Battery
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1. A battery comprising:
- at least two electrodes in a first electrolyte compartment which, in an operating state of the battery, is filled with a liquid electrolyte that wets substantially the entire surfaces of the electrodes and are thereby in direct galvanic contact with one another;
an electric tap on the electrodes;
a second electrolyte compartment filled with electrolyte and positioned below said first compartment;
a connecting opening between said first and second compartment;
at least one controlled operable rapid draining device adapted to drain the electrolyte from the first and second electrolyte compartments;
wherein, following draining of the electrolyte from the first compartment, the electrodes are not wetted by electrolyte and are galvanically isolated from one another, and wherein the first electrolyte compartment is smaller than the second compartment to facilitate speed of removal of electrolyte from the first compartment.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a battery which, for maintenance or in a danger situation, can be simply and reliably transferred from an operative state into a safe, inoperative state, whilst avoiding a short circuit. This is either brought about in that a controlled operable draining device for the rapid draining of the electrolyte is provided and that following the draining of the electrolyte all power-generating processes are stopped. Alternatively a battery with such characteristics is created in that in the danger situation a line introduces a deactivating substance into the electrolyte, which stops all power-generating, electrolytic processes.
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1. A battery comprising:
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at least two electrodes in a first electrolyte compartment which, in an operating state of the battery, is filled with a liquid electrolyte that wets substantially the entire surfaces of the electrodes and are thereby in direct galvanic contact with one another;
an electric tap on the electrodes;
a second electrolyte compartment filled with electrolyte and positioned below said first compartment;
a connecting opening between said first and second compartment;
at least one controlled operable rapid draining device adapted to drain the electrolyte from the first and second electrolyte compartments;
wherein, following draining of the electrolyte from the first compartment, the electrodes are not wetted by electrolyte and are galvanically isolated from one another, and wherein the first electrolyte compartment is smaller than the second compartment to facilitate speed of removal of electrolyte from the first compartment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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