Fdk Corporation

Kunihisa Sekiguchi

Yasunari Mizoguchi

Kenji Kitamura

Katsuki Tsuchiya

Hirohito Teraoka

Takashi Kanou

Kazuta Takeno

Kevin Foster

Hiroshi Suzuki

Takashi Kano

Mika Takayanagi

Naoaki Konda

Jinfeng Jia

Asuka Takahashi

When DC power to be supplied from a main power supply device drops and a voltage to be input to a load falls below a predetermined threshold value, a microcomputer controls a switch unit so as to start an ON-operation for supplying the DC power from a sub power supply device to the load, and when the DC power to be supplied from the main power supply device recovers, the microcomputer controls the switch unit so as to start an OFF-operation for restricting the DC power to be supplied from the sub power supply device to the load, restrict supply of the DC power from the sub power supply device to the load so that a voltage to be input to the load does not fall below a predetermined threshold value until a predetermined time has elapsed since start of the OFF-operation, and set supply of the DC power from the sub power supply device to the load to zero after the predetermined time has elapsed.

Power supply system and electricity storage device

Battery charger

A sorting mechanism includes a flap that selects a first path connecting from a battery outlet of a charging section to a battery inlet of a first compartment section as a path to introduce a first battery to the first compartment section in a case of housing the first battery in the first compartment section, and that selects a second path connecting from the battery outlet of the charging section to a battery inlet of a second compartment section as a path to introduce a second battery to the second compartment section in a case of housing the second battery in the second compartment section.

Automatic charger

A charging circuit includes a first power source circuit that supplies charging power to secondary batteries; a switch that controls the supply of the power; and a control device that performs switching control of the switch. The control device detects a voltage difference between the secondary batteries before starting charging; starts a timer and starts serial charging of the secondary batteries; on the condition that the voltage difference before the charging has been equal to or larger than a first threshold, if respective voltage values of the secondary batteries have both become equal to or larger than a second threshold before the timer expires, shortens a remaining time on the timer at that time point; and finishes the serial charging of the secondary batteries at the earlier of a time point when the secondary batteries have both become fully charged, or a time point when the timer has expired.

Charging circuit

A charger includes: a charging circuit which receives an electric power from external equipment and charges a secondary battery; a control device which determines a power supply capability of the external equipment on the basis of the electric power that is supplied to the charging circuit from the external equipment; and a display device that displays the power supply capability of the external equipment, which has been determined by the control device.

Charger

A charger of the present invention includes a charging circuit that allows a secondary battery to be charged, a state-of-charge detection circuit that detects a state of charge of the secondary battery, a pictogram display unit that displays the state of charge of the secondary battery, and a control device that controls the charging circuit and the pictogram display unit on the basis of the state of charge of the secondary battery. The control device determines a kind of electronic apparatus available by the secondary battery in accordance with the state of charge of the secondary battery, and then displays the kind of electronic apparatus available on the pictogram display unit.

Charger for determining kind of electronic apparatus acceptable in accordance with state of charge of secondary battery

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Tokyo, Japan

Kunihisa Sekiguchi