Enerize Corporation

Ener1, Inc.

Nanoener Technologies, Inc.

Other

Enerl, Inc.

Emerize Corporation

Enerl Battery Company

Peter Novak

Elena Shembel

Yevgen Kalynushkin

Volodymyr I Redko

Volodymyr S Khandetskyy

Satoshi Kohara

Victor Gurin

Bary Wallace Wilson

Oleg Volkov

Oxana V Redko

Vadim Gorchkov

Aleksander Balakin

Alexander Nosenko

Aleksander Markevich

Andrey Kvasha

Volodymyr Red'ko

Miron Prakhin

A method and an apparatus of the present invention is used for the high-rate deposition of materials, such as carbon, silicon, metals, metal oxides, and the like, onto a metal substrate defined by a metal tape. The particles of the material are mixed with fluid and are injected against the metal tape at high pressure and high velocity. The particles of the material form a current collection surface of the metal tape. The metal tape is used as cathode or anode combined with a separator to form a fuel cell of a secondary battery, metal-ceramic membranes, film composite metal-ceramic materials for electronic devices.

Apparatus for forming structured material for energy storage device and method

The present invention is a method and an eddy current system for non-contact determination of the resistance between the current lead stripe and the coating during continuous fabrication of chemical power sources such as batteries, supercapacitors, photovoltaic modules and the like. Both the method and the non-destructive test system for practicing the method are described. The method includes placing of an integrated measuring transducer containing two strap-type eddy current probes above the surface of the coating applied to the metallic current lead stripe in the region of the shaft guiding the stripe movement, so that all the points of the operating surface of the transducer being at an equal distance from the stripe surface coating so that the two probes would take measurements on the same area of the coating.

Method and eddy current system for non-contact determination of interface resistance

A method of the present invention is used for the high-rate deposition of materials, such as carbon, silicon, metals, metal oxides, and the like, onto a metal substrate defined by a metal current collector. The particles of the material are mixed with fluid and are injected against the metal tape at high pressure and high velocity. The particles of the material form an active layer of the metal current collector. The metal current collector is used as a cathode or anode combined with a separator to form a cell of a secondary battery, metal-ceramic membranes, film composite metal-ceramic materials for electronic devices.

Electrode for cell of energy storage device and method of forming the same

A method and an apparatus of the present invention is used for the high-rate deposition of materials, such as carbon, silicon, metals, metal oxides, and the like, onto a metal substrate defined by a metal tape. The particles of the material are mixed with fluid and are injected against the metal tape at a high pressure and high velocity. The particles of the material form a current collection surface of the metal tape. The metal tape is used as cathode or anode combined with a separator to form a fuel cell of a secondary battery, metal-ceramic membranes, film composite metal-ceramic materials for electronic devices.

A method of the present invention is used for the high-rate deposition of materials, such as carbon, silicon, metals, metal oxides, and the like, onto a metal substrate defined by a metal tape. The particles of the material are mixed with fluid and are injected against the metal tape at high pressure and high velocity. The particles of the material form a current collection surface of the metal tape. The metal tape is used as cathode or anode combined with a separator to form a fuel cell of a secondary battery, metal-ceramic membranes, film composite metal-ceramic materials for electronic devices.

Electrode for energy storage device and method of forming the same

Electrochemical active cathode layers (MoO, FeS) are produced on the substrate of stainless steel, aluminum, or titanium by the method of thermal vacuum condensation-solidification. This method enables formation of active cathode layer in the wide thickness range of 0.5 &#x3bc;m-3.0 mm.

Production method of lithium batteries

A method of nondestructive noncontact tightness testing of inner structure of articles based on gas discharge visualization includes the steps of providing a film for imaging on a dielectric plate and an electrode, the dielectric plate disposed on the electrode, and polarizing the dielectric plate by applying a series of high voltages pulses across the dielectric to provide a preliminary polarized dielectric plate. After the polarizing step, an article to be tested which has a multi-layer casing including an outer metallic layer is arranged on the film. The article is then subjected to a high voltage pulsed electric field by applying a high voltage electrical pulse between the electrode and the outer metallic layer and the electrode, wherein the pulsed electric field is combined with an electric field associated with the preliminary polarized dielectric plate triggers a gas discharge process. An image of the film is obtained on the film of an inner structure of the article based on the gas discharge process.

Method of nondestructive tightness testing based on gas discharge visualization

A system for non-destructive non-contact quality inspection of dry electrode units of energy storage includes an eddy current-based inspection system having a conveyor belt, and a hollow dielectric shell. An outer surface of the shell has a plurality of spaced apart measuring transducers. Each of the transducers include a feed-through eddy current probe and at least two strap capacitors spatially linked therewith. In the related method, an electrode unit to be inspected is placed on the conveyor belt and enters and moves through the dielectric shell. The electrode unit is excited using a magnetic field from the eddy current probe as it passes by each of the plurality of transducers, where eddy currents at a plurality of frequencies are induced in the electrode unit. The modulation characteristics of impedance at a plurality of frequencies are measured by the probes, and from the impedance data it is determined whether the electrode unit is defective.

Method and apparatus for eddy current-based quality inspection of dry electrode structure

Solid electrolytes of the composition: 60LO&#xb7;15LiSO&#xb7;25BO; 65LO&#xb7;10LiSO&#xb7;25BO; 65LO&#xb7;15LiSO&#xb7;20BO; 60LO&#xb7;20LiSO&#xb7;20BO; 59,55LO&#xb7;19,85LiSO&#xb7;19,85BO&#xb7;0,75MoO, characterized by the high level of productivity, high ionic conductivity, negligible low level of electronic conductivity and resistance to metal lithium suitable for use in primary and rechargeable lithium power sources.

Solid inorganic glassy electrolyte and method of production thereof

A method and related apparatus for non-contact measurement of electrical conductivity of powder-like materials using eddy currents includes the steps of placing a powder to be measured in a hollow dielectric sampling container, the sampling container disposed and freely axially moving within an outer dielectric housing. An eddy-current sensor including a winding is arranged on an outside surface of the housing. Current is forced in the winding to excite the powder to generate eddy currents. The introduced active resistance is measured at the eddy-current sensor and an electrical conductivity of the powder is determined using the measured active resistance. The powder is preferably vibration compacted and the density and electrical conductivity determined at a plurality of stages during the vibration compacting step.

Method and apparatus for measuring conductivity of powder materials using eddy currents

A method of noncontact measuring the electrical conductivity of electrolytes using a primary measuring transformer includes placing the electrolyte in a sampler, exciting an alternating magnetic field using an axisymmetrical eddy current sensor, switching to the sensor a capacitor of variable capacitance, tuning of the formed circuit in resonance with the frequency of the generator of harmonic oscillations, and recording the change in the introduced active resistance of the parametric eddy current sensor rated against its own inductive resistance.

Method of non-contact measuring electrical conductivity of electrolytes with using primary measuring transformer

An apparatus and method for dissolving gas or gases in liquid fuel to improve combustion of the liquid fuel when injected into a combustion chamber is provided. A gas-charger unit is provided to dissolve the gas into liquid fuel at a first pressure. The pressure of the fuel/gas solution is raised to a second pressure before injection of the atomized fuel into a combustion chamber. In one embodiment, a high pressure gas or gasses is/are introduced into the gas charger at a crosscurrent to the liquid fuel. In another embodiment, a gas charger for dissolving gas into a liquid fuel is provided including a plurality of highly porous baffles to increase the contact surfaces between the gas and the liquid.

Method and apparatus for liquid fuel preparation to improve combustion

A recirculating reagent fuel-cell includes an ion-exchange membrane interposed between an anode and cathode anode to form a membrane/electrode assembly (MEA), the MEA interposed between a fuel gas diffusion layer and an oxidant gas diffusion layer. An oxidant and fuel flow network are provided having an input portion for supplying reagent and an output portion for removing reagent after electrochemical reaction. At least one of the oxidant flow network and fuel flow network includes a recirculation loop, the recirculation loop feeding back a portion of the fuel or oxidant after electrochemical reaction to their respective input portion. The fuel flow network can include a water vapor condenser to extract water from the cathodes in proportion to the external load on the fuel cell stack and the fuel flow network can include an evaporator, where water is fed to the evaporator in the fuel loop from the condenser in the oxidant feed loop.

Fuel cell with integrated feedback control

A cathode composition for lithium ion and lithium metal batteries includes a transitional metal oxide and an adsorbate layer disposed on a surface of the transitional metal oxide. The transitional metal oxide and the adsorbate layer are both electrochemically active. A method of forming cathode materials for lithium ion and lithium metal batteries includes the steps of providing reagents including at least one elemental chalcogenide or chalcogenic oxide and a transitional metal oxide. The reagents are heated, wherein a cathode composition is formed having a chalcogenic complex adsorbed to a bulk material, the bulk material being a modification of the transitional metal oxide. The transitional metal oxide is preferably a vanadium oxide.

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Peter Novak