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US 2003/0170529 A1Published application
Battery recycle system
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorRumi Sagawa
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Abstract
A battery recycle system includes a vending machine for vending secondary batteries. The vending machine has therein a telecommunication terminal connected to a server provided in a secondary battery for receiving information of minimum quality of a typical used secondary battery. Upon receiving a used battery from a user, the vending machine supplies a charged battery to the user at a reduced cost corresponding to the quality of the used battery. The used battery is charged and stocked for a next user.
Claims13
A battery recycle system comprising:
- a first server connected to a network and storing information of a minimum quality of a typical used secondary battery;
- and a vending machine including a telecommunication terminal connected to said network to receive said information of minimum quality from said first server, an inspecting device for inspecting a quality of a used secondary battery thrown into said vending machine against said minimum quality to thereby judge said used secondary battery as a reusable battery or a non-reusable battery, a charging device for charging the reusable battery to obtain a charged battery, a storage device for storing the charged battery and new secondary batteries as stored batteries, and a fetching device for fetching one of said stored batteries from said storage device.
A battery recycle system comprising:
- a first server connected to a network and storing information of a minimum quality of a typical used secondary battery;
- and a service shop including a telecommunication terminal connected to said network to receive said information of minimum quality from said first server, an inspecting device for inspecting a quality of a used secondary battery against said minimum quality to thereby judge said used secondary battery as a reusable battery or a non-reusable battery, a charging device for charging the reusable battery to obtain a charged battery, and a storage device for storing the charged battery and new secondary batteries as stored batteries.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.