Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Patent
1996-02-09
1997-07-01
Kalafut, Stephen
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
429174, H01M 208
Patent
active
056425619
ABSTRACT:
A method of forming a button-type battery terminal housing member includes, a) providing an electrically conductive sheet having an exposed surface, the conductive sheet being larger than a desired resultant battery terminal housing member to be produced therefrom; b) providing a discrete solid gasket body, the gasket body being larger than a desired resultant gasket to be received relative to the battery terminal housing member; c) providing adhesive intermediate the conductive sheet exposed surface and the gasket body, and adhering the gasket body and conductive sheet together with the adhesive; d) positioning the conductive sheet with the gasket body adhered thereto between first and second forming members; and e) moving at least one of the forming members in the direction of the other to bear one of the forming members against the gasket body to simultaneously bend the solid gasket body and conductive sheet into a desired battery terminal housing member shape; the moving step also cutting through the gasket body, adhesive and conductive sheet; the adhesive retaining the solid gasket body fast against the conductive sheet outer surface during and after bending. The electrically conductive sheet is preferably circular in shape prior to the moving step. Further, the gasket body as-adhered to the conductive sheet is preferably in the shape of an annulus. The one forming member bears against the gasket body prior to the cutting action.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4121020 (1978-10-01), Epstein et al.
patent: 4521500 (1985-06-01), Watanabe
patent: 5486431 (1996-01-01), Tuttle et al.
Fisher John D.
Lake Rickie C.
Tuttle Mark E.
Kalafut Stephen
Micron Communications Inc.
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