Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging inventions

20090267560 - Battery pack: The battery pack instead of the size AA battery is loaded in a battery storage of an electronic device. The battery pack includes a battery casing, a plurality of size AAA batteries, a battery holder, a circuit board, and an induction coil electromagnetically connected to a primary coil of a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090267561 - Induction type power supply device: An induction type power supply device includes a power supply base unit having a connection interface connectable, an oscillator circuit for producing an AC signal upon connection of the connection interface to an electric outlet, a driver circuit for amplifying the AC signal and a primary inductor for obtaining a... Agent: Fu Da Tong Technology Co., Ltd.

20090267559 - Mobile electronic equipment and battery charger cradle: Mobile electronic equipment incorporating an induction coil and a battery; and a battery charger cradle for recharging the battery in the mobile electronic equipment. Regarding the charger cradle, a bottom surface of a mounting portion is curved in a U-grooved shape, and a primary coil is incorporated inside the U-grooved... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090267558 - Wireless power charging system: A non-contact power charging system includes a wireless power transmission apparatus 10 for transmitting a power signal from a primary core 14 via a resonant converter 13 by the control of a transmission control unit 12; and a wireless power receiving apparatus 20 for receiving the power signal transmitted from... Agent: Levine & Mandelbaum

20090267564 - Charging cabinet assembly for hand held devices: A charging cabinet for hand held devices comprising a cavity defined by a rear wall, top and bottom parallel walls, and opposing side walls, and a front wall hingeably secured to one of the side walls to form a closure door, there being positioned within the cavity of the cabinet,... Agent: Clifford G. Frayne

20090267563 - Electronic device: An electronic device includes a remote control and a main body. The remote control has two contacting portions. The main body is capable of being controlled by the remote control. The main body has two conductive portions and two power supply terminals for supplying the electrical power to the two... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090267562 - Portable battery charger for multiple electronic devices: The multiple unit portable battery charger disclosed is a portable, rechargeable refueling station for handheld and mobile electronics. The multiple device portable battery charger is capable of providing a full charge to two electronic devices either simultaneously or individually. Additionally, the battery charger can charge the two devices simultaneously up... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC Intellectual Property Department

20090267565 - Method and system for cell equalization with charging sources and shunt regulators: A system and method for charging a rechargeable, or secondary, battery including a series string of cells, includes a topology of charging sources that selectively provides charging current to cells that need to be charged, but avoids overcharging cells that are already charged above a predetermined voltage threshold. Based on... Agent: Patent Docket Department Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090267566 - Car power source apparatus: The car power source apparatus is provided with a series battery array 10 having a plurality of rechargeable batteries 11 connected in series to supply power to an electric motor that drives the car, equalizing circuits 20 that equalize battery 11 electrical characteristics by discharging or charging each battery 11... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090267568 - Current breaking method for rechargeable battery and battery pack using the same: A current breaking method of a rechargeable battery and a battery pack using the same. The current breaking method includes: measuring a current value of a current flowing through a high current path of a rechargeable battery; measuring a duration time of the current flowing through the high current path;... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090267567 - Systems and methods for supplying power to an electronic device: A method which supplies power to an electronic device from a power supply device. The method includes setting a minimum power level of a power supply battery of a power supply device, detecting a current power level of the power supply battery and determining a current supply of the power... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090267569 - 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: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090267570 - Apparatus for providing boot-up capability signals and associated methods: An apparatus for providing a boot-up capability signal for a portable electronic device, the apparatus configured to determine an amount of charge provided to a battery of the device by a charging process, based around one or more powering events, in order to provide for the boot-up capability signal.... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090267571 - Load current dependent reduction of charge battery current: Circuits and methods to charge batteries of a portable device simultaneously with supplying power to the device for its operation, using a power source with limited maximum current, as e.g. an USB port, have been achieved. The system invented relies upon digital control only. No direct sensing of the current... Agent: Saile Ackerman LLC

20090261776 - Portable electronic device: An exemplary portable electronic device includes a main body and a battery therein. The main body has a wind power generating and charging module mounted therein. The wind power generating and charging module includes a wind turbine generator and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured for controlling the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090261777 - Solar panel charging display device and method: A solar panel charging display device comprises: a solar panel capable of transforming solar energy into electrical energy; one storage module connected to the solar panel and storing the electrical energy produced by the solar panel; one measurement module connected to the solar panel and the storage module, and capable... Agent: Kening Li Pinsent Masons LLP

20090261778 - Non-contact charger available of wireless data and power transmission, charging battery-pack and mobile device using non-contact charger: Disclosed is a non-contact charger. The present invention provides a non-contact charger capable of wireless data communication and power supply between a non-contact charger capable of computer UBS communication and a charging battery-pack of a mobile device, using an induced electromotive force, thereby to enable data communication and power supply... Agent: Levine & Mandelbaum

20090261779 - Transmission line directional awareness: Coupling a charging station to a power line segment that is terminated at a first end by a charging terminal includes: sensing a communication signal propagating on the power line and being coupled from multiple taps connected to the power line segment, and determining if the communication signal is propagating... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090261780 - Battery charging device: A battery charging device (100) includes an adapter (10), at least one regulating circuit (30) and an attaching mechanism (40). The adapter is configured for connecting power supplies. The regulating circuit is electronically connected to the adapter, and regulates charging electric potential and charging current. The attaching mechanism is electronically... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090261781 - 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.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090261782 - Electricity storage device: An electric storage device is disclosed, this device can balance voltages across each one of energy storage devices with each other in a short time even if the voltages disperse in a wide range, and also it can reduce needless power consumption. This device includes the energy storage devices and... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090261783 - System and methods to extend the service life of portable devices: A method for extending the service life of a portable device includes monitoring a battery of a portable device; identifying a problem bank; reconfiguring a connection schema for the battery to replace the problem battery bank with at least one spare bank; conditioning or exercising the problem bank; connecting the... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090261784 - Battery recovery system: A battery includes at least one rechargeable battery cell that is operable to store energy. An electronics unit is coupled to the at least one rechargeable battery cell, wherein the electronics unit is operable to control an operating condition of the battery, and wherein the electronics unit is inoperable when... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090261785 - Method for managing a modular power source: Disclosed is a method for management of a modular power source including the steps of setting a first operation threshold, selecting a module 10, retrieving data representative of the operating condition of the module 10, retrieving data representative of the time, storing the newly retrieved data, comparing the newly retrieved... Agent: Schox PLC

20090261786 - Battery charge compensation: A battery charger and method for a rechargeable battery pack which includes various elements in series with the cells to be charged, including but not limited to current control FETs, a fuse, current sense resistor, and internal series impedance of the series connected cells to be charged. The charging current... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090261788 - Discharge apparatus, method of controlling discharge apparatus, and imaging apparatus: A discharge apparatus includes a discharge device having a temperature characteristic in which the impedance of the discharge device in a discharging state decreases as the ambient temperature increases, a capacitor that stores charge for causing the discharge device to discharge, a discharge control device that controls electrical connection and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090261787 - Hybrid battery: A hybrid battery includes a converter, a controller, a power source, and an ultracapacitor configured to be discharged. The converter is operable to receive a control signal and to regulate a current level that is allowed to be drawn from the power source to charge the ultracapacitor in accordance with... Agent: Ormiston & Mckinney, PLLC

20090256520 - Portable notebook computer with selectively exposed solar charging cells: A portable notebook solar charger provides a high-powered power supply, applicable to many PCs throughout the world. Specific embodiments utilize an HCSS Li-ion battery that can charge a notebook, cellular phone, MP3/MP4 players, digital cameras, gaming devices. A discreet selectively openable and closable protective cover protects the solar charging cells... Agent: Matthew E. Burr

20090256521 - Charging control device: A charging control device includes a control unit and a monitoring unit. The control unit performs at least one of controlling charging to a rechargeable battery and monitoring a state of a rechargeable battery, while outputting a state signal which indicates an operation state of the control unit. The monitoring... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090256522 - Electric vehicle battery charging by driving the propulsion shaft: A system and method for charging a battery of an electric vehicle is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention enables an internal motor of an electric vehicle to be backdriven. When the internal motor is backdriven, it operates as an electric generator to produce electric power used to charge... Agent: Lockheed Martin C/o Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090256523 - Vehicle charging system, vehicle charging device and electric vehicle: When a connector portion (4) is coupled, switching dampers (44a, 44b) block a vehicle compartment air intake duct (40a) and a vehicle compartment air discharge duct (40b), respectively. By a blowing fan (12), the air-conditioned air supplied through an air-conditioned air supply conduit (6a) flows through an outside air intake... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090256524 - Method for detecting of battery condition: SOLUTION: The method for detecting the charged state of the battery according to the present invention comprises the steps of: measuring a voltage Vmes of the battery, an electric current Imes thereof and a temperature Tmes thereof, and then inputting such the measured values, as a step S1; judging whether... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090256525 - Power storage apparatus: A power storage apparatus mounted with a plurality of connected power storage modules and capable of charging or discharging an electric power, and in which a housing is partitioned by a partition plate to be divided into a power storage area and a control device area; in the power storage... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090256526 - Apparatus and method for pre-charging in charging/discharging equipment for an energy-storage device: An apparatus includes a switching circuit operable with an arrangement configured to effectuate a charging or discharging of an energy-storage device to a circuit including electrically-parallel condenser. The switching circuit includes a main switch electrically connectable to the condenser, and a control circuit electrically connected in parallel with the main... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090256527 - Ambulatory medical device with electrical isolation from connected peripheral device: Methods and apparatus are provided for electrically isolating an ambulatory medical device for infusing treatment materials into a patient when the medical device is connected to a peripheral device via an active communication cable. In one embodiment, the ambulatory medical device include first circuitry controlling infusion of a medicament to... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20090256528 - Diffusion-limited adaptive battery charging: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that adaptively charges a battery, wherein the battery is a lithium-ion battery which includes a transport-limiting electrode governed by diffusion, an electrolyte separator and a non-transport-limiting electrode. During operation, the system determines a lithium surface concentration at an interface between the... Agent: Pvf -- Apple Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090256529 - Battery charging control circuit: The present disclosure provides a battery charging control circuit. The charging control circuit includes: a constant-current charging unit and a trickle charging unit. The charging control circuit further includes a branch switch, a control unit, and a detection unit. The branch switch is connected between a power source and the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090256530 - Battery charging control circuit: The present invention provides a charging control circuit for a rechargeable battery. The charging control circuit includes: a constant-current charging unit and a trickle charging unit. The charging control circuit further includes a branch switch, a detection switch, a control unit, and a detection unit. The branch switch is connected... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090256531 - Charge injection discharge circuit: Disclosed is a method and circuit for dissipating injected parasitic charge including a circuit stage, a pulse generating circuit and a switch. The circuit stage having an input node and an output node that injects a parasitic charge when switched OFF to the output node. The pulse generating circuit can... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090251098 - Method for extending the time a portable generator powered by a dc battery may operate by recharging the battery at the same time it is being used as a power source: A method for extending the time a battery-operated electrical generator may operate by recharging the battery, at the same time it is being used as a power source, by using a portion of the electrical output to operate an alternator to produce low current and low voltage electrical power to... Agent: Earl Grant, Sr.

20090251099 - Passive over/under voltage control and protection for energy storage devices associated with energy harvesting: Described herein is, for example, a battery or capacitor over voltage (overcharge) and under-voltage protection circuit, that, for example, is adapted to not draw current from the battery or capacitor to be charged unless charge energy is detected and to not charge an energy storage device when an over-charge condition... Agent: Dewey & Leboeuf LLP

20090251097 - Wind power charging devices: A wind power charging device for a portable electric apparatus is provided. The wind power charging device includes a fan, a power transformation device, a switching device, a rechargeable battery, and an output terminal. The fan rotates according to wind power and generates rotation power. The power transformation device transforms... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090251100 - Stackable battery module: A rechargeable battery assembly includes a battery array and a battery controller. The battery array includes a number of batteries, and each battery includes a battery module and an integral module controller. The batteries may be connected in various configurations to form a battery array that is able to provide... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090251101 - Holster for charging pectorally-implanted medical devices: A holster that may be donned for charging a pectorally-implanted implantable medical device (IMD) on the patient's right or left side. The holster includes a torso strap that encircles a patient's torso. The torso strap includes first and second ends and an intermediate portion there between. A shoulder strap is... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.

20090251102 - Planar inductive battery charging system: There is provided a planar inductive battery charging system designed to enable electronic devices to be recharged. The system includes a planar charging module having a charging surface on which a device to be recharged is placed. Within the charging module and parallel to the charging surface is at least... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090251103 - Voltage detecting apparatus with voltage controlled oscillator and battery state control system: In a voltage detecting apparatus, a voltage controlled oscillator, when an input voltage is applied thereto, outputs a signal with a logical value that is periodically inverted. A detector counts a number of logical inversion of the output signal from the voltage controlled oscillator over an interval between edges of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090251104 - Charge/discharge protection circuit, battery pack embedding the charge/discharge protection circuit, electronic apparatus using the battery pack: A charge/discharge protection circuit that protects a secondary battery from overcharge, over-discharge, charge over-current, and discharge over-current is disclosed. The charge/discharge protection circuit includes an overcharge detection circuit, an over-discharge detection circuit, a charge over-current detection circuit, a discharge over-current detection circuit, a charge control FET that is turned off... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090251105 - Temperature controller: A temperature controller is disclosed in the invention, and the temperature controller includes one dry battery, a voltage conversion circuit connected with outputs of the battery and a temperature controller control circuit connected with the voltage conversion circuit. The voltage conversion circuit provides a power supply for the temperature controller... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090251106 - Non-isolated charger with bi-polar inputs: Systems and methods are provided for an uninterruptable power supply having a positive DC bus, a neutral DC bus, and a negative DC bus. The uninterruptible power supply includes a battery charger circuit having an inductor, a first charger output, and a second charger output. A first switch connected to... Agent: Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090251107 - Charging apparatus and recording medium: A charging apparatus includes: a connecting unit; a charging unit; a temperature detecting unit; and an operation inhibiting unit. The connecting unit is electrically connected to a power supply portion installed inside a vehicle. The charging unit supplies at least a part of electric power supplied from the power supply... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090251108 - Portable electronic device and method of adjusting charging current for a rechargeable battery unit thereof: A portable electronic device includes a charging unit coupled to a rechargeable battery, an internal electronic unit, and a temperature sensor for sensing temperature of the internal electronic unit. The charging unit receives an external input power so as to output a charging current for charging the rechargeable battery, and... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP