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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2015
Applicant:
Basf Corporation, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Assignee:
BASF Corporation, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 4/38 (2006.01); H01M 4/36 (2006.01); H01M 4/58 (2010.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 4/383 (2013.01); H01M 4/362 (2013.01); H01M 4/364 (2013.01); H01M 4/366 (2013.01); H01M 4/58 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01);
Abstract
Heterogeneous metal hydride (MH) compositions comprising a main region comprising a first metal hydride and a secondary region comprising one or more additional components selected from the group consisting of second metal hydrides, metals, metal alloys and further metal compounds are suitable as anode materials for lithium ion cells. The first metal hydride is for example MgH. Methods for preparing the composition include coating, mechanical grinding, sintering, heat treatment and quenching techniques.