<br>that really sucks...i know a little chemistry but not too much to completely understand the chemistry/algorithm integration.<br>so im guessing they study graphs of charge/discharge/temperature<br>and they come out with the coefficients like v10 and so..but anyway thats the problem with patents, and there is not too much we can do. :(
<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard A. Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:richard@laptop.org">richard@laptop.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:<br><br>> stupid questions:<br>><br>> are they using the same general algorithm for the lifepo4 batteries..?<br><br>No. The LFP charging is trival. Its not affected (enough to matter) by
<br>temperature. The discharge/charge voltage cutoffs don't float around<br>like they do in NiMH.<br><br>> how can be this algorithm made from zero, or what would be the procedure<br>> to do so, (im guessinfg it would be too complicated)..?
<br><br>If its patented is does not matter that you created it from zero. You<br>are still infringing. You have to come up with a different algorithm<br>that achieves the same result. To come up with that algorithm you have
<br>to understand a lot about NiMH chemistry. And even then you might still<br>infringe depending on how similar it works out to be to the patent.<br><br>--<br>Richard Smith <<a href="mailto:richard@laptop.org">richard@laptop.org
</a>><br>One Laptop Per Child<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <br>OLPC Colombia<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia
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