VOICE COUNTING OF EACH BATTERY UNDER TEST
First Claim
1. A method for testing a plurality of batteries, comprising:
- connecting an instrument to terminals of a battery under test, wherein said battery under test is one of a number of batteries, and wherein each battery of the number of batteries is associated with an image representative of one of a set of unique, sequential phonemes;
providing a corresponding number of labeled memory locations for holding test results, wherein each labeled memory location is labeled with an image corresponding to one of the images associated with the batteries;
displaying on a display a graphical representation of a labeled memory location corresponding to the battery under test;
testing the battery and recording test results in the labeled memory location shown on the display; and
generating an audible voice prompt for providing information a user may interpret to confirm whether the test results for the battery under test were correctly stored.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for testing batteries uses an audible voice prompt 35, 64 to enunciate the battery label or identifier that will be stored with the battery measurement in memory. Since the battery test technician must pay careful attention to the placement of the probes onto the battery terminal, the use of a voice prompt, rather than a visual prompt, allows the technician to keep his/her eyes on the test probes. If the label enunciated by the voice prompt does not match the label of the battery under test, the label on the tester can be reset to match the battery under test. In particular, a battery tester has a program which displays sequential numbers of battery labels that are stored with each battery'"'"'s measurement data in memory. The sequence of labels corresponds to the sequential numbers marked on batteries in a string, array or matrix.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for testing a plurality of batteries, comprising:
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connecting an instrument to terminals of a battery under test, wherein said battery under test is one of a number of batteries, and wherein each battery of the number of batteries is associated with an image representative of one of a set of unique, sequential phonemes; providing a corresponding number of labeled memory locations for holding test results, wherein each labeled memory location is labeled with an image corresponding to one of the images associated with the batteries; displaying on a display a graphical representation of a labeled memory location corresponding to the battery under test; testing the battery and recording test results in the labeled memory location shown on the display; and generating an audible voice prompt for providing information a user may interpret to confirm whether the test results for the battery under test were correctly stored. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for testing a bank of batteries, comprising:
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connecting a test instrument to a battery in a bank of batteries, wherein each battery in the bank of batteries is associated with a sequential number from a set of sequential numbers; providing a corresponding number of labeled memory locations for holding test results, wherein each labeled memory location is labeled with a sequential number corresponding to the sequential number of a battery in the bank of batteries; displaying a graphical representation of a labeled memory location corresponding to the battery under test; testing the battery and recording test results in the labeled memory location shown on the display; and generating an audible voice prompt for providing information a user may interpret to confirm whether the test results for the battery under test were correctly stored. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An instrument for testing batteries, comprising:
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a controller configured to perform one or more tests on batteries; a memory coupled to the controller, said memory having a plurality of labeled memory locations, wherein each memory location corresponds to a battery identified by a unique phoneme; a display configured to show an image corresponding to the phoneme of a battery under test; a module configured to generate a signal representative of an audible voice prompt to audibly identify the labeled memory location on the display corresponding to the battery under test where test results of the battery under test are stored; and a speaker coupled to the module for generating said audible voice prompt. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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