Patent ID: 9379395
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H01M,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A metal-air battery, comprising: an electrochemically active anode that emits electrons and metal cations during a discharge state; a cathode that includes an oxygen-reduction catalyst to catalytically process the metal cations into a metal oxide; a battery separator that electrically isolates the anode from the cathode, the battery separator being permeable to metal cations and positioned between the anode and the cathode; a cathode temperature sensor that is thermally coupled with the cathode and from which a present operating temperature of the cathode is obtained during the discharge state; a cathode temperature controller that identifies a power-boosted operating temperature at which a projected power boost, relative to a present battery power, exceeds a projected battery penalty; and a temperature regulator supplied with current generated by the metal-air battery to adjust the cathode temperature from the present operating temperature to the power-boosted operating temperature during the discharge state.