Method and apparatus for monitoring the condition of charge of a battery connected to an appliance and including counters counted with respect to the time and drain of the battery

US4977393A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Diehl GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Werner Arnold · Plankstadt, DE
• Peter Grundl · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 8, 1989
• Grant date: Dec 11, 1990
• Expiry date: Jun 8, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R31/3648
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and apparatus for monitoring the state or condition of charge of a battery which supplies a plurality of electrical consumption devices in an electronic circuit. A consumption device is operatively connected to a series of counters so that the count condition charges in response to a pulsing rhythmic cycle by one of a plurality of numerical values toward a final count condition, in which the numerical values are specific in relation to the power consumptions of a plurality of electrical consumption devices, and that a signal is generated upon the reaching of a final count condition.