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This patent portfolio introduces innovative battery designs focusing on enhanced safety, efficiency, and structural integrity through unique configurations of electrode assemblies, current collectors, and sealing mechanisms. Key innovations include a self-displacing lid responding to electrode swelling, the use of non-metal current collectors paired with metallic materials, and dual orientation conductive traces for improved energy transfer. These advancements have potential applications in various fields, including electric vehicles, renewable energy storage, and portable electronics, where reliable battery performance is crucial.
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Patents
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| 12170376 | This patent protects a method for balancing a battery that involves receiving voltage measurements from a cell module, using polymeric anode and cathode current collectors in battery cells, and drawing current from the cells while maintaining a specific voltage differential, thereby enabling efficient voltage balancing and charge redistribution across multiple interconnected battery cells. |
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| 11923494 | This patent protects a novel battery design comprising a stack of battery cells featuring distinct planar anode and cathode current collectors with apertures, a compression system for maintaining stack integrity, and a base plate with integrated heat exchange channels, enhancing thermal management and structural stability. |
C
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D
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C
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| 11862801 | Patent 11862801 protects a novel battery cell design featuring a first current collector with a polymer layer that includes apertures, whereby multiple layered metal configurations enhance electrical connectivity and structural integrity while allowing for efficient assembly with a second current collector and separator. |
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B
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| 11699815 | This patent protects a battery design featuring a stacked arrangement of multiple battery cells, each characterized by a tab structure with varying widths that enables vertical current flow and incorporates voltage sensors, along with insulating tape, to provide enhanced electrical coupling and performance monitoring. |
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C
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| 11677120 | This patent protects a battery design featuring a multi-layer structure with aligned apertures across multiple circuit boards and battery stacks, using fasteners with conductive pins to electrically couple battery cells while allowing for efficient assembly and voltage measurement. |
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C
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| 11588155 | This patent protects a novel battery design that incorporates polymeric material-based anode and cathode current collectors with integrated conductive bands and flexible circuit boards for improved electrical connectivity and voltage balancing across multiple battery cells in a compact, stacked configuration. |
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C
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| 11335977 | This patent protects a novel battery design featuring vertically aligned battery cells that utilize a patterned coupling material with a low melting temperature to electrically connect the current collectors of the cells, allowing efficient current transfer while also incorporating specific properties like high Young's modulus and the optional use of a tin alloy. |
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| 11264665 | The patent protects a battery pack consisting of multiple electrode assemblies sealed within a receptacle that features a displaceable lid designed to accommodate swelling during operation, ensuring the receptacle strains less than the lid and maintains integrity with specific sealing configurations. |
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B
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| 11189834 | The patent protects a battery cell design featuring distinct regions for electrode materials and electrolytes, which are fluidly isolated and configured to operate at different voltage thresholds, enhancing performance and safety while allowing for the use of varied electrolytic compositions. |
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C
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| 11189818 | The patent 11189818 protects an innovative electrolyte dispensing system featuring a sealed housing with rollers and multiple delivery devices that effectively supply electrolytes and additional materials to a substrate while maintaining controlled vapor pressure within the internal volume during operation. |
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| 11043703 | This patent protects a stacked battery design featuring a flexible end plate made of laminated conductive layers, which efficiently distributes current among electrically coupled battery cells, incorporates voltage sensors for monitoring, and addresses operational swelling of the cells. |
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B
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| 11018343 | This patent protects a novel battery cell design that features dual metal current collectors supporting distinct active materials, a multi-part seal that prevents leakage between the collectors, and a specialized coupling material that maintains separation from the active materials to enhance performance and reliability. |
C
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C
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| 10923728 | The patent protects a battery cell electrode design featuring a current collector made from a polymer film coupled with multiple conductive wires that extend across its surfaces, allowing for improved configuration and contact with electrode active materials, thereby enhancing battery efficiency and performance. |
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| 10916796 | This patent protects a novel battery cell design featuring dual polymer current collectors with orthogonally oriented conductive traces that allow for selective charging and voltage measurement in specific cell regions, enhancing efficiency and performance. |
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| 10916741 | The patent protects a battery cell design featuring a combination of metal and non-metal current collectors with specific configurations of seals, active materials, and metal liners to enhance efficiency and performance, particularly in multi-cell battery arrangements. |
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| 10658632 | The patent protects a battery design featuring a sealed receptacle with a lid that can displace in response to electrode assembly swelling, while minimizing strain on the receptacle and incorporating flexible elements and materials to enhance performance and safety. |
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Patent Details
12170376
- Battery configurations for cell balancing
Published: 2024-12-17
This patent protects a method for balancing a battery that involves receiving voltage measurements from a cell module, using polymeric anode and cathode current collectors in battery cells, and drawing current from the cells while maintaining a specific voltage differential, thereby enabling efficient voltage balancing and charge redistribution across multiple interconnected battery cells.
C
Breadth
D
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11923494
- Battery configurations having through-pack fasteners
Published: 2024-03-05
This patent protects a novel battery design comprising a stack of battery cells featuring distinct planar anode and cathode current collectors with apertures, a compression system for maintaining stack integrity, and a base plate with integrated heat exchange channels, enhancing thermal management and structural stability.
C
Breadth
D
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11862801
- Metallized current collector for stacked battery
Published: 2024-01-02
Patent 11862801 protects a novel battery cell design featuring a first current collector with a polymer layer that includes apertures, whereby multiple layered metal configurations enhance electrical connectivity and structural integrity while allowing for efficient assembly with a second current collector and separator.
C
Breadth
B
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11699815
- Stacked battery components and configurations
Published: 2023-07-11
This patent protects a battery design featuring a stacked arrangement of multiple battery cells, each characterized by a tab structure with varying widths that enables vertical current flow and incorporates voltage sensors, along with insulating tape, to provide enhanced electrical coupling and performance monitoring.
C
Breadth
C
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11677120
- Battery configurations having through-pack fasteners
Published: 2023-06-13
This patent protects a battery design featuring a multi-layer structure with aligned apertures across multiple circuit boards and battery stacks, using fasteners with conductive pins to electrically couple battery cells while allowing for efficient assembly and voltage measurement.
C
Breadth
C
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11588155
- Battery configurations for cell balancing
Published: 2023-02-21
This patent protects a novel battery design that incorporates polymeric material-based anode and cathode current collectors with integrated conductive bands and flexible circuit boards for improved electrical connectivity and voltage balancing across multiple battery cells in a compact, stacked configuration.
C
Breadth
C
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11335977
- Inter-cell connection materials
Published: 2022-05-17
This patent protects a novel battery design featuring vertically aligned battery cells that utilize a patterned coupling material with a low melting temperature to electrically connect the current collectors of the cells, allowing efficient current transfer while also incorporating specific properties like high Young's modulus and the optional use of a tin alloy.
D
Breadth
B
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11264665
- Battery housings for accommodating swelling of electrode assemblies
Published: 2022-03-01
The patent protects a battery pack consisting of multiple electrode assemblies sealed within a receptacle that features a displaceable lid designed to accommodate swelling during operation, ensuring the receptacle strains less than the lid and maintains integrity with specific sealing configurations.
C
Breadth
B
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11189834
- Multiple electrolyte battery cells
Published: 2021-11-30
The patent protects a battery cell design featuring distinct regions for electrode materials and electrolytes, which are fluidly isolated and configured to operate at different voltage thresholds, enhancing performance and safety while allowing for the use of varied electrolytic compositions.
C
Breadth
C
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11189818
- Electrolyte dispensing and coating system
Published: 2021-11-30
The patent 11189818 protects an innovative electrolyte dispensing system featuring a sealed housing with rollers and multiple delivery devices that effectively supply electrolytes and additional materials to a substrate while maintaining controlled vapor pressure within the internal volume during operation.
C
Breadth
C
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11043703
- Stacked battery components and configurations
Published: 2021-06-22
This patent protects a stacked battery design featuring a flexible end plate made of laminated conductive layers, which efficiently distributes current among electrically coupled battery cells, incorporates voltage sensors for monitoring, and addresses operational swelling of the cells.
B
Breadth
B
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
11018343
- Current collector surface treatment
Published: 2021-05-25
This patent protects a novel battery cell design that features dual metal current collectors supporting distinct active materials, a multi-part seal that prevents leakage between the collectors, and a specialized coupling material that maintains separation from the active materials to enhance performance and reliability.
C
Breadth
C
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
10923728
- Current collector structures for rechargeable battery
Published: 2021-02-16
The patent protects a battery cell electrode design featuring a current collector made from a polymer film coupled with multiple conductive wires that extend across its surfaces, allowing for improved configuration and contact with electrode active materials, thereby enhancing battery efficiency and performance.
C
Breadth
C
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
10916796
- Selective charging matrix for rechargeable batteries
Published: 2021-02-09
This patent protects a novel battery cell design featuring dual polymer current collectors with orthogonally oriented conductive traces that allow for selective charging and voltage measurement in specific cell regions, enhancing efficiency and performance.
C
Breadth
B
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
10916741
- Metallized current collector devices and materials
Published: 2021-02-09
The patent protects a battery cell design featuring a combination of metal and non-metal current collectors with specific configurations of seals, active materials, and metal liners to enhance efficiency and performance, particularly in multi-cell battery arrangements.
C
Breadth
C
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis
10658632
- Battery housings for accommodating swelling of electrode assemblies
Published: 2020-05-19
The patent protects a battery design featuring a sealed receptacle with a lid that can displace in response to electrode assembly swelling, while minimizing strain on the receptacle and incorporating flexible elements and materials to enhance performance and safety.
B
Breadth
B
Complexity
C
Enforceability
Claims
Infringement Analysis