Clarios Germany Gmbh & Co. Kgaa

Johnson Controls Autobatterie Gmbh & Co.

Johnson Controls Autobatterie Gmbh & Co. Kgaa

Thorsten Werle

Ingo Koch

Eberhard Meissner

Peter Streuer

Julius Martin Schwab

Nadine Dehnert

Julius Schwab

The invention relates to a mixing element designed to be installed into a housing of a liquid electrolyte-operated electrochemical accumulator in order to mix the electrolyte as a result of forces and/or motion exerted on the accumulator during operation, wherein the mixing element is designed as a hollow body provided with at least one respective opening at opposite end regions such that a channel is formed in the hollow body which leads into the at least one respective opening in the opposite end regions and is circumferentially delimited there by the material of the mixing element, wherein the mixing element comprises one or more securing and/or spacer ribs protruding from the external side of the mixing element and designed to contact parts of the accumulator housing in order to fix the mixing element in the accumulator and/or set a specific position of the mixing element relative to the housing parts. The invention further relates to a range of mixing elements as well as an accumulator having at least one mixing element.

Modification of truck mixing element for manual and automatic assembly

The invention relates to a sealing plug arrangement () for a battery, wherein the sealing plug arrangement comprises at least one plug part () and a plug retainer (), and the plug retainer () has a hollow area () for accommodating at least one retaining section of the plug part (), wherein the plug part () is designed to seal off at least one interior () of the battery from the environment when the plug part is installed in the hollow area () of the plug retainer (). Proceeding from this, an improved sealing plug arrangement is specified that can be realized at low cost and that is reliable. For this purpose, the plug retainer () comprises at least one flow channel () on the inside of the plug retainer in the hollow area (), which flow channel extends at least along the area in which the plug part () is retained in the plug retainer () when the plug part is installed in the hollow area ().

Valve plug

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Burgdorf, Germany

Thorsten Werle