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Title:
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND POWER SUPPLY MANAGEMENT/CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND POWER SOURCE DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2005032039
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To perform appropriate power supply management/control complying with a load by providing a guideline to control contents in using a fuel cell as a power supply for various kinds of electronic equpment.

A notebook-size personal computer comprises: a hybrid pack 10 serving as the power supply and having a battery 11 as a secondary battery, a battery protection IC 12 controlling the battery 11, the fuel cell 13 having a power generating body generate power by electrochemically reacting given fuel with air and a fuel cell controller 14 for controlling the fuel cell 13; and a computer body 20 having at least a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 21 conducting various processing and consuming power. In the hybrid pack 10, the battery protection IC 12 and the fuel cell controller 14 mutually give and receive, through a bus 30, at least information on remain battery capacity indicative of the remain capacity of the battery 11 and information on a fuel cell state indicative of the state of the fuel cell 13.


Inventors:
NOMOTO KAZUTOSHI
Application Number:
JP2003271572A
Publication Date:
February 03, 2005
Filing Date:
July 07, 2003
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
SONY CORP
International Classes:
G06F1/26; G06F1/28; H01M8/00; H01M8/04; H01M10/42; H01M16/00; H01M10/44; (IPC1-7): G06F1/26; G06F1/28; H01M8/00; H01M8/04
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masaru Sato