Abstract: The electric energy generated by an electric generator driven by an engine on a motor vehicle is stored in a large-capacity capacitor when the rotational speed of the engine increases while the engine is idling, thereby imposing a load on the engine. At this time, the increase in the rotational speed of the engine is suppressed. The electric energy stored in the capacitor is supplied to a battery on the motor vehicle, charging the battery.

Abstract: An electrical double-layer capacitor cell arrangement constituted of a plural number of cells (C), and each respective upper and lower collecting electrode (1) of those cells is made as an electrode is common to all cells and has a sheet-like form. The portion of the collecting electrode sheet positioned in the boundary part between adjacent cells is made easily be cut off. In correspondence to the way of cutting off, the connecting relation between cells to each other can be made in series connection and parallel connection.

Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor has a pair of polarized electrodes in the form of electrode bodies each comprising a porous sintered body, and a pair of current collectors for collecting electric charges stored in the polarized electrodes, the current collectors being in the form of electrically conductive films. The electrically conductive films have surfaces dissolved by a solvent and joined to the electrode bodies with dissolved portions of the electrically conductive films being present in pores of the electrode bodies. The polarized electrodes and the current collectors are held in stable contact with each other, with a reduced contact resistance therebetween. The electric double layer capacitor thus has a small internal resistance.

Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor has two polarized electrodes each comprising a porous sintered body, and two current collectors each made of an electrically conductive material composed of a base and electrically conductive fine particles mixed in the base. The current collectors are held in contact with surfaces of the polarized electrodes and enter pores of the polarized electrodes.

Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor employs a paste electrode between collector electrodes. The paste electrode is compressed under small load because the collector electrodes are pressed by compression plates in only an area corresponding to the past electrode. With the paste electrode thus compressed, the internal resistance of the capacitance is reduced and the capacitance of the capacitor is stable. The electric double layer capacitor comprises a stack of basic cells of capacitor elements. The basic cells are held closely together by a bolt which extends through central holes in the basic cells and interconnects the compression plates, so that the basic cells are compressed under a uniform and appropriate pressure.

Abstract: An electrical double-layer capacitor cell wherein a sintered polarizing electrode (2) is used as a polarizing electrode, and the collecting electrode (1) and the sintered polarizing electrode (2) are contacted. Conductive metal evaporated films (5,6) are formed on the respective contact surfaces of the collecting electrode (1) and of the sintered polarizing electrode (2). When the above-described contact is carried out by the respective conductive metal evaporated films (5,6), the contact resistance becomes small.

Abstract: In producing an electrical double-layer capacitor cell, when the polarizing electrode (61,71) is formed by sintering to the collecting electrode (11,21) obtained by sintering a conductive powder into plate-like form, the contact resistance between the collecting electrode (11,21) and the polarizing electrode (61,71) becomes extremely small. Thereby, the internal resistance of the electrical double-layer capacitor cell becomes small.

Abstract: The polarizing electrode of an electrical double-layer capacitor cell is constituted with solid plate-like polarizing electrodes (61, 71) and paste-like polarizing electrodes (6, 7). The solid plate-like polarizing electrodes (61, 71) are counterposedly arranged by being separated with a separator (5). The paste-like polarizing electrodes (6, 7) are coated on the surfaces at the outside of the solid plate-like polarizing electrodes (61, 71). Since the paste-like polarizing electrodes (6, 7) contact also to the solid plate-like polarizing electrodes (61, 71) and the collecting electrodes (1, 2) well, the contact resistance becomes small.

Abstract: A gasket (4) or collecting electrodes (1) are used as members for separating the inside from the outside of an electrical double-layer capacitor and small holes (5) are provided therein through which the internal air is drawn. Thus the internal pressure becomes lower than the atmospheric pressure and the pressure difference is generated between the inside and the outside.Due to this pressure difference, collecting electrodes (1) are pressed to solid polarizing electrodes (2). Hence the resistance in the contacts between the collecting electrodes and the solid polarizing electrodes can be reduced. Since the contact force is obtained by the pressure difference between the inside and the outside, the contact force is applied equally to every part of the contacts. As a result, there is no contact where its contact resistance is not reduced.Further, there is no need of provision of any device for generating the contact force outside the electrical double-layer capacitor.

Abstract: A motor vehicle power supply device includes an alternator drivable by an engine mounted on a motor vehicle, a battery chargeable by electric energy generated by the alternator, a capacitor connected to the alternator and the battery, and a charging speed varying circuit arrangement connected between the capacitor, and the alternator and the battery, for varying the speed at which the capacitor is charged. The charging speed varying circuit arrangement is controlled to vary the speed at which the capacitor is charged, depending on the operating condition of the motor vehicle.

Abstract: In a forming an electrical double-layer capacitor by combining a plurality of electrical double-layer capacitor cells, the electrical double-layer capacitor cells are formed not by being laminated in a vertical direction but by being arranged in a horizontal direction, thereby allowing a multiplicity of electrical double-layer capacity cells to be arranged even in the case of a narrow space if only there is a sufficient area.