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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2009
Yoshihide Majima, Tokyo, JP;
Keiichi Kitamura, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiko Takeno, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Kanai, Tokyo, JP;
Haruo Uemura, Kumamoto, JP;
Yoshihide Majima, Tokyo, JP;
Keiichi Kitamura, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiko Takeno, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Kanai, Tokyo, JP;
Haruo Uemura, Kumamoto, JP;
Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A battery condition detector configured to detect a micro short circuit of a rechargeable battery is disclosed. The battery condition detector includes a processing part configured to calculate the remaining capacity and the full-charge capacity of a rechargeable batteryand to determine the micro short circuit of the rechargeable batteryby detecting an overcharge of the rechargeable batterybased on a charged capacity charged during the charging of the rechargeable battery, the remaining capacity calculated at a calculation time immediately before the start of the charging, and the full-charge capacity calculated before the start of the charging; and a communications partconfigured to output a signal according to the determination result of the processing part