Philips Research, part of Royal Philips Electronics (the Netherlands), announced that Stone Battery Industries Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan) has completed the licensing agreement to employ Philips Lithylene™ battery technology in the manufacturing of batteries with free-form factors. Stone Battery, together with Philips, will bring a new degree of design freedom to battery-powered products.
Philips Lithylene™ battery-making technology enables the fabrication of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries without the need of outside pressure to keep the battery stack together. A stable battery structure is obtained by making microscopic holes through the electrodes and separators, and subsequently filling these with a polymer. Having a stable electrode structure, Lithylene™ batteries can be tailored in a variety of forms without compromising on performance or price.
Philips Lithylene™ battery technology can be used to fabricate batteries with a variety of different electrochemical compositions to the contours of a product. Stone Battery plans to start mass production in the greater China region with an estimated capacity of 500,000 pieces per month effective the third quarter of 2004.
