ELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERY

• US 3,589,943 A
• Filed: 08/29/1968
• Issued: 06/29/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: United Technologies Corporation (Raytheon Technologies Corporation d/b/a RTX)
• Original Assignee: Herman A. Liebhafsky, Willard T. Grubb
• Inventors: Grubb, Willard T., Liebhafsky, Herman A.
• Application Number:
  US04/756,143
• Time in Patent Office: 1,034 Days
• US Class Current: 429/467
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 12/04 composed of a half-cell of the fuel-cell type and of a half-cell of the primary-cell type
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/2455 with liquid, solid or electrolyte-charged reactants
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/50 Fuel cells

Abstract

AN ELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERY HAS A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL, FLUID-TIGHT FUEL-ELECTROLYTE CHAMBERS IN EACH OF WHICH AN ANODE AND A GAS DIFFUSION CATHODE MOUNTED THEREIN ARE CONNECTED ELECTRICALLY TO THE RESPECTIVE GAS DIFFUSION CATHODE AND ANODE OF ADJACENT CELLS. THE ELECTROLYTE CONTAINING DISSOLVED FUEL IN EACH CELL IS SEPARATED FROM ADJACENT CELLS THEREBY ELIMINATING LOAD PATHS ACROSS CELLS. SUCH A BATTERY PROVIDES A HIGH VOLTAGE OUTPUT FROM A CONPACT DEVICE.

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