This class is the generic class for primary, secondary, and thermal batteries. It includes the structure of the generator or battery itself, the elements thereof, the methods of preparation, operation, and details, and accessories not provided for in other classes.
LINES WITH OTHER CLASSES
Pyromagnetic generators are found in Class 310, Electrical Generator or Motor Structure, subclass 306.
The application and use of the battery in combination with other devices should be searched for in the appropriate art classes.
For cells specialized for carrying out electrolytic chemical processes, see Class 204, Chemistry: Electrical and Wave Energy, subclass 242 and indented subclasses.
LINE WITH CLASS 252, CLASS 204, AND CLASS 429
See Class 252, Compositions, subclasses 500+ for electrically conductive compositions and electrical devices defined solely in terms of the composition of which they are composed such as electrodes not provided for in Class 136, Class 204, or Class 429.
REFERENCES TO OTHER CLASSES
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS 29, Metal Working,
2, for battery-grid making; and subclasses 700+ for apparatus for the assembly of plural parts.
53, Package Making, appropriate subclasses for methods of and apparatus for encompassing or encasing goods or materials with a separate cover or band which serves as means for identifying, protecting or unit handling the goods or materials.
117, Single-Crystal, Oriented-Crystal, and Epitaxy Growth Processes; Non-Coating Apparatus Therefor, for processes and non-coating apparatus for growing therein-defined single-crystal of all types of materials, including the subject matter of Class 136.
141, Fluent Material Handling, With Receiver or Receiver
Coacting Means,
1.1, for mechanical process, and subclasses 32+ for apparatus for filling battery grids and receptacles, and pasting the same.
164, Metal Founding, appropriate subclasses for processes of casting metal grids and
109, for uniting spaced battery plates by metal casting.
252, Compositions,
500+, for electrically conductive compositions and electrical devices defined solely in terms of the composition of which they are composed such as electrodes. (See Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class, above.)
264, Plastic and Nonmetallic Article Shaping or Treating: Processes, appropriate subclasses for processes of molding or shaping plastic substances within the class definition. 320, Electricity: Battery or Capacitor Charging or Discharging, appropriate subclass for a method or apparatus for charging or discharging a voltaic battery or cell.
323, Electricity: Power Supply or Regulation Systems,
220, 354 for systems for controlling the voltage or current in a single circuit.
324, Electricity: Measuring and Testing,
425+, for the testing of electrolyte properties.
340, Communications: Electrical, for electrical telemetering, signaling and alarm systems of general application. Note especially
636, for such systems responsive to the condition of a battery.
403, Joints and Connections, appropriate subclasses for joints in general.
423, Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds, for inorganic compounds, per se.
427, Coating Processes,
58+, for processes of coating electrical products.
428, Stock Material or Miscellaneous Articles, appropriate subclasses for a stock material product in the form of a single or plural layer web or sheet, especially 457+, for a nonstructural composite web or sheet including at
least one layer of metal.
429, Chemistry: Electrical Current Producing Apparatus, Product and Process for fuel cells and electrochemical batteries.
439, Electrical Connectors, appropriate subclasses for an electrical connector, per se, and see
754+, for a battery post clamp type connector.
455, Telecommunications,
343, for a battery or battery saving means combined with a radio receiver.