Electric appliance equipped with redundant battery enabled by the main power supply

Abstract

A system to provide power to a peripheral device is equipped with a primary cell, secondary rechargeable cell, or super capacitor, and a redundant battery which is charged through a power control circuit, the redundant battery in turn charging the primary cell, secondary rechargeable cell, or super capacitor through another power control circuit connected between the redundant battery and the primary cell, secondary rechargeable cell, or supper capacitor. The redundant battery may be located in the peripheral unit, so as to charge the primary cell, secondary rechargeable cell, or super capacitor when the peripheral unit is disconnected from a base unit, and/or in the base unit, so as to charge cells in the peripheral unit when the base unit is disconnected from a main power supply. The peripheral unit may be a wireless mouse, trackball, keyboard, telephone handset, or the like, and the base unit may include a receiver as well as a power supply interface.

1. An electrical device having a cable including a plug/socket assembly, or at least one plug/socket assembly installed onto the electrical device itself, and having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply of a main equipment associated with said electrical device to a primary storage device, wherein said charging circuit includes in order to charge at least one redundant electrical storage device for, said charging circuit receiving power from said main power supply and supplying said power to said primary storage device redundant electrical storage device, and
 wherein said redundant electrical storage device includes a primary cell, secondary cell, or super capacitor. 
 
     
     
       2. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 1 , wherein said power supply is a power cord. 
     
     
       3. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 1 , wherein said power supply is a receiver. 
     
     
       4. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 1 , wherein said power supply is a receiver and power cord. 
     
     
       5. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 1 , wherein said primary storage device is connected to said charging circuit by an interface. 
     
     
       6. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 5 , further comprising at least one power control circuit coupled to the interface to control power from the main power supply. 
     
     
       7. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 5 , wherein said interface comprises a power output interface and a power input interface. 
     
     
       8. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 5 , wherein said at least one redundant electrical storage device is included before the interface and after the interface. 
     
     
       9. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 5 , wherein said primary storage device is in parallel with said redundant electrical storage device. 
     
     
       10. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 9 , further comprising at least one power control circuit in series with said redundant electrical storage device. 
     
     
       11. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 7 , further comprising magnetic contacts to couple the power output interface and the power input interface together. 
     
     
       12. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 7 , further comprising electromagnetic contacts to couple the power output interface and the power input interface together. 
     
     
       13. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 7 , further comprising a polarity-error proofing geometry in conductive contacts between the power output interface and power input interface to couple the power output interface and the power input interface together. 
     
     
       14. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 7 , further comprising a plug/socket assembly to couple the power output interface and the power input interface together. 
     
     
       15. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 7 , further comprising conductive convex-concave contacts to couple the power output interface and the power input interface together. 
     
     
       16. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 7 , further comprising concentric contacts to couple the power output interface and the power input interface together. 
     
     
       17. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 7 , wherein said power input interface is included in a base unit of the electrical device and the power output interface is included in a peripheral device, said base unit and said peripheral device are in a chassis-borne engagement. 
     
     
       18. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 6 , wherein said power control circuit comprises at least one photo-emitting diode and at least one current limiting resistor. 
     
     
       19. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 6 , wherein said power control circuit comprises at least one zener diode. 
     
     
       20. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 19 , wherein said zener diode is in series with at least one resistor. 
     
     
       21. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 6 , wherein said power control circuit comprises a charging state display. 
     
     
       22. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 6 , wherein said power control circuit comprises a reverse isolation diode. 
     
     
       23. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 3 , wherein the receiver circuit comprises solid-state circuitry or electro-mechanical components to convert input by manual operation or audio or video signals into electrical signals. 
     
     
       24. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 2 , wherein the power cord is an interface connection. 
     
     
       25. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 3 , wherein said receiver circuit further comprises a transceiver to receive and transmit signals. 
     
     
       26. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 8 , further comprising a peripheral device which comprises said power input interface, said redundant electrical storage device and said primary storage device, wherein said peripheral device further comprises solid-state circuitry or electro-mechanical components to convert input by manual operation or audio or video signals into electrical signals. 
     
     
       27. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 26 , wherein said peripheral device further comprises a transceiver to receive said electrical signals and transmit R.F., infrared or ultrasonic signals to a transceiver in said receiver circuit. 
     
     
       28. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 6 , wherein the energy storage device is randomly charged by the power control circuit. 
     
     
       29. An electrical device having a charging circuit for supplying power from a main power supply to a primary storage device of  claim 23 , said receiver further comprising a transceiver to receive said electrical signals and transmit R.F., infrared or ultrasonic signals to a transceiver in a peripheral device. 
     
     
       30. An electrical device as claimed in claim 1, further including a battery seat for removably mounting said redundant storage device in said main equipment, a wired peripheral device, or a receiver of a wireless peripheral device. 
     
     
       31. An electrical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said main equipment is selected from the group consisting of a computer, a telephone set, and an electric appliance. 
     
     
       32. An electrical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electrical device is selected from the group consisting of a wired mouse, a wired trackball, a wired keyboard, and a wired telephone set. 
     
     
       33. An electrical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electrical device is selected from the group consisting of a wireless mouse, a wireless trackball, a wireless keyboard, or a wireless telephone set. 
     
     
       34. An electrical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said charging circuit is further arranged to charge a primary electrical storage device of the electrical device. 
     
     
       35. An electrical device as claimed in claim 34, wherein said primary electrical storage device includes various chargeable/dischargeable electrical storage devices such as a primary cell, secondary cell, or super capacitor. 
     
     
       36. An electrical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electrical device is a wired peripheral device further provided with at least one cable having at least one plug/socket assembly or directly provided with at least one plug/socket assembly for external power output or for simultaneously power output and signal transmission, in addition to said cable with a plug/socket assembly for connecting with the main equipment. 
     
     
       37. An electrical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electrical device is a wireless peripheral further provided with at least one cable having at least one plug/socket assembly or directly provided with at least one plug/socket assembly for external power output or for power output and signal transmission, in addition to said cable with a plug/socket assembly. 
     
     
       38. An electrical device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electrical device is a wireless peripheral device capable of wireless transmission, and said wireless transmission is selected from the group consisting of radio frequency, infrared, or ultrasonic transmission.