公开(公告)号：US10734653B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-04

申请号：US16550091

申请日：2019-08-23

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Bruce Lanning ,  Michael W. Stowell ,  Bryce H. Anzelmo ,  George Clayton Gibbs ,  Shreeyukta Singh ,  Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash ,  Prashanth Jampani Hanumantha ,  Daniel Cook ,  David Tanner

IPC: H01M4/02 ,  H01M4/62 ,  H01M2/16 ,  H01M4/04 ,  H01M4/134 ,  H01M4/136 ,  H01M4/1395 ,  H01M4/1397 ,  H01M4/38 ,  H01M4/58 ,  H01M4/66 ,  H01M10/0525 ,  H01M10/0567 ,  H01M10/058

Abstract: In some embodiments, a lithium ion battery includes a first substrate, a cathode, a second substrate, an anode, and an electrolyte. The cathode is arranged on the first substrate and can contain a cathode mixture including LixSy, wherein x is from 0 to 2 and y is from 1 to 8, and a first particulate carbon. The anode is arranged on the second substrate and can contain an anode mixture containing silicon particles, and a second particulate carbon. The electrolyte can contain a solvent and a lithium salt, and is arranged between the cathode and the anode. In some embodiments, the first particulate carbon or the second particulate carbon contains carbon aggregates comprising a plurality of carbon nanoparticles, each carbon nanoparticle comprising graphene. In some embodiments, the particulate carbon contains carbon meta particles with mesoporous structures.

公开(公告)号：US20200040444A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-06

申请号：US16460177

申请日：2019-07-02

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Michael W. Stowell ,  Daniel Cook ,  Joe Griffith Cruz ,  Thomas Riso

IPC: C23C14/35 ,  H05H1/30 ,  H05H1/40

Abstract: Plasma spray systems comprise multiple zones wherein the energy required for different processes within the systems can be controlled independently. In some embodiments, a plasma spray system comprises a first zone wherein ionic species are generated from the target material using a first energy input, and the ionic species either combine to form a plurality of particles in the first zone, or form coatings on a plurality of input particles input into the first zone. The plasma spray system can further comprise a second zone, comprising a chamber coupled to a microwave energy source, which ionizes the plurality of particles to form a plurality of ionized particles and form a plasma jet. The plasma spray system can further comprise a third zone, comprising an electric field to accelerate the plurality of ionized particles and form a plasma spray.

公开(公告)号：US10465128B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-05

申请号：US15710679

申请日：2017-09-20

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Joe Griffith Cruz ,  Ryan Balmores ,  Thomas Riso ,  Philip David Fulmer ,  Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash ,  Ranjeeth Kalluri ,  Michael W. Stowell ,  Bryce H. Anzelmo

IPC: C01B3/24 ,  C01B32/154 ,  C10G47/22 ,  G06F1/20

Abstract: A thermal cracking apparatus and method includes a body having an inner volume with a longitudinal axis, where a reaction zone surrounds the longitudinal axis. A feedstock process gas is flowed into the inner volume and longitudinally through the reaction zone during thermal cracking operations. A power control system controls electrical power to an elongated heating element, which is disposed within the inner volume. During thermal cracking operations, the elongated heating element is heated to a molecular cracking temperature to generate the reaction zone, the feedstock process gas is heated from the elongated heating element, the power control system uses a feedback parameter for adjusting the electrical power to maintain the molecular cracking temperature at a substantially constant value, and the heat thermally cracks molecules of the feedstock process gas that are within the reaction zone into constituent components of the molecules.

公开(公告)号：US10308512B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-04

申请号：US15725928

申请日：2017-10-05

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： David Tanner ,  Daniel Cook ,  Bryce H. Anzelmo ,  Ranjeeth Kalluri ,  Michael W. Stowell

IPC: B01J8/00 ,  B01D46/00 ,  B01J19/12 ,  C01B32/05 ,  H01J37/32

Abstract: Microwave chemical processing system having a microwave plasma reactor, and a multi-stage gas-solid separation system are disclosed. The microwave energy source has a waveguide, a reaction zone, and an inlet configured to receive the input material, and the input material is converted into separated components. The separated components include hydrogen gas and carbon particles. The multi-stage gas-solid separation system has a first cyclone separator to filter the carbon particles from the separated components, and a back-pulse filter system coupled to the output of the first cycle separator to filter the carbon particles from the output from the first cyclone separator.

公开(公告)号：US20180294570A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-11

申请号：US15944482

申请日：2018-04-03

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Michael W. Stowell

IPC: H01Q9/04 ,  H01Q11/04

CPC classification number: H01Q9/0407 ,  H01Q1/248 ,  H01Q1/36 ,  H01Q1/422 ,  H01Q5/364 ,  H01Q9/42 ,  H01Q11/04 ,  H01Q15/0013

Abstract: Antenna systems have a substrate and antenna on the substrate, where the antenna has a plurality of leg elements. The plurality of leg elements comprises a conductive ink and forms a continuous path. At least one of the plurality of leg elements is individually selectable or de-selectable to change a resonant frequency of the antenna, and leg elements that are selected create an antenna path length corresponding to the resonant frequency. In some embodiments, the antennas are energy harvesters.

公开(公告)号：US09997334B1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-12

申请号：US15711620

申请日：2017-09-21

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Bryce H. Anzelmo ,  Daniel Cook ,  Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash ,  Shreeyukta Singh ,  Michael W. Stowell ,  David Tanner

IPC: H01J37/32

CPC classification number: H01J37/32192 ,  C01B32/00 ,  H01J37/3244 ,  H01J37/32532 ,  H01J2237/334

Abstract: Carbon materials having carbon aggregates, where the aggregates include carbon nanoparticles and no seed particles, are disclosed. In various embodiments, the nanoparticles include graphene, optionally with multi-walled spherical fullerenes and/or another carbon allotrope. In various embodiments, the nanoparticles and aggregates have different combinations of: a Raman spectrum with a 2D-mode peak and a G-mode peak, and a 2D/G intensity ratio greater than 0.5, a low concentration of elemental impurities, a high Brunauer-Emmett and Teller (BET) surface area, a large particle size, and/or a high electrical conductivity. Methods are provided to produce the carbon materials.

公开(公告)号：US09767992B1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-19

申请号：US15428474

申请日：2017-02-09

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Michael W. Stowell ,  Bryce H. Anzelmo ,  Thomas Riso

IPC: C23C16/00 ,  C23F1/00 ,  H01L21/306 ,  H01J37/32

CPC classification number: H01J37/32192 ,  H01J37/32229 ,  H01J37/3244 ,  H01J37/32532 ,  H01J2237/334

Abstract: A processing reactor includes a microwave energy source and a field-enhancing waveguide. The field-enhancing waveguide has a field-enhancing zone between a first cross-sectional area and a second cross-sectional area of the waveguide, and also has a plasma zone and a reaction zone. The second cross-sectional area is smaller than the first cross-sectional area, is farther away from the microwave energy source than the first cross-sectional area, and extends along a reaction length of the field-enhancing waveguide. The supply gas inlet is upstream of the reaction zone. In the reaction zone, a majority of the supply gas flow is parallel to the direction of the microwave energy propagation. A supply gas is used to generate a plasma in the plasma zone to convert a process input material into separated components in the reaction zone at a pressure of at least 0.1 atmosphere.

公开(公告)号：US12296312B2

公开(公告)日：2025-05-13

申请号：US18173322

申请日：2023-02-23

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Michael W. Stowell ,  Bruce Lanning ,  Elena Rogojina

IPC: B01J19/08 ,  B01D53/32 ,  B01J19/12 ,  B01J37/34 ,  H01J37/32

Abstract: A system for producing carbonaceous materials is disclosed that includes an energy source configured to emit microwave energy and a plasma reactor coupled to receive the microwave energy and configured to produce plasma in response to exposure of one or more process gases to the microwave energy. In some instances, the plasma reactor includes a first chamber having a rectangular cross-section and configured to receive the microwave energy from the energy source as sinusoidal waveform, a second chamber having a cylindrical cross-section and configured to receive microwave energy from the first chamber as a radial waveform having an energy maxima at a radial center of the cylindrical cross-section, the second chamber including an opening to receive one or more process gases and configured to ignite a plasma plume, and a gas-solid separator configured to separate solid materials from the plasma plume.

公开(公告)号：US20250029999A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-23

申请号：US18907704

申请日：2024-10-07

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Bruce Lanning ,  Michael W. Stowell ,  Jerzy Gazda ,  Jeffrey Bell ,  Anurag Kumar

IPC: H01M4/583 ,  H01M4/02 ,  H01M4/04 ,  H01M4/62 ,  H01M10/0525

Abstract: A cathode for a battery including agglomerates of carbonaceous particles. Each carbonaceous particle includes a plurality of porous regions nested within each other. Each of the respective porous regions is characterized by one or more of a corresponding porosity or a corresponding pore density and a plurality of carbon fragments disposed across the plurality of porous regions. Each carbon fragment is separated from an adjacent carbon fragment by mesopores.

公开(公告)号：US12183951B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-31

申请号：US18408852

申请日：2024-01-10

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Bruce Lanning ,  Michael W. Stowell ,  Anurag Kumar ,  Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash

IPC: H01M50/451 ,  H01M4/02 ,  H01M4/36 ,  H01M4/42 ,  H01M4/46 ,  H01M4/583 ,  H01M50/429 ,  H01M50/431

Abstract: In some implementations, a metal air battery includes an anode and a cathode opposite to the anode. The cathode may be formed as a textured carbon-based scaffold and include an opening into the metal air battery. The metal air battery may include a nano-fibrous membrane (NFM) containing a liquid electrolyte and a functionalized carbon structure may be disposed between the cathode and the NFM. The functionalized carbon structure may allow moisture and oxygen from ambient air to permeate through the NFM and diffuse throughout the textured scaffold of the cathode. A moisture barrier layer may be laminated over the cathode and positioned, by a user, in one of two states. When in a first state, the moisture barrier layer may seal the opening. When in a second state, the moisture barrier layer may allow the moisture and the oxygen to enter the textured scaffold.