Battery with an agent for converting hydrogen to water and a second agent for retaining formed water
AssigneeP.R. Mallory & Co. Inc.
InventorsThomas Charles O'Nan, Frank L. Ciliberti
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Abstract
A battery including means housing a plurality of electrically interconnected electrochemical cells. Each electrochemical cell includes a container retaining an aqueous electrolyte, and anode and cathode electrodes. The aqueous electrolyte evolves hydrogen, under certain conditions, during electrical discharge and/or storage of the cell. The cathode electrode includes a reducible oxide of a metal. The battery housing includes an agent for converting hydrogen to water molecules and a second agent for retaining water molecules.
Claims5
A battery comprising a plurality of electrically interconnected electrochemical cells each of said cells having an electrode subject to hydrogen gas evolution;
- retaining means exterior to and separated from said cells and having retained therein an oxygen containing compound for reaction with said evolved hydrogen and which converts said evolved hydrogen to water;
- passage means between said electrically interconnected electrochemical cells and said retaining means for enabling said evolved hydrogen to pass from said cells and into contact with said oxygen containing compound;
- a water retaining agent not reactive with said hydrogen in proximity with said oxygen containing compound and with said formed water and insulatively separated from said cells thereby preventing retained water from contacting said cells;
- and an outer housing having contained therein said cells, said oxygen containing compound and said water retaining agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.