Eveready Battery Company, Inc.

Union Carbide Corporation

The Technology Partnership, Plc.

Steven D Jones

George E Blomgren

James R Akridge

Richard A Langan

Robert M Janmey

James P Campbell

John C Bailey

John Matthew Somerville

Oliver W Burstall

Jerald D Baldwin, Jr

A gas consuming battery is provided with an air regulating system for regulating the flow of air into the battery. The air regulating system includes a valve having a moving plate disposed adjacent to another plate. The moving plate and the other plate can both have apertures therethrough that at least partially align in an open valve and are misaligned in a closed valve. The air regulating system can also include an actuator for moving the moving plate to open and close the valve. A sealing medium including a fluid containment layer and a fluid partially contained therein is disposed between the moving and fixed plates to enhance valve operation and sealing effectiveness. The fluid containment layer includes a porous material, and the fluid has a maximum wicking height, that is equal to or greater than a maximum interfacial dimension between the valve plates.

Battery having an air manager with a moving plate valve

A fluid consuming battery () is provided with a fluid regulating system () for regulating fluid entry into the battery. The battery () includes a fluid consuming cell () having a cell housing with fluid entry ports for the passage of a fluid into the cell housing. A first fluid consuming electrode and a second electrode are disposed within the cell housing. The fluid regulating system () includes a valve having a moving plate () disposed adjacent to a fixed plate (). The moving plate and fixed plate both have fluid entry ports () that align in an open valve position and are misaligned in a closed valve position. The fluid regulating system () also includes an actuator that may include one or more shape memory alloy (SMA) components () for moving the moving plate () relative to the fixed plate () to open and close the valve.

Fluid manager using two shape memory alloy components and a battery including the same

Battery fluid manager using shape memory alloy components with different actuation temperatures

Vitreous solid compositions at 25.degree. C. are useful as solid state electrolytes and are comprised of either Li.sub.3 PO.sub.4 or LiPO.sub.3 as a network former and/or network modifier.

Vitreous compositions based on Li.sub.3 PO.sub.4 and LiPO.sub.3 as

Low temperature molten compositions are comprised of a mixture of an inorganic halide salt such as aluminium trichloride, and a quaternary alkyl phosphonium halide salt, such as tetramethylphosphonium chloride, and are useful as electrolytes in electrochemical cells.

Low temperature molten compositions comprised of quaternary alkyl

Vitreous solid compositions are prepared via an RF sputtering process in an inert gas atmosphere from a target composition comprised of either Li.sub.3 PO.sub.4 or LiPO.sub.3 as a network former or network modifier.

Sputtering process for preparing vitreous compositions based on Li.sub.3

Low temperature molten compositions are comprised of a mixture of a metal halide, such as aluminum trichloride, and a ternary alkyl sulfonium salt, such as trimethylsulfonium chloride, and are useful as electrolytes in electrochemical cells.

Low temperature molten composition comprised of ternary alkyl sulfonium

Low temperature molten compositions comprised of a mixture of a metal halide, such as aluminum trichloride, and a hydrocarbyl-saturated onium salt, such as trimethylphenylammonium chloride, are useful as electrolytes in electrochemical cells.

Low temperature molten compositions

A non-aqueous electrochemical cell employing a liquid cathode comprising an organo halide of at least one element selected from Group IVA and Group VA of the Periodic Table and having an atomic number of 14 or more.

Non-aqueous cell

A non-aqueous electrochemical cell employing a liquid cathode which comprises an halogenocarbonylchalcogenyl halide.

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Steven D Jones