| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 324435000 | Having particular meter scale or indicator | 19 |
| 20090115421 | Battery gauge for trolling motor - Battery Gauge for Trolling Motor is a gauge for measuring the amount of voltage remaining in a boat battery. The preferred embodiment of the invention utilizes a gauge having a scale, a battery level indicator, cables and cable terminals to connect to battery terminals. To use the preferred embodiment of Battery Gauge for Trolling Motor, an individual would attach the cable terminals to the battery terminals of a boat using the securing wingnut. The battery level indicator can then be monitored on the gauge to determine when the battery power is at a critical level. Ideally, the gauge would be placed on the trolling motor, near the boat battery housing or on the dash of the boat. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090267610 | NETWORK DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INDICATING SIGNAL POWER TRANSMITTED AND BATTERY CAPACITANCE OF SAME - A network device includes several modules and a microcontroller for indicating working operations of the network device. The network device is configured for outputting a plurality of indicating control signals based on a detected signal power and a detected battery capacitance of the network device. The network device indicates the signal power and the battery capacitance based on the indicating control signals. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20110050238 | BATTERY CHARGE INDICATOR - The battery charge indicator provides a color-coded battery status indicator system adapted for attachment to or adjacent the battery compartment on a power tool body. The system includes a first member that is adapted for attachment to the surface of the power tool. The front face of the first member is provided with hook and loop fastener material thereon. A second member has a first face fabricated from green-colored hook and loop fastener material and an opposite, second face fabricated from red-colored hook or loop fastener material. Display of the red-colored face indicates that the battery needs recharging. Display of the green-colored face indicates that the battery is charged. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110050239 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MAKING BATTERY VALUE INDEX - According to one embodiment, a method for making a battery value evaluation index, includes applying a predetermined charge/discharge pattern to a predetermined battery, detecting a largest SOC value and a smallest SOC value of the predetermined battery, and setting a width between the largest SOC value and the smallest SOC value as “A”, detecting a charge limit SOC value at which the predetermined battery shows the highest SOC value, detecting a discharge limit SOC value at which the predetermined battery shows the lowest SOC value, and setting a width between the charge limit SOC value and the discharge limit SOC value as “B”, and determining that a life of the predetermined battery has ended in the predetermined charge/discharge pattern when a state of B>A has changed into a state of B≧A. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110109317 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING STATE OF CURRENT CONSUMPTION OF BATTERY IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and apparatus for displaying a state of current consumption of a battery in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes measuring a value of consumed current at a preset period, supplying the measured current value to an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) through an ADC port, confirming battery compensation offset values by the ADC, determining whether values corresponding to the battery compensation offset values are present in a preset table, and if it is determined that the values are present, calculating a battery voltage level compensation value with reference to the table, applying the battery voltage level compensation value to an actual detected voltage, and displaying a remaining amount of the battery according to the compensation value applied voltage. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110298464 | DUAL VOLTAGE BATTERY TESTER - A dual voltage battery tester for testing both 1.5 volt and 9 volt batteries is printed on a thin substrate with a reversible thermo-chromatic material in thermal contact with carbon heating elements. The heating elements use the same carbon resistive ink for bolt voltage ranges and is printed as a single pass. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20120013342 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device with a built-in battery whose residual amount of the electrical energy can be detected accurately. The semiconductor device has a battery, a demodulation circuit, a control circuit which generates a signal having information about the residual amount of the electrical energy stored in the battery, and a transmission medium which displays the residual amount of the electrical energy in accordance with the signal. The demodulation circuit demodulates a signal input from an antenna which requests display of the residual amount of the electrical energy. Based on the demodulated signal, the control circuit starts to generate a signal having information about the residual amount of the electrical energy in the battery. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120098543 | System And Method For Controlling Output Of A Battery Pack - Systems and methods for communicating a state of a battery to a vehicle controller are disclosed. In one example, a battery pack outputs a signal indicative of an amount of capability the battery pack has to source or sink current at present operating conditions. The system and method may improve vehicle drivability and reduce battery pack degradation. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120119749 | CHARGE STATE DETECTION CIRCUIT, BATTERY POWER SUPPLY DEVICE, AND BATTERY INFORMATION MONITORING DEVICE - A charge state detection circuit, which detects a state of charge of a battery block in which are parallel-connected a plurality of series circuits of a secondary battery and a cutoff element which assumes a cutoff state of cutting off the charge/discharge path of the secondary battery and a conducting state different from the cutoff state, the charge state detection circuit comprising: an effective battery number detection portion which detects, as the number of effective batteries, the number of cutoff elements in the conducting state from among the plurality of cutoff elements included in the battery block; a capacity information generation portion which, based on the number of effective batteries, generates capacity information related to actual full charge capacity, which is the actual full charge capacity of the battery block; a total current detection portion, which detects as a total current value a current flowing in the entire battery block; an electricity quantity calculation portion, which calculates, as a stored electricity quantity, an electricity quantity stored in the battery block, by integrating the total current value; and a charge state detection portion, which, based on the capacity information and the stored electricity quantity, detects a state of charge, which is a ratio of the stored electricity quantity to the actual full charge capacity. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120182022 | METHOD OF INDICATING VOLTAGE, VOLTAGE INDICATING APPARATUS, AND BATTERY PACK - One terminal of a switch | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120249153 | Electrical Power Source Battery Tester - An electrical charge detection device for measuring the electrical charge of a dry cell battery comprises electrically conductive arms joined with a rivet pin at their proximal ends with curved tips at their distal ends. The junction formed by the proximal ends has a light source mounted on the planar top surface and is in electrical contact with the pin. The curved tips at the distal ends of the arms are angled to form inward curved prongs that connect with the polar ends of a power source such as a battery. When the arms are squeezed together, one tip contacts the cathode of the battery and the other touches the anode so that any charge in the battery will travel up the arms thereby lighting the bulb. The degree of brightness illuminated by the bulb is indicative of the electrical strength or power remaining therein. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130076366 | BATTERY CAPACITY DISPLAY APPARATUS AND BATTERY CAPACITY DISPLAY METHOD - A battery capacity display method to display a full charge capacity of a battery and a residual capacity of the battery, respectively, as a full charge capacity display value and a residual capacity display value, the battery capacity display method includes: correcting the full charge capacity display value and/or the residual capacity display value so as to decrease a difference between the full charge capacity display value and the residual capacity display value when the battery is in the full charge state and the full charge capacity and the residual capacity in the full charge state are different from each other, and displaying a corrected full charge capacity display value and/or a corrected residual capacity display value. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130127475 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING AND DISPLAYING AVERAGE AUXILIARY POWER IN A VEHICLE - A system and method for calculating and displaying average auxiliary power use in a vehicle is herein provided. The vehicle includes one or more batteries for powering auxiliary electrical devices, an auxiliary battery controller, a display for displaying both instantaneous and average auxiliary power consumption, and an electric motor. A main battery powers the drive motor and supplies power to the auxiliary loads. An auxiliary battery is connected to the main battery via a DC/DC converter and also supplies power to the auxiliary loads. A sensor detects instantaneous auxiliary power usage from each of the auxiliary loads. The instantaneous auxiliary power data from the sensor is averaged to calculate and display the average auxiliary power usage from each of the auxiliary loads. The vehicle operator is able to identify and manage how auxiliary load power consumption affects overall power consumption of both batteries during operation of the vehicle. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130147490 | AMBULATORY INFUSION DEVICE WITH REPLACEABLE ENERGY STORAGE AND METHOD OF MONITORING THE ENERGY STORAGE - An ambulatory infusion device comprising a replaceable energy storage for electrically powering its functional units is presented. Control units provide to a monitoring system data about energy consuming activities or consumed energy by the functional units. Based on this data, the monitoring system determines energy consumed by the functional units and triggers measurement of the voltage of the energy storage at a point in time which depends on the determined energy consumed in a time interval preceding the point in time. Adapting the time of measurement to the actual energy drawn from the energy storage makes it possible to detect reliably and early a low energy state of any conventional standard battery, regardless of its electrochemical design and electrical behavior. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20150028880 | Electronic Apparatus, Method of Controlling Electronic Apparatus, and Storage Medium - An electronic apparatus of an embodiment includes a comparison section which, in the case where a long-life mode of a battery is set, compares a battery detection value with a second low-battery detection value that is higher than a first low-battery detection value. The apparatus further includes a change detection section which detects a change of a power supply. The apparatus further includes a change reflect section which, in the case where it is detected both that the battery detection value is lower than the second low-battery detection value, and that the power supply is changed, changes the low-battery detection value to the second low-battery detection value. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150115971 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, INPUT APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DETECTING REMAINING UTILITY OF BATTERY OF THE SAME - An electronic apparatus, an input apparatus and a method of determining a remaining utility of a battery of the same, the electronic apparatus including: a battery configured to supply power to the electronic apparatus; a first detector configured to receive a voltage value of the battery, to convert the voltage value into a signal, and to output the signal; a second detector configured to detect a decrease in the voltage value of the battery to a reference voltage or lower and to output a detection result; and a controller configured to receive the output values of the first and second detectors, to determine a remaining utility of the battery based on the output values of the first and second detectors, and to determine an abnormal state of the battery based on the output values of the first and second detectors. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20160025812 | BATTERY STATE OF CHARGE INDICATOR WITH AN AUXILIARY CELL - A state of charge indicator may include an indicator with a display threshold and an auxiliary cell having an auxiliary cell voltage. The auxiliary cell may be electrically coupled to the indicator such that when a difference between a main cell voltage of a main cell and the auxiliary cell voltage is less than the display threshold, the indicator is inactive and when the difference between the main cell voltage and the auxiliary cell voltage is greater than or about equal to the display threshold, the indicator is active. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160103188 | METHOD FOR MONITORING THE STATE OF A BATTERY IN A MOTOR VEHICLE - The disclosure relates to a method for monitoring the state of a battery, in which method a battery with an internal short-circuit is identified by an alarm signal of an evaluation unit when the battery current does not fall after the battery has been charged over a long time period, or when the no-load voltage or discharge voltage of the battery drops or rapidly drops after a relatively long charging operation. These two identification methods, which are integrated into two separate algorithms, can be implemented in parallel in an internal short-circuit identification strategy. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160176311 | STATE OF CHARGE INDICATION | 06-23-2016 |
