Patent ID: 8052764

Claim:
A method of manufacturing thermal batteries comprising the steps of: pressing a plurality of pellets, each pellet being of a particular type, the type of pellet being one of an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, a pyrotechnic, and an electrode; performing quality checking on the plurality of pellets; recording in a database, automatically, information associated with the quality checking; storing at least one of the plurality of pellets in a container that is associated with a unique identifier; associating in the database the unique identifier associated with the container and the information; delivering the container to a stacker device; selecting a pellet with the stacker device from among more than one container of pellets; moving the selected pellet with the stacker device to a stacking fixture; and stacking the pellet with the stacker device in the stacking fixture to form part of the thermal battery, wherein the pellet is selected based on the type of pellet and at least one of a pellet weight, a pellet density, and a pellet thickness.