Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging inventions 01/07

20070018607 - Dc power source: A DC power source includes one or more insulation type DC-DC converters and a plurality of cells, and is capable of reducing an amount of power loss at an insulation type DC-DC converter. The DC power source includes a pair of terminals for outputting electric power, a fuel cell and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070018608 - Secondary battery control apparatus and control method: A battery ECU executes a program that includes the steps of: sensing a vehicle speed; sensing a battery temperature; calculating a battery SOC; calculating, based on the battery temperature and battery SOC, a vehicle speed threshold value for starting charge limiting control; and setting a charge limiting flag for limiting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070018609 - Battery charger: A battery charger is disclosed to include a rectifier for rectifying AC into DC, two terminal clamps for clamping on the battery to be charged, and a polarity control electrically connected between the rectifier and the terminal clamps for controlling the polarity of the two terminal clamps to match with... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070018610 - Prismatic battery made of multiple individual cells: A prismatic battery including multiple individual cells, at least two of which are combined to form a prismatic module. At least two of the modules, in turn, are stacked to form the battery and joined together under tension between two end plates. The prismatic battery also has at least one... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070018611 - Battery detection interface: It is an objective of the present invention to provide an interface arrangement between a battery element (302) and an electronic device (301), e.g. a mobile phone, for reliable battery identification and for removal detection. The objectives of the invention are achieved with a combined analogue and digital interface between... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070018613 - Battery apparatus for controlling plural batteries and control method of plural batteries: Lower order control devices-control plural battery cells configuring plural battery modules. An input terminal of the low order control device in the highest potential, an output terminal of the low order control device in the lowest potential, and a high order control device are connected by isolating units, photocouplers. Diodes... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070018612 - Standalone bus bar kit system: Standalone bus bar kit system having two uprights mounted to a floor mounting base, a center mounting bracket connecting the uprights in the middle, upper mounting, brackets connecting the uprights at the top, positive and negative bus bars mounted to insulators carried by the uprights, and which have battery strings... Agent: Zacharty T. Wobensmith, Iii

20070018614 - Boost converter: The present invention relates to a boost converter (100) which can operate both in a capacitive and in an inductive mode. In the capacitive mode the converter operates as a charge pump circuit by making use of a set of switches (S1,S2,S3,S4) and a set of capacitors (110,112). In the... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070018615 - Device and method for determining operating parameters of a battery: A device monitors the operating parameters of a battery, in particular a starter battery for an automobile. The operating parameters include at least the battery voltage and the device is supplied from the battery voltage. For power-saving and yet precise determination of operating parameters for the period of time which... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070013340 - Portable solar energy system: The portable solar energy system stores electrical energy generated by a solar panel, which is made of an array of photovoltaic cells, in a dc storage battery, and upon demand converts the dc voltage of the battery to an ac output suitable for supplying conventional electrical appliances. The battery is... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd

20070013341 - Battery pack: The battery pack is provided with communication lines that connect with attached electrical equipment, a temperature-sensing element that connects with a communication line, a switching device that connects with the temperature-sensing element, and a control section to control the switching device. The control section puts the switching device in the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070013342 - Battery pack: The battery pack is provided with batteries, a charging FET device to control battery charging, a discharging FET device to control battery discharging, and a control section to control the charging FET device and the discharging FET device. If one FET device is in the ON state and the other... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070013343 - Electrical apparatus system: An electrical apparatus system includes a depilator (first electrical apparatus) that depilates body hair, a cleaning apparatus (second electrical apparatus) that cleans the depilatory and an AC adapter that supplies DC electric power to the depilator or the cleaning apparatus. Electric power can be supplied between both the electrical apparatuses... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070013344 - Battery charger with battery life judging function: A charging device includes a battery voltage detecting circuit for detecting the voltage of a battery pack; and a microcomputer having RAM for temporarily storing a battery voltage detected by the battery voltage detecting circuit, and a CPU for calculating a battery voltage gradient from the battery voltage detected by... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070013345 - Device and method for controlling a current supply: A device or a method for supplying a current to a load. A peripheral temperature of the load is detected. Based on the detected peripheral temperature and a predetermined time period, the unit amount of the current being supplied is switched between a first current and a second current.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070013347 - Battery pack controller: The invention provides a specific battery detection means that specifies single batteries believed to be in an excess discharge state during operation of the electric motor for starting the engine, based on data for each battery pack detected prior to starting the engine. With the specific battery detection means, a... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070013346 - Controlling a charging operation of a battery: A charging operation for a battery includes determining an actual full charge capacity of the battery and a design capacity of the battery. The actual full charge capacity of the battery is compared with the design capacity of the battery. One or more of a charge voltage and a cut-off... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070001644 - Methods and apparatus for simultaneously charging multiple rechargeable batteries: A charger has two or more separate charging ports to which two or more rechargeable batteries can be coupled, respectively. Current from a single current source is allocated to the two or more separate charging ports so that the two or more rechargeable batteries will be fully charged at substantially... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070001645 - Battery type lighter: A thin battery powered lighter, which has superior portability and usable as an advertising medium, is provided. The lighter includes a thin flat case (2); a sheet type battery (3) provided within the case (2); a heating element (4) connected to the battery (3); and a power switch (5) for... Agent: Trojan Law Offices

20070001646 - Charging ic, charging apparatus and electronic device: The present invention relates to charging of rechargeable batteries built into electronic devices and is configured to constrain heat generation during the charging. A charging IC used for charging a rechargeable battery built into an electronic device is disclosed that comprises a power source unit which can be fed with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070001648 - Battery charger with charge state detection on the primary side: The present invention relates to a battery charger for charging a battery. The present invention especially relates to a battery charger comprising a switching power supply controlled on the primary side and a charge monitoring circuit for monitoring the charge state of the battery. For providing an improved battery charger... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070001647 - Device for measuring a battery energy, in particular during charge/discharge of a battery: A device for measuring a battery energy, in particular during charge/discharge of a battery, includes supply elements (3) apt to be connected to a battery (5) so as to make an electric current flow in/from the latter for one or more time intervals, and controlling and detecting elements (2), characterised... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070001649 - Method for estimating soc of a battery and battery management system using the same: Disclosed is a method for setting an initial SOC value, which initializes the SOC in consideration of not only the temperature change of the external environment of the battery but also the internal temperature change of the battery before the battery reaches a stable unloaded state, thereby enhancing the accuracy... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070001650 - Controller for drive system: If a voltage of each of a plurality of capacitor cells forming a capacitor is lower than a system malfunction voltage V(1), and if the voltage of any one of the capacitor cells is higher than a cell charge inhibition voltage V(2) lower than the system malfunction voltage V(1), an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070001651 - Distributed networks of electric double layer capacitor supervisory controllers and networks thereof: Disclosed is an electric double layer capacitor, having a multiplicity of cells occupying a single package, wherein the individual cells are managed and balanced by networkable embedded circuitry also contained within the same package.... Agent: Troy A. Harvey