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US 5,847,542 AGranted
Circuit for preventing overdischarge of rechargeable battery pack consisting of a plurality of rechargeable batteries
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorMasaki Ichihara
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Abstract
A rechargable battery pack is constituted by not connecting all of the terminals of a plurality of secondary batteries but extracting them outside. A charging circuit is constituted by a dedicated charging circuit which comprises a constant-voltage circuit and a constant-current circuit for each of the rechargable batteries to charge each rechargable battery separately. A discharging circuit comprises, for each of the rechargable batteries, a controller for preventing an overdischarge and a warning portion for warning of an overdischarge.
Claims1
A system for charging rechargeable batteries without overcharging, comprising;
- a battery pack having rechargeable batteries, wherein each of said batteries, within said battery pack, is free of an electrical connection with any other one of said batteries, said batteries each having respective terminals thereof connected to corresponding external terminals of said batter pack;
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- a charging circuit for connecting with said external terminals to connect each of said batteries of said battery pack to a corresponding one of a plurality of dedicated charging circuits, said charging circuit including a power supply circuit for supplying electrical power, each of said plurality of dedicated charging circuits having a respective constant-current circuit connected to said power supply circuit and supplying a constant current to said corresponding one of said rechargeable batteries, and a respective constant-voltage circuit connected to said power supply circuit and supplying a constant voltage to said corresponding one of said rechargeable batteries.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.