Volume 49 Number 3 ISSN: 001-8627 March 2013

David Bradwell (left), helped invent the liquid-metal battery while in the MIT lab of Donald Sadoway (right). See page 13.

AROUND THE INDUSTRY

EnerDel and ATC New Technologies Sign Agreement EnerDel Inc. and ATC New Technologies (NT), a division of ATC Drivetrain, report a new strategic relationship to co-market and cross-sell their products and services. With the advancements in secondary use markets for Li-ion cells, modules and battery systems – as well as primary-use markets like heavy-duty transportation – EnerDel and ATC NT expect strong market demand for their combined capabilities. ATC New Technologies, based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a leader in life cycle management for advanced battery packs (5R). The company repairs and

remanufactures advanced battery packs and is an innovator and pioneer in the re-use of batteries. Indianapolis, Indianna-based EnerDel Inc. manufactures advanced Li-ion batteries and energy storage systems for electric grid, transportation and industrial applications.

ZBB Energy Forms Strategic Relationship With BPC ZBB Energy Corp. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has entered into a strategic relationship with BPC Engineering of Moscow, Russia. This relationship introduces ZBB’s line of products into the Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) markets. BPC Engineering, an established major supplier of distributed generation in the Russian and CIS markets, will market, sell and support ZBB products effective immediately. In conjunction with the signing of the strategic relationship with BPC Power Systems, ZBB received the initial purchase order for a complete ZBB EnerSystem™, consisting of a ZBB EnerStore™ flow battery and ZBB EnerSection™ power and control center.

Technology Accelerator Started by CalCharge To find a wider market, electric vehicles will need to increase the energy density and cut costs. California-based CalCharge is working to bring together researchers and business education, to get these ideas into the marketplace. Silicon Valley is known for startups and venture capitalists, and there are now over 40 battery companies in the area. About half of the last 13 battery company startups in the U.S. have been in California as well. The CalCharge battery business accelerator started last spring and makes space and lab equipment available to researchers and entrepreneurs. It also enables them to collaborate and recruit technical, business, and marketing talent. Such collaboration can foster more rapid development and reduce startup costs of the newest battery technology companies. This summer, San José State University will collaborate with CalCharge to offer a “Battery University” program for the next generation of battery researchers.

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Fenix Selling its Batteries via Vodafone in Tanzania San Francisco, California-based startup Fenix International, which makes a battery product that can charge cell phones and run lights in off-the-grid regions, has scored its largest deal to date with Vodafone in Tanzania.

The telecom will sell Fenix’s ReadySet charger and its accompanying charging accessories in Tanzania, market the products via billboards and television spots in the region, and fund loans to women entrepreneurs to buy the product.

Fenix’s ReadySet battery can be sold with a solar panel charger as well as a bicycle charger. Users can charge cell phones and plug in lights using basic connectors such as USB and car lighter ports. The device costs around $200, which is a relatively high price for that region. The people who will buy the ReadySets are mostly entrepreneurs in villages that will use the battery to sell cell phone charging services and charge their shops after it gets dark. Entrepreneurs can make $40 to $50 per month offering cell phone charging services.

Electrovaya Receives PO for Li-Ions Electrovaya Inc. of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has received an initial contract to produce prototypes to deliver complete electric vehicle battery systems for DongFeng Motors’ (DFM’s) two electric vehicles which the Wuhan-China based company plans to commercially launch later this year in China. The Electrovaya 18kWh Li-ion SuperPolymer® battery consists of its high energy density cells and BMS (Battery Management System) along with sub-assemblies of mechanical, thermal, electrical and electronics. “DFM plans to deliver a significant number of electric

vehicles over the next 10 years,” says Joseph Chao, Electrovaya’s advisor for the China electric vehicle market. “This is a critical contract for both groups. DFM presently manufactures over 3.5 million vehicles in China and its electric vehicle program is slated to become one of the largest electric vehicle programs in the world.”

Gridtential Energy Raises Seed Funding The Roda Group of Berkeley, California has led the seed round of financing for San Jose, California-based Gridtential Energy Inc., a developer of low-cost, high-performance energy storage technology. Founded in 2010, Gridtential Energy has been funded in part by an award from the California Energy Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant Program. The company has developed and tested internal prototypes of an advanced battery design that has significant cost and performance advantages over current products. The seed funding will be used to develop full-scale demonstration units for field tests within the next year. Gridtential will initially be targeting existing battery applications that currently represent over $8 billion in annual sales. As the technology matures, the company believes its products will be well positioned for the emerging smart-grid energy storage market. Gridtential Energy is developing a low-cost, scalable battery architecture that significantly improves energy density, cycling performance and battery life. Gridtential has relationships with key suppliers to accelerate development of highly repeatable, high-volume battery production capabilities.

Duke Energy Gets ‘Project of the Year’ Award Duke Energy’s 402kW battery project at the Rankin Substation in Gaston County, North Carolina, has been named Project of the Year for integrating renewable energy and the grid by PowerGrid International magazine. The battery is testing the utility’s ability to smooth minute-by minute power surges and troughs from the 1.2MW rooftop solar project at the National Gypsum plant in Mount Holly about a mile away.

“As clouds roll by, solar output can go from 100% to practically zero,” says Dan Sowder, Duke Energy’s senior project manager. “With enough solar, that could disrupt the electrical grid. The Rankin Substation project is testing whether our battery setup can smooth out the fluctuations caused by solar’s intermittent output.” At Rankin, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Duke installed 12 nickel-chloride batteries manufactured by FIAMM Energy Solutions of Italy and configured as a single large battery. The electrical design for the control system was provided by S&C Electric Co. of Chicago.

Amara Raja Batteries Plans Capacity Expansion Industrial and automotive batteries manufacturer Amara Raja Batteries of India, in which the U.S. battery giant Johnson Controls holds 26% stake, has decided to spend Rs 440 crore on augmenting production capacities of its VRLA and four-wheeler batteries over the next 16-18 months. Executive Director Ravi Bhamidipati says the fresh investments were in addition to already approved capital investment of Rs 304 crore to expand capacities in medium VRLA, automotive four-wheeler and automotive two-wheeler lines. Amara Raja manufactures batteries to Indian railways, power, oil and gas sectors. It counts among its major clients

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U.S. BATTERY ANDFUEL CELL PATENTS

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U.S. 8,342,103 (20130101), Battery-powered all-electric locomotive and related locomotive and train configurations, Gibson V. Barbee, Gerhard A. Thelen, Robert S. Runyon, and Derick Vander Klippe, Norfolk Southern Corp. U.S. 8,343,256 (20130101), Integrated contaminant separator and water-control loop for a fuel reactant stream, Michael T. Lines, Derek W. Hildreth, and John L. Preston Jr., UTC Power Corp.. U.S. 8,343,374 (20130101), Electrolytic solution, Meiten Koh, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, and Yasuko Takagahara, Daikin Industries, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,343,377 (20130101), Method of making active material and electrode, Hisashi Suzuki, TDK Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,343,388 (20130101), Electrode having porous active coating layer, manufacturing method thereof and electrochemical device containing the same, Sang-Young Lee, Seok-Koo Kim, Jong-Hyeok Park, Jang-Hyuk Hong, and Byoung-Jin Shin, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,389 (20130101), Additive for nickel-zinc battery, Fuyuan Ma.

the leading Indian automobile players such as Ashok Leyland, Ford India, Honda, Hyundai, M&M, Maruti Suzuki and TATA Motors. The company also exports products to Asia Pacific, Africa and Middle East.

Stretchable Battery for Flexible Circuits U.S. researchers have developed stretchable batteries that can be used to power a new generation of flexible electronics. Scientists at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois say the batteries will allow stretchable electronic devices to be used anywhere, including inside the human body where they could monitor anything from brain waves to heart activity, succeeding where flat, rigid batteries would fail.

Yonggang Huang of Northwestern and John A. Rogers of the University of Illinois report they’ve developed a battery that continues to work even when stretched, folded, twisted and mounted on a human elbow. The battery can work for eight to nine hours and can then be recharged wirelessly. “We start with a lot of battery components side by side in a very small space, and we connect them with tightly packed, long wavy lines,” Huang says. “These wires provide the flexibility. When we stretch the battery, the wavy interconnecting lines unfurl, much like yarn unspooling. And we can stretch the device a great deal and still have a working battery.”

GNB at Forefront of Li-ion Technology Advances Over the past few years, GNB Industrial Power (U.K.) Ltd., a division of Exide Technologies, has been working towards developing a unique Li-ion offering which can be tailored to each of its customer’s specific needs. The result is a lightweight yet high performance battery, ideal for motive power applications. Working closely with several materials handling OEMs

and end users, GNB has assessed the value of Li-ions and the benefits they can provide over lead-acid equivalents. The main advantage was an increase in productivity. Since Li-ions can be fast charged during regular existing breaks in the working day, for example lunch times, unproductive periods that result from lead tray exchange are avoided. They are also more efficient during the charge cycle, which leads to lower electricity consumption and consequently a reduction in utility costs. In addition, Li-ions do not gas so there is no requirement for extraction and no need to charge batteries in one specific area. In existing facilities where Li-ion batteries are retrospectively fitted, this can lead to better space utilization and increased production. In new buildings this allows for the removal of the battery charging area completely, increasing floor space and negating the need for investment in expensive equipment.

Fort Drum Launches Battery Recycling Program A unique recycling initiative at Ft. Drum, New York, may be the first of its kind Army wide. The post’s new Alkaline Battery Recycling Program is the creation of Dean Clark, a veteran employee of Fort Drum Public Works Environmental Division, who says he knows of no other DoD installation currently recycling alkaline batteries. The post’s environmental division not only wanted to give the community an eco-friendly option for disposing of single-use, household batteries. After conducting research and procuring the necessary items, Clark officially launched the program in December. All alkaline batteries may be placed in the white containers mounted on the four-compartment “curb sorters” located around the installation, including motor pools, gas stations and centralized recycling stations in single soldier housing areas. Clark, whose 14 Refuse and Recycle employees collect on average 6,500 tons of garbage each year, said recycling is DoD policy – plain and simple.

Reva Distributor Acquired by Green Automotive The G-Wiz is the first product from Reva Electric Vehicles which graced roads in India and abroad long before the company was acquired by Mahindra. The official distributor of the G-Wiz in the U.K., Going Green Ltd. has been acquired by the U.S.-based firm Green Automotive Co. Going Green is currently Europe’s largest electric

vehicle distributor and the annual revenues are in the excess of $1 million. The company was established in 2002 and spearheaded the electric vehicle sales in the U.K. with the India made G-Wiz. With the acquisition of Going Green Ltd., Green Automotive aims to widen their portfolio and presence in the U.S. and Europe. This could come as a good news to Mahindra-Reva as the electric car maker is gearing up to bring the all-new e2o electric vehicle to the market this year. The vehicle may have to rely on government policies in India but countries such as the U.K. and the U.S. are more EV friendly.

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U.S. 8,343,390 (20130101), Highly Crystalline lithium transition metal oxides, Jens Martin Paulsen, Thomas Lau, Heonpyo Hong, and Jihye Kim, Umicore (BE). U.S. 8,343,452 (20130101), Acrylic fiber bonded carbon fiber paper as gas diffusion media for fuel cell, Chunxin Ji, Gerald J. Fleming, and Mark Mathias, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,343,456 (20130101), Reforming catalyst for hydrocarbon, method for producing hydrogen using such reforming catalyst, and fuel cell system, Yoshimi Kawashima and Hiroshi Ohashi, Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,343,641 (20130101), Electrode assembly and secondary battery having the same, Sooyeon Maeng and Jinha Jun, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,642 (20130101), High voltage modular battery with compression bladder, Duncan Culver, Christopher K. Dyer, and Michael L. Epstein, Lightening Energy. U.S. 8,343,643 (20130101), Battery pack including a support frame, William Miller, Jesse Jerabek, and Zach Scott, Techtronic Power Tools Technology Ltd. (VG). U.S. 8,343,646 (20130101), Screen arrangement for an energy storage system, Howard F. Wilkins, Gretchen M. Bothwell, Ronald D. Brost, Kristine M. Brost, Steven L. Peace, Paul A. Trudeau Jr., Richard M. Bendert, and Gerald P. Backer, Zinc Air Inc. U.S. 8,343,647 (20130101), Battery pack comprising combined temperature-controlling system, Jaesung Ahn, Do Yang Jung, John E. Namgoong, Seungdon Choi, and Sinyoung Park, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,648 (20130101), Power storage cell with heat conducting plate, Jens Unterdörfer, Peter Birke, Swen Wiethoff, Reinhard Kassen, Nevzat Güner, Stefan Tillmann, Markjus Schweizer-Berberich, and Michael Keller, Temic Automotive Electric Motors GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,343,649 (20130101), Electricity storage device with enhanced heat dissipation, Takashi Murata, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,343,650 (20130101), Modular plate carrier concept for mounting and embedded cooling of pouch cell battery assemblies, Stephen Raiser, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,343,651 (20130101), Battery pack, Kyung-Ho Park and Seok Koh, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,652 (20130101), Battery cell and case with corresponding small grooves, Jun Hwan Jang, Byungjin Choi, and Hyang Mok Lee, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,653 (20130101), Secondary battery, Woon-Seong Baek, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,654 (20130101), Rechargeable battery pack, John Churchill, Dyson Technology Ltd. (GB). U.S. 8,343,655 (20130101), Gel polymer Li-ion battery electrode slice and preparing method thereof, Xin Zhang, Yanchuan Guo, Haitao Xu, Qiangli Gao, Rongfu Li, Ying Cui, Yuanfen Hu, and Keli Chen, Zhang Xin (CN). U.S. 8,343,656 (20130101), Battery electrode production method, Yozo Uchida and Nobuyuki Yamazaki, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,343,657 (20130101), Negative electrode for lithium secondary battery, method of manufacturing the electrode, and lithium secondary battery, Hiroshi Minami, Atsushi Fukui, and Yasuyuki Kusumoto, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,343,658 (20130101), Alkaline battery having improved high rate discharge capability, Shinichi Sumiyawa and Yasuhiko Syoji, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,343,659 (20130101), Hydrogen absorbing alloy, production method thereof, and secondary battery, Tetsuya Ozaki, Tetsuo Sakai, Manabu Kanemoto, Tadashi Kakeya, Minoru Kuzuhara, and Masaharu Watada, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP) and National Insitute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (JP). U.S. 8,343,660 (20130101), Hydrogen storage alloy,

hydrogen storage alloy electrode, secondary battery, and method for producing hydrogen storage alloy, Tadashi Kakeya, Manabu Kanemoto, Minoru Kuzuhara, Tetsuya Ozaki, Masaharu Watada, and Tetsuo Sakai, GS Yuasa International Ltd. (JP) and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (JP). U.S. 8,343,661 (20130101), Cathode compositions comprising Zn and chalcogenide and energy storage cell comprising same, Roy Christie Galloway, Richard Louis Hart, Charles Dominic Iacovangelo, and Grigorii Lev Soloveichik, General Electric Co. U.S. 8,343,662 (20130101), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Shingo Tode, Akira Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Yasufumi Takahashi, Ikuro Nakane, and Shin Fujitani, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,343,663 (20130101), Method of preparing positive active material with low carbon content for rechargeable lithium battery, Won-Il Jung, Jun-Won Suh, Yong- Chul Park, and Geun-Bae Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,664 (20130101), Positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery, secondary battery employing the same, and process for producing positive-electrode material for lithium secondary battery, Kazuhiro Kikuchi and Koji Shima, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,343,665 (20130101), Negative electrode active material, nonaqueous electrolyte battery and battery pack, Yasuhiro Harada, Norio Takami, Hiroki Inagaki, Keigo Hoshina, and Yuki Otani, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 8,343,666 (20130101), Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Yoshiyuki Muraoka, Takuya Nakashima, Kiyomi Kozuki, and Masatoshi Nagayama, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,343,667 (20130101), Nonaqueous electrolyte battery, battery pack and vehicle, Hidesato Saruwatari, Hideaki Morishima, Hiroki Inagaki, and Norio Takami, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 8,343,668 (20130101), Porous tin particles and the preparation for the same, Nae- Lih Wu and Sung-Chieh Chao, National Taiwan University (TW). U.S. 8,343,669 (20130101), Electrochemical device, Katsuo Naoi, Kenji Nishizawa, and Mitsuo Kougo, TDK Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,343,671 (20130101), Fuel cell system having recycle fuel conduit in fluid communication with fuel cell assembly and carbon dioxide removal unit, Chunming Qi, Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. U.S. 8,343,672 (20130101), Catalyst coated electrolyte membrane, fuel cell including the same, method of preparing the catalyst coated electrolyte membrane, Ji-rae Kim, Seung-jae Lee, and Hyuk Chang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,673 (20130101), Fuel cell system, Kiyomi Yamashita, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,343,674 (20130101), Fuel cell system and control method of the same, Ri-a Ju, Jin-hong An, Dong-rak Kim, Hyun Kim, Ho-jin Kweon, and Young-jae Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,675 (20130101), Fuel cell system, Kota Manabe and Kimihide Horio, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,343,677 (20130101), Method of rapidly increasing internal temperature of a fuel cell stack during starting of fuel cell system, Tae-won Song, Duk-jin Oh, Hyun-chul Lee, Dong-kwan Kim, and Yong Wang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,678 (20130101), Fuel cell system to preheat fuel cell stack, Gi-Jang Ahn, Jin- Ho Lee, Ki-Woon Kim, Seong-Jin An, and Hyun Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,679 (20130101), Fuel cell system and hydrogen leak judgment method in the system, Tetsuya Bono, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,343,680 (20130101), Fuel cell system, Yasuhiro Osada, Tetsuya Bono, and Masahiro Takeshita, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,343,681 (20130101), Bipolar plate and fuel cell stack including the same, Jie Peng, Jae-young Shin, Seung-jae Lee, and

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Tae-won Song, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,343,682 (20130101), Membrane electrode assembly with compression control gasket, David Allen Wald and Michael Andrew Yandrasits, 3M Innovative Properties Co. U.S. 8,343,683 (20130101), Fuel cell stack, Go Morimoto, Tadashi Nishiyama, and Hiroyuki Tanaka, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,343,684 (20130101), Fuel cell device and system, Alan Devoe and Lambert Devoe. U.S. 8,343,685 (20130101), Composite material suitable for use as an electrode material in a SOC, Kent Kammer Hansen, Martin Søgaard, and Mogens Mogensen, Technical University of Denmark (DK). U.S. 8,343,686 (20130101), Joined concentric tubes, Lutgard DeJonghe, Craig Jacobson, Michael Tucker, and Steven Visco, The Regents of the University of California. U.S. 8,343,687 (20130101), Rechargeable fuel cell system, Jun Cai, Chang Wei, Qunjian Huang, Jinghua Liu, Hai Yang, Shengxian Wang, Rihua Xiong, Andrew Philip Shapiro, and Richard Louis Hart, General Electric Co.. U.S. 8,343,688 (20130101), Polymer electrolyte fuel cell having a fastening structure including elastic members, Toshihiro Matsumoto, Hiroki Kusakabe, Mitsuo Yoshimura, Yoko Yamaguchi, and Yoshiki Nagao, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,343,689 (20130101), Solid oxide fuel cell with improved current collection, Aaron Crumm, Quinlan Y. Shuck, and Jonathan R. Rice, Adaptive Materials, Inc. U.S. 8,344,067 (20130101), Rubber composition and uses thereof, Kuniyoshi Kawasaki and Hiroyuki Sano, NOK Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,344,091 (20130101), Polymer and membrane-electrode assembly for fuel cell, and fuel cell system including the same, Sung-Guk An, Sung-Yong Cho, Sang-Il Han, and Kie Hyun Nam, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,344,237 (20130101), AMTEC power system, Mark D. Bennett, The Boeing Co.. U.S. 8,344,685 (20130101), System for automatically gathering battery information, Kevin I. Bertness and John S. Philbrook, Midtronics, Inc. U.S. 8,344,687 (20130101), Battery pack updating method, Toru Nishikawa and Atsushi Kawasumi, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,344,694 (20130101), Battery management system with energy balance among multiple battery cells, Chutao Zhang and Songtao Chen, O2Micro International, Ltd. (KY). U.S. 8,344,696 (20130101), Battery charger including a comparator, Takao Aradachi and Kazuhiko Funabashi, Hitachi Koko Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,344,698 (20130101), Lead storage battery charging control method, charging control circuit, power source device, and lead storage battery, Tomoya Kikuchi, Harumi Murochi, Yasuyuki Yoshihara, and Kazuyuki Shimada, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,345,406 (20130101), Electric double layer capacitor, Dirk H. Dreissig, Jonathan R. Knopsnyder, Jessica M. Smith, Lee Shinaberger, and Bharat Rawal, AVX Corp. U.S. 8,347,468 (20130108), Method of making a current collector, Edward R. Buiel, Axion Power International Inc. U.S. 8,349,031 (20130108), Battery separator and nonaqueous lithium ion secondary battery having the same, Hiroyoshi Take, Shunsuke Noumi, Sadahiro Nakanishi, Yoshihiro Uetani, Keisuke Kii, and Kinkou Sho, Nitto Denko Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,349,217 (20130108), Method for producing positive electrode material for secondary battery, Atsuo Yamada, Shogo Hayase, Yoshiki Fujita, Shinichi Nishimura, Mamoru Tachikawa, and Takakazu Hino, Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP) and Dow Corning Toray Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,236 (20130108), Method of preparing a polyethylene microporous film for a rechargeable battery separator,

Chang Ho Suh, Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. (KR). U.S. 8,349,286 (20130108), Lithium-transition metal complex compounds having nth order hierarchical structure, method of preparing the same and lithium battery comprising an electrode comprising the same, Yoonsok Kang, Joungwon Park, Guesung Kim, and Jaegu Yoon, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,287 (20130108), Positive electrode active material and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing the same, Tsutomu Ohzuku, Hiroshi Yoshizawa, and Masatoshi Nagayama, Panasonic Corp. (JP) and Osaka City University (JP). U.S. 8,349,395 (20130108), Electrically conductive steel-ceramic composite and process to manufacture it, Joachim Laatsch, Frank Tietz, Niels Christiansen, Petru Gordes, Gijsbertus Rietveld, and Nicolaas J. J. Dekker, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (DE) and Topsoe Fuel Cell A/S (DK). U.S. 8,349,477 (20130108), Optical leak detection sensor, Gopalakrishnan R. Parakulam, Saroj Kumar Sahu, and Rick Winter, Deeya Energy, Inc. U.S. 8,349,478 (20130108), Lithium ion battery failure mitigation, Adam T. Timmons and Chang H. Kim, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,349,481 (20130108), Power storage apparatus, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,349,482 (20130108), Electrode assembly and secondary battery with the same, Sangok Lee, Myungro Lee, and Cheolhee Hwang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,483 (20130108), Non aqueous electrolyte secondary battery having multilayer polyolefin membrane and electrolyte containing dinitrile compound, Noriko Yamashita and Masato Iwanaga, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,484 (20130108), Stacking method of high power lithium battery, Yurim Do, Jeonkeun Oh, and Jae-Myoung Lee, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,485 (20130108), High voltage modular battery with electrically-insulated cell module and interconnector peripheries, Duncan Culver, Christopher K. Dyer, and Michael L. Epstein, Lightening Energy. U.S. 8,349,486 (20130108), Lithium secondary battery unit set with bus bar, and lithium secondary battery set with bus bar, Seungjun Lee, Jungsik Yun, Hyosung Lee, and Jeonkeun Oh, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,487 (20130108), Fuel cell cartridge having residual fuel measuring unit and method of measuring residual fuel of fuel cell system having the same, Hye-jung Cho, Young-Jae Kim, Young-soo Joung, and Jae-yong Lee, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,488 (20130108), Secondary battery including a protective circuit board made of metal, Kyungwon Seo and Youngcheol Jang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,489 (20130108), Cathode active material, cathode therewith and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Koji Morita, Hiroyuki Yamaguchi, Masayuki Ihara, and Shunsuke Saito, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,349,490 (20130108), Electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery showing small variability in battery properties and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same, Fumio Takano and Yasuhiro Wakizaka, Zeon Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,349,491 (20130108), Lithium secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same, Atsushi Fukui, Taizo Sunano, and Maruo Kamino, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,492 (20130108), Negative electrode for rechargeable lithium battery, and rechargeable lithium battery including same, Sang-Min Lee, Goo-Jin Jeong, Min-Seok Sung, Yong-Mook Kang, Wan-Uk Choi, and Sung-Soo Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,493 (20130108), Electrochemical cells with improved separator and electrolyte, Nikolai Nikolaevich Issaev, Michael Pozin, Michael Dean Sliger, Eric Navok, and Fred Joseph

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Berkowitz, The Gillette Co. U.S. 8,349,494 (20130108), Electrode composite material, method for making the same, and lithium ion battery using the same, Xian-Kun Huang, Xiang-Ming He, Chang-Yin Jiang, Dan Wang, Jian Gao, and Jian-Jun Li, Tsinghua University (CN) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (TW). U.S. 8,349,495 (20130108), Nonaqueous battery with composite negative electrode, Hiroki Inagaki, Hideaki Morishima, and Norio Takami, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 8,349,496 (20130108), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same, Motoharu Saito, Hideyuki Koga, Katsutoshi Takeda, and Masahisa Fujimoto, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,497 (20130108), Electrolyte for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including the same, Na-Rae Park, Jin-Sung Kim, Su-Hee Han, Jin-Hyunk Lim, and Mi-Hyeun Oh, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,498 (20130108), Method of forming solid state electrolyte having high lithium ion conduction and battery incorporating same, Isaiah O. Oladeji, Sisom Thin Films, LLC. U.S. 8,349,499 (20130108), Electrolyte for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including the same, Mi-Hyeun Oh, Jin-Sung Kim, Na- Rae Park, Su-Hee Han, and Jin-Hyunk Lim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,500 (20130108), Solvent for dissolving electrolyte salt of lithium secondary battery, Meiten Koh, Hideo Sakata, Hitomi Nakazawa, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, and Akinori Tani, Daikin Industries, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,501 (20130108), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Akihiro Taniguchi, Kensuke Nakura, and Takashi Takeuchi, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,349,502 (20130108), Additive for non-aqueous electrolyte and secondary battery using the same, Jeong Hwan Koh, Yong Joon Ha, Jin Hyun Park, Chul Haeng Lee, Young Min Lim, Jeong Ae Ahn, and Dmitry Pogozhev, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,503 (20130108), Nonaqueous ionic liquid and lithium ion electrolyte battery, Hidesato Saruwatari, Takashi Kishi, Takashi Kuboki, and Norio Takami, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 8,349,504 (20130108), Electricity, heat and fuel generation system using fuel cell, bioreactor and twin-fluid bed steam gasifier, Michael John Radovich, Michael John Radovich. U.S. 8,349,505 (20130108), Power generation system of fuel cell and control method thereof, Takaaki Mizukami, Hidekazu Fujimura, and Tsutomu Okusawa, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,506 (20130108), Fuel cell system, Yasuhiro Nonobe, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,349,508 (20130108), Fuel cell control unit for limiting power output, Hibiki Saeki and Takuya Shirasaka, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,509 (20130108), Fuel cell system and fuel cell system failure judgment method, Naohiro Yoshida, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,349,510 (20130108), Solid state electrochemical cell having reticulated electrode matrix and method of manufacturing same, Partha Sarkar, Mark Lewis Richardson, Luis Yamarte, and Lorne Johanson, Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures (CA). U.S. 8,349,511 (20130108), Fuel cell, Ayano Kobayashi, Shinji Fujisaki, and Makoto Ohmori, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,512 (20130108), Multi-MEA test station and multi-MEA test method using the same, Chan Gyun Shin, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,513 (20130108), Polymer electrolyte membrane, membrane-electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Tomohiro Ono, Shinji Nakai, Hiroyuki Ogi, and Takeshi Nakano, Kuraray Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,514 (20130108), Electrode catalyst for fuel cells, method of preparing the electrode catalyst, and fuel cell including

electrode containing the electrode catalyst, Kyung-jung Kwon, Chan-ho Pak, and Kang-hee Lee, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,515 (20130108), Polybenzoxazine-based compound, electrolyte membrane including the same, and fuel cell employing the electrolyte membrane, Seong-woo Choi, Hee-young Sun, Myung-lin Lee, and Woo-sung Jeon, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,516 (20130108), Seal arrangement in a fuel cell device, Thomas Baur and Matthias Jesse, Daimler AG (DE). U.S. 8,349,517 (20130108), Method of coating a surface of a fuel cell plate, Wen Li, Ping Liu, Jennifer J. Zinck, Tina T. Salguero, and Richard H Blunk, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,349,518 (20130108), Copper foil for current collector of lithium secondary battery with improved wrinkle characteristics, Dae-Young Kim, Byoung-Kwang Lee, and Seung-Jun Choi, LS Mtron Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,349,519 (20130108), Titanium electrode material and surface treatment method of titanium electrode material, Toshiki Sato, Jun Suzuki, Yoshinori Ito, and Jun Hisamoto, Kobe Steel, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,520 (20130108), Fuel cell and catalyst layer thereof, and membrane electrode assembly using the same, Kohei Shiramizu, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,521 (20130108), Membrane electrode assembly, Jun Tamura, Yoshihiko Nakano, and Hideo Oota, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 8,349,522 (20130108), Fuel cell, Ayano Kobayashi and Makoto Ohmori, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,523 (20130108), Electrolyte membrane for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, process for its production and membrane-electrode assembly for polymer electrolyte fuel cells, Seigo Kotera, Hiroyuki Watabe, and Shigeru Aida, Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,349,757 (20130108), Photocatalytic electrode and fuel cell, John J. McMahon, Fordham University. U.S. 8,349,905 (20130108), Proton-conducting polymer and uses thereof, Inchul Hwang, Nak Hyun Kwon, Young Taek Kim, Dong Il Kim, Ju Ho Lee, and Jang-Bae Son, Hyundai Motor Co. (KR). U.S. 8,349,957 (20130108), Polyolefin resin composition and uses thereof, Shota Abe, Atsushi Morita, Kazuoto Sugiyama, and Mineo Kubo, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (JP). U.S. 8,349,994 (20130108), Electrode electrolyte for polymer-type fuel cell, and use thereof, Toshiaki Kadota, Yoshitaka Yamakawa, Fusao Nakagawa, Nagayuki Kanaoka, and Takaki Nakagawa, JSR Corp. (JP) and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,350,413 (20130108), Power pack, Hisashi Tsukamoto, Quallion LLC. U.S. 8,350,528 (20130108), Battery pack and balancing method of battery cells, Jongwoon Yang, Segawa Susumu, Inkyu Park, and Yonguk Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,350,529 (20130108), Battery management system, Ivan Loncarevic, Lithium Balance A/S (DK). U.S. 8,351,182 (20130108), Electric double layer capacitor, Chiho Yamada, Eri Hirose, Yoshinori Takamuku, and Hideki Shimamoto, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,351,183 (20130108), Electric double layer capacitor with non-woven fiber separator, Jin-A Kang, Heui-Soo Kim, Ha-Young Lee, Jong-Suk Park, and Jun-Ho Kim, LS Mtron Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,353,970 (20130115), Method of assembling electric storage battery packs, Jeffrey R. Wells, Stephanie L. Corker, Robert H. Dietze, Michael M. Arvaneh, Gene P. Emmerich, John D. Tompkins, Edward S. Turvene, and William O. Merkle, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,353,971 (20130115), Flexible envelope type battery and electrically conductible sealing structure thereof and assembling method thereof, Sheng-Fa Yeh, Industrial Technology Research Institute (TW). U.S. 8,354,011 (20130115), Efficient reversible electrodes for solid oxide electrolyzer cells, S. Elangovan, Joseph J. Hartvigsen,

and Feng Zhao, Ceramatec, Inc. U.S. 8,354,068 (20130115), Method of driving heating unit for reformer, and reformer and fuel cell system including the same, Leonid Gorobinskiy, Ju-Yong Kim, Jin-Goo Ahn, Sung-Chul Lee, Yong-Kul Lee, Chan-Ho Lee, Man-Seok Han, and Kie Hyun Nam, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,354,137 (20130115), Manufacturing method of electrode catalyst layer for fuel cell, Hiroyuki Morioka, Haruna Kurata, Saori Okada, and Kenichiro Oota, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,354,179 (20130115), Secondary battery, Nohyun Kwag, Kyungwon Seo, and Youngcheol Jang, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,354,180 (20130115), Method for separating active material of electrode plate for storage battery, Takashi Kamo, Kyoichi Shukuri, and Shunji Kuramoto, Panasonic EV Energy Co., Ltd. (JP) and Omega Techno Modeling Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,354,181 (20130115), Battery, Satoshi Suzuki and Tooru Nakai, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,354,184 (20130115), Flowing electrolyte battery with electric potential neutralization, Dennis Darcy and Gary Colello, Premium Power Corp. U.S. 8,354,185 (20130115), Microporous polyethylene film with good property of strength and permeability at high temperature, Inhwa Jung, Jang-Weon Rhee, Gwigwon Kang, Youngkeun Lee, and Yongkyoung Kim, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,354,186 (20130115), Interconnection washer assembly for a battery assembly, Pascal Muis, Johnson Controls-Saft Advanced Power Solutions LLC. U.S. 8,354,187 (20130115), Secondary battery and method for producing the same, Naoyuki Wada, Kiyomi Kozuki, Hideaki Fujita, and Yukihiro Okada, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,354,188 (20130115), Polymer for lithium ion secondary battery and lithium ion secondary battery using same, Yasuo

Takano, Naoki Imachi, Seiji Yoshimura, Shin Fujitani, Satoshi Nishikawa, and Shinji Bessyo, SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (JP) and Sunstar Giken Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,354,189 (20130115), Electrodes including novel binders and methods of making and using the same, Phat T. Pham, Dinh B. Le, Mark N. Obrovac, and Leif Christensen, 3M Innovative Properties Co. U.S. 8,354,190 (20130115), Electrodes and electrode material for lithium electrochemical cells, Frederic Cotton, Patrick LeBlanc, Thierry Guena, Alain Vallee, and Jean-Luc Monfort, Bathium Canada Inc. (CA). U.S. 8,354,191 (20130115), Layered lithium nickel manganese cobalt composite oxide powder for material of positive electrode of lithium secondary battery, process for producing the same, positive electrode of lithium secondary battery therefrom, and lithium secondary battery, Kenji Shizuka and Kenji Okahara, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,354,192 (20130115), Electrode active material, electrode, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Yuichiro Imanari, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,354,193 (20130115), Electrolyte for a magnesium sulfur battery, John Muldoon, Hee Soo Kim, and Masaki Matsui, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America. U.S. 8,354,194 (20130115), Negative electrode active material, lithium secondary battery using the same, and method of manufacturing negative electrode active material, Jun Yoshida, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,354,195 (20130115), Electric storage fuel cell system and method, Aharon Brandstetter and Haim Brandstetter. U.S. 8,354,196 (20130115), Fuel cell unit including a storage unit for storing and providing liquid water coolant, Reinhard Artmann, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft (DE). U.S. 8,354,197 (20130115), Fuel cell stack having an

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integrated end plate assembly, Jeffrey G. Lake, Leonard A. Bach, Pedro Inigo, Evan C. Rege, Chris Vargas, and Stephen P. Victor, UTC Fuel Cells, LLC. U.S. 8,354,198 (20130115), Electrochemical device including a binding layer having a spinel-type crystal structure, Makoto Ohmori, Toshiyuki Nakamura, and Takashi Ryu, NGK Insulators, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,354,199 (20130115), Multi-layer diffusion medium substrate, Chunxin Ji, Mark Mathias, Jeanette E. O’Hara, and Yeh-Hung Lai, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,354,200 (20130115), Method of adjusting fuel distribution, membrane which adjusts fuel distribution, method of producing membrane which adjusts fuel distribution, fuel cell, and method of producing fuel cell, Takahiro Terada, Yasutada Nakagawa, Yuji Sasaki, and Yuichi Yoshida, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (JP). U.S. 8,354,201 (20130115), Fuel cell with spatially non-homogeneous ionic membrane, Sean M. MacKinnon, Timothy J. Fuller, and Annette M. Brenner, GM Global Technology Operations LLC. U.S. 8,354,202 (20130115), Multilayer glass-ceramic seals for fuel cells, Gilles Querel, Shailendra S. Parihar, George K. Parker, and Patrick Garnier, Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. U.S. 8,354,203 (20130115), Bipolar plate for fuel cells, Florian Finsterwalder, Joerg Kleemann, Thomas Kunick, and Markus Schudy, Daimler AG (DE). U.S. 8,354,267 (20130115), Microbial fuel cell, Jason E. Barkeloo, Daniel J. Hassett, and Randall T. Irvin, Bacterial Robotics, LLC and University of Cincinnati. U.S. 8,354,824 (20130115), System and method for charging and discharging a Li-ion battery pack, Nalin Chaturvedi, John F. Christensen, Jasim Ahmed, and Boris Kozinsky, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,354,825 (20130115), Two-stage charge equalization method and apparatus for series-connected battery string, Joong Hui Lee, Soo Yeup Jang, Jeon Keun Oh, Gun Woo Moon, Hong Sun Park, and Chol Ho Kim, SK Innovation Co., Ltd. (KR) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR). U.S. 8,356,682 (20130122), Fuel cell system using external heat sources for maintaining internal temperature, Malcolm James Grieve, Delphi Technologies, Inc. U.S. 8,357,213 (20130122), Apparatus, system, and method for promoting a substantially complete reaction of an anhydrous hydride reactant, John M. Patton, J. Kevin Shurtleff, and Eric J. Ladd, Trulite, Inc. U.S. 8,357,214 (20130122), Apparatus, system, and method for generating a gas from solid reactant pouches, John Madison Patton and Howard Anderson, Trulite, Inc. U.S. 8,357,253 (20130122), Heat treat configuration for porous carbon-carbon composites, Richard D. Breault, UTC Power Corp. U.S. 8,357,260 (20130122), Partially crosslinked adhesive-supported porous film for battery separator and its use, Keisuke Kii, Michio Satsuma, Yoshihiro Uetani, Mutsuko Yamaguchi, Yutaka Kishii, Shuuhei Murata, and Tomoaki Ichikawa, Nitto Denko Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,357,315 (20130122), Cathode active material, cathode including the same and lithium battery including cathode, Jong-won Lee, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,357,462 (20130122), Battery safety vent and battery with the same, Jianhua Zhu, Qing Lai, Wenya Pi, and Luxia Jiang, BYD Co. Ltd. (CN). U.S. 8,357,463 (20130122), Polymer battery and related method, Tatsuhiro Fukuzawa and Kouichi Nemoto, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,357,464 (20130122), Electric vehicle propulsion system and method utilizing solid-state rechargeable electrochemical cells, Ann Marie Sastry, Fabio Albano, Chia- Wei Wang, Robert Kruse, and Jeffrey Lebrun, Sakti3, Inc.

U.S. 8,357,465 (20130122), Galvanic element with a high capacity, Eduard Pytlik, Arno Perner, Martin Krebs, and Dejan Ilic, VARTA Microbattery GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,357,467 (20130122), Lithium secondary battery, Tatsuya Toyama and Kazushige Kohno, Hitachi, Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,357,468 (20130122), Carbon coated lithium manganese phosphate cathode material, Ivan Exnar, Thierry Drezen, Marketa Zukalova, James Miners, Otakar Frank, and Ladislav Kavan, Dow Global Technologies LLC. U.S. 8,357,469 (20130122), Bipolar battery assembly, Edward Otto Shaffer II and William Buttfield Brecht, Advanced Battery Concepts, LLC. U.S. 8,357,470 (20130122), Organic solid electrolyte and secondary battery, Ikuo Fukui, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,357,471 (20130122), Secondary battery using an electrolyte solution, Koji Utsugi, Yuki Kusachi, and Tsuyoshi Katou, NEC Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,357,472 (20130122), Fuel cell system, Masaharu Suzuki and Kentaro Nagoshi, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,357,473 (20130122), Fuel cell system, Keigo Ikezoe, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,357,474 (20130122), Co-doped YSZ electrolytes for solid oxide fuel cell stacks, Yeshwanth Narendar, Guangyong Lin, and Aravind Mohanram, Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. U.S. 8,357,475 (20130122), Nanowire-based membrane electrode assemblies for fuel cells, Chunming Niu, Calvin Y. H. Chow, Stephen A. Empedocles, and J. Wallace Parce, Nanosys, Inc. U.S. 8,357,725 (20130122), Semi-crystalline fluoropolymer having ion exchange groups, Vincenzo Arcella, Luca Cirillo, Alessandro Ghielmi, Luca Merlo, and Stefano Millefanti, Solvay Solexis SpA (IT). U.S. 8,357,817 (20130122), Sulfone hybrid precursor, method of synthesizing same, and uses thereof, Mihail-Dumitru Barboiu and Mathieu Michau, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR). U.S. 8,358,108 (20130122), System and method for re-initiating charge cycle for battery pack left in a charger, Andrew E. Seman Jr. and Daniel J. White, Black & Decker Inc. U.S. 8,358,110 (20130122), Integration of supercapacitors within a flexible printed circuit and associated methods, Markku Rouvala and Tapani von Rauner, Nokia Corp. (FI). U.S. 8,358,136 (20130122), State of charge calculator for multi-cell energy storage system having cell balancing, Steven J Fredette, UTC Power Corp. U.S. 8,358,137 (20130122), Method and apparatus for examining ion-conductive electrolyte membrane, Naoki Uchiyama, Kabushiki Kaisha Atsumitec (JP). U.S. 8,358,496 (20130122), Electric double-layer capacitor, Hiroyuki Watanabe and Ron Horikoshi, Meidensha Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,359,132 (20130122), System and method for optimizing use of a battery, Kenneth P. Laberteaux and Charles E. Gulash, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. U.S. 8,359,175 (20130122), Apparatus and method for checking insulation of cell module assembly and probe for it, Ju-Seok Lee and John E. NamGoong, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,361,642 (20130129), Battery pack enclosure with controlled thermal runaway release system, Weston Arthur Hermann, Alex Prilutsky, and Vineet Haresh Mehta, Tesla Motors, Inc. U.S. 8,361,644 (20130129), Battery module composed of flexible battery cells and cell interconnect structure therefor, James E. Kane, Larry L. Deal, and Ronald Gritzinger, Magna Electronics Inc. U.S. 8,361,645 (20130129), Protective circuit module and secondary battery having the same, Bongyoung Kim, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,361,647 (20130129), Reversible battery assembly and tooling for automated high volume production, Xiang Zhao and Yhu-Tin Lin, GM Global Technology Operations LLC.

U.S. 8,361,649 (20130129), Method and apparatus for maintaining cell wall integrity using a high yield strength outer casing, Weston Arthur Hermann, Vineet Haresh Mehta, Alex Prilutsky, and Scott Ira Kohn, Tesla Motors, Inc. U.S. 8,361,650 (20130129), Sealing gasket for alkaline dry cell, Masato Nakamura, Yuji Tsuchida, and Yukiyoshi Murakami, FDK Energy Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,361,651 (20130129), Active material for rechargeable battery, Masaki Matsui, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. U.S. 8,361,652 (20130129), Lithium sulphide battery and method of producing the same, Vladimir Kolosnitsyn and Elena Karaseva, Oxis Energy Ltd. (GB). U.S. 8,361,653 (20130129), Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, Yuki Watanabe, Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,361,654 (20130129), Process for producing metal sulfide, Tomonari Takeuchi, Hikari Sakaebe, Tetsuo Sakai, and Kuniaki Tatsumi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (JP). U.S. 8,361,655 (20130129), Battery zinc electrode composition, Simon Berners Hall and Jinrong Liu, Anzode, Inc. U.S. 8,361,656 (20130129), Composite anode active material, method of preparing the same, anode containing the composite anode active material, and lithium battery containing the composite anode active material, Dong-min Im, Seok-gwang Doo, Han-su Kim, and Jin-hwan Park, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,361,657 (20130129), Titanium oxide compound for use in electrode and lithium secondary battery comprising the same, Kiyoshi Nakahara, Toshimasa Seki, and Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Titan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,361,658 (20130129), Cathode material and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using it, Harunari Shimamura, Toshitada Sato, Takayuki Nakamoto, Yasuhiko Bito, and Yoshiaki Nitta, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,361,659 (20130129), Lithium-alloying-material/carbon composite, Monique N. Richard, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. U.S. 8,361,660 (20130129), Non-aqueous electrolyte solution for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery comprising the same, Jong-Ho Jeon, Yong-Gon Lee, Seung-Woo Chu, Shul-Kee Kim, Hyun-Yeong Lee, and Jae-Deok Jeon, LG Chem, Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,361,661 (20130129), Rechargeable magnesium ion cell components and assembly, Robert Ellis Doe, George Earl Blomgren, and Kristin Aslaug Persson, Pellion Technologies Inc. U.S. 8,361,663 (20130129), Porous carbon structure, method for preparing same, electrode catalyst for fuel cell, and electrode and membrane-electrode assembly including same, Soon-Ki Kang, Geun-Seok Chai, Myoung-Ki Min, Chan Kwak, and Alexey Alexandrovichserov, Samsung SDI Co., Ltd. (KR). U.S. 8,361,664 (20130129), Protected lithium electrode fuel cell system incorporating a PEM fuel cell, Steven J. Visco, Yevgeniy S. Nimon, Bruce D. Katz, and Lutgard C. De Jonghe, PolyPlus Battery Co. U.S. 8,361,665 (20130129), Fuel cell system, Chihiro Wake, Koichiro Miyata, and Jumpei Ogawa, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,361,667 (20130129), Fuel cell system and its control method, Hiroyuki Imanishi, Kota Manabe, Tomoya Ogawa, and Yoshiaki Naganuma, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,361,668 (20130129), Devices for managing heat in portable electronic devices, Gerard F. McLean and Joerg Zimmermann, Société BIC (FR). U.S. 8,361,670 (20130129), Flow cell and flow plate having catalyst disposed in microreaction chambers, Norman Krings, Juergen Hackenberg, and Alexander Reitzle, Robert Bosch GmbH (DE). U.S. 8,361,671 (20130129), Solid electrolyte fuel-cell device,

Michio Horiuchi, Shigeaki Suganuma, and Misa Watanabe, Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,361,672 (20130129), Tubular fuel cell and manufacturing method thereof, Masahiro Imanishi, Haruyuki Nakanishi, and Naoto Yoda, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (JP). U.S. 8,361,673 (20130129), Fuel cell and method for manufacturing same, Tsutomu Kawashima, Hideyo Higashino, and Takashi Nakagawa, Panasonic Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,361,674 (20130129), Multi-layer membrane-electrode-assembly (ML-MEA) and method for its manufacture, Ralf Zuber, Knut Fehl, Peter Seipel, and Sven Bornbaum, Umicore AG & Co. KG (DE). U.S. 8,361,676 (20130129), Solid polymer type fuel cell separator and method of production of same, Koki Tanaka, Youichi Ikematsu, Hiroshi Kihira, Michio Kaneko, Wataru Hisada, and Tamotsu Itoh, Nippon Steel Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,361,677 (20130129), Membrane/electrode assembly for polymer electrolyte fuel cell, Satoru Hommura, Tetsuji Shimohira, Takashi Saeki, and Susumu Saito, Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,361,921 (20130129), Noble metal nanoparticles, a process for preparing these and their use, Karl-Anton Starz, Dan Goia, Joachim Koehler, and Volker Bänisch, Umicore AG & Co. KG (DE). U.S. 8,361,924 (20130129), Fine particles of core-shell structure and functional device incorporated therewith, Shinji Tanaka, Shuji Goto, and Shigetaka Tomiya, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,362,096 (20130129), Fullerene based proton conductive materials, Berthold Nuber and Bjoern Pietzak, Sony Corp. (JP). U.S. 8,362,195 (20130129), Ionically conductive polymer for use in electrochemical devices, Ramanathan S. Lalgudi, Jeffrey Boyce, Jay Sayre, and Bhima R. Vijayendran. U.S. 8,362,643 (20130129), Battery-based grid energy storage for balancing the load of a power grid, Hongbin Luo, Yunhao Liao, Zifeng Zhang, Yinghui Wang, Linwang Deng, Donghong Chen, Shaowen Yin, and Xiaohua Tang, BYD Co. Ltd. (CN). U.S. 8,362,749 (20130129), Method for exchanging rechargeable batteries, Katsunori Komori and Naoto Sato, Panasonic EV Energy Co., Ltd. (JP). U.S. 8,363,425 (20130129), Temperature sensor mounting arrangement for a battery frame assembly, Charles Rupert, John Endres, Frank Rinderspacher, and Richard Wilson, Mann+Hummel GmbH (DE).

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Ambri’s Better Grid Battery Ambri chief technology officer David Bradwell needs both hands to pick up what he hopes will be a building block for a new type of electricity grid. Made of thick steel, it’s a container shaped like a large round cake pan, 16 inches in diameter. Inside it are two metal pucks and some salt powder; a round plate has been welded to the top to make a 100-pound battery cell. (See photo on page 1.) By stringing together a number of these large cells, Ambri plans to make huge batteries, as big as 40-foot shipping containers. The chemistry in Ambri’s technology is different from any other currently used in batteries. When the cell is heated to around 500°C, the disks and

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powder inside – the battery’s electrodes and electrolyte, respectively – will melt. The result is a battery whose components are all liquid. Conventional rechargeable batteries have solid electrodes that degrade with use, but a battery with only liquid parts could last for years without losing much of its energy storage capacity. The molten materials can also operate at much higher current densities than solids, and for longer periods of time. Ambri cofounder Donald Sadoway, a professor of materials chemistry at MIT, conceived the liquid-metal cell as a way to build a grid battery that could store many hours worth of energy from solar and wind power at very low cost. Since a stationary battery intended to store power for the grid wouldn’t have to be lightweight like the batteries in our laptops, cars, and flashlights, he was free to depart dramatically from the chemistry that powers those devices.

ORNL Research for Larger, Safer Li-ion Batteries Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first high-performance, nanostructured solid electrolyte for more energy-dense Li-ion batteries.

“To make a safer, lightweight battery, we need the design at the beginning to have safety in mind,” says ORNL’s Chengdu Liang, who led the newly published study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. “We started with a conventional material that is highly stable in a battery system – in particular one that is compatible with a lithium metal anode.” The ability to use pure lithium metal as an anode could ultimately yield batteries five to 10 times more powerful than current versions, which employ carbon based anodes. “Cycling highly reactive lithium metal in flammable organic electrolytes causes serious safety concerns,” Liang says. “A solid electrolyte enables the lithium metal to cycle well, with highly enhanced safety.”

The ORNL team developed its solid electrolyte by manipulating lithium thiophosphate to conduct ions 1,000 times faster than its natural bulk form. Nanostructuring was used to alter the structure of the crystals that make up the material. The researchers are continuing to test lab scale battery cells, and a patent on the invention is pending.

Scientists Increase Lithium-Sulfur Battery Lifetime A team of researchers led by Yi Cui, a professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University, has developed a Li-S battery that can retain more than 80% of its 1180mAh/g capacity over 300 cycles, with the

potential for similar capacity retention over thousands of cycles. In contrast, most Li-S batteries lose much of their capacity after a few tens of cycles. To achieve this improvement, the researchers first identified a new mechanism that causes capacity decay in Li-S batteries after cycling. In order for a Li-S battery to successfully recharge, the lithium sulfide in the cathode must be bound to the cathode surface – in this case, the inner surface of the hollow carbon nanofiber that encapsulates it. This binding creates a good electrical contact to allow for charge flow. But the researchers found that, during the discharge process, the lithium sulfide detaches from the carbon, resulting in a loss of electrical contact that prevents the battery from fully recharging. After identifying the problem, the researchers set about fixing it by adding polymers to the carbon nanofiber surface in order to modify the carbon-sulfur interface. The polymers are amphiphilic, meaning they are both hydrophilic (water-loving) and lipophilic (fat-loving), similar to soap. This property gives the polymers anchoring points that allow

the lithium sulfides to bind strongly with the carbon surface in order to maintain strong electrical contacts. As experiments showed, sulfur cathodes containing the amphiphilic polymers had very stable performance, with less than 3% capacity decay over the first 100 cycles, and less than 20% decay for more than 300 cycles.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Full Details of the Mclaren P1 Revealed The McLaren P1 was revealed ahead of its public debut at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show on March 5. McLaren also confirmed that the P1 will cost £866,000 when it goes on sale this fall. The car will accelerate from 0-62mph in less than three seconds, and from 0-124mph in less than seven seconds. Top speed is limited to 217mph. As expected, the P1 production car looks all but identical to the “design study” revealed at the 2012 Paris Motor Show last September. The only change is the addition of air vents ahead of the front wheels that Mclaren says aid cooling and optimize downforce.

The P1 has a hybrid powertrain; the gas engine is a 3.8L, twin-turbocharged mid-mounted unit that develops 727bhp. A 176bhp electric motor is directly mounted to the petrol engine, to give a combined output of 903bhp.

Hyundai’s Lifetime Hybrid Battery Warranty The 2013 Sonata Hybrid comes with Hyundai’s Hybrid Lifetime Battery Warranty. The coverage expands the benefits of Hyundai Assurance, including an unsurpassed 10-year powertrain warranty. If the Sonata Hybrid lithium-polymer battery ever needs replacement, Hyundai will replace the battery and cover recycling costs for the old battery pack free-of-charge to the original owner.

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The lithium-polymer cells, developed with LG Chem, use a manganese-spinel chemistry that provides an excellent compromise between power delivery, energy density and thermal stability. Thermal stability is critical to ensuring durability, effectively eliminating the need to replace the battery pack during the normal lifespan of the vehicle. The electrodes in older Li-ion chemistries expand and contract significantly with the heating and cooling that naturally occurs during charging and discharging. This thermal expansion causes cracks in the electrodes which ultimately reduces the cell’s ability to hold a charge. Manganese-spinel lithium-polymer cells have much lower expansion rates and are able to go through tens-of-thousands of charge cycles even without having to use a heavier, liquid-cooling system.

Land Rover Introduces Electric Defender Land Rover showcased seven Electric Defender models at the Geneva Motor Show. The SUV, which looks like a standard Defender except for the lettering, uses an electric motor that makes 94hp and 243lb-ft of torque. It’s connected to a 300V, Li-ion battery with a 27kWh capacity. Land Rover says it gives the truck a range of more than 50 miles. It also claims that in “typical, low-speed off-road use it can last for up to eight hours before recharging.” The battery weighs in at 903 pounds, but the Electric Defender’s curb weight is only about 220 pounds more than a basic Defender 110. It can be charged in four hours with a 7kW fast charger, or in 10 hours with a 3kW charger.

The electric Defender gets Land Rover’s four-wheel-drive system and differential lock, but uses a single-speed, 2.7:1 reduction gearbox. A modified version of Land Rover’s Terrain Response System continues to be incorporated.

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