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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2006
David H. Leach, Albany, NY (US);
Russel Marvin, Goshen, CT (US);
David H. Leach, Albany, NY (US);
Russel Marvin, Goshen, CT (US);
MTI Microfuel Cells Inc., Albany, NY (US);
Abstract
A power pack system for charging a set of isolated batteries is provided. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, a single fuel cell, a single DC-DC converter and a single system controller device comprises the power-generation side of the power pack. A set of switches is used to connect the power-generation side of the Power pack to one of the isolated batteries in the power pack, thereby recharging that particular battery in the battery power pack set. A battery protection and powerpath control device communicates with the system controller to determine which switches are to be closed depending upon which battery requires recharging. During normal operation the switches will follow the direction from the system controller. If a fault is detected by the battery protection circuit, the protection circuit will take priority and turn off the appropriate switch(es).