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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1995
Herbert Meyerdirks, Altdorf, DE;
Walter Pietschmann, Horb-Bittelbronn, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for supplying power to an apparatus (170, 175) with a power-storage device (200) for storing electric power, a first measuring device (310) for measuring a first electrical quantity of the power-storage device (200), a time-determining device (360) for determining the time taken for the first electrical quantity to reach a first level, a second measuring device (320) for measuring a second electrical quantity of the power-storage device (200) and a comparator (330) for comparing the second electrical quantity relative to the determined time with a stored typical time-characteristic of the second electrical quantity. Thereby a method of assessing the lifetime and capacity of the power-storage device (200) is used with as a first step (500) the measurement of a first electrical quantity of the power-storage device (200), as a second step (510) the determination of the time taken for the first electrical quantity to reach a first level, as a third step (520) the measurement of a second electrical quantity of the power-storage device (200), as a fourth step (530) the comparison of the second electrical quantity relative to the determined time with a stored typical time-characteristic of the second electrical quantity and as a fifth step (540) the evaluation of the comparison from the fourth step for an assessment of the lifetime and capacity of the power-storage device (200).