558 results about "Flexible battery" patented technology

Disclosed is a flexible battery including a sheet-like electrode group, an electrolyte, and a housing with flexibility enclosing the electrode group and electrolyte. The housing includes a film material folded into two in which the electrode group is inserted. The film material has two facing portions respectively facing two principal surfaces of the electrode group, a fold line which is between the two facing portions and along which the film material is folded, and two bonding margins respectively set around the two facing portions. The two bonding margins are bonded to each other into a bonded portion. At least the two facing portions of the film material are formed in a corrugated shape having a plurality of ridge and valley lines arranged in parallel to each other. The ridge lines in one of the two facing portions are overlapped with the valley lines in the other. The fold line is parallel to the ridge and valley lines.

Flexible electronic devices may be provided. A flexible electronic device may include a flexible display, a flexible housing and one or more flexible internal components configured to allow the flexible electronic device to be deformed. Flexible displays may include flexible display layers, flexible touch-sensitive layers, and flexible display cover layers. The flexible housing may be a multi-stable flexible housing having one or more stable positions. The flexible housing may include a configurable support structure that, when engaged, provides a rigid support structure for the flexible housing. The flexible internal components may include flexible batteries, flexible printed circuits or other flexible components. A flexible battery may include flexible and rigid portions or may include a lubricious separator layer that provides flexibility for the flexible battery. A flexible printed circuit may include flexible and rigid portions or openings that allow some rigid portions to flex with respect to other rigid portions.

A flexible wireless MEMS microphone includes a substrate of a flexible polymeric material, a flexible MEMS transducer structure formed on the substrate by PECVD, an antenna printed on the substrate for communicating with an outside source, a wire and interface circuit embedded in the substrate to electrically connect the flexible MEMS transducer and the antenna, a flexible battery layer electrically connected to the substrate for supplying power to the MEMS transducer, and a flexible bluetooth module layer electrically connected to the battery layer. The flexible MEMS transducer includes a flexible substrate, a membrane layer deposited on the substrate, a lower electrode layer formed on the membrane layer, an active layer formed by depositing a piezopolymer on the lower electrode layer, an upper electrode layer formed on the active layer, and a first and a second connecting pad electrically connected to the lower and upper electrode layers, respectively.

The invention discloses a flexible lithium metal cell negative pole and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of lithium metal cells. The flexible lithium metal cell negative pole is prepared from two-phase structures of lithium metal and a framework material, wherein the content of the lithium metal is 10-99.9wt.%, and the framework material is a conductive material or an insulating material; the flexible lithium metal cell negative pole can be bent within 0-180 degrees, and the losses of electrochemical performance in the bending process is 0.001-50%. Solid metal lithium is melt into liquid or gasified into gas, and then the liquid or the gas is mixed with the framework material, so that the flexible lithium metal cell negative pole is prepared. Compared with a lithium sheet negative pole, the lithium metal cell negative pole effectively improves the mechanical property of lithium metal negative poles, restrains dendritic growth and alleviates the volume swelling of an electrode in the lithium removing and inlaying process; if a flexible positive pole is matched with the negative pole to obtain flexible cells, realization of the business application to flexible wearable electronic equipment with high energy density can be facilitated.

A periodical is shown having flexible pages whereon is affixed a thin flexible electronic display. The display includes a flexible membrane, control circuitry, and self-contained power source, which may be a thin flexible battery. A display may be affixed to one or more of the pages of the periodical for use in displaying dynamic information or video.

Axially flexible stents for tracking through tortuous segments of tubular structures in body passages are disclosed. The stents, which utilize flexible interconnects, conform to such tortuous segments, track easily, and have sufficient surface areas to prevent gaps between stent components. In a preferred embodiment the interconnects have the form of “closed cells”. However, in contrast to stents of a closed cell design, the interconnects do not expand upon radial expansion of the stent during deployment. Instead, the interconnects can expand or contract axially to enable negotiating twists and turns encountered in body passageways. If the stent encounters a concavity in a body passageway, the interconnects contract. If the stent encounters a convexity, the interconnects expand.

The invention discloses an integrated flexible electrode and belongs to the technical field of electrochemical cells. The integrated flexible electrode is composed of three layers which are successively a polymer layer, a graphene layer and an active material layer. According to the invention, the multi-component integrated design is realized. The graphene layer is formed by dispersing and coating graphene onto the polymer layer. The active material layer is formed by coating slurry onto the graphene layer. After drying, the integrated flexible electrode material is obtained. The integrated flexible electrode material has excellent flexibility and tensile strength and is applicable to flexible cells. A preparation method of the integrated flexible electrode is simple and easy to control, can be applied to various electrode materials and has potential application value. Mass and low-cost preparation can be realized.

The present invention discloses a flexible graphene current collector and active material integrated electrode pole piece and a preparation method thereof. The flexible graphene current collector and active material integrated electrode pole piece comprises a graphene current collector layer and an active material layer, wherein graphene is subjected to dispersion and vacuum suction filtration to prepare the graphene current collector layer, the active electrode material layer is subjected to suction filtration onto the graphene current collector through the slurry, and drying and roll pressing are performed to prepare the integrated flexible electrode pole piece. According to the present invention, the used graphene has good electrical conductivity and good thermal conductivity so as to effectively improve the comprehensive performance of the battery; with the vacuum suction filtration method, the active material can closely contact the graphene current collector so as to effectively reduce the interface resistance, such that the internal resistance of the battery is reduced, the adhesion strength between the materials is enhanced, and the active material can not shed from the current collector during the charging and discharging process; and the electrode pole piece has good flexibility and is suitable for flexible batteries, and the preparation method is simple, is easy to control, can achieve mass and low-cost production, and can be applied to a variety of electrode materials.

A thin flexible electronic display includes a flexible membrane, control circuitry, and self-contained power source, which may be a thin flexible battery. A display may be affixed to an associated device for use in displaying dynamic information or video.

A flexible battery a first electrode layer, a first current collector layer disposed on the first electrode layer, where a plurality of through-holes is defined in the first current collector layer, a separator disposed on the first current collector layer, a second current collector layer disposed on the separator, where a plurality of through-holes is defined in the second current collector layer, and a second electrode layer disposed on the second current collector layer.

A flexible polymer solid electrolyte material useful in battery technology is described. The flexible solid electrolyte comprises a first block that has the ability to solvate alkali metal salts. The flexible solid electrolyte comprises a second block that has the ability to incorporate lithium ions within microphase separated spherical domains, wherein the lithium ions are from a secondary lithium source. The flexible solid electrolyte further comprises a second lithium salt.

A wearable battery set is provided. The wearable battery set comprises a buckle and a flexible battery unit. The buckle has a control circuit. The flexible battery is disposed on the side of the buckle and connects to the control circuit electrically. The flexible battery unit is adapted to be bent into a ring, and the buckle is configured to keep the flexible battery unit in the ring form so that the wearable battery set can be worn by a user. The control circuit of the buckle is configured to control the output power of the flexible battery unit so that the wearable battery set is able to provide the output power to an electronic device via the control circuit of the buckle.

A flexible battery and a method to form the flexible battery include forming an anode by embedding an anode type electro-active material within a mesh material and associating an anode current collector with the anode. Similarly a cathode is formed by embedding a cathode type electro-active material within a mesh material and a cathode current collector is associated with the cathode. An electrolyte is located between the anode and cathode, and the arrangement is sealed.

The invention discloses a method for manufacturing a flexible silicon-based thin-film solar battery integrated component with a polyimide plastic substrate; the method comprises the steps: polyimide slurry with good light transmittance is coated on ordinary glass and divided into two parts for low-temperature setting, thereby forming the glass-polyimide thin-film complex substrate; then, a battery component is formed in accordance with the technique for preparing a silicon-based thin-film solar battery component with a glass substrate; after a lead wire is packaged, the prepared solar battery component is soaked in water at room temperature so as to be removed from the glass and obtain the flexible battery integrated component with a plastic substrate. The method has the advantages that: the existing mature preparing equipment and processing technology of the silicon-based thin-film solar battery component with the glass substrate can be utilized to manufacture the novel flexible silicon-based thin-film solar battery integrated component with the plastic substrate, thus saving expensive design of flexible substrate solar battery equipment and technology, greatly reducing manufacturing costs and being beneficial to accelerating the industrialization process of the novel battery.

A battery cell arrangement having a battery cell which is in the form of a film cell and includes a flat cell body with two end faces, a flexible cell rim surrounding the cell body, and two contact sections arranged on a rim side of the battery cell. The battery cell arrangement further has a frame arrangement which includes a first frame element and a second frame element which frames the cell body on all sides on the rim. At least one vent opening is provided on a side of the frame arrangement which faces away from the end faces of the cell body, in order to allow fluid, in particular gas, to emerge from the battery cell arrangement in the event of damage.

An actively-powered temperature data logger patch with wireless data communication includes a sealed, flexible battery comprising a printed electrochemical cell with an anode and a cathode, and a flexible circuit including a microprocessor, a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of a target subject, a wireless communication transceiver and an antenna. In one example, the flexible battery and flexible circuit are arranged in a covering, stacked arrangement between first and second substrate layers, and the patch configured to conform to a curved surface of the target subject. In another example, the patch is used in an actively-powered medical system for monitoring a body temperature of a patient, and includes an adhesive configured to be removably applied to skin of the patient. An external computing device is capable of two way communication with the wireless communication transceiver of the patch via an electromagnetic field.

A wearable device is provided. The wearable device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a body member including a heartbeat sensor, a first band member and a second band member respectively coupled to both ends of the body member, and a flexible battery having a portion accommodated inside the body member and both remaining ends accommodated inside the first band member and the second band member.

The invention provides a flexible lithium secondary battery, comprising a flexible battery shell, a battery main body and an electrolyte, wherein the battery main body is arranged in the flexible battery shell and comprises one or more sequentially stacked electrode units; each electrode unit comprises a positive plate, a flexible diaphragm and a negative plate, the positive plate, the flexible diaphragm and the negative plate are sequentially stacked, the positive plate comprises a positive current collector and a plurality of positive active material layers arranged on the positive current collector in an array type, the negative plate comprises a negative current collector and a plurality of negative active material layers arranged on the negative current collector in the array type, the positive plate and the negative plate have correspondingly arranged array interstitial vacancies, the correspondingly arranged array interstitial vacancies are applied to bending of a flexible lithium secondary battery in a plane two-dimensional direction, and the width of each array interstitial vacancy is 5-50mm. The flexible lithium secondary battery has the advantages that the integral flexibility is excellent, the energy density is high, the battery thickness, volume and mass are small, and the battery is suitable for flexible electronic products. The invention further provides a preparation method of the flexible lithium secondary battery.

The present invention discloses a flexible battery and a flexible battery pack having the flexible battery. The flexible battery comprises: a flexible circuit substrate; an electric core unit, wherein the electric core unit comprises a positive electrode current collector circuit and a negative electrode current collector circuit, and the positive electrode current collector circuit and the negative electrode current collector circuit are arranged on the same surface of the flexible circuit substrate at the interval; a positive electrode dressing layer and a negative electrode dressing layer, wherein the positive electrode dressing layer and the negative electrode dressing layer are respectively arranged on the positive electrode current collector circuit and the negative electrode current collector circuit; an electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte is arranged on the flexible circuit substrate and is connected to the positive electrode dressing layer and the negative electrode dressing layer; and an external package film, wherein the external package film covers the electric core unit. According to the flexible battery of the embodiment of the present invention, the electric core unit is arranged on the flexible circuit substrate to enhance the flexibility of the flexible battery, and the shape can be adjusted through the appropriate deforming or folding so as to substantially improve the adaptability.

The invention provides a flexible battery pack and a preparation method thereof. The flexible battery pack comprises an aluminium plastic film, a plurality of batteries and a plurality of silica gels, wherein a plurality of scouring pits are arranged on the aluminium plastic film along the width direction; each battery is hermetically arranged in each scouring pit on the aluminium plastic film and is provided with a cell, a positive electrode tab, a negative electrode tab and injected electrolyte, the positive electrode tabs of the batteries are connected together, the negative electrode tabs of the batteries are connected together, and the adjacent batteries are isolated from each other; each silica gel is bonded with the aluminium plastic film parts on the sides of the scouring pits of the adjacent batteries on the two sides of the silica gel and the aluminium plastic film parts between the scouring pits of two adjacent batteries via glue. The flexible battery pack has the beneficial effects that the buckling capacity of the battery pack can be improved by adopting the silica gels, so that the safety of the batteries in the flexible battery pack can be improved; meanwhile, the silica gels are arranged outside the aluminium plastic film and the released stress is transferred from the silica gels to the aluminium plastic film when the aluminium plastic film deforms, therefore, the force finally borne by the aluminium plastic film is reduced, thus being more beneficial for the flexibility of the battery pack.

A flexible battery includes a first substrate layer with a first cell portion, a second cell portion, and a bridge portion connecting the first and second cell portions. An electrical bridge electrically couples a first electrochemical cell to a second electrochemical cell in series or parallel, and an electrical bridge is flexible and extends across the bridge portion of the first substrate layer. A second substrate layer is connected to the first substrate layer such that both of the first and second electrochemical cells are separately sealed. The flexible battery is configured to be folded over itself along the bridge portion such that the first and second electrochemical cells are arranged in a covering relationship. Optionally, an open gap area is disposed over the bridge portion of the first substrate to facilitate folding the flexible battery over itself along a line extending through the bridge portion.

A rollable display device is provided. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a rollable display device including: a display body including a display unit configured to display various types of information as an image on one surface thereof and provided to be rollable; and a flexible battery provided on the display body and configured to supply power to the display body.

The invention discloses a flexible lithium ion battery. The flexible lithium ion battery is composed of a case packaging and an electrical core packaged in the case packaging; the electrical core comprises a cathode and an anode, an upper extraction electrode arranged on the cathode, and a lower extraction electrode arranged on the anode; the electrical core also comprises a polymer electrolyte fire-retardant composite layer arranged at the middle part of the electrical core; the polymer electrolyte fire-retardant composite layer is a composite thin film composed of a polymer electrolyte layer arranged in the middle, and solid fire retardant layers arranged on the upper surface and the lower surface respectively. The invention also discloses a preparation method of the flexible lithium ion battery. The solid fire retardant-containing flexible lithium ion battery is high in efficiency, long in cycle life, and large in energy density, and is capable of satisfying electric energy demands of flexible electronic devices. The solid fire retardant is capable of improving safety performance of the flexible lithium ion battery effectively. The preparation method is unique, is convenient for processing and batch production, and is high in practical value.

A flexible battery is provided. A flexible battery according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: an electrode assembly; and an exterior material for encapsulating the electrode assembly together with an electrolyte, wherein the exterior material includes a first pattern part and a second pattern part for contraction and relaxation at the time of bending, which are formed on at least one surface of the exterior material, and the first pattern part and the second pattern part have different patterns.

To provide a lithium-ion storage battery or electronic device that is flexible and highly safe. One embodiment of the present invention is a flexible storage battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, an exterior body that surrounds the positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator, and a wiring provided along the exterior body. At least part of the wiring is more easily breakable by deformation than the exterior body. The wiring is more vulnerable to deformation than the exterior body and thus damaged earlier than the exterior body. Damage to the wiring is detected and an alert is sent to a user; thus, the use of the storage battery can be stopped before the exterior body is damaged.

A flashlight apparatus including a body portion formed from a woven material, the body portion having a longitudinal length and forming at least part of an adjustable cavity for containing at least one battery, and a head portion coupled to the body portion and having at least one of an illumination source for providing illumination and a connector for connecting the flashlight to another device. Accordingly, the flashlight can supply power to the another device. The body portion can adjust (e.g., its length and diameter—or area) to the size and number of battery cells contained therein.

A quad dimensionally flexible battery device. The preferred embodiment of the invention is an array of battery cells connected to a plurality of terminal connectors, at least one power control module, and at least one wireless charging coil, all of which are impregnated in a rubber composite material except for the negative an positive terminal ends.