Abstract: There is described an electrochemical cell comprised of at least one flexible side wall attached to another side wall forming an electrolyte chamber and wherein one side wall is formed or provided with an air cathode mounted in spaced apart relationship to a metallic anode by a dielectric member and wherein battery assemblies may be produced by mounting a plurality of such electrochemical cells to each by support members with desired series or parallel electrical circuitry as required for intended duty.

Abstract: There is described an absorber assembly for alkali electrolyte solutions comprised of an absorber member including an alkali neutralizing compound disposed within a chamber of a porous material.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved deferred actuated battery assembly including a plurality of electrochemical cells comprised of a hybrid cathode member and an anode member formed of a material selected from the group consisting of aluminum, magnesium, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and mixtures thereof attached to an inert intermediate dielectric layer or member and configured for gross electrolyte contact therebetween disposed between an anode plate and a cathode plate.

Abstract: There is disclosed an electrochemical power cell comprised of an anode member and cathode member mounted via an intermediate non-porous dielectric layer having a volume resistivity of at least 1000 ohm..times.cm. therebetween to permit electrolytic contact to be established through the bulk electrolyte.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for laminating a metal-based anode member to one side of a conductive intermediate layer and an argentic oxide-containing layer to the other side thereof and using a plurality of such bipolar electrodes in a battery assembly defining a compartment for passage of an alkaline medium, such as seawater, or alkali.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a deferred actuated battery assembly system comprised of a plurality of bipolar electrodes disposed between an inert cathode current collector acting as a hydrogen electrode and an anode plate formed of a material selected from the group consisting of aluminum, magnesium, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and mixtures thereof and configured for the flow of hydroxide-based alkaline electrolyte solutions selected from the group consisting of potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for producing an electrochemical cathode for an electrochemical cell comprised of a current collecting layer or substrate laminated to a layer of a nonwoven conductive fibrous web, preferably of conductive carbon fibers, impregnated with a mixture of silver-containing carbon particles and a nonfibrous polymeric substance, and optionally with a hydrophobic microporous film or layer disposed on one of the layers of the nonwoven conductive fibrous web, as well as the product produced thereby.

Abstract: There is described an improved bipolar electrode comprised of an intermediate double-sided adhesive conductive plastic film or layer disposed between electronegative and electropositive layers wherein the intermediate layer has a volume resistivity of at least 0.5 ohm-cm. as well as a process for manufacturing same by passing a laminate of such layers through a pressure roller assembly at pressures between 30 to 500 psig.

Abstract: A self-illuminated salt water fishing lure including a hollow lure body which is open to receive salt water in which the body is submerged, and which has a light-transmissive wall; an electric light bulb mounted inside the lure body to produce light visible through the transmissive wall; and a battery, which uses salt water as an electrolyte, mounted inside the lure body for energizing the light bulb. The battery has electrodes with a gap between them which is open to receive salt water when the lure is submerged, but is otherwise empty, so that the battery is activated only during submersion of the lure. One suitable type of battery has a manganese dioxide cathode and an aluminum anode, with an interelectrode gap open at both ends so that sea water can flow into, through, and out of the gap to remove reaction products formed while the battery is activated.

Abstract: There is disclosed a deferred actuated battery assembly comprised of a plurality of bipolar electrodes disposed between an inert cathode current collector acting as a hydrogen electrode and an anode plate formed of a material selected from the group consisting of aluminum, magnesium, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and mixtures thereof and configured for electrolyte flow therebetween.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved battery assembly and process for operating same wherein a battery assembly comprised of bipolar electrodes disposed between an inert cathode current collector acting as a hydrogen electrode and an anode plate formed of a material selected from the group consisting of aluminum, magnesium, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and mixtures thereof is configured for electrolyte flow wherein the electrolyte includes hydrogen peroxide in an amount to provide 0.5 to about 30 volume percent solution.

Abstract: There is described an improved bipolar electrode comprised of an intermediate double-sided adhesive conductive plastic film or layer disposed between electronegative and electropositive layers wherein the intermediate layer has a volume resistivity of at least 0.5 ohm-cm. as well as a process for manufacturing same by passing a laminate of such layers through a pressure roller assembly at pressures between 30 to 500 psig.

Abstract: An improved electrolyte for an Li/TiS.sub.2 current producing system, such as a battery, features at least one lithium solute of the general formula LiXF.sub.a, where X is selected from a group consisting of B, P, Sb, and As, and wherein a is 4 for B and 6 for P, Sb, and As. The solute(s) are supported in a solvent consisting of at least 1,3 dioxolane, and more particularly in a mixture of 1,3 dioxolane (DIOX) and 1,2 dimethoxyethane (DME) ranging in percent ratios of (DIOX:DME) from 100/0 to 40/60 by weight.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a novel method of fabricating and composition for chalcogenide cathode-active electrodes. The method comprises the steps of:(a) combining the cathode-active material in particulate form with about 0.1 to about 10 percent by weight of a neutralized sulfonated ionomer, based on the total weight of the cathode-active material and the ionomer, and about 10 to about 90 percent by weight of solvent, based on the total weight of the cathode-active material, ionomer and solvent, wherein said solvent is a cosolvent system which includes one or more solvents selected from the group consisting of normal and aromatic hydrocarbons and one or more solvents selected from the group consisting of alcohols, amines, amides, nitriles, nitro-compounds, lactones and acetols;(b) forming the desired electrode configuration with the resulting mixture; and(c) drying the formed electrode so as to volatilize the solvent.

Abstract: A current producing Li/TiS.sub.2 electrochemical cell is featured which has a cyclic ether-containing electrolyte, and an inhibitor against the polymerization of the cyclic ether by TiS.sub.2, which cyclic ether otherwise polymerizes in the presence of TiS.sub.2.

Abstract: A grid consisting of an electronically conducting base material coated with a metal which can alloy with lithium is used in a lithium organic electrolyte cell containing dioxolane as at least one component of the electrolyte. The alloy will retard a reaction between the dioxolane and the grid base material in order to minimize the decomposition of the dioxolane within the cell.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of making anhydrous lithium thiocyanate and solutions containing anhydrous lithium thiocyanate by reacting a thiocyanate reactant selected from the group consisting of inorganic ammonium thiocyanate, quaternary alkyl ammonium thiocyanates, trialkyl ammonium thiocyanates, non-lithium alkali metal thiocyanates and alkaline earth metal thiocyanates, with a lithium salt selected from the group consisting of LiClO.sub.4 ; LiAsF.sub.6 ; LiBF.sub.4 ; LiPF.sub.6 ; LiO.sub.3 SCF.sub.3 ; LiNO.sub.2 ; LiNO.sub.3 ; LiCl; LiBr; LiI; LiO.sub.2 CCF.sub.3 ; LiOC.sub.6 H.sub.5 ; LiB(C.sub.6 H.sub.5).sub.4 and LiBR.sub.4 wherein R is methyl, ethyl, butyl or mixtures thereof, in an organic solvent in which the reactants are soluble.

Abstract: An electric current-producing cell which contains:(a) an anode metal higher than hydrogen in the electromotive series and having an atomic number no greater than 30;(b) a cathode material containing thiocyanogen, said material being selected from the group consisting of:(i) thiocyanogen of the formula:(SCN).sub.2 ;(ii) parathiocyanogen of the formula:(SCN).sub.xwherein x is greater than 2;(iii) halothiocyanogen of the formula:YSCNwherein Y is a halogen selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br and I;(iv) parahalothiocyanogen of the formula:(YSCN).sub.

Abstract: A novel electrochemical cell is disclosed utilizing: (a) an anode which contains an alkali metal as an anode-active material; (b) a cathode and (c) an elyte comprising an electrolytically effective amount of one or more compounds having the formula:(AX).sub.m A'SCNwherein A is an alkali metal, X is a halogen, A' is an alkali metal and 0.1.ltoreq.n.ltoreq.10. Preferred systems include lithium-containing anodes, lithium-containing electrolytes and cathodes which contain cathode-active material selected from the group consisting of cathode-active sulfurs, halogens, halides, chromates, phosphates, oxides and chalcogenides, especially those chalcogenides of the empirical formula MZ.sub.m wherein M is one or more metals selected from the group consisting of iron, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, tantalum and vanadium, Z is one or more chalcogens selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur, selenium and tellurium, and m is a numerical value between about 1.8 and about 3.2, e.g., TiS.sub.2.

Abstract: A novel electrochemical cell is disclosed utilizing: (a) an anode which contains as the anode-active material an alkali metal; (b) a cathode which contains as the cathode-active material a chalcogenide of the empirical formula M'Z.sub.n wherein M' is one or more metals selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium hafnium, niobium, tantalum and vanadium, Z is one or more chalcogens selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur, selenium and tellurium, and n is a numerical value between about 1.8 and about 3.2; and (c) an electrolyte consisting essentially of one or more solid alkali metal aluminum tetrahalide compounds of the formula MAlX.sub.4 wherein M is an alkali metal and X is one or more halogens selected from the group consisting of chlorine, bromine and iodine. Preferred is the cell wherein the anode is lithium, the cathode contains as its cathode-active material TiS.sub.2, and the electrolyte consists essentially of LiAlCl.sub.4.