The dry battery business was later spun off into Yuasa Dry Battery Co., Ltd, which later merged back into Yuasa Storage Battery Co., Ltd to form Yuasa Battery Co, Ltd, later renamed to Yuasa Corporation.
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AA cells The AA battery, also called a double A, penlite or Mignon (French for "cute" or "adorable") battery, is a standard size single cell cylindrical dry battery. The IEC 60086 system calls it size R6, and ANSI C18 calls it size 15.Classic (LR6) datasheet from energizer.com It is named UM-3 by JIS of Japan.
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Bersey was born on 15 October 1874. He studies at the Finsbury College of Engineering, attending courses given by physicist and electrical engineer Silvanus P. Thompson. Early in life he developed a new type of dry battery that allowed him to construct a working electric bus in 1888. By mid-August 1894 he had run the bus successfully over a distance of .
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Maxell was formed in 1960, when a dry cell manufacturing plant was created at the company's headquarters in Ibaraki, Osaka. In 1961, Maxell Electric Industrial Company, Limited was created out of the dry battery and magnetic tape divisions of Nitto Electric Industrial Company, Limited (now Nitto Denko Corporation). On March 18, 2014, the company was listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In 2013, Maxell, Ltd.
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The dry battery for the ignition is under the upper frame tube (in the case of a motor tricycle); ignition timing could be adjusted with a small lever. Side valves were driven via a gear-driven camshaft, with automatic snifting valve activation. The advantage of the design should have been very early (0–5 degrees before top dead centre) opening inlet valve. The cylinder head was removable and bolted with four bolts on the crank case.
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A B battery is any battery used to provide the plate voltage of a vacuum tube. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "dry battery" (although there's no reason why a "wet" battery of suitable voltage couldn't be utilised for the purpose). The filament is primarily a heat source and therefore the A battery supplies significant current and rapidly discharges. The B battery experiences comparatively little current draw and retains its stored capacity far longer than an A battery.
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In contrast, a non- rechargeable "B" battery would need to be replaced relatively infrequently.) A batteries were initially 2 volts, being lead acid accumulators, but with the introduction of all dry battery radios, 1.4 volts became more common. Other voltages can be encountered. For example, 7.5 volt batteries were sometimes used to power a series connected set of 1.4 volt valves (tubes). In Britain and some other countries, the "A" battery was known as the "LT" (low tension) battery if dry, and simply the "accumulator" if wet.
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The SEL "Dynamotor" was a simple two-pole, permanent magnet, machine which could be run as a motor (using 4-6 volts from a dry battery) or used as a dynamo. There were also four low voltage motors described in the catalogue just as motors. Three of these were ac/dc so could not be used as dynamos but the fourth was a dc only permanent magnet type which could have been used as a dynamo. There was also a range of mains voltage ac/dc motors which could not, by any means, be considered toys.
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Primary magnesium cells have been developed since the early 20th century. A number of chemistries for reserve battery types have been researched, with cathode materials including silver chloride, copper(I) chloride, palladium(II) chloride, copper(I) iodide, copper(I) thiocyanate, manganese dioxide and air (oxygen). For example, a water activated silver chloride/magnesium reserve battery became commercially available by 1943. The magnesium dry battery type BA-4386 was fully commercialised, with costs per unit approaching that of zinc batteries – in comparison to equivalent zinc-carbon cells the batteries had greater capacity by volume, and longer shelf life.
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Walter Charles Bersey (15 October 187421 April 1950) was a British electrical engineer who developed electric-driven vehicles in the late 19th-century. He developed a new form of dry battery that enabled him to build, in 1888, an electric bus that he ran successfully for at least . In March 1894 he built an electric parcel van that was used in central London and later developed electric private cars. Bersey also developed an electric cab design, 75 of which were built and used by the London Electrical Cab Company to run a service between 1897 and 1899.
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The Ramsay collective invested in Landau's functioning low profile Columbia Dry Battery Company which had been halted by copyright issues regarding the adopted name "Columbia". The re-started and re-named assembly plant soon relocated to Wisconsin where Landau's efforts to advance the French company too quickly, combined with a bad run of batteries, led to virtual bankruptcy and he was sacked. He moved on to Toronto, and set up a factory making X-Cell brand batteries for Canada. Ramsay, nor the other shareholders, knew how to make batteries but Ramsay's leadership kept the enterprise alive by having assembly line staff make the "Fleur de lis" branded batteries to a lower standard.
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An A battery is any battery used to provide power to the filament of a vacuum tube. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "wet battery". (A dry cell could be used for the purpose, but the ampere-hour capacity of dry cells was too low at the time to be of practical use in this service.) The term comes from the days of valve (tube) radios when it was common practice to use a dry battery for the plate (anode) voltage and a rechargeable lead/acid "wet" battery for the filament voltage. (The filaments in vacuum tubes consumed much more current than the anodes, and so the "A" battery would drain much more rapidly than the "B" battery; therefore, using a rechargeable "A" battery in this role reduced the need for battery replacement.
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In 1937, a long and bitter labor strike broke out that led to a hearing before the National Labor Relations Board which ruled unfavorably for Burgess the following year.Capital Times Madison Wisconsin August 25, 1938 pg 1 In 1937 Ray-O-Vac Company patented and introduced its so-called “Leak Proof” flashlight batteries which were an immediate success — in fact the U.S. Army specified these for all its requirements in WW II. This was a blow to Burgess and all other dry battery companies. When the Ray-O-Vac patent expired Burgess and most others adopted the Ray-O-Vac design. (See illustration of Burgess D cell batteries in the Ray-O-Vac design.) At the outbreak of WW II Burgess stood out as a successful small manufacturer of a full line of dry-cell batteries.
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