According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a rechargeable electromagnetic induction battery comprising: a first electrode, which comprises heat sink and an anode; a second electrode, which comprises heat sink and a cathode; an inductor coil; and an electrolytic solution contained between the first and second electrodes. Also, there is provided a method of charging an electromagnetic induction battery, comprising the steps of: attaching a voltage source to the battery, applying a direct current voltage to the battery for a first period of time, and applying an alternating current voltage to the battery for a second period of time, wherein the battery has an anode, cathode, inductor and an electrolytic solution comprising electrons, wherein the alternating current generates a magnetic field which excites the electrons in the electrolytic solution to an upper energy state.

The present disclosure includes a battery test assembly. The battery test assembly includes a container forming an enclosed cavity having sides, a top and a bottom with an opening in the top, a first electrode having a first non-electrically active coating material, a second electrode having a second non-electrically active coating material, a separator disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode the separator including an insulator material and a non-ionic liquid within the cavity, wherein the first electrode, separator and second electrode are wound in a spiral configuration within the container.

Provided is a battery cooling and fire protection system, comprising: (A) a plurality of battery cells, wherein at least a cell comprises an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, a protective housing that at least partially encloses the anode, the cathode and the electrolyte, and at least one heat spreader element disposed partially or entirely inside the protective housing; and (B) a case configured to hold the plurality of battery cells and a cooling liquid, wherein the battery cells are partially or fully submerged in the cooling liquid, which is configured to be in thermal communication with the heat spreader element and is configured to transport heat generated by the battery cells through the heat spreader element to the cooling liquid and wherein the cooling liquid comprises a fire protection or fire suppression substance.

To provide a battery cell structure capable of improving heat dissipation without degradation of an energy density and an obstacle to size reduction while an electrode layer of a battery cell has sufficient heat transfer properties. The present invention relates to a cell structure including a positive/negative electrode formed in such a manner that a conductive base member having a three-dimensional structure contains an electrode active material and a collector formed continuously to the positive/negative electrode. One surface of the collector is formed continuously in a longitudinal direction of the positive/negative electrode (across a large area), and the other surface of the collector is exposed in a longitudinal direction of the cell structure (across a large area).

To provide a battery cell structure capable of improving heat dissipation without degradation of an energy density and an obstacle to size reduction while an electrode layer of a battery cell has sufficient heat transfer properties. The present invention relates to a cell structure including a positive/negative electrode formed in such a manner that a conductive base member having a three-dimensional structure contains an electrode active material and a collector formed continuously to the positive/negative electrode. One surface of the collector is formed continuously in a longitudinal direction of the positive/negative electrode (across a large area), and the other surface of the collector is exposed in a longitudinal direction of the cell structure (across a large area).

A secondary cell includes an electrode body including a plurality of electrode groups each including a plurality of positive electrodes, a plurality of negative electrodes, and at least one separator, the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes each being alternately stacked on each other with the separator interposed in between; and at least one metal plate disposed between the electrode groups. Electrodes that are disposed at both ends of each of the electrode groups are the negative electrodes. The metal plate is in contact with a mixture layer of a negative electrode constituting at least one of the electrode groups, the metal plate being provided in a noncontact state with conductive members other than the mixture layer.

A secondary cell includes an electrode body including a plurality of electrode groups each including a plurality of positive electrodes, a plurality of negative electrodes, and at least one separator, the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes each being alternately stacked on each other with the separator interposed in between; and at least one metal plate disposed between the electrode groups. Electrodes that are disposed at both ends of each of the electrode groups are the negative electrodes. The metal plate is in contact with a mixture layer of a negative electrode constituting at least one of the electrode groups, the metal plate being provided in a noncontact state with conductive members other than the mixture layer.

An electrochemical device according to various aspects of the present disclosure includes an electrochemical cell and an inductor coil. The electrochemical cell includes a current collector. the current collector includes an electrically-conductive material. The inductor coil is configured to generate a magnetic field. The magnetic field is configured to induce an eddy current in the current collector to generate heat in the current collector. In various aspects, the present disclosure also provides a method of internally heating an electrochemical cell. In various aspects, the present disclosure also provides a method of controlling heating of an electrochemical cell.

A rapid heating-charging process for charging a rechargeable battery is disclosed. Such a process can be implemented by an integrated heating and battery system can include a rechargeable battery and a heating element in thermal contact with the at least one cell of the battery and electrically connected in series to a switch wherein the heating element and switch form a switch-heater assembly. The switch-heater assembly can be electrically connected in parallel with the battery to form a battery-switch-heater circuit. Advantageously, the battery-switch-heater circuit is configured to be directly electrically engaged with a charger so that the heating element is powered mainly by the charger and electrically connected to the battery when the heating element is powered by the charger. Such a system can be used in a charging operation to pre-heat the battery to a predetermined charging temperature which advantageously improves charge kinetics and reduce charge overpotential, thereby enabling fast charging and charging at a variety of temperatures.

An electrode material layer includes an electrode active material and graphene of a sheet-like structure, a surface of the graphene is modified with magnetic response nanodots, and in the graphene, more than 50% of the graphene is arranged at an angle of 45° to 90° with respect to a surface, of the current collector, on which the electrode material layer is disposed, to form a heat conduction path having a specific orientation.