Automatic charger
AssigneeFdk Corporation
InventorsTakashi Kanou, Kenji Kitamura, Yasunari Mizoguchi, Kunihisa Sekiguchi
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Abstract
A sorting mechanism includes a flap that selects a first path connecting from a battery outlet of a charging section to a battery inlet of a first compartment section as a path to introduce a first battery to the first compartment section in a case of housing the first battery in the first compartment section, and that selects a second path connecting from the battery outlet of the charging section to a battery inlet of a second compartment section as a path to introduce a second battery to the second compartment section in a case of housing the second battery in the second compartment section.
Claims7
An automatic charger comprising:
- a battery throwing section into which a plurality of batteries are thrown;
- a charging section that executes a charging operation to the plurality of batteries thrown into the battery throwing section;
- a detecting section that detects a state of each of the plurality of batteries that are targets of the charging operation by the charging section;
- a processing unit that distinguishes, among the plurality of batteries, between a first battery satisfying predetermined charging properties, and a second battery other than the first battery, based on a detection result of each of the plurality of batteries by the detecting section;
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- a battery compartment including a first compartment section that houses the first battery, a second compartment section that houses the second battery, and a sorting mechanism that introduces the first battery to the first compartment section, and introduces the second battery to the second compartment section, in accordance with a distinguishing result of each of the plurality of batteries in the processing unit,
- wherein the sorting mechanism includes a flap that selects a first path connecting from a battery outlet of the charging section to a battery inlet of the first compartment section as a path to introduce the first battery to the first compartment section in order to house the first battery in the first compartment section, and that selects a second path connecting from the battery outlet of the charging section to a battery inlet of the second compartment section as a path to introduce the second battery to the second compartment section in order to house the second battery in the second compartment section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.