Information recording method and device for battery

• US 20060261960A1
• Filed: 05/18/2006
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Daio, Fumio, Haraguchi, Kazunori
• Application Number:
  US11/435,899
• Publication Number:
  US 20060261960A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.800
• CPC Class Codes: B29B 17/00 Recovery of plastics or other constituents of waste material containing plastics; volume reduction of waste plastics, e.g. by mechanical compacting or melting disposal of solid waste B09B; chemical recovery C08J11/00
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/3468 Batteries, accumulators or fuel cells battery cases B29L2031/7146
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/42 Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance of secondary cells or secondary half-cells H01M10/60 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4221 with battery type recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/425 Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing printed circuits H05K1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/54 Reclaiming serviceable parts of waste accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/50 Methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance, e.g. for maintaining operating temperature constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/5044 Cells or batteries structurally combined with cell condition indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/5066 Type recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/52 Reclaiming serviceable parts of waste cells or batteries , e.g. recycling
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/62 Plastics recycling; Rubber recycling
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/84 Recycling of batteries or fuel cells

Abstract

An insulating plastic seat is provided on a sealing plate of a battery, and an IC tag is attached on the seat, the IC tag carrying information required in production, marketing, and use of battery, and information required for management of battery after it has been used.

Claims

1. A method for recording information for a battery, comprising attaching an IC tag to the battery, the IC tag carrying information required in production, marketing, and use of the battery, and information required for segregation of battery after it has been used.

2. A device for recording information for a battery, comprising a metal-compatible IC tag attached to an outer surface of the battery.

3. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 2, wherein an IC chip constituting the IC tag attached on the battery is configured to draw operating power therefor from the battery.

4. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 3, wherein supplying power from the battery to the IC chip is achieved by providing a power supply circuit that turns on when a radio wave signal is input from a reader/writer.

5. A device for recording information for a battery, comprising an IC tag attached on a seat of an insulating material formed on an outer surface of the battery.

6. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 5, wherein the seat is formed as an extended portion of a gasket which provides insulation between a sealing plate and a positive or negative terminal provided on the sealing plate.

7. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 5, wherein the seat is an insulating plate arranged upon a sealing plate or at a bottom of a battery case.

8. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 5, wherein an IC chip constituting the IC tag attached on the battery is configured to draw operating power therefor from the battery.

9. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 8, wherein supplying power from the battery to the IC chip is achieved by providing a power supply circuit that turns on when a radio wave signal is input from a reader/writer.

10. A device for recording information for a battery, comprising an IC tag arranged in an indentation formed in an outer surface of the battery such that an antenna part of the IC tag is positioned almost flush with the outer surface of the battery.

11. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 10, wherein the IC tag is bonded to an inner surface of an outer label that covers the outer surface of the battery opposite the indentation.

12. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 10, wherein an IC chip constituting the IC tag attached on the battery is configured to draw operating power therefor from the battery.

13. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 12, wherein supplying power from the battery to the IC chip is achieved by providing a power supply circuit that turns on when a radio wave signal is input from a reader/writer.

14. A device for recording information for a battery, comprising an IC tag attached to an insulating plate arranged upon a sealing plate for closing an open end of a battery case that accommodates elements for electromotive force, the insulating plate being separated from the sealing plate a predetermined distance.

15. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 14, wherein an IC chip constituting the IC tag attached on the battery is configured to draw operating power therefor from the battery.

16. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 15, wherein supplying power from the battery to the IC chip is achieved by providing a power supply circuit that turns on when a radio wave signal is input from a reader/writer.

17. A device for recording information for a battery, comprising an IC tag comprising a battery case that serves as a first antenna, a metal film on an insulating plastic outer label covering the battery case, the metal film serving as a second antenna, and an IC chip connected to the first antenna and the second antenna.

18. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 17, wherein an IC chip constituting the IC tag attached on the battery is configured to draw operating power therefor from the battery.

19. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 18, wherein supplying power from the battery to the IC chip is achieved by providing a power supply circuit that turns on when a radio wave signal is input from a reader/writer.

20. A device for recording information for a battery, comprising an IC tag attached to a hollow part in between parallel arranged batteries in a battery pack, wherein a plurality of cylindrical batteries are arranged in parallel and united, at least either end of the batteries in a height direction being covered by an insulating material apart from positive and negative terminals that are exposed.

21. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 20, wherein an IC chip constituting the IC tag attached on the battery is configured to draw operating power therefor from the battery.

22. The device for recording information for a battery according to claim 21, wherein supplying power from the battery to the IC chip is achieved by providing a power supply circuit that turns on when a radio wave signal is input from a reader/writer.