Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim
26 words
The combination according to claim 1, said positive and negative electrodes and said aqueous liquid together defining a rechargeable battery cell, said negative electrode containing zinc.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
13 words
The combination according to claim 2, said aqueous liquid containing an alkaline electrolyte.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
21 words
The combination according to claim 1, said positive and negative electrodes and said aqueous liquid together defining a zinc electroplating system.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
77 words
The combination according to claim 1, said positive and negative electrodes and said aqueous liquid together defining a rechargeable electrolytic battery cell, said positive electrode comprising a porous plate cathode, said negative electrode comprising a zinc-containing anode, said electrolyte comprising an alkaline metal hydroxide, said dendrite-inhibiting agent being present in said aqueous liquid in an amount from about 0.1 percent to about 10 percent by weight, based on the total weight of zinc in said zinc-containing cathodes.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
69 words
The combination according to claim 3, said positive electrode comprising a porous plate cathode, said negative electrode comprising a zinc-containing anode, said electrolyte containing from 10 percent to about 40 percent of an alkali metal hydroxide, said dendrite-inhibiting agent being present in said electrolyte in an amount from 0.1 percent up to a maximum of about 10 percent and not exceeding the limit of its solubility in said electrolyte.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
60 words
The combination according to claim 2, said negative electrode comprising a pasted-type anode including a current collector, a cohesive body of finely divided rechargeable active zinc-containing material, said dendrite-inhibiting agent being incorporated as a binder in said cohesive body in an amount from about 0.1 to 10.0 percent by weight, based on the quantity of zinc in said negative electrode.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
17 words
The combination according to claim 1, said positive ion of said organic cationic polymer being monovalent diallyldimethylammonium.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
15 words
The combination according to claim 8, said positive ion having associated therewith a hydroxyl anion.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
42 words
The combination according to claim 4, said positive electrode containing zinc, said aqueous liquid containing zinc ions, and said additive dendrite-inhibiting agent being present in said liquid in an amount of from 0.1 percent to 10 percent by weight of said liquid.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
43 words
The combination according to claim 2, said rechargeable cell having an ionically permeable membrane between said positive and negative electrodes, said dendrite-inhibiting agent in said liquid being present as a coating on said membrane and adapted to be dissolved in said aqueous liquid.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
59 words
In combination with opposed positive and negative electrodes immersed in an aqueous liquid wherein one of the electrodes contains zinc, an additive zinc dendrite-inhibiting agent in said liquid consisting essentially of an organic cationic polymer having a homopolymeric molecular chain of repeating units which in aqueous solution forms positive ions of a formula selected from the group consisting of: