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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120126750 | METHOD OF CHARGING A BATTERY ARRAY The method of charging a battery array performs constant current, constant voltage charging of a battery array while detecting the voltage of each battery. The battery array is a plurality of series connected batteries. The charge method detects the voltage of each batt... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105004 | CELL VOLTAGE BALANCING CONVERTER A method for cell voltage balancing is disclosed. A plurality of cells is coupled to a plurality of cell interface circuits, and the cell interface circuits are driven with a balancing transformer such that a balancing current flows between the cell interface circuits. ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105005 | BATTERY SECTION/MODULE AUTOMATIC CELL BALANCER REPAIR TOOL A portable cell balancing repair tool for correcting cell-to-cell voltage imbalances. The tool defines a voltage set-point that identifies a desired voltage that the cells will be charged to for the cell-to-cell voltage balancing. The tool selects a cell to be balanced,... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120083948 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MULTIPLE BATTERY PACKS IN A HYBRID OR ELECTRIC VEHICLE A vehicle includes first and second battery packs having respective first and second banks of contactors. The packs are wired in electrical parallel. A propulsion system is driven using electrical power from the packs. A controller determines which pack has the highest ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081075 | BATTERY PACK CAPACITY LEARN ALGORITHM A method that considers battery capacity for providing cell balancing for battery cells in a battery pack. The method includes providing a current state-of-charge for each battery cell in the battery pack for a current time frame and a previous state-of-charge for each ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120038321 | DETECTING MODULE FOR A BATTERY EQUALIZER AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A BATTERY EQUALIZER A detecting module is for detecting a battery equalizer of a power supply device. The detecting module includes a current detecting unit, a drive circuit, and a control circuit. The current detecting unit is to be coupled to the battery equalizer and a battery set of th... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120032641 | BATTERY PACK AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A battery pack and a method of controlling the same is disclosed. The battery pack determines a cell deviation after the battery pack is fully charged or over-discharged, and thus the battery pack can reduce the cell deviation by performing cell balancing.... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120025768 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE HAVING PRECHARGING CIRCUIT FOR CHARGING CAPACITOR A power supply device includes a battery 1, and an output switch 2, and a precharging circuit 3. The battery 1 includes serially-connected cells 10. The output switch 2 is connected to the output side of the battery 1. Th... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019209 | MORE READILY AVAILABLE TRACTION BATTERY The invention relates to a traction battery having at least two serially connected battery modules, each of which has a first battery module pole, a second battery module pole, and at least one inserted series circuit and/or parallel circuit of battery cells. A first te... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013304 | BATTERY CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE, AND BATTERY CONTROL METHOD A battery control apparatus includes: a battery circuit in which a plurality of batteries are connected in series; a plurality of bypass circuits, each of which removes a corresponding battery from the battery circuit; a plurality of switches, each of which switches whe... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110309796 | System and Method for Managing Charge Within a Battery Pack Systems and methods for a managing charge within a battery pack are disclosed. In one example, flyback transformers manage charge in a second current path. The system and method can improve battery efficiency and performance at least during some conditions.... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110298425 | BATTERY CELL MONITORING AND BALANCING CIRCUIT A monitoring circuit for accurately monitoring a voltage level from each of a plurality of battery cells of a battery pack includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) and a processor. The ADC is configured to accept an analog voltage signal from each of the plurality ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298626 | BATTERY SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD A system and method for monitoring the status of a system of battery strings is described. The system includes a current sensor for each of the battery strings, and a controller configured to compare the measured current with criteria to determine whether the battery is... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110291618 | BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A battery management system can include a battery having a plurality of cells, a plurality of devices coupled to the battery, and a control unit coupled to a first device of the devices. The devices can assess the statuses of the cells. The control unit can communicate ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110267005 | Active Charge Balancing Circuit A charge balancing circuit and an energy storage arrangement with a charge balancing circuit are disclosed.... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267006 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL METHOD A secondary battery charging method includes the step of determining whether to perform one of a first charging control method of performing constant current charging and constant voltage charging and a second charging control method of performing only the constant curr... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110254507 | CHARGING DEVICE AND CHARGING METHOD A charging device for charging a first battery cell and a second battery cell comprises a node, a control circuit, a charging circuit and a current-dividing unit. The control circuit is coupled to the charging circuit, the current-dividing unit, and the first and second... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110254502 | FAULT-TOLERANT BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, CIRCUITS AND METHODS A fault tolerant battery management system includes redundancy, with applications including electric vehicles. Portions of its circuitry are constituted in distinct fault domains with control, monitoring, and balancing of cells circuitry fault-effect-isolated from the c... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110248675 | BATTERY VOLTAGE BALANCE APPARATUS AND BATTERY CHARGE APPARATUS In the related art, the measurement error due to the internal resistance of the battery is not considered in the battery balance method, such that the battery balance is not accurate, or the battery balance process is frequently started and stopped. In exemplary embodim... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110248677 | BATTERY VOLTAGE MONITORING DEVICE A battery voltage monitoring device for efficiently equalizing cell voltages of a plurality of battery cells connected in series through a direct charge transfer between mutually distant battery cells. The device includes a charge-transfer circuit configured to perform ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110241622 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CELL BALANCING A method for balancing multiple battery cells which are grouped into multiple battery modules includes: obtaining cell parameters of the battery cells, respectively; calculating an average cell parameter for each of the battery modules according to the cell parameters; ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110234165 | Modular Charging System for Multi-Cell Series-Connected Battery Packs A modular charging system for series-connected battery packs is disclosed. An individual isolated charging module is connected across each cell in the pack. A battery cell and its corresponding charging module form a battery module assembly, a plurality of which are con... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110234162 | SECONDARY BATTERY SYSTEM A secondary battery system that is light in weight and low in cost is provided, which comprises a plurality of secondary batteries connected in series. A plurality of first diodes each has an anode connected to a negative electrode of the corresponding secondary battery... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110227414 | CELL SITE POWER SYSTEM MANAGEMENT, INCLUDING BATTERY CIRCUIT MANAGEMENT Systems, apparatuses, and methods for managing battery circuits in systems such as wireless communications service base stations are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a battery circuit having multiple strings of one or more serially connected batteries. The appar... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110227537 | COMBINED BATTERY CHARGER AND BATTERY EQUALIZER A combined battery charger and battery equalizer for equalizing a first battery bank and charging a second battery bank, respectively includes a buck-boost power converting circuit configured to convert a received electrical voltage into, either a battery equalization v... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110215760 | BALANCING CIRCUIT FOR CHARGE STORAGE ELEMENTS There is disclosed a charge balancing circuit (CBC) and method (10, 20) for balancing charge storage elements (CSE1—1, CSE1—2, CSE2—2) of a charge storage device (CSD). The charge st... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110210700 | BATTERY VOLTAGE MONITORING APPARATUS Each monitor IC in the apparatus obtains operation power from a block including cells that are the objects to be monitored. The monitor IC includes a consumption-current adjusting circuit that adjusts a consumption current used from the operation power to a target value... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110210701 | BATTERY SYSTEM A battery system, which allows adjustment of balance of the voltages among the chargeable batteries while preventing electric loss, includes a plurality of battery modules connected in series, each battery module including a plurality of battery cells in a manner charge... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110204850 | RECHARGEABLE BATTERY CHARGING METHOD, RECHARGEABLE BATTERY CHARGE CONTROLLING DEVICE AND BATTERY PACK If a protection voltage (or setting voltage value) is continuously exceeded for two times (three times) by all of the voltage values of a battery block that are read periodically at a period of 250 ms, it is determined that the voltage of the battery block exceeds the p... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110199051 | BATTERY MONITORING DEVICE There is disclosed a battery monitoring device including a voltage equalization circuit that equalizes cell voltages of a plurality of battery cells being connected in series and forming a battery pack, and a microcomputer that outputs an instruction signal to instruct ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110193525 | BATTERY PACK Provided is a battery pack for a portable computer, which can be charged using a mobile phone charger. The battery pack includes battery cells connected in series, a controller electrically connected to the battery cells to sense voltages of the battery cells, and perfo... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110193526 | BATTERY PACK An analog switch and a battery pack using the same are provided. The analog switch can compensate for temperature dependence of voltages measured from a battery cell before applying the measured voltages to an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. In an embodiment of the a... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187325 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BALANCING A BATTERY PACK A system and method for balancing a battery pack is disclosed. The method includes the step of monitoring voltages for all batteries in the battery pack and if the voltages of any two batteries are out of balance, then, issuing a balancing command to charge the battery ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110187326 | Battery Apparatus, Battery Control Apparatus, and Motor Drive Unit The present invention provides enhanced serial communication reliability in a situation where a plurality of cell controllers and a battery controller are daisy-chained to form a serial communication configuration. While the plurality of cell controllers and the battery... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110175573 | ASSEMBLED BATTERY AND ASSEMBLED BATTERY CONTROL SYSTEM An assembled battery (10) provided by this invention has a plurality of secondary batteries (2) connected in series, and has a first bypass circuit (12) including a Zener diode (6) connected in parallel so that the connection is in the invers... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110173731 | PORTABLE ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCE FOR INCORPORATION WITH AN ARMORED GARMENT An apparatus may be configured to provide electrical power while incorporated in an armored garment. The apparatus may include a plate having a footprint that corresponds to a plate of body armor, a plurality of energy storage cells carried by the power plate, and a por... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110169452 | Battery Cell Tab Monitor A battery cell tab monitoring apparatus includes a conductive element electrically connected between two battery cells. The conductive element is connected to a sensing circuit including a pull-down current source connected to pull current from the conductive element an... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110163720 | System and method for rebalancing a vehicle battery A vehicle may include an electric machine, a battery, a driver interface and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers may be configured to determine whether a battery imbalance condition exists, to cause an alert to be generated via the driver interface if a... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110156649 | BATTERY BALANCING METHOD A battery balancing method for a battery pack is disclosed, wherein the battery pack includes a plurality of rechargeable battery cells. The method categorizes the plurality of battery cells into a first subgroup and a second subgroup. Each battery cell in the first sub... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110156648 | Integrated cell balancing system for multi-cell batteries A cell balancing software program that executes on a computer system embedded inside a multi-cell battery and includes a means to control an external charging system.... | 06/30/2011 |
