Advances in air manager technology for zinc-air batteries

Author

Tinker, Lawrence A.

Author_Institution

AER Energy Resources Inc., Smyrna, GA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

319

Lastpage

322

Abstract

Zinc-air battery technology has been available in the commercial market for many years. Because it is a system that is continuously open to the air during use, its has been traditionally limited to use in continuous discharge applications such as hearing aids, pagers, signal controls and buoys. AER Energy Resources has developed air manager technology to allow the use of zinc-air batteries in intermittent discharge electronic product applications. This paper will discuss AER Energy´s recent developments in air manager technology, methods of reducing the size of the air manager system, and incorporation of air manager systems into product designs. All of these developments can lead to the widespread use of disposable zinc-air batteries in consumer products

Keywords

air; consumer electronics; electrochemistry; primary cells; zinc; AER Energy Resources; Zn; Zn-air primary batteries; air manager technology advances; applications; consumer products; disposable zinc-air batteries; intermittent discharge electronic products; product designs; Battery management systems; Consumer electronics; Consumer products; Control systems; Energy management; Energy resources; Hearing aids; Product design; Resource management; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and Advances, 2001. The Sixteenth Annual Battery Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

ISSN

1089-8182

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6545-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BCAA.2001.905147

Filename

905147