Battery casing and hermetically sealed sodium-sulfur battery
US3960596A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 4, 1974 |
| Grant date | Jun 1, 1976 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 4, 1994 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01M10/3909
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A battery casing and a sealed sodium-sulfur battery are disclosed wherein the battery casing includes separate seals of low temperature melting glass joining a portion of an inner casing of a solid sodium ion-conductive material to the interior surface of a ceramic ring, and joining two opposed outer metallic casings to the ceramic ring. A sealed sodium-sulfur battery has the above type of casing with a sodium anode in one casing and a cathode of sulfur in conductive material in the other casing.
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