The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Jul. 25, 2000
Filed:
May. 26, 1999
Iwao Shimane, Utsunomiya, JP;
Satoru Adachi, Utsunomiya, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The battery condition such as the voltage of individual batteries for constructing a battery set is intended to be measured by using a simple system. Further, it is also intended to save the electric power consumption. For this purpose, a battery condition-detecting unit is arranged closely with respect to each of the individual batteries for constructing the battery set. Information is transmitted by using an optical signal between the respective battery condition-detecting units and a single transmitting/receiving unit connected to a managing ECU. The battery condition-detecting unit is started up (woken up) on the basis of a request for the detection of the battery condition made by the managing ECU, and it detects the battery condition of the corresponding individual battery. When the detected battery condition is sent to the managing ECU by means of the serial communication with the optical signal, the battery condition-detecting unit is allowed to be in a start-up-waiting state (sleep state).