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Increased battery capacity utilizing multiple smart batteries

  • US 6,262,562 B1
  • Filed: 10/26/2000
  • Issued: 07/17/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A data processing system allowing use of multiple smart batteries substantially simultaneously coupled to the same smart bus, said data processing system comprising:

  • circuitry for detecting at least two smart batteries connected to a smart battery bus, wherein said circuitry for detecting includes one or more electrical circuits selected from the group including but not limited to electrical circuits having at least one discrete circuit, electrical circuits having at least one integrated circuit, electrical circuits having at least one application specific integrated circuit, and electrical circuits providing a general purpose computing device configurable by a computer program;

    circuitry for selectively controlling at least one of the at least two smart batteries via isolation of the smart battery bus clock signal, said circuitry for selectively controlling operably coupled to said circuitry for detecting, wherein said circuitry for selectively controlling includes one or more electrical circuits selected from the group including but not limited to electrical circuits having at least one discrete circuit, electrical circuits having at least one integrated circuit, electrical circuits having at least one application specific integrated circuit, and electrical circuits providing a general purpose computing device configurable by a computer program,; and

    at least one of said circuitry for detecting and said circuitry for selectively controlling operably coupled, either directly or through one or more intermedial circuits, to at least one data processing system component selected from the group comprising a processor device, a display device, a memory device, and a communication device.

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