Patent ID: 9531200
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: H01M,H02J,Y02E

Claim Text:
1. A battery conditioning apparatus for conditioning a battery, the apparatus including: a pulse generator circuit with a pulsing switch generating a plurality of pulses with a frequency of greater than 1 kHz applied to the battery; a loading circuit with a loading switch configured to be separately and independently actuated from the pulse generator circuit by a processing controller controlling the respective pulsing and loading switches, and configured to load the battery separately and independently while the plurality of pulses from the pulse generator circuit are applied to the battery so that internal inductance of the battery facilitates conditioning; and a battery sensing circuit configured to sense a parameter of the battery and provide that sensed parameter to the processing controller; wherein the processing controller is configured to separately and independently control the pulse generator circuit and loading circuit to concurrently apply the pulses to and load the battery, the applied pulses and load being conditionally applied by the processing controller using the sensed parameter of the battery.