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US 10,371,327 B2Granted
Rechargeable lighting devices
AssigneeMag Instrument, Inc.
InventorsAnthony Maglica, Benny M Osorio, Stacey H West
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Abstract
A portable rechargeable lighting device uses software in a microcontroller to turn on a charger protection circuit when a charging circuit is activated, to monitor at least one electrical characteristic relative to a rechargeable battery, to control at least one charging parameter of the charging circuit, and to alert a user of a low battery condition before light emitted from the device terminates.
Claims5
A process for operating a portable rechargeable lighting device, comprising the steps of:
- using a battery monitoring circuit to monitor at least one electrical characteristic relative to the at least one rechargeable battery configured within a housing of the portable rechargeable lighting device;
- and
- using software configured within a housing of the portable rechargeable lighting device to turn on a charger protection circuit when a charging circuit is activated.
A process for operating a portable rechargeable lighting device, comprising the steps of:
- using a battery monitoring circuit to monitor at least one electrical characteristic relative to the at least one rechargeable battery configured within a housing of the portable rechargeable lighting device;
- using software configured within the housing to control at least one charging parameter of a charging circuit;
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- using said software to alert a user of the portable rechargeable lighting device to a low battery condition before light emitted from the light source terminates.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.