Enabling beneficial electrical connections within jelly roll of battery materials end plate using at least one of tabless-style electrode and irregular process-induced tabs

A method for providing tab-enabled beneficial electrical connections within the end plate of a jelly roll of battery materials, said method comprising a step of winding within said jelly roll at least one tabless-style electrode, wherein said winding establishes within said jelly roll end plate at least one face-to-face electrical connection comprising in said connection at least a face of a first irregular tab of said tabless-style electrode, rendered by arbitrary combination into beneficial electrical contact with at least a face of at least a second irregular tab of said same electrode within said same wound jelly roll of battery materials end plate.

A method for configuring a cylindrical battery comprising a step of configuring at least one electrode to comprise irregularities, said irregularities comprising at least one of:

• a crack, a hole, a split, a fissure, a wider than average tab, a narrower than average tab, a bi-lobed tab, a variation in tab shape one tab to another, a variation in tab size one tab to another, a variation in regularity of surface configuration one tab to another, and at least one tab comprising at least one fractured-off defect appearance, and wherein said tabs are further configured within electrical combinations/connections within winding of end plate of said battery, said winding comprising at least a second layer of said irregularly-tabbed electrode layered onto at least a preceding first layer of said same irregularly-tabbed electrode wound in end plate.