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Advanced Bionics Corporation

Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation

Connexx Systems Corporation

Hisashi Tsukamoto

Clay Hajime Kishiyama

Mikito Nagata

David M Skinlo

Andrew Szyszkowski

Hiroshi Nakahara

Hiroyuki Yumoto

Tiehua Piao

Taison Tan

Vladimir Zolotnik

Paul Milton Meadows

Joey Y Chen

Joanna Dodd

Leon Parkhouse

Tsuneaki Koike

Carla Mann Woods

Ryo Tamaki

Naoki Ota

Wendy Fong

Phuong-Nghi Karen Lam

Lu Chow

Joseph Wong

Pang Hoo Tan

Douglas Alan Ruth, Ii

Khalil Amine

Takashi Nishimura

Yasuhiro Yoshida

Shigeru Aihara

Hisashi Shiota

Kenji Kawaguchi

Daigo Takemura

Michio Murai

Hiroaki Urushibata

Carla M Mann

Donald R Vissers

Makiko Kise

Jun Aragane

Shoji Yoshioka

Masaharu Moriyasu

M Elizabeth Bush

Sang Young Yoon

Hideo Ichimura

Shinji Nakadeguchi

Bookeun Oh

Hironori Ozaki

David Comarow

Hiroshi Mukainakano

Alvaro Masias

Kaname Takeya

Alan Ruth

Andy Szyszkowski

Zhengcheng Zhang

Robert C West

Kouji Hamano

Osamu Hiroi

Qingzheng Wang

David L DeMuth

Manabu Tanaka

Aaron A Castillo

Nelly Bourgeon

Yoo-Eup Hyung

Andrew Szyszkowki

Michael Tomcsi

Alex Pal

Joice Yi

Michael Bowers

Zarui Sara Chikneyan

Chananit Sintuu

An electric storage battery and method of manufacture thereof characterized by a feedthrough pin which is internally directly physically and electrically connected to an inner end of a positive electrode substrate. A C-shaped mandrel extends around the pin and substrate end enabling the pin/mandrel to be used during the manufacturing process as an arbor to facilitate winding layers of a spiral jellyroll electrode assembly. The pin additionally extends from the battery case and in the final product constitutes one of the battery terminals with the battery case comprising the other terminal. Active material is removed from both sides of the outer end of the negative electrode in the jellyroll to allow room for adhesive tape to secure the jellyroll. The electrolyte is injected through the open end of the case after the endcap is welded to the negative electrode but before sealing the endcap to the case. The electrolyte is preferably injected through the C-shaped mandrel to facilitate and speed filling.

Electric storage battery construction and method of manufacture

A lithium ion battery particularly configured to be able to discharge to a very low voltage, e.g. zero volts, without causing permanent damage to the battery. More particularly, the battery is configured to define a Zero Volt Crossing Potential (ZCP) which is lower than a Damage Potential Threshold (DPT).

Lithium ion battery capable of being discharged to zero volts

The battery includes an electrode having an active medium on a current collector. The active medium includes one or more active materials. The current collector includes or consists of carbon nanotubes. The electrical conductivity and weight of carbon nanotubes permit the weight of the battery to be reduced while the energy density and the power density of the battery are increased.

Battery having electrode with carbon current collector

The battery includes a cathode configured to generate oxygen ions during discharge of the battery. The battery also includes an oxygen ion-conducting electrolyte that receives the oxygen ions from the cathode during discharge of the battery. The battery further includes an anode that has an anode active medium positioned in the pores of a porous anode current collector. The anode active medium receives the oxygen ions conducted through the oxygen ion conducting electrolyte during discharge of the battery. Additionally, the anode active medium includes an elemental metal that reacts with the oxygen ions to form a metal oxide during discharge of the battery.

High energy density metal-oxygen battery

Disclosed is a medical power system for powering an implantable medical device including an implantable rechargeable battery pack, a wearable power source, a power cart, and an external power supply. The system may be used in three modes: 1) Fully disconnected (powered by implanted battery only); 2) Power provided by a wearable power source and/or a portable wheeled power cart via an inductive link, and 3) Nonportable power provided by a non-portable source such as an AC outlet with an uninterruptible power supply. The system includes automatic choice of the optimum source of power depending on the circumstances, and greatly increases 'untethered time' a bionic-dependent patient may spend.

Portable medical power system

A plate-like battery pack has: a plurality of single cell elements; a flat battery pack case composed of an insulating material and adapted to have a plurality of holes respectively housing the single cell elements; and a plurality of sealing plates adapted to hermetically seal the holes housing the single cell elements and connect adjacent ones of the single cell elements, and the sealing plates connect the single cell elements in series, parallel or series-parallel.

Plate-like battery pack and battery pack group composed of plural plate-like battery packs

The battery has an electrode assembly that includes one or more anodes and one or more cathodes. A first liquid phase is positioned in an active region of the electrode assembly. The first phase includes a first fire retardant and an electrolyte. A second liquid phase is in contact with the first liquid phase. The second liquid phase includes a second fire retardant that is different from the first fire retardant.

Flame retardant battery

The battery includes an electrolyte activating one or more cathodes and one or more anodes. The electrolyte includes one or more salts in a solvent. The solvent includes one or more organic solvents and one or more silanes and/or one or more siloxanes.

Battery having electrolyte with mixed solvent

A battery pack system is disclosed. The battery pack system includes a plurality of battery pack modules that are each configured to be concurrently and removably attached to a base. Each battery pack module includes batteries arranged in a plurality of parallel groups that are connected in series. Each parallel group includes a plurality of batteries connected in parallel. Additionally or alternately, the base has electronics that connect the battery pack modules in a plurality of system parallel groups that are connected in series. Each system parallel group includes a plurality of battery pack modules connected in parallel.

Battery pack system

The battery includes a solid electrolyte activating a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The electrolyte is a solid including a lithium ion conductive glass-ceramic. The negative electrode includes a buffer layer between a negative medium and the electrolyte. The negative medium includes one or more primary negative active materials. The buffer layer includes one or more secondary negative active materials that do not dissolve the lithium ion conductive glass-ceramic. The secondary negative active materials can have a redox potential greater than 0.5 V vs Li/Li+.

Battery having ceramic electrolyte

The electrochemical device includes a composite electrode. The composite electrode has a working electrode that includes a current collector. A reference electrode is immobilized on the current collector. The reference electrode includes a reference active medium on a reference current collector. The reference current collector is electrically insulated from the current collector. A top surface of the reference electrode is substantially flush with a top surface of the working electrode. The top surface of the reference electrode is a surface of the reference electrode that is substantially parallel to the reference current collector.

Incorportation of reference electrode into electrodes of electrochemical device

The battery pack includes a case that contains batteries and includes terminals through which power from the batteries can be accessed. The battery pack also includes a frame that defines battery receiving compartments that are each configured to receive one of the batteries with the frame immobilizing the position of each battery relative to the other batteries. The frame has a perimeter and at a portion of the frame perimeter serves as an outermost wall of the case.

Packaging with terminal for multiple battery power system

The battery includes a positive electrode having a first active material on a positive substrate. The first active material includes LiNiCoMOwherein M is chosen from the group consisting of Mn, Al, Mg, B, Ti, and Li, and wherein 0.5&#x2266;x&#x2266;1 and 0&#x2266;y&#x2266;0.3. The battery also includes a negative electrode having a second active material on a negative substrate. The second active material includes carbon. The negative electrode is susceptible to damage when a voltage exceeding a Damage Potential Threshold (DPT) is applied to the negative electrode. The DPT is lower than the maximum positive operating potential of the battery. The positive and negative electrodes define a Zero Volt Crossing Potential (ZCP) relative to a reference level when the voltage between the positive electrode and the negative electrode is zero. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are configured such that the value of the ZCP is less than the value of the DPT at a predetermined temperature.

Rechargeable lithium battery for tolerating discharge to zero volts

The battery has an electrolyte activating one or more anodes and one or more cathodes. At least one of the one or more cathodes includes or consists of one or more first active materials selected from the group consisting of: fluorinated carbon (CF),CuCl, and LiCuCl; and includes or consists of one or more second active materials selected from the group consisting of lithium vanadium oxide, such as LiVO, where y is greater than zero and/or less than 0.3, TiS, polypyrrole, MoO, MoS, MnO, VO, VO, HVO, and metal vanadium oxides represented by MHVOwhere 0&#x3c;y&#x2266;1 and M represents Na, Mg, Ba, K, Co, and Ca and combinations thereof.

Battery having high rate and high capacity capabilities

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Santa Clarita, CA, United States of America

Hisashi Tsukamoto