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20090084335 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TURBULENCE IN A COMBUSTION ENGINE - A system for controlling turbulence in a combustion engine having a composite upper intake manifold and a cylinder head. The system includes a composite housing, a composite cartridge, a shaft, a radial gasket, a lever arm, and a press in place gasket. The composite housing includes an open first end and an open second end. The open second end defines a first cross-sectional area. The first end is configured to be welded to the composite upper intake manifold and the second end has a gasket groove. The second end is configured to be connected with the cylinder head. The composite cartridge is positioned within and removably joined with the second end of the composite housing. The composite cartridge includes a body, a flap valve, and bushings. The shaft connected to the flap valve within the composite housing. The press in place gasket is positioned within the gasket groove. | 04-02-2009 |
20100031913 | MODULAR INTAKE MANIFOLD - Disclosed herein is an intake manifold assembly that comprises a first outer covering, a second outer covering connected to the first outer covering that together define a chamber having an intake port, and a flow channel insert. The second outer covering has an outlet port positioned within its interior surface and the flow channel insert is nestingly connected to the outlet port with the rest of the flow channel insert received within the chamber. The flow channel insert being a single piece that defines a channel having a first end and a second end. | 02-11-2010 |
20140150759 | Engine Including External EGR System - An engine assembly includes an engine structure defining a combustion chamber. An intake system includes an intake manifold in communication with the combustion chamber. An exhaust system includes an exhaust conduit in communication with the combustion chamber. An exhaust gas recirculation system includes an EGR tube providing communication between the intake and exhaust systems, the EGR tube includes an end portion extending a distance into the intake system in a direction opposing air flow to the intake manifold. | 06-05-2014 |
20140352643 | INTAKE MANIFOLD ASSEMBLY - An intake manifold assembly includes an intake manifold body defining an interior manifold cavity. The intake manifold further includes a throttle mount coupled to the intake manifold body and defining a mount passage in fluid communication with the interior manifold cavity. The throttle mount is configured to be coupled to a throttle assembly. The intake manifold assembly further includes a supplemental gas conduit including a first supplemental gas conduit portion coupled to the intake manifold body. The supplemental gas conduit further includes a second supplemental gas conduit portion in fluid communication with the first supplemental gas conduit portion. The second supplemental gas conduit portion is coupled to the throttle mount and is configured to deliver supplemental gases into the mount passage to mix the supplemental gases with intake air flowing through the mount passage. | 12-04-2014 |
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20130273422 | EX-SITU PRODUCTION OF A LITHIUM ANODE PROTECTIVE LAYER - In a method for producing an anode for a lithium cell, and/or a lithium cell as well as anodes and lithium cells of this type, to extend the service life of the lithium cell and to selectively form a first protective layer including electrolytic decomposition products, on an anode including metallic lithium, a first electrolyte is applied on the anode ex situ, i.e., prior to assembling the lithium cell to be produced. To stabilize the first protective layer, a second protective layer is applied in a subsequent method step. | 10-17-2013 |
20140017394 | CATHODE COMPOSITION - A cathode composition for an alkali-sulfur cell, e.g., a lithium-sulfur cell, includes, in addition to elementary sulfur, at least one material having covalently and/or conically bound sulfur, for example, a sulfur composite material, a sulfurous polymer, a metal sulfide, or a nonmetal sulfide. | 01-16-2014 |
20140072698 | ELECTRODE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRODE - An electrode for an energy store, in particular for a lithium-ion battery. To achieve a particularly good and long-term stable capacitance, the electrode includes an active material, optionally a binder, optionally a conductive additive, and a sorption agent; intermediate stages of the active material arising during a charging and/or discharging procedure of the energy store may be immobilized by the sorption agent. Furthermore, also described is a method for manufacturing an electrode for an energy store, and the use of a sorption agent for manufacturing an electrode for an electrochemical energy store. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072843 | ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORE - An electrochemical energy store, e.g., a lithium-ion battery, includes a cell chamber, in which at least one anode, at least one cathode, and an electrolyte, which is situated between the anode and the cathode, are situated, the cell chamber being separated from the external surroundings by a housing, and at least one detection substance for the detection of a leak of the housing being situated in the cell chamber. The energy store configuration allows a leak of the energy store to be detected in a simple way. | 03-13-2014 |
20140127589 | POLYACRYLONITRILE-SULPHUR COMPOSITE MATERIAL - The invention relates to a method for preparing a polyacrylonitrile-sulfur composite material, in which, polyacrylonitrile is converted to cyclized polyacrylonitrile, and the cyclized polyacrylonitrile is reacted with sulfur to form a polyacrylonitrile-sulfur composite material. By a separation of the preparation method into two partial reactions, the reaction conditions are advantageously able to be optimized for the respective reactions and a cathode material is able to be provided for alkali-sulfur cells with improved electrochemical properties. In addition, the invention relates to a polyacrylonitrile-sulfur composite material, a cathode material, an alkali-sulfur cell or an alkali-sulfur battery as well as to an energy store. | 05-08-2014 |
20140154589 | CATHODE MATERIAL FOR AN ALKALI-SULFUR CELL - In a method for preparing a cathode material for an alkali-sulfur cell, e.g., a lithium-sulfur cell, at least one polyacrilonitrile-sulfur composite material and elemental sulfur are mixed, in order to increase the voltage, the capacitance and the energy density. | 06-05-2014 |
20140170457 | Redox Additive for Secondary Cells with Liquid-Solid Phase Change - A secondary cell, in particular a lithium-sulfur cell, that encompasses a cathode having an electrochemically active cathode active material, an anode having an electrochemically active anode active material, and a liquid electrolyte, the cathode active material and/or anode active material changing, in the context of the charging or discharging operation, from a solid phase form into a liquid phase form that is soluble in the electrolyte. To increase the charging/discharging rate and cycle stability and to decrease overvoltages, the secondary cell encompasses at least one redox additive that is soluble in reduced form and oxidized form in the electrolyte and that is suitable for reacting with the phase-changing electrode active material in a redox reaction in such a way that the electrode active material is convertible from the solid phase form into the liquid phase form. | 06-19-2014 |
20140234692 | SEPARATOR FOR AN ENERGY STORE AND AN ENERGY STORE - A separator for an energy store. The separator may be used in a lithium-sulfur battery in particular. To achieve improved cycle stability, the separator has at least one first layer and at least one second layer, the at least one first layer containing a material having an affine property with respect to at least one active electrode material, and the at least one second layer containing a material having a repellent property with respect to at least one active electrode material. The at least one first layer and the at least one second layer may be situated directly adjacent to one another. Also described is an energy store including the separator. | 08-21-2014 |
20140326043 | Energy store, system including the energy store, and method for ascertaining the state of health of an energy store - An energy store, in particular to a lithium-based energy store. In order to make a simple and exact determination of a state of health, e.g., the aging condition, possible, the energy store includes at least one cell having an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte which is situated between the anode and the cathode, at least one cell having an outlet for conveying functional material from the cell to an analysis unit and the outlet being connectable to the analysis unit in a fluid-tight manner. Also described is a system including the energy store and an analysis unit, and a method for ascertaining a state of health of an energy store. | 11-06-2014 |
20140327911 | Energy store system and state detection system including the energy store system - An energy store system, including at least one cell element situated in a cell region having an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte system that is situated between the anode and the cathode and that is particularly at least partially liquid, the anode, the cathode and/or the electrolyte system being configured so that, as a function of a charging or discharging process of the cell element, functioning material is situated in the electrolyte system, and the functional material situated in the electrolyte system being ascertainable qualitatively and/or quantitatively. Because of such an energy store system, operating states of an energy store or a cell may be ascertained particularly simply and accurately. Also described is a related state detection system. | 11-06-2014 |
20140342214 | SEPARATOR HAVING A POLYSULFIDE BARRIER LAYER FOR LITHIUM-SULFUR CELLS - A lithium-sulfur cell includes a lithium-containing anode, a sulfur-containing cathode and a separator arranged between the lithium-containing anode and the sulfur-containing cathode. To suppress a shuttle mechanism and to prevent a loss of active material, the separator includes a base layer and a polysulfide barrier layer. The polysulfide barrier layer is formed on the cathode side of the separator. | 11-20-2014 |
20150017487 | Safety System for Batteries - A battery, particularly a lithium-metal battery or a lithium-ion battery, having at least one galvanic cell surrounded by a cell housing. To increase the safety of the battery and to close up again a cell opened by a safety device or by a leakage, the inner chamber of the cell housing of the at least one cell includes a first chemical component, a chamber bordering on at least one section of the outer side of the housing including a second chemical component; a solid reaction product being developable by the chemical reaction of the first and second chemical components. The first component is containable in the electrolyte of the cell and the second component in a cooling and/or tempering arrangement. Also described is a cooling and/or tempering arrangement based on it, and an electrolyte, an electrolytic liquid, a safety system, a method and a mobile or stationary system. | 01-15-2015 |