Electronic apparatus having battery performance discriminating system

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To enable the left using time of a battery to be shown, and enable the battery to be prevented from being misused, by showing the battery a code to show its attribute, and by discriminating the code with a sensor, to use an obtained information and perform arithmetic on. CONSTITUTION:On a battery 13, codes 14 for showing the attributes of a maker, dimension, voltage, capacity and the like are shown. The codes 14 may be directly shown or may be shown with attached labels. In the meantime, so far as an electronic apparatus is concerned, a section for inserting a battery 8 into is provided with a code discriminating sensor 1 for reading the codes 14. Then, the input of an information discriminated with the sensor 1, to a processing section 4 is provided, and necessary arithmetic is performed on. As a result, the left using time of the battery 8 can be computed and shown. Besides, different batteries can be prevented from being mixing-used and batteries can be prevented from being counterinserted into.

Inventors

• 👤 Koji Sakuta
• 👤 Akira Ota
• 👤 Zenichiro Ito

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