摘要:
A PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR TREATMENT OF BATTERY PLATES, IN WHICH THE ACTIVE MATERIAL OF THE PLATE IS ELECTRICALLY FORMED AND DECONTAMINATED BY ELECTROLYZING WITHOUT DIRECT CONNECTIONS TO A POWER SOURCE, BY INTERPOSING THE ACTIVE MATERIAL INSULATEDLY IN A BATH BETWEEN TWO ENERGIZED ELECTRODES. THIS IS PARTICULARLY USEFUL IN THE CASE OF BATTERY PLATES FORMED BY IMPREGNATING A POROUS SUBSTRATE WITH A METALLIC NITRATE AND SUBJECTING THE IMPREGNATED SUBSTRATE TO AN ALKALINE EARTH HYDROXIDE FOR FORMATION OF ACTIVE MATERIAL IN THE FORM OF A METALLIC HYDROXIDE.
摘要:
Conventionally made, unformed storage battery plates comprised of a die-cast lead grid and a paste of lead oxide are preformed in a weakly acid or weakly alkaline electrolyte solution to provide a surface layer of lead peroxide high in alpha content on the active material of the plates. The formation of the plates is thereafter completed in a strongly alkaline electrolyte solution to provide plates having a formed active material of substantially all alpha lead peroxide.
摘要:
THE DISCLOSURE RELATES TO NOVEL AQUEOUS CADMIUM SOLUTIONS WHEREIN THE RATIO OF WATER TO CADMIUM IS IN THE RANGE OF ABOUT 1.3 TO LESS THAN 4.0 AND PREFERABLY BETWEEN 1.3 TO 3.0. THE SOLUTIONS ARE PREPARED BY REMOVING WATER FROM MOLTEN CADMIUM NITRATE TETRAHYDRATE AND ARE USED TO IMPREGNATE POROUS MATRICES TO FORM CADMIUM ELECTRODES OF HIGH CAPACITY.
摘要:
A process for producing negative active mass suitable for use in nickel-cadmium cells or similar cells or batteries which comprises electrically depositing cadmium hydroxide from an electrolyte containing cadmium cations and reducible anions such as nitrate anions and a small proporation of nickel cations. The negative active mass thus produced contains about 1 percent to about 10 percent of nickel, has excellent initial capacity and exhibits excellent retention of capacity after electrochemical cycling.
摘要:
A THIN ELECTRODE IS DISCLOSED WHICH HAS AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SHEET, AND A THIN LAYER OF AN ACTIVE MATERIAL OF A METALLIC OXIDE, A METALLIC HYDROXIDE, OR A METAL ADHERING TO EACH MAJOR FACE OF THE SHEET. A METHOD IS ALSO DESCRIBED FOR MAKING SUCH ELECTRODES. THESE ELECTRODES ARE USEFUL FOR SMALL VOLUME, SMALL WEIGHT APPLICATIONS SUCH AS ANODES IN BATTERIES FOR SQUIBS AND SPACE VEHICLES.
摘要:
A METHOD FOR LOADING ACTIVE BATTERY MATERIAL INTO POROUS, FLEXIBLE, METALLIC BATTERY PLAQUES, COMPRISES THE FOLLOWING STEPS: PRECIPITATING NICKEL HYDROXIDE ACTIVE MATERIAL WITHIN THE PLAQUE BY MAKING THE PLAQUE CATHODIC, AT A HIGH CURRENT DENSITY, IN AN ELECTRO-PRECIPITATION CELL ALSO CONTAINING A CONSUMABLE NICKEL ANODE AND A SOLUTION COMPRISING NICKEL NITRATE; ELECTROCHEMICALLY OXIDIZING AND REDUCING THE PRECIPITATE IN CAUSTIC FORMATION SOLUTION; REPEATING THE ELECTRO-PRECIPITATION STEP.
摘要:
A method and apparatus is provided for treating plate panels or plates for electric storage batteries, the apparatus providing special movable racks for transporting a plurality of plate panels through the entire process of formation, preserving, washing, treating and drying. The racks provide spaced vertical slots for accommodating the battery plates in such manner that the weight of the plates rests on a pair of spaced contact bars extending longitudinally along the bottom of the rack in position to support the battery plates and provide electric contact during the charging operation. The contact bars are formed either with inerted V-shaped ridges or inclined surfaces to permit the weight of the plates to make a firm connection between the plate lugs and the contact bars. In one form of the invention, the contact bars are mounted in the formation tank, while in another form of the invention the contact bars are incorporated into the rack. The formation tank is formed with barriers of non-conductive, acid-resistant material for blocking any current leakage path between the contact bars and preventing shorting.