US 11,699,780 B2
Electrically coupled electrodes, and associated articles and methods
Daniel G. Milobar, Tucson, AZ (US); and Shane Harrel, Tucson, AZ (US)
Assigned to Sion Power Corporation, Tucson, AZ (US)
Filed by Sion Power Corporation, Tucson, AZ (US)
Filed on May 21, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/879,839.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/851,162, filed on May 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0373551 A1, Nov. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. H01M 4/04 (2006.01); H01M 10/04 (2006.01); H01M 10/0585 (2010.01); H01M 4/75 (2006.01); H01M 50/534 (2021.01); H01M 50/562 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 4/04 (2013.01) [H01M 4/75 (2013.01); H01M 10/04 (2013.01); H01M 10/0585 (2013.01); H01M 50/534 (2021.01); H01M 50/562 (2021.01)] 43 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
penetrating a portion of an article comprising:
an electrically non-conductive layer comprising a first side and a second side that is penetrated during the penetrating;
a first electrode portion adjacent to the first side of the electrically non-conductive layer, wherein the first electrode portion comprises a first electrode active material that is an electrochemically active species that is penetrated during the penetrating; and
a second electrode portion adjacent to the second side of the electrically non-conductive layer, wherein the second electrode portion comprises a second electrode active material that is an electrochemically active species that is penetrated during the penetrating, such that the penetrating causes the formation of an electrically conductive solid material region extending from the first electrode portion, through the electrically non-conductive layer, and to the second electrode portion,
wherein:
the first electrode active material of the first electrode portion is the same as the second electrode active material of the second electrode portion,
the electrically conductive solid material region also comprises electrode active material that is the same as the electrode active material present in the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion, and
the electrically conductive solid material region electrically couples the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion.