Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging inventions 10/07

20070247106 - Hybrid vehicle control system and method: When detecting an abnormality in some storage batteries, the hybrid vehicle control system separates the faulty storage batteries and leads the sound storage batteries to a high SOC.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070247105 - Portable battery charger: A battery charger is provided. The battery charger may be designed as a versatile, portable battery charger addressing the most common needs of power for a consumer. The battery charger preferable can provide DC power, AC power, vehicular battery charging capability, portable battery charging capability, and other power providing capabilities.... Agent: Vector Products, Inc. Robert Powell

20070247110 - Battery charger: A charger configured to charge a battery includes a battery storage chamber configured to accommodate the battery; an opening formed on a first end of the battery chamber in a depth direction, the battery being attached to and detached from the battery storage chamber through the opening; a charger-side terminal... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070247111 - Battery charger: A charger configured to charge batteries includes a housing including a plurality of battery storage chambers accommodating the batteries, the battery storage chambers being aligned in a horizontal direction such that depth directions of the battery storage chambers are parallel to each other; openings formed on first ends of the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070247109 - Method and apparatus for extending battery life by adaptive control of regulators: A method and system are disclosed for improving the efficiency of a battery supplied power supply system. More particularly, a method and system is provided for improving the voltage regulation efficiency for a system in which the input voltage that is to be regulated may vary widely. In the techniques... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070247108 - Portable battery charger: A new portable battery charger for jump-starting an engine of a disabled vehicle. The inventive device includes a main housing having a motor and a generator disposed therein. The main housing includes gasoline and oil intake portions in communication with the motor. A pair of cables extend outwardly from one... Agent: Audley Brown

20070247107 - Trickle charging and pre-charging hybrid cells smart battery: For charging a rechargeable hybrid battery pack, a first cell stack coupled in parallel with a second cell stack of the hybrid battery pack are pre-charged in parallel. The cell stack to first complete the pre-charge phase, is selected to receive a normal charge with a constant current while the... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070247112 - Assembled lithium-ion battery pack with large capacity: The present invention aims to solve the inconvenience in carrying assembled lithium-ion battery packs with large capacity to embark of the aviation apparatus. An assembled lithium-ion battery pack with large capacity comprises at least two boxes which can be connected as a single unit or disassembled as multiple boxes; each... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20070247113 - Electrical tool assembly: An electrical tool assembly includes a battery-operated electrical tool, which has a housing and a charging terminal mounted in an insertion portion of the housing, and a charger, which has a receptacle fitting the contour of the insertion portion for the insertion of the insertion portion in a predetermined direction,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070247114 - Computer with multiple battery packs: A computer comprises a computer chassis, a communication connector provided on a surface of the chassis to mate the computer with a docking station, and first and second battery packs. The first battery pack is adapted to mate to the surface of the chassis. The first battery pack has a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070247115 - Charge condition adjusting apparatus: Providing a charge condition adjusting apparatus, which can shorten a time for equalization of each charge in unit cells, a low-voltage CPU selects each smallest unit cell in the each cell block, which has each smallest voltage between the both electrodes, from among plural unit cells structuring the cell blocks.... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070247116 - Capacity adjustment apparatus and method of secondary battery: In secondary battery capacity adjustment apparatus and method for an assembled cell unit, the assembled cell unit includes: a plurality of secondary batteries; and a control board on which a capacity adjusting section is mounted, the capacity adjusting section being installed to correspond to each of the secondary batteries and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070247117 - Capacity adjustment apparatus and method of secondary battery: In secondary battery capacity adjustment apparatus and method for an assembled cell unit, the assembled cell unit includes: a plurality of secondary batteries; and a control board on which a capacity adjusting section is mounted, the capacity adjusting section being installed to correspond to each of the secondary batteries and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070247118 - Method of end of discharge voltage measurement for battery with estimation thereof: A method of determining the end of discharge voltage, EDV2 and EDV0 of a battery according to loading current therefrom and the environmental temperature is disclosed. The methods comprises following steps: firstly, charging the battery until it is full and then discharging at a constant current and a first temperature;... Agent: Bruce H. Troxell

20070241721 - Direct current power supply: A portable electrochemical power supply for handheld electronic devices is disclosed. The power supply includes a housing with an electrical connector, a circuit board, and a removable electrochemical cell disposed therein. The circuit board carries power supply circuitry which receives electrical energy from the electrochemical cell and provides a power... Agent: Michael C. Pophal Eveready Battery Company Inc

20070236169 - Battery charger for portable devices and related methods: A battery charger may include a charger connector to be coupled to a corresponding device connector of a portable device including a rechargeable battery. The battery charger may also include a charging circuit connected to the charger connector, and a controller connected to the charger connector and the charging circuit.... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070236171 - Battery conditioning: A battery conditioning method is disclosed. The battery conditioning method eliminates the need for a transistor that blocks power flow from an adapter when power is applied when battery conditioning occurs. According to the embodiment, the adapter/charger voltage may be controlled from a platform.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070236170 - Battery enclosure: A battery enclosure includes an electrical circuit that allows the batteries to be inserted in an enclosure all in the same orientation.... Agent: Insight Technology, Inc. Attn: Peter W. Murphy

20070236173 - Battery pack and electric device using the same: A battery pack includes: a secondary battery; a positive electrode terminal for connecting a positive electrode of the secondary battery to an external electric device; a negative electrode terminal for connecting a negative electrode of the secondary battery to the electric device; a communicator for communicating with the electric device;... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070236172 - Electrical device: An electrical device has an electrical device body, a rechargeable battery pack that can be removed from the electrical device body, and a fastening unit for attaching the rechargeable battery pack to the electrical device body. It is provided that the fastening unit is designed such that electrical contact between... Agent: Striker Striker & Stenby

20070236174 - Point-of-sale non-contact charging: A point-of-sale non-contact charging system to charge portable electronic devices through their packaging on store shelves makes use of electromagnetic induction so that the integrity of the packaging can be maintained and the products can be freely positioned on store shelves. Since the current can be induced in a conductive... Agent: Evan J. Kaye

20070236176 - Mechanical coupling system, associated electrical supply unit, and associated charging device: A system is provided for mechanically coupling an electrical supply unit for cordless electrical devices with a charging device, the electrical supply unit includes a housing in which at least one battery that can be recharged by the charging device is located, an associated electrical supply unit, and an associated... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070236175 - Combination battery charger: A combination battery charger is disclosed to include a housing, a first electric plug pivoted to the housing for connection to the electric socket for cigarette lighter of a motor vehicle and turnable in and out of a first outside open chamber of the housing within the range of 0... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20070236178 - Battery pack: A battery pack for an electric appliance has a base body, a locking unit for locking the base body to the electric appliance, an actuating element for unlocking the base body, which element is intended to be actuated by a user in an actuating direction, and a removal direction in... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070236179 - Handheld power tool: A handheld power tool has a handheld power tool base body, a battery pack that is detachable from the handheld power tool base body, and an inner cavity with a wall that constitutes a coupling region for the coupling of the battery pack to the handheld power tool base body.... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070236180 - Recharging device for use with portable electronic devices: The present invention provides a recharging apparatus for use with portable electronic user devices such as cell phones, pagers, PDAs, as well as with portable battery powered devices such as flashlights. Charging circuitry is used to charge the user device battery from a battery of the recharging apparatus. The user... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070236177 - Thermal management systems for battery pack: In a cordless power tool system, high temperature gases created in a battery pack by the battery cells during a charging or discharging operation can be routed into a housing of one of an attached power tool or charger to reduce the temperature of the gases, prior to venting the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070236181 - Method and system of modeling energy flow for vehicle battery diagnostic monitoring: A lead acid battery model suitable for programming on a motor vehicle body computer uses environmental and target battery operating variables for maintaining synchronization of the model with the target battery under actual operating conditions. The model includes a energy flow section with at least two integrators for simulating primary... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20070236183 - Battery charge indication methods, battery charge monitoring devices, rechargeable batteries, and articles of manufacture: Battery charge indication methods, battery state of charge monitoring devices, rechargeable batteries, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a battery charge indication method includes first determining a state of charge of a battery at a first moment in time using a first method, second determining a... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070236182 - System and method for determining both an estimated battery state vector and an estimated battery parameter vector: A system and a method for determining an estimated battery state vector and an estimated battery parameter vector are provided. The method includes determining an estimated battery parameter vector indicative of a parameter of the battery at the first predetermined time based on a plurality of predicted battery parameter vectors,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP

20070236184 - Charger system and method: Systems and methods of controlling a charging status indicator in a charging system for a device having a rechargeable power supply are provided. The charging system determines whether a device connected thereto supports remote control of the charging status indicator, and controls the charging status indicator as directed by the... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20070236185 - 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... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070229022 - Power-supply unit: A power-supply unit includes a chargeable secondary battery 1 connected to a load circuit; a fuel cell 4 connected to the secondary battery 1 through a PchFET 5; and a switch-controlling circuit 6 on/off controlling the PchFET 5 according to how large load current is applied to the load circuit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229023 - Charging multiple types of battery packs: The current embodiment provides a notebook system the capability of charging various types of battery packs with varying technologies and mAH capacities. The embodiment may accommodate a wide array of charge profiles from the various types of batteries. It may be implemented in power delivery systems, such that two signals,... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070229025 - Connector charger: A connector charger is disclosed, which is adapted to electrically connect to an external electronic device by a connection port arranged at an end of its casing while the connection port is electrically connected to a charging circuit device and at least a contact disposed inside the casing. By arranging... Agent: Wpat, PC

20070229024 - Balancing power supply and demand: A method and apparatus to balance adapter power supply and computing device power demand. In one embodiment, power to/from battery pack(s) maybe controlled by adjusting the output voltage of the power adapter via the current input to the power adapter through a feedback pin to meet power demand of electrical... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20070229026 - Battery pack: The battery pack of the present invention is provided with a current cut-off device connected in series with batteries, a tamper detector to detect tampering and issue a tamper signal, and a control circuit connected to the tamper detector. If the tamper detector detects tampering with the battery pack, the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070229028 - Charger: A charger capable of safely charging an apparatus even when the current limit value of an external power supply is less than the maximum charging current of the charger or when the battery voltage is low. Charger 100 has backup charging circuit 160 that performs charging using a current that... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070229027 - Hand power tool: The invention describes a battery-operated hand power tool, including a housing (10), having an upper part (11) for receiving at least one electric motor and one gear, a middle part (12) embodied as a hand grip (14), and a lower part (13) embodied as a base (16) to stand on,... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070229029 - Battery power detecting system and method: A battery power detecting system is disclosed applicable to an electronic device having a volatile random access memory (VRAM) for detecting the battery power of a backup battery of the volatile random access memory. The battery power detecting system includes a detection module for detecting the battery power of the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070229031 - Charging apparatus and charging method thereof: A charging apparatus having a safety circuit and a method thereof is disclosed. The charging apparatus includes a charging terminal unit having terminals exposed to the outside to supply a charging voltage therethrough, a voltage generating unit to generate a voltage which varies as a value of resistivity of an... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070229030 - Battery charging circuit and method for reducing heat generated by the circuit during inactive periods: A transformer-based battery charging circuit and method for reducing heat generated by the circuit during inactive periods uses a light emitting device, which is electrically connected to the secondary winding of a transformer, and a light-dependent resistor, which is electrically connected to the primary winding of the transformer, to decrease... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070229034 - Battery module system, method of charging battery module and charging type vacuum cleaner: t

20070229032 - Battery monitoring, warranty, and performance tracking system: A battery monitoring system communicating with a battery product having an at least one electronics module and computer readable storage media, an at least one sensor circuit sensing the status of the battery product, an at least one communication device communicating data from the battery product and to the battery... Agent: Tangent Law Group

20070229033 - Processor capable of alerting its life expectancy and method thereof: The present invention discloses a processor capable of alerting its life expectancy and its method. The processor is installed in an electronic device having a control circuit, a frequency divider circuit and a time counter. The control circuit is connected to the frequency divider circuit and the time counter. The... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070229035 - Remaining battery charge calculation system in electronic device: An electronic device has a voltage converter configured to convert output voltage of a battery for supplying power for operating an electronic device into a preset voltage for output, a constant current load unit configured to receive the voltage output by the voltage converter and output a preset constant current,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070229036 - Control circuit of power supply and control method of the power supply: This invention aims at providing a control circuit of power supply in which a secondary battery and a device are connected in parallel, to output capable of preventing over-charging of the secondary battery and supplying power from the secondary battery to the device, and a control method of the power... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070229037 - Battery charger and method therefor: To fully charge a battery by a multi-power-source battery charger either when a DC power having a voltage corresponding to the charging voltage of the battery is input or when a DC power having a voltage higher than the charging voltage of the battery is input, the supply destination of... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070229038 - Error reducing comparator-based switch capacitor circuit and method thereof: An error reducing comparator based switch capacitor (CBSC) circuit comprises: a comparator of a substantial offset, a charge pump controlled by an output of the comparator, and a plurality of capacitors. The CBSC circuit cyclically operates through a sampling phase, and a transfer phase. During the sampling phase, an input... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation