Patent ID: 6993888
Filing Date: 2006-02-07
Classification: C01B,F17C,H01M,Y02E,Y02P,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing a metal hydride storage canister comprising the steps of: a. pre-forming a canister body with an open end; b. providing a plurality of wafer baffles, each of said wafer baffles having a peripheral wall disposed at a perimeter of a bottom wall thereof and at least one aperture formed in said bottom wall and having metal hydride contained therein; c. stacking said plurality of wafer baffles one upon another with said apertures of said plurality of wafer baffles being disposed in aligned relationship, said bottom wall of a respective upper wafer baffle forming a closure for an immediately underlying one of said wafer baffles; d. passing at least one porous tubing, through said at least one aperture of each of said stacked wafer baffles; e. placing the stacked wafer baffles into said preformed canister body through said open end thereof; and f. heat rolling said open end of said preformed canister to form said storage canister with an inner diameter approaching an outer diameter of said wafer baffles and to reducing a diameter of said open end to form an outlet of said storage canister.