149results about "Battery overvoltage protection" patented technology

A control switch incorporating a 1:2 demultiplexer is used to control timing for a concurrent switching, break-before-make and make-before-break power multiplexing, and is configurable to link a plurality of the control switches into a control chain to perform sequential charging, sequential discharging, parallel charging, parallel discharging, and concurrent sequential charging and discharging for a plurality of batteries coupled to the control chain in a power system.

A pre-charging circuit for charging a DC-link capacitor is provided. The pre-charging circuit may include a first semiconductor switch to be coupled to a first terminal of a high voltage source, a first inductor to be coupled to the first semiconductor switch and a first terminal of a capacitor, a second semiconductor switch to be coupled to a second terminal of the high voltage source, a second inductor to be coupled to the second semiconductor switch and a second terminal of the capacitor, and a diode coupled to the first semiconductor switch, the second semiconductor switch, the first inductor, and the second inductor, and coupled in parallel with the capacitor.

An energy storage system comprises a set of swappable battery modules positioned in battery slots with a battery module being controlled by a control switch. The control switches are linkable to form a charging control chain and / or a discharging control chain respectively to control sequential charging / discharging, parallel charging / discharging, and segmented charging / discharging among the set of battery modules in the energy storage system. Methods to detect defective battery module in a battery slot are also presented. The energy storage system can be configured in an AC power distribution environment, a DC power distribution environment, or in an EV. The energy storage system is scalable, automatically reconfigurable and accepts AC power and regenerated DC power.

The charging and / or discharging of a set of swappable battery modules in a battery system is carried out automatically using a set of charging and / or discharging control switches linked in a sequential charging and / or a discharging control chain. The charging and discharging of the set of battery modules can be done sequentially or in parallel, and is hardware-based with minimal software / firmware involvement. The system is scalable and automatically reconfigurable for use in an infrastructure and / or in an electric vehicle. The swappable battery modules may be positioned in the battery slots or butted together in the battery system.

The charging and / or discharging of a set of swappable battery modules in a battery system is carried out automatically using a set of charging and / or discharging control switches linked in a sequential charging and / or a discharging control chain. The charging and discharging of the set of battery modules can be done sequentially or in parallel, and is hardware-based with minimal software / firmware involvement. The system is scalable and automatically reconfigurable for use in an infrastructure and / or in an electric vehicle. The swappable battery modules may be positioned in the battery slots or butted together in the battery system.

There is provided a system including a plurality of switching units connected in parallel to a bus to which a power generation unit and a load are connected, each of the plurality of switching units switching ON / OFF of a connection of a battery pack to the bus; a plurality of battery packs individually connected to each of the plurality of switching units, each of the plurality of battery packs being identical to the battery pack; and a management unit which manages the plurality of switching units such that the plurality of battery packs are alternately discharged so that a discharging rate of each of the plurality of battery packs is increased compared to when all of the plurality of battery packs are discharged.

A control switch incorporating a 1:2 demultiplexer is used in controlling timing for concurrent switching, break-before-make and make-before-break power multiplexing, and is configurable to link a plurality of the control switches into a control chain to perform sequential charging, sequential discharging, parallel charging, parallel discharging, simultaneous sequential charging and discharging for a plurality of batteries coupled to the control chain in a power system.

A wireless power transmitter that transmits power to a wireless power receiver, the wireless power transmitter including a communication unit configured to communicate with the wireless power receiver; and a controller, wherein the communication unit receives a plurality of packets including a foreign object detection (FOD) status packet from the wireless power receiver, wherein the controller determines whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter on the basis of the FOD status packet, wherein the communication unit transmits, to the wireless power receiver, a response signal indicating whether the foreign object is present in the charging area of the wireless power transmitter on the basis of a result of the determination, wherein the response signal is determined using a measured peak frequency of a power signal transmitted by the wireless power transmitter and a reference peak frequency included in the FOD status packet received from the wireless power receiver, and wherein the plurality of packets further include at least one of a signal strength packet, an end power transfer packet, a power control hold-off packet, a configuration packet, an identification packet for transmitting receiver identification information, an extended identification packet, a general request packet, a special request packet, a control error packet, a renegotiation packet, a 24-bit received power packet, an eight-bit received power packet, and a charging status packet.

An electrical power distribution system includes a first power bus operating in a first voltage range and a second power bus operating in the first voltage range. A first eFuse circuit selectively couples a power source to the first power bus. A second eFuse circuit selectively couples the power source to the second power bus. A first accumulator is coupled to a first node between the first eFuse circuit and the first power bus. A second accumulator is electrically coupled to a second node between the second eFuse circuit and the second power bus. The first eFuse circuit opens in response to a first electrical fault at the first power bus, and the second power bus is powered with the power source or the first accumulator. The second eFuse circuit opens in response to a second electrical fault at the second power bus, and the first power bus is powered with the power source or the first accumulator.

A wireless power receiver that receives power from a wireless power transmitter, the wireless power receiver including a communication unit configured to communicate with the wireless power transmitter; and a main controller, wherein the main controller generates a plurality of packets including a foreign object detection (FOD) status packet, wherein the communication unit transmits the FOD status packet to the wireless power transmitter, and the communication unit receives, from the wireless power transmitter, a response signal indicating whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter, wherein the response signal is determined using a measured peak frequency of a power signal transmitted by the wireless power transmitter and a reference peak frequency included in the FOD status packet received from the wireless power receiver, and wherein the plurality of packets further include at least one of a signal strength packet, an end power transfer packet, a power control hold-off packet, a configuration packet, an identification packet for transmitting receiver identification information, an extended identification packet, a general request packet, a special request packet, a control error packet, a renegotiation packet, a 24-bit received power packet, an eight-bit received power packet, and a charging status packet.

Example implementations include a method, apparatus and integrated circuit (IC) for active pre-charging a battery system. The IC may include a pre-charging controller configured to manage pre-charging of a capacitive load. The IC may include a programmable current control module configured to maintain constant charging current based on one or more parameters from the pre-charging controller. The IC may include a smart gate driver configured to drive one or more high voltage field-effect transistors (FETs) based on one or more control signals from the pre-charging controller. The IC may include a boundary mode controller configured to configure inductor current to maintain constant charging current. The IC may include a safety monitoring module configured to detect an overvoltage or undervoltage state based on system voltage monitoring. The IC may include a timing module configured to indicate a charge completion following a defined charge time.

A method of transmitting power by a wireless power transmitter, the method including receiving a plurality of packets including a foreign object detection (FOD) status packet from a wireless power receiver; determining whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter on the basis of the FOD status packet; and transmitting, to the wireless power receiver, a response signal indicating whether the foreign object is present in the charging area of the wireless power transmitter on the basis of a result of the determination, wherein the response signal is determined using a measured peak frequency of a power signal transmitted by the wireless power transmitter and a reference peak frequency included in the FOD status packet received from the wireless power receiver, wherein the plurality of packets further include at least one of a signal strength packet, an end power transfer packet, a power control hold-off packet, a control error packet, a renegotiation packet, an eight-bit received power packet, and a charging status packet, to which a byte encoding technique is applied, and wherein the byte encoding technique is a technique of inserting a start bit, a stop bit, and a parity bit into an encoded binary bit stream of a packet having a length of eight bits.

A charging device basically includes a first power source, first and second device-side connection terminals, a first resistance, a detection unit and a device-side controller. The first resistance is connected between the first power source and the first device-side connection terminal. The detection unit detects an inter-terminal voltage between the first device-side connection terminal and the second device-side connection terminal. A vehicle-side controller is connected between a first vehicle-side connection terminal connected to the first device-side connection terminal and a second vehicle-side connection terminal connected to the second device-side connection terminal. The device-side controller determines that the charging-device-side charging connector and the vehicle-side charging connector are turned into a non-connected state from a connected state by a fact that the inter-terminal voltage detected by the detection unit becomes greater than a predetermined voltage.

A start-up power supply is provided that includes a battery, a supercapacitor module, and a switch module coupling an output of the supercapacitor module to an output connected to terminals of a vehicle battery. A charging circuit is coupled between the battery and the supercapacitor module and also to the output. A control module is coupled to the charging circuit, the switching module, the battery, and the supercapacitor module. The control module configured to first charge the supercapacitor module until the voltage of the supercapacitor module is higher than a pre-charge voltage of the supercapacitor module. Then to connect the battery and the supercapacitor module in parallel enabling the voltage of the supercapacitor module to charge to a voltage of the battery. Finally, to charge the supercapacitor module until the voltage of the supercapacitor module reaches a voltage of a full threshold of the supercapacitor module.

A battery management system for batteries, such as, but not limited to, electric vehicle battery packs and cells, lithium iron phosphate batteries, lead acid batteries, gel batteries, and absorbed gel mat batteries, in engine start applications is disclosed. The battery management system is configured to control the charge and charging of each cell individually. The battery management system may be configured to control the charge of a battery which may consist of a plurality of cells, such as, but not limited to, lithium iron phosphate cells, and in at least one embodiment, the battery may consist of, but is not limited to being formed from, four lithium iron phosphate cells connected in series and a battery management system to ensure proper charge and safe operation.

A battery system includes a battery subpack having first and second battery cells, a cell monitoring circuit, a RF transmitter, an RF receiver, a subpack microprocessor, and a first transceiver. The circuit measures a voltage of a first battery cell. The system includes a master controller having a second transceiver. The RF transmitter sends a voltage value corresponding to the voltage of the first battery cell to the RF receiver. The subpack microprocessor determines the first battery cell has an overvoltage condition based on the voltage value and sends an overvoltage message to the master controller via the first and second transceivers. The subpack microprocessor induces first and second subpack contactors to each have an open operational state when the master controller sends an open command to the subpack microprocessor.

Techniques and apparatus for supplying power, including battery balancing and isolating. One example power supply circuit generally includes a first battery node for coupling to a first battery, a second battery node for coupling to a second battery, and a switch circuit coupled between the first battery node and the second battery node and disposed on a same integrated circuit (IC) die as the first battery node and the second battery node. The power supply circuit may be configured to balance the first battery and the second battery without a resistor (e.g., a resistor external to the IC die on which the power supply circuit resides).

The present disclosure relates to a method for charging a high-voltage battery, having the steps of: providing the high-voltage battery with a nominal battery voltage, providing a charging station with a nominal charging voltage, which is lower than the nominal battery voltage, connecting a station-side protective earth conductor terminal to a battery-side protective earth conductor terminal to form a protective earth conductor, adjusting a voltage between a first, battery-side high-voltage potential and the protective earth conductor to equal half the nominal charging voltage, electrically connecting a first station-side high-voltage potential to the first battery-side high-voltage potential, electrically connecting a second station-side high-voltage potential to a second battery-side high-voltage potential, and controlling the discharge current by means of a resistance control. The present disclosure also relates to a device configured to charge a high-voltage battery.

The invention provides a magnetic flux generator to enhance ion transport in an electrochemical cell. The magnetic flux generator comprises one or more magnetic field sources, each being configured to produce a respective magnetic field. Each magnetic field is individually controllably variable in three spatial dimensions.

A wireless rechargeable solid-state battery module includes a solid-state battery; an internal structure including an internal circuit electrically connected with the battery; positive and negative electrode terminals, each of which is electrically connected with the solid-state battery, is exposed on an outer surface, and is where the positive or negative electrode terminal can be mounted on an electronic circuit board; barrier layers that entirely or partially contain a conductor and isolate the battery and the internal structure from an outside air environment; and a power receiving terminal electrically connected with an external circuit, which includes a power receiving coil coupled with an external electromagnetic or magnetic field, is electrically connected with the internal circuit, and is in an outside of the barrier layers. The power receiving coil converts the external electromagnetic or magnetic field into electrical energy and supplies current to the internal circuit via the power receiving terminal.

A management method of a battery system includes determining whether a wireless communication failure occurs between a master battery management system (BMS) and at least one of a plurality of slave battery management systems (BMSs); receiving road condition information of where the vehicle equipped with the battery system is currently positioned if the wireless communication failure occurs; determining whether the vehicle is on the road based on the road condition information; setting a first failure confirmation time if the current position of the vehicle is on the road; setting a second failure confirmation time if the current position of the vehicle is not located on the road; and entering a safety mode if a wireless communication failure section from the time when the wireless communication failure occurs to the current time reaches the first failure confirmation time or the second failure confirmation time.

A method of receiving power by a wireless power receiver, the method including transmitting, to a wireless power transmitter, a plurality of packets including a foreign object detection (FOD) status packet; and receiving, from the wireless power transmitter, a response signal indicating whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter, wherein the response signal is determined using a measured peak frequency of a power signal transmitted by the wireless power transmitter and a reference peak frequency included in the FOD status packet received from the wireless power receiver, and wherein the plurality of packets further include at least one of a signal strength packet, an end power transfer packet, a power control hold-off packet, a configuration packet, an identification packet for transmitting receiver identification information, an extended identification packet, a general request packet, a special request packet, a control error packet, a renegotiation packet, a 24-bit received power packet, an eight-bit received power packet, and a charging status packet.

Embodiments of this application provide a power supply control method and an electronic device, which relate to the field of electronic devices, to effectively protect a battery from overvoltage, and avoid power supply oscillation caused by triggering OVP protection. A specific solution is as follows: A first overvoltage protection OVP threshold is set for the electronic device, and when a voltage of a battery is greater than the first OVP threshold, a power supply module is controlled not to supply power to a load; the power supply module is controlled not to charge a battery in a battery module; and the battery in the battery module is controlled to supply power to the load until the voltage of the battery is always less than a second OVP threshold in preset duration, where the second OVP threshold is less than the first OVP threshold.

A battery device with a C-rate of 1C includes a battery cell, a protection chip, and a microcontroller. The protection chip is electrically connected to the battery cell, determines whether to activate the protection mechanism of the battery device according to the state of the battery cell. The microcontroller is electrically connected to the protection chip, detects the RSOC of the battery cell. When an external power supply is electrically coupled to the battery device, and the RSOC of the battery cell is lower than 50%, the microcontroller controls the battery cell to perform a fast charging not over 10 minutes. During the 10 minutes of fast charging, the protection chip activates the protection mechanism, or the microcontroller detects that the battery cell has changed from a CC state to a CV state, the microcontroller stops the fast charging and restores the C-rate of the battery cell to 1C.

The present invention relates to an individual discharging system and method of a battery rack, and more particularly, to an individual discharging system and method of a battery rack capable of individually discharging a battery rack without dependence on an external load.

A charging system includes a charging input interface, an inductor, a first switch, a second switch, a first voltage acquisition circuit, and a control circuit. The charging input interface is connected to the inductor, which is connected to the first switch and the second switch. The second switch is configured for electrical connection with an energy storage power supply. The first voltage acquisition circuit is connected to the second switch and configured to detect the first voltage output by the charging system in real time. The control circuit cyclically controls the switch on / off time of the first switch based on the first voltage. During the charging process of the charging system, when the first voltage is less than the first preset voltage value, the control circuit controls the first switch to conduct and starts cyclic control. The state of the first switch is opposite to that of the second switch.

A WPT circuit is provided. The WPT circuit includes a radio frequency (RF) front-end circuit, a power path circuit, an auxiliary path circuit, a control circuit and a switch circuit. The RF front-end circuit is configured to convert a single-end input signal received by an antenna into differential input signals. The power path circuit is configured to convert the differential input signals into a direct current (DC) output voltage. The auxiliary path circuit is configured to convert the differential input signals into a DC supply voltage. The control circuit is configured to utilize the DC supply voltage as a power source and generate a control signal according to the DC output voltage. The switch circuit is configured to determine whether to conduct the DC output voltage to the energy storage element according to the control signal.

A first overvoltage protection OVP threshold is set for the electronic device, and when a voltage of a battery is greater than the first OVP threshold, a power supply module is controlled not to supply power to a load; the power supply module is controlled not to charge a battery in a battery module; and the battery in the battery module is controlled to supply power to the load until the voltage of the battery is always less than a second OVP threshold in preset duration, where the second OVP threshold is less than the first OVP threshold.

A charging system includes a charging input interface, an inductor, a first switch, a second switch, a first voltage acquisition circuit, and a control circuit. The charging input interface is connected to the inductor, which is connected to the first switch and the second switch. The second switch is configured for electrical connection with an energy storage power supply. The first voltage acquisition circuit is connected to the second switch and configured to detect the first voltage output by the charging system in real time. The control circuit cyclically controls the switch on / off time of the first switch based on the first voltage. During the charging process of the charging system, when the first voltage is less than the first preset voltage value, the control circuit controls the first switch to conduct and starts cyclic control. The state of the first switch is opposite to that of the second switch.

A system is provided with: a plurality of switching units which are connected in parallel to a bus line to which a power generation unit and a load are connected, and which respectively switch the ON / OFF of the connection of a battery pack to the bus line; the plurality of battery packs are respectively connected with the plurality of switching parts; and a management unit that manages the plurality of switching units so as to alternately discharge the plurality of battery packs, such that the discharge rate of each of the plurality of battery packs is higher than when all of the plurality of battery packs are discharged, at least one of the plurality of switching units has a discharge FET and a charge FET, and the discharge rate of each of the plurality of battery packs is higher than when all of the plurality of battery packs are discharged. The discharge FET and the charge FET can be switched between a discharge state in which current flows from the connected battery pack to the bus line, a charge state in which current flows from the bus line to the battery pack, and a cut-off state in which current flows from the bus line to the battery pack. The cut-off state is a state in which current does not flow between the bus line and the battery pack.