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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2015
Masami Takai, Tokyo, JP;
Masami Takai, Tokyo, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A storage status adjusting circuit includes: n (n is natural number greater than 2) switching units configured to switch between energy accumulation in respective n coils and energy release from the respective n coils to any one of component electric storage devices, which are respectively included in n assembled electric storage devices respectively including a plurality of the component electric storage devices; and n changing units configured to respectively change potential differences between both ends of the n coils; wherein the changing units change, based on the storage statuses of the n assembled electric storage devices, at least any one of the potential differences between both ends of the n coils, when accumulating energy in the n coils.