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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2012
Glenn W. Andersen, Harford, WI (US);
Eric M. Taylor, Shorewood, WI (US);
Kenneth A. Adams, Germantown, WI (US);
Edward N. Mrotek, Grafton, WI (US);
Jeffrey P. Zagrodnik, Hales Corners, WI (US);
Shu Jen F. Kao, Brown Deer, WI (US);
Wen-Hong Kao, Brown Deer, WI (US);
Glenn W. Andersen, Harford, WI (US);
Eric M. Taylor, Shorewood, WI (US);
Kenneth A. Adams, Germantown, WI (US);
Edward N. Mrotek, Grafton, WI (US);
Jeffrey P. Zagrodnik, Hales Corners, WI (US);
Johnson Controls Technology Company, Holland, MI (US);
Abstract
A battery grid is provided having a frame having a top element, a bottom element, a first side element, and a second side element. A current collection lug is coupled to the top element. The battery grid includes a plurality of wires provided within the frame and defining a plurality of open areas. The plurality of wires includes a vertical grid wire continuously extending from the bottom element toward the top element, and a plurality of horizontal grid wires continuously extending from the first side element or second side element, wherein the vertical grid wire intersects the plurality of horizontal grid wires, but does not intersect the first side element, second side element; or top element.