Monitoring means for combustion engine electric storage battery means

Patent · Tue Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5785904

Miller, G K; Rautiola, R E; Taylor, R E

Disclosed, in combination, are a combustion engine, an electric storage battery, an electrically powered starter motor for at times driving the engine in order to start the engine, and an electrical system monitor; the electrical system monitor has a first monitoring portion which senses the actual voltage across the battery and a second monitoring portion which monitors the current through the battery; an electrical switch controls associated circuitry and is actuatable into open or closed conditions; whenever the first monitoring portion senses a preselected magnitude of the actual voltage across the battery or the second monitoring portion senses a preselected magnitude of the current flow through the battery, the electrical switch is actuated.

• Assignee: Narton Corporation
• Patent Number(s): US 4488521
• OSTI ID: 5785904
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 12 Dec 1980; Other Information: PAT-APPL-215636
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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