Rechargeable lithium battery construction
First Claim
1. A rechargeable battery construction comprising a plurality of flexible electrolytic cell positive electrode element, negative electrode element, and separator elements, each of said elements being of polymeric composition, arranged in continuous concentrically overlapping layerscharacterized in thata) said elements are arranged to form at least two cells of which each cell comprises a positive electrode element, a negative electrode element, and a separator element disposed therebetween;
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Abstract
A rechargeable lithium ion battery comprises a plurality of interleaved flexible electrolytic cells, each of which is a unitary planar laminated structure comprising polymeric anode, cathode, and intermediate electrolyte layers disposed between electrically conductive anode and cathode collector foil elements. One of the collector foils of a cell has an open grid structure to allow penetration of electrolyte solution into the cell layer while the other is substantially more continuous to provide supporting strength to the cell. At least a pair of cells having respective continuous foil anode and cathode collectors are interleaved in spiral-folded fashion to present those collector foils at the outer surface of the resulting structure to provide terminal contacts for the resulting high-capacity, low-profile battery.
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17 Claims
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1. A rechargeable battery construction comprising a plurality of flexible electrolytic cell positive electrode element, negative electrode element, and separator elements, each of said elements being of polymeric composition, arranged in continuous concentrically overlapping layers
characterized in that a) said elements are arranged to form at least two cells of which each cell comprises a positive electrode element, a negative electrode element, and a separator element disposed therebetween; - and
b) the respective like-polarity electrodes of each cell are disposed contiguously within said construction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A rechargeable battery construction comprising a plurality of electrolytic cells of which each cell comprises a positive electrode member, a negative electrode member, and a separator member disposed therebetween, said members having flexible, self-supporting, polymeric matrix film composition and being bonded to contiguous members at respective interfaces to form a unitary flexible laminate cell,
characterized in that a) the respective like-polarity electrodes of at least two of said cells are disposed contiguously within said construction; - and
b) the members of said two cells are arranged in continuous concentrically overlapping layers. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A rechargeable battery construction comprising a plurality of electrolytic cells of which each cell comprises a positive electrode member, a negative electrode member, and a separator member disposed therebetween, said members having flexible, self-supporting, polymeric matrix film composition and being bonded to contiguous members of said cell at respective interfaces to form a unitary flexible laminate cell,
characterized in that a) each of said electrode members comprises an electrolytically active composition element and an electrically conductive collector element; -
b) at least one of said collector elements of each cell is permeable to a fluid electrolyte; c) the respective like-polarity collector elements of at least two of said cells are disposed contiguously within said construction; d) the members of said two cells are formed into a structure having a continuous concentrically overlapping layer arrangement; e) said permeable collector elements comprise the cell layers disposed closest to the interior of said overlapping arrangement structure; and f) a respective one of opposite-polarity collector elements of said cells is disposed at the outer surface of said structure. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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