Abstract: The performance characteristics of alkaline manganese dioxide cells are improved by applying a thin, polymeric coating to the inner surface of an unplated steel positive current collector, and including a silicon compound in the coating. The polymeric coating comprises, in combination, a first film forming binder component and a second component comprising an electrically conductive component such as carbon or a filler. The combination of the coating and the silicon compound reduces the internal resistance of the cell, and may be used on unplated steel.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a button-type alkaline cell comprises forming and working a negative electrode having an inner surface of Cu using a die having a ceramic portion while abutting the ceramic portion of the die with at least the Cu inner surface of the negative electrode. The thus formed and worked negative electrode is then combined with a positive electrode compound, a negative electrode compound, a separator, a positive electrode, a gasket and an alkaline electrolyte to form the button-type alkaline cell.

Abstract: A rectangular battery having an electrode group which is inserted in a battery case having an airtight structure. The electrode group is formed by alternately stacking positive electrodes and negative electrodes via separators. The battery case is rectangular had has a closed bottom and an open part that is airtightly sealed by a cover. The outermost electrodes, which are located on both faces of the electrode group, are coated with an active material on a surface of a core. Furthermore, the outermost electrodes have the same polarity and the cores thereof directly contact an inside surface of the outer battery case. In one embodiment, the capacity of the outermost electrodes is smaller than the capacity of the inwardly disposed electrodes of the same polarity.

Abstract: An electrode excellent in high-rate discharge characteristics is provided by increasing the adhesive strength of the conductive core material to the sintered nickel porous body which form the sintered type substrate. The electrode of the present invention uses a sintered substrate containing a part wherein the diameter of the pores of the sintered nickel porous body becomes successively smaller from the joining interfaces of the conductive core material toward the outside surfaces of the substrate. The region wherein the diameter is greater than in other parts preferably ranges within about 1/5 of the substrate thickness starting from both surfaces of the core material toward the outside surfaces of the substrate.

Abstract: A conductive agent for use in alkaline storage batteries in accordance with one aspect of the present invention contains 0.1 to 10% by weight sodium. This sodium content results from cobalt or a cobalt compound, to which an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide is added and heated to 50 to 200.degree. C. A non-sintered nickel electrode for use in alkaline storage batteries is also proposed. In this electrode, the aforesaid conductive agent in accordance with the present invention is added to a pulverulent active material consisting of grains of nickel hydroxide or grains mainly constituted by nickel hydroxide such that 1 to 20 parts by weight of the conductive agent is added to 100 parts by weight nickel hydroxide contained in the pulverulent active material. Another non-sintered nickel electrode for use in alkaline storage batteries is also proposed.

Abstract: A cell comprising an electrode body having positive and negative electrodes which are spirally wound with interposing a separator therebetween and a cell case in which the electrode body is inserted, wherein a pair of the negative electrodes face respective surfaces of the positive electrode through the separator, and the negative electrodes are in contact with each other substantially in the second and subsequent turns, or wherein the negative electrode comprises a metal substrate and a pair of layers of electrode active material formed on both surfaces of the substrate, provided that the negative electrode which is present in at least one of the innermost and outermost turns of electrode body carries the layer of the electrode active material only on one side of the substrate, and each layer of the electrode active material of the negative electrode faces the positive electrode through the separator.

Abstract: A sodium polyacrylate superabsorbent polymer made by bulk polymerization and characterized as described herein is a superior gelling agent when provided at a suitable concentration in a gelled anode for an alkaline electrochemical cell. Suitable gelled anodes, alkaline electrochemical cells containing such gelled anodes, and methods for making and using same are also described.

Abstract: By using a thin film-formed positive electrode, and negative electrode and a film separator, the capacity density of the electrode plate can be improved and at the same time a nickel-hydrogen secondary battery with a higher capacity can be easily obtained; as a result a nickel-hydrogen secondary battery with a higher capacity density can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides alkaline storage batteries of which high-rate discharge characteristic at low-temperature, cycle life, and storage performance at high-temperature are improved in good balance and the cost performance is superior even when the content of cobalt is made extremely low by using in the negative electrode consisting of hydrogen absorbing alloy powders based on MmNi system alloys comprising MmNi.sub.5 system alloy which remains mostly crystalline in phase when absorbing hydrogen and Mm.sub.2 Ni.sub.7 system alloy which turns mostly amorphous in phase upon absorbing hydrogen.

Abstract: A hydrogen absorbing alloy is disclosed for use as the negative electrode in alkaline batteries. The general formula of the alloy is AB.sub.x M.sub.y, wherein A is selected from the rare earth element La or a mischmetal thereof; B is selected from the group consisting of Ni, Fe, Mn, Cr, Cu, Co, and mixtures thereof; M is selected from the group consisting of Al, In, Zn, Sn, Ga, Si, Ge, Bi, and mixtures thereof; 4.5.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.5.5; and 0.3<y.ltoreq.0.6. This alloy has a longer cycle life, along with larger capacity and better reactivity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dry composition of materials to be used n a battery system. The dry composition comprises a mixture consisting of sodium hydroxide and sodium oxide. In a first reservoir in the battery system, the mixture is present in an amount sufficient to form with water a heated sodium hydroxide electrolyte solution having a 15% by weight concentration of sodium hydroxide. In a second reservoir in the battery system, the mixture is present in an amount sufficient to form with water a heated sodium hydroxide electrolyte solution having to up to about 75% by weight concentration of sodium hydroxide. The present invention also relates to a battery system and a method for generating electrical power which utilize the aforementioned dry composition of materials.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sealed alkaline storage battery with an increased utilization of a positive electrode active material comprising a nickel oxide and with drastically enhanced capacity density. The positive electrode active material is a nickel based multi-metals oxide containing at least one element such as Mn which promotes the formation of .gamma. phase during charging. The ratio A.sub..gamma. /A.sub..beta. of the integrated intensity A.sub..gamma. of the diffraction peak at d=about 7 angstroms attributed to the .gamma. phase to the integrated intensity A.sub..gamma. of the diffraction peak at d=about 4.5 to 5.0 angstroms attributed to the .beta. phase of the oxide in the completely charged state is not smaller than 0.4. The electrolyte comprises an aqueous solution containing at least one of K.sup.+ and Na.sup.+ as a cationic component and the total concentration of the above-mentioned cationic component in the completely charged state is within a range between 4 and 12 mol/l.

Abstract: In the non-sintered nickel electrode for an alkaline storage battery according to the invention, a yttrium metal powder and/or a yttrium compound powder has been added to a particulate active material comprising composite particles each consisting of a nickel hydroxide core and a sodium-doped cobalt compound shell. Because the yttrium metal powder and/or yttrium compound powder inhibits the diffusion of cobalt into the nickel hydroxide core, the non-sintered nickel electrode of the invention exhibits a high utilization efficiency not only in an initial phase of charge-discharge cycling but over a long time of use. Moreover, because the yttrium metal powder and/or yttrium compound powder enhances the oxygen overpotential, the non-sintered nickel electrode for an alkaline storage battery according to the invention shows very satisfactory charge characteristics particularly at high temperatures.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for generating acid-free lithium salt solutions for lithium and lithium ion batteries and for preparing high purity lithium salts. The invention comprises removing acid species from lithium salt solutions such as lithium hexafluorophosphate solutions using weak base resins. The process does not require the addition of a base such as ammonia which when added to the electrolytic solution generally must be removed from the final product. Once the lithium salt has been treated by the weak base resin, the substantially acid-free lithium salt solution may be recovered from the weak base resin to provide a solution which may be used as an electrolytic solution or which may be used to prepare high purity lithium salts.

Abstract: A ceramic material, having the general formula:A.sub.x B.sub.y O.sub.2-.delta.whereinx.ltoreq.1 and y.ltoreq.1 and -1.delta.<1, andA is one or more metals selected from the group of Ti,Zr, Hf, Ce and Th or mixtures thereof;B is at least two metals selected from group 2a, 3b and the lanthanide group of metals.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing conductive cobalt oxyhydroxide, including providing a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a CoOOH precursor, and a basic solution to form a combination; applying a current to the positive electrode to form conductive CoOOH on the positive electrode; then removing the conductive CoOOH from the combination, is disclosed.

Abstract: A metal oxide electrode which uses no additives and only a small amount of a non-film forming binder are capable of discharging at very high current density with near complete utilization of the active material. Oxides of silver and copper are used because the reaction products are more conductive than the conductivity of the reactants.

Abstract: A hydrogen-absorbing alloy which is excellent in stability in an aqueous solution and in mechanical pulverizability is disclosed. This hydrogen-absorbing alloy contains an alloy represented by the following general formula (I):Mg.sub.2 M1.sub.y (I)wherein M1 is at least one element selected (excluding Mg, elements which are capable of causing an exothermic reaction with hydrogen, Al and B) from elements which are incapable of causing an exothermic reaction with hydrogen; and y is defined as 1<y.ltoreq.1.5.

Abstract: A sealed alkaline storage battery of the present invention employs a non-woven fabric having a double-layer structure of a dense and sparse layers as a separator to separate a positive electrode from a negative electrode, the sparse layer facing the negative electrode and being lower than the dense layer in fiber density.

Abstract: A spirally wound storage cell having an alkaline electrolyte, the storage cell being in particular of the nickel-cadmium type or of the nickel metal hydride type, and including at least one positive electrode and at least one negative electrode on either side of a non-woven separator made up of fibers made exclusively of polypropylene, said storage cell being characterized by the fact that said separator (5) comprises first and second superposed layers, said first layer (6) being obtained by the "spun-bond" method and serving as a support, and said second layer (7) being obtained by needling fibers on said first layer, the needling tangling the fibers of the second layer together, and bonding them to the fibers of the first layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to alkaline primary cells comprising a zinc gel as the anode material, an aqueous alkaline electrolyte, a separator and a cathode material containing manganese dioxide, wherein the cathode material comprises 0.1-5% by weight of alkali metal titanates and/or alkaline earth metal titanates.

Abstract: There is provided a battery activating method for an alkaline rechargeable battery, in which the capacity is not decreased even when the battery voltage is decreased by continuous load connection or self discharge. The temperature at the start of charging is set at 30.degree. to 80.degree. C. when activation is performed by charging the alkaline rechargeable battery having a nickel electrode, in which the powder of divalent cobalt compound, for example, CoO powder is contained in an active substance mixture, as a positive electrode.

Abstract: Zinc powder comprising particles having part or all of their surfaces coated either with copper and/or indium or with silver is used as a battery material or an active material for the negative electrode in a battery. The powder can be used as an anode active material in a secondary battery to achieve a higher discharge capacity and better cycle characteristics.

Abstract: An electrochemical battery cell (10) including a zinc electrode (20), and may be fabricated with an electrolyte (50) system including an electrolyte active species and a modifier. The electrolyte active species is typically a metal hydroxide such as KOH or NaOH, while the modifier may be a porphine such as a metal porphine, and/or a polymeric material. The polymeric material may be, for example, a polyvinyl resin such as polyvinyl alcohol or polyvinyl acetate. The resulting electrolyte typically includes between 3 and 10 weight percent of the polyvinyl resin, 5 and 50 weight percent of the metal hydroxide, and between 1 PPM and 1 wt % of the modifier. Employing such an electrolyte in a cell including a zinc electrode results in an energy storage device having improved power density and substantially longer cycle life.

Abstract: A casing of sealed alkaline storage battery to be stacked in plural number in one direction, each provided with a safety vent; each casing is made of a polymer alloy which mainly comprises polyphenylene ether, polystyrene and an elastomer; at least one outersurface of the casing has a plurality of vertical protrusion ribs thereby to form vertical ventilation spaces through which a cooling medium passes; the vertical ribs formed on an outer surface of the casing have a protrusion height of 1 to 2 mm, the interval between ribs of 7 to 15 mm, rib width of 3 to 10 mm; thickness of inter-rib portion of casing are 1 to 3 mm, and those at the parts of short side walls 2 to 4 mm.

Abstract: The performance characteristics of alkaline manganese dioxide cells are improved by applying a thin, polymeric coating to the inner surface of an unplated steel positive current collector, and treating the current collector with an aqueous solution of sodium silicate before or after the coating is applied to the inner surface. Silicic acid may also be added to the coating before its application to the inner surface of the current collector. In either embodiment of the invention, sodium silicate or silicic acid may also be added to the cathode mixture. The polymeric coating comprises, in combination, a first film forming binder component and a second component comprising an electrically conductive component such as carbon or a filler. The combination of the coating and the sodium silicate or silicic acid treatment of the current collector reduces the internal resistance of the cell, and may even be used on unplated steel.

Abstract: In a method according to the present invention for manufacturing a nickel-metal-hydride battery, a positive electrode including nickel hydroxide, a negative electrode including a hydrogen occlusion alloy, and a separator are assembled, and the assembled components are placed in a battery vessel. The battery vessel is filled with an alkali electrolyte, and the vessel is sealed so as to produce a sealed nickel-metal-hydride battery. Thereafter, a formation step including at least one charging/discharging cycle of the nickel-metal-hydride battery is carried out, and after the formation step, the nickel-metal-hydride battery is charged. After the charging, the nickel-metal-hydride battery is left in a charged state for from one day until a time when there is no discharge capacity due to self-discharge.

Abstract: This invention pertains to alkaline electrochemical cells, typically to metal-air cells of the button-type. Non-reactive elements of cells of the invention are thinner than corresponding non-reactive elements of prior art cells. Such elements can be made thinner because of improved structures of such elements. The anode can is made from a metal strip structure having a higher steel content. The cathode can has a modified temper, which improves relative stiffness and rigidity while retaining sufficient ductility. By so reducing the thicknesses of non-reactive elements of the cell, and thus the volume occupied by such non-reactive elements, the fraction of the cell devoted to holding electrochemically reactive anode material therein is increased, with corresponding increase in the milliampere hour capacity of the cell.

Abstract: A Ni/Cd or Ni/hydride storage battery of the button cell type has a positive electrode tablet based on a nickel hydroxide powder having an active mass comprised of spherical particles with a high pycnometric density (d>3.5 g/cm.sup.3). In contrast to conventional nickel hydroxide powders having irregular particles, a better space utilization is achieved during dry pressing due to a narrow particle-size distribution having a maximum in a range of from 5 to 20 .mu.m, and due to the rounded particle surfaces. The specific volumetric capacity of the resulting button cell electrode is consequently approximately 25% higher than that of a conventional positive button cell electrode. A microporous separator having pore sizes smaller than the mean diameter of the spherical particles prevents the danger of short circuits.

Abstract: A nickel-hydrogen secondary battery is disclosed wherein a long life is assured, an improved self-discharging property in a high temperature storage and the inhibition of increase in inner pressure of the battery in the occasion of over-charging can be realized. The nickel-hydrogen secondary battery comprises, a case, a paste-type positive electrode accommodated in the case and containing nickel hydroxide and a polymeric binder, a paste-type negative electrode accommodated in the case and containing a hydrogen-absorbing alloy and a polymeric binder, a separator accommodated in the case in so as to be interposed between the positive and negative electrodes, and an alkali electrolyte accommodated in the case.

Abstract: Substantial improvements to the cycle life of silverzinc cells were obtained by the addition of small amounts of bismuth oxide (Bi.sub.2 O.sub.3) to the negative zinc electrode, in conjunction with cadmium oxide (CdO) and lead oxide (PbO). These improvements, which can be extended to other zinc-based alkaline batteries, especially nickel-zinc and zinc-air, can also be realized in conjunction with other metal oxides and hydroxides, particularly indium hydroxide ?In(OH).sub.3 !, which, like Bi.sub.2 O.sub.3, has the additional advantage of being non-toxic.

Abstract: A sealed alkaline storage battery with a long cycle life is disclosed, in which an inadequate adjustment between some of the electrode plates in a cell and the difference in the deterioration resulting from the difference in the heat dissipating abilities of the plates in the cell has been obviated. The storage battery comprises an electrode group configured by piling up a plurality of positive electrodes and a plurality of negative electrodes alternately with separators interposed therebetween, wherein the capacities of the respective negative electrodes are larger than those of the adjacent positive electrodes, except for the negative electrodes positioned at both ends of the electrode group. The capacities of the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes in the central part of the electrode group are larger than those of the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes located closer to both ends of the electrode group.

Abstract: A layer-built sealed alkaline storage battery includes plural rectangular cell units 11. Those cell units 11 are arranged in a row and united together with a pair of end plates 1 and 2 arranged at the opposite sides of the assembly of the cells by belt-like clamp bands 37, 38 each extending cross from one of the end plates 1 through the cell units 11 to the other of the end plates 2 and being fixed at the end thereof on the end plates 1, 2. Each end plate 1 or 2 is of one-piece structure having 1) a generally rectangular panel portion or portions 26 and 2) a peripheral wall frame 26 and 3) reinforcement ribs 23a to 23c, so that the assembly of the cell can be united so as to be prevented from deformation due to expansion and vibration of the cells.

Abstract: A cell for sealed nickel-metal hydride storage battery having a high energy density and a long cycle life is disclosed. It comprises a battery casing made of a synthetic resin which accommodates a power-generating unit including a hydrogen storage alloy negative electrode whose hydrogen equilibrium pressure is 0.01-0.1 MPa at 45.degree. C., when H/M=0.5, and a lid for sealing an open end of the casing provided with a safety vent whose operation pressure is 0.2-0.8 MPa. A pressure-resistant strength of the battery casing is in a range of 0.7-2.0 MPa and set higher than the operation pressure of the safety vent by 0.5 MPa or more.

Abstract: A nickel positive electrode for an alkaline storage battery having an improved utilization is disclosed. It comprises a nickel hydroxide powder and a cobalt hydroxide powder, wherein the cobalt hydroxide powder has a specific surface area of 10 m.sup.2 /g or larger and a particle diameter of one-half or less of that of the nickel hydroxide powder. A nickel-metal hydroxide storage battery having this nickel positive electrode is also disclosed.

Abstract: As a nickel electrode for alkaline storage batteries, an electrode plate comprising a plurality of electroconductive substrates and a plurality of active material layers which are alternately laminated and integrated is used, whereby mutual electric conductivity of the active material and the electroconductive substrate in the direction of thickness is increased, and active material utilization, discharge voltage characteristics as batteries and charge-discharge repetition life are improved. The nickel electrode comprises a plurality of electrode leaves each of which comprises an electroconductive substrate coated with an active material and which are laminated and integrated so that the electroconductive substrate and the active material layer are alternated with each other, a plurality of said electroconductive substrates being electrically and mechanically connected through a part of the respective electroconductive substrates, said electroconductive substrate having a thickness of 5-60 .mu.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dry composition of materials to be used n a battery system. The dry composition comprises a mixture consisting of sodium hydroxide and sodium oxide. In a first reservoir in the battery system, the mixture is present in an amount sufficient to form with water a heated sodium hydroxide electrolyte solution having a 15% by weight concentration of sodium hydroxide. In a second reservoir in the battery system, the mixture is present in an amount sufficient to form with water a heated sodium hydroxide electrolyte solution having to up to about 75% by weight concentration of sodium hydroxide. The present invention also relates to a battery system and a method for generating electrical power which utilize the aforementioned dry composition of materials.

Abstract: A low temperature molten ionic liquid composition comprising a mixture of a metal halide and an alkyl-containing amine hydrohalide salt is described which is useful as a catalyst and a solvent in alkylation, arylation and polymerization reactions or as an electrolyte for batteries. The metal halide is a covalently bonded metal halide which can contain a metal selected from the group comprised of aluminum, gallium, iron, copper, zinc, and indium, and is most preferably aluminum trichloride. The alkyl-containing amine hydrohalide salt may contain up to three alkyl groups, which are preferably lower alkyl, such as methyl and ethyl.

Abstract: An alkaline battery using a mercury free zinc alloy powder as an anode active material is disclosed. It has a gelled anode which comprises silicon and zinc alloy powder containing at least one of a) aluminum and b) calcium, c) bismuth in combination with calcium.

Abstract: An alkaline storage battery configured with an improved nickel positive electrode plate having a high capacity density and a high utilization of the active material is disclosed. The nickel positive electrode plate comprises a porous metal plaque, a first layer of nickel hydroxide loaded in close proximity to inner surfaces of pores of the porous metal plaque, and a second layer of nickel hydroxide loaded over the first layer. The nickel hydroxide in the second layer has a larger particle diameter than that in the first layer, and the amount of the nickel hydroxide in the second layer occupies a majority of the total amount of the active material filled in the positive electrode.

Abstract: This invention relates to electrical engineering and may be used for the production of alkaline storage cells based on various electrochemical systems. The alkaline storage cell comprises a casing filled with electrolyte and accomodating positive 1 and negative 2 electrodes separated by a multilayer separator consisting of layers 3, 4. The casing also comprises a porous metallic foil 5 interposed between the electrodes 1, 2. The foil 5 is inserted between the separator layers 3, 4 and may adjoin one of electrodes 1, 2. The porous foil 5 has a thickness of 50-200 .mu.m, a porosity of 30-60%, and a pore size of 1-20 .mu.m. The porous foil 5 may be made of nickel. The alkaline storage cell features enhanced reliability and stable discharge characteristics.

Abstract: An improved non-sintered type nickel positive electrode comprising a nickel hydroxide powder as an active material and a cobalt hydroxide powder for improving the utilization of the active material, and an alkaline storage battery configured with the positive electrode are disclosed. In the non-sintered type nickel positive electrode, at least part of the surfaces of the particles of the cobalt hydroxide powder is covered with a stabilizing agent of at least one member selected from the group consisting of a higher carboxylic acid, an ester of carboxylic acid, an aldehyde, a phenol and a vitamin.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a nickel electrode comprising a nickel-based hydroxide which satisfies at least one of the following criteria:an intensity ratio of the ?103! line to the ?200! line in the X-ray diffraction diagram of 1.05.+-.0.10;a coherence length L of 13.+-.3 nm,a ratio of the sum of the surface areas of the peaks at 3687.+-.10 cm.sup.-1 and 3600.+-.10 cm.sup.-1 to the surface area of the peak at 3580.+-.10 cm.sup.-1 of the Raman spectrum of 0.11.+-.0.03;a ratio of the surface area of the peak at 511.+-.10 cm.sup.-1 to the surface area of the peak at 460.+-.10 cm.sup.-1 in the Raman spectrum of 1.1.+-.0.1.

Abstract: The tap density of nickel hydroxide powders is improved, the expansion of a positive electrode is inhibited and the energy density of the positive electrode and the cycle life characteristics are improved by specifying the shape of the nickel hydroxide powders and besides, adding to the nickel hydroxide powders at least one of Cd, Ca, Zn, Mg, Fe, Co and Mn. The nickel hydroxide active material powders contain 1-7 wt % of at least one of Cd, Ca, Zn, Mg, Fe, Co and Mn and comprise a mixture of spherical or nearly spherical particles and non-spherical particles.

Abstract: A defective fluorite structure type solid electrolyte of the following formula (1):{(M.sub.1-a A.sub.a).sub.x Ce.sub.1-x }O.sub.2-y (1)wherein M is a trivalent rare earth element other than Ce, A is a monovalent alkali metal or a bivalent alkaline earth metal, and a, x and y are 0<a<0.6, 0.2<x<0.5 and 0<y<0.55, respectively.

Abstract: A nickel hydride secondary cell having a positive electrode which contains nickel oxide or nickel hydroxide, a negative electrode which contains a hydrogen occlusion alloy, and an electrolytic solution containing an alkali metal salt as a corrosion inhibitor, which cell has an increased maintenance rate of charge after storage.

Abstract: The zinc active powder for a mercury-free rechargeable electrochemical cell is coated with a surfactant, and separately with an aqueous solution of indium sulphate. Without any subsequent filtering, washing or drying, the powder is assembled into an electrochemical cell. The cell can include a hydrogen recombination catalyst in contact with the electrochemically active material of the cathode.

Abstract: The alkaline storage battery comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and alkaline electrolyte. The separator is a single layer of synthetic fiber non-woven fabric. Treating the separator to increase either the amount of fiber interconnection at the surface or the amount the fibers are broken apart at the surface or both improves separator strength without sacrificing permeability. This prevents internal short circuits, reduces internal pressure, and significantly improves battery lifetime.

Abstract: This invention pertains to rechargeable zinc alkaline electrochemical cells. In cells of the invention, the anode current collector comprises copper, and from about 0.5% by weight to about 11% silicon. Preferred compositions for the anode current collector comprise from about 1% by weight silicon to about 6% by weight silicon. Cells embodying anode current collectors of the invention exhibit reduced current flow under anode polarization in alkaline conditions, and reduced cell expansion under abusive electrical drain conditions. The cells are less susceptible to oxidation of the anode current collector, which is typically irreversible, than known brass anode current collectors. In general, cells of the invention are less susceptible to, and generally do not exhibit as much, irreversible chemical reaction activity, as conventional current collectors, especially oxidation of copper at the anode current collector.

Abstract: A relatively large rectangular sealed alkaline storage battery used for electric cars, etc. is disclosed. The battery has such an inner construction as to inhibit deformation of the electrode group caused by charging and discharging so as to improve the life characteristics. The electrode group comprises positive electrode plates alternating with negative electrode plates in a planar direction and separators between the adjacent electrode plates. The electrode group and an alkali electrolyte are inserted in a container, which is sealed by a cover provided with a safety vent and the position of the electrode group in the container is controlled by fixing poles to the cover. The amount of the alkali electrolyte is 1.5-2.5 cm.sup.3/ battery capacity 1 Ah. Especially, for a module battery, a given distance is provided between the shorter side face of the electrode group and the inner wall of the container, and the outer longer side faces of the container are constrained by a metallic plate.