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Battery warning indicator

  • US 3,118,137 A
  • Filed: 07/29/1959
  • Issued: 01/14/1964
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/29/1959
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A BATTERY WARNING INDICATOR COMPRISING;

  • A BATTERY, A VOLTAGE DIVIDER NETWORK CONNECTED ACROSS TERMINALS OF SAID BATTERY, A VOLTAGE BREAKDOWN DEVICE CONNECTED AT ONE END TO ONE TERMINAL OF SAID BATTERY, A VOLTAGE SENSING RESISTOR CONNECTED TO THE OTHER END OF SAID BREAKDOWN DEVICE AND TO AN INTERMEDIATE POINT OF SAID VOLTAGE DIVIDER, A FURTHER RESISTANCE IN SHUNT ACROSS SAID OTHER END OF SAID BREAKDOWN DEVICE AND THE OTHER TERMINAL OF SAID BATTERY, A TRANSISTOR HAVING ITS BASE AND EMITTER BAISED OFF BY SAID VOLTAGE SENSING RESISTOR AT A BATTERY VOLTAGE RENDERING SAID BREAKDOWN DEVICE CONDUCTIVE AND BIASED ON AT A LOWER BATTERY VOLTAGE WHICH RENDERS THE BREAKDOWN DEVICE NON-CONDUCTIVE, INDICATOR MEANS IN CIRCUIT WITH THE COLLECTOR OF SAID TRANSISTOR AND SAID BATTERY TO INDICATE REDUCED BATTERY VOLTAGE.

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