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Patent Landscape · Battery & Energy Storage
Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Thermal Management Patent Landscape 2026
  • Small, recent field. only 11 families sit inside this exact claim intersection, with filing activity concentrated from 2017 onward and a 2021 peak of 5.
  • No incumbent has pulled ahead. the strongest citation signal (CN110534843A, cited 14 times) and the most detailed US filing (Green Cubes Technology) sit alongside single-filing academic and individual applicants — no assignee has filed a second wave.
  • India and China lead office of filing. each with 3 records, ahead of Europe's 2 — a sign that thermal-management claims here are being drafted close to manufacturing bases rather than centrally in the US.
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11
Published Records
-100%
Filing Growth 2021→2024
CN
Leading Jurisdiction
10
Active Filers Ranked

Filing growth compares 2021 (5 records) with 2024 (0) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field.

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Field Overview

A narrow, still-forming claim space

This landscape isolates patent families that combine lithium iron phosphate chemistry with active thermal-management claims — cooling modules, immersion cooling, thermal runaway prevention — under the core battery-cooling IPC codes. At 11 published families, the set is small enough that a single well-cited filing, CN110534843A, can visibly skew the citation picture, and no applicant yet holds more than a handful of records.

Filing began in earnest in 2017, ran to a peak of 5 in 2021, then dropped to zero at the 2022 midpoint before resuming — consistent with publication lag rather than a real pause, since filings made in the last 18 months are still working through to publication. The technology composition leans almost entirely on H01M battery-cell classifications, with only single-digit spillover into power-supply (H02J), vehicle HVAC (B60H) and heat-exchanger (F28D/F28F) codes, meaning most inventive effort is still framed as a battery-internal problem rather than a systems-integration one.

Filing activity, 2017–2026 (partial)
  1. 1GREEN CUBES TECHNOLOGY LLC5
  2. 2Chang'an University1
  3. 3Hubei University of Automotive Technology1
  4. 4Henan Lidong Power Co., Ltd.1
  5. 5MR GAURAV DESHWAL1
  6. 6MR ARUN KAPUR1
  7. 7MR ABHISHEK WADKAR1
  8. 8MEPCO SCHLENK ENGINEERING COLLEGE1
  9. 9DR SANTOSH CHAVAN1
  10. 10DAYANANDA SAGAR UNIV1
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee ranking and totals. Derived from a Patsnap search on Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Thermal Management covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
Filing & Classification Data

Where the filings sit

The trend and classification split point to a field still defining its own boundaries: growth resumed after a flat midpoint, and claims are drafted almost entirely as cell-level battery engineering rather than vehicle or grid integration.

Filing trend, 2017–2026

Two families in 2017, a peak of 5 in 2021, a zero-filing midpoint in 2022, then renewed activity — read the tail as understated given the ~18-month publication lag, not as a slowdown.

Filing trend, 2017–2026013452201720182019202052021202220232024202512026Most recent year is partial — publication lag means later filings are not yet visible.

IPC subclass composition

H01M (batteries, cells & fuel cells) anchors all 11 records; H02J (power supply & grid) appears in 4, while B60H, B60L, C09K, F28D, F28F and H05K each contribute a single record — thin coverage that leaves vehicle- and grid-integration framing largely open.

IPC subclass compositionH01M · Batteries, cells & fuel cells11100.0%H02J · Power supply & grid systems436.4%B60H · Vehicle heating & A/C19.1%B60L · Electric vehicle propulsion19.1%C09K · Materials for misc. applicatio…19.1%F28D · Heat-exchange apparatus19.1%F28F · Heat-exchanger details19.1%H05K · Printed circuits & assemblies19.1%

Shares are the percentage of the 11 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.

Source: Patsnap Eureka. Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Thermal Management covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.

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Key Patents

The filings setting the citation and claim baseline

Representative Filing
US20230187734A12023-06-15

US20230187734A1 — Thermal battery management system

GREEN CUBES TECHNOLOGY, LLC

Discloses LiFePO4 battery systems where a battery management system monitors and controls dedicated heating and cooling elements, including temperature-control elements that absorb or exhaust heat from within the battery pack, and optional phase-change materials, heating elements or thermoelectric devices integrated into the cell housing.Filed by Green Cubes Technology, LLC — published 2023-06-15.

US20230187734A1 — patent drawing 1
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Most-cited records in this landscape
#Publication no.Patent titleCitations
1CN110534843A一种用于电池热管理的散热模组14
2US20230187734A1Thermal battery management system2
3CN207398304U一种家用锂电池的智能降温系统2
4CN206558643U一种基于纯电动车的磷酸铁锂电池组散热装置1

Citation counts here reflect a small, recent corpus — CN110534843A's 14 citations are an outlier signal of early influence, not proof the claim scope is settled.

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Source: Patsnap Eureka. Citation counts and representative records. Derived from a Patsnap search on Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Thermal Management covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
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Landscape Insights

Reading the numbers

With only 11 families in scope, every figure below should be read as a directional signal rather than a statistically settled trend.

Filing Momentum
5 in 2021
peak year to date

Growth resumed after a flat midpoint

Filings ran from 2 in 2017 to a peak of 5 in 2021, then dropped to 0 at the 2022 midpoint before picking back up. Given the roughly 18-month gap between filing and publication, the apparent 2022 gap is more likely a reporting artefact than a genuine pause in R&D.

Treat 2025–2026 counts as a floor, not a ceiling.
Citation Concentration
14 citations
CN110534843A

One filing carries most of the citation weight

CN110534843A's 14 citations dwarf the next-highest record (2 citations, shared by US20230187734A1 and CN207398304U). In a corpus this size, that concentration says more about early filing date and visibility than about the strength of its claims relative to newer entrants.

Citation counts favour older records structurally.
Geographic Split
China 3 · India 3
leading receiving offices

Filing is close to manufacturing, not centralised

China and India each account for 3 records, ahead of Europe's 2 and single filings each in Canada, the US and via the PCT route. That spread suggests thermal-management claims are being drafted regionally, close to cell and pack production, rather than funnelled through one dominant jurisdiction.

No single office holds a clear majority.
Assignee Structure
6 co-assignee pairs
collaboration density

Collaboration is individual-led, not corporate

The strongest co-filing links are between individual named inventors — Gaurav Deshwal paired separately with Arun Kapur, Abhishek Wadkar and Santosh Chavan — rather than between established companies. That points to early-stage or academic-adjacent invention activity still ahead of corporate consolidation.

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Source: Patsnap Eureka. Co-assignee relationships and derived observations. Derived from a Patsnap search on Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Thermal Management covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
Assignee Landscape

Who is filing, and how concentrated it is

No assignee in this set has filed more than a handful of records, and the recent-year momentum is spread evenly across a small group of individual inventors rather than concentrated in one company.

Corporate Filer
0 in latest year
Green Cubes Technology, LLC

The only named-company filer of scale

Green Cubes Technology, LLC holds the most detailed corporate filing in the set, US20230187734A1, covering integrated BMS-controlled heating and cooling with optional phase-change materials. It shows no filings in the latest year, leaving room for a follow-on filer to extend the same architecture.

No repeat filing yet from this assignee.
Individual Inventor Cluster
1 each in latest year
Deshwal, Kapur, Wadkar, Chavan

An active but uncorporatized inventor group

Gaurav Deshwal, Arun Kapur, Abhishek Wadkar and Santosh Chavan each show a filing in the most recent year and appear together across the strongest co-assignee pairs in the dataset. This cluster is the most active by recency, even without a corporate assignee attached.

Worth tracking for a future corporate assignment.
Academic Filer
0 in latest year
Chang'an University

University filing with no recent follow-through

Chang'an University appears in the dataset but shows no filing in the latest year, consistent with a single early-stage academic disclosure rather than a sustained programme.

One of several single-filing academic entrants.
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Under-claimed sub-areas
Sub-areas with one or zero dedicated filings in this dataset — open ground for a first-mover claim.
Immersion cooling for LFP packsPhase-change material integrationThermoelectric cell-level coolingVehicle HVAC–battery thermal couplingGrid-scale LFP thermal runaway containment
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Recent-year filing momentum by assignee
AssigneeRecent yearYoY
MR GAURAV DESHWAL1
MR ARUN KAPUR1
MR ABHISHEK WADKAR1
DR SANTOSH CHAVAN1
GREEN CUBES TECHNOLOGY LLC0
Chang'an University0
Hubei University of Automotive Technology0
Henan Lidong Power Co., Ltd.0
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee-level momentum. Derived from a Patsnap search on Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Thermal Management covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
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Where to take this analysis

This landscape is a starting map, not a clearance opinion. The next steps depend on whether the goal is freedom-to-operate, a filing strategy, or tracking a specific competitor.

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