Electric energy source having safety control device

• US 6,531,789 B1
• Filed: 08/24/2001
• Issued: 03/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Iwap Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Iwei Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chang, I Chang
• Primary Examiner(s): FLEMING, FRITZ M
• Application Number:
  US09/935,544
• Publication Number:
  US 20030038545A1
• Time in Patent Office: 564 Days
• Field of Search: 320/104, 320/105, 307/10.7, 307/150, 307/326-328
• US Class Current: 307/10.7
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0034 using reverse polarity correcting or protecting circuits mechanical means of polarity protection H02J7/0045

Abstract

An electric energy source includes a battery, a positive and a negative booster clamps coupled to the battery for coupling the battery to the vehicle battery, and a device for selectively coupling the battery to the positive and the negative booster clamps when the positive and the negative booster clamps are correctly coupled to the vehicle battery. The battery may supply the energy to the booster clamps when the booster clamps are correctly coupled to the vehicle battery, and will not supply the energy when the clamps are wrongly coupled to the vehicle battery.

Claims

1. An electric energy source for coupling to and for supplying an electric energy to a vehicle battery, said electric energy source comprising:

a) first battery,

b) a positive and a negative booster clamps coupled to said first battery for coupling said first battery to the vehicle battery,

c) a first relay coupled to said first battery for switching off an electric circuit to said first battery before said positive and said negative booster clamps are correctly coupled to the vehicle battery,

d) a second relay coupled between said first relay and said positive booster clamp for being actuated by said first relay to supply an electric energy to said positive booster clasp,

e) a positive voltage detecting circuit including a transistor coupled to said first relay for actuating said first relay when said positive and said negative booster clamps have been detected to be correctly coupled to the vehicle battery,

f) a negative voltage detecting circuit includinging an amplifier coupled to said transistor of said positive voltage detecting circuit, and

g) means for generating a warning signal when said positive and said negative booster clamps have been detected to be wrongly coupled to the vehicle battery.

2. The electric energy source according to claim 1, wherein said selectively coupling means includes a primary switch coupled between said first battery and said positive booster clamp for switching off an electric circuit between said first battery and said positive booster clamp before said positive and said negative booster clamps are correctly coupled to the vehicle battery.

3. The electric energy source according to claim 1 further comprising means for indicating an actuation of said first relay.

4. The electric energy source according to claim 1, wherein said transistor includes a collector coupled to said first relay, and includes a base coupled to said amplifier of said negative voltage detecting circuit.

5. The electric energy source according to claim 1, wherein said amplifier includes an opposite phase input coupled to said transistor.