US 12,438,198 B2
Closed-loop lead acid battery recycling process and product
Jason Searl, Bayside, WI (US); Brian Wycklendt, Fort Myers, FL (US); Craig William Rigby, Milwaukee, WI (US); Jeramy William LeMieux, Mukwonago, WI (US); Corey Lee Graven, Cedarburg, WI (US); Hiroko Kawai, Bayside, WI (US); and Edmund Adam Muellerweiss, Grafton, WI (US)
Assigned to CPS Technology Holdings LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed by CPS Technology Holdings LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/454,412.
Application 18/454,412 is a continuation of application No. 17/472,352, filed on Sep. 10, 2021, granted, now 11,742,527.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/077,317, filed on Sep. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0395872 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H01M 10/42 (2006.01); H01M 10/12 (2006.01); H01M 50/414 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 10/12 (2013.01) [H01M 50/414 (2021.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A closed-loop process of managing a battery recycling and a battery manufacturing, the process comprising:
collecting, via a first terminal at a first location, first data related to a weight of each of one or more batteries;
processing, at a second location, the one or more batteries so as to recycle the batteries and separating components of the batteries into a recycled metal and a recycled polymer;
determining, via a second terminal at the second location, second data related to a separate weight of at least one of the recycled metal and the recycled polymer;
comparing the first data to the second data to calculate a weight loss of at least one of the components during the recycling using a server electrically coupled with the first terminal and the second terminal;
creating a new battery using the recycled metal and the recycled polymer; and
accounting for a loss of the recycled metal.