Battery checker

• US 3,997,831 A
• Filed: 10/16/1975
• Issued: 12/14/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Hopfner, Clemens
• Primary Examiner(s): Hickey, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US05/623,153
• Time in Patent Office: 425 Days
• Field of Search: 320/13, 320/48, 340/248, 340/249, 317/142 TD, 317/148.5, 307/141, 307/293, 307/10 BP
• US Class Current: 340/636.16
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/36 Arrangements for testing, measuring or monitoring the electrical condition of accumulators or electric batteries, e.g. capacity or state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/48 Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte 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: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery checker for checking the condition of batteries under a simulated load includes a timer that automatically disconnects the load from the batteries a predetermined time after the check has commenced.

Claims

1. A battery checker for use in apparatus having a battery for supplying power to a load, comprising:

1. a battery checking circuit having

a. means for simulating the load on the battery, and

b. means for indicating the condition of the battery under the simulated load;

2. a test switch movable between first and second positions; and

3. timing means coupled to said test switch and responsive to movement of said test switch from said first position to said second position for electrically connecting said load simulating means to the battery and after a predetermined time if said test switch remains in said second position for disconnecting said load simulating means from the battery, said timing means including,

a. an R-C timing circuit having a timing capacitor and a timing resistor connected in series,

b. a voltage sensitive switch having a switching input and an output, said switching input being connected to the connection between said timing capacitor and said timing resistor, and

c. a transistor having a base, an emitter and a collector, the base of said transistor being connected to the output of said voltage sensitive switch, and said test switch being connected to said R-C timing circuit so that when said test switch is in said first position, said timing capacitor is discharged therethrough and when said test switch is in said second position, the battery is electrically connected to said battery checking circuit and said timing means therethrough.--