Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging inventions 02/09

20090051312 - Battery charger: A battery charger for wirelessly providing additional operating time for a cell phone with a depleted battery. The battery charger has a charging unit incorporated into a case. The charging unit has an external port, a cell phone charging port, and a rechargeable battery. A cell phone with a depleted... Agent: Rodolphe J.simon

20090051313 - Battery charger: A battery charger capable of improving a visibility to a light emitting display portion for facilitating recognition of a charge state of a battery. The battery charger has a housing and a display unit including the light emitting portion protruding from an outer surface of the housing.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090051314 - Self-powered magnetic generator: A power generation apparatus 100 has a moving permanent magnet 10 having a north polarity (N) at a first end 11 and a south polarity (S) at an opposite second end 12; a pair of electromagnets 20,22 are positioned with one being in proximity to each end 11,12 of the... Agent: David L. King, Sr.

20090051316 - Battery charging device and battery with the same: A battery charging device includes a power terminal unit to be connected to a power source and provided with power therefrom, a charging terminal unit to be connected to a power terminal of a battery, and a holding device to be fixed to side faces of the battery when the... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090051315 - System and method for information handling system battery charge protection and fault alarm: An information handling system battery has first and second protective circuits to detect and address faults for a first charge applied from an external power source to an integrated charger and a second charge applied from a charger of an information handling system to battery cells. If the first protective... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090051317 - Man-powered slim charger: A human-powered slim charger utilizing an axial flux alternator for converting a pull-out motion into an electrical current for charging and supplying battery-fed electronic devices. The charger comprises mechanical transmission means for converting a periodic linear movement into a unidirectional rotation, an axial flux alternator comprising a stator comprising a... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090051318 - Pass around electrical contacts: A battery comprises a housing, a plurality of contacts, and a pass around electrical contact. The housing includes a plurality of rechargeable cells. The plurality of contacts electrically couple to the rechargeable cells. The plurality of contacts are configured to couple to first corresponding contacts of an electronic device. The... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP/ Motorola

20090051319 - Phone charging stand: A phone charging stand includes a casing and a cover. The casing has a socket on one surface to hold a phone, and a first universal serial bus (USB) connecting port on another surface of the casing is used to connect a wireless dongle having a USB interface. The cover... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090051320 - Rechargeable battery and method for its operation: p

20090051321 - Apparatus for estimating state of charge of secondary battery: An apparatus for estimating a state of charge (SOC) of a secondary battery. A control section of a battery controller (ECU) computes a total amount of electric discharge of a secondary battery and compares the total amount of electric discharge with a predetermined threshold value. The threshold value is set... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090051322 - Battery control device and hybrid forklift truck equipped with the device: SOC of the battery is determined from an established relationship between battery voltage and SOC when battery current is zero for at least a predetermined time period and SOC is also determined from an established relationship between battery voltage, current and SOC when discharge current is constant for at least... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090051323 - Battery pack: A protecting circuit monitors a voltage of a secondary battery and supplies the signal to permit a discharge to a gate terminal of a discharge control FET when the voltage is equal to or more than a lower limit value in a rated voltage range. When the discharge control FET... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090051324 - Battery pack and method for detecting disconnection of same: The battery pack includes an assembled battery including a plurality of secondary battery cells connected at least in series; a voltage detector which detects a terminal voltage of each of the plurality of secondary battery cells; a charge/discharge controller which controls charge/discharge of the assembled battery based on the terminal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090051325 - Automotive power system and method of controlling same: A power source is electrically connected with a battery and an electrical load. The power source has an output voltage and provides current for the battery and electrical load. A charging voltage for the battery is determined based on temperature of the battery. An offset voltage is determined based on... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20090051326 - Battery overheating protection circuit: A battery overheating protection circuit includes a thermal resistor samples the temperature of the battery and converts the temperature into a temperature voltage, a comparison circuit compares the temperature voltage with a reference voltage for judging whether the temperature of the battery is higher than the maximum reference temperatures temperature... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090051327 - Charger system for communication devices: A charger system (100) for charging a battery power source for a portable host device (102) is provided. The charger system includes a charger circuit (202). The charger circuit operates to communicate a charge status. The charge status can be selected from a charge status group including a charging status... Agent: Motorola, Inc

20090051328 - Battery charging apparatus: The battery charging apparatus is made with small and low-cost components. It includes a first transistor (T1) with a control input through which the charging current flows into a battery (B) and a current source (T3, T4, R1, R2) for a control current flowing to the control input of the... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20090051329 - Method and charge-up circuit capable of adjusting charge-up current: A charge-up circuit includes a charge-up transistor configured to supply a charge-up current to a secondary battery in accordance with a control signal, a detection resistor connected in series with the charge-up transistor to detect the charge-up current, a current-to-voltage conversion circuit configured to generate and output a monitor voltage... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090051330 - Charging device: There is provided a charging device capable of improving charging efficiency and reducing power consumption, thereby increasing a battery service life. The charging device charges a main capacitor (2) by rectifying output voltage boosted via a self-excitation DC-DC converter, by using a diode (D). The self-excitation DC-DC converter is configured... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090051331 - Method and circuit for controlling the refresh rate of sampled reference voltages: The present invention relates to controlling the refresh rate of the reference voltage on a sampling capacitor (Csamp). A comparator (COMP) compares the voltage on a first capacitor (C1) with the voltage on a second capacitor (C2). These capacitors have the capacitance of the sampling capacitor (Csamp). Upon each refresh... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090045770 - Headgear assembly capable of collecting solar power: A headgear assembly includes a solar power collecting unit mounted on a headgear member for converting solar power into electrical energy, and a power supplying unit having a rechargeable battery set disposed in a housing, connected electrically and wiredly to the solar power collecting unit so as to be charged... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20090045771 - Charger stand for electrically heated ice skates: A charger stand for a pair of electrically heated ice skates comprises a pair of channel shaped receptacles for receiving the skates in parallel side by side position with a housing for the charger electronics between the receptacles. A first connector connects to the blade and a second connector at... Agent: Ade & Company Inc.

20090045773 - Wireless charging system for vehicles: A system of energy storage and charging usable in vehicles and other applications that eliminate the battery capacity and automotive range issues is described. In our invention, vehicles are equipped with charging mechanisms to charge and recharge onboard batteries using wireless electricity and power transmission using magnetic resonant coupling between... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090045772 - Wireless power system and proximity effects: A wireless powering and charging system is described. Such a system comprises a radio frequency transmitter (typically a home-appliance sized unit on a desk or a shelf) and a receiver (typically a small mobile unit carried by the user). When the user is in range of the transmitter, charging or... Agent: Law Office Of Scott C Harris Inc

20090045774 - Multiple interfaces for a rechargeable battery pack: A battery pack for powering a portable electronic device is disclosed. The battery pack includes means for connecting the battery pack to the portable electronic device such that a main power terminal of the battery pack engages a main power input port of the portable electronic device. An auxiliary power... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20090045775 - Charging circuit for parallel charging in multiple battery systems: A charging circuit for controlling a system charging parameter provided to a host of rechargeable batteries, wherein the host of batteries includes at least a first battery and second battery that may be coupled in parallel. The charging circuit provides for fast charging of rechargeable batteries in parallel. Independent current... Agent: O2m/gtpp

20090045776 - Power system: A power system comprises: a power unit; a portable electrical tool having a power line, which is electrically connected to the power unit; a power-store device being electrically connected to the power unit; wherein the power unit provides power to the portable electrical tool and the power-store device, the power-store... Agent: Alan D. Kamrath Kamrath & Associates, P.A.

20090045777 - Intelligent battery module for multimedia device: An intelligent battery module for a multimedia device includes a device housing, a battery unit and an intelligent circuit arrangement. The intelligent circuit arrangement is provided within the device housing for electrically communicating a multimedia battery and the battery unit with a battery terminal of the multimedia device, in such... Agent: Hung Hi Law

20090045778 - Method for updating minimum and maximum energy storage values: A battery control system comprises a battery control module, an averaging module, and a supervisor module. The battery control module measures voltages of N energy storage blocks, wherein N is an integer greater than one, and determines a first voltage of the voltages at a first rate. The first voltage... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090045779 - Adjustable cut-off voltage for mobile device battery: A power management system for a mobile electronic device, including a microprocessor for continually monitoring a voltage of a battery within a mobile electronic device, wherein the device can operate in either a standalone mode powered by the battery, or in an externally powered mode, and wherein the battery is... Agent: Soquel Group, LLC

20090045780 - Battery control method for hybrid vehicles: A hybrid control module comprises a vehicle load module and a hybrid battery discharge module. The vehicle load module determines a first power based on power delivered to an accessory power module (APM). The hybrid battery discharge module determines a discharge power based on the first power and selectively controls... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090045781 - Charger for minimal-power consumers: The present invention relates to a charger for minimal-power consumers, such as mobile phones or the like, comprising a plug for connection to a mains supply, a housing for accommodating the charging electronics and a charger cable for connection to the minimal-power consumer, said plug being fixedly connected to one... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090039826 - Solar energy charging/discharging system and charging/discharging method thereof: The invention discloses a solar energy charging/discharging system and a charging/discharging method thereof. The solar energy charging/discharging system according to the invention comprises a solar cell, a super-capacitor, and a switch. The solar cell is used for collecting solar energy and converting the solar energy into electrical energy. The super-capacitor... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090039827 - Solar-powered charger with heat-dissipating surface: A solar-powered charger includes a solar collector configured to generate electrical energy when exposed to light, a connector coupled to the solar collector to provide a pathway for discharging the electrical energy to an external device and a casing comprising a surface configured to dissipate heat.... Agent: David Fowler

20090039828 - Wireless charging of electronic devices: Wireless chargers are provided. The wireless chargers can simultaneously receive and transmit power wirelessly. The wireless chargers can include a rechargeable battery so that the wireless charges can be used portably to charge electronic devices. The wireless chargers can also be programmable so that a user can select a power-transmitting... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090039829 - Mobile phone charger: A charger includes a battery module, a boosting and charging circuit, a low voltage boosting circuit, and a charging interface. The battery module provides an operating voltage for the boosting and charging circuit and the low voltage boosting circuit. When the operating voltage is greater than a reference voltage of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090039830 - Equilibrated charging method for a lithium-ion or lithium-polymer battery: An equilibrated charging method for n cells of a lithium-ion or lithium-polymer battery, connected in series. The method is characterised in carrying out a continuous monitoring of the levels of charge of the different cells (1), from the beginning of the operation of charging the battery (2) and during the... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090039831 - Electrically powered vehicle: A first power storage unit is a battery assembly, and is divided into battery blocks of n (n is a natural number) in number each formed of several electric cells connected together in series. When a state allowing charging with an external power supply is attained, the ECU executes an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090039833 - Battery pack and connection system thereof: In a battery pack (1), control means (3) reads identification information or operating state detection information out of identification information memory means (4) or battery operating state detection means (10) and inputs it to a modulation circuit (5). The modulation circuit (5) modulates the information into an information signal which... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090039832 - Mems based battery monitoring technical field: A battery protection and monitoring system includes a plurality of MAFET (Mechanically Actuated Field Effect Transistor) switches, wherein each MAFET switch among the MAFET switches is capable of switching from an open switch condition to a closed switch condition or vice versa, such that the plurality of MAFET switches are... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20090039834 - Voltage control system and vehicle comprising voltage control system: This voltage control system includes a power supply, an accumulator device which is capable of accumulating and discharging electrical power, a voltage control device which is constituted so as, when the electrical power supplied from the power supply is insufficient, to supplement it by discharging electrical power from the accumulator... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090039835 - Battery short circuit monitoring: A system measures a voltage of a battery of a user device, measures a temperature and an acceleration of the battery if a decrease in battery voltage is measured, and determines whether the battery is functioning properly based on one or more of the measured voltage, temperature, or acceleration of... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090039836 - Apparatus for controlling power generated by on-vehicle generator on the basis of internal status of on-vehicle battery: An apparatus for controlling power generation of a generator mounted on a vehicle, the generator charging a on-vehicle battery, comprising a detecting device that detects information indicating the internal status of the battery that includes temperature of the battery, a power supply circuit that supplies power to the detecting device,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090039837 - Charging apparatus having a switching element for controlling charging power: A charging device that may perform charging with larger current is provided. The charging device comprises a switching element for increasing or decreasing charging power, a PWM controlling circuit for intermittently turning the switching element on and off, a current detecting circuit for detecting current flowing through the switching element,... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090033276 - Battery charger, secondary battery unit and electric apparatus equipped therewith: A mobile telephone has a rechargeable battery, and the rechargeable battery is charged through a battery charger; the battery charger includes an information processing system serving as a charge controller and a battery manager; the battery manager measures a discharging time period of the rechargeable battery so as to store... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090033277 - Battery charging system and mobile and accessory devices: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed at a method and system for recharging batteries for wireless electronic devices. According to one embodiment, a battery charging and monitoring system is disclosed. The system includes a host machine providing a plurality of charging slots and a plurality of wireless devices... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090033278 - Host machines for battery charging system: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed at a method and system for recharging batteries for wireless electronic devices. According to one embodiment, a host machine for recharging rechargeable batteries for wireless devices is disclosed. The host machine includes a plurality of wireless devices coupled to and powered by... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090033280 - Contact-less power supply, contact-less charger systems and method for charging rechargeable battery cell: The present invention relates to a contact-less power supply magnetically coupled to a battery device having a receiving coil therein, for contact-less charging the battery device, the contact-less power supply having a sending coil array including a plurality of sending coils for inducing a charging power to the receiving coil;... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20090033279 - Easy cleaning c-shaped charging base: A charging base has a generally C-shaped housing and a charging element. The generally C-shaped housing has an upper part and a lower part. The upper part has an upper surface substantially parallel to a lower surface and an opening extending from the upper surface to the lower surface. The... Agent: Alcon

20090033281 - Battery power supply: A battery power supply for use with an electronic device, such as a computer, uses a multi-cell battery, and a recharging circuit. Cells of the battery are serially interconnected to produce positive output voltages of 3.6, 4.8 and 12 volts DC and negative voltages of 4.8 and 12 volts DC.... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20090033282 - Voltage adjusting apparatus: For providing a reliable voltage adjusting apparatus in low cost, a low-voltage control apparatus controls a high-voltage power supply circuit to be switched power off by transmitting a power-off signal through a second communication line arranged between the high-voltage power supply circuit and itself through an isolation unit when an... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090033283 - Adjustable battery charger for ups: An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) having an adjustable battery charger that generates a charger current, and a controller, coupled to the adjustable battery charger, that receives a signal representative of a system constraint and provides a reference, based on the signal, to the adjustable battery charger to control an amplitude... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090033284 - Charging device with battery capacity analysis function: The present invention provides a charging device with battery capacity analysis function, wherein a charging device includes a control unit, a computing unit, a display unit, a charging unit and a discharging unit. When the charging unit is connected to and charging a battery, the control unit determines whether the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC Suite 1404

20090033285 - Apparatus for estimating state of charge of rechargeable battery charged by vehicle-mounted power generation apparatus: The apparatus is for estimating a state of charge of a rechargeable battery charged by a vehicle-mounted power generation apparatus capable of generating a variable output voltage. The estimating apparatus includes a detecting function of detecting a charging/discharging current of the rechargeable battery, and an estimating function of making an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090033286 - Cell and supercapacitor battery pack: Described is a battery pack including a housing and at least one cell disposed in the housing to provide power to an electronic device. The battery pack also includes a supercapacitor disposed in the housing to provide additional power to the electronic device.... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP/ Motorola

20090033288 - Charging control device for vehicle: A vehicle 1 includes a battery 3 for discharging electricity to an electric motor 2 for driving the vehicle 1 to run. A charger 10 that is not mounted on the vehicle 1 is provided. The charger 10 can charge the battery 3 with a charging current supplied from a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090033287 - System and method for powering docked portable information handling system: A portable information handling system powered through a docking station charges an internal battery based on available power sensed at the docking station and communicated to a charger of the information handling system. A dock sensor on the information handling system selectively interfaces a local power sensor if the information... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090033289 - Voltage converter with combined buck converter and capacitive voltage divider: A voltage converter including a buck converter and a capacitive voltage divider. The converter includes four capacitors, a switch circuit, an inductor and a controller. A first capacitor is coupled between a reference node and a first output node which develops a first output voltage. A second capacitor is coupled... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090033290 - Apparatus for estimating state of charge of rechargeable battery charged by vehicle-mounted power generation apparatus: The apparatus, which is for estimating a state of charge of a rechargeable battery charged by a vehicle-mounted power generation apparatus capable of generating a variable output voltage, includes a first function of quantifying charging/discharging history of the rechargeable battery, and a second function of performing estimation of a state... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090033291 - Battery charger: A charging signal Vi responding to a charging current is inputted to one input terminal (−) of an operational amplifier 95 forming a comparator and a setting signal Vr corresponding to a setting current value is inputted to the other input terminal (+) of the operational amplifier 95. When the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090033292 - Battery status detecting method and battery status detecting apparatus: A battery status detecting method for detecting a battery status of a secondary battery is disclosed. The method includes: an open circuit voltage correcting step of obtaining a temperature-corrected value of the open circuit voltage of the secondary battery according to the temperature of the secondary battery, based on first... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090033293 - Voltage converter with combined capacitive voltage divider, buck converter and battery charger: A voltage converter including a capacitive voltage divider combined with a buck converter and battery charger. The converter includes four capacitors, a switch circuit, an inductor and a controller. The capacitors form a capacitor loop between an input node and a reference node and include a fly capacitor controlled by... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20090033294 - Vehicle source device: A vehicle source device capable of performing a more accurate temperature-rise corresponding to the ability of the capacitor is provided. The correlation of the temperature and the internal resistance corresponding to the ability of the current capacitor in time of activation is obtained in advance, the internal resistance is obtained... Agent: Ratnerprestia