A rechargeable button cell including a housing half-parts comprising a housing cup and a housing top separated from one another by an electrically insulating seal or film seal is disclosed. The button cell includes an electrode-separator assembly within the housing having a positive and a negative electrode in the form of flat layers connected to one another by a porous plastic film separator. The electrodes each include a metallic film or mesh embedded in a respective electrode material as a current collector, which acts as an output conductor that connects the electrodes to one of the flat bottom or flat top areas of the housing.

A method of producing a porous carbon is provided that can change type of functional groups, amount of functional groups, or ratio of functional groups while inhibiting its pore structure from changing. A method of producing a porous carbon includes: a first step of carbonizing a material containing a carbon source and a template source, to prepare a carbonized product; and a second step of immersing the carbonized product into a template removing solution, to remove a template from the carbonized product, and the method is characterized by changing at least two or more of the following conditions: type of the material, ratio of the carbon source and the template source, size of the template, and type of the template removal solution, to thereby control type, amount, or ratio of functional groups that are present in the porous carbon.

A method for manufacturing a nickel-metal hydride battery includes: a first step of preparing a first nickel-metal hydride battery having a positive electrode including nickel hydroxide (Ni(OH).sub.2); and a second step of manufacturing the second nickel-metal hydride battery by performing 600% overcharging to the prepared first nickel-metal hydride battery. The 600% overcharging is a process for supplying the first nickel-metal hydride battery with an amount of electric power of 600% of the rated capacity of the first nickel-metal hydride battery.

The present invention relates to a system and process for the accumulation of electrical energy, the system containing an electrochemical reactor comprising: an electrode compartment comprising molecular hydrogen, an electrode compartment comprising a liquid phase (a), an electrode compartment comprising a liquid phase (b), a catalytic surface comprising an electrocatalyst for the oxidation reaction of hydrogen, a catalytic surface comprising an electrocatalyst for the reduction reaction of water and an ion exchange membrane, wherein electrode compartment and electrode compartment are separated from one another by the catalytic surface, electrode compartment is in turn separated from electrode compartment by the ion exchange membrane and the free end of electrode compartment is in contact with the catalytic surface.

The present invention relates to a system and process for the accumulation of electrical energy, the system containing an electrochemical reactor comprising: an electrode compartment comprising molecular hydrogen, an electrode compartment comprising a liquid phase (a), an electrode compartment comprising a liquid phase (b), a catalytic surface comprising an electrocatalyst for the oxidation reaction of hydrogen, a catalytic surface comprising an electrocatalyst for the reduction reaction of water and an ion exchange membrane, wherein electrode compartment and electrode compartment are separated from one another by the catalytic surface, electrode compartment is in turn separated from electrode compartment by the ion exchange membrane and the free end of electrode compartment is in contact with the catalytic surface.

In an exchange NMR measurement of a fluoride ion of an electrical storage device multilayer separator that comprises porous layer A which contains a polyolefin resin and porous layer B which contains inorganic particles, r(AB) satisfies the relationship: r(AB)≥45, where r(AB) is the ion transmission rate (%) between porous layer A and porous layer B in a mixing time of 100 ms.

A vehicle has a high-voltage accumulator which has a high-voltage accumulator housing. At least one accumulator cell is arranged in the high-voltage accumulator housing and has an emergency degassing opening that is closed in a gas-tight manner in a normal state of the accumulator cell and opens when a specified internal pressure in the interior of the accumulator cell is exceeded so that a hot or burning gas can leak out of the accumulator cell into the high-voltage accumulator housing. Granulate which expands when heated by incident hot or burning gas is provided in sub-regions of the high-voltage accumulator. The sub-regions are arranged in the region of the emergency degassing opening of the at least one accumulator cell.

A vehicle has a high-voltage accumulator which has a high-voltage accumulator housing. At least one accumulator cell is arranged in the high-voltage accumulator housing and has an emergency degassing opening that is closed in a gas-tight manner in a normal state of the accumulator cell and opens when a specified internal pressure in the interior of the accumulator cell is exceeded so that a hot or burning gas can leak out of the accumulator cell into the high-voltage accumulator housing. Granulate which expands when heated by incident hot or burning gas is provided in sub-regions of the high-voltage accumulator. The sub-regions are arranged in the region of the emergency degassing opening of the at least one accumulator cell.

A modular battery storage system includes energy storage modules. A switch is assigned to individual energy storage modules, by which the respective energy storage module can be activated and deactivated. The energy storage modules can connect to one another by the switches such that the individual voltages of activated energy storage modules can be added up to form a total voltage. A method of operating the battery storage system ascertains at least one power value for each of the energy storage modules, the power value being characteristic of the power capacity of the energy storage module. A total voltage is generated by at least two energy storage modules being activated with a time overlap but over activation periods of different length. One of the activation periods of different length is assigned to each of the at least two energy storage modules depending on the ascertained at least one power value.

A method of producing a porous carbon is provided that can change type of functional groups, amount of functional groups, or ratio of functional groups while inhibiting its pore structure from changing. A method of producing a porous carbon includes: a first step of carbonizing a material containing a carbon source and a template source, to prepare a carbonized product; and a second step of immersing the carbonized product into a template removing solution, to remove a template from the carbonized product, and the method is characterized by changing at least two or more of the following conditions: type of the material, ratio of the carbon source and the template source, size of the template, and type of the template removal solution, to thereby control type, amount, or ratio of functional groups that are present in the porous carbon.