Lead-acid battery
A lead-acid storage battery is described comprising in combination: a casing member having perimeter walls and a bottom wall defining a cavity and a plurality of partition walls dividing the cavity into cell compartments; a battery cell received in each compartment comprising a stack of horizontally disposed negative active plates each containing a plurality of tigs spaced along a first edge aligned in vertical registration with tigs on other negative active plates in the stack to form a set of columns, positive active plates each having a plurality of tigs spaced along an edge opposed to the first edge and aligned with the tigs in the other positive plates in the stack to form a second set of columns, the positive active plates alternating with the negative active plates and the negative plates having a capacity greater than the capacity of the positive plates, and porous, liquid electrolyte-containing separator sheets disposed between each of the plates; vertical, positive bus bars interconnecting each column of positive tigs; a plurality of vertical, negative bus bars interconnecting each column of negative tigs; connector means joining a positive bus bar to the negative bus bar on the opposite side of a partition wall; a negative strap interconnecting the negative bus bars at one end cell; a positive strap interconnecting the positive bus bars at the other end cell; a positive terminal connected to the positive strap; a negative terminal connected to the negative strap; and a top sealingly received on the casing.
- Assignee:
- California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4603093
- OSTI ID:
- 5478931
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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250901 -- Energy Storage-- Batteries-- Design & Development
250903* -- Energy Storage-- Batteries-- Materials
Components
& Auxiliaries
BATTERY SEPARATORS
COVERINGS
DESIGN
ELECTRIC BATTERIES
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
ELECTROLYTES
LEAD-ACID BATTERIES
PLATES
POROSITY
SEALS
SPACE DEPENDENCE
WALLS
WETTABILITY