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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
May. 28, 2010
Ryohei Kagawa, Hachioji, JP;
Ryohei Kagawa, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A battery management system includes a battery attached with an identification ID; and a plurality of chargers for reading the identification ID attached to the battery, the chargers associating the read identification ID with information indicative of an end of charging the battery and sending the information, the chargers charging the battery. The battery management system also includes a management server connected to each of the chargers for receiving the information indicative of the end of charging the battery associated with the identification ID and sent from each of the chargers. The management server cumulatively sums, as the number of chargings, the number of receptions of the information indicative of the end of charging the battery for each identification ID, and the management server associates the identification ID with the cumulatively summed number of chargings and allows the number of chargings to be recorded.