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Apparatus, method and article for redistributing power storage devices, such as batteries, between collection, charging and distribution machines

  • US 10,345,843 B2
  • Filed: 12/19/2016
  • Issued: 07/09/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of operating a distribution management system for portable electrical energy storage devices, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by a distribution management system for portable electrical energy storage devices, information tracking physical exchanges of portable electrical energy storage devices for charged portable electrical energy storage devices at a plurality of distribution machines for distribution of portable electrical energy storage devices;

    analyzing, by the distribution management system, the information tracking physical exchanges of portable electrical energy storage devices for charged portable electrical energy storage devices to determine a physical redistribution of portable electrical energy storage devices from a first one to a second one of the plurality of distribution machines; and

    sending, by the distribution management system, information initiating the physical redistribution of portable electrical energy storage devices between the first one and the second one of the plurality of distribution machines.

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