The Boeing Company

Dean Sherwin Hallmark

David E Hall

Gregory R Day

Larry Alan Foy

Charles Tracy Compton

Patrick W Johnson

A system includes a battery cell and a graphene layer positioned on an outer surface of the battery cell. If the battery cell experiences a thermal runaway event, the graphene layer may help to direct any rupturing of the battery cell in a direction that may prevent the thermal runaway event from propagating to neighboring battery cells.

System and method for improving a battery cell

A modular power system is configured to supply configurable power to a load. The system includes battery submodules, each having at least one submodule circuit that is configured to replaceably connect one or more of a plurality of battery cells to a submodule positive bus and a submodule negative bus. The system further includes a power output that is in operable connection with each of the one or more battery submodules. The power output is configured to receive electrical power transmission from one or more of the plurality of battery cells, via the one or more battery submodules. The power output is further configured to transmit electrical power to the load. The system further includes a configuration circuit configured to interconnect each of the one or more battery submodules, operably connect the one or more battery submodules to the power output, and reconfigure characteristics of electrical power output.

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Gurley, AL, United States of America

Dean Sherwin Hallmark