Battery plate and methods of manufacture

Patent · Tue Oct 17 04:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:6786121

Parkinson, D B; Parkinson, T D

An improved battery plate comprises a grid or web of woven nonconductive material having lead metal or other electrically conductive material wires as some of the weft and possibly some of the warp threads. By alternately applying positive and negative active materials at laterally spaced locations across a wide web of such material and gathering portions of lead wires to form terminals, plate pairs are produced which are joined by a length of woven material of suitable strength for supporting the plates in a battery. Thus, pure lead metal wires may be used for improved electrochemical properties, while simulteneously a great reduction in plate weight is achieved. A method of making such plates is also disclosed. 12 figures.

• Assignee: Gould Inc.
• Patent Number(s): US 4121023
• OSTI ID: 6786121
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

25 ENERGY STORAGE
250903* -- Energy Storage-- Batteries-- Materials
Components
& Auxiliaries
BATTERY SEPARATORS
ELECTRIC BATTERIES
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
ELECTRODES
ELEMENTS
ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS
GRIDS
LEAD
LEAD-ACID BATTERIES
MANUFACTURING
MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
METALS
PLATES
SUPPORTS
WEIGHT
WIRES