Ming'an Weiye has proposed the "Concentric Ring Gear" solid-state battery architecture, claiming that it can crack the long-standing bottleneck of the solid-solid interface.
The global new energy industry is evolving at an accelerated pace. With the core advantages of high safety and high energy density, all-solid-state batteries have become the universally recognized next-generation technology direction in the fields of power batteries and energy storage. However, three long-standing pain points, namely poor solid-solid interface contact, microcrack propagation, and high mass production costs, have restricted the large-scale implementation of the industry for a long time. Leveraging more than ten years of accumulation in precision manufacturing, Ming'an Weiye strategically transformed in 2021 to focus deeply on the all-solid-state battery track. With its original coaxial concentric ring gear technology architecture, it has created the world's third battery forming route after lamination and winding, and built a three-layer progressive core advantage of "technical barrier - mass production certainty - commercial path", providing a brand-new solution for the industrialization of all-solid-state batteries.
Level 1: Underlying Technical Barrier — Solving Common Industry Problems from the Root
Original Breakthroughs That Others Cannot Achieve
Breaking away from the path dependence of traditional technical routes, Ming'an Weiye starts from the underlying logic of structural design and manufacturing process, completes the full-chain original technical breakthrough, and builds a hard-to-replicate technical moat.
In terms of structural design, it takes the lead in proposing the coaxial concentric independent functional ring layer architecture, adopting a tooth-shaped interface mechanical interlocking design, where the axial teeth of the positive and negative electrodes are interlaced to form a mortise-and-tenon engagement, which can realize tight interlayer combination without continuous external pressure. The interface contact area is several times higher than that of traditional point contact, eliminating the interlayer peeling problem from the root of the physical structure. Supporting the pioneering radial adaptive breathing expansion and contraction mechanism, the negative electrode expands to fill the shrinkage space of the positive electrode during charging, and the positive electrode expands to fill the shrinkage space of the negative electrode during discharging. Relying on the structure itself to form continuous radial confining pressure, it actively absorbs the volume change stress during charging and discharging, controls the interface stress within the material elastic threshold, and inhibits the initiation and propagation of microcracks from the source. This structural scheme systematically solves common industry technical bottlenecks such as poor solid-solid interface contact, high interface impedance, interface debonding during cycling, and insufficient expansion-contraction adaptation during charging and discharging, greatly improving the cycle life and long-term operation stability of batteries.
In terms of manufacturing process, it has created an innovative layer-by-layer integrated continuous forming process of high-pressure injection molding + ultrasonic forging, which eliminates the need for film preparation and sheet production throughout the process, completely abandoning multiple discrete processes such as traditional coating, slitting, lamination and winding, with a material utilization rate close to 100%. The production line adopts a modular design, with initial equipment investment far lower than that of traditional production lines, significantly shortening the return on investment cycle. At the same time, the ultrasonic forging process can make the solid electrolyte particles embed into the micro gaps of the secondary particles of the electrode, forming intergranular ion anchor points, which can maintain the ion conduction path even if tiny cracks appear at the grain boundary, further reducing the interface impedance and enhancing the cycle stability.
At present, the company has been rated as a national-level high-tech enterprise and a specialized, refined, differential and innovative small and medium-sized enterprise in Shenzhen, with a total of more than 20 core technology patents covering structure, process and formula, building a strict independent intellectual property barrier.
Level 2: Determined Mass Production Path — Crossing the Industry's "Mass Production Death Valley"
Mass Production Certainty That Others Dare Not Claim
The all-solid-state battery industry generally follows the R&D path of "making small samples first, then modifying the process", which often falls into the dilemma of "excellent performance in the laboratory, but process reconstruction at the mass production end", showing the development characteristics of "easy at first but difficult later, and the mass production threshold is hard to cross".
At the initial stage of R&D, Ming'an Weiye broke away from this mindset and took the opposite approach: first get through the full-process process logic, and then promote product verification. The core R&D leader has more than 10 years of R&D experience in all-solid-state batteries at leading lithium battery enterprises, and has led the engineering implementation of power batteries. All core team members come from front-line R&D and operation positions of leading power battery and material enterprises, with both profound industry accumulation and abundant innovation vitality. After hundreds of structural design iterations and thousands of process parameter verifications, the team finally finalized the core architecture of concentric ring gear + breathing expansion and contraction, and simultaneously completed the full original design and full-process process verification from the underlying structure to the manufacturing process.
The core value brought by this path is: from sample to large-scale mass production, it is only a quantitative change process of capacity ramp-up, and there is no qualitative change threshold of underlying process reconstruction, which completely avoids the mass production failure risk commonly faced by the industry, and the implementation certainty is significantly higher than that of traditional technical routes.
Especially in the 2-6mm micro cell track, this technology has natural disruptive advantages, completely solving the pain points of large material waste, high processing difficulty and low yield when producing small-sized cells with traditional processes. It can realize low-cost and high-yield mass production, accurately capture the explosive demand in niche markets such as smart wearables, TWS earphones and IoT sensors, and take the lead in realizing commercial implementation.
Level 3: Clear Commercial Path — Stepwise Expansion to Cover All Scenarios
Long-term Layout That Others Cannot Understand
Following the development logic of "from small to large, from easy to difficult, and supporting subsequent development with revenue from existing businesses", Ming'an Weiye has formulated a three-stage stepwise expansion strategy, gradually building a full energy scenario layout with a clear commercialization rhythm.
· 1-2 Years: Initial Foundation Building Period: Focus on 2-6mm micro cell technology, take the lead in landing in consumer electronics scenarios such as smart wearables, TWS earphones and IoT sensors, complete product verification and production line ramp-up, realize large-scale mass production and break-even of single products, and use cash flow from niche markets to support subsequent technology iterations.
· 2-4 Years: Scale Expansion Period: Launch 8-16mm medium and large energy storage and power cells, expand horizontally to the tracks of household energy storage, outdoor power supplies and electric two-wheelers, build a global sales network and production capacity bases, and realize exponential growth of production capacity and revenue.
· 4-5 Years: Ecological Layout Period: Tackle the technical challenges of 16mm or above vehicle-grade high-safety power batteries, enter the new energy vehicle supply chain system, complete the coverage of all energy scenarios, and rank among the first echelon of the global power battery industry.
Relying on the structural characteristics of the coaxial concentric ring layer, the company's cell products have highly flexible configurations, with diameters ranging from 2mm to more than 20mm, and lengths extendable to several meters. They can adapt to special-shaped spaces and narrow installation scenarios. In addition to the above core implementation paths, they can also cover cutting-edge application scenarios such as grid energy storage, eVTOL, and humanoid robots, with extremely strong market scalability and imagination space.
The core team of Ming'an Weiye stated that the industrialization of all-solid-state batteries is a difficult but correct path. The team always believes that only underlying structural innovation can solve the root problems of the industry, and more than ten years of accumulation in precision manufacturing has given the team the courage to break away from the existing path dependence of the lithium battery industry. In the future, the company will continue to polish its technology, steadily promote commercial implementation, and drive the upgrading and transformation of the global new energy energy storage industry with original technologies.