1. A method of making an active electrode material, the method comprising:
providing activated carbon having between about 70 and 98 percent microporous activated carbon particles of a total amount of activated carbon by weight and between about 2 and 30 percent mesoporous activated carbon particles of the total amount of activated carbon by weight;
providing binder; and
mixing the activated carbon and the binder to form an active electrode material mixture.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing activated carbon comprises providing activated carbon having between about 80 and 98 percent microporous activated carbon particles of the total amount of activated carbon by weight and between about 2 and 20 percent mesoporous activated carbon particles of the total amount of activated carbon by weight.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing activated carbon includes providing the total amount of activated carbon in amount of between about 80 and about 97 percent of the mixture by weight, and wherein the operation of providing the binder includes providing binder in amount of between about 3 and about 20 percent of the mixture by weight.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing conductive particles and mixing the activated carbon and binder with the conductive particles to form the mixture.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the mixture of activated carbon, binder and conductive particles comprises less than about 15 percent conductive particles by weight.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the mixture of activated carbon, binder and conductive particles does not exceed about 0.5 percent conductive particles by weight.
7. The method of claim 4, wherein the conductive particles comprise conductive carbon.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the conductive particles comprise graphite.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the binder comprises providing an inert binder.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the activated carbon and binder mixture comprises between about 3 and about 20 percent binder by weight.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the activated carbon and binder mixture comprises between about 9 and about 11 percent binder by weight.
12. The method of claim 9, wherein the binder comprises polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) particles.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the mixing comprises dry blending the activated carbon and the binder.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein the mixing is performed without processing additives.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the mixing is performed with processing additives.
16. The method of claim 1, further comprising forming a dry film from the mixture and bonding the dry film to a current collector to form an electrode film.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein the mixing comprises milling the activated carbon and the binder.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein the milling comprises milling using a ball mill, an electromagnetic ball mill, a disk mill, a pin mill, a high-energy impact mill, a fluid energy impact mill, an opposing nozzle jet mill, a fluidized bed jet mill, a hammer mill, a fritz mill, a roll mill, or an impact mill.
19. A method of making an electrode film, comprising:
forming a film of active electrode material comprising activated carbon having between about 70 and 98 percent microporous activated carbon particles of a total amount of activated carbon by weight and between about 2 and 30 percent mesoporous activated carbon particles of the total amount of activated carbon by weight; and
bonding the film to a current collector to form an electrode film.
20. The method of claim 19, further comprising mixing a binder with the activated carbon to form a mixture prior to forming the film of active electrode material.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein mixing comprising milling the binder and activated carbon.
22. The method of claim 20, wherein the binder comprises polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) particles.
23. The method of claim 19, wherein the current collector comprises a continuous metal foil, metal mesh, or nonwoven metal sheet.
24. The method of claim 19, wherein the method is a method of making a capacitor electrode.
25. The method of claim 19, wherein the method is a method of making a double-layer capacitor electrode film.
26. The method of claim 19, wherein the method is a method of making a battery electrode.
27. The method of claim 20, wherein forming a film comprises forming a dry film comprising dry activated carbon and dry binder free from processing solvent residue.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method implemented by a mobile terminal comprising:
receiving a signal from a base station;
generating estimates of the signal power of the received signal and the power of one or more impairment components contributing to the total impairment of the received signal; and
transmitting the signal power of said received signal and interference parameters indicating the power of said impairment components to a serving base station.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
computing a channel quality indication; and
transmitting the channel quality indication to the serving base station along with the interference parameters.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting receiver type information to the serving base station along with said interference parameters.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the interference parameters includes a power ratio indicative of the relative powers of own cell and other cell interference.
5. A mobile terminal in a wireless communication network, said mobile terminal comprising:
a transceiver to receive signals transmitted over a downlink channel by a base station and to transmit channel quality feedback to said base station; and
a processor configured to:
estimate the signal power of the received signal and the power of one or more impairment components contributing to, the total impairment of the received signal; and
transmit the signal power and interference parameters indicating the power of said impairment components to a serving base station as channel quality feedback.
6. The mobile terminal of claim 5 wherein the processor is further configured to:
compute a channel quality indication; and
transmit the channel quality indication to the serving base station along with the interference parameters.
7. The mobile terminal of claim 5 wherein the processor is further configured to transmit receiver type information to the serving base station along with said interference parameters.
8. The mobile terminal of claim 5 wherein the interference parameters include a power ratio indicative of the relative powers of own cell and other cell interference.