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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2000
Reizo Maeda, Moriguchi, JP;
Syuuichi Suzuki, Hirakata, JP;
Hiroshi Nakamura, Neyagawa, JP;
Mitsuzo Nogami, Tokushima, JP;
Ikuo Yonezu, Hirakata, JP;
Koji Nishio, Hirakata, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present electrode is fabricated by coating a conductive substrate with a paste including a hydrogen-absorbing alloy, a binder and a carbon material and sintering the conductive substrate coated with the paste under vacuum or in an atmosphere of a non-oxidizing gas. In this electrode, the carbon material works as a reducing agent so as to suppress oxidation of the hydrogen-absorbing alloy during the sintering, and therefore, the electrode exhibits large oxygen absorbing power in over-charge. Furthermore, the present battery uses, as a negative electrode, the sintered hydrogen-absorbing alloy electrode exhibiting large oxygen absorbing power in over-charge, and hence attains high reliability because increase of the pressure within the battery is minimal.