Tube Sheet for a Lead Acid Battery

Abstract

The present invention concerns a tube plate for an electrode, preferably a positive electrode, of a lead acid battery, wherein the tube plate (2) has an upper frame (3) and a plurality of lead or lead alloy cores (1) extending substantially parallel from the upper frame (3). To provide a tube plate for an electrode of a lead acid battery, with which a lower current density and shorter current paths or diffusion paths for reducing the electrical resistance in comparison with tube plates in accordance with the state of the art are achieved, with the same use of material, it is proposed according to the invention that in the cross-section relative to their longitudinal extent the cores (1) have a surface profile with at least three convex portions (11) and at least three concave portions (12), wherein convex and concave portions (11, 12) alternate in the course of the surface profile.

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