Shelf Life - The duration of storage under specified conditions at the end of which the battery still retains the ability to give a specified performance.
Charge - The conversion of electrical energy, provided in the form of electrical current from an external source, to restore the chemical energy in a cell or battery.
Current Collector - An inert structure of high electrical conductivity used to conduct current from or to an electrode during discharge or charge.
Primary Battery - A battery which is not intended to be recharged and is discarded when the battery has delivered all of its electrical energy.
Cycle Life - The number of cycles under specified conditions which are available from a secondary battery before it fails to meet specified criteria as to performance.
High Voltage Spike - Rapid voltage peak up to 6000 volts with a duration of 100mS to 1/2 cycle.
Harmonic Sinusoidal - Term of the Fourier series expansion of a periodic function. The harmonic (or harmonic component) of the nth order is characterized by - Yn is the rms value of the given harmonic component, w is the angular frequency of the fundamental, related to frequency by - w = 2_f; phin is the phase angle of the given harmonic component at t = 0.