Amir Faghri, Travis Robert Ward, and Christopher Robak, University of Connecticut, Farmington and The Boeing Co. U.S. 9,548,505 (20170117), Fuel cell system and method for controlling the same, Din-Sun Ju, Po-Kuei Chou, and Tsai-Hsin Cheng, Young Green Energy Co (TW). U.S. 9,548,506 (20170117), Fuel cell evaluator and fuel cell evaluation method, Daisuke Yamazaki, Tetsuo Yano, Souichirou Torai,
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March 2017 Nobuhiro Tomosada, Atsufumi Kimura, Tomomi Akutsu, and Makoto Kawano, Yokogawa Electric Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,548,508 (20170117), Specific phosphonated copolymers and inorganic particles grafted by said copolymers, Pierrick Buvat, Thomas Boucheteau, Ghislain David, Francois Ganachaud, and Sergei Victorovich Kostjuk, Commissariat a l fenergie atomique et aux energies alternatives (FR) and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR). U.S. 9,548,509 (20170117), Polyoxometalate active chargetransfer material for mediated redox flow battery, Travis Mark Anderson, Nicholas Hudak, Chad Staiger, and Harry Pratt, Sandia Corp. U.S. 9,548,510 (20170117), Method of making fuel cell component using adhesive tape to maintain positioning of loading material particles, Salvador E. Correa, Thomas M. Lucas, and Lawrence J. Novacco, FuelCell Energy, Inc. U.S. 9,548,511 (20170117), Diatomaceous energy storage devices, Vera N. Lockett, John G. Gustafson, William J. Ray, and Yasser Salah, NthDegree Technologies Worldwide Inc. U.S. 9,548,512 (20170117), High conducting oxide.sulfide composite lithium superionic conductor, Chengdu Liang, Ezhiylmurugan Rangasamy, Nancy J. Dudney, Jong Kahk Keum, and Adam Justin Rondinone, UT-Battelle, LLC. U.S. 9,548,513 (20170117), Thin film lithium-ion battery, ChunLung Huang, Qing Hong Technology Co, Ltd. (TW). U.S. 9,548,514 (20170117), Stretchable, solvent free, completely amorphous solid electrolyte films, Thein Kyu and Mauricio Echeverri, The University of Akron. U.S. 9,548,515 (20170117), Electrolyte for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery comprising same, Jin Sung Kim, Yu Na Shim, Seong Il Lee, and Jong Ho Lim, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,548,516 (20170117), Electrolytic solution and battery, Tadahiko Kubota, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, and Masayuki Ihara, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,548,517 (20170117), Battery cell of stair-like structure, Young Hun Kim, Sungjin Kwon, Soonho Ahn, Dong-Myung Kim, Ki Woong Kim, and Seungmin Ryu, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,548,518 (20170117), Methods for joining ceramic and metallic structures, Sundeep Kumar, Eklavya Calla, and Mohamed Rahmane, General Electric Co. U.S. 9,548,520 (20170117), Ultrasonic electrolyte sensor, Edward W. Deveau, David Stewart, David Popken, and Juan Martinez, Liebert Corp. U.S. 9,548,521 (20170117), Battery module including a flexible member, Won Jun Lee, Ji Seok Lee, and Dae Won Kwon, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,548,616 (20170117), Hazard mitigation through gas flow communication between battery packs, Weston Arthur Hermann, Tesla Motors, Inc. U.S. 9,550,675 (20170124), Method for removing a particulate contaminant material from a particulate mixed lithium metal phosphate material, Christian Vogler, Peter Bauer, and Christophe Michot, Johnson Matthey Plc (GB). U.S. 9,550,736 (20170124), Salt of bicyclic aromatic anions for Li-ion batteries, Gregory Schmidt, Arkema France (FR). U.S. 9,550,910 (20170124), Aqueous metal surface treatment agent for Li-ion secondary battery, Takahiro Minowa, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Satoshi Yamazaki, and Mitsuo Shibutani, Kyoritsu Chemical & Co, Ltd. (JP) and The Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,550,922 (20170124), Hot-melt adhesive for electric instruments, Itsuro Tomatsu, Kenji Matsuda, and Ai Takamori, Henkel IP & Holding GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,551,064 (20170124), Moisture-resistant and anti-corrosive energy storage devices and associated methods, Layton Baker, Jianhua Su, Rick Peterson, and Max Sorenson, HZO, Inc. U.S. 9,551,076 (20170124), Electrochemical reactor and process, Wayne Buschmann, Clean Chemistry, Inc. U.S. 9,551,757 (20170124), Measuring devices of remaining battery life and measuring methods thereof, Kyunggoo Moh, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,551,758 (20170124), Remote sensing of remaining battery capacity using onbattery circuitry, Jordan Todorov Bourilkov, Sergio Coronado Hortal, and Steven Jeffrey Specht, Duracell. U.S. Operations, Inc. U.S. 9,551,759 (20170124), Devices for testing a battery and
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Advanced Battery Technology U.S. 9,543,599 (20170110), Fuel cell assembly comprising an improved catalytic burner, Uwe Burmeister, Johann Huber, Norbert Ottmann, Stefan-Ibrahim Peterhans, Wolfgang Wagner, and Christoph Weiser, MTU Onsite Energy GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,543,600 (20170110), Fuel cell system, Shinjiro Morita, Koichiro Miyata, Yusai Yoshimura, and Osamu Ohgami, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,601 (20170110), Fuel cell system using hydrogen supply manifold, Sekwon Jung, Bu Kil Kwon, Hyun Joon Lee, and Yong Gyu Noh, Hyundai Motor Co. (KR). U.S. 9,543,602 (20170110), Method and regulation apparatus for operating a fuel cell or a fuel cell stack, Andreas Mai and Hanspeter Kuratli, Hexis AG (CH). U.S. 9,543,603 (20170110), Fuel cell system and control method for fuel cell system, Masashi Sato, Mitsunori Kumada, and Shinichi Makino, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,604 (20170110), Hydrogen generator, Richard A. Langan, Jason L. Stimits, Chad E. Law, Russell H. Barton, Thomas J. Kmetich, Allison M. Fisher, Guanghong Zheng, and Olen Vanderleeden, Intelligent Energy Inc. U.S. 9,543,605 (20170110), Hydrogen generating device and power generating equipment, Ying-Chieh Chen, Chung-Ping Wang, and Yu-Hsiang Lin, Coretronic Corp. (TW). U.S. 9,543,606 (20170110), Fuel cell and process for manufacturing a fuel cell, Mirko Lehmann, Claas Mueller, Holger Reinecke, Mirko Frank, and Gilbert Erdler, Micronas GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,543,607 (20170110), Process for producing ion exchange membranes by meltprocessing of acidic PFSA ionomers, Asmae Mokrini, National Research Council of Canada (CA). U.S. 9,543,608 (20170110), Solid oxide fuel cell and manufacturing method and manufacturing apparatus for same, Nobuo Isaka, Naoki Watanabe, Shuhei Tanaka, Takuya Hoshiko, Masaki Sato, Osamu Okamoto, Shigeru Ando, Seiki Furuya, Yutaka Momiyama, and Kiyoshi Hayama, TOTO Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,609 (20170110), Redox flow battery for hydrogen generation, Veronique Amstutz, Kathryn Ellen Toghill, Christos Comninellis, and Hubert Hugues Girault, EOS Holding SA (CH). U.S. 9,543,610 (20170110), Fuel cell vehicle, Hideharu Naito, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,611 (20170110), Rechargeable battery, Min-Han Kim, Joong-Ho Moon, Ju-Hyeong Han, Kyoung-Hyun Kim, Do-Hyung Park, Han-Eol Park, Seon-Young Kwon, Yu-Mi Song, Ming-Zi Hong, Ki-Hyun Kim, Sang-Hoon Kim, and Sun-Ho Kang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,543,612 (20170110), Rechargeable battery, Dukjung Kim, Samsung SDI Co, Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,543,613 (20170110), Secondary battery with electrolytic solution including a methylene cyclic carbonate, battery pack, electric vehicle, energy storage system, electric power tool, and electronic unit including the same, Masayuki Ihara and Tadahiko Kubota, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,543,614 (20170110), Nonaqueous electrolyte battery and battery pack, Tetsuya Sasakawa, Yoshiyuki Isozaki, Hidesato Saruwatari, and Norio Takami, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 9,543,615 (20170110), Nonaqueous electrolyte battery and battery pack, Hiroki Inagaki and Norio Takami, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 9,543,616 (20170110), Electrolyte for magnesium rechargeable battery and preparation method thereof, Si Hyoung Oh, Byung Won Cho, Kyung Yoon Chung, Joong Kee Lee, Won Young Chang, Jae Hyun Cho, and Junghoon Ha, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KR). U.S. 9,543,617 (20170110), Lithium-ion battery containing an electrolyte comprising an ionic liquid, Clemence Siret, Lucas Caratero, and Philippe Biensan, Saft (FR). U.S. 9,543,618 (20170110), Secondary battery, Kazuaki Matsumoto, Daisuke Kawasaki, Masahiro Suguro, Midori Shimura, and Yoko Hashizume, NEC Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,543,619 (20170110), Functionalized phosphorus containing fluoropolymers and electrolyte compositions, Alexander Teran, Benjamin Rupert, Eduard Nasybulin, and Joanna Burdynska, Blue Current, Inc. U.S. 9,543,621 (20170110), Electrode assembly and battery pack including the same, Jeong-Doo Yi, Bong-Kyoung Park, Hye-Jung Lee, and Feygenson Naum, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR).
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March 2017 U.S. 9,543,622 (20170110), Lithium solid state secondary battery system, Hiroshi Nagase and Shigenori Hama, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,543,623 (20170110), Battery condition indicator, In Tae Bae and Michael Pozin, Duracell U.S. Operations, Inc. U.S. 9,543,624 (20170110), Electrical storage module, Masakuni Kasugai, Hiroki Shimoda, Kazuyuki Nakagaki, Masato Tsutsuki, Makoto Higashikozono, and Hisashi Sawada, Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (JP), Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. (JP), and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,625 (20170110), Metal/oxygen battery with multistage oxygen compression, Paul Albertus, John F. Christensen, Timm Lohmann, Boris Kozinsky, and Nikhil Ravi, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,543,626 (20170110), Metal/oxygen battery with multistage oxygen compression, Paul Albertus, John F. Christensen, Timm Lohmann, Boris Kozinsky, and Nikhil Ravi, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,543,711 (20170110), Wiring module, Osamu Nakayama, Mitsutoshi Morita, Kotaro Takada, and Naoki Fukushima, Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (JP), Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. (JP), and Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,543,773 (20170110), Power storage device and charging method thereof, Junpei Momo, Hiroyuki Miyake, and Kei Takahashi, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,545,010 (20170110), Interconnect for battery packs, Kevin Michael Coakley and Malcolm Brown, CelLink Corp. U.S. 9,545,670 (20170117), Compositions of nanoparticles on solid surfaces, Lawrence T. Drzal, In-Hwan Do, and Hiroyuki Fukushima, Board of Trustees of Michigan State University. U.S. 9,546,097 (20170117), Method for the synthesis of iron hexacyanoferrate, Sean Vail, Yuhao Lu, and Jong-Jan Lee, Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. U.S. 9,546,189 (20170117), Surface modified lithium titanate and preparation method thereof, Chuanmiao Yan and Kaifu Zhong, Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd. (CN). U.S. 9,546,429 (20170117), Multi-strand electrode and method of making, Matthew Dion, Microrganic Technologies Inc. U.S. 9,547,045 (20170117), Methods and systems for determining a characteristic of a vehicle energy source, James C. Gibbs, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,547,046 (20170117), Performance deterioration detecting apparatus and performance deterioration detecting method for energy storage device, and energy storage system, Yohei Tao and Shigeki Yamate, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,548,165 (20170117), Predoping method for lithium, lithium-predoped electrode, and electricity storage device, Masanori Fujii, Hisashi Satake, and Hajime Kinoshita, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,548,167 (20170117), Aqueous polyvinylidene fluoride composition, Ramin Amin- Sanayei and Ravi R. Gupta, Arkema Inc. U.S. 9,548,475 (20170117), Battery cell of irregular structure and battery module employed with the same, Kyoung Won Kang, Hyun Chul Jung, Ki Woong Kim, and Sungjin Kwon, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,548,476 (20170117), Multi-cell battery module with integral cooling and assembly aids, Marke S. Cicero and Andreas Ruehle, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,548,477 (20170117), Battery block, Yasuhiro Asaida, Yukio Nishikawa, Hideaki Hamada, Naoto Hosotani, and Daisuke Kishii, Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,548,478 (20170117), Middle or large-sized battery module employing impactabsorbing member, Seung Yeob Park, Jae Seong Yeo, Jong Hwan Park, and Youngjoon Shin, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,548,479 (20170117), Battery pack and method for manufacturing the same, Chongsop Moon, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,548,481 (20170117), Battery module, Jang-Hyun Song, Yong-Sam Kim, and Jong- Woo Nam, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,548,482 (20170117), Electrode assembly having safety separator and secondary battery including the same, Yu Na Jeong, Moon Young Jung, Dong-Myung Kim, Ki Tae Kim, and Sungwon Lee, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,548,483 (20170117), Secondary battery, and electrode sheet cutting apparatus, Masakazu Umehara, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP).
Advanced Battery Technology thereof, Manabu Takahashi and Motomichi Katou, Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,323 (20170124), Fluidized bed contaminant separator and water-control loop for a fuel reactant stream of a fuel cell, Joshua D. Isom, Leslie L. Van Dine, Derek W. Hildreth, John L. Preston, Paul R. Hanrahan, and Lynn Reni, Doosan Fuel Cell America, Inc. U.S. 9,553,324 (20170124), Fuel cell resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly, Yukihito Tanaka, Naoki Mitsuta, and Seiji Sugiura, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,325 (20170124), Polymer electrolyte and preparation method thereof, Dong Hoon Lee, Na Young Kim, Moo Seok Lee, and Yong Cheol Shin, Kolon Industries, Inc. (KR). U.S. 9,553,326 (20170124), Aromatic sulfonic acid derivative, sulfonic acid groupcontaining polymer, block copolymer, polymer electrolyte material, polymer electrolyte form article, and polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Daisuke Izuhara, Hiroaki Umeda, Emi Amano, and Tomoyuki Kunita, Toray Industries, Inc. (JP). U.S. 9,553,327 (20170124), Grafted functional groups on expanded tetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) support for fuel cell and water transport membranes, Timothy J. Fuller and Ruichun Jiang, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 9,553,328 (20170124), Electrochemical system for storing electricity in metals, Xiaoge Gregory Zhang, e-Zn Inc. (CA). U.S. 9,553,329 (20170124), Bipolar battery assembly, Edward O. Shaffer II and Donald Hobday, Advanced Battery Concepts, LLC. U.S. 9,553,330 (20170124), Separatorless storage battery, John Dilleen, Energy Diagnostics Ltd. (GB). U.S. 9,553,331 (20170124), Solid electrolyte material, solid electrolyte, and battery, Yasuhiro Harada, Norio Takami, and Hiroki Inagaki, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 9,553,332 (20170124), Solid state catholytes and electrolytes for energy storage devices, Cheng Chieh Chao, Zhebo Chen, Tim Holme, Marie A. Mayer, and Gilbert N. Riley Jr., QuantumScape Corp. U.S. 9,553,333 (20170124), Nonaqueous electrolytic solution and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Hiroyuki Tokuda, Shuhei Sawa, Minoru Kotato, Kunihisa Shima, Youichi Ohashi, and Koji Fukamizu, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,553,334 (20170124), Nonaqueous electrolyte for secondary battery and nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery employing the same, Takashi Fujii, Youichi Ohashi, and Shinichi Kinoshita, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,553,335 (20170124), Lead.acid battery, Koji Kogure and Masatoshi Toduka, Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,553,337 (20170124), Sodium secondary battery, Je Hyun Chae, Won Sang Koh, Seung Ok Lee, Dai In Park, Jeong Soo Kim, Sai Bhavaraju, Mathew Richard Robins, Alexis L. Eccleston, and Ashok V. Joshi, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR) and Ceramatec, Inc. U.S. 9,553,338 (20170124), Lithium secondary battery, Kyoung Ho Ahn, Jeong Woo Oh, Min Jung Kim, Doo Kyung Yang, Chul Haeng Lee, and Yi Jin Jung, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,340 (20170124), Rechargeable battery module, DukJung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,553,342 (20170124), Battery pack, Kyungjae Shin and Kiwoong Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,343 (20170124), Printed circuit board interconnect for cells in a battery system, Robert G. Malcolm, Perry M. Wyatt, Thanh T. Nguyen, James Pinon, and Ajinkya S. Joshi, Johnson Controls Technology Co. U.S. 9,553,344 (20170124), Peristaltic pump for traction battery thermal management system, Alvaro Masias and Brian Joseph Robert, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,553,345 (20170124), Heat exchanger, Stefan Hirsch, Heiko Neff, and Martin Engelhardt, MAHLE International GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,553,462 (20170124), Voltage measuring apparatus and battery management system including the same, Moonsik Song and Seok Heo, Fairchild Korea Semiconductor Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,553,465 (20170124), Battery management based on internal optical sensing, Ajay Raghavan, Peter Kiesel, Alexander Lochbaum, Bhaskar Saha, Lars Wilko Sommer, and Tobias Staudt, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated. U.S. 9,553,468 (20170124), Charging techniques for solid-state batteries in portable electronic devices, Ramesh C. Bhardwaj, Apple Inc.
March 2017 U.S. 9,553,470 (20170124), Method and apparatus for charging a lead acid battery, Rhodri Evans and Wayne Coldrick, EH Europe GmbH (CH). U.S. 9,553,517 (20170124), Hybrid energy storage system and methods, Robert William Johnson Jr., FlexGen Power Systems, Inc. U.S. 9,555,386 (20170131), Systems and methods for closed-loop recycling of a liquid component of a leaching mixture when recycling lead from spent lead.acid batteries, Eberhard Meissner, Jurgen Bauer, and Matthew A. Spence, Johnson Controls Technology Co. U.S. 9,555,717 (20170131), Storage battery transfer support device and storage battery transfer support method, Satoshi Nakaya, Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,556,075 (20170131), Tubular pore material, Sylvain Deville and Celine Viazzi, Saint-Gobain Centre de Recherchies et d fetudes Europeen (FR) and Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (FR). U.S. 9,556,536 (20170131), Positive electrode for lithium secondary battery, manufacturing method thereof, and lithium secondary battery, Takuya Miwa, Nobuhiro Inoue, Kuniharu Nomoto, and Junpei Momo, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,557,387 (20170131), Testing individual cells within multicell battery applications, Yakup Bulur, Richard J. Fishbune, Mark E. Maresh, and Adam M. Wheeler, Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte Ltd. (SG). U.S. 9,557,388 (20170131), Battery control device, Yoshinori Aoshima, Hiroshi Morikawa, Kenji Nakai, and Keiichiro Ohkawa, Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,557,874 (20170131), Flexible electronic devices, Jeremy C. Franklin, Scott A. Myers, Benjamin M. Rappoport, Stephen Brian Lynch, John P. Ternus, and Justin R. Wodrich, Apple Inc. U.S. 9,558,860 (20170131), Graphene-enhanced anode particulates for Li-ion batteries, Aruna Zhamu, Jinjun Shi, Guorong Chen, Qing Fang, and Bor Z. Jang, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,558,893 (20170131), Power storage device, Keiji Horikawa, Hiroki Horiguchi, Takashi Hayashi, and Yasuhiko Ueda, Murata Manufacturing Co, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,558,894 (20170131), Advanced electrolyte systems and their use in energy storage devices, Riccardo Signorelli, John J. Cooley, Christopher John Sibbald Deane, James Epstein, Padmanaban Sasthan Kuttipillai, Fabrizio Martini, and Lindsay A. Wilhelmus, FastCAP Systems Corp. U.S. 9,558,895 (20170131), Method for preparing carbon nanofiber composite and carbon nanofiber composite prepared thereby, Soonhyun Kim, Sang Kyoo Lim, Sung- Ho Hwang, and Minsun Kim, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (KR). U.S. 9,559,339 (20170131), Secondary battery, Chiyoung Lee, Seokyoon Yoo, Jongseok Moon, and Joongheon Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,559,340 (20170131), Battery and motor vehicle comprising said battery, Holger Fink, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE) and Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,559,341 (20170131), Rechargeable battery having a vent unit at a joint in a cap plate, Duk-Jung Kim, Yong-Sam Kim, and MinHyung Guen, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR) and Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,559,342 (20170131), Battery terminal cover, Ian J. Wright and Michael S Baldwin. U.S. 9,559,343 (20170131), Rechargeable battery, Ji-Won Yun, Samsung SDI Co, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,559,344 (20170131), Lithium battery, Gueng Hyun Nam, Sang Min Jang, Seok Ho Kim, Dong Ho Baek, and Min Ho Jang, Global Battery Co, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,559,345 (20170131), Separator including porous coating layer, method for manufacturing the separator and electrochemical device including the separator, Su-Jin Yoon, Pil-Kyu Park, Jong-Hun Kim, Jin-Nyoung Yoo, In-Chul Kim, and Sang-Young Lee, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR) and Toray Battery Seperator Film Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,559,346 (20170131), Traction battery electrical joint, Josef Dollison, Evan Mascianica, Jeremy Samborsky, Asif Iqbal, and Daniel Miller, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,559,347 (20170131), Negative electrode terminal for battery and method for producing negative electrode terminal for battery, Yoshimitsu Oda and Masaaki Ishio, Hitachi Metals, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,559,348 (20170131), Conductivity control in electrochemical cells, Karthikeyan Kumaresan and Yuriy V. Mikhaylik, Sion Power Corp.
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Advanced Battery Technology U.S. 9,559,349 (20170131), Method of fabricating a threedimensional (3D) porous electrode architecture for a microbattery, Paul V. Braun, Hailong Ning, and Kevin A. Arpin, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. U.S. 9,559,350 (20170131), Method for producing nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Toshihiko Mitsuhashi, Yoshiyuki Ozaki, Hideki Sano, and Hajime Konishi, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,559,351 (20170131), Nickel composite hydroxide particles and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Kensaku Mori, Rei Kokado, and Shin Imaizumi, Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,559,352 (20170131), Active material, electrode using same, and Li-ion secondary battery, Tomohiko Kato, Atsushi Sano, Masaki Sobu, and Akinobu Nojima, TDK Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,559,353 (20170131), Implantable medical devices with low volume batteries, and systems, John D. Norton, Craig L. Schmidt, Kevin Wilmot Eberman, and Lawrence Robert Heyn, Medtronic, Inc. U.S. 9,559,354 (20170131), Electrode materials, Khalil Amine, Ali Abouimrane, and Ilias Belharouak, UChicago Argonne, LLC. U.S. 9,559,355 (20170131), Particulate anode materials and methods for their preparation, Karim Zaghib, Abdelbast Guerfi, and Dominic Leblanc, Hydro-Quebec (CA). U.S. 9,559,356 (20170131), Li4Ti5O12, Li(4-a)ZaTi5O12 or Li4ZBTi(5-B) O12 particles, processes for obtaining same and use as electrochemical generators, Karim Zaghib, Michel Gauthier, Fernand Brochu, Abdelbast Guerfi, Monique Masse, and Michel Armand, Hydro-Quebec (CA). U.S. 9,559,357 (20170131), Method for preparing a titanium and niobium mixed oxide by solvothermal treatment; electrode and lithium accumulator comprising said mixed oxide, Lucienne Buannic, JeanFrancois Colin, and Lise Daniel, Commissariat a l fenergie atomique et aux energies alternatives (FR). U.S. 9,559,358 (20170131), Alkali and alkaline-earth ion batteries with hexacyanometallate cathode and non-metal anode, Yuhao Lu, JongJan Lee, Motoaki Nishijima, and Seizoh Kakimoto, Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. U.S. 9,559,359 (20170131), Lithium secondary battery and positive electrode for the battery, Tomitaro Hara, Akira Tsujiko, Takeshi Abe, Sachie Yuasa, and Keiko Wasada, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,559,360 (20170131), Virus scaffold for self-assembled, flexible and light lithium battery, Ki Tae Nam, Chung-Yi Chiang, and Angela M. Belcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. U.S. 9,559,361 (20170131), Modified guaran binder for Li-ion batteries and methods for producing the same, Sung Gun Chu, Feng Gao, Alan Edward Goliaszewski, and Shufu Peng, Hercules LLC. U.S. 9,559,362 (20170131), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same, Yoshiyuki Muraoka and Yukihiro Okada, Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,559,363 (20170131), Method for preparing catalyst layer by in-situ sol-gel reaction of tetraethoxysilane in Nafion ionomer solution, Sung-Dae Yim, Taeyoung Kim, Seok-Hee Park, Young-Gi Yoon, Gu-Gon Park, Tae-Hyun Yang, Young-Woo Choi, Byung-Chan Bae, Young-Jun Son, Min-Jin Kim, and Chang-Soo Kim, Korea Institute of Energy Research (KR). U.S. 9,559,364 (20170131), Cell materials variation in SOFC stacks to address thermal gradients in all planes, Anthony Wood and Zheng Tang, Versa Power Systems, Ltd. (CA). U.S. 9,559,365 (20170131), Oxidation process for interconnects and end plates using nitrous oxide, Sanjiv Kapoor, Bloom Energy Corp. U.S. 9,559,366 (20170131), Systems and methods for preventing chromium contamination of solid oxide fuel cells, Hongpeng He and Anthony Wood, Versa Power Systems Ltd. (CA). U.S. 9,559,367 (20170131), Long-life membrane electrode assemblies and its use in fuel cells, Jurgen Pawlik, Jochen Baurmeister, and Christoph Padberg, BASF Fuel Cell GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,559,368 (20170131), Fuel cell system having ejector, Sekwon Jung and Yong Gyu Noh, Hyundai Motor Co. (KR). U.S. 9,559,369 (20170131), Fuel cell supply system, Gino Paganelli and David Olsommer, Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin (FR) and Michelin Recherche et Technique SA (CH). U.S. 9,559,370 (20170131), Lithium air battery system, Myoung Gu Park, Kyong Sik Kim, Hee Young Sun, Dock Young Yoon, and Sang Jin Kim, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR).
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March 2017 U.S. 9,559,371 (20170131), Fuel cell system, Motohiko Yabutani and Shinpei Shiraishi, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha (JP) and Kyocera Corp. (JP). U.S. 9,559,372 (20170131), High temperature membrane electrode assembly with high power density and corresponding method of making, Mohammad Allama Enayetullah, Trenergi Corp. U.S. 9,559,373 (20170131), Formation of hydrophilic polymer membranes using a bronsted base, Daniel Greenhalgh and Rachel Lister, ITM Power (Research) Ltd. (GB). U.S. 9,559,374 (20170131), Electrochemical energy storage systems and methods featuring large negative half-cell potentials, Arthur J. Esswein, Steven Y. Reece, John Goeltz, Evan R. King, Desiree Amadeo, Nitin Tyagi, and Thomas D. Jarvi, Lockheed Martin Advanced Energy Storage, LLC. U.S. 9,559,375 (20170131), Iron flow batteries, Robert F. Savinell and Jesse S. Wainright, Case Western Reserve University. U.S. 9,559,376 (20170131), Fuel cell with an electrolyte membrane and gas diffusion layers, Masaru Oda, Teruyuki Ohtani, Seiji Sugiura, Kenichi Tanaka, and Hiroshi Sohma, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,559,377 (20170131), Fuel cell stack, Makoto Takeyama, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,559,378 (20170131), Fuel cell stack case with pressure plate, Makoto Takeyama, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,559,380 (20170131), Li-ion battery and battery active components on metal wire, Deepak Upadhyaya, KalpTree Energy, Inc. U.S. 9,559,381 (20170131), Sodium ion secondary battery, Shinichi Komaba, Tomoaki Ozeki, Wataru Murata, and Toru Ishikawa, Tokyo University of Science Educational Foundation Administrative Organization (JP). U.S. 9,559,382 (20170131), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Yoshinori Yokoyama and Yasuhiro Yamauchi, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,559,383 (20170131), Sealed lithium secondary battery, Masahiro Morita, Toshihiko Mitsuhashi, Keisuke Ohara, Yuji Yokoyama, Yusuke Fukumoto, and Tatsuya Hashimoto, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,559,384 (20170131), Secondary battery and method for restoring capacity of secondary battery, Minoru Takahashi, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,559,385 (20170131), Nickel iron battery employing an untreated polyolefin separator with a surfactant in the electrolyte, Randy Ogg and Alan P. Seidel, Encell Technology, Inc. U.S. 9,559,386 (20170131), Voltage-enhanced energy storage devices, David J. Bradwell, Xingwen Yu, Greg A. Thompson, Jianyi Cui, Alex Elliott, and Chia-Ying Lee, Ambri Inc. U.S. 9,559,387 (20170131), Battery, Frank Obrist, Martin Graz, Peter Giese, and Oliver Obrist, Obrist Powertrain GmbH (AT). U.S. 9,559,388 (20170131), Electrochemical systems configured to harvest heat energy, Seok Woo Lee, Yuan Yang, Hadi Ghasemi, Gang Chen, and Yi Cui, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Staford Junior University. U.S. 9,559,390 (20170131), Battery degradation accumulation methods, Xiaohong Nina Duan, Ford Global Technologies, LLC. U.S. 9,559,391 (20170131), Method and device for adjusting battery module, Yasushi Nakagiri and Daisuke Koba, Primearth EV Energy Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 9,559,392 (20170131), Battery pack, Takamasa Suzuki and Takashi Murata, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 9,559,393 (20170131), Battery module thermal management fluid guide assembly, Kem M. Obasih, Gary P. Houchin-Miller, Jonathan P. Lobert, and Alex Shi, Johnson Controls Technology Co. U.S. 9,559,394 (20170131), Energy storage device, Richard Eckl, Georg Walder, Moritz Steffan, Martin R. Hammer, and Peter Burda, Technische Universitat Munchen (DE). U.S. 9,559,395 (20170131), Lithium/air battery with variable volume insertion material, John F. Christensen, Paul Albertus, and Boris Kozinsky, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 9,559,396 (20170131), Solid ion conductor, solid electrolyte including the same, lithium battery including the solid electrolyte, and method of manufacturing the solid ion conductor, Jae-myung Lee, Tae-young Kim, Young-sin Park, Seung-wook Baek, Jong-heun Lee, and Jee-hyun Ahn, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR) and Korea University Research and Business Foundation (KR).
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U.S. 9,559,444 (20170131), Quick connection battery terminal, Mauricio Gisoldi, Tyco Electronics Brasil Ltda (BR). U.S. 9,559,528 (20170131), Apparatus and method with active balancing circuit and active balancing algorithm for charging and discharging secondary batteries connected in series, Jeong Moog Kim, Hwan Hee Lee, Tae Hyoung Ryu, Dong Hoon Shin, and Cheol Kyu Han, HBL Corp. (KR) and LG CNS Co, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 9,559,532 (20170131), Charge rate modulation of metal. air cells as a function of ambient oxygen concentration, Weston Arthur Hermann, Jeffrey Brian Straubel, and David G. Beck, Tesla Motors, Inc. U.S. 9,559,536 (20170131), State of charge indicator method and system, Daryl C. Brockman and James Cameron Douglass, Johnson Controls Technology Co. U.S. 9,559,543 (20170131), Adaptive effective C-rate charging of batteries, Thomas C. Greening, Jeffrey G. Koller, and P. Jeffrey Ungar, Apple Inc.
TECHNICAL REPORT Advanced Propulsion for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles By Paul Osenar, President, Protonex Technology Corp.; Jim Sisco, Principal Engineer, Protonex Technology Corp.; and Catharine Reid, Marketing Specialist, Ballard Power Systems Battery Propulsion Many small UAVs, and nearly all with a GTOW of under 10 kilograms, are based on lithium battery propulsion. This includes both multi-rotor and hand launched, fixed wing platforms. The attractiveness of batteries in these platforms is based on the simplicity of the propulsion, which requires minimal power system knowledge to implement. In addition, systems integrators have turned to electric propulsion for UAVs for a number of other benefits to the platform: •
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While these battery-based systems are sufficient for many consumer hobbyist applications, the energy density of batteries limits the platforms’ range and endurance for commercial uses. Battery technology is receiving considerable attention with steady improvements in capacity, but even optimistic projections for capacity will not meet many of the UAV use cases contemplated. Additionally, as has been highlighted by several recent events, the quest for improved battery energy density often sacrifices some level of stability and, ultimately, safety. From a sustainability perspective, when batteries are not properly disposed of the toxic chemicals within can leach into the surrounding environment. Fuel Cells vs. Batteries Fuel cells provide an attractive alternative to the battery-powered unmanned aerial vehicle as they maintain the simplicity and benefits of an all-electric architecture while taking advantage of highly energy-dense fuels. To compare fuel cell- and battery-based systems it is important to understand the fundamental differences in the two technologies (See Table 1). A fuel cell resembles a battery in that it provides direct electrical current. However, unlike a battery, the fuel cell utilizes separate fuel (hydrogen) and oxidant (air) streams that are not contained in a discrete case. This makes a fuel cell system inherently safer than advanced high energy density battery technologies. The fuel cell itself is a way to convert the fuel and oxidant but does not store any energy. In general, because air is used as
Advanced Battery Technology the oxidant and not stored with the fuel, the energy content of the fuel system well exceeds traditional battery systems. The advent of fuel cell-based propulsion allows for the benefits of electric propulsion while maintaining enhanced range on most small UAV platforms. Fuel cell power systems typically will surpass batteries in stored energy if the mission duration is long enough to amortize the fuel cell system. To increase the endurance of a battery-powered UAV, additional batteries are added, growing the overall
Figure 1: Impact of endurance demands on power system mass
power system mass at a rapid rate. In comparison, to add additional endurance to a fuel cell powered system, only a larger hydrogen fuel tank is installed, adding run time with relatively minimal added mass. (See Figure 1 above). Case Study – Ion Tiger As an illustrative example, Protonex has collaborated with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) over the past 10 years to demonstrate the utility of fuel cell-based propulsion systems on a number of UAV platforms. Each of these platforms was custom designed around the fuel cell propulsion system and the fuel storage subsystem, optimizing the outcome.
Figure 2: Ion Tiger UAV
Table 1: Comparison of fuel cells to batteres
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The Ion Tiger UAV demonstrates the endurance advantages offered by hydrogen powered fuel cell systems.
March 2017 The Ion Tiger is a 16-kilogram system with a three-meter wingspan designed around a composite hydrogen tank (300 bar). It has the capability to carry a 2.2-kilogram payload. When fuel was stored onboard the vehicle as compressed gaseous hydrogen, the Ion Tiger platform demonstrated 26 hours of flight. For comparison, an equivalent weight of batteries would provide an endurance of approximately four hours. Separately, the Ion Tiger was outfitted with a liquid hydrogen storage subsystem and demonstrated 48 hours of flight time. (See Figure 2 below left). Based on current improvements in fuel storage and the efficiency of the fuel cell, this platform could stay aloft for three to four days based on liquid hydrogen. Details regarding this project have been published in papers entitled, ”Hydrogen Fuel Cell Propulsion for Long Endurance Small UAVs” and “Projecting the Impact of Aircraft Design Decision on the Performance of a Fuel Cell Power and Energy System in Unmanned Aircraft Systems”. Fuel Cell Powered UAV Design Considerations Historically all-electric propulsion meant battery-based energy storage, with a significant reduction in range and endurance over engine-based systems. The advent of fuel cell propulsion allows for the benefits of electric propulsion while maintaining sufficient range on most small UAV platforms. That said, there are certain factors to consider when designing a fuel cell powered UAV. Size Matters Fuel cell propulsion systems are not applicable to all UAV platforms or applications. At present, the power density of traditional engines cannot be rivaled by fuel cell systems. As such, the use of fuel cells in larger UAVs (group IV, >600kg) is more exploratory and focused on emissions reduction at present. Given the amount of active investment in fuel cell technology, there is no doubt that fuel cells will gain additional markets as these systems are transitioned to high volume manufacturing. Initial experiments with small manned aircraft are a hint to what lies ahead for fuel cell-based propulsion. At the other end of the scale, Protonex has looked extensively at the application of fuel cell propulsion for small quadcopters and other vertical take-off and lift (VTOL) UAVs. The significant power required for maneuvering and lack of traditional lift surfaces favors batteries for smaller craft and shorter missions. Most hobby Page 19
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Advanced Battery Technology activists are dominated by batteries and would show no material improvement with fuel cell-based propulsion. Commercial missions based on small VTOL UAVs of under-five kilograms are not good candidates for fuel cells given the limited weight dedicated to energy storage. (See Figure 3 below). Larger VTOL craft, over five kilograms, could have significant endurance improvements based on fuel cell propulsion, but care must be taken to provide the power required for full maneuverability. Underpowered systems can be demonstrated under controlled conditions, but are of limited utility in real world applications. Range and endurance for VTOL UAVs will always be shorter than fixed wing aircraft of similar GTOW. Transitioning fixed wing aircraft with VTOL capabilities can be significantly improved by fuel cell propulsion.
Figure 3: System weight fraction
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increase the complexity. (See Figure 4 above). The power management electronics monitors the battery state of charge and the fuel cell output relative to the vehicle and payload requirements. In periods of high power demand, power is supplied both by the fuel cell and the battery. In periods of low demand, some of the fuel cell power will recharge the battery. Once the battery is fully charged, the fuel cell system can direcly output to the vehicle load. Take for example small hand-launched UAVs like the Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk. The fuel cell system provides power up to two times the cruise power required. Any additional power required is provided by the battery. This is especially useful for takeoff where additional power makes hand launching easier. Hybridization can also be useful in managing diverse payload power requirements including payloads that might traditionally overwhelm other power sources, such as active radar.
In fact, fuel cell propulsion may make applications like package delivery and remote medical support possible given the combination of requirements including range, payload capability, and VTOL.
Editor’s Note: This article is included in a white paper available at https://protonex.com/downloads/white-paper-advanced-propulsion-for-small-unmanned-aerial-vehicles/ and has been published with the permission of Ballard Power Systems.
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Often the best propulsion solution includes both fuel cells and batteries with appropriate power management electronics. Generally, batteries have better power density (power per unit weight) than fuel cells. In contrast, fuel cell systems typically provide higher energy density than batteries, assuming long enough flight duration. The attributes of both these systems can be combined in a hybrid propulsion system to good effect, although it does
NASA Collaborates on Solid-State Battery Prototype Dr. Luke Roberson, senior principal investigator for Flight Research within the Exploration Research and Technology Directorate at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is collaborating on research of a new solid-state battery prototype with Dr. Ryan Karkkainen, a composite material expert at the University of Miami. The battery composition was developed by Xiangyang Zhou,
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CubeSats are no bigger than a large toaster and batteries occupy considerable space in it. This new battery’s size would occupy about one-third of the area of batteries currently used to power the miniature satellites, thus allowing more space for the compact science payload. Placing a normal battery in an experiment at NASA takes up to 20% to 35% of the available volume. With this development, the battery can now be placed with the payload structure – providing more space to the scientists. This technology could be used on satellite structural trusses, the International Space Station, or to power habitat structures established on another planet. Commercial applications could include automobile frames or tabletop battery rechargers. These batteries can be made to be impact, moisture and flame resistant with proper reinforcement, further increasing its scope of utilization. Page 22
March 2017 New Hydronium-ion Battery Scientists at Oregon State University (OSU) have developed a battery that uses only hydronium ions as the charge carrier. Hydronium (H3O+) is a positively charged ion produced when a proton is added to a water molecule. Researchers have demonstrated that hydronium ions can be reversibly stored in an electrode material consisting of perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydridem (PTCDA). This material is an organic, crystalline, molecular solid. The battery, created in the Department of Chemistry at OSU, uses dilute sulfuric acid as the electrolyte and provides a new alternative for stationary grid storage. “This may provide a paradigm-shifting opportunity for more sustainable batteries,” says Xiulei Ji, assistant professor of chemistry at OSU and co-author on the research. “It doesn’t use lithium or sodium or potassium to carry the charge, and just uses acid as the electrolyte. There’s a huge natural abundance of acid so it’s highly renewable and sustainable.” Ji points out that until now, cations – ions with a positive charge – used in batteries have been alkali metal, alkaline earth metals or aluminum. “No nonmetal cations were being considered seriously for batteries.” Graduate student Xingfeng Wang was the first author on the study published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a publication of the German Chemical Society. The study observed a big dilation of the PTCDA lattice structure during intercalation – the process of its receiving ions between the layers of its structure. The electrode was being charged and the PTCDA structure expanded by hydronium ions, rather than extremely tiny protons which are already used in some batteries. “This PTCDA material has a lot of internal space between its molecule constituents so it provides an opportunity for storing big ions and good capacity,” says Ji. The hydronium ions also migrate through the electrode structure with comparatively low “friction,” which translates to high power. MIT Moves Toward All-Solid Lithium Batteries A team at MIT has probed the mechanical properties of a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material to determine its mechanical performance when incorporated into batteries. The study was published in Advanced Energy Materials. Until now, the sulfide’s extreme sensitivity to normal lab air has posed a challenge to measuring mechanical properties including its fracture toughness. To circumvent this problem, members of the research team conducted the mechanical testing in a bath of mineral oil, protecting the sample from any chemical interactions with air or moisture. Using that technique, they were able to obtain detailed
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A pyramidal-tipped probe was used to indent the surface of a piece of the sulfide-based material. Surrounding the resulting indentation (at center), cracks formed in the material (indicated by arrows), revealing details of its mechanical properties.
measurements of the mechanical properties of the lithiumconducting sulfide, which is considered a promising candidate for electrolytes in all-solid-state batteries. “Research groups have measured the elastic properties of the sulfide-based solid electrolytes, but not fracture properties,” says Krystyn Van Vliet, one of the co-authors and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. The latter are crucial for predicting whether the material might crack or shatter when used in a battery application. The researchers found that the material has a combination of properties somewhat similar to silly putty or salt water taffy. When subjected to stress, it can deform easily, but at sufficiently high stress it can crack like a brittle piece of glass. By knowing those properties in detail, “you can calculate how much stress the material can tolerate before it fractures,” and design battery systems with that information in mind, Van Vliet says.
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PRODUCT NEWS Global and China Lithium Iron Phosphate Report Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4), a lithium battery cathode material, features moderate price, excellent safety performance and high-temperature stability. The material is primarily applied to EV and energy storage. Around 80% of LiFePO4 originates domestically in China. According to this new report, global EV sales reported 549,000 units in 2015, an upsurge of 70.4% from a year ago. Being more vigorously promoted around the globe, the EV market will see an AAGR of about 40% during 20162020, reaching 3.32 million units in 2020. Driven by this growth, global LiFePO4 shipments soared by 136.8% to Page 23
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March 2017 To be christened Enhydra, the vessel will be 128 feet long with a molded beam of 30 feet and will be the first aluminum hulled, Li-ion battery-electric hybrid vessel built from the keel up under U.S. Coast Guard subchapter-K passenger vessel regulations and the latest guidelines for structural fire protection.
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Advanced Battery Technology generator, control system, and AC electric traction motor. The hybrid system will also incorporate battery power from two 80kWh Li-ion battery packs with Corvus Energy’s next generation Orca Energy batteries. The BAE HybridDrive system automatically utilizes full electric battery operation at slower speeds and when maneuvering in and out of the harbor, at higher speeds, the generator will automatically engage and augment the additional power demands of the traction motor. The battery system is sufficient to meet the entire demand of the vessel’s hotel load while at the same time providing silent and emission-free operation of the propulsion system during an evening sunset cruise. First Volvo EV Due in 2019 At the SAE 2017 Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Technologies Symposium in San Diego, Sweden’s Volvo reaffirmed that the first all-electric Volvo will be available
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in 2019 and the platform will support battery packs up to 100kWh. The vehicle will be the first all-electric from the automaker and third plug-in since it already sells the XC90 and it plans to bring another PHEV to market next year, according to Mats Anderson, senior director of electric propulsion systems at Volvo. Reporting on Anderson speaking at the symposium, Green Car Congress wrote, “To enable the costeffective production of a range of BEVs meeting different requirements, Volvo is developing the Modular Electrification Platform (MEP) – a set of modular building blocks for electrification than will allow Volvo to deliver vehicles ranging between 100 -450kW of propulsive power, with battery packs of up to 100kWh in size.” A 100kWh battery pack can enable over 300 miles of range depending on the efficiency of the vehicle. The company plans to accumulate a global fleet of “up to 1 million electrified cars by 2025 globally.”
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UPCOMING EVENTS Meetings and Symposia March 20-23 – 34th International Battery Seminar & Exhibit, Broward County Convention Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Ideal for battery and small fuel cell manufacturers, users, OEMs, product designers, component, equipment and material suppliers, applications engineers, marketing analysts, patent attorneys, investors and those interested in the battery and small fuel cell industries. Info: Craig Wohlers, Cambridge EnerTech, 250 First Avenue, Suite 300, Needham, MA 02494, phone: 1-781-9725400, or visit www.internationalbatteryseminar.com. April 4-6 – The Battery Show Europe, Sindelfingen, Stuttgart, Germany. Cell manufacturers, battery integrators, pack assemblers, test equipment and service providers, material suppliers and machinery manufacturers engage with buyers, engineers, researchers and product developers to purchase, develop, commercialize and use the latest battery technology. Colocated with Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo. Info: Visit www.thebatteryshow.eu. May 1-3 – BCI’s 129th Convention + Power Mart, Hyatt Regency, Jacksonville, Florida. Includes the latest technologies, environmental issues, and the impact of global economy on the battery marketplace. Network with renowned industry experts, share experiences and challenges with your peers, and hear worldwide regulatory and legislative issues affecting battery manufacturing and distribution. Info: Phone: 1-312-644-6610 or visit www.batterycouncil. org. May 2-3 – 2017 Joint Service Power Expo, Virginia Beach Convention Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Industry, military services, DoD and other government agency leaders discuss developments in near term energy technologies that enhance warfighter capabilities, improve system energy efficiency, and minimize energy logistics burdens in the battlefield. Network with those designing, developing, testing, evaluating and using portable and mobile power such as batteries and fuel cells. Info: Visit http://www.ndia.org/meetings/7670/ Pages/ default.aspx or phone: 1-703-247-2599. May 8-10 – Battcon, Renaissance Orlando and SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida. Noncommercial, technical event for storage battery users from the power, telecom, UPS and other industries. End-users, engineers, battery and battery test equipment manufacturers, installers, and standards and safety experts gather to discuss storage battery innovations and solutions for existing systems; everyday applications; technical advances; and industry concerns. A trade show features storage power related vendors.
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March 2017 Following the motto “Industrialization and market – the sustainable path to electromobility”, topics include fields related to batteries, fuel cells, hybrid electric vehicles and their components and infrastructure. Info: Visit www.evs30.org. October 31-November 1 – Lithium Battery Power, Arlington Hyatt at Washington’s Key Bridge, Arlington, Virginia. Explores new ideas for battery design, battery trends and chemistries; novel materials and components to systems design and integration; electrode and electrolyte materials and technologies; Li-ion; lithium-air/lithium oxygen; lithiumsulphur; metal air; and EV to stationary applications. Info: Craig Wohlers, Cambridge EnerTech, 250 First Avenue, Suite 300, Needham, MA 02494, phone: 1-781972-5400, or visit www.knowledgefoundation.com. November 2-3 – Battery Safety, Arlington Hyatt at Washington’s Key Bridge, Arlington, Virginia. Includes impact of battery materials on safety; internal shorts, thermal runaway and stability, aging, and catastrophic failure; abuse tolerance and advanced testing procedures and protocols; cell research and safety, Li-based battery safety at systems level; and safety standards and regulatory issues. Info: Craig Wohlers, Cambridge EnerTech, 250 First Avenue, Suite 300, Needham, MA 02494, phone: 1-781972-5400, or visit www.knowledgefoundation.com.
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