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Single cell laminated polymeric rechargeable battery sheets are folded in irregularly alternating directions about parallel fold axes to provide battery cell structures presenting available terminal locations requiring reduced collector element current travel distance to thereby significantly reduce

Single cell laminated polymeric rechargeable battery sheets are folded in irregularly alternating directions about parallel fold axes to provide battery cell structures presenting available terminal locations requiring reduced collector element current travel distance to thereby significantly reduce battery impedance. An embodiment enables the use of equilateral cell sheets which are folded about orthogonal axes in two dimensions to yield battery cells with exceptionally high ratios of active area to collector-origin impedance.

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1. A method of making a rechargeable battery comprising a folded cell sheet of a separator layer interposed between positive and negative layers, the positive and negative layers further comprising an electrode active material and a current collector, the method characterized by the steps of:laminat

1. A method of making a rechargeable battery comprising a folded cell sheet of a separator layer interposed between positive and negative layers, the positive and negative layers further comprising an electrode active material and a current collector, the method characterized by the steps of:laminating the positive layer to one side of the separator layer and the negative layer to the opposite side of the separator layer to form a sheet having a positive electrical flow path including the positive current collector and a negative electrical flow path including the negative current collector; folding the sheet along a plurality of axes to define a plurality of cell segments such that at least two sequential folds of said layers are one of the CW direction and the CCW direction and at least one fold of said layers is in the other of the CW direction and the CCW direction, and such that the positive electrical flow path and the negative electrical flow path each pass through the at least two sequential folds and the at least one fold to electrically connect the cell segments; outwardly exposing at least a portion of one of the current collectors on one side of the folded sheet at a point between the at least two sequential folds, and at least a portion of the other current collector on a side opposite the one side of the folded sheet; and affixing a terminal to the outwardly exposed portion of the current collector on each side of the folded sheet and in electrical connection with the flow path of the current collector.