Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging inventions 08/07

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20070194748 - System and method for supervising battery for vehicle: A system for supervising a battery mounted on a vehicle, the system includes a first part that detects a person in a vehicle in a stopped state, and a second part that executes a power saving control for reducing power of a battery on the vehicle consumed in electrical units... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070194747 - Energy management system for a vehicle: An energy management system and method for a vehicle monitors the state and/or condition of at least one energy storage device. A connection element is included that is adapted to connect to a first terminal of the energy storage device. A terminal body is included having a terminal connection point... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20070194749 - Contact-less communication system: Apparatus for providing a contact-less, bi-directional communication link between a power supplying module (PS) and a power consuming module (PC) having two links, one (L1) used for power, clock, and upstream data transfer, the other (L2) used as downstream data link. PS contains a power supply circuit and PC contains... Agent: A Movskovich

20070194750 - Power supply for battery powered devices: An auxiliary power supply (150) includes an auxiliary battery (152), power supply circuitry (154), and a connector (108b). The power supply circuitry (154) supplies an output which provides electrical energy for powering the electrical circuitry (102) of a battery powered device (100) and for recharging a battery (104) associated therewith.... Agent: Michael C. Pophal Eveready Battery Company Inc

20070194753 - Battery pack: A battery pack whose resin mold is hard to peel off from the outer peripheral surface of its unit cell and which can be manufactured at low cost is obtained. The battery pack includes a flat prismatic box-shaped unit cell and a resin mold formed on the outer peripheral side... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070194754 - Battery pack control apparatus and battery pack control method: A battery pack control apparatus for a battery pack that includes a plurality of unit cells electrically connected in series prevents overdischarging based on the total voltage of the battery pack, as opposed to being based on the separate voltages of the individual unit cells. When a total voltage of... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070194752 - Methods and systems for a wall mounted universal power supply: Methods and Systems for charging portable equipment having divergent power requirements and exhibiting different structural features are provided by devices having adapters to accommodate the portable equipment in the form of a wall mounted universal power supply. Adapters are configured in plate formats that fit into cradles capable of charging... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070194751 - Battery pack and method for permanently disabling battery pack functions: A battery pack and method are disclosed that permanently disable the battery pack on portable electronic equipment if the battery pack has been inauthentically remanufactured. An output voltage value and a discharge current value of the battery block are measured regularly and an amount of change in the output voltage... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070194755 - System and method for multiple battery testing: The present invention provides a system and method that enables a user to easily and efficiently determine a battery pack's rated current capacity without knowing the configuration of the batteries within the battery pack. Thus, the present invention enables a user to avoid manually calculating the battery pack's configuration. Furthermore,... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070194756 - System and method for monitoring battery state: A method of monitoring a battery includes measuring an open circuit voltage (Voc) on the battery to determine a measured state of charge (SOCm) after at least one use, obtaining a calculated state of charge (SOCc) based on a state of charge prior to the at least one use and... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20070194758 - Method for consuming electric power charged to a battery in an electronic device when the battery cannot be electrically decoupled from an external power supply and related device: When charging a battery in an electronic device, if a charging current or voltage is too high, the electronic device sends a command to stop the charging. However, if an error occurs in the charge circuit, leading to continuous charging of the battery instead of stopping the charging, then the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070194757 - Cooling system of battery pack: Disclosed herein is a cooling system for cooling a battery pack mounted in a vehicle, wherein the battery pack is mounted at the inner lower end of the vehicle constructed in a corrugated structure including alternating valleys and peaks, battery modules constituting the battery pack are arranged such that unit... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070194759 - Charging apparatus for capacitor storage type power source and discharging apparatus for capacitor storage type power source: A charging apparatus for electrically charging a capacitor storage type power source comprises a switching circuit for turning on/off the charge current, a current detection circuit for detecting the charge current, a voltage detection circuit for detecting the voltage of power source, a constant current control circuit for outputting an... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070188126 - Method and apparatus for utilizing used batteries to surface charge an automobile battery: Method and apparatus comprising used batteries for surface charging an automobile battery. A surface charge provides a time limited window in which to start a vehicle comprising a surface charged battery for example. Use of used batteries provides for environmentally effective manner in which to deal with the tremendous amount... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20070188127 - Vehicle comprising a battery drive and a method for operating a vehicle of this type: Electrically driven passenger transport vehicles are supplied with energy by an external electric supply network. If the external energy supply fails, vehicles of this type require special auxiliary devices that do not rely on the supply network, for example rely on auxiliary vehicles, in order to move said vehicles again.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070188128 - Electronic device and recharging connector arrangement: An electronic device includes a rechargeable power source and a recharging connector arrangement arranged at least partly on an outer surface of the device and configured to connect the power source to a charging apparatus thereof. The recharging connector arrangement is configured to operate as a user interface of the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070188129 - Pump control with multiple rechargeable battery docking stations: A backup pump control unit can incorporate ports to receive rechargeable batteries such as lithium ion, nickel cadmium or nickel metal hydride batteries. Multiple units can be coupled together to increase the available, stored electrical energy. In the absence of AC-type input power, the batteries can energize a backup pump.... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070188130 - Scalable intelligent power supply system and method: A scalable intelligent power-supply system and method capable of powering a defined load for a specified period of time is disclosed and claimed. Multiple external AC and DC inputs supply power to the system if available and required. An internal DC input from a back-up energy source is on board.... Agent: Woodling, Krost And Rust

20070188133 - Battery pack: A battery pack is disclosed. The battery pack includes a battery; a current detecting unit which detects charging and discharging currents of the battery and outputs an analog signal corresponding to the charging and discharging currents; a modulating unit which modulates the analog signal to be a PDM (pulse density... Agent: Richard P. Berg, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070188131 - Method and apparatus for displaying battery fault notifications on wireless devices: A battery pack for a mobile device, a method for processing fault notifications for a mobile device, and a mobile device for processing fault notifications are described. The battery pack comprises a housing, at least one battery cell within the housing, and a memory accessible by an application of the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070188132 - No-welding type battery pack: Disclosed herein is a battery pack, which comprises a connecting member including an insulation frame mounted to the upper end of a battery cell and a pair of connection protrusions formed at the upper end surface of the frame, the connection protrusions being in contact with electrode terminals of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070188135 - Battery charging system and method: A system and method are disclosed for charging battery packs. A battery pack connects to an external battery charger. A processor of the battery pack recognizes that the processor is connected the external battery charger. The external battery charger provides charging parameters to the battery pack. The processor sends charging... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070188134 - Switching battery charging systems and methods: Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for charging a battery using a switching regulator. Some embodiments include programmable switching battery chargers that can be configured using digital techniques. Other embodiments include switching battery chargers that modify the battery current based on sensed circuit conditions such as battery voltage or... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group

20070188136 - Battery charging: A battery charge control apparatus includes a memory unit that stores charge termination currents that correspond to a plurality of charge modes, respectively. A control unit receives a designed capacity (full charge capacity) of a battery and an actual charge capacity thereof from a battery pack through a smart bus,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070188137 - Scalable intelligent power supply system and method: A scalable intelligent power-supply system and method capable of powering a defined load for a specified period of time is disclosed and claimed. Multiple external AC and DC inputs supply power to the system if available and required. An internal DC input from a back-up energy source is on board.... Agent: Woodling, Krost And Rust

20070188138 - Voltage balancer device for battery pack: A voltage balancer device has a plurality of discharge paths. Each pair of the discharge paths correspond to each secondary battery unit. Each of a pair of the discharge paths has a resistance of a different value. Discharging the voltage of each secondary battery unit is at first performed through... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070188140 - Charging-discharging control device: A charging-discharging control device has a selector, a charging circuit and at least two battery packs. The selector has a controller and a discharging switch. When a controller input voltage is higher than a preset voltage, the controller generates a charge-discharge signal of a first voltage level, and when the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20070188141 - Method for controlling battery pack: A method controls a battery pack that includes a rechargeable battery, a control circuit that controls charge operation of the battery, and a charge control element that controls the charge current through the control circuit. In the method, even though the control circuit controls the charge control element so that... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070188139 - System and method of charging a battery using a switching regulator: In one embodiment the present invention includes a system and method of charging a battery using a switching regulator. In one embodiment, a switching regulator receives an input voltage and input current. The output of the switching regulator is coupled to a battery to be charged. The switching regulator provides... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group

20070188142 - Charging and discharging control circuit and charging type power supply device: Provided is a charging and discharging control circuit in which a delay circuit is built in an over discharge detector circuit, an over-charge detector circuit, or the like, and a delay time of the detector circuit can be changed from an external without adding a control terminal, thereby reducing a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070188146 - Circuit for detecting remaining battery capacity: A disclosed circuit for detecting remaining battery capacity includes: a current detection unit detecting a charge and discharge current of a battery; a remaining capacity measurement unit measuring remaining capacity of the battery by integrating the charge and discharge current at first time intervals when the charge and discharge current... Agent: Richard P. Berg, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070188144 - Electronic apparatus with rechargeable battery: An information processing unit of an electronic apparatus includes a power manager managing power of a secondary battery, and has major functions and a supplementary function. The power manager initiates restriction of the supplementary functions, when present remaining battery power of the secondary battery as detected by a detector is... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070188145 - Mobile terminal displaying remaining battery capacity and method thereof: A mobile terminal device and method are provided for displaying remaining battery capacity. The device and method comprise internal and external batteries installed on the mobile terminal, a display unit displaying remaining battery capacity, a battery detecting unit identifying whether the external battery is additionally installed, a remaining battery capacity... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070188143 - System, method, and article of manufacture for determining an estimated combined battery state-parameter vector: A system, a method, and an article of manufacture for determining an estimated combined battery state-parameter vector are provided. The method determines the estimated combined battery state-parameter vector based on a plurality of predicted the combined battery state-parameter vectors, a plurality of predicted battery output vectors, and a battery output... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20070188149 - Battery voltage monitoring apparatus: A battery voltage monitoring apparatus to monitor a voltage of an assembled battery having a plurality of battery cells, the battery voltage monitoring apparatus comprises a first voltage sensor module having a voltage sensor and a first and a second module terminals connected to the voltage sensor, a second voltage... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070188148 - Method for controlling battery pack: a battery pack includes a switching element, a heat resistor, and a fuse. The switching element turns to ON if the battery pack becomes in an abnormal state. The heat resistor is connected to the switching element and a battery in serial. Current flows through the heat resistor when the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070188147 - System and method for fusibly linking batteries: A system and method links batteries in parallel to conductors using wire bonds that act as fuses in the event of an overcurrent condition in a battery. To protect the wire bonds in the case of a larger overcurrent condition, a fuse may be added in series to the parallel... Agent: Innovation Partners

20070188150 - System and method for supervising battery for vehicle: A system for supervising a battery that supplies power to an electrical unit includes a control part that is supplied with power from the battery and executes a predetermined process when abnormal discharge of the battery occurs; an activation part that detects current consumed in the battery when the electrical... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070182362 - System for energy harvesting and/or generation, storage, and delivery: A device and method for harvesting, generating, storing, and delivering energy to a load, particularly for remote or inaccessible applications. The device preferably comprises one or more energy sources, at least one supercapacitor, at least one rechargeable battery, and a controller. The charging of the energy storage devices and the... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20070182366 - Detecting a battery within a battery charger: A device for detecting a battery within a charger includes a battery detector and a regulation voltage controller that limits a battery charging terminal voltage to a battery regulation voltage. The battery detector generates a battery existence signal if a battery charging terminal voltage is not greater than a battery... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070182365 - Charger with primary battery for two-way i/o: A multi-purpose charger adapted with a primary battery for two-way input and output, and more particularly to a charger capable of inputting external DC power, or AC power transformed and rectified to DC power to charge a first rechargeable unit adapted to the charger or a second rechargeable unit externally... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

20070182363 - Portable power supply: A portable power supply includes a slender casing having a compartment disposed axially for installing and electrically connecting a battery, a DC-to-DC voltage booster circuit installed on a first circuit board in the casing for boosting a low-voltage current outputted by the battery to 5V DC power, and a USB... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070182364 - Terminal platforms for batteries in implantable medical devices: A terminal platform comprising a first terminal block securable to a housing of the battery, a second terminal block configured to electrically connect to a terminal wire of the battery, and an insulating support electrically isolating the second terminal block from the first terminal block.... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.

20070182367 - Inductive power source and charging system: A portable inductive power source, power device, or unit, for use in powering or charging electrical, electronic, battery-operated, mobile, and other devices is disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment the system comprises a pad or similar base unit that contains a primary, which creates an alternating magnetic field by... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070182368 - Multifunctional travel charger: A multifunctional travel charger having a battery compartment formed in a mains adapter for insertion of separable primary/secondary batteries to establish a closed circuit, wherein the mains adapter includes a charging control circuit electrically coupled between the exchange type power conversion unit and the DC power output terminal, the battery... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070182369 - Aseptic battery assembly with removable cell cluster: A battery assembly with a housing that contains a removable battery pack. The housing, which is sterilzable, has a head designed to couple to a power consuming device. The battery pack, which is not sterlizable, contains at least one rechargeable cell. The battery pack has a head dimensioned to fit... Agent: Intel. Prop./ Rnd Stryker Corporation

20070182371 - Battery: A battery with at least one battery cell has two battery poles and current-conducting connections between the battery cells and the battery poles. A safety switching encompasses a current-limiting element in the connection between the battery cells and one of the battery poles. A switch is parallel to the current-limiting... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070182370 - Battery pack for supplying ac and dc power: A battery pack for supplying an AC power has a battery pack served as a DC power source, a charging controlling circuit connected to the battery pack, a switching circuit connected to the battery pack, a voltage boosting circuit connected to the charging controlling circuit, a DC/AC converting circuit connected... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070182372 - Four-in-one mobile phone charging stand: A four-in-one mobile phone charging stand including a stand body having a first charging groove for charging a specific type mobile phone in a vertical position and a second charging groove for charging or discharging one or two separable batteries in a horizontal position; a charging circuit positioned within the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070182373 - Method and apparatus for diagnosing the condition of a rechargeable battery: A diagnostic technique for determining whether the degradation of a rechargeable battery is normal or abnormal is provided. A device for determining whether the degradation of a rechargeable battery is normal or abnormal comprises a device for measuring a degradation indicator of a rechargeable battery, a device for determining the... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070182374 - Method of supplying an ac voltage with a battery pack: A method of supplying an AC voltage with a battery pack comprises the steps of providing a battery pack having two DC output terminals and two AC power output terminals, producing a low DC voltage by the battery pack, converting the low DC voltage to a high DC voltage, outputting... Agent: Patenttm.us

20070182375 - Battery charger and method for charging a battery: A battery charger includes current sources for generating first and second currents respectively, a current sensor, a current source controller, and a reference voltage generator. The first current charges a battery in a first current path, and the second current is conducted to a feedback load in a second current... Agent: Law Office Of Monica H Choi

20070182378 - Information processing apparatus and battery capacity measuring method: According to one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus including a battery, a detection unit to detect a value of current discharged from the battery, a device to be driven upon receipt of the current discharged from the battery, a control unit to control the device to ensure... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070182376 - Battery management: An electronic tool and method to manage a battery includes a processor to monitor a battery charge and estimate a required charge needed by the electronic tool to complete any task or job shift. When the processor determines the battery charge is insufficient, the processor applies business rules to reduce... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070182377 - Method and system for monitoring battery stacks: A monitoring system (14, 24, 34, 50) monitors voltage of a stack of batteries (10, 20, 30.) Each battery has a plurality of cells (13). A monitoring unit (14, 24, 34) is associated with each battery and measures voltage across a selected cell. A first monitoring unit and a second... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070182379 - Container, battery or electric double layer capacitor using the same, and electronic device: A container includes a base body constituted of a side wall and a bottom portion, having a hollow or open portion for housing therein an electrical storage element, a conductive layer disposed at a bottom surface of the bottom portion facing the hollow or open portion, a first electrode electrically... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070182380 - System and method for charging a battery: A system and method for recharging a rechargeable battery. A battery charger includes a measuring element to measure a temperature of the rechargeable battery, the battery charger disables a charge to the rechargeable batter when the temperature is greater than a first predetermined threshold, the measuring element re-measures the temperature... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070176578 - Electrical apparatus, electrical apparatus system, and power supply apparatus: When a battery pack, comprising an overcurrent protection section for stopping, when a current greater than a first threshold value passes, a current supply, is connected to a power supply terminal of an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus draws a current greater than the first threshold value. Thereafter,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.