Electricity: measuring and testing – Electrolyte properties – Using a battery testing device
Patent
1992-07-08
1994-10-18
Strecker, Gerard R.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Electrolyte properties
Using a battery testing device
324433, 324435, 340636, 320 48, H02J 704, G01N 27416, G01R 3136
Patent
active
053572033
ABSTRACT:
A battery detect circuit (32) is connected to the battery with the current input to the battery and extracted from the battery measured with a sense resistor (50) and then converted to charge and discharge pulses with a V/F converter (52). A microcontroller (64) is operable to increment a Nominal Available Charge (NAC) register (180) during a charge operation, and to increment a Discharge Count Register (DCR) (184) during a discharge operation. The NAC register (180) indicates the available charge, which value is output to a display (34). The maximum value to which the NAC value can rise is limited by a value stored in the last measured discharge register (182). This value represents the value stored in the DCR (184) whenever the battery is discharged from an apparent full state to a fully discharged state. This results in a qualified transfer to the LMD register (182) such that no knowledge of the actual battery charge is necessary. The microcontroller (64) is operable to determine the rate of discharge corresponding to the voltage across the sense resistor (50). When the rate of discharge exceeds a predetermined discharge rate, the operation of the microcontroller (64) is partially inhibited. When the rate of discharge falls below the predetermined discharge rate, the microcontroller (64) is again allowed to operate in a normal operating mode. A resistor (61) is switched across the battery (10) by a transistor (59) for a short duration of time after the discharge rate had fallen below the discharge rate threshold voltage.
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Freeman David L.
Landau John E.
Matthews Wallace E.
Benchmarq Microelectronics, Inc.
Do Diep
Strecker Gerard R.
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