Title:
ELECTRO-CHEMICAL POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS EMPLOYING ARRAYS OF ELECTRONICALLY-CONTROLLABLE DISCHARGING AND/OR RECHARGING CELLS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2001028028
Kind Code:
A9
Abstract:
A novel battery construction including a plurality of discharging cells formed by a cathode structure (20) having a plurality of relatively small cathode elements (21A) on a cathode support structure, and an anode structure (23) having one or more anode-contacting elements (24B) on an anode-contacting element support plate. Each discharging cell can be independently activated using a transistor-based power switching element operated by a switching controller. In some embodiments, the power switching elements are used to control the power delivered to electrical loads during discharging. In other embodiments, the power switching elements are used to produce high-frequency electrical currents. The battery construction may also include a plurality of recharging cells. In one embodiment, power switching elements are provided for controlling the recharging cells during recharging. In other embodiments, metal-fuel cards (29) are used as fuel in metal-air fuel cell modules (1).
Inventors:
TSAI TSEPIN (US)
FARIS SADEG M (US)
FARIS SADEG M (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2000/027860
Publication Date:
November 21, 2002
Filing Date:
October 06, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
REVEO INC (US)
TSAI TSEPIN (US)
FARIS SADEG M (US)
TSAI TSEPIN (US)
FARIS SADEG M (US)
International Classes:
H01M8/04; H01M10/04; H01M10/44; H01M12/06; H01M12/08; H01M16/00; H02M1/14; H01M6/12; H01M6/42; H01M6/50; H01M10/42; H01M10/46; H01M50/50; (IPC1-7): H01M12/06; H01M16/00
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