Yuasa Battery Co., Ltd.

Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Other

Kenjiro Kishimoto

Shoji Sugiyama

Hideaki Igarashi

Katsumi Kitagawa

Migaki Kono

Junji Muto

Yasuhide Nakayama

Hironori Kitawaki

Yoshio Kasai

Makoto Kobayashi

Tsuyoshi Kameda

Tomoki Matsui

Masaaki Sasaki

Hiroto Nakashima

Joji Yamashita

Yuji Matsumaru

Eiji Hohjo

Akira Kita

Kazuo Okada

Toshio Kitami

Osamu Matsushita

A separator for sealed cells is provided which attains a high degree of intimate contact with electrode plates, enables the cell to have reduced internal resistance, is less apt to suffer a fatigue phenomenon even upon repetitions of charge/discharge, and improves the life of the cell. Fine rubber particles are adhered to the surface of fibers of a non-woven fabric constituting the separator so that the fine rubber particles are present among the fibers. These fine rubber particles function as elastic bodies to absorb relative positional changes of the fibers and improve the compressive repulsion of the separator.

Non-woven fabric separator for sealed electrolytic cells

A sheet-like separator has an electrolyte dripping speed of 100 mm/hr or less, wherein the values of repellent force on the pouring repellent force curve of pouring of dilute sulfuric acid shown in FIG. 1 are the following:

Sheet-like separator and valve regulated lead acid battery

There is disclosed an improved uninterruptible power system used as a back-up power supply for a computer or communication equipment. The system comprises a rectifier for rectifying AC power from a power line, such as the utility line, an inverter for converting the DC power from the rectifier to AC power, a sealed lead-acid battery connected with the junction of the rectifier and the inverter via a first switch, a charger for supplying charging power from a power line to the battery via a second switch, and a control signal generator. The generator monitors the voltage of a power line and the closed circuit voltage of the battery. Usually, the two switches are opened. In the event of the failure of a power line, the generator closes the first switch to supply the load with electric power. After a power line has been recovered, the second switch is closed to charge the battery via the charger only for a calculated short time.

Uniterruptible power system

A separator in which a flowing rate of an electrolyte is less than 100 mm/hr and a sealed lead acid battery using the separator.

Sealed lead acid battery and separator for use in sealed lead acid

A separator substantially comprising only alkali-containing glass fibers with an average fiber diameter of less than 2 .mu.m, and having an electrolyte dripping speed of lower than 80 mm/hr and a content of sulfer S at the surface of the glass fibers of less than 0.02% by weight, as well as a sealed lead acid battery using such a separator.

Separator and sealed lead acid battery

A lead-acid battery using dilute sulfuric acid as the electrolyte, has a plate group composed of at least one positive plate, one negative plate and an intervening separator. Whiskers of at least one type selected from carbon, graphite and potassium titanate, having an electronic conductivity, with a diameter of 10 .mu.m or less and an aspect ratio of 50 or more, and a specific surface area of 2 m.sup.2 /g are mixed with at least one of the active materials of the positive and negative plates by 0.01 to 10 wt. % of the active material so as to connect the active material particles mutually and/or active material and current collector electronic conductively.

Lead-acid battery

The invention involves a sealed lead-acid battery comprising a cell element having positive plates, negative plates and separators, and electrolyte retained within micropore of the cell element. The micropores of both the plates is substantially filled with the electrolyte, while the micropores of the separators are not completely filled with the electrolyte. The voids formed partially in the micropores of the separators permit transport of the oxygen gas from the positive plates to the negative plates. Such a sealed lead-acid battery has long service life, and excels in ability to O.sub.2 absorb gases and reproduce water during overcharging and to recover by charging after a long overdischarged-state storage.

Sealed lead-acid battery

A plate group is formed of positive and negative plates and separators formed mostly of glass fibers of a diameter not thicker than 1.0 micron and is inserted into a container. Then, a sulfuric acid electrolyte of a concentration of a viscosity increasing agent of 0 to 3.0% by weight is first poured in an amount smaller than the total pore volume of the plate group and a sulfuric acid electrolyte of a concentration of the viscosity increasing agent higher than in the above poured sulfuric acid electrolyte is then poured in so that the total poured amount may be the same as or larger than the total pore volume of the plate group. The sealed lead-acid battery obtained as mentioned above has an excellent discharge characteristic and gas recombining performance, is low in the internal resistance, is long in the service life and does not leak the electrolyte.

Process for producing sealed lead-acid battery

The invention involves to a maintenance-free type sealed lead-acid batteries. In such battery, a combined separator is of a double layer made by double laminating a sheet-shaped separator formed by entangling glass fibers of a diameter not larger than 1 micron as a base with glass fibers of a diameter not smaller than 5 microns or preferably of 10 to 30 microns and a porous member having a maximum pore diameter larger than of the sheet-shaped separator and the electrolyte consists of an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid in which a small amount of a viscosity increasing agent is present. The thus formed batteries are low in the cost and are high in the gas absorbing performance and life performance.

Separators for storage batteries, particularly separators for sealed lead-acid storage batteries, comprise glass fibers entangled in the shape of a sheet without the use of a binder, a first portion being glass fibers having a fiber diameter smaller than 1 micron and a second portion being glass fibers having a fiber diameter larger than 5 microns, preferably larger than 10 microns, as well as an average fiber length of at least 5 mm. The inventive separators have high electrolyte retention, good mechanical strength, and good shape recovery.

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Osaka, Japan

Kenjiro Kishimoto