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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Rosa T. Young, Troy, MI (US);
Benjamin Chao, Troy, MI (US);
Assignee:
Energy Conversion Devices, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 4/36 ; C22B 2/300 ; C22F 1/10 ; C22F 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 4/36 ; C22B 2/300 ; C22F 1/10 ; C22F 3/00 ;
Abstract
Reversible hydrogen storage alloys and methods and electrodes formed therefrom for nickel metal hydride batteries, in which the alloys are quenched from a melt at cooling rates selected to provide a high degree of disorder with an optimum local environment.