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US 6,188,202 B1Granted
Battery charging device
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuhiko Yagi, Noboru Sato, Takashi Ishikura
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Abstract
In a battery charging device, an ECU (30) has: an ordinary charge control section (34) adapted to charge a battery (12) in an ordinary charge mode; an under charge control section (36) adapted to charge a battery (12) in an under charge mode; and mode switching controller (38) which switch the output paths of the ordinary charge control section (34) and the under charge control section (36), thereby to select one of the charge modes.
Claims11
A battery charging device comprising:
- first charge control means for charging a battery until the amount of charge of said battery reaches a first charge value which is set with respect to a full charge amount of the said battery and is close to the full charge amount;
- second charge control means for charging said battery until the amount of charge of said battery reaches a second charge value which is set with respect to the full charge amount of said battery and is less than the first charge value;
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- selecting means for selecting a first charge operation using said first charge control means or a second charge operation using said second charge control means.
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