Batteries & Other Energy Storage Devices

November 2021

Analog Devices' Battery Management IC Delivers Longer Battery Runtime

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) announced the MAX17330 battery management integrated circuit (IC) with integrated fuel gauge and advanced battery protection for one-cell lithium-ion/polymer batteries that delivers longer battery runtime for consumer applications than similar products. The new IC expands ADI’s bat

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Date:

11/23/2021

Multi-Cell Battery Front End Family for High-Cell Count Systems

Renesas Electronics Corporation introduced a new family of multi-cell full battery front end (BFE) ICs for battery management systems (BMS) built for the larger, high-voltage battery packs that power e-scooters, energy storage, high-voltage power tools, and other high-voltage equipment. The new ICs provide fast, fl

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Date:

11/23/2021

Professor Xavier Crispin and research engineers Ujwala Ail and Ziyauddin Khan, at the crimper that manufactures coin cell batteries to prove the concept, in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

Natural Solution to Large-Scale Energy Storage

Ally Winning

The old saying goes that you could wait for hours to catch a bus and then two come along at once. The subject of last week’s TechTalk was how cellulose derived from trees could be used to make the electrolyte for a solid-state battery that may overcome the previous downsides to the technology (their brittleness

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Date:

11/23/2021

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Figure 1: By 2030, Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) will account for 45% of all xEVs

The Race to Automotive Electrification: What it Takes to Win

For years, automakers have been continuously challenged with the need for more power. In the early days, cars were powered with a six-volt battery right up to the mid 1950s when automotive systems evolved to a 12V power source to meet the perpetual need for more power. Not only did automakers have to anticipate ne

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Date:

11/22/2021

Battery Management System Enables Battery Hot Swapping

Sensata Technologies announced the availability of its new i-BMS battery management system (BMS) for electrified applications up to 60V. The new i-BMS Battery Management System from Sensata’s Lithium Balance product brand, acquired by Sensata earlier in the year, is a cell chemistry agnostic, compact,

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Date:

11/19/2021

Battery Charger IC Powers Latest Low-Voltage Rechargeable Batteries

ROHM Semiconductor introduced the BD71631QWZ battery charger IC, designed to provide low-voltage charging of wearables (e.g., wireless ear buds) and thin, compact IoT devices (e.g., smart displays) powered by rechargeable batteries. In recent years, the need for safer, higher density rechargea

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Date:

11/19/2021

EnerCera Coin (above four products)

NGK, TOREX, Ossia Collaborate to Promote Wireless Power Transmission

NGK INSULATORS, LTD. (hereinafter, “NGK”), TOREX SEMICONDUCTOR LTD. (hereinafter, "TOREX") and Ossia Inc. (hereinafter "Ossia") have started working together to spread the use of wireless power transmission/transfer (WPT) systems. The companies have developed a WPT power receiv

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Date:

11/17/2021

Trees could be the key to better, safer batteries

Ally Winning

One of the downsides of Lithium-ion batteries is that they can be unsafe if stressed, meaning they have to be treated with care and respected. If they are stressed by an internal short, excessive heat, or physical damage, for example, then they can catch fire or even explode. Using individual cells in large co

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Date:

11/16/2021

Richardson Electronics Offers Lithium-Iron Phosphate Batteries

Richardson Electronics, Ltd. announces the availability of AMOGREENTECH’s energy storage system solutions using lithium-iron-phosphate batteries. AMOGREENTECH manufactures energy storage systems (ESS), including the new lithium-iron-phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries. The LiFePO4 is a safe battery option wi

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Date:

11/16/2021

Powercast COO and CTO, Dr. Charles Greene.

PSDcast – Powercast Shows off RF Wireless Charging Applications

Just recently, Powercast put out the “Powered by Powercast” video series, where they show real-world examples of their over-the-air RF wireless charging technology, and we’re going to discuss that series, and one application in particular, today.

Date:

11/12/2021

Lithium-Ion Innovation to Enhance Resiliency of Critical Infrastructure

Power management company Eaton announced a leap forward for lithium-ion battery capabilities in uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) in North America with the launch of its new LXP-P series solutions. The solutions, comprised of lightweight battery cabinets with pre-installed batteries using lithium-ion phosphate te

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Date:

11/08/2021

Muhammad Sarmad Mir, PhD Student at IMDEA Networks and one of the authors of the scientific paper “PassiveLiFi: Rethinking LiFi for Low-Power and Long Range RF Backscatter”

Wireless communication without batteries?

Ally Winning

While batteries are more popular than ever, there are still some downsides to using them. Those problems will grow as our reliance on them increases. Lithium is in short supply, it can explode and it is difficult to recycle. Despite those problems, lithium-based batteries are the best solution that we currentl

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Date:

11/02/2021

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Figure 1: Power consumption model

MCU Power Architecture Takes Battery Life to the Limit

Graeme Clark, Principal Engineer, Renesas Electronics

The spectacular growth of the IoT is driving the need to develop new, battery powered sensing devices, that are smarter, faster and can last for longer on smaller, cheaper batteries. To satisfy the demand for higher performance, we must steal time from many of the other system components, reallocating the time -

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Date:

11/01/2021