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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7264127 | Sewn cloth bags for storing kitchen lids A kitchen lid storage sack fabricated from a series of fabric panels each folded back upon itself in a U-shape forming a plurality of open mouth pockets, a rigid tube positioned in a pocket across the top of the sack providing a sliding support for the sack position... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264023 | Weaved article or garment and method of making weaved article or garment A brand new and unexpected textured fabric or textile that can be used to provide articles of clothing (for humans and/or animals), wall hangings, home decorating articles, headwear, footwear, etc. The method transforms one dimensional fabric or textile into three d... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7255958 | Cell having flat wound electrode assembly and method of producing such cell A method includes the steps of: with the use of a winding core having a first member wherein its cross sectional-area in the direction orthogonal to the revolving axis and the peripheral length of the cross section are larger than those of a second member, passing a... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7150932 | Production of tubular fuel cells, fuel cell modules, base elements and ion exchanger membranes The present invention relates to a composite system comprising an electrode and a membrane, which can be used as a fuel cell element or an ion-exchange membrane. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7090318 | System for a sliding door with a camber A slide assembly for use with a door of a furniture piece is disclosed. The slide assembly includes a pair of cambered slides and an alignment element. The pair of slides is for slidably mounting the door. The alignment element is for aligning the movement of the pa... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6960383 | Combined boards and methods for manufacturing the same Combined boards are taught that comprise a second board substrate (12) having a through bore (14) formed therein, a first board substrate (10), and a connector pin (40, 50) received in the through bore (14) of the second board subs... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6884539 | Microcell electrochemical devices and assemblies with corrosion-resistant current collectors, and method of making the same A fibrous microcell structure comprising: (1) an inner electrode, (2) a hollow fibrous membrane separator in contact with the inner electrode, (3) an electrolyte embedded in the hollow fibrous membrane separator, and (4) an outer electrode, wherein at least one of t... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6869725 | Sealed battery The center pin 20 is cylindrical and tube-shaped, and each of the planes formed by the external surface of the center pin 20 in the vicinity of the edges 22a and 22b of the slit 21 is angled toward the inside of the c... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6830845 | Cylindrical battery and method and device for manufacturing thereof In the process of manufacturing a cylindrical battery, when a tubular separator (3) and bottom separator (5) are inserted into a battery casing (1) in which are accommodated positive electrode mixture pellets (2), by inserting the bottom ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6680142 | Bio-based microbattery and methods for fabrication of same The invention relates to a microbattery made of bioelectroactive components based on biomimetic processes. Bio-derived electron donors and electron acceptors are separately encapsulated in at least one pair of polymerized phospholipid vesicles. Embedded w... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6541152 | Cylindrical battery and method and device for manufacturing thereof In the process of manufacturing a cylindrical battery, when a tubular separator (3) and bottom separator (5) are inserted into a battery casing (1) in which are accommodated positive electrode mixture pellets (2), by inserting the bottom separator (5) suc... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6495281 | Microcell electrochemical devices assemblies with corrosion management subsystem, and method of making and using the same Corrosion management componentry for use in fibrous electrochemical systems for generation/conversion of energy. Fibrous structures are provided for enhanced resistance to oxidative degradation of microcell-based high voltage, high power density fuel cell... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6444339 | Microcell electrochemical device assemblies with thermal management subsystem, and method of making and using the same Microcell structures and assemblies utilized for electrochemical generation/conversion of energy, in which high voltage, high power density outputs are produced for applications such as fuel cell and battery systems, with high efficiency extraction of hea... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6403517 | System and process for manufacturing microcell electrochemical devices and assemblies Fabrication process for manufacture of microcell structures and assemblies, in which a microcell precursor is contacted with one or more of electrolytes, electrocatalysts, electrocatalyst reducing agents, and hydrophicity-imparting materials. The process ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6403248 | Microcell electrochemical devices assemblies with water management subsystem, and method of making and using the same A microcell assembly wherein water is generated by electrochemical reaction and sorptive channeling elements are provided in the assembly to remove excess water from the locus of electrochemical reaction. The water management techniques of the invention e... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6399232 | Series-connected microcell electrochemical devices and assemblies, and method of making and using the same Series-connected microcell structures and assemblies are efficiently utilized for electrochemical generation/conversion of energy. The microcell structures of the invention are readily constructed from discrete fibrous microcell elements that are fabricat... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6177210 | Separator for electrochemical cell and method of assembly A cup-shaped separator and method of assembly for an electrochemical cell for separating a positive electrode from a negative electrode. The separator comprises a sheet of non-conductive separator material have a bottom section and a side wall section. Th... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6099987 | Cylindrical electrochemical cell with cup seal for separator A cylindrical electrochemical cell includes a cathode, an anode, a cylindrical separator, coaxial with the cell, for electrically separating the cathode and anode, and a cup seal at an end of the separator for electrically separating the anode and cathode... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5948561 | Electrochemical cell and method of assembly An electrochemical cell and method for achieving increased anode-to-cathode interface area to realize enhanced service performance are disclosed. A first electrode, such as a cathode, is provided in a container and a cavity is formed in the first electrod... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5916706 | Honeycomb battery structure A battery construction and a method of producing the construction. The construction comprises a ceramic separator having a honeycomb structure in which cells run lengthwise of the honeycomb and are separated by porous walls, and internal positive and nega... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5738955 | Deep-discharge battery separator A tubular, rigid, porous, ceramic separator for a rechargeable, deep-discharge battery assembly, the separator having a porosity greater than 40%. A plurality of battery cells, each embodying such separators, are assembled with a common terminal to form t... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5674639 | Separator for alkaline electrochemical cells An electrochemical cell includes a first active electrode material having a tubular shape closed at one end and open at the other, a second active electrode material disposed within the cavity of the tubular shaped first active electrode material, a scrol... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5492782 | Battery having fiber electrodes A high-storage-capacity electrical storage battery (20) includes a plurality of fiber anodes (22), a plurality of fiber cathodes (28) bundled together and interspersed with the fiber anodes (22), and an electrolyte in the interstices (40) between the fibe... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5484461 | Method for producing a Li(Al) anode for a lithium battery A method for producing Li(Al) alloy anode comprises the steps of alloying Li and Al, grinding the formed alloy, pressing the powder around a current conductive thread and enclosing the anode element in a microporous separator material.... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5478677 | Composite gauntlet/separator A battery separator for tubular positive electrodes composed of a microporous, composite sheet product having first and second major surface, formed from a uniform mixture of a polymer, a filler, a processing aid a porous form stable layer at least partia... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5449574 | Electical device having alternating layers of fibrous electrodes An electrical device such as a battery (20) or capacitor is formed as alternating facing layers of an array of fibrous electrodes. The fibrous electrodes (24) of one set of layers are connected at one end (36) of the array, and the fibrous electrodes (30)... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5328586 | Process for the manufacture of lead-acid battery electrode and lead-acid storage battery A process for the manufacture of an electrode for lead-acid storage battery wherein a current-conducting backing is subjected to electrochemical treatment, to produce an active material. Said active material is formed from the outer layer of the current-c... | 07/12/1994 |
| 5217825 | Sealed lead-acid battery An improved tubular sealed lead-acid battery is proposed which has superior cycle life performance by providing a gap A between adjacent tubes which gap is expressed by the following equation, in which constant X is within the range of 0.29-0.75: A=B×con... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5208120 | Separator for electrochemical cell and process for assembling it into the cell An electrochemical cell, such as an alkaline cell, employing at least two separator strips in which the strips have notches appropriately placed so that when the separator is formed into a closed end cylindrical configuration it will have substantially no... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5205990 | Oxygen generator having honeycomb structure An oxygen generator having a honeycomb body made of oxygen ion conducting material separates oxygen from a first gas, such as air. The honeycomb body has a plurality of generally parallel first and second channels coated with a layer of porous metal condu... | 04/27/1993 |
| 4906536 | Tubelet panel and method of manufacture thereof A tubelet panel of fabric face sheets and parallel, continuous film, partition strips normal to the face sheets and having their longitudinal edges fused into the fabric of the face sheets is formed by thermal fusion by applying heat and pressure to the o... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4788114 | Electrode and electrochemical cell In an electrode for an electrochemical cell, the solid active electrode material is accomodated in a plurality of electrolyte-permeable hollow fibres, preferably of yieldable plastic. An electrochemical cell comprises at least one such electrode.... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4678730 | Tubular plate electrode slurry filling process and apparatus for lead-acid cells A process and apparatus is provided for filling tubular plate positive electrodes for use in lead-acid secondary cells with lead oxide particulate material in a highly fluid slurry form wherein tubular plate positive electrode assemblies comprising a plur... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4587181 | Lead acid recombination cells A lead acid recombination cell of motive power type comprises a sealed container containing negative plates alternating with tubular positive plates comprising a plurality of parallel tubes of porous material which contain active material and along the in... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4546053 | Sealed lead-acid storage cells Sealed lead-acid storage cells are described, characterized by positive electrode means comprising one or more positive electrode assemblies. Each electrode assembly in turn comprises two positive electrode members lying in spaced apart relationship to on... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4537842 | Thin tubular positive electrodes for lead-acid batteries and method of making same Improved positive electrodes for lead-acid batteries are disclosed, in which the said electrodes are initially fabricated such that: (1) the ratio between a calculated weight of formed, dry active material filled into a tube member and the weight of its corres... | 08/27/1985 |
| 4508801 | Lead acid battery with self-registering grid complement and methods of making and operating same A lead-acid battery construction comprises a casing, electrolyte means received in the casing and positive and negative electrode means mounted in the casing in contact with the electrolyte and being spaced apart by separator means. The positive electrode... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4374908 | Tubular electrode The invention relates to a tubular electrode for an electrochemical accumulator in the shape of an electrode plate with a number of electrolyte-permeable tube casings essentially parallelly arranged adjacent each other, containing an active material and c... | 02/22/1983 |
| 4366214 | Sealing device A device for sealing the tubes (4) in a tubular electrode plate of an electrochemical lead cell comprising a top and a bottom part. The top part consists of separate sleeves (10) for each tube (4), which optionally are arranged on a connecting strip (14),... | 12/28/1982 |
| 4359509 | Tubular positive electrode means for use in lead-acid storage batteries including shaped grid structure and self-registering grid complement means therefor Improved positive electrode means for use in a lead-acid battery includes a shaped grid structure, a self-registering plastic grid complement member selectively overlying portions of the shaped grid structure, tube means engaged around depending portions ... | 11/16/1982 |
