Advances in air manager technology for zinc-air batteries

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.