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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1997
Vincent M Byrne, Mesquite, TX (US);
Edward C Fontana, Rockwall, TX (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Battery backed-up power units, and battery disconnect modules and methods of manufacturing the same. One of the battery disconnect modules includes: (1) a contactor having a body, a control input and rigid conductors extending from the body and (2) a control circuit mount, connected to and supported by the rigid conductors, that contains control circuitry that controls the contactor by the control input, the rigid conductors connected to busbars within the battery backed-up power unit to provide a mount for the battery disconnect module and allow said control circuit to monitor a characteristic of a battery within the battery backed-up power unit and control the contactor in response thereto.