Back to results
US 4,048,400 AGranted
Multicell electric batteries
AssigneeChloride Group Limited
InventorCharles Arthur John White
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Loading patent…
Loading patent…
AssigneeChloride Group Limited
InventorCharles Arthur John White
Estimating the term…
A multicell electric battery has an intercell partition, the faces of which comprise two parallel conducting sheets connected together, as by spot welding, by means of one or more symmetrically positioned dimples, which constitute intercell connectors. Each conducting sheet is electrically connected to the adjacent electrode plate either directly or indirectly by means of a compressible conducting cushion which contacts the sheet and either the adjacent plate or a further sheet which is electrically connected to the adjacent plate. The invention also includes a method of assembling a multicell electric battery which includes sliding the plates of each cell as a unit incorporating contacts into a battery casing also incorporating contacts, the intercell and/or terminal connections being effected by sliding engagement between the contacts of the plate unit and those of the casing.
A multicell electric battery comprising a number of intercell partitions, each separating a pair of adjacent cells, two or more electrode plates of each polarity in each cell and an intercell connector associated with each intercell partition comprising two spaced parallel conducting sheet portions forming opposite faces of the partition one exposed to each cell, and at least one conducting bridge passing through the partition at a position remote from the edges of the sheet portions and electrically connecting them, each sheet portion being directly or indirectly connected by pressure contact to the adjacent electrode plate at points distributed over a substantial portion of its area and said plate is electrically connected to at least one other electrode plate of the same polarity in the cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.