Multi-terminal chalcogenide switching devices
    22.
    发明授权
    Multi-terminal chalcogenide switching devices 有权
    多端硫属化物开关器件

    公开(公告)号:US06967344B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-11-22

    申请号:US10384994

    申请日:2003-03-10

    IPC分类号: H01L45/00 H01L47/00

    摘要: Multi-terminal electronic switching devices comprising a chalcogenide material switchable between a resistive state and a conductive state. The devices include a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal. Application of a control signal to the control terminal modulates the conductivity of the chalcogenide material between the first and second terminals and/or the threshold voltage required to switch the chalcogenide material between the first and second terminals from a resistive state to a conductive state. The devices may be used as interconnection devices or signal providing devices in circuits and networks.

    摘要翻译: 包括可在电阻状态和导电状态之间切换的硫族化物材料的多端子电子开关器件。 这些设备包括第一终端,第二终端和控制终端。 将控制信号施加到控制端子,调制第一和第二端子之间的硫族化物材料的导电性和/或将第一和第二端子之间的硫族化物材料从电阻状态切换到导通状态所需的阈值电压。 这些设备可以用作电路和网络中的互连设备或信号提供设备。

    Mechanical and thermal improvements in metal hydride batteries, battery modules and battery packs
    24.
    发明授权
    Mechanical and thermal improvements in metal hydride batteries, battery modules and battery packs 有权
    金属氢化物电池,电池模块和电池组的机械和热改进

    公开(公告)号:US06878485B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-04-12

    申请号:US10121279

    申请日:2002-04-12

    摘要: Mechanically and thermally improved rechargeable batteries, modules and fluid-cooled battery pack systems. The battery is prismatic in shape with an optimized thickness to width to height aspect ratio which provides the battery with balanced optimal properties when compared with prismatic batteries lacking this optimized aspect ratio. The optimized thickness, width and height allow for maximum capacity and power output, while eliminating deleterious side affects. The battery case design allows for unidirectional expansion which is readily compensated for by applying external mechanical compression counter to that direction. In the module, the batteries are bound within a module bundling/compression means under external mechanical compression which is optimized to balance outward pressure due to expansion and provide additional inward compression to reduce the distance between the positive and negative electrodes, thereby increasing overall battery power. The fluid-cooled battery pack includes; 1) a battery-pack case having coolant inlet and outlet; 2) battery modules within the case such that the battery module is spaced from the case walls and from other battery modules to form coolant flow channels along at least one surface of the bundled batteries; and 3) at least one coolant transport means. The width of the coolant flow channels allows for maximum heat transfer. Finally the batteries, modules and packs can also include means for providing variable thermal insulation to at least that portion of the rechargeable battery system which is most directly exposed to said ambient thermal condition, so as to maintain the temperature of the rechargeable battery system within the desired operating range thereof under variable ambient conditions.

    摘要翻译: 机械和热改善的可充电电池,模块和流体冷却电池组系统。 电池是棱柱形的,具有优化的宽度与宽高比之间的厚度,与没有优化的纵横比的棱镜电池相比,电池具有平衡的最佳性能。 优化的厚度,宽度和高度允许最大容量和功率输出,同时消除有害的副作用。 电池盒设计允许单向膨胀,通过应用与该方向相反的外部机械压缩来容易地补偿。 在模块中,电池在外部机械压缩下结合在模块捆扎/压缩装置内,其被优化以平衡由于膨胀引起的向外压力,并提供额外的向内压缩以减小正极和负极之间的距离,从而增加总体电池功率 。 流体冷却电池组包括: 1)具有冷却剂入口和出口的电池组壳体; 2)壳体内的电池模块,使得电池模块与壳体壁和其它电池模块间隔开,以沿着捆扎电池的至少一个表面形成冷却剂流动通道; 和3)至少一个冷却剂输送装置。 冷却剂流动通道的宽度允许最大的热传递。 最后,电池,模块和包装还可以包括用于向最直接暴露于所述环境热条件的可再充电电池系统的至少一部分提供可变绝热的装置,以便将可充电电池系统的温度保持在 在可变环境条件下的期望工作范围。

    Hydrogen storage alloys having a high porosity surface layer
    25.
    发明授权
    Hydrogen storage alloys having a high porosity surface layer 有权
    具有高孔隙率表面层的储氢合金

    公开(公告)号:US06830725B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-12-14

    申请号:US10405008

    申请日:2003-04-01

    IPC分类号: C22C3000

    摘要: Electrochemical and thermal hydrogen storage alloy compositions that provide superior performance, including an electrochemical hydrogen storage alloy that provides superior low temperature discharge characteristics. The alloy compositions include microstructures in the interface region that are highly porous and that include catalytic metallic particles. The microstructures include a large volume fraction of voids having spherical or channel-like shapes and are sufficiently open structurally to facilitate greater mobility of reactive species within the microstructure and in the vicinity of catalytic metallic particles. Greater accessibility to reactive sites accordingly results. The greater mobility of reactive species and/or the greater density of catalytic particles lead to faster kinetics and improved performance (e.g. higher power), especially at low operating temperatures. The microstructures may be formed through inclusion of a microstructure tuning element in the alloy composition, through control of processing conditions and/or through inclusion of etching steps in the post-formation processing of hydrogen storage alloys.

    摘要翻译: 提供优异性能的电化学和热储氢合金组合物,包括提供优异的低温放电特性的电化学储氢合金。 合金组合物包括界面区域中的高度多孔的微结构,并且包括催化金属颗粒。 微结构包括具有球形或通道状形状的大体积分数的空隙,并且在结构上足够开放以促进反应性物质在微结构内和催化金属颗粒附近的更大迁移率。 因此可以更好地获得反应性网站。 活性物质的较大迁移率和/或更大密度的催化剂颗粒导致更快的动力学和改进的性能(例如更高的功率),特别是在低的操作温度下。 可以通过在合金组合物中包含微结构调谐元件,通过控制加工条件和/或通过在储氢合金的后形成处理中包括蚀刻步骤来形成微观结构。

    Methods of computing with digital multistate phase change materials
    30.
    发明授权
    Methods of computing with digital multistate phase change materials 有权
    数字多态相变材料的计算方法

    公开(公告)号:US06671710B2

    公开(公告)日:2003-12-30

    申请号:US10144319

    申请日:2002-05-10

    IPC分类号: G06F700

    摘要: Non-binary methods of computing utilizing a digital multistate phase change material. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are accomplished with the controlled application of energy to a phase change material. In one embodiment, energy in an amount insufficient to set the reset state of a phase change material is provided to store one or more numbers and further energy characteristic of the performance of a mathematical operation is provided to effect a computation. The set energy of the reset state of a phase change material provides an interval of energy that may be used to define programming states along the high resistance portion of the electrical resistance response curve of a phase change material. By sub-dividing this interval of energy, a plurality of programming states can be defined which are distinguishable in energy relative to the reset state. Numerical values can be assigned to the programming states and computations in non-binary arithmetic bases can be completed by providing energy to effect controlled transformations between programming states.

    摘要翻译: 使用数字多态相变材料的非二进制计算方法。 加法,减法,乘法和除法是通过将能量控制施加到相变材料来完成的。 在一个实施例中,提供了不足以设置相变材料的复位状态的能量以存储一个或多个数字,并且提供执行数学运算的另外的能量特性以实现计算。 相变材料的复位状态的设定能量提供能够用于定义沿着相变材料的电阻响应曲线的高电阻部分的编程状态的能量间隔。 通过对该能量间隔进行分割,可以定义多个编程状态,这些编程状态在能量方面相对于复位状态是可区分的。 可以将数值分配给编程状态,并且可以通过提供能量来实现编程状态之间的受控变换来完成非二进制运算库中的计算。