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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for determining battery capacity in portable electronic devices
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Application No.: US16679077Application Date: 2019-11-08
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Publication No.: US11221368B2Publication Date: 2022-01-11
- Inventor: Robert Stuckey , Nageswari Srinivasan
- Applicant: VeriFone, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: VeriFone, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VeriFone, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC
- Main IPC: G01R31/3835
- IPC: G01R31/3835 ; G01R31/36 ; G01R31/389

Abstract:
Systems and methods for determining battery capacity in portable electronic devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for determining battery capacity in a portable electronic device may include: (1) disabling battery charging for the portable electronic device; (2) measuring a voltage and a current across terminals for a battery installed in the portable electronic device; (3) calculating a voltage offset across the battery using an estimate of an internal resistance for the battery by multiplying the current by the estimate of the internal resistance for the battery; (4) calculating an estimate of the open circuit voltage for the battery by subtracting the voltage offset across the battery calculated from the measured voltage; (5) retrieving a battery capacity based on the estimate of the open circuit voltage; (6) quantifying the battery capacity; and (7) displaying the quantified battery capacity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210141025A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING BATTERY CAPACITY IN PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES Public/Granted day:2021-05-13
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