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US 4,283,844 AGranted
Method of making battery electrode structure
AssigneeHughes Aircraft Company
InventorsMartin J. Milden, Stanley Gordon
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Abstract
Substrate for nickel-hydrogen battery electrode is etched from nickel sheet metal to provide inner and outer rims 54, 56 for self centering, a tab 62 on which a lead can be welded and properly distributed openings through conductors for optimum ion flow and electric conduction.
Claims6
The method of making a self-supporting electrode substrate for a nickel-hydrogen cell comprising the steps of:
- coating nickel sheet metal with a photoresist;
- exposing the photoresist in accordance with a desired electrode pattern to leave a solid outer rim around the electrode substrate, to leave a solid inner rim within said electrode substrate with an inner opening interiorly of the inner rim toward the center of the electrode substrate and with a tab positioned on the inner rim, together with radially directed conductors attached to the inner rim and to the outer rim and being of greater cross-section closer to the inner rim than to the outer rim to reduce electrical resistance drop as current moves through the radial conductors with respect to the inner rim;
- chemically etching away through the nickel to form a nickel substrate having perforations therethrough in accordance with the photoresist pattern to provide ion flow paths perpendicular to the conductors.
The method of making an electrode for a nickel-hydrogen cell comprising the steps of:
- coating nickel sheet metal with a photoresist;
- exposing the photoresist in accordance with a desired electrode substrate pattern to leave a solid outer rim around the electrode substrate and a solid inner rim within the electrode substrate with an inner opening within the inner rim and to leave a plurality of substantially radially directed conductors connected to both the inner and outer rim,
- chemically etching away through the nickel sheet to form a self-supporting nickel substrate having perforations therethrough;
- sintering nickel powder on one side of the etched metallic nickel substrate having openings therethrough so that the sintered nickel is porous;
- and
- depositing nickel-hydroxide in the porous sintered nickel to form a positive electrode for a nickel-hydrogen battery.
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The method of making an electrode for a nickel-hydrogen cell comprising the steps of:
- coating nickel sheet metal with a photoresist;
- exposing the photoresist in accordance with a desired electrode substrate pattern to leave a solid outer rim around the electrode substrate and a solid inner rim within the electrode substrate with an inner opening within the inner rim and to leave a plurality of substantially radially directed conductors connected to both the inner and outer rim;
- chemically etching away through the nickel sheet to form a self-supporting nickel substrate having perforations therethrough;
- adhesively securing a porous teflon layer on one face of the self-supporting etched nickel substrate with etched openings therethrough.
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The method of making an electrode for a nickel-hydrogen cell comprising the steps of:
- coating nickel sheet metal with a photoresist;
- exposing the photoresist in accordance with a desired electrode substrate pattern to leave a solid outer rim around the electrode substrate and a solid inner rim within the electrode substrate with an inner opening within the inner rim and to leave a plurality of substantially radially directed conductors connected to both the inner and outer rim;
- chemically etching away through the nickel sheel to form a self-supporting nickel substrate having perforations therethrough;
- depositing electro-chemically active material on said electrode substrate;
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- assembling a plurality of said coated substrates onto a central support tube positioned within the metallic rim so that the plurality of coated electrode substrates is centered on and supported on the central support tube.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.