Patent ID: 7741813
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: H01M,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A computer assisted method to inventory batteries, comprising: detecting battery identification information associated with one or more batteries in a battery string; querying a user as to whether the battery string being inventoried is a first battery string at a location; if a reply is yes, then reading and recording the battery identification information; if the reply is no, then requesting and receiving an identity of the battery string being inventoried; determining a voltage magnitude for each of the one or more batteries in the battery string; aggregating the voltage magnitudes of the one or more batteries in the battery string, if the aggregate of the voltage magnitudes of the one or more batteries does not equal a required voltage then generating a first error message; if the aggregate of the voltage magnitudes of the one or more batteries equals the required voltage then saving the battery identification information; and if the battery string being inventoried has previously been recorded, then generating a second error message.