LASER CUTTING METAL BATTERY COMPONENTS FOR BATTERY MANUFACTURE

A metal battery component manufacture assembly and method of making metal battery components for battery manufacture are set forth. The assembly and method involve employment of a laser assembly. The laser assembly serves to furnish a non-contact severing and cutting operation to a continuous strip of metal battery components such as a continuous strip of metal battery grids or a continuous strip of metal bipolar battery foils. Unwanted sprues are removed more readily from the continuous strip of metal battery components via the laser assembly and the associated non-contact severing and cutting operation. The sprues are the result of a continuous casting process carried out to form the continuous strip of metal battery components.