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US 5,395,709 AGranted
Carbon bipolar walls for batteries and method for producing same
AssigneeWestinghouse Electric Corp.
InventorsJeffrey C. Bowker, Kenneth C. Radford, Geoffrey Barlow, Nicholas Papadakis
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Abstract
A battery, having a plurality of cells stacked in series. Each of the cells having a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator that contain an electrolyte. The battery utilizes a thin section of carbon provided between adjacent cells as the bipolar walls. The bipolar wall may be a thin, preferably flexible, sheet of graphite. The carbon bipolar wall may also be formed by tape casting.
Claims7
A battery, comprising:
- (a) a plurality of cells stacked in series, each cell being comprised of a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator that contain an electrolyte;
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- (b) at least one bipolar wall made of a thin section of carbon, each at least one carbon bipolar wall being provided between adjacent pairs of cells.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.