US 11,888,108 B2
Prelithiated hybridized energy storage device
Hieu Minh Duong, Rosemead, CA (US); Porter Mitchell, Chandler, AZ (US); Mohammed-Yazid Saidi, La Mesa, CA (US); Joon Ho Shin, San Diego, CA (US); and Haim Feigenbaum, Irvine, CA (US)
Assigned to Tesla, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by Tesla, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/099,588.
Application 17/099,588 is a continuation of application No. 15/900,172, filed on Feb. 20, 2018, granted, now 10,840,540.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/461,350, filed on Feb. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0075055 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H01M 10/0525 (2010.01); H01M 4/62 (2006.01); H01M 4/587 (2010.01); H01M 4/1395 (2010.01); H01M 4/1393 (2010.01); H01M 4/38 (2006.01); H01M 4/134 (2010.01); H01M 4/133 (2010.01); H01M 4/04 (2006.01); H01M 4/36 (2006.01)
CPC H01M 10/0525 (2013.01) [H01M 4/043 (2013.01); H01M 4/133 (2013.01); H01M 4/134 (2013.01); H01M 4/1393 (2013.01); H01M 4/1395 (2013.01); H01M 4/364 (2013.01); H01M 4/382 (2013.01); H01M 4/587 (2013.01); H01M 4/622 (2013.01); H01M 4/625 (2013.01); H01M 4/628 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrode film comprising:
lithium-intercalating carbon particles;
elemental lithium metal; and
a fibrillized binder;
wherein at least some of the lithium-intercalating carbon particles and the elemental lithium metal form lithium intercalating carbon particles coated with elemental lithium metal; and
wherein the electrode film is a free-standing electrode film and is absent of solvent residues.