Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Yoshiyuki Tada

Masaharu Miyahisa

Hideki Kasahara

Gota Asano

Toshitaka Niitsuma

Satoshi Furuya

Yoshihisa Inaba

Ayahito Shiosaki

A battery having a collecting structure that can reduce internal resistance of the battery and a structure that allows easy manufacturing of the battery by the following processes is provided. An enlarged portion is formed near an opening end of a battery case and a supporting ledge is provided on the inner surface of the lower end of the enlarged portion. A collector of one polarity is bonded to an electrode plate group. A connection lead is bonded to the collector at one end and is bonded to a lower surface of a sealing member at the other end. An insulation gasket is mounted to a peripheral edge portion of the sealing member from a side opposite to the collector. The peripheral edge portion of the sealing member is supported by the supporting ledge with the insulation gasket interposed therebetween. Then, the peripheral edge portion of the sealing member is horizontally fastened and securely held via the insulation gasket by caulking the opening end of the battery case and performing a process for reducing the diameter of the enlarged portion.

Battery and method for manufacturing the same

A battery used by rolling a pole plate, formed by filling an active material, around a substrate using a band-shaped metal porous body having three-dimensionally linked spaces is inferior in flexibility and likely to short-circuit. According to this invention, grooves are formed in active material-filled substrate filled with the above active material, and then the grooved substrate is pressed flat to form groove active material layers, whereby cracks are made in the bottoms of the grooves preferentially, and cracks are pressed by the groove active material layers and blocked to prevent the flow-out of swelled projections of the cracks and the active material. Accordingly, a higher-capacity and higher-reliability battery is provided.

Alkaline storage battery pole plate and production method for alkaline storage battery pole plate and alkaline storage battery

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Fujisawa, Japan

Yoshiyuki Tada