Patco Electronics

Patco has developed a new technology for battery management equipment. Heat is the enemy of electronics, interfering with both the life expectancy of electrical elements employed in the battery manager itself, and the sensing of temperature in the battery being managed. Through a proprietary method of control, Patco's engineering group has developed a technique of feeding back control information from the battery management chip to control a primary switching circuit producing the low voltage power for the battery. This approach eliminates much of the heat that would have to be dealt with by conventional approaches.

As of the fall of 1996, Patco Electronics occupies its own 10,000 square foot facility, situated on five acres in Spaceport Center Industrial Park, just outside Kennedy Space Center.