Button battery

1. A battery comprising an anode cap on a first side, and a cathode can on the opposing second side, the anode cap and cathode can configured together to provide a cylindrical shaped battery with a peripheral side wall;

wherein the battery is modified to have two or more flat plates, all of the two or more flat plates comprise a sharp protrusion extending from the peripheral side wall to increase the width or height of the battery, all of the two or more flat plates with the sharp protrusion are arranged in series in an in-line and side-by-side arrangement, and the sharp protrusion of each plate of all of the two or more flat plates are in a single plane that is oriented parallel to a corresponding plane of the first side of the battery; and

wherein a first section of all of the two or more flat plates extend from the peripheral side wall and is parallel to the corresponding plane of the first side of the battery and a second section of all of the two or more flat plates extend from the first section and is perpendicular to the first section and the corresponding plane of the first side of the battery.

2. A battery according to claim 1 , wherein all of the two or more flat plates with the sharp protrusion narrow as each flat plate extends from the peripheral side wall.

3. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the anode cap defines a bottom surface of the battery and the cathode can defines a top surface of the battery, and all of the two or more flat plates with the sharp protrusion are arranged towards the top surface of the battery in a plane substantially the same as the plane of the top surface.

4. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein the sharp protrusion is substantially triangular tooth shaped.

5. An electronic device modified to accommodate the battery according to claim 3 .

6. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein all of the two or more flat plates with the sharp protrusion narrow in line with the plane that is oriented parallel to a corresponding plane of the first side of the battery.

7. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein adjacent surfaces of each flat plate of all of the two or more flat plates are oblique.

8. The battery according to claim 1 wherein the cylindrical shaped battery is a battery cell comprising a diameter of about 5 mm to about 25 mm and a thickness of about 1 mm to about 6 mm.

9. A cylindrical shaped button battery cell comprising an anode cap on a first side, a cathode can on the opposing second side, a peripheral side wall, and two or more flat plates with a protrusion extending from the peripheral side wall increasing a diameter or thickness of the battery cell, all of the two or more flat plates with the protrusion are in a plane that is oriented parallel to a corresponding plane of the first side of the battery cell;

wherein the diameter of the battery cell is about 5 mm to about 25 mm and the thickness is about 1 mm to 6 mm;

wherein each flat plate of all of the two or more flat plates with the protrusion narrow as each flat plate extends from the peripheral side wall; and

wherein a first section of all of the two or more flat plates extend from the peripheral side wall and is parallel to the corresponding plane of the first side of the battery cell and a second section of all of the two or more flat plates extend from the first section and is perpendicular to the first section and the corresponding plane of the first side of the battery cell.

10. The battery cell according to claim 9 wherein all of the two or more flat plates with the protrusion are in series with no spacing between them in an in-line and side-by-side arrangement in the plane that is oriented parallel to the corresponding plane of the first side of the battery.

11. A battery comprising an anode cap on a first side, and a cathode can on the opposing second side, the anode cap and cathode can configured together to provide a cylindrical shaped battery with a peripheral side wall;

wherein the battery comprises two or more flat plates with a protrusion extending from the peripheral side wall to increase a diameter or a thickness of the battery, all of the two or more flat plates with the protrusion are in a plane that is oriented parallel to a corresponding plane of the first side of the battery in an in-line and side-by-side arrangement with no spacing between them; and

wherein a first section of all of the two or more flat plates extend from the peripheral side wall and is parallel to the corresponding plane of the first side of the battery and a second section of all of the two or more flat plates extend from the first section and is perpendicular to the first section and the corresponding plane of the first side of the battery.

12. The battery according to claim 11 wherein each flat plate of the two or more flat plates with the protrusion narrow as each flat plate extends from the peripheral side wall and a width of the flat plate is less than a distance the flat plate extends from the peripheral side wall.

13. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein all of the two or more flat plates are arranged with no spacing between them.

14. The battery according to claim 1 , wherein all of the two or more flat plates are arranged with no spacing between them and all of the two or more flat plates are in a zig-zag arrangement.