Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Serially connected batteries or cells – With discharge of cells or batteries
Patent
1995-05-22
1996-06-25
Wong, Peter S.
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Serially connected batteries or cells
With discharge of cells or batteries
320 18, 320 56, H01M 1046, H02J 700
Patent
active
055303374
ABSTRACT:
A battery cluster charger has a plurality of charging circuits for charging a plurality of battery packs. When one of the charging circuits suffers a failure and cannot charge a corresponding battery pack, it is replaced with another of the charging circuits to charge the battery pack. The battery cluster charger includes a charging switcher for switching one of the charging circuits to charge the battery packs, a battery connection detector for detecting connections of the battery packs respectively to the charging circuits, and a control circuit responsive to a failure signal and a full-charge signal from each of the charging circuits, for controlling the charging switcher to stop charging one of the battery packs with one of the charging circuits which outputs the failure signal and to charge the battery packs with the other charging circuits until the fully-charge signals are outputted thereby.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3305754 (1967-02-01), Oaks et al.
patent: 3389303 (1968-06-01), Tenenbaum
patent: 3803568 (1974-04-01), Higashide
patent: 3818327 (1974-06-01), Straus
NEC Corporation
Tso Edward
Wong Peter S.
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