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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178227 | Method for detecting battery thermal events via battery pack isolation resistance monitoring A method for detecting cell failure within a battery pack based on variations in the measured electrical isolation resistance of the battery pack is provided. The method includes the steps of monitoring the isolation resistance; determining when the isolation resist... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173287 | Temperature compensated current measuring device and battery pack using the same A battery pack, and more particularly, a temperature compensated current measuring device which can accurately measure an actual current flowing in a circuit of a charging/discharging path in the battery pack. The temperature compensated current measuring device inc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168315 | Method for detecting battery thermal events via battery pack isolation monitoring A method for detecting cell failure within a battery pack based on variations in the measured electrical isolation resistance of the battery pack is provided. The method includes the steps of monitoring the isolation resistance; determining when the isolation resist... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8119270 | Lead acid battery with liquid sensor in lid An object of the invention is to provide a lead acid battery having a liquid surface sensor (3) installed to a liquid surface sensor installation portion (2a) on a top face of a container lid (2), an electronic circuit board (4) co... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7695852 | Manufacturing control method for rechargeable battery IC tags are installed in rechargeable batteries and then information required for manufacturing control of the rechargeable batteries or information required to produce battery packs which use rechargeable batteries is recorded onto the IC tags. Allowing the informa... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7443133 | Fuel cell management system and audio system provided with the management system A management information display unit that is able to form management information for managing the power supply state of fuel cells and displays the management information while allowing the management information to be identified as to which electronic device perta... | 10/28/2008 |
| RE40506 | Battery with strength indicator A battery strength indicating and switch means on a battery which is coupled across the terminals of the battery and which is provided with an indicating means to indicate the strength of the battery and in addition, the battery strength indicating means is also pro... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7359739 | Portable electronics device A portable electronics device comprises an interior space for storing a fuel vessel, and a chassis that includes at least one transparent window opposing the interior space. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7341963 | Non-woven material with barrier skin A non-woven material including first effect fibers, first binder fibers, second binder fibers, and bulking fibers. The non-woven material has a first planar zone with an exterior skin, and a bulking zone. The first planar zone includes a greater concentration of fir... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336037 | Intelligent electrical switching device The present invention, according to a preferred embodiment, is directed to portable electronic devices which operate on exhaustible power sources, for example, batteries. The electronic devices of the present invention comprise at least one signal switch and a micro... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327147 | Device and method for determining characteristic variables for batteries A method for determining characteristic variables for electrical states of an energy storage battery includes subdividing an electrolyte volume of the battery into at least two electrolyte volume components with associated electrolyte balancing areasabd defining at ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321220 | Method for calculating power capability of battery packs using advanced cell model predictive techniques The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for estimating discharge and charge power of battery applications, including battery packs used in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) and Electric Vehicles (EV). One charge/discharge power estimating method inco... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7274294 | Mobile locator system and method A locator system includes a handheld unit for providing an interrogation signal. The handheld unit can be a handheld computer or PDA including an RF module. The interrogation signal is received by an RF tag. The RF tag can include a power source and a memory. The me... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268660 | Low battery indicator A low battery indicating device is disclosed for indicating that a battery has low power. The device includes an indicator having a body movable between a retracted, unactuated position and an extended, actuated position. The indicator is visible when in the actuate... | 09/11/2007 |
| RE39703 | Battery with strength indicator A battery strength indicating and switch means on a battery which is coupled across the terminals of the battery and which is provided with an indicating means to indicate the strength of the battery and in addition, the battery strength indicating means is also pro... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7229938 | Heat and flame shield A heat and fire resistant planar unitary shield formed of heat and flame resistant fibers and voluminous bulking fibers. The shield material has a heat and flame resistant zone with a majority of the heat and flame resistant fibers, and a voluminous bulking zone wit... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7205746 | Battery cover assembly having integrated battery condition monitoring A battery cover assembly having integrated battery condition monitoring for measuring electrical current passing to and from a battery post, including an electrically conductive collar for connecting to a post of a battery, and an electrically conductive terminal fo... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199489 | Battery communication system An uninterrupted power supply (“UPS”) system is disclosed which uses a battery communication system to communicate to a UPS processor information concerning the status of a battery pack in an array of parallel coupled battery packs. The battery packs provide bac... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7163757 | Secondary batteries having a protective circuit A secondary battery with high safety is provided. A heater and a diode are connected in series, and a thermistor is connected in parallel with thus formed series circuit. A fuse is connected in series with thus formed parallel circuit to form a protective circuit, w... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7150936 | Sealed battery and method for manufacturing sealed battery The present invention provides a sealed battery, in which leakage can be detected in reliable manner, a method for manufacturing the sealed battery, and a method for detecting leakage of the sealed battery. The invention provides a sealed battery containing helium, ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7072871 | Fuzzy logic method and apparatus for battery state of health determination A system for determining the state-of-health of batteries has an adaptive component. The system tests a battery by measuring a number of electrochemical parameters and using fuzzy logic to compute a state-of-health for the battery. The fuzzy logic computations are b... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068036 | Lithium/carbon monofluoride (Li/CF) electrochemical cell projection model A model for estimating the discharge profile of a Li/CFx cell is described. The model uses as inputs the load at which the cell is subjected to and the planar surface area to estimate current density. Then, current density is used to estimate cell voltage... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7041400 | Upgradable smart battery pack An upgradable SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) battery pack capable of upgrading a SMART function thereof is provided, including a battery array, a host interface for supplying power to a host and performing a SMART communication therewith, ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7012404 | Battery cover assembly having integrated battery condition monitoring A terminal assembly for measuring electrical current passing to and from a battery post, including an electrically conductive collar for connecting to a post of a battery, and an electrically conductive terminal for receiving a connector of a load. An electrically c... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6979502 | Battery having a housing for electronic circuitry A battery is disclosed that includes a container having a positive terminal and a negative terminal and an electrochemical cell disposed within said container, said cell having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a cell voltage measured across said posit... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6977123 | Battery with strength indicator A battery strength indicating and switch means on a battery which is coupled across the terminals of the battery and which is provided with an indicating means to indicate the strength of the battery and in addition, the battery strength indicating means is also pro... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975096 | Method and apparatus for regulating charging of electrochemical cells A rechargeable electrochemical cell is provided having a pressure-responsive apparatus for determining a charge termination point. In particular, a reversible pressure-responsive switch may be disposed in a rechargeable cell. A sensor determines when the switch has ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6969566 | Battery pack To make a battery pack (2) capable of connection over a communication network for the sake of maintenance of the battery pack (2). The battery pack (2) is provided with a network interface (12) given a unique IP address, which is connecte... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6958954 | Device indicating the state of batteries designed to equip a watch The invention concerns a device for indicating the state of watch batteries. Said device comprises, in combination: a circuit for determining (34) at least a physical characteristic of the cell (10) which varies when it is nearly discharged, a circuit ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955864 | Medical device battery pack with active status indication A system and method provides a status indicator to a battery pack of a medical device. The battery pack includes a power supply capable of being connected to the medical device. The battery pack also includes an indicator to automatically indicate a status of at lea... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954075 | Battery-powered test-configured electronic device with test-contact extensions Battery mounting and testing apparatuses and methods of forming the same are described. In one implementation, a substrate includes a surface area over which a battery terminal housing member is to entirely cover. A conductive first test contact is disposed on the s... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6952084 | Intelligent electrical switching device The present invention, according to a preferred embodiment, is directed to portable electronic devices which operate on exhaustible power sources, for example, batteries. The electronic devices of the present invention comprise at least one signal switch and a micro... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6946224 | Battery mounting and testing method Battery mounting and testing apparatuses and methods of forming the same are described. In one implementation, a substrate includes a surface area over which a battery terminal housing member is to entirely cover. A conductive first test contact is disposed on the s... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6936374 | Battery pack comprising heat-sensitive current blocking element and press portion for pressing the element The battery pack of the invention comprises an outer case, a battery main body disposed within the outer case, and a heat-sensitive current blocking element mounted on the outer surface of the battery main body. On the inner surface of the outer case is provided a p... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6929881 | Connection for joining a current collector to a terminal pin for a primary lithium or secondary lithium ion electrochemical cell A rod-shaped coupler for connecting a current collector to a terminal pin, is described. The coupler is secured to the entire width of the current collector, preferably the cathode in a cell of a case negative design, and is generally aligned along the longitudinal ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6869708 | Means for measuring the liquid level in a reservoir for a fuel cell A small fuel cell (10) powers a portable electronic device (12) and contains a fuel reservoir (14) and a device (16) that measures the amount of liquid fuel (18) that is in the reservoir. The fuel cell operates on hydrogen that is ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6855443 | Electrochemical device A device in accordance with a present invention includes at least one of a stainless steel anode and transition metal oxide cathode. ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6835491 | Battery having a built-in controller A multiple-cell battery having a built-in controller is disclosed that extends the run time of the battery. The controller may extend the run time of the battery, for example, by converting the cell voltage to an output voltage that is greater than a cut-off voltage... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6654228 | Energy storage device having DC voltage converter According to a first embodiment of the present invention, a self-contained portable energy storage device is disclosed that includes a housing having first and second external contact terminals, a high-energy storage capacitor disposed in the housing and ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6586130 | Method and apparatus for determining the state of charge of a lithium-ion battery Computer-assisted methods for determining the state of charge of a specific lithium ion battery, without the need for charging and discharging the battery, by utilizing look-up tables or algorithms which store the relationships of state of charge to open-... | 07/01/2003 |
