Accumulator with cover having tip-safe features

US7851082B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Akkumulatorenfabrik Moll GmbH & Co. KG · DE
• Banner GmbH · AT

Inventors

• Manfred Gelbke · Bad Staffelstein, DE
• Richard Kermas · Bad Staffelstein, DE
• Peter Schumann · Untersiemau, DE
• Peter Holzleitner · Linz, AT
• Norbert Maleschitz · Wels, AT
• Thomas Bawart · Linz, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 2002
• Grant date: Dec 14, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 14, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E60/10
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An accumulator, particularly a lead accumulator, has a housing, which encloses multiple cells, and a block cover, which terminates the housing, including a bottom cover (1) and a top cover (2), between which a gas chamber for acid separation is implemented, which is divided into multiple cavities (3-8), corresponding to the number of cells, and which has at least one vent opening, a fill opening (9-14) being provided for each cell in the bottom cover (1). In order to improve an accumulator of this type, a gas outlet (15-20), which discharges into the associated cavity (3-8), is provided for each cell at a distance from the fill opening (9-14) in the bottom cover (1), its size being dimensioned so that in the event of brief tipping of the accumulator, no more acid may escape from the cell than is received by the cavity (3-8) assigned thereto (FIG. 2).