EEStor Issued a Patent For Its Supercapacitor

An anonymous reader sends us to GM-volt.com, an electric vehicle enthusiast blog, for the news that last week EEStor was granted a US patent for their electric-energy storage unit, of which no one outside the company (no one who is talking, anyway) has seen so much as a working prototype. We've discussed the company on a number of occasions. The patent (PDF) is a highly information-rich document that offers remarkable insight into the device. EEStor notes "the present invention provides a unique lightweight electric-energy storage unit that has the capability to store ultrahigh amounts of energy." "The core ingredient is an aluminum coated barium titanate powder immersed in a polyethylene terephthalate plastic matrix. The EESU is composed of 31,353 of these components arranged in parallel. It is said to have a total capacitance of 30.693 F and can hold 52.220 kWh of energy. The device is said to have a weight of 281.56 pound including the box and all hardware. Unlike lithium-ion cells, the technology is said not to degrade with cycling and thus has a functionally unlimited lifetime. It is mentioned the device cannot explode when being charge or impacted and is thus safe for vehicles."

Comments

It must be real

[Arancaytar]

What's the benefit of a patent for something that doesn't exist yet? At most, they're issued for things that are obvious or have existed for decades. ;)

Re:It must be real

[Thanshin]

Don't lose hope. Maybe there's a natural occurrence of an aluminum coated barium titanate powder immersed in a polyethylene terephthalate plastic matrix.

For all we know, that could be the composition of the droppings of a rare butterfly.

Re:It must be real

[Nefarious Wheel]

You're thinking of one of the stereoisomers of Thiotimoline, I believe. One of them is endochronic.

Re:It must be real

[aliquis]

Now if only you could get the fucking butterflies to do their droppings at the same spot 31,353 times in a row.

Re:It must be real

[Arancaytar]

rare butterfly.

Or unicorns.

Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder what they will charge for this?

Use standard units, damnit!

[dangitman]

the present invention provides a unique lightweight electric-energy storage unit that has the capability to store ultrahigh amounts of energy

Can't you express these things in units we all all understand, like jigawatts per nanofornight?

Re: can hold 52.220 kWh

[BlackPignouf]

k, not kw.

Re:Check out the patent

[MichaelSmith]

1. Park EV under power cables
2. Throw a rope over the Neutral and use it to pull up a steel cable
3. Throw the rope over the Active. Attach a second cable
4. ???
5. Profit! (assuming you are still alive after step 4).

Re: can hold 52.220 kWh

[Hognoxious]

Well whatever unit it is, 640k of them ought to be enough for anyone.

Re:Wow, cool

[jank1887]

we like massless frictionless spherical monkeys hanging from massless ropes attached to frictionless pullies, thankyouverymuch.

Re:Wow, cool

[Lumpy]

Ahhh you must be from the Theoretical Physics Department, over here in Engineering we have wind resistance, friction and efficiency to worry about.
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Ahh you're from the Engineering department... Over here in the Manufacturing department we have to worry about cost ,liability ,feasibility ,and marketability to worry about.

and don't you dare talk to marketing, both of you will confuse them and those idiots will go out telling everyone we can go 10,000 miles and charge in 6 seconds for -$10.00.. "Why you'll make money!" they will market this very wrong.

So when marketing comes by, look sad and say it kills puppies.

Re:Wow, cool

[lilomar]

I'm from the Legal Department, and I just got off the phone with $ANIMAL_RIGHTS_GROUP.

Apparently someone has been telling marketing that we kill puppies for fun, and they spun it as a feature.

Anyone want to explain to the R&D Department why their funding is getting cut?

Re:Bass

[MadMidnightBomber]

Yes, briefly.