WO2006117320A1 - Non-woven gauntlets for batteries - Google Patents

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WO2006117320A1
WO2006117320A1 PCT/EP2006/061866 EP2006061866W WO2006117320A1 WO 2006117320 A1 WO2006117320 A1 WO 2006117320A1 EP 2006061866 W EP2006061866 W EP 2006061866W WO 2006117320 A1 WO2006117320 A1 WO 2006117320A1
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Valérie TONIAZZO
Urbain Lambert
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    • Y10T442/66—Additional nonwoven fabric is a spun-bonded fabric
    • Y10T442/662—Needled

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  • the present invention relates to non-woven gauntlets for lead-acid batteries.
  • Lead acid batteries are widely used and include adjacent positive and negative electrodes immersed in an electrolyte and spaced by separators.
  • Lead-acid batteries of the tubular type are customarily constructed with tubular positive plates, constituent parts of which include: a grid member having a top bar; a post or burning lug and a plurality of current carrying spines; pencils of active material surrounding the current carrying spines; tubular bodies arranged to support and confine the pencils of active material and maintain such active mass in contact with the current carrying spines; and means for closing ends of the tubes.
  • the tubular bodies are required to provide a number of functions including: enclosure and support of the active material to maintain the active material in contact with the spines; maintenance of the dimensional stability of the pencils of active material particularly during periods of swelling of the active material; and, finally, provision of adequate communication between the electrolyte and the active material throughout the length of the tubular bodies.
  • the tubular plate has evolved from the single tube design (PVC tubes and woven or braided tubes of C-glass fibers protected first by a perforated plastic armor, then by impregnation with phenolic resin to the more economical and productive multitube gauntlet concept.
  • the first generation of gauntlets still in use for some applications, were made of woven polyester fabric impregnated with phenolic and then thermoplastic acrylic resin. Since the 1980s, the tubular gauntlet has further evolved to include modern non-woven fabrics.
  • the standard (and only) material used by the industry to produce non- woven gauntlets, in which the positive active mass (lead dioxide) is inserted for the production of tubular positive plates of lead-acid batteries is a point-bonded polyester spunbond material, which means that the fabric strength and cohesion is made by melting the PET filament in many points with a hot calendar. The number of points per cm 2 and the point size depends on the calendar roll.
  • the fabric is impregnated with an acrylic resin in order to protect the PET filaments from chemical attack from the sulphuric acid electrolyte or the oxidative positive active mass (PbO 2 ).
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to provide a new, non-woven gauntlet with a higher burst strength and a lower electrical resistance.
  • the present invention proposes a non-woven, cartridge belt type gauntlet for lead acid batteries comprising two sheets of spunbond, needled and flat thermobonded bicompo- nent PET-PBT nonwoven fabric assembled together at regular intervals.
  • the fabric used in the present invention is a flat calendared material made of a mixture of PET and PBT filaments, the later having a lower melting point and being melted during calendaring in order to impart the fabric strength.
  • these gauntlets have an electrical resistance of less than 180 m ⁇ .cm 2 , and a burst pressure of more than 16 bars.
  • the fabric is assembled by sewing, stitching, thermal bonding, ultrasonic bonding, gluing or a combination thereof so as to form the cartridge belt type of gauntlet.
  • the non-woven fabric is impregnated with a thermoplastic resin.
  • the resin is chosen among the group consisting of: acrylic resins like e.g. methyl methacrylate resins or butyl acrylate/methyl acrylate copolymer resins, styrene-butadiene resins, phenolic resins or mixtures thereof.
  • the fabric can be impregnated during the production between the calendaring and the winding steps, or the impregnation can be made off line.
  • the invention also concerns the use of spunbond, flat calendared bicomponent PET-PBT non-woven fabric for the manufacture of a non-woven, cartridge belt type gauntlet for lead acid batteries comprising two sheets of said fabric stitched together at regular intervals.
  • the invention also concerns lead acid battery of the tubular type, stationary gel batteries and stationary flooded batteries comprising a gauntlet as described above.
  • Fig. 1 shows the electrical resistance versus mechanical strength for gauntlets made with different types of non-woven fabric
  • Fig. 2 shows the mechanical properties of gauntlets made with different types of non-woven fabrics - Tube expansion as a function of increasing and decreasing internal pressure load;
  • Fig. 3 represents the hysteresis of tube deformation: difference between tube expansion while increasing internal tube pressure and decreasing internal tube pressure after a load at 10 bars (based on Figure 2);
  • Fig. 4 shows the elastic properties of gauntlets: tube submitted to 10 successive expansions from 0 to 10 bars (simulation of positive active mass breathing).
  • Fig. 5 represents the gauntlets elastic properties : tube diameter changes when internal tube pressure is back to 0 after successive pressure loads up to 10 bars (simulation of positive active mass breathing).
  • the process to manufacture non-woven (cartridge-belt type) gauntlets consists on joining two strips of polyester non-woven fabric at predetermined intervals with a multi-needles sewing machine, then thermo forming the multitube pannel into the desired tube geometry. The thermoforming is made in an oven by inserting hot rods in-between both fabric layers, between each two adjacent sewing lines.
  • the fabric has to have the ability to shrink around the rods at the desired temperature (typically between 160 and 200 0 C) in order to keep the 3 dimensional tube shape and dimensions.
  • the preferred shrinkage is typically around 1.5% at 16O 0 C and 2.5% at 200°C:
  • the fabric shrinkage and applied temperature during formation are very important parameters, as they determine the final gauntlet width and tubes diameter. These dimensions are of first importance, as they will fix the final positive plate width and thickness (directly correlated to the amount of active mass entrapped and therefore to the battery capacity) to be inserted in the battery container.
  • the tensile strength of the fabric in the machine direction (MD) and cross direction (CD) has to be high enough so that the formed gauntlet resists some internal pressures (burst strength) above 10 bars.
  • the reason is that the gauntlets filling with the positive active mass may be done by injection of a lead oxide paste at moderate, high or very high pressure depending on the filling machine.
  • the electrical resistance has to be as low as possible in order to limit the internal resistance of the battery cells.
  • the fabric elongation has to be chosen carefully so that the finished gauntlets have good elastic properties. This is of first importance be- cause the positive active mass undergoes volume changes during alternate charges and discharges due to the alternate transformation of Pb ⁇ 2 into PbSO 4 and vice versa. This phenomenon is known as active mass "breathing".
  • the gauntlet has to limit the active mass expansion and, more importantly, to be elastic enough to perfectly con- strain the active mass during contraction and recover its initial tube diameter after contraction. This is the only way to ensure the permanent cohesion of the active mass particles among themselves and around the lead spine and is of first importance to maintain the capacity along the life. Even if gauntlets made with the current PB1 type fabric (sold e.g.
  • the standard fabrics type PB1 are well suited for moderate pressure of the "Hadi” machines, but are most of the time too weak for the aggressive filling of the "Hoppecke” machines (cf. Table 1 burst strength of gauntlets made with PB1a and PB1 b coming from two differ- ent suppliers).
  • polyester point- bonded fabric type PB2 which is a modified version of DuraspunTM sold by Johns Manville.
  • Table 1 the tensile strength in both directions have bee improved.
  • the impact on gauntlets properties was a slight increase of the burst strength (from 13.6 to 14.6 bars) and a slightly better elastic modulus, as illustrated by the testing results on figures 2 to 4.
  • Table 1 physical properties of different types of non-woven polyester fabrics and main properties of resulting non-woven gauntlets.
  • Pore size min 19 14 17 mean ⁇ m 39 38 41 max 62 116 108
  • the gauntlets according to the present invention have been developed with different type of non-woven polyester fabric (referred as New FC in Table 1 ).
  • the fabric is a mixture of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) and PBT
  • This material has a totally different aspect than the other fabrics used in the manufacture of gauntlets. Furthermore, its physical properties do not look promising compared to the standard PB1 or reinforced PB2 materials : • the tensile strength and elongation are better than PB1 but lower than PB2, while the electrical resistance, pore volume, air permeability are better than PB2 but lower than PB1. • Most importantly, the shrinkage of the fabric at 160 and 200 0 C is much lower than requested, which would lead to the production problems already mentioned earlier.
  • the gauntlets produced with this type of fabric showed surprising results: not only the mechanical strength had been improved very much (from 13.6 - 14.6 bars with the point bonded fabrics to 19.5 bars with the new FC), but the electrical resistance has been reduced at the same time (157 m ⁇ .cm 2 only for the gauntlets made with the new FC compared to 195 up to 405 m ⁇ .cm 2 with the point-bonded technology). These enhancements in the performance could not have been foreseen from the physical properties of the starting material.
  • FIGS. 2 to 5 show the big improvement in the elastic properties of the gauntlets formed with fabric FC compared to any of the point-bonded materials.
  • a further surprising effect and a considerable advantage of the gauntlets made with the new FC fabric is the ability to come back to a narrower tube diameter after successive expansions at 10 bars (test results on Figure 5).
  • the gauntlets made with the new FC fabric can be used even in very aggressive filling technology due to their very high rigidity, without affecting the electrical properties of the battery because of their reduced electrical resistance.

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Abstract

The present invention concerns non-woven, cartridge belt type gauntlet for lead acid batteries comprising two sheets of spunbond, needled and flat calendared thermobonded bicomponent PET-PBT nonwoven fabric assembled together at regular intervals.

Description

Non-Woven Gauntlets For Batteries
Background of the invention
The present invention relates to non-woven gauntlets for lead-acid batteries.
Lead acid batteries are widely used and include adjacent positive and negative electrodes immersed in an electrolyte and spaced by separators.
Lead-acid batteries of the tubular type are customarily constructed with tubular positive plates, constituent parts of which include: a grid member having a top bar; a post or burning lug and a plurality of current carrying spines; pencils of active material surrounding the current carrying spines; tubular bodies arranged to support and confine the pencils of active material and maintain such active mass in contact with the current carrying spines; and means for closing ends of the tubes.
The tubular bodies are required to provide a number of functions including: enclosure and support of the active material to maintain the active material in contact with the spines; maintenance of the dimensional stability of the pencils of active material particularly during periods of swelling of the active material; and, finally, provision of adequate communication between the electrolyte and the active material throughout the length of the tubular bodies.
From the early 1950s up to now, the tubular plate has evolved from the single tube design (PVC tubes and woven or braided tubes of C-glass fibers protected first by a perforated plastic armor, then by impregnation with phenolic resin to the more economical and productive multitube gauntlet concept. The first generation of gauntlets, still in use for some applications, were made of woven polyester fabric impregnated with phenolic and then thermoplastic acrylic resin. Since the 1980s, the tubular gauntlet has further evolved to include modern non-woven fabrics. Up to now the standard (and only) material used by the industry to produce non- woven gauntlets, in which the positive active mass (lead dioxide) is inserted for the production of tubular positive plates of lead-acid batteries is a point-bonded polyester spunbond material, which means that the fabric strength and cohesion is made by melting the PET filament in many points with a hot calendar. The number of points per cm2 and the point size depends on the calendar roll. The fabric is impregnated with an acrylic resin in order to protect the PET filaments from chemical attack from the sulphuric acid electrolyte or the oxidative positive active mass (PbO2).
Object of the invention
The object of the present invention is therefore to provide a new, non-woven gauntlet with a higher burst strength and a lower electrical resistance.
General description of the invention
In order to overcome the above-mentioned problems, the present invention proposes a non-woven, cartridge belt type gauntlet for lead acid batteries comprising two sheets of spunbond, needled and flat thermobonded bicompo- nent PET-PBT nonwoven fabric assembled together at regular intervals. The fabric used in the present invention is a flat calendared material made of a mixture of PET and PBT filaments, the later having a lower melting point and being melted during calendaring in order to impart the fabric strength.
Surprisingly, these gauntlets have an electrical resistance of less than 180 mΩ.cm2 , and a burst pressure of more than 16 bars. Up to now it was not possible to obtain a non-woven gauntlet having such a high burst pressure and at the same time such a low electrical resistance.
Preferably, the fabric is assembled by sewing, stitching, thermal bonding, ultrasonic bonding, gluing or a combination thereof so as to form the cartridge belt type of gauntlet. According to a preferred embodiment, the non-woven fabric is impregnated with a thermoplastic resin. The resin is chosen among the group consisting of: acrylic resins like e.g. methyl methacrylate resins or butyl acrylate/methyl acrylate copolymer resins, styrene-butadiene resins, phenolic resins or mixtures thereof. The fabric can be impregnated during the production between the calendaring and the winding steps, or the impregnation can be made off line. Furthermore, the invention also concerns the use of spunbond, flat calendared bicomponent PET-PBT non-woven fabric for the manufacture of a non-woven, cartridge belt type gauntlet for lead acid batteries comprising two sheets of said fabric stitched together at regular intervals.
Additionally, the invention also concerns lead acid battery of the tubular type, stationary gel batteries and stationary flooded batteries comprising a gauntlet as described above.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
The present invention can more fully be understood from the following description taken in conjunction with accompanying figures in which:
Fig. 1 shows the electrical resistance versus mechanical strength for gauntlets made with different types of non-woven fabric;
Fig. 2 shows the mechanical properties of gauntlets made with different types of non-woven fabrics - Tube expansion as a function of increasing and decreasing internal pressure load;
Fig. 3 represents the hysteresis of tube deformation: difference between tube expansion while increasing internal tube pressure and decreasing internal tube pressure after a load at 10 bars (based on Figure 2);
Fig. 4 shows the elastic properties of gauntlets: tube submitted to 10 successive expansions from 0 to 10 bars (simulation of positive active mass breathing).; Fig. 5 represents the gauntlets elastic properties : tube diameter changes when internal tube pressure is back to 0 after successive pressure loads up to 10 bars (simulation of positive active mass breathing). The process to manufacture non-woven (cartridge-belt type) gauntlets consists on joining two strips of polyester non-woven fabric at predetermined intervals with a multi-needles sewing machine, then thermo forming the multitube pannel into the desired tube geometry. The thermoforming is made in an oven by inserting hot rods in-between both fabric layers, between each two adjacent sewing lines.
The fabric has to have the ability to shrink around the rods at the desired temperature (typically between 160 and 2000C) in order to keep the 3 dimensional tube shape and dimensions. The preferred shrinkage is typically around 1.5% at 16O0C and 2.5% at 200°C:
• if the shrinkage is higher, the fabric will be too strongly bound around the rods, leading to production problems (low speed, difficulty to push the rods out of the formed tubes...);
• if the shrinkage is lower, the formed tubes will not keep the requested shape, the tube will not be rigid enough and the gauntlets dimensions will not be adequate (width and thickness).
Therefore, beside the initial fabric strip width and sewing pitch, the fabric shrinkage and applied temperature during formation are very important parameters, as they determine the final gauntlet width and tubes diameter. These dimensions are of first importance, as they will fix the final positive plate width and thickness (directly correlated to the amount of active mass entrapped and therefore to the battery capacity) to be inserted in the battery container.
Besides the shrinkage, other fabric characteristics are important for a good final gauntlet quality: • The tensile strength of the fabric in the machine direction (MD) and cross direction (CD) has to be high enough so that the formed gauntlet resists some internal pressures (burst strength) above 10 bars. The reason is that the gauntlets filling with the positive active mass may be done by injection of a lead oxide paste at moderate, high or very high pressure depending on the filling machine. • The electrical resistance has to be as low as possible in order to limit the internal resistance of the battery cells.
• The fabric elongation has to be chosen carefully so that the finished gauntlets have good elastic properties. This is of first importance be- cause the positive active mass undergoes volume changes during alternate charges and discharges due to the alternate transformation of Pbθ2 into PbSO4 and vice versa. This phenomenon is known as active mass "breathing". The gauntlet has to limit the active mass expansion and, more importantly, to be elastic enough to perfectly con- strain the active mass during contraction and recover its initial tube diameter after contraction. This is the only way to ensure the permanent cohesion of the active mass particles among themselves and around the lead spine and is of first importance to maintain the capacity along the life. Even if gauntlets made with the current PB1 type fabric (sold e.g. by Johns Manville under the trade name Duraspun™, or by Mogul company under the trade name Moped™) improve performance of most of the industrial traction batteries compared to woven gauntlets, they keep some mechanical weaknesses which don't enable battery manufacturers to generalize their use to any type of lead-acid batteries with any type of production tools :
(1 ) For example, the standard fabrics type PB1 are well suited for moderate pressure of the "Hadi" machines, but are most of the time too weak for the aggressive filling of the "Hoppecke" machines (cf. Table 1 burst strength of gauntlets made with PB1a and PB1 b coming from two differ- ent suppliers).
(2) Gauntlets made with the standard type PB1 fabrics have enough elasticity to be used in industrial traction flooded batteries. However, their oxidation resistance, mechanical properties and elasticity are more questionable for an utilization in the most demanding applications like sta- tionary gel batteries and stationary flooded batteries due to the longer cycle life requested from these batteries. With fabric type PB1 non- woven gauntlets, the active mass is suspected to be not constraint enough and undergoes density changes and connections loss leading to capacity decay.
Different methods have been tried to reinforce the standard point bonded polyester fabric type PB1 by changing the formulation and production parameters in various ways. The best results were obtained with polyester point- bonded fabric type PB2, which is a modified version of Duraspun™ sold by Johns Manville. As mentioned in Table 1 , the tensile strength in both directions have bee improved. The impact on gauntlets properties was a slight increase of the burst strength (from 13.6 to 14.6 bars) and a slightly better elastic modulus, as illustrated by the testing results on figures 2 to 4.
Unfortunately, however, beside to the improvement of the mechanical properties and elasticity, the electrical resistance has also been increased very much (from 195-250 to 405 mΩ.cm2), which is harmful for the battery electrical performance (Table 1 ).
Table 1 : physical properties of different types of non-woven polyester fabrics and main properties of resulting non-woven gauntlets.
FABRIC TYPE
Fabric properties (typical values) PB1 PB2 New FC
G ram mage g/m2 150 +/- 10 190 +/- 10 190 +/- 10
Bonding points size mm 0,8 0,8 None
Bonding points per 100 cm2 1952 1952 None
Filament dtex 4 4 4
Tension MD N/5cm 433 552 549
Tension CD N/5cm 375 546 435
Elongation MD % 28,2 33,9 35,8
Elongation CD % 33,7 34,5 23,1
Electrical Resistance mΩ.cm2 60 160 70
Air permeability l/m2.s 1320 600 950
Pore volume % 74,6 64,5 71 ,6
Pore size min 19 14 17 mean μm 39 38 41 max 62 116 108
Shrinkage at 16O0C % 1 ,5 1 ,5 0,5
Shrinkage at 2000C % 2,5 2,5 1
Gauntlets properties (typical values) PB1 PB2 New FC
PB1a PB1b
Burst strength bars 13,6 10,4 14,6 19,5 Electrical Resistance mΩ.cm2 195 250 405 157
The gauntlets according to the present invention have been developed with different type of non-woven polyester fabric (referred as New FC in Table 1 ).
The fabric is a mixture of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) and PBT
(polybtuylene terephtalate) filaments with a higher denier (leading to higher oxidation resistance), which are deposited on a belt using the spunbond technology, and calendared under heat and pressure in between flat rolls. Such fabrics are sold e.g. by Freudenberg Politex under the trade name Terbond™ and usually used for roofing applications.
This material has a totally different aspect than the other fabrics used in the manufacture of gauntlets. Furthermore, its physical properties do not look promising compared to the standard PB1 or reinforced PB2 materials : • the tensile strength and elongation are better than PB1 but lower than PB2, while the electrical resistance, pore volume, air permeability are better than PB2 but lower than PB1. • Most importantly, the shrinkage of the fabric at 160 and 2000C is much lower than requested, which would lead to the production problems already mentioned earlier.
Nevertheless, in spite of the apparent unsuitability of the fabric for the produc- tion of non-woven gauntlets, many efforts have been made to be able to run this fabric onto forming machines.
The oven and pre-oven equipments had to be changed and adapted to the new product requirements. A complete energetic study has been made in order to be able to shrink the fabric around the rods at temperatures adapted to the equip- ment. The coating of the rods had to be changed for a more resistant one. A very precise recalibration of all the machine parameters has been necessary.
The gauntlets produced with this type of fabric showed surprising results: not only the mechanical strength had been improved very much (from 13.6 - 14.6 bars with the point bonded fabrics to 19.5 bars with the new FC), but the electrical resistance has been reduced at the same time (157 mΩ.cm2 only for the gauntlets made with the new FC compared to 195 up to 405 mΩ.cm2 with the point-bonded technology). These enhancements in the performance could not have been foreseen from the physical properties of the starting material.
This is the first time that both the mechanical and electrical properties have been improved simultaneously.
The technologic gap is illustrated by Figure 1.
Additionally figures 2 to 5 show the big improvement in the elastic properties of the gauntlets formed with fabric FC compared to any of the point-bonded materials. A further surprising effect and a considerable advantage of the gauntlets made with the new FC fabric is the ability to come back to a narrower tube diameter after successive expansions at 10 bars (test results on Figure 5).
This will enable the gauntlet to constrain the positive active mass very efficiently and avoid density changes, connection loss... leading to early capacity decay. The gauntlets made with the new FC fabric can be used even in very aggressive filling technology due to their very high rigidity, without affecting the electrical properties of the battery because of their reduced electrical resistance.
The improvement of the elastic properties and the higher filament denier render possible their use even in the most demanding applications like stationary gel batteries or stationary flooded batteries. This product opens thus new markets for non-woven gauntlets.

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1. Non-woven, cartridge belt type gauntlet for lead acid batteries comprising two sheets of spunbond, needled and flat thermobonded, bicomponent PET-PBT, nonwoven fabric assembled together at regular intervals.
2. Gauntlet for lead acid batteries according to claim 1 , wherein the fabric is assembled by sewing, stitching, thermal bonding, ultrasonic bonding, gluing or a combination thereof.
3. Gauntlet for lead acid batteries according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the fabric is impregnated with a thermoplastic resin.
4. Gauntlet for lead acid batteries according to claim 3, wherein the thermo- plastic resin is chosen among the group consisting ofacrylic resins like e.g. methyl methacrylate resins or butyl acrylate/methyl acrylate copolymer resins, styrene-butadiene resins, phenolic resins or mixtures thereof.
5. Gauntlet for lead acid batteries according to any of the claims 1 to 4, wherein said gauntlet has • an electrical resistance of less than 180 mΩ.cm2 and
• a burst pressure of more than 16 bars.
6. Lead acid battery of the tubular type comprising a gauntlet according to any of the claims 1 to 5.
7. Stationary gel battery comprising a gauntlet according to any of the claims 1 to 5.
8. Stationary flooded battery comprising a gauntlet according to any of the claims 1 to 5.
9. Use of spunbond, needled and flat calendared thermobonded bicomponent PET-PBT nonwoven fabric for the manufacture of a non-woven, cartridge belt type gauntlet for lead acid batteries comprising two sheets of said fabric assembled together at regular intervals.
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