Electrical connection is maintained between an electrical conductor element (32) and a fragile expanded-metal grid current collector element (12) of a flexible laminate structure rechargeable battery (10) by means of thermally-activated adhesive sheet material (34) which provides physical ...http://www.google.ca/patents/US5705297?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5705297 - Electrical connection for a polymeric laminate battery structure