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US 10,763,680 B2Granted
Battery pack and control method of battery pack based on a usage condition
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsShoichi Toya, Yutaka Iwahori
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Abstract
A battery pack includes a battery, a suspension unit that establishes or breaks an electrical connection between the battery and an external device, and a control unit that controls the suspension unit to break the electrical connection between the battery and the external device when a usage state of the battery pack does not satisfy a usage condition.
Claims20
A battery pack comprising:
- a battery;
- a switchover switch that establishes or breaks an electrical connection between the battery and an external device, the external device configured to receive a charge from the battery;
- a connector that physically and electrically connects between the battery pack and the external device and detachably to the external device;
- and
- a processor that controls the switchover switch to break the electrical connection between the battery and the external device when a usage state of the battery pack does not satisfy a usage condition of rental service of the battery pack, such that the external device is unable to receive the charge from the battery in response to a discharge start request from the external device,
- wherein the battery, the switchover switch, and the processor are built in the battery pack,
- wherein the usage condition includes that a due date for updating information, stored in a server, indicating a state of the battery pack does not lapse by transmitting the information from the battery pack to the server or the information indicating the state of the battery pack is transmitted from the battery pack to the server device by the due date for updating the information, and
- wherein the due date for updating information is used as the usage condition.
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A control method of a battery pack, the method comprising:
- controlling a switchover switch to break an electrical connection between a battery of the battery pack and an external device when a usage state of the battery pack does not satisfy a usage condition of rental service of the battery pack, such that the external device is unable to receive the charge from the battery in response to a discharge start request from the external device,
- wherein the battery pack is detachable to the external device via a connector that physically and electrically connects between the battery pack and the external device,
- wherein the battery and the switchover switch are built in the battery pack,
- wherein the usage condition includes that a due date for updating information, stored in a server, indicating a state of the battery pack does not lapse by transmitting the information from the battery pack to the server or the information indicating the state of the battery pack is transmitted from the battery pack to the server device by the due date for updating the information, and
- wherein the due date for updating information is used as the usage condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.