Battery casing and sealed primary sodium-halogen battery

Claim 1

A SEALED PRIMARY SODIUM-HALOGEN BATTERY COMPRISING AN INNER CASING OF A SOLID SODIUM ION-CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL WITH ONE OPEN END, AN ELECTRONIC CONDUCTOR WITHIN THE INTERIOR SURFACE OF THE INNER CASING AND EXTENDING OUTWARDLY THROUGH THE OPEN END OF THE INNER CASING, AN OUTER METALLIC CASING COMPRISING AN UPPER PORTION AND A LOWER PORTION, THE UPPER PORTION WITH OPPOSITE OPEN ENDS, AN INWARDLY EXTENDING FLANGE AFFIXED TO THE UPPER PORTION AT ITS FIRST OPEN END, THE LOWER PORTION WITH AN OPEN END AND A CLOSED END, THE UPPER AND LOWER PORTIONS JOINED TOGETHER AT THEIR ASSOCIATED OPEN ENDS, THE OUTER METALLIC CASING SURROUNDING THE INNER CASING WITH THE EXTERIOR SURFACE OF THE FLANGE ON A LOWER PLANE THAN THE SURFACE OF THE OPEN END OF THE INNER CASING AND SPACED FROM THE INNER CASING, A METALLIC CLOSURE CONSISTING OF AN INSERT PORTION AND OF A CAP PORTION, THE INSERT PORTION SEALING THE OPEN END OF THE INNER CAUSING, THE CAP PORTION WITH A FLANGE POSITIONED ADJACENT THE FLANGE OF THE UPPER PORTION OF THE OUTER METALLIC CASING, A LOW SINGLE TEMPERATURE MELTING GLASS SEAL SEALING TOGETHER THE ADJACENT FLANGES OF THE UPPER PORTION OF THE OUTER METALLIC CASING AND OF THE CAP PORTION OF THE INSERT AND SEALING THE FLANGES TO THE OTHER WALL OF THE INNER CASING ADJACENT ITS OPEN END, THE ELECTRONIC CONDUCTOR WITHIN THE INNER CASING AND EXTENDING OUTWARDLY THROUGH THE OPEN END OF THE INNER CASING AFFIXED TO THE INSERT PORTION, AND ANODE SELECTED FROM THE CLASS CONSISTING OF SODIUM, SODIUM AS AN AMALGAM, AND SODIUM IN A NONAQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE IN ONE OF THE CASINGS, AND A CATHODE IN THE OTHER CASING, THE CATHODE COMPRISING A MIXTURE OF BROMINE AND A MIXTURE OF BROMINE AND IODINE WITH FROM 5 TO 60 WEIGHT PERCENT IODINE IN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL AND WITH DISSOLVED SMALL AMOUNTS OF ADDITIVES.