Patent ID: 6818345
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: H01M,Y02E,Y02P

Abstract:
A battery comprising:a housing containing a plurality of positive plates connected in parallel and a plurality of negative plates connected in parallel, each of said positive plates being of substantially the same size and rectangular shape and having two long edges and a first short edge and a second short edge; a member in said housing, said member having a first end and a second end, said first end being electrically connected to each said first short edge of said positive plates adjacent to a first one of said two long edges and said second end being electrically connected to one of (a) each said second short edge of said positive plates adjacent to said first one of said two long edges and (b) each said first one of said two long edges of said positive plates immediately adjacent to said second short edge, said member extending parallel to said two long edges for most of a length of said member and comprising a material that has a greater conductivity than a material of said positive plates.