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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2015
Advanced Battery Concepts, Llc, Midland, MI (US);
Edward O Shaffer, II, Midland, MI (US);
Donald Hobday, Kent, GB;
ADVANCED BATTERY CONCEPTS, LLC, Midland, MI (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to an article comprising: a) one or more stacks of battery plates comprising one or more bipolar plates; b) located between each plate is a separator and a liquid electrolyte; further comprising one of more of the features: 1) c) the one or more stacks of battery plates having a plurality of channels passing transversely though the portion of the plates having the cathode and/or the anode deposited thereon; and d) i) one or more seals about the periphery of the channels which prevent the leakage of the liquid electrolyte into the channels, and/or posts located in one or more of the channels having on each end an overlapping portion that covers the channel and sealing surface on the outside of the monopolar plates adjacent to the holes for the transverse channels and applies pressure on the sealing surface of the monopolar plates.