Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Battery or cell charging – With thermal condition detection
Patent
1998-06-18
2000-08-29
Tso, Edward H.
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Battery or cell charging
With thermal condition detection
320160, H01M 1044, H01M 1046
Patent
active
061113891
ABSTRACT:
In the rapid charging of a Nickel Cadmium (NiCad) battery, the rapid charging is terminated and trickle charging is initiated when any of three conditions is satisfied: a first condition determined by comparing a sensed instantaneous battery voltage with a target voltage; a second condition which is determined by comparing the instantaneous battery temperature with minimum and maximum values; and a third condition determined by comparing an elapsed time of rapid charging with a maximum value. Because battery voltage versus rapid charging time is a function of ambient temperature, the target voltage is determined from an initial measurement of battery temperature, which is assumed to equal the ambient temperature. The target voltage, which is approximately a linearly declining function of ambient temperature, is determined by reading a stored lookup table using the sensed temperature as an index or address.
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Aranovich Gene
Muth Edwin A.
Nall David C.
Spinelli Claudio
Lucent Technologies - Inc.
Tso Edward H.
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