Charging method for storage batteries
First Claim
1. Charging method for batteries, in particular for NiCd (nickel cadmium) and NiH (nickel hydride) cells, whereby the batteries are supplied from a charging current source, and wherein:
- a) the current charging source is isolated cyclically from the battery for the purpose of generating charging cycles of a specific duration,b) the rise in charging voltage in consecutive charging cycles is measured in the form of a unit of measurement corresponding to a certain voltage,c) at the beginning of a charging cycle,c1) a first up-down counter (9) is set to a predefined starting counter status (a>
0) and switched to the up mode, whilec2) a second up-down counter (10) is set to the down mode and exhibits a counter status (e) which corresponds to the sum of the value of the predefined starting counter status (a) and the value of units of the voltage increase of the preceding charging cycle,d) the number of units of voltage increase established over a charging cycle is transmitted to the first and second counters (9,
10) as a numerical value,e) at the end of a charging cycle, the differential is established from the counter status (e) of the second counter and the predefined starting counter status (a), ande1) the charging process is terminated if the differential is greater than a certain positive value (m), otherwisee2) the charging process is continued by a single charging cycle, in that process stages c) to e) are repeated in such a way that the second counter is now set to the predefined starting counter status (a) and switched to the up mode, while the first counter is set to the down mode.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a charging method for storage batteries, in particular for NiCd and NiMH cells. According to the invention, the rise in the charging voltage during each of a number of consecutive charging cycles of a specified duration is measured in the form of a unit corresponding to a certain voltage. The number of these units is transmitted in the form of a counting pulse to two up-down counters during the period of the charging cycle, whereby one counter functions in the down mode and is set at the beginning of a charging cycle to a number corresponding to the number of units established in the preceding charging cycle. In the following charging cycle, the roles of the two counters are reversed, so that the up-counter is now set to the down mode and the other counter to the up mode, whereby the latter is set to a Certain starting counting status. At the end of each charging cycle, the final status of the down counter is compared with the specified starting status, from which a switch-off criterion is derived for the charging process. According to the invention, this process enables both positive and negative changes in the dU/dt value of the charging curve to be detected with a high voltage resolution and, at the same time, minimal cost.
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8 Claims
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1. Charging method for batteries, in particular for NiCd (nickel cadmium) and NiH (nickel hydride) cells, whereby the batteries are supplied from a charging current source, and wherein:
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a) the current charging source is isolated cyclically from the battery for the purpose of generating charging cycles of a specific duration, b) the rise in charging voltage in consecutive charging cycles is measured in the form of a unit of measurement corresponding to a certain voltage, c) at the beginning of a charging cycle, c1) a first up-down counter (9) is set to a predefined starting counter status (a>
0) and switched to the up mode, whilec2) a second up-down counter (10) is set to the down mode and exhibits a counter status (e) which corresponds to the sum of the value of the predefined starting counter status (a) and the value of units of the voltage increase of the preceding charging cycle, d) the number of units of voltage increase established over a charging cycle is transmitted to the first and second counters (9,
10) as a numerical value,e) at the end of a charging cycle, the differential is established from the counter status (e) of the second counter and the predefined starting counter status (a), and e1) the charging process is terminated if the differential is greater than a certain positive value (m), otherwise e2) the charging process is continued by a single charging cycle, in that process stages c) to e) are repeated in such a way that the second counter is now set to the predefined starting counter status (a) and switched to the up mode, while the first counter is set to the down mode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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