Sony Corporation

Masatsugu Honma

Yoichi Miyajima

Toshio Takeshita

Kazumi Sato

Osamu Nagashima

Kei Tashiro

Yuichiro Nogo

A charging apparatus is provided and is configured to accept temperature information corresponding to a temperature of a secondary battery or a battery pack, supply a charging current to the secondary battery or the battery pack when the temperature is within a set charge temperature range, and interrupt the charging current when the temperature is beyond the set charge temperature range.

Charging apparatus and charging method

A cradle device on which a camera device is mounted can be mounted on a printer device. There is provided a printing system that includes a camera device having an imaging unit and a memory for storing image data photographed by the imaging unit, a cradle device having a camera mounting section mounted in the state that the camera device is electrically connected and a terminal unit or an operating unit that is provided on the back surface and is electrically connected to other electronic devices, and a printer device that has a cradle mounting section mounted in the state that the cradle device is electrically connected and prints image data inputted from the cradle device, wherein the cradle mounting section has a covering portion that covers the terminal unit or the operating unit provided on the back surface of the cradle device.

Printing system having a cradle mounted to a printer and a camera mounted to the cradle

A battery device includes a battery cell, a case housing the battery cell, an antenna, a battery-side communication unit performing wireless communication with an electronic-apparatus side communication unit provided at an electronic apparatus on which the battery device is removably mounted through the antenna, a memory unit storing battery data which is data concerning the battery device and a control unit performing control of the battery-side communication unit, both reading/writing of the battery data with respect to the memory unit or only reading thereof.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masatsugu Honma