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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2003
Atsushi Demachi, Sayama, JP;
Yasuhisa Saito, Sayama, JP;
Toratsugu Kuwahara, Sayama, JP;
Teruyuki Oka, Sayama, JP;
Satoshi Tabuchi, Sayama, JP;
Toshiyuki Kubo, Sayama, JP;
Ken Onuma, Sayama, JP;
Hiroki Tahira, Sayama, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a hybrid power supply device constituted such that a secondary battery ( ) is charged by a fuel battery ( ) and electric power is supplied from the secondary battery ( ) to a load ( ), even when there are variations among residual capacities of individual unit secondary batteries ( ) constituting the secondary battery ( ), the secondary battery ( ) can be charged properly without causing overcharging in each of unit secondary batteries ( ). The fuel battery ( ) is divided into a plurality of unit fuel batteries ( ), each consisting of a predetermined number of cells, and each unit hybrid power supply ( ) is constituted by connecting each unit fuel battery ( ) with each unit secondary battery ( ) through each charging switch ( ) in parallel. The charging switch ( ) is controlled independently for each unit hybrid power supply ( ) on the basis of the residual capacity of each unit secondary battery ( ) to perform charging of the unit secondary battery ( ) by the unit fuel battery ( ).