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US07863855B2 Electronic equipment and power management method for the electronic equipment, and power source unit 有权
电子设备和电源管理方法电子设备和电源单元

  • Patent Title: Electronic equipment and power management method for the electronic equipment, and power source unit
  • Patent Title (中): 电子设备和电源管理方法电子设备和电源单元
  • Application No.: US12611433
    Application Date: 2009-11-03
  • Publication No.: US07863855B2
    Publication Date: 2011-01-04
  • Inventor: Kazutoshi Nomoto
  • Applicant: Kazutoshi Nomoto
  • Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
  • Assignee: Sony Corporation
  • Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
  • Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
  • Agency: K&L Gates LLP
  • Priority: JP2003-271572 20030707
  • Main IPC: H02J7/00
  • IPC: H02J7/00 H01M10/44
Electronic equipment and power management method for the electronic equipment, and power source unit
Abstract:
Electronic equipment and power management method for the power equipment and a power source unit are provided. The present invention provides a guideline associated with control content required to use a fuel cell as a power source in various kinds of electronic equipment, and perform appropriate power management according to loads. A notebook personal computer includes a hybrid pack which has a battery serving as a secondary battery, a battery protection IC for controlling this battery, a fuel cell for causing a predetermine fuel and air to electrochemically react with each other so as to cause a power generating unit to generate power, and a fuel cell controller for controlling this fuel cell, and a computer body at least having a CPU for executing various processes and consuming power. In the hybrid pack, the battery protection IC and the fuel cell controller mutually transfer at least remaining battery power information indicative of the amount of power remaining in the battery and fuel cell status information indicative of a status of the fuel cell, to each other via a bus.
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