Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Serially connected batteries or cells – With discharge of cells or batteries
Patent
1996-12-10
1997-11-25
Tso, Edward
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Serially connected batteries or cells
With discharge of cells or batteries
320 39, 320 22, 320 32, H01M 700, H01M 1044
Patent
active
056916205
ABSTRACT:
A voltage at the time of full charging of a battery being charged is set to be larger for a lithium ion battery than for a nickel cadmium battery. Charging of the battery is then carried out using a constant current circuit and a fixed voltage circuit. If the item being charged is a lithium ion battery, a current detection circuit detects when the charging current is less than a prescribed value, a control circuit switches off a switch and the charging is halted. If the item being charged is a nickel cadmium battery, a -.DELTA.V detection circuit detects when the terminal voltage for the battery becomes low (-.DELTA.V) and the charging is halted. Different types of batteries of the same shape can therefore be charged in the same charging equipment while damage to the batteries during the charging operation is prevented.
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Akiho Hitoshi
Nagai Tamiji
Sony Corporation
Toatley , Jr. Gregory J.
Tso Edward
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