Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110022256 | Door control and charge control for plug-in charge type vehicle - In a vehicle door control system, when a mobile terminal accepts door lock manipulation and a vehicle door control apparatus receives a door lock signal from the mobile terminal, the vehicle door control apparatus determines that a door should be locked and, at time of door locking, transmits the amount of charge of a secondary battery at that time. Then the door is locked. | 01-27-2011 |
20110031929 | Electric supply controller, electric supply system and method for controlling electric supply to charger and vehicle - Chargers are connectable with vehicles. An electric supply controller controls a switching circuit to connect an electric power supply line to one of the chargers. A storage unit of the electric supply controller associates information on a priority to each of the vehicles and stores the associated information therein. When the vehicles are simultaneously connected to different chargers, a control unit of the electric supply controller controls the switching circuit to connect the electric power supply line preferentially to one of the different chargers. The one of the different chargers is connected to one of the vehicles assigned with a highest priority. | 02-10-2011 |
20110057612 | Battery charge state transmission device and external charging system - A communication part of a battery charge state transmission device of a charging device acquires charge state information of each external charge vehicle. A station communication part transmits the charge state information to an information management station device. The charge state information is grouped for transmission so that the number of transmissions, the amount of communication traffic and the cost of communication with the management station device, and the operation load of the management station device are reduced. | 03-10-2011 |
20110057613 | Charge status display apparatus and electric power supply control apparatus - When a user performs a short-press manipulation to A button or B button, a vehicle ID associated with either A button or B button having received the short-press manipulation is specified based on a button-vehicle correspondence table. Charge status information of a battery of a vehicle corresponding to the above associated vehicle ID is acquired from the vehicle. Thereby, the display device displays the acquired charge status information or the electric power supply is started to the battery of the vehicle corresponding to the vehicle ID. | 03-10-2011 |
20120007554 | VEHICULAR CHARGE APPARATUS - A vehicular charge apparatus for externally charging an in-vehicle battery of a vehicle includes a charger. The charger includes an in-charger detection section, which detects a charge needed state of a subject vehicle prior to a charge connection of a charger connector of the charger to an in-vehicle charge inlet of the subject vehicle. In the charge needed state, an electric charge is necessary for the vehicle. When the charge needed state of the subject vehicle is determined, a charger controller of the charger begins a charge preparation operation needed in the charger while transmitting charge information that indicates that the subject vehicle is in the charge needed state via an in-charger communicator to an in-vehicle communicator. When the in-vehicle communicator receives the charge information, a charge preparation section of the subject vehicle begins a charge preparation operation necessary in the subject vehicle. | 01-12-2012 |
20140179164 | CHARGE CABLE DEVICE - A charge cable device includes: a cable having one end detachable from a power source or another charge cable device and an electric power line for supplying electricity to a vehicle from the electric power source or another charge cable device; a charge connector on the other end of the cable detachable from a charge inlet of the vehicle; a cable connector detachable from further another charge cable device to connect between further another charge cable device and the electric power line; and a controller. When the cable connector is not attached to further another charge cable device, the controller controls to supply electricity from the one end of the cable to the charge connector. When the cable connector is attached to further another charge cable device, the controller controls an electric power supply amount of electricity to the charge connector and to further another charge cable device. | 06-26-2014 |
20140253034 | CHARGE SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES - A charging system for batteries on electric vehicles includes: a first distributer providing electricity supplying passages, through which a normal speed charging device charges a part of batteries in parallel in a normal speed charging process; a second distributer providing a selective electricity supplying passage, through which a rapid charging device charges one battery in a rapid charging process; and a controller. The controller includes: a charging order control device controlling the second distributer to switch the selective electricity supplying passage according to a charging order; a secondarily charging device controlling the normal speed charging device to secondarily charge the one battery in the normal speed charging process after the rapid charging process; and an alternative charging device controlling the normal speed charging device to alternatively charge another battery in the normal speed charging process while waiting for the rapid charging process. | 09-11-2014 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080258688 | Battery Charging Systems and Methods with Adjustable Current Limit - Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for charging a battery using a regulator. In one embodiment, the present invention includes an electronic circuit comprising a regulator having an input coupled to a power source for receiving a voltage and a current and an output for providing an output current, an input voltage detection circuit coupled to the power source, and an adjustable current limit circuit for controlling the input or output current of the regulator, wherein input voltage detection circuit monitors the voltage from the power source and the adjustable current limit circuit changes the input or output current of the regulator to optimize the power drawn from power source. | 10-23-2008 |
20080272741 | Systems and methods for detecting power sources - Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for detecting power sources. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of detecting a power source comprising coupling a power source to a portable electronic device, the power source comprising a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage, and at least a first data terminal and a second data terminal, coupling a resistor to the first data terminal a predetermined time period after the power source is coupled to the electronic device, detecting the voltage on the first data terminal and second data terminal, and generating a first signal corresponding to a first power source if the first and second data terminals have the same voltage after said predetermined time period, and generating a second signal corresponding to a second power source if the first and second data terminals have differential voltages after said predetermined time period. | 11-06-2008 |
20090121684 | Systems and Methods for Pulse Charging a Battery - Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for charging a battery. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method comprising determining if a maximum current output of a power source is above a threshold, configuring a regulator coupled to the power source, wherein the regulator is configured in a pass mode if the maximum current output is above the threshold, and wherein the regulator is configured in a regulation mode if the maximum current output is below the threshold, and generating pulses to a battery, wherein an output of the regulator is coupled to the battery when a pulse is being generated, and the output of the regulator is decoupled from the battery when a pulse is not being generated. In other embodiments, the techniques may be embodied in a circuit including a detection circuit and a switching regulator coupled to a battery through a pulse circuit. | 05-14-2009 |
20100328831 | Method and Circuit for Over-Current Protection - In one embodiment the present invention includes an over-current protection method. The method comprises generating a switching signal, starting and stopping a timer, sensing a current through a switch, comparing a response time to a reference time, and generating an over-current alarm signal. The switching signal activates one or more switches in a switching regulator. The timer is started in response to the switch being activated and is stopped in response to the sensed current exceeding a threshold. The response time indicates the time period between the starting and the stopping of the timer. The over-current alarm signal is generated if the response time is less than the reference time. | 12-30-2010 |
20110298426 | Circuits and Methods for Controlling Power in a Battery Operated System - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods of controlling power in battery operated systems. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a switching regulator for boosting voltage on a depleted battery to power up a system. The system may communicate with an external system to increase the current received from the external system. Embodiments of the present invention include circuits for controlling power received from external power sources such as a USB power source. In another embodiment, input-output control techniques are disclosed for controlling the delivery of power to a system or charging a system battery, or both, from an external power source. | 12-08-2011 |
20130286525 | Systems and Methods Providing Current Protection to an Electronic System - A computing device including a power connector to interface with a power source, logic and power components on a current path from the power connector; the power connector providing electrical power to the logic and power components, and an inrush protection circuit on the current path between the power connector and the logic and power components, the inrush protection circuit including: a first power dissipation device and a second power dissipation device arranged in parallel on the current path, a feedback loop to detect an amount of current in the current path and to control the first power dissipation device to operate in a manner to dissipate detected inrush current, and a first time delay network in communication with the second power dissipation device and causing a delay for the second power dissipation device to transition to an on state, wherein during steady state. | 10-31-2013 |
Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130288908 | POLYNUCLEOTIDE CONSTRUCT CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING FAB IN A CELL-FREE TRANSLATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING AND SCREENING FAB USING SAME - The polynucleotide construct of (1) or (2) below is used to perform ribosome display, CIS display and/or mRNA display in order to screen a Fab against an antigen of interest: (1) a polynucleotide construct which monocistronically comprises a ribosome-binding sequence, Fab first chain-coding sequence, linker peptide-coding sequence, Fab second chain-coding sequence and scaffold-coding sequence in this order, and further comprises at its 3′-end a structure necessary for maintaining a complex with the Fab encoded by itself, and (2) a polynucleotide construct which comprises a Fab first chain-expressing cistron and a Fab second chain-expressing cistron each containing a ribosome-binding sequence, a Fab first chain-coding sequence or Fab second chain-coding sequence, and a scaffold-coding sequence in this order, the first Fab-expressing cistron further comprising at its 3′-end a ribosome stall sequence, said Fab second chain-expressing cistron further comprising at its 3′-end a structure necessary for maintaining a complex with the Fab encoded by itself. | 10-31-2013 |
20150057085 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A character provided to a player is actively used in a battle with an enemy character. A game program according to the present invention causes a computer to perform character provision processing of providing a character to a player, the character being selected, based on character information in which a plurality of characters are set, from among the plurality of characters; battle processing of automatically starting a battle with an enemy character, triggered by the provision of the character, and determining win or loss of the battle, the enemy character being an opponent of the provided character; and parameter change processing of changing a predetermined parameter set for the enemy character, using a predetermined parameter set for the provided character, during progress of the battle. | 02-26-2015 |