Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging inventions 07/06

20060164031 - Battery pack equipped with detachable rechargeable battery and portable electronic device equipped with the battery pack: The present invention relates to a battery pack equipped with a detachable rechargeable battery and a portable electronic device equipped with the battery pack. The battery pack (10) is continuously used by replacing the rechargeable battery (20) rather than replacing an entire battery pack (10) when the life span of...

20060164032 - Battery pack: An electrical combination including a driver drill capable of producing an average current draw of approximately 20-amps, a circular saw capable of producing an average current draw of approximately 20-amps, and a power tool battery pack operable to supply power to the driver drill and to the circular saw, the...

20060164033 - Circuit for a motor vehicle power supply network and corresponding operating method: The invention relates to an operating method for an electrical circuit with an energy store (5), made from several storage elements (C2-C5) and a charge-equalisation circuit (6), for charge equalisation between the individual storage elements (C2-C5) of the energy store (5), comprising the following steps: charging the energy store (5)...

20060164034 - Hybrid vehicle equipped with a variable voltage battery: To protect the inverters and motor generators from damage caused by abnormal currents resulting from the sudden changes in voltage that occur when changing the battery voltage. A vehicle equipped with an engine 10* and first and second motor-generators 11 and 12 that can generate electricity by being driven by...

20060164035 - Charger for rechargeable batteries: A battery charger for charging rechargeable batteries and/or battery packs is disclosed. Preferably the charger can apply two modes of charging a battery. In a normal charging mode a battery is charged to full capacity at a low rate. In a boost charging mode the battery is charged very rapidly...

20060164036 - Systems for powering peripheral devices: A device is provided for employing batteries for mobile computing system to provide separate power sources for peripherals for mobile computing systems. A device is provided for charging batteries for mobile computing devices which can also be used to power peripherals for mobile computing systems....

20060164037 - Portable charger: A portable charger includes a hand crank power generator adapted for generating an AC current and a DC conversion arrangement including an excitation rectifier electrically connecting to the hand crank power generator for rectifying the AC current to an undulate sine wave DC current, an oscillator circuit converting the undulate...

20060164038 - Power supply charging method and device: A power supply charging method and device for charging a power supply having a predetermined number of battery cells divided into at least two battery cell groups. The method comprises the steps of, for each battery cell group, applying a voltage across the battery cell group until one condition selected...

20060164039 - Battery remaining display apparatus and wireless telephone apparatus: A battery remaining display apparatus including: a battery capable of being charged and discharged; a use history storage unit that stores use history information about the battery; a characteristic information storage unit that stores characteristic information about the battery; a battery remaining estimation unit that estimates a remaining amount of...

20060164040 - Power source control method, electronic device and system using the same: A determining circuit determines whether power is supplied from a power generator or power is supplied from a battery, and an operation interval control circuit performs control of an intermittent operation in the sensor node based upon the determination result. For example, when power supplying from the battery continues for...

20060164042 - Apparatus and method for monitoring charging/discharging capacity of battery packs: An apparatus and a method are provided for monitoring a battery pack for accurately calculating an actual discharging or charging capacity of a secondary battery, which depends on temperature. The battery pack monitoring apparatus includes a bare cell adapted to be charged/discharged with a predetermined voltage. Sensors sense the bare...

20060164041 - Battery protection ic chip: A lithium-ion battery protection module is disclosed. The lithium-ion battery protection module includes a control IC chip. The control IC chip includes a discharge overcurrent detector, a charge overcurrent detector, and a temperature detector. The control IC chip is mounted on a charge control FET and a discharge control FET...

20060164043 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus including: a battery; a notification unit; a storage unit that stores a reference charging time and a reference battery voltage which are values according to charging characteristics of the battery and are used as determination reference values to determine whether or not the battery is normally charged;...

20060164044 - Digital pulse controlled capacitor charging circuit: A method for charging a capacitor charging circuit comprises producing a digital pulse train, converting the digital pulse train to an AC signal, amplifying the AC signal to produce a high voltage AC signal, rectifying the high voltage AC signal to produce a capacitor charging signal, sampling characteristic data from...

20060158149 - Portable rechargeable power unit: A unit includes a rechargeable power source, such as rechargeable battery or the like, and a solar powered power source recharging element. The unit can be coupled to a powered device, such as a hand held tool or the like, to provide power for that device....

20060158150 - Power supply device: A power supply device includes a storage power circuit, which has a rechargeable battery, a power generating battery, which generates electricity to charge the rechargeable battery of the storage power circuit, an illuminator circuit to be controlled to give off light for illumination, a charging control circuit to be controlled...

20060158151 - Battery pack: A battery pack is provided which includes: a state detection section which decides whether secondary batteries are in an electricity-charged state or in an electricity-discharging state; a power decision section which decides whether the secondary batteries are in a power-on state or in a power-off state; and a residual-capacity calculation...

20060158152 - Print system and print terminal, and image saving system and image saving unit: As the present invention is adapted to receive an image to be printed or to be saved from a portable device having the image by wireless communication, an image needs not to be passed via a memory card or by connector connection or the like. As the present invention is...

20060158153 - Current adapting and rechargeable device: A current adapting and rechargeable device is provided. The current adapting and rechargeable device includes a rechargeable unit, a current adapting unit and a charging circuit. The current adapting unit is for receiving a first current from a power source and outputting a second current accordingly. The charging circuit is...

20060158154 - Method and apparatus for backing up data from cell phones and other hand-held devices: A hand-held device, such as a cell phone, a PDA or a digital camera, has a microprocessor, a battery and a primary memory. The hand-held device is coupled to a charger station that has a charging circuit generating charging current and a backup memory. Once the hand-held device and the...

20060158155 - Battery remaining capacity detection method and power supply apparatus: A battery remaining capacity detection method calculates a remaining capacity of a battery having the possibility that a memory effect occurs by using correlation between an voltage V0 and the remaining capacity. Correlation between a reset voltage Vo reset that is obtained by subtracting a value obtained by multiplying an...

20060158156 - Method and apparatus for charging and discharging a rechargeable battery: A battery protection system is provided for a rechargeable battery. The system has a switch module that selectively interrupts battery current based on a control signal, a battery voltage sensor that senses battery voltage, a battery temperature sensor that generates a battery temperature signal, and a control module that generates...

20060152189 - Vehicle charging, monitoring and control systems for electric and hybrid electric vehicles: A distributed charging system for electric and hybrid electric vehicles includes multiple battery packs of different voltages including high voltage battery packs and one or more low voltage battery packs, each having separate and independent charging systems and multiple sources of electric power. Electric power is distributed from the sources...

20060152191 - Apparatus for charging a secondary battery of a digital image processing apparatus with a charger for a cellular phone, and a digital image processing apparatus using the same: Provided are an apparatus for charging a secondary battery in a digital image processing apparatus using a charger for a cellular phone and a digital image processing apparatus using the apparatus. The apparatus comprises: a battery connection part connected to ports of a battery in the digital image processing apparatus;...

20060152192 - Electronic device and adaptor used therewith: An electronic device includes a system unit having a plurality of electronic components; a system power supply supplying power to the system unit; a system power controller managing the power supplied from the system power supply to the system unit; and an adaptor including an AC/DC converter converting AC power...

20060152190 - Wireless battery management system: Measurement of physical properties and individual charge control of the cells of a battery may lead to a longer battery life and to a more reliable operation. The present invention discloses a system, a cell unit, a control unit and a method for the automated management of batteries via a...

20060152193 - Rechargeable back-up battery pack: A rechargeable back-up battery pack used for supply power to portable devices comprises a case which defines a charger receiving space and a battery receiving space and arranges a DC input port and a power output port. A plurality of first latches are formed on inner side walls of the...

20060152194 - Systems and methods for regulating pre-charge current in a battery system: Systems and methods for regulating pre-charge current in a battery system, such as a battery system of an information handling system, by controlling duty cycle of the charging current provided to battery cell/s of the battery system....

20060152195 - Battery pack capacity control system: If the capacity variation is greater than a pre-stored value, the SOC converted from Qmin sometimes cannot recover to a control center value. In such a case, inconveniences including the continuation of an event where the HVECU cannot output a command to stop the charging are prevented by computing an...

20060152196 - Method of controlling battery current limiting: The method of controlling battery current limiting controls maximum charging and discharging current values according to the state of charge of the battery. The method of controlling current limiting integrates battery charging and discharging current to compute a first state of charge, determines first charging and discharging current limit value...

20060152197 - Selector circuit for power management in multiple battery systems: A selector circuit configured to select among a DC power source and a plurality of batteries for an electronic device. The selector circuit is responsive to an output signal from an associated power management unit. The selector circuit is further configured to permit parallel operation of two or more of...

20060145654 - System and method for charging liftgate batteries: A system and method are disclosed for charging the liftgate batteries on a trailer having a trailer electrical system such as a refrigeration unit, from the charging system for the trailer electrical system. The system and method include an electrical connection between the liftgate batteries and the trailer electrical system...

20060145655 - Car battery jumper cable apparatus: A car battery jumper cable apparatus for examining whether polarity of a supplementary battery and an exhausted car battery is correctly connected. The jumper cable apparatus includes a relay, a relay driving circuit, a battery polarity recognition circuit, a signal oscillator, an alarm circuit of reverse battery polarity, an indicator...

20060145656 - Power supply unit: A power supply unit for extending a function of an apparatus (image pickup apparatus) unloadably loaded with a flat parallelopiped battery having a roughly square principal surface includes the flat battery, and a power supply (for example, a control grip including a cell or cells and a control portion which...

20060145657 - Assembled battery: An assembled battery is equipped with an insulating support plate supporting bus bars, omits the bolting operation and can simplify the operation of electrically connecting the bus bars to electrode terminals. The assembled battery includes a plurality of battery modules having output terminals. An insulating bus bar plate (support plate)...

20060145658 - Method and device for battery charger and diagnosis with detectable battery energy barrier: Methods and device for battery charging and diagnosis provide a measuring batter energy state in which charging strategy alternate with the minimize balance between battery energy state and charging energy in which the balance is existed in battery energy barrier. Variance battery energy barrier derives adaptive charging cycle and charging...

20060145659 - Battery pack system and method for waking up a charge control circuit of a mobile communication device: A battery pack (104) has an inductive charging interface (112) for charging a battery cell (114) upon coupling to an inductive power supply (210). The battery pack is coupled to a mobile communication device via a radio interface (110), through with a voltage level is applied to a charge monitoring...

20060145660 - Method and apparatus for near field communications: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for inductively charging a battery. The battery comprises a housing (102), at least one battery cell (104) carried in the housing and a multimode near field transceiver (106) carried also in the housing. The near field transceiver is operable in a passive mode...

20060145662 - Hierarchical battery potential equalizing device: The present invention provides a hierarchical battery potential equalizing device to equalize the voltage of a plurality of serial batteries. The batteries are divided into a plurality of groups, one potential equalizer is provided for each group to make potential equalization among batteries, and at least one potential equalizer is...

20060145661 - System and method for operating a multiple charger: The invention concerns a method (300) and system (100) for operating a multiple charger. The method can include—in a multiple charger (110) having at least a first switch (134) and a second switch (122) for respectively controlling the flow of current to a first battery (116) and a second battery...

20060145663 - Device interfaces with non-mechanical securement mechanisms: A number of device interfaces that may use magnetic forces to secure different devices together are disclosed. The device interfaces may include magnetic material positioned in between parallel rows of electrical contact elements in the devices. Magnetic forces may be exerted on and from the electrical contact elements to cause...

20060145664 - Method of regenerating lead battery cells and regenerative agent for performing of this method: The electrochemical regeneration of lead and alkaline battery cells during which, after the treatment of the battery by some of the regeneration additives on the basis of an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide and after the basic charging, they are alternately or internnittently charged and discharged. Above the limit located...

20060145665 - Power management circuit and methodology for battery-powered systems: A power management system including a battery-powered application, in which an input current is supplied by a source of current that may be a current-constrained source, such as a USB port, to a battery for charging the battery and to an application load. Battery charging current is supplied to the...

20060145666 - Device and method for charging an otg portable device: The present invention discloses a device and method for charging an OTG portable device, which is capable of charging the OTG portable device no matter it is acting as an OTG A-Device or as an OTG B-Device since the OTG portable device is able to change the status of the...

20060145667 - Self-refresh timer circuit and method of adjusting self-refresh timer period: A self-refresh timer circuit for generating a timer period for controlling self-refresh operation of a semiconductor memory device comprising: a temperature-dependent voltage source for outputting a voltage having a temperature dependency based on a diode characteristic; a control current generating circuit for applying an output voltage of the temperature-dependent voltage...