Indigo Secondary Battery With Sealed Non-Aqueous Electrolyte
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing batteries have a high environmental impact due to the use of materials like lead, cadmium, manganese, nickel, and fluorine, and require special disposal, while air batteries suffer from electrolyte evaporation issues that limit their storage time.
Innovation Solution
A secondary battery design using a positive electrode with indigo dye, a negative electrode with magnesium, sodium, or calcium, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, eliminating the need for an air intake port and reducing environmental impact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If air batteries use oxygen in the air as a positive electrode active material, then the environmental impact is reduced, but the electrolyte evaporates from the air intake port making them unsuitable for long-term storage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the air intake port from the battery system, eliminating the pathway for electrolyte evaporation. By using a sealed structure without an air intake port, the battery achieves both low environmental impact and long-term storage capability, resolving the contradiction between environmental friendliness and storage duration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates an inert sealed environment inside the battery by filling it with inert gas or maintaining a controlled atmosphere. This prevents electrolyte evaporation while allowing the use of environmentally friendly materials, thus resolving the contradiction between low environmental impact and long storage time.
2Reliability
If batteries use materials like lead compounds, cadmium compounds, manganese compounds, nickel compounds, and fluorine compounds, then the battery performance is improved, but the environmental impact increases requiring special treatment when discarded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the material parameters by replacing toxic heavy metals (lead, cadmium, nickel) with environmentally friendly alternatives such as indigo dye for the positive electrode and magnesium, sodium, or calcium for the negative electrode. This substitution maintains battery performance while significantly reducing environmental impact and disposal requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs composite material structures combining indigo dye with conductive materials and electrolytes to achieve both high performance and environmental friendliness. The composite approach allows the battery to function effectively without relying on toxic materials, resolving the contradiction between performance and environmental impact.
3Duration of action of stationary object
If a sealed structure is used to prevent electrolyte evaporation, then long-term storage is enabled, but the battery cannot intake oxygen needed for air battery operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the air intake port entirely from the battery design, eliminating the conflict between sealing and oxygen intake. By extracting this component, the battery achieves complete sealing for long-term storage while maintaining functionality through alternative chemical mechanisms that do not require atmospheric oxygen.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The battery achieves long-term storage and low environmental impact, with improved stability and discharge capacity, making it suitable for various electronic devices.
Implementation Method 1
a positive electrode containing indigo dye; a negative electrode containing magnesium, sodium or calcium
Implementation Method 2
an electrolyte disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode
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AI summary
The secondary battery includes a positive electrode containing indigo, a negative electrode containing magnesium, sodium, or calcium, and an electrolyte disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode.