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Unifet Incorporated

Eric Paul Grasshoff

A battery cell balancing system contains a switch mode circuit employing voltage sensors across the cells and current on the balancing legs to enable reliable and efficient cell balancing during battery charge.

Active cell balancing in batteries using switch mode dividers

A battery cell balancing system contains a switch mode circuit employing voltage sensors across the cells, and current sensors on the balancing legs to enable reliable and efficient cell balancing during battery charge.

A method and apparatus for rapidly measuring chemical properties of a solution using a plurality of devices having relatively long thermal time constants selectively coupled to a control means. Current I.sub.d flows through only one device at a time. A timing logic control circuit controls the timing of the drain switch and, if present, the reference switch. The output of the multiplexing circuit is sampled a precise amount of time after each device begins conducting current. The temperature at the sample time is a constant. The characteristics of the solution in which the device is immersed is the only variable in the operation of the device (i.e., I.sub.d, and V.sub.ds are held constant). By sampling the output a predetermined amount of time after the device has been turned on, the temperature rise is controlled. In this way, the effects of temperature rise due to conduction on the device are constant at each sample time and can be neglected, and the characteristics of the solution can be precisely determined without waiting for the temperature to stabilize.

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San Marcos, CA, United States of America

Eric Paul Grasshoff