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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1994
Joseph Farley, Villeneuve Loubet, FR;
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a supply battery arrangement having 3 terminals, for example a battery for a video camera recorder. This arrangement permits employing the battery both as an intelligent battery and as a non-intelligent battery capable of operating normally on devices of the standard video camera recorder type and also capable of communicating with a equipment or an intelligent device and displaying the state of charge with no additional terminals. The battery arrangement comprises a negative terminal (24) and a positive terminal (22) for supplying the equipment or the device with a voltage coming from the battery, a universal 'T' terminal (26) operating as a thermal measuring means and a data terminal or a charge control output when it is employed by a computer, a charger or some other intelligent equipment or device.