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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 06, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jim L Stewart, Leesport, PA (US);
Assignee:
General Battery Corporation, Reading, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
320 45 ; 320 36 ; 320 40 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for charging electric storage batteries comprises a host computer for providing charging information to and receiving status information from a plurality of slave computers. The slave computers are coupled to the host computer by means of a fiber optic data link. A plurality of control modules are coupled to each slave computer. Each control module applies charging current to a plurality of electric storage batteries in response to instructions received from the slave computer. Each control module also sends charging and battery temperature status information back to its respective slave computer.