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https://drivepatents.com/patents/949820 · 29 Jul 2015
A power source for vehicles according to the present disclosure includes a secondary battery pack to support power required to start up a vehicle and power required for an electronic device equipped in the vehicle together, and having an operating voltage ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/960867 · 6 May 2015
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for calculating a precharge resistance of a battery pack. The apparatus for calculating a precharge resistance of a battery pack according to the present invention includes: a load resistor configured to be connected...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/961174 · 29 Apr 2015
A method and apparatus for controlling an electric aircraft (200) is presented. An apparatus comprises a controller (210). The controller (210) is configured to identify a state for an electric aircraft (200). The controller (210) is further configured to ...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/962403 · 18 Mar 2015
This invention charges an amount of electric power required for the next trip while extending the life of a power storage device, and enables reliable catenary-less travel to the next power storage device. Provided is a vehicle control system for a vehicle...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/951851 · 18 Mar 2015
An energy harvesting system for an aircraft includes an energy storage device, and an energy harvesting member electrically connected to the energy storage device and mechanically linked to the aircraft. The energy harvesting member is configured and dispo...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/962578 · 4 Mar 2015
An electric vehicle charging apparatus is disclosed. The electric vehicle charging apparatus has a housing having a front cavity, rear cavity, and a separating wall having a common electrical passage, wherein the rear cavity is formed by sidewalls with one...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/962515 · 4 Mar 2015
Provided is a temperature measurement apparatus using a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor. A temperature sensor includes the NTC thermistor and a variable resistor part. A resistance value of the variable resistor part varies between a defa...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/967921 · 29 Oct 2014
Heating of the rectifier component is less likely to occur and an electric storage device is less likely to be in an overcharge state or an overdischarge state. At least a first switch (12A) becomes in a closed state when an assembled battery (11) is not i...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/969275 · 1 Oct 2014
A signal generation circuit (5) generates a pilot signal for communication between a vehicle equipped with a battery device, and a charging cable. The circuit (5) includes a circuit (5A) includes an operational amplifier (OP1) for outputting the pilot sign...
https://drivepatents.com/patents/973311 · 25 Jun 2014
An apparatus for balancing a plurality of cells (31) in a battery includes common bus (50) having a connector for connecting to a common bus of another battery. Each of plurality of balancing circuits (41) has a bidirectional voltage converter (56) connect...