NEW BATTERY FOR ELECTRIC CARS（新电池的电动汽车）.pdfVIP

NEW BATTERY FOR ELECTRIC CARS U.S. PATENT 7,037,620 B2, May 2, 2006 MULTI-CELLULAR BATTERY WITH LEAD FOAM A new battery has been developed especially for electric cars and is designed to replace Nickel-Metal Hydride and Lithium-Ion Batteries now being tested by major auto-makers. The new Tri-Polar Lead Cobalt Battery II incorporates a number of improvements over its predecessor (the Tri-Polar Lead Cobalt Battery I), including a Lead Foam Substrate to replace hard lead grids, a Recirculating Electrolyte System, a Gas Purging System, an Automatic Watering System, an improved Tri-Polar Intracell and Intercell Connection System, and a Tongue and Groove Intercell Connection System. One hundred (100) claims were allowed on the patent for this sealed battery. FIRST GENERATION BATTERY Apollo’s earlier battery, the Tri-Polar Lead Cobalt Battery I, was first produced in 1953 when it was made under the ATLAS brand for Esso Standard Oil of Puerto Rico. Shilstone Testing Laboratories of New Orleans, Louisiana tested the battery in 1966 in a MARS I Electric Car and found that it gave the car a range of 120 miles (a). A report for the Society of Automotive Engineers entitled “The MARS II Electric Car” showed that the MARS II, with these batteries, had a range of 70 to 120 miles (b). General Motors tested the battery in 1967 in a MARS II Electric Car and found that the Tri-Polar Lead Cobalt Batteries I gave it a maximum range of 146 miles (c). Arizona Public Service drove a MARS II Electric Car 2,000 miles from Detroit, Michigan to Phoenix, Arizona in 1967 (d). In the two cross-country electric car races, the 1968 Great Transcontinental Electric Car Race (e) a