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Title: Electric storage batteries

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5711677

An electric storage battery is provided with a connector for making an external electrical connection to the battery. The connector includes a hollow conductive body mounted on and welded to a terminal of the battery, and a flexible conductive cable connected to and extending from the body. The bore in the body is non-complementary with the terminal and is shaped so that the wall of the bore defines intermediate its ends a projecting portion which engages the terminal. The weld between the terminal and the conductive body is restricted to the region thereof between the projecting portion and the outer end of the terminal.

Assignee:
Lucas Industries Ltd (United Kingdom)
Patent Number(s):
US 4389471
OSTI ID:
5711677
Resource Relation:
Patent Priority Date: Priority date 16 Dec 1978, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK); Other Information: PAT-APPL-230085
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English