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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. 19, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ronald David Brost, Dearborn, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 1/044 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 1/044 ;
Abstract
A replacement battery formation method includes the steps of; providing a bank of batteries made up of a plurality of individual batteries having substantially the same state of formation; cycling a replacement battery by forcing repeated charging and discharging; monitoring a formation state of the replacement battery; ending the cycling when the replacement battery has approximately the same formation state as the plurality of individual batteries; and replacing one of the plurality of batteries with the replacement battery.