Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging inventions 05/06

20060108970 - Integrated fuel cell system: A battery charger includes a carrying case housing, a docking station at least partially contained by the housing, and a fuel cell system at least partially contained by and electrically coupled with the docking station. The carrying case housing is configured for transporting a cordless tool and includes a handle...

20060108971 - Method and apparatus for managing state of in-vehicle battery: A vehicle power unit comprises an engine managing circuit for detecting an engine start battery state quantity, which is an electrical quantity associated with in-vehicle battery conditions at engine start, and for determining in-vehicle battery conditions based on the detected engine start battery state quantity. Based on detected or inputted...

20060108973 - Apparatus to identify battery manufacturer: An apparatus to identify the manufacturer of a battery is provided, the battery typically includes a DC signal pin and a grounding resistor. The apparatus includes a keyboard controller. The keyboard controller includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) with an ADC signal pin. The ADC signal pin is connected...

20060108972 - Data authentication circuit, battery pack and portable electronic device: Suppression malfunction of an authentication circuit for authenticating a battery pack. Signal line for applying an intermediate potential between the power supply and ground and for reading the potential of a thermistor for detecting the temperature is used as a transmission path for exchanging data between a battery pack and...

20060108974 - Generic rechargeable battery and charging system: A rechargeable battery includes a rechargeable element, a transfer device and control circuitry. The transfer device may be a secondary coil with a corresponding primary coil that is supplied electrical power. The transfer device may be a photovoltaic cell supplied with light energy or a thermoelectric generator supplied with heat....

20060108975 - Method and system for battery charging: A method and system for battery charging. In some aspects, a battery charger including at least one terminal to electrically connect to a lithium-based chemistry battery pack and a controller operable to provide a charging current to the battery pack through the at least one terminal. The controller is operable...

20060108977 - Charging apparatus for charging a wireless operating element of a medical device: The invention relates to a charging apparatus which is connectable or connected to a power source, for charging a wireless operating element of a medical examination and/or treatment device, wherein the charging apparatus includes a charging receptacle having a holder for the operating element and can either be run in...

20060108976 - Non-contact charging device: A non-contact charging device includes a charging seat and a receiving end. The invention is characterized that, the charging seat is disposed with an active coil and a power circuit therein; and the receiving end is provided with an inductive coil, a conversion circuit and an electric cell at an...

20060108978 - Battery package and process for producing the same: According to the present invention, a battery package excellent in strength, impact resistance and transparency, wherein main components thereof are made of a biodegradable resin, is obtained by: forming a container having a holder portion from an oriented sheet of biodegradable aliphatic polyester; and then integrating the container with a...

20060108979 - Rechargeable battery assembly: A rechargeable battery assembly comprises a rechargeable battery unit and a data and power connector plug. The battery assembly has a deployed configuration in which the battery assembly has the general form of and functions as a conventional battery format, and a recharge configuration in which the data and power...

20060108980 - Cordless power tool: A cordless power tool such as a power staple gun 1 includes a power supply circuit of an electric double layer capacitor 8 and a lithium-ion battery 11. In a standby state, the lithium-ion battery charges the electric double layer capacitor, and at a switch on time, the electric double...

20060108981 - Cordless power tool system: A system of cordless power tools includes a cordless power tool adapted to removably receive a rechargeable battery pack. The battery pack and the power tool can have complementary grooves and rails or L-shaped surfaces that aid in aligning the positive and negative blade terminals of the battery pack to...

20060108982 - Information handling system with battery protected from non-permanent failures: In a method and system for protecting a battery being charged by an electrical device, a current flowing through a cell stack of the battery is measured. If the measured current is greater than a predefined value the battery is isolated from the device. If subsequent current measurements made within...

20060108983 - Method and system for battery charging: A method and system for battery charging. In some aspects, an electrical combination including a battery charger operable to supply a charging current to a battery to charge the battery and a battery including a switch having an interrupt condition, in which the switch is operable to interrupt a discharge...

20060108984 - Method and system for battery protection: A system and method for battery protection. In some aspects, a method of a method for operating a battery pack. The battery pack having a battery pack condition, and the battery pack condition having a range. The method including the acts of conducting an operation including the battery pack, measuring...

20060108985 - Protection method of dynamically adjusting charging current: The present invention is to provide a protection method of dynamically adjusting a charging current for resolving problems of overcurrent-charging phenomenon and instability of supplying power for a system, in which a keyboard controller is applied to read the magnitude of charging current of a battery undergoing the charging process...

20060108986 - Battery charging apparatus: A battery charging apparatus includes a switching power source supplying a current to a battery pack, an input voltage detecting unit detecting an input voltage of the switching power source, a charging current control unit that detects a charging current of the battery and controlling the charging current in accordance...

20060103344 - Providing power from a power storage unit in a first computing device to a second computing device: According to some embodiments, power is stored in a first power storage unit located at a first computing device. The power is then provided from the first power storage unit to a second computing device, wherein the second computing device is external to the first computing device, and wherein the...

20060103345 - Electric power king: A portable and integrated backup electric power supplies system, equipped with a battery. It comprises of an alternating current power supply, and a multifunction direct current power supply containing a variable voltage power supply, a dual polarity voltage power supply, a variable NIMH battery charger, a 12-volt lead-acid battery charger,...

20060103346 - Secondary battery structure: Secondary battery structure 100 has secondary batteries 110 equipped with metallic battery cases 111, temperature detectors 120 for detecting temperature of the secondary batteries 110, and supporting members 130 for supporting the temperature detectors 120. Each of the temperature detectors 120 has a detector body 121 which detects surface temperature...

20060103347 - Battery charger: A battery charger includes a housing for accommodating batteries to be recharged, and a plurality of charging channels, each configured to charge batteries of different sizes. Electrical connectors are located within the housing for receiving one or more batteries in each of the charging channels. A battery size detector detects...

20060103349 - Battery pack: The battery pack detects the voltage of a plurality of batteries 1 connected in series with a plurality of voltage detection circuits 2. When a voltage detection circuit 2 output is HIGH, batteries 1 discharge through an output resistor 6. In addition, discharge circuits 7, which are series connections of...

20060103348 - Maximum and minimum power limit calculator for parallel battery subpacks: A battery system according to some implementations of the present invention comprises M battery subpacks that are connected in parallel and that include battery control modules that calculate power values for the battery subpacks. A control module receives the power values from the M battery subpacks and calculates a power...

20060103351 - Battery pack manager: In a battery pack manager that manages series-connected rechargeable unit cells, a cell equalizer equalizes the cell voltages by individually discharging the unit cells according to deviations from reference voltages. An overcharge/overdischarge detector detects an overcharge and an overdischarge state of each unit cell. An inhibit circuit prevents the cell...

20060103350 - [an equalizing-charge charger]: Disclosed is an equalizing-charge charger includes a microprocessor, a pulse width modulator, battery cells, and equalizing charge load-control switches corresponding to the battery cells. When voltage sensors of the microprocessor detected the saturated status of one battery cell during charging mode, the microprocessor controls the pulse width modulator to stop...

20060103354 - Battery charger system: The invention provides a battery charger comprising a power input for receiving a power supply for charging a battery; an integrated circuit, operating at a voltage, supplying on-chip functions for battery charger operation coupled to said power input and adapted to communicate with said battery. The integrated circuit comprises a...

20060103353 - Charge system and charger for an electric apparatus and a control method thereof: The present invention relates to a charge system comprising an electric apparatus that comprises a first rechargeable battery and an adapter for supplying power to the first rechargeable battery, and a charger connected to the electric apparatus and used to charge a second rechargeable battery. The charge system employs a...

20060103352 - Staggered backup battery charging system: A battery backup system includes a control device including a power sensing device, a discharge circuit, a charging circuit, and a plurality of battery packs. A lower threshold is established representative of a minimum acceptable effective energy capacity. Each battery pack is recharged if its effective energy capacity falls below...

20060103355 - Method and system for selectively charging a battery: The invention concerns a method (300) and system (100) for selectively charging a battery (112). In one arrangement, the method can include the steps of coupling (311) the battery to a first power supply (114), coupling (311) the battery to a second power supply (116), determining (312) an available charging...

20060103356 - Apparatus and method for power distribution: The present invention provides a circuit arrangement wherein in operation a radio frequency power amplifier is supplied by the battery when charging is progressing normally, but switches supply to the charger if the charging process is interrupted. Thus the RF power amplifier receives approximately 4.2V from the battery, or approximately...

20060103357 - Method and system for battery protection: A system and method for battery protection. In some aspects, a battery pack including a housing, a cell supported by the housing and power being transferable between the cell and an electrical device, a circuit supported by the housing and operable to control a function of the battery pack, and...

20060103358 - System and method for precharging and discharging a high power ultracapacitor pack: This invention is a system and a method that uses the braking resistor, commonly used and available in electrically or hybrid-electrically propelled vehicles, to limit the precharge current during the startup of a high power ultracapacitor pack energy storage device and/or safely and rapidly discharge an ultracapacitor pack for maintenance...

20060097690 - Charger for an industrial truck: Charger for an industrial truck which has an asynchronous machine and a three-phase AC control unit for converting a battery voltage for the asynchronous machine, said charger having a mains power module which applies an AC voltage to one or two motor connection leads via a transformer, the charging current...

20060097693 - Battery pack having short circuit prevention function: Conventional rechargeable battery packs for portable electronic products possess charging terminals for connecting the battery packs to charging devices. When a portable electronic product is in use, there is a potential for short circuiting the battery pack by connecting one or more objects to the exposed charging terminals. This invention...

20060097692 - Charger: A charger includes a first housing, a second housing connected with the first housing, and a PCB assembled between the first and second housings. The first housing is defined with a plurality of battery chambers. Each battery chamber is assembled with first and second resilient plates for respectively contacting positive...

20060097691 - Structured silicon anode: A silicon/lithium battery can be fabricated from a silicon substrate. This allows the battery to be produced as an integrated unit on a chip. The battery includes a silicon anode formed from submicron diameter pillars of silicon fabricated on an end-type silicon wafer....

20060097694 - Battery housing structure: A lid of a battery case is supported on a shaft fixed on a battery box. The lid comprises a cover portion and a support arm for attaching the cover portion to the shaft. A hook formed on the cover portion engages with a hook receiver provided on the battery...

20060097695 - Analog or circuit with wide input voltage detection range: An analog OR circuit selects from a plurality of input voltages to supply other circuits within a device, especially battery powered devices, such as portable telecommunications devices. A plurality of input circuits convert the input voltages to current signals which are averaged to generate a reference current signal. A comparison...

20060097696 - Method and system for cell equalization with isolated charging sources: A system and method for charging a rechargeable, or secondary, battery including a series string of battery cells, a topology of charging sources that selectively provides charging current to battery cells that need to be charged, but avoids overcharging battery cells that are already charged above a predetermined voltage threshold....

20060097697 - Method and system for cell equalization with switched charging sources: A system and method for charging a rechargeable, or secondary, battery including a series string of cells, includes a topology of charging sources that selectively provides charging current to cells that need to be charged, but avoids overcharging cells that are already charged above a predetermined voltage threshold. Based on...

20060097698 - Method and system for cell equalization using state of charge: The present invention relates to an implementation of a method for cell equalization. The present invention uses other information such as the individual cell state-of-charge (SOC) estimates, and individual capacities and/or cell Coulombic efficiencies, possibly available from a dual extended Kalman filter. The present invention defines or refers to an...

20060097699 - State of charge indicator for battery: A state of charge indicator includes a current sensing circuit for sensing and converting charge or discharge current of a battery into a bipolar voltage. A counter circuit counts battery charge. A charge/discharge circuit is operatively connected to the current sensing and counter circuits and detects the voltage polarity from...

20060097700 - Method and system for cell equalization with charging sources and shunt regulators: A system and method for charging a rechargeable, or secondary, battery including a series string of cells, includes a topology of charging sources that selectively provides charging current to cells that need to be charged, but avoids overcharging cells that are already charged above a predetermined voltage threshold. Based on...

20060097701 - Sealed alkaline storage battery, electrode structure and charging method for the same, and charger for sealed alkaline storage battery: A sealed alkaline storage battery including a nickel electrode as a positive electrode, characterized by having the function of being capable of charge when the gas pressure in the battery and/or the battery temperature is not higher than a specified value and of being incapable of charge when the gas...

20060091848 - Method and device for determining battery status: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for battery state identification. The battery state is determined by measurement of the voltage of a motor vehicle battery during the starting process over a predetermined time period, determination of a minimum voltage level of the motor vehicle battery during the...

20060091849 - Modular battery pack: A modular battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules. Each battery module includes a plurality of cells disposed within a cell compartment that is hermetically sealed from a circuit compartment in the battery module. The liquid-impenetrable seal is achieved by insert molding tabs that electrically connect the cell compartment...

20060091850 - Pack case for secondary battery: A pack case for a secondary battery. The pack case includes a frame member having a rectangular shape and a mounting ledge at an inner wall thereof. The pack case includes a dummy block mounted within the frame on one side of the mounting ledge. The pack case allows a...

20060091851 - Secondary battery pack: A battery pack including a secondary battery and a frame for mounting the secondary battery therein. A mounting ledge protrudes from one portion of the frame and a guide member protrudes from another portion of the frame. A circuit section is installed at a portion of the frame and inserted...

20060091853 - Battery disable/enable control circuitry of a portable computing device: A portable computing device includes at least three buttons and circuitry for sensing the pressing of at least three buttons, one being recessed, and in response to such sensing provides a battery disable signal to a non-removable battery. The portable computing device further includes circuitry for sensing the coupling of...

20060091852 - Power driver and charger with flexible mounting system for battery pack: A power tool may include a housing that supports an electrical circuit. The electrical circuit may include at least two terminal sets that are arranged in parallel to each other. The at least two terminal sets may include a first terminal set configured for engagement along a first axis to...

20060091854 - Power monitoring and balancing device: A power monitoring and balancing device for a battery has a power monitoring unit, a storing unit with a plurality of cells and a balancing unit. An analog-to-digital converter formed in the power monitoring unit detects each voltage of cells timely and transmits detected result to a micro controller unit...

20060091857 - Power supply controller, electric vehicle and battery control unit: A voltage measurement part 200 measures voltage Vn for each of the blocks of a battery pack 7, electric current In is measured with the same timing by a current measuring circuit 201, and a counter 206 counts the number of times an effective load power Pn obtained from a...

20060091855 - Rechargeable battery module: A rechargeable battery module includes a plurality of unit batteries, a connecting member, and a fixing member. The unit batteries are arranged in a housing and include a positive terminal and a negative terminal. The connecting member couples a terminal of a unit battery to a terminal of an adjacent...

20060091856 - Secondary battery module: A secondary battery module includes a unit battery aggregate having a plurality of unit batteries arranged spaced from each other; a housing adapted to receive the unit battery aggregate; and a communicating member installed inside the housing, the communicating member adapted to supply a cooling medium flowing into the housing...

20060091859 - Battery detecting system: The invention discloses a detecting system for detecting whether a battery is connected to an electronic apparatus. The battery has a thermic resistor. The detecting system includes a power supply, a detecting resistor, and a detecting unit. The power supply generates a testing current. The detecting resistor is connected to...

20060091858 - Method and system for battery protection: A method of conducting an operation including a battery. The battery includes a cell having a voltage. Power is transferable between the cell and the electrical device. A controller is operable to control a function of the battery pack. The controller is also operable with a voltage at least one...

20060091860 - Power supply control circuit,electronic apparatus, semiconductor device, control method for power supply control circuit, and control method for electronic apparatus: A power supply apparatus 11 and a storage device 12 that stores power supplied by the power supply apparatus 11 interpose a power supply control circuit 10. The circuit has a charging current detector 13 to detect charging current IC flowing from the power supply apparatus 11 to the storage...

20060091861 - Battery state of charge reset: A battery control module is provided for use with a battery and includes a voltage measuring module that measures battery voltage, a current measuring module that measures battery current, and a state of charge (SOC) module. The SOC module communicates with the current and voltage measuring modules, determines a reset...

20060091863 - Battery state of charge voltage hysteresis estimator: A battery control module is provided for use with a battery and includes a voltage measuring module that measures battery voltage, a current measuring module that measures battery current, and a state of charge (SOC) module that communicates with said current and voltage measuring modules. In some features, the SOC...

20060091862 - Determination of ir-free voltage in hybrid vehicle applications: A battery control module is provided for use with a battery and includes a voltage measuring module that measures battery voltage, a current measuring module that measures battery current, and a state of charge (SOC) module that communicates with the current and voltage measuring modules. The SOC module estimates an...