Patent 7947092 was granted and assigned to Quallion on May, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A battery includes an electrolyte activating one or more anodes and one or more cathodes. The electrolyte includes one or more salts in a solvent. One or more of the cathodes has a cathode medium that includes a lithium transition metal oxide as a cathode active material. The cathode medium also includes an inactive material that reacts with the electrolyte to form a passivation layer on the cathode medium. The passivation layer can include LiF. In some instances, the inactive material includes or consists of Li2CO3.