Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Serially connected batteries or cells – With discharge of cells or batteries
Patent
1991-07-30
1993-07-20
Stephan, Steven L.
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Serially connected batteries or cells
With discharge of cells or batteries
320 40, H02J 704
Patent
active
052297055
ABSTRACT:
A charging control circuit having a controller including a microcomputer, a charging circuit, detectors for detecting the voltages between the terminals of batteries, and memories for storing charge control data. The controller determines that quick charging is completed when the voltage between the terminals of each battery drops from a peak value to an extent corresponding to a predetermined value stored in the memory, and then terminates the charging operation. During a predetermined period of insensible time immediately after the start of charging stored in the memory, the controller does not detect the voltage to determine whether or not each battery is fully charged, thereby preventing an error in determining a fully charged state of the battery. If a full charge of each battery is not detected while quick charging is continued for a certain period of time stored in the memory, the controller forcibly terminates the quickly charging operation. Desired data is selected from the control data stored in the memories in response to an external signal, and the charge control is optimized according to the number of batteries and other factors.
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patent: 4639655 (1987-01-01), Westhaver et al.
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Nippon Densan Corporation
Peckman Kristine
Stephan Steven L.
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