Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Charging device and charging method for charging a plurality of secondary battery-equipped devices
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Application No.: US14666637Application Date: 2015-03-24
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Publication No.: US09728985B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Kazuyoshi Honda , Yoshikazu Yamaoka , Kensuke Nakura
- Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JP2014-082233 20140411
- Main IPC: H01M10/44
- IPC: H01M10/44 ; H01M10/46 ; H02J7/00

Abstract:
A charging device of an aspect of the present disclosure includes couplers and control circuitry that controls a charging operation. If the number of one or more secondary battery-equipped devices to be charged is smaller than a set number, the control circuitry charges each of the one or more secondary battery-equipped devices to be charged with a continuous current. If the number is greater than or equal to the set number, the control circuitry intermittently repeats charging of each of the one or more secondary battery-equipped devices to be charged with a stopping interval placed between charging operations while selectively and sequentially switching the one or more secondary battery-equipped devices to which a charging current is supplied at the same time, and the control circuitry increases the charging current and shortens an application duration of the charging current per charging with an increase in the number of secondary battery-equipped devices to be charged.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150295433A1 CHARGING DEVICE AND CHARGING METHOD Public/Granted day:2015-10-15
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