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US 10,373,401 B2Granted
Method for controlling information terminal and information terminal
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorShoichi Toya
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Abstract
A method for controlling an information terminal includes: (a) transmitting a signal for unlocking an electric storage device locked in an unusable state to the electric storage device at at least one of a timing after a user's instruction to install a program, in an information terminal, for transmitting history information of a state of the electric storage device to a server device is accepted and a timing after a user's instruction to activate the program in the information terminal is accepted.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- transmitting a signal for unlocking an electric storage device locked in a state unable to discharge to an electric apparatus to the electric storage device at least one of a timing after an operator's instruction to install a program, in an information terminal, for transmitting history information of a state of the electric storage device to a server device is accepted and a timing after an operator's instruction to activate the program in the information terminal is accepted,
- wherein the electric storage device is separable from the electric apparatus to which it is to be mounted and supplies electric power, and separately locked from the electric apparatus,
- wherein the electric storage device is separable from a charging device to which it is to be mounted and from which it is to be charged;
- and
- wherein the electric storage device is locked in the state unable to discharge to the electric apparatus even when the electric storage device is mounted to the electric apparatus.
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An information terminal comprising:
- an acceptor that accepts an operator's instruction to install a program for transmitting history information of a state of an electric storage device to a server device;
- a communicator that communicates with the electric storage device;
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- a controller that transmits a signal for unlocking the electric storage device locked in a state unable to discharge to an electric apparatus to the electric storage device via the communicator at least a timing after the acceptor accepts an operator's instruction to install the program and a timing after the acceptor accepts an operator's instruction to activate the program,
- wherein the electric storage device is separable from the electric apparatus to which it is to be mounted and supplies electric power, and separately locked from the electric apparatus,
- wherein the electric storage device is separable from a charging device to which it is to be mounted and from which it is to be charged-;
- and
- wherein the electric storage device is locked in the state unable to discharge to the electric apparatus even when the electric storage device is mounted to the electric apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.