Solid-state battery with solid electrolyte surface topography design

    公开(公告)号:US12278339B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-15

    申请号:US16544992

    申请日:2019-08-20

    Abstract: A solid-state battery cell, such as a lithium-ion cell, is assembled with a solid electrolyte layer member positioned between co-extensive surface layers of an anode active layer member and a cathode active material layer member. At least one of the engaging surfaces of the solid electrolyte layer is not flat. It is formed with a topographical pattern comprising recesses in a flat surface, or a surface of projections and recesses, and placed against a compatibly-shaped, mating surface of the anode layer and/or the cathode layer. The re-shaping of the surface(s) of the solid electrolyte layer and adjoining electrode layer(s) is to significantly increase the effective contact area with the facing layer of electrode material and improve the conduction of ions across the interface. A thin film of interlayer material may be placed between the surfaces of the facing cell members with the specially shaped adjacent faces.

    Tow-vehicle driving methods and systems for automated driving

    公开(公告)号:US12275436B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-15

    申请号:US17821829

    申请日:2022-08-24

    Abstract: Automated driver assistance systems and methods for towing predict vehicle/trailer instabilities and adapt automated driving control to avoid them. A tow-vehicle includes a controller that, through an actuator system, controls speed and/or steering. A map system and/or a sensor system monitor a roadway on which the vehicle is travelling to identify a road profile located ahead of the vehicle over a prediction horizon. A projected trajectory for navigating the vehicle through the road profile over the prediction horizon and considering environmental conditions is determined. Before travel over the road profile, whether the projected trajectory through the road profile will result in exceeding a vehicle dynamic threshold is determined. When the projected trajectory will result in exceeding the vehicle dynamic threshold through the road profile, a control action is determined to prevent instability and optimize driver experience. The vehicle is operated through the road profile using the control action.

    METHOD TO AUTOMATICALLY REPROVISION A VEHICLE'S ROAMING POLICY WHEN TRACKING A STOLEN VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20250119714A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-10

    申请号:US18482948

    申请日:2023-10-09

    Abstract: A method includes transmitting a first wireless communication from a user device via an authorized first cellular network. The first wireless communication includes a current geographic location of the user device. The user device maintains a forbidden list identifying unauthorized cellular networks. Based on determining that the user device is approaching a geofence between a first network coverage area of the first cellular network and a second network coverage area of a second cellular network that is identified on the forbidden list, the method includes removing the second cellular network from the forbidden list. With the second cellular network removed from the forbidden list and based on the user device entering the second network coverage area, the method includes transmitting a second wireless communication from the user device via the second cellular network that includes an updated geographic location of the user device.

    WINDING SLOT-EMBEDDED VAPOR CHAMBERS AND HEAT PIPES WITH ENDCAP HEAT SINKS FOR ELECTRIC MACHINES

    公开(公告)号:US20250119025A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-10

    申请号:US18482260

    申请日:2023-10-06

    Abstract: Presented are electric machines with winding-slot embedded heat pipes/vapor chambers and endcap-integrated heat sinks, methods for making/using such machines, and vehicles equipped with such machines. An electric machine, such as a traction motor or electric generator, includes an outer housing, a stator assembly mounted to the housing, and a rotor assembly rotatably mounted adjacent the stator assembly. The stator assembly includes an annular stator core with one or more electromagnetic stator windings mounted on or in the stator core. The rotor assembly includes a cylindrical rotor core and one or more electromagnetic rotor windings mounted in rotor slots of the rotor core. One or more heat pipes are mounted in the rotor slot(s), adjacent the rotor winding(s), and projecting axially from one or both axial ends of the rotor core. Each heat pipe extracts thermal energy from the rotor winding(s) and transfers the thermal energy out from the rotor core.

    MIXED BAR AND WIRE CONDUCTOR COMBINATIONS FOR HIGH-SPEED ELECTRIC MOTORS

    公开(公告)号:US20250119002A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-04-10

    申请号:US18483181

    申请日:2023-10-09

    Abstract: Presented are electric machines with both bar and wire conductors, methods for making/using such machines, and vehicles equipped with such machines. An electric machine, such as a traction motor or electric generator, includes an outer housing, a stator fixedly mounted to the housing, and a rotor movably mounted to the housing and spaced across an airgap from the stator. Multiple magnets, such as permanent magnet blocks, are mounted on or in slots of the rotor (or the stator). A set of electromagnetic conductors extends through each radially elongated slot of the stator (or the rotor). Each conductor set includes a group of solid-wire or multistrand-wire conductors that is located adjacent the airgap. A group of hairpin or I-pin bar conductors is radially spaced from the airgap and located adjacent the wire conductors. The bar conductors have a cross-sectional area/shape that is distinct from a cross-sectional area/shape of the wire conductors.

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