JBT works with partners under a consortium agreement or a custom contract.
While a consortium agreement allows for cost and risk sharing, some battery needs are so specialized or the end result so exclusive that a custom contract is appropriate. There are benefits to both arrangements:
- Opportunities for license arrangements
- Non-exclusive
- Limited industry-specific exclusive
- Limited industry-wide exclusive
- First-to-market advantage
- Specialized designs
- Opportunity to purchase rights to select IP
- Prototype batteries available for your use
For a custom contract for more specialized designs or packaging, exclusive access, and IP transfer, contact us.
Benefits of a JBT Consortium:
- Industry-advantaged access to leading solid-state battery technology
- Shared R&D cost model
- Shared risk model
- Prototype batteries available for your use
Active Implantable Medical Device Consortium
- Small form factor
- Exceed industry-standard volumetric energy density
- Customizable shape/dimensions
- Can be formed with curvature
- Low self-discharge
- Rechargeable via inductive charging
- No leaking liquid/gel electrolytes
- Manage potential thermal runaway
- Can be custom-designed to fit a device
- Compatible with titanium enclosures
High-Temperature Consortium (e.g. Oil & Gas, Industrial Process Equipment)
- Performs at temperatures up to 150°C
- No risk of fire/explosion (no liquid/gel electrolytes)
- Withstands harsh environments
- Survives high and low voltages
- Customizable shape/dimensions
- Can be formed with curvature
- Low self-discharge
- Rechargeable via inductive charging
- Small form factor possible
- Exceed industry-standard volumetric energy density
Membership Contributions:
Industry partners $200,000 non-refundable annual membership
Academia & non-profit partners $25,000 non-refundable annual membership
Custom fees are agreed upon a negotiated basis for highly specialized designs, specialized packaging, exclusive access, and IP transfer.
JBT works on a best-efforts basis, and JBT or its affiliates retain ownership rights to battery technology developed (except when a written intellectual property transfer agreement exists).