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US 6,940,254 B2Granted
Trade-in battery system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMasayuki Nagamine, Masayoshi Kanno, Shunichi Fujishima
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Abstract
A trade-in battery system for purchasing used secondary batteries and selling the charged used secondary batteries, wherein the trade-in battery system comprises a purchasing step, a pre-storage deterioration inspection step, a charging step, a storage step, a packaging step, and a selling step.
Claims14
A trade-in battery system wherein used secondary batteries are purchased and sold after being charged, comprising:
- a purchasing step for purchasing used secondary batteries;
- a pre-storage deterioration inspection step for inspecting said purchased used secondary batteries;
- a charging step for charging said inspected used secondary batteries;
- a storage step for storing said charged used secondary batteries;
- a packaging step for packaging said stored used secondary batteries;
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- a selling step for selling said packaged used secondary batteries.
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A trade-in battery system apparatus, wherein:
- a purchasing step for purchasing used secondary batteries;
- a pre-storage deterioration inspection step for inspecting said purchased used secondary batteries;
- a charging step for charging said inspected used secondary batteries;
- a storage step for storing said charged used secondary batteries;
- a packaging step for packaging said stored used secondary batteries;
- a selling step for selling said packaged used secondary batteries to provide a packaged and charged secondary batteries in an outlet are automatically conducted after used secondary batteries are put in an inlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.