Patent ID: 8252464
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: H01M,Y02E,Y02P,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of producing battery grids comprising: providing a strip of material comprising lead; removing material from the strip to form a plurality of interconnected grids, each interconnected grid comprising a plurality of wires having opposed ends and joined to at least one of a plurality of nodes, wherein each of the plurality of interconnected grids includes a plurality of vertical grid wires and a plurality of horizontal wires; deforming at least one of the plurality of wires such that the at least a portion of the deformed wire has a non-rectangular cross-sectional shape; deforming at least one of the plurality of nodes; and wherein the step of deforming at least one of the plurality of wires comprises deforming a plurality of vertical wires.