Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Serially connected batteries or cells – With discharge of cells or batteries
Patent
1991-12-30
1993-05-25
Hickey, R. J.
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Serially connected batteries or cells
With discharge of cells or batteries
320 39, 320 59, 320DIG2, H02J 710
Patent
active
052143694
ABSTRACT:
A battery charger having an input receptacle, and different AC electrical cords pluggable therein for adapting the charger to a variety of different AC distribution systems. Portions of rectified signals are coupled by a triggerable switching device to a battery to be charged. The switching device is triggered only on a negative slope portion of the rectified signal, at a specified rectified signal amplitude, only when a battery is connected to the charger, and when the battery indeed requires charging.
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Hickey R. J.
The Charles Machine Works, Inc.
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