Electric battery

• US 3,193,412 A
• Filed: 02/20/1962
• Issued: 07/06/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alvin J. Salkind, Ernest Weiss
• Original Assignee: Alvin J. Salkind, Ernest Weiss
• Inventors: Salkind, Alvin J., Weiss, Ernest
• Application Number:
  US04/174,417
• Time in Patent Office: 1,232 Days
• US Class Current: 429/59
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0413 Large-sized flat cells or batteries for motive or stationary systems with plate-like electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0468 Compression means for stacks of electrodes and separators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/34 Gastight accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 70/50 Manufacturing or production processes characterised by the final manufactured product

Claims

1. A BATTERY COMPRISING A CONTAINER, AT LEAST ONE POSITIVE ELECTRODE IN SAID CONTAINER, AT LEAST ONE NEGATIVE ELECTRODE IN SAID CONTAINER, SAID POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ELECTRODES BEING SEPARATED BY A POROUS, INSULATING SEPARATOR MEMBERS, AND A RESILIENT, GAS PERMEABLE, ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE, FOAM RUBBER SPACING MEMBER IN CONTACT WITH ONE OF SAID ELECTRODES, SAID FOAM RUBBER SPACING MEMBER HAVING A PLURALITY OF INTERCONNECTED PORES AND A FINELY DIVIDED CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS DISPERSED IN A SUBSTANTIALLY CONTINUOUS PHASE THERETHROUGH, AND SAID SPACING MEMBER BEING COMPRESSED SO AS TO PROVIDE A COMPRESSIVE FORCE UPON SAID ELECTRODES AND SEPARATOR.