Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
429241000 | Open mesh or perforated plate | 34 |
20090258299 | Battery grid - A battery grid includes a frame that includes a top element, a bottom element, a first side element, and a second side element. The battery grid also includes a plurality of wires provided within the frame and defining a plurality of open areas and a current collection lug extending from the top element in a first direction. The battery grid further includes at least one feature provided in the battery grid that is configured to reduce the amount of growth of the battery grid in the first direction due to corrosion of the battery grid during the life of the battery grid. | 10-15-2009 |
20100216025 | ELECTRODE PLATE FOR A BATTERY - An electrode plate for a battery comprising a plurality of electrodes in a grid where the grid defines a plurality of spaces. A paste disposed in the spaces has a top surface and a bottom surface. The paste is narrowed in the space, defining a distance between the top surface of the paste and the bottom surface of the paste that is less than the thickness of the plate over the electrodes. A retention layer of porous fabric is impressed on the top and/or bottom surface of the paste. Electrolyte disposed in electric communication with the electrodes. | 08-26-2010 |
20100266903 | BATTERY GRID - A battery grid includes a frame that includes a top element, a bottom element, a first side element, and a second side element. The battery grid also includes a plurality of wires provided within the frame and defining a plurality of open areas and a current collection lug extending from the top element in a first direction. The battery grid further includes at least one feature provided in the battery grid that is configured to reduce the amount of growth of the battery grid in the first direction due to corrosion of the battery grid during the life of the battery grid. | 10-21-2010 |
20100304219 | BATTERY GRID - A grid network for a battery plate is provided. The grid network includes a plurality of spaced apart grid wire elements, each grid wire element having opposed ends joined to one of a plurality of nodes. Each node includes the juncture of one of the opposed ends of a plurality of the grid wire elements to define a plurality of open spaces in the grid network. At least one of the grid wire elements has a first transverse cross-section intermediate its opposed ends that is a different shape than a second transverse cross-section at at least one of the grid wire element's opposed ends. | 12-02-2010 |
20110212368 | ROLLED ELECTRODE FOR A STORAGE BATTERY - The invention relates to a rolled electrode for a storage battery, wherein the electrode ( | 09-01-2011 |
20110305957 | GRID PLATE FOR LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY, PLATE, AND LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY PROVIDED WITH SAME PLATE - A grid plate for a lead acid storage battery comprising a frame section having a pair of quadrangular contour shape, and longitudinal grid strands and lateral grid strands that form a grid inside the frame section. The longitudinal grid strands and lateral grid strands are composed of thick strands of smaller thickness than the frame section, and thin strands of smaller width and thickness than the thick strands. The thick strands and thin strands are arranged so that the strands adjacent to the thick strands are thin strands, and space is reliably provided for facilitating the flow of active material to the sides of the thick strands. The two ends of the thick strands in the thickness direction are positioned further inward from the two end faces of the frame section in the thickness direction, and the end portions of one end side of the thin strands in the thickness direction are positioned in positions offset to one end side of the thick strands in the thickness direction, whereby the active material is readily packed into the reverse surface side of the grid plate. | 12-15-2011 |
20110311877 | Metal foil for secondary battery and secondary battery - A metal foil for secondary battery generating less cutting chips at the time of forming an opening and allowed to have a higher aperture ratio without reducing strength and a secondary battery in which short circuit caused by generation of electrode debris can be suppressed are provided. A metal foil | 12-22-2011 |
20120064413 | BATTERY GRID - A grid network for a battery plate is provided. The grid network includes a plurality of spaced apart grid wire elements, each grid wire element having opposed ends joined to one of a plurality of nodes. Each node includes the juncture of one of the opposed ends of a plurality of the grid wire elements to define a plurality of open spaces in the grid network. At least one of the grid wire elements has a first transverse cross-section intermediate its opposed ends that is a different shape than a second transverse cross-section at least one of the grid wire element's opposed ends. | 03-15-2012 |
20120094182 | LEAD ACID STORAGE BATTERY - A lead acid storage battery composed of plates, the lead acid storage battery being obtained by packing an active material into a grid plate provided with a frame section having a quadrangular profile shape, and lateral grid strands and longitudinal grid strands that form a grid inside the frame section. The lateral grid strands are composed of thick lateral strands having a thickness equal to the thickness of the frame section, and thin lateral strands of smaller width and thickness than the thick strands, the longitudinal grid strands being composed of thick longitudinal strands that have a thickness that is less than thickness of the frame section, one end in the thickness direction being arranged in the same plane as one end of the frame section in the thickness direction, and thin longitudinal strands of smaller width and thickness than the thick longitudinal strands, end faces of one end side of the thin lateral strands and the thin longitudinal strands in the thickness direction being positioned further inward in the thickness direction than an end face of one end side of the frame section in the thickness direction, and end faces of the other end side of the thin lateral strands and the thin longitudinal strands in the thickness direction being positioned further inward in the thickness direction than an end face of another end side of the frame section in the thickness direction. | 04-19-2012 |
20120115035 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NET-LIKE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY USING THE ELECTRODE, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE CAPACITOR USING THE ELECTRODE - Provided are a three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body in which the diameter of cells in the porous body is uneven in the thickness direction of the porous body; a current collector and an electrode each using the aluminum porous body; and methods for producing these members. The porous body is a three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body in a sheet form, for a current collector, in which the diameter of cells in the porous body is uneven in the thickness direction of the porous body. When a cross section in the thickness direction of the three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body is divided into three regions of a region 1, a region 2 and a region 3 in this order, the average cell diameter of the regions 1 and 3 is preferably different from the cell diameter of the region 2. | 05-10-2012 |
20120301790 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY ELECTRODE AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME - A method of forming an electrode of a lithium ion secondary battery includes combining a binder and active particles to form a mixture, coating a surface with the mixture to form a coated article, translating the article along a first plane, cutting a first plurality of carbon fibers, each having a first average length, to form a second plurality of carbon fibers, each having a longitudinal axis and a second average length that is shorter than the first average length, inserting the second plurality of fibers into the mixture layer so that the longitudinal axis of each of at least a portion of the second plurality of fibers is not parallel to the first plane to form a preform, wherein the second plurality of fibers forms a truss structure disposed in three dimensions within the mixture layer, and heating the preform to form the electrode. An electrode is also disclosed. | 11-29-2012 |
20120328957 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY, CAPACITOR AND LITHIUM-ION CAPACITOR WITH NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTIC SOLUTION, EACH USING THE ELECTRODE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a three-dimensional network aluminum porous body which enables to produce an electrode continuously, an electrode using the aluminum porous body, and a method for producing the electrode. The present invention provides a long sheet-shaped three-dimensional network aluminum porous body to be used as a base material in a method for producing an electrode including at least winding off, a thickness adjustment step, a lead welding step, an active material filling step, a drying step, a compressing step, a cutting step and winding-up, wherein the three-dimensional network aluminum porous body has a tensile strength of 0.2 MPa or more and 5 MPa or less. | 12-27-2012 |
20130029229 | BATTERY, BATTERY PLATE ASSEMBLY, AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLY - A battery plate assembly for a lead-acid battery is disclosed. The assembly includes a plates of opposing polarity each formed by an electrically conductive grid body having opposed top and bottom frame elements and opposed first and second side frame elements, the top frame element having a lug and an opposing enlarged conductive section extending toward the bottom frame element; a plurality of interconnecting electrically conductive grid elements defining a grid pattern defining a plurality of open areas, the grid elements including a plurality of radially extending vertical grid wire elements connected to the top frame element, and a plurality of horizontally extending grid wire elements, the grid body having an active material provided thereon. A highly absorbent separator is wrapped around at least a portion of the plate of a first polarity and extends to opposing plate faces. An electrolye is provided, wherein substantially all of the electrolyte is absorbed by the separator or active material. A method for assembling a battery is also disclosed. | 01-31-2013 |
20140127587 | BATTERY AND BATTERY PLATE ASSEMBLY - A battery plate assembly for a lead-acid battery is disclosed. The assembly includes a plates of opposing polarity each formed by an electrically conductive grid body having opposed top and bottom frame elements and opposed first and second side frame elements, the top frame element having a lug and an opposing enlarged conductive section extending toward the bottom frame element; a plurality of interconnecting electrically conductive grid elements defining a grid pattern defining a plurality of open areas, the grid elements including a plurality of radially extending vertical grid wire elements connected to the top frame element, and a plurality of horizontally extending grid wire elements, the grid body having an active material provided thereon. A highly absorbent separator is wrapped around at least a portion of the plate of a first polarity and extends to opposing plate faces. An electrolye is provided, wherein substantially all of the electrolyte is absorbed by the separator or active material. A method for assembling a battery is also disclosed. | 05-08-2014 |
20140212764 | STORAGE BATTERY GRID, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STORAGE BATTERY GRID, AND STORAGE BATTERY USING STORAGE BATTERY GRID - [Object] To regularize a potential distribution at a grid, prevent local corrosion, and lengthen product lifetime. | 07-31-2014 |
20140356727 | STORAGE BATTERY GRID, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STORAGE BATTERY GRID, AND STORAGE BATTERY USING STORAGE BATTERY GRID - A storage battery grid includes: a frame bone that includes a substantially rectangular shape; a lug portion that is connected to a first side portion of the frame bone and projects outwardly from the frame bone; a main bone that extends from the first side portion to a second side portion which is opposed to the first side portion; and a plurality of first sub-bones that extend obliquely toward the second side portion, at least part of the plurality of first sub-bones branching from the main bone toward both sides, wherein at least part of the plurality of first sub-bones is bent. | 12-04-2014 |
20150037683 | REFORMED BATTERY GRIDS - A method of making a grid for a battery plate of a lead-acid battery. A substantially planar web is manufactured to include a plurality of spaced apart and interconnected wire segments, which at least partially define substantially planar surfaces, have a plurality of transverse lands, and interconnect at a plurality of nodes to define a plurality of open spaces between the wire segments. The web is reformed to change the cross-sectional shape of the wire segments. Other aspects may include simultaneously reducing the thickness of at least a portion of the web while reshaping the wire segments, and/or providing a controlled surface roughness on at least one of the surfaces of the web to increase surface area of the grid and thereby promote adhesion of an electrochemically active material to the grid. | 02-05-2015 |
20150064570 | THIN AND FLEXIBLE ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS - An electrochemical cell has at least one positive electrode, at least one negative electrode and at least one separator arranged between the electrodes. At least one of the electrodes includes a first, coarser mesh and a second, finer mesh. The first and the second mesh at least differ in that the first mesh consists of threads having a larger diameter than the threads of which the second mesh consists, and/or in that the first mesh has mesh openings having a larger opening width than the openings of the second mesh. However, both are woven meshes made of monofilaments. The threads of the first and/or the second mesh are coated with an electrically conducting material and serve as current collectors of the at least one electrode. | 03-05-2015 |
20150104715 | ELECTRODE PLATE OF AN ELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERY AND ELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERY COMPRISING SUCH ELECTRODE PLATE - An electrochemical battery is disclosed. The electrochemical battery has an electrode plate comprising a frame and a generally flat grid connected to the frame, the frame comprising at least a top frame member having a contact lug, wherein the grid comprises a plurality of grid wires and a plurality of window-like open areas between the grid wires, further comprising an active mass within the open areas and/or on the grid wires, wherein the electrode plate comprises on one outer surface or on both opposing outer surfaces of the active mass a pattern of grooves, wherein the grooves extend diagonally from a position closer to the top frame member to a position further away from the top frame member. A method for producing an electrode plate is also disclosed. | 04-16-2015 |
20160010227 | CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTOR FOR USE IN AN ELECTRODE | 01-14-2016 |
20160028089 | MONOLITHIC POROUS OPEN-CELL STRUCTURES - Process for the fabrication and manufacture of highly porous open-cell structures using templates that are formed by mechanical pressing, injection molding, sintering, or any combination thereof. The processing scheme includes coating, filling or depositing a material on, or inside the porous template. The highly porous structure results after the selective removal of the template and can be used for various applications such as electrochemical energy storage devices including high power and high-energy lithium-ion batteries. | 01-28-2016 |
20160049661 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NET-LIKE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, ELECTRODE USING THE ALUMINUM POROUS BODY, NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE BATTERY USING THE ELECTRODE, AND NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE CAPACITOR USING THE ELECTRODE - Provided are a three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body in which the diameter of cells in the porous body is uneven in the thickness direction of the porous body; a current collector and an electrode each using the aluminum porous body; and methods for producing these members. The porous body is a three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body in a sheet form, for a current collector, in which the diameter of cells in the porous body is uneven in the thickness direction of the porous body. When a cross section in the thickness direction of the three-dimensional net-like aluminum porous body is divided into three regions of a region | 02-18-2016 |
20160164105 | CATHODE SUBSTRATE, HIGH-CAPACITY ALL-SOLID-STATE BATTERY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Provided are a cathode substrate, a high capacity all-solid-state battery, and a method for manufacturing the same. The cathode substrate includes a base in a mesh form and a cathode formed on the base, wherein the cathode is configured to overlap the base. The present invention may resolve a conventional problem of deterioration in battery efficiency, which has been caused by a long distance between an electrode and a cathode, and may produce a high capacity all-solid-state battery while suppressing or preventing an increase in the thickness of the cathode. | 06-09-2016 |
20160181595 | Method and Installation for Producing an Electrode Plate, Electrode Plate and Rechargeable Electrochemical Battery | 06-23-2016 |
20160254548 | GRID ASSEMBLY FOR A PLATE-SHAPED BATTERY ELECTRODE OF AN ELECTROCHEMICAL ACCUMULATOR BATTERY | 09-01-2016 |
20170237075 | HIERARCHICAL COMPOSITE STRUCTURES BASED ON GRAPHENE FOAM OR GRAPHENE-LIKE FOAM | 08-17-2017 |
20220140350 | ELECTRODE PLATE OF AN ELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERY AND ELECTROCHEMICAL BATTERY COMPRISING SUCH ELECTRODE PLATE - An electrochemical battery is disclosed. The electrochemical battery has an electrode plate comprising a frame and a generally flat grid connected to the frame, the frame comprising at least a top frame member having a contact lug, wherein the grid comprises a plurality of grid wires and a plurality of window-like open areas between the grid wires, further comprising an active mass within the open areas and/or on the grid wires, wherein the electrode plate comprises on one outer surface or on both opposing outer surfaces of the active mass a pattern of grooves, wherein the grooves extend diagonally from a position closer to the top frame member to a position further away from the top frame member. A method for producing an electrode plate is also disclosed. | 05-05-2022 |
429242000 | Expanded metal | 6 |
20110070502 | STORAGE BATTERY - A storage battery is provided in which an expand grid is improved with respect to the widths of grid wires | 03-24-2011 |
20130040205 | ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL ELEMENT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The method for producing an electrode for an electrochemical element of the present invention includes a slurry filling step of filling a slurry containing an active material into continuous pores of an aluminum porous body having the continuous pores, and a slurry drying step of drying the slurry filled, and in this method, after the slurry drying step, an electrode for an electrochemical element is produced without undergoing a compressing step of compressing the aluminum porous body having the slurry filled therein and dried. In the electrode, a mixture containing an active material is filled into continuous pores of an aluminum porous body having the continuous pores, and porosity (%) of the aluminum porous body, the porosity being represented by the following equation, is 15 to 55%. | 02-14-2013 |
20130122375 | POROUS METAL BODY, AND ELECTRODE MATERIAL AND BATTERY BOTH INCORPORATING THE BODY - The invention offers a porous metal body that has a three-dimensional network structure, that has less reduction in performance during the pressing and compressing steps when an electrode material is produced, and that can be used as an electrode material capable of achieving good electric properties, a method of producing the porous metal body, and an electrode material and a battery both incorporating the foregoing porous metal body. A porous metal body has a skeleton structure that is formed of a metal layer, that has a three-dimensional network structure, and that has an end portion provided with a nearly spherical portion. It is desirable that the metal be aluminum and that the nearly spherical portion have a diameter larger than the outer diameter of the skeleton structure. | 05-16-2013 |
20130130124 | POROUS METAL BODY, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND BATTERY USING THE SAME - A main object is to produce a porous metal body that can be used as a battery electrode, in particular, that can be used as a negative electrode of a molten-salt battery using sodium. The porous metal body includes a hollow metal skeleton composed of a metal layer containing nickel or copper as a main component, and an aluminum covering layer that covers at least an outer surface of the metal skeleton. The porous metal body further includes a tin covering layer that covers the aluminum covering layer, and is used as a battery electrode. Preferably, the porous metal body has continuous pores due to a three-dimensional network structure thereof, and has a porosity of 90% or more. | 05-23-2013 |
20130309579 | ELECTRODE CORE PLATE METHOD AND APPARATUS - The invention includes battery electrode core plates utilizing an expanded foil processed to reduce protrusions on the strands of the expanded foil. Expanded foils may be metal or metal-coated plastic. Reducing or eliminating protrusions on the expanded foil mitigate the risk of internal shorts due to protrusion cross-over or “hot spots.” Protrusion reduction may be achieved using chemical etching via various chemical or electrochemical processes that preferentially free or remove material from burrs and free chads, in addition to removing material from sharp edges of the expanded foil. | 11-21-2013 |
20160197353 | PERFORATED PLATE-SHAPED MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME | 07-07-2016 |
429243000 | Having members in a face plane of the grid being offset from members in the plane of the opposite face | 1 |
20150125756 | CURRENT COLLECTOR FOR BATTERY COMPRISING METAL MESH LAYER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR - Provided are a current collector for a battery, including: a base material; adhesive layers positioned on the base material; and metal mesh layers positioned on the adhesive layers, in which the metal mesh layer includes a plurality of metal mesh patterns, and holes positioned between the metal mesh patterns, and a method of manufacturing the same. An active material is applied onto the metal mesh layer through the holes of the metal mesh layer, and thus a contact area of the metal mesh layer and the active material is increased, so that it is possible to restrict the active material from being deintercalated from the current collector and improve a cycle lifespan property of a battery. | 05-07-2015 |