[Openec] Patented NiMH charging algorithm

[Frieder Ferlemann]

Hi Richard,

Richard A. Smith schrieb:
> Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
>> how can be this algorithm made from zero, or what would be the procedure 
>> to do so, (im guessinfg it would be too complicated)..?
> 
> If its patented is does not matter that you created it from zero.  You 
> are still infringing.  You have to come up with a different algorithm 
> that achieves the same result.  To come up with that algorithm you have 
> to understand a lot about NiMH chemistry.  And even then you might still 
> infringe depending on how similar it works out to be to the patent.
> 

Eventually it would make sense to trace down some papers f.e. here
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
(Search for "nickel metal hydride charging" or "Ni-MH charging")

and then ask one of the authors of the papers (or an author of
a paper that is cited there) whether he could give recommendations.

Unfortunately access to that article database is not free
(seems $30 per paper) although certainly quite a few of the
articles will have received public funding.


James Cameron schrieb:
> Can the long life battery algorithm be placed in user-space rather than
> the EC?  e.g. give directions to the EC.

Now that would be nice!

Greetings,
Frieder