As you know, there are many different abbreviations. Many of them are understandable at first glance, since they are deciphered only in a single version. However, there are also reductions that are difficult to solve, especially if they indicate several things at once. For example, the abbreviation AKB is a term that simultaneously refers to completely different areas and is also deciphered in different ways. It is worth considering in more detail in what areas this reduction is used and what it means.
How to decrypt battery
As mentioned above, there are several options for the interpretation of contraction. This issue is really worth paying attention to, since, having met with such an abbreviation in life, it is better to understand exactly what this is all about. So, now we need to identify the main areas where such a reduction is used.
First of all, a battery is a rechargeable battery. In a narrower sense - a car battery, that is, a kind of electric batteries that are used in automobile transport.
Secondly, AKB is a joint-stock commercial bank. Such a bank is a credit organization that carries out banking operations and serves a wide range of individuals (both individuals and legal entities).
Thus, it becomes more clear in what areas this abbreviation can be considered.
Battery in the technical field
So, it is worthwhile to consider in more detail the term battery in the light of automotive topics. Car battery has become widespread with the development of the automotive industry. It is needed as an additional source of electricity when the engine is idle, as well as to start it.
Such a battery has its own characteristics, which are mainly determined by voltage. There are several varieties of car battery:
Cars with such a battery were produced until the end of 1940. Now batteries with a voltage of 6 volts are used only on light motor vehicles.
Currently, such a battery is used on all cars, as well as on trucks and buses with a gas engine. In addition, most motorcycles have 12 volt batteries.
24 Volt batteries are used in trolleybuses, trams, trucks with diesel engines and, most interestingly, in military equipment with diesel engines.
Battery capacity: a small overview
Of course, like any battery, a car battery has the concept of capacity. This is another important characteristic of the battery, which determines its basic properties. Battery capacity is measured in units such as ampere hours.
The value of the capacitance, which is presented on the battery, shows what current the battery will be discharged evenly to the final voltage during a discharge cycle of 20 or 10 hours.
Another feature related to capacity is that the more the discharge currents increase, the faster the discharge time decreases.
Now it’s worth considering how a suitable battery capacity is selected. It is selected taking into account several parameters:
- engine volume (the larger the volume, the greater the capacity required);
- operating conditions (the colder the weather conditions in the region, the greater the capacity should be);
- engine type (for a diesel engine, the battery capacity should be greater than for a gasoline engine with the same volume).
Types of Car Battery
A car battery has a lot of additional characteristics that significantly affect its type.
The first characteristic is the size of the battery. The history of the development of automotive technology has shown that in many cases, when developing a new model or even a make of cars, it was often necessary to create a special new battery. In this regard, a whole set of documentation was developed. Several types of batteries are currently being produced; they differ markedly from Japanese and European manufacturers.
The second characteristic is the diameter of the contact terminals. The size of the battery terminal varies between batteries. There are 2 developed standards: Euro type - type 1 and Asia - type 3. In the first case, their sizes: 19.5 mm for the “plus” and 17.9 mm for the “minus”. The dimensions of the battery terminal in the second type are: 12.7 mm for the “positive” and 11.1 mm for the “negative”.
The third important parameter is the type of battery. Mostly, lead acid is used.
Another feature worth talking about separately is the need for battery maintenance.
Battery maintenance - how often is it needed
Many people care about battery maintenance. Which is not surprising, because the battery is a really complex system, which sometimes requires special care.
Thus, 2 large groups of batteries can be distinguished:
Serviced batteries are simpler in structure, which periodically need to monitor the state of the electrolyte. Also, battery charging is required from time to time. It is carried out according to specially developed technology, through the use of a stationary charger. In large enterprises, such actions are performed by trained employees. For these purposes, there are even whole charging stations. Thus, battery charging is a necessary process for its functioning.
Now you should turn to the second group - maintenance-free batteries. Judging only by their name, one would think that such batteries do not need care at all. However, this is not entirely true; on batteries of this type, it is also necessary to control such factors as the density of the electrolyte, the tightness of the battery case itself, and others.
So, a battery is a rather complex part that plays an important role in the functioning of automotive equipment.
Battery in the banking system
Now it's time to consider the acronym Battery from a different perspective. As already mentioned at the beginning of the article, a battery is a bank (credit institution) that carries out various banking operations. Such institutions perform the following operations: payment, settlement, in the securities market and various intermediary.
Accumulators receive their profits as a result of the fact that interest rates on loans issued by them significantly exceed interest rates on deposits. Such profit is called margin.
The word "commercial", which is included in the abbreviation, means that the main goal of the battery is to make a profit.
However, there are banking organizations that specialize more in any particular services provided.
Joint-Stock Commercial Banks in Russia
There are really many such organizations in Russia. If we turn to history, the first private battery in our country was the St. Petersburg Private Commercial Bank. Then a similar form of organization began to actively develop. However, the end to such a variety of banking organizations was laid in 1917, when all banks were nationalized.
Now in Russia there are many batteries. Among them you can hear very famous names, for example:
- AKB Bank of Moscow.
- Joint-Stock Commercial Bank "Vanguard".
- Joint-Stock Commercial Bank "Absolute Bank".
- JSCB Svyaz-Bank.
- JSCB Promsvyazbank and many others.
Other battery abbreviations
Besides the banking and technical spheres already considered, sometimes this reduction is also used in the field of sales. Here, the battery is an active customer base. In many organizations, a whole plan is drawn up for it, which covers the expansion of the base and further work with it. The purpose of this work is to increase the sales level of a company.