Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Serially connected batteries or cells – With discharge of cells or batteries
Patent
1983-05-02
1985-03-05
Hickey, R. J.
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Serially connected batteries or cells
With discharge of cells or batteries
320 39, 320 40, H02J 704, H01M 1044
Patent
active
045033781
ABSTRACT:
A source of constant current or constant power supplies charging current to a nickel-zinc battery to produce a generally S-shaped battery voltage waveform. To improve battery life, charging is terminated at the inflection point where the slope of the battery voltage changes from increasing to decreasing.
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Jones Richard A.
Reoch William D.
General Motors Corporation
Hickey R. J.
Navarre Mark A.
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