“On January 19, 2012, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals the next thing in battery designs,” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.
“As Apple designs yet thinner devices, and more importantly, a next generation of devices yet unknown, they need to have the ability and flexibility to shape and contour battery designs that will fit their specific dream designs and form factors,” Purcher reports. “Apple’s invention relates to a battery cell which includes a set of electrode sheets of different dimensions arranged in a stacked configuration to facilitate efficient use of space inside a portable electronic device.”
Purcher reports, “For example, the electrode sheets may be arranged in the stacked configuration to accommodate a shape of the portable electronic device. The stacked configuration may be based on a non-rectangular battery design such as a toroidal design, an L-shaped design, a triangular design, a pie-shaped design, a cone-shaped design, and/or a pyramidal design.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Build it in sheets with some sheets of different sizes and shapes so that the battery form-fits between the contents of a cavity and the cavity itself. Brilliant, and as always, the way things SHOULD BE… Thank you again, Apple!
Will change the way batteries are made for different shapes of hardwares. Apple leads again.
Brilliant !!!
Makes you wonder what new product Apple has in mind that would require such a new battery design, doesn’t it? 🙂 That’s the point.
Does anyone remember what battery company Apple bought, maybe a decade ago?
Google and Wikipedia aren’t helping me remember. It may have been the lithium division of Mallory (now Duracell), but I can’t find any verifying information. Tanx.