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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2017
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
John S. Crowe, Durham, NC (US);
Gary D. Cudak, Wake Forest, NC (US);
Jennifer J. Lee-Baron, Morrisville, NC (US);
Nathan J. Peterson, Oxford, NC (US);
Amy L. Rose, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Bryan L. Young, Tualatin, OR (US);
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
An approach is provided that determines that power from at least one battery cell in a multi-battery cell configuration is not required to power the device based on a power requirement of the device. The approach then regulates voltages from the battery cells so that first set of the battery cells is shunted (0 v) and a second set of the battery cells is regulated with the voltage being set to one or more voltage levels to satisfy the power requirement.