Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Serially connected batteries or cells – With discharge of cells or batteries
Patent
1995-05-31
1997-11-11
Wong, Peter S.
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Serially connected batteries or cells
With discharge of cells or batteries
320 15, 320 35, H01M 1046, H01M 1044
Patent
active
056868081
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for charging a battery includes a charger main body having a docking station with a docking bed and programmable electronics, which includes an array of programming contacts exposed at the docking bed, and a docking tray mountable on the docking bed. The docking tray has electrical contacts for interconnecting with at least one type and size of battery and an array of contactors connected with the electrical contacts, which contact selected ones of the programming contacts, and include associated circuitry on the tray to program the electronics for charging of the battery. Further, a method provides the steps of using a tray or a bed of the main charger body to engage contactors exposed on the tray with contacts exposed on the bed and connected to the circuitry of the main charger body, determining charging parameters for charging a battery of a particular type and size using charging circuitry in the tray complementary to the circuitry of the main charger body, connecting the battery to be charged to the circuit of the tray, and executing an automatic charging process.
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Law Patrick B.
Wong Peter S.
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