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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110245987 | GRID REGULATION SERVICES FOR ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES BASED ON GRID FREQUENCY Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for charging and discharging an energy storage device connected to an electrical power distribution system. In one exemplary embodiment, a controller monitors electrical characteristics o... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20100207580 | POWER STORAGE SYSTEM It is an object to provide a battery system whose life can be extended. A cell pack having at least one lithium secondary battery that uses a manganese-based cathode material and a control unit that controls charging and discharging of the cell pack are provided, and th... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100204861 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR SECONDARY BATTERY, ELECTRICALLY POWERED VEHICLE HAVING SAME, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SECONDARY BATTERY During use of a secondary battery, a concentration change ratio estimating unit estimates a ratio of change in electrolytic solution concentration based on a charging/discharging current. According to the estimated ratio of change, a concentration estimated value calcul... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100164436 | Control Electronics for Li-ion Batteries A storage voltage of a battery pack is controlled with control electronics. The storage voltage of a battery pack is sensed, and a discharge mechanism is triggered if the storage voltage is within a predetermined range of voltage, to thereby adjust the storage voltage o... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100123436 | OPTIMIZED LITHIUM-ION BATTERY CHARGING A device optimized battery-charging system for extending the useful life of a rechargeable battery. The optimized battery-charging system predicts periods of use and non-use of the device containing the battery and generates a schedule of when to charge the battery so t... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20090251103 | VOLTAGE DETECTING APPARATUS WITH VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR AND BATTERY STATE CONTROL SYSTEM In a voltage detecting apparatus, a voltage controlled oscillator, when an input voltage is applied thereto, outputs a signal with a logical value that is periodically inverted. A detector counts a number of logical inversion of the output signal from the voltage contro... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20080252258 | Charging Method for a Lead-acid Battery A charging method for a lead-acid battery allows the lead-acid battery to finish charging within an hour, and keeps the temperature of the lead-acid battery below 40 C. The charging method comprises three important parts, which are charging period, rest period, and disc... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080036421 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF A battery management system (BMS) manages a battery for a hybrid vehicle including an engine control unit and a motor generator controlled by the engine control unit and connected to a battery including at least one battery pack, each pack including a plurality of batte... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070120534 | Method of measuring intrinsic resistance of battery and apparatus of same The present invention provides a method of measuring an intrinsic resistance of a battery at a low rate discharge and an apparatus of the same. A method of measuring an intrinsic resistance of a battery includes the steps of: measuring periodically a discharge current a... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20060273763 | Battery status monitoring apparatus and method A microcomputer 23 monitors the battery condition by detecting a first deterioration degree caused by increase of an internal resistance of a battery 13 and a second deterioration degree caused by inactivation of an activation material in the battery 13... | 12/07/2006 |
| 20060145665 | Power management circuit and methodology for battery-powered systems A power management system including a battery-powered application, in which an input current is supplied by a source of current that may be a current-constrained source, such as a USB port, to a battery for charging the battery and to an application load. Battery chargi... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060145664 | Method of regenerating lead battery cells and regenerative agent for performing of this method The electrochemical regeneration of lead and alkaline battery cells during which, after the treatment of the battery by some of the regeneration additives on the basis of an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide and after the basic charging, they are alternately or inte... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060113960 | Power management unit for portable electronic equipment A power management unit (40) for a portable electronic apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus is powered by at least a battery (42), and the power management unit is implemented as an integrated circuit. The power management unit (40) may comprise a ... | 06/01/2006 |
| 20060028179 | Abnormal voltage detector apparatus for detecting voltage abnormality in assembled battery An abnormal voltage detector apparatus is provided for an assembled battery including a plurality of battery blocks connected in series to each other. In the abnormal voltage detector apparatus, a detecting part detects whether or not each of the battery blocks is in a ... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050104559 | Method and circuit arrangement for determining the average current consumption of a battery-operated apparatus The average current consumption of an electronic apparatus is determined in that an energy store C is repeatedly charged and discharged across the apparatus 1 between a set upper threshold value Uso and a set lower threshold value Usu during a typical operating s... | 05/19/2005 |
| 20050046391 | Circuit and method of operation for an adaptive charge rate power supply A convenient source of charging power for portable communication devices is an integral power node of a computer data bus, such as a USB (universal serial bus) port. Unfortunately, USB ports have limited power capacity, making them generally incompatible with battery ch... | 03/03/2005 |
| 20050029989 | Battery recharger with timer A battery charger that has a first mode that charges the battery and a second mode that maintains a charge on the battery. The battery charger switches from the first mode to the second mode after expiration of a predetermined period of time. The battery charger prevent... | 02/10/2005 |
