Date Back to the Past of Lead Acid Batteries
The lead acid battery has been widely used in many different industries, such telecommunication, power systems, radio, and television systems, solar, UPS, electric vehicles, automobile, forklifts, emergency lights, etc. Its use has covered the variety of professions after many years enhanced and improved. I can’t imagine life without the lead acid battery. Lead acid batteries have myriad uses and are one of the most useful batteries with the longest life cycle, the greatest energy density per pound, and the most mature recycling infrastructure of similarly priced batteries.
Lead acid batteries are invented in 1859 by French physician Gaston Plante. Plante designed the battery in order to store electrical energy. It was first put to use in keeping the lights on the railroad carts stopped at train stations and providing standby power for utilities. Technology progresses in the mid-1970s when researchers developed a maintenance-free lead-acid battery that was able to operate in any position. The liquid electrolyte was transformed into moistened separator and the enclosure was sealed. In addition, safety valves were added to allow venting of gas during charge and discharge.
In 1975, after research and endeavor of many years, GatesRutter Company invented the VRLA batteries. And GNB Company purchased the patent of Gates in 1979, then started to produce high capacity AGM sealed lead acid batteries. VRLA batteries had been widely used in the Europe and America. Besides, the telecommunication departments of Asian Country encouraged all the areas to use the VRLA batteries. VRLA battery basically replaced flooded batteries in 1996. In China, Leoch is the largest export merchant of lead acid batteries, supporting OEM production, which has high quality R&D team and unparalleled quality manufacturing standards.
According to the structure and purpose of lead acid batteries, they can be mainly classified as: starting batteries (starting, lighting, and ignition), motive power batteries, valve-regulated lead acid batteries (VRLA).
Has been used over more than 150 years, the lead acid battery is reliable, mature secondary batteries, globally manufactured and therefore a widely understood technology. Nowadays, compared with the new energy technologies which are now sweeping the world, however, lead acid batteries have to be admitted that they look old-fashioned and a bit frumpy. But from another perspective, the lead acid battery is tired and trusted, and it just needs a bit of pepping up. In the future, lead acid batteries are still the major batteries in many applications. With constant improvement, the lead acid battery will have better future all over the world.
Source: www.leoch.com
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