1196results about "Load supplying circuits" patented technology

A display device includes: a display operable in a landscape mode and a portrait mode; a stand and including a power circuit configured to receive external power, a first battery, and a charging and discharging circuit configured to control charging and discharging of the first battery; and one or more processors configured to: control the charging and discharging circuit to charge the first battery using the external power, based on a user command for turning on the display being received, provide a portion of the external power to the display as first driving power, and control the charging and discharging circuit to provide another portion of the external power to the first battery as charging power, where the one or more processors are configured to provide output power of the first battery to the display as second driving power in a battery priority use mode.

A power management circuit for an electric auxiliary vehicle is provided. The electric auxiliary vehicle includes batteries, a motor, and power receiving ports. The power management circuit includes a transformer, an inductor, primary circuits, a motor driving circuit, and charging-and-discharging circuits. The transformer includes primary windings and a secondary winding. The inductor is coupled in parallel with the secondary winding. Each of the primary circuits provides wireless power from a corresponding power receiving port to a corresponding primary winding at different time periods, and provides electric energy from the corresponding primary winding to the corresponding power receiving port at different time periods. Each of the charging-and-discharging circuits provides electric energy from the inductor to a corresponding battery at different time periods, and provides battery electric energy from the corresponding battery to the inductor at different time periods.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for energy management. A system, such as a vehicle, includes a plurality of energy storage units that include a supercapacitor and an electrochemical battery. The system includes an energy controller that tracks historical power draw from the plurality of energy storage units over time in power tracking data, and that identifies a power draw based on the power tracking data. The energy controller switches between a first configuration and a second configuration based on the identified power draw. The first configuration is configured for drawing power from the electrochemical battery and disconnecting from the supercapacitor, while wherein the second configuration is configured for drawing power from the supercapacitor and disconnecting from the electrochemical battery.

The battery pack for an electric work machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a battery, an attachment port, a current path, at least one fuse, a temperature detector, and a control circuit. The battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The attachment port is detachably attached to the electric work machine. The current path is coupled to the positive electrode or the negative electrode. The current path delivers a discharge current from the battery to the electric work machine. The at least one fuse is on the current path. The temperature detector outputs a temperature signal indicating a fuse temperature. The control circuit reduces or stops the discharge current based on the fuse temperature having satisfied or satisfying a discharge inhibition requirement.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for energy management. A system, such as a vehicle, includes a plurality of energy storage units that include a supercapacitor and an electrochemical battery. The system includes an energy controller that tracks historical power draw from the plurality of energy storage units over time in power tracking data, and that identifies a power draw based on the power tracking data. The energy controller switches between a first configuration and a second configuration based on the identified power draw. The first configuration is configured for drawing power from the electrochemical battery and disconnecting from the supercapacitor, while wherein the second configuration is configured for drawing power from the supercapacitor and disconnecting from the electrochemical battery.

Power tools that include a housing, a motor supported by the housing, an inverter positioned between and electrically connected to a battery pack interface and the motor, a gate driver connected to the inverter, a rotational position detector configured to detect a position of the motor, a controller configured to control the gate driver, and a short circuit detection circuit. The short circuit detection circuit is configured to monitor the current in the inverter, compare the current in the inverter to a first current threshold, determine, in response to the current in the inverter being greater than or equal to the first current threshold, whether the position of the motor is changing based on a signal from the rotational position detector, and control, in response to the position of the motor not changing, a switch of the short circuit detection circuit to disable the gate driver.

An impedance measurement apparatus is provided for measuring impedance of a secondary battery. The impedance measurement apparatus includes a measurement unit and a switching unit. The measurement unit is capable of measuring the impedance of the secondary battery using a plurality of measurement modes differing in measurement condition. The switching unit is configured to switch between the plurality of measurement modes based on a comparison between a correlating parameter, which correlates with the impedance of the secondary battery, and a threshold value.

A battery pack may include a housing with an interface couplable to an external device configured to perform a group of applications. A battery pack may further include a plurality of battery cells disposed within the housing and electrically connected to the interface, the battery cells including a cathode, an anode, and a separator. The plurality of battery cells is configured to provide power to the external device for a runtime. The plurality of battery cells is additionally configured to fully recharge within a charge time, and wherein the charge time is less than a sum of the runtime plus a rest time corresponding to the time taken to prepare a new application group.

The present teaching relates to method and system for charging a rechargeable battery deployed in an electric apparatus. The system resides in the electric apparatus. The system comprises a motor, an inverter, an output rectifier, a configurator, and a controller. The motor comprises a stator having a plurality of stator teeth and a plurality of stator windings wounded on the plurality of stator teeth. The inverter comprises a plurality of power switch devices. The configurator comprises a plurality of contactors coupled with the plurality of stator windings and the plurality of power switch devices. The controller controls the plurality of power switch devices and the plurality of contactors, so as to configure the system to operate in one of a traction mode and a charging mode.

The present application relates to a battery system and a parallelization method and apparatus thereof. The parallelization method of the battery system includes: acquiring voltages of the battery packs respectively; setting a charging priority of each of the battery packs according to a preset rule and the voltages of the battery packs; and controlling the switching circuit corresponding to the battery pack in the highest charging priority to be turned on to connect a charging loop of the battery pack for charging, and if the voltage of the battery pack currently charged is increased to a value close to the voltage of the battery pack in a next charging priority, controlling the switching circuit corresponding to the battery pack in the next charging priority to be turned on.

A containment system for a rechargeable energy storage device (RESS) is described includes an enclosure having a first compartment adjoining a second compartment. The first compartment is arranged to house a plurality of power electronics devices, and the second compartment is arranged to house a plurality of battery cells. The second compartment includes a tub that defines a bottom portion, and a floor plate. The tub includes opposed end walls and opposed sidewalls. A top plate is arranged overtop of the first compartment and the second compartment. A first one of the end walls and the top plate define a first slot between the first compartment and the second compartment. A first removable panel is arranged to enclose the first compartment. The plurality of battery cells connect to the plurality of power electronics devices via a high-voltage DC power bus that is arranged to pass through the first slot.

The present application provides a switch device, a motor control device, a battery heating system, and an electric apparatus. The switch device includes a first switch means and a second switch means which are arranged in a shell. A second terminal of the first switch means and a first terminal of the second switch means are both connected to the outside of the shell; a first terminal of the first switch means and a second terminal of the second switch means are respectively connected to the outside of the shell; and a control terminal of the first switch means and a control terminal of the second switch means are connected to the outside of the shell.

Disclosed is a method comprising configuring at least one of: a virtual power plant controller application for operating one or more batteries of one or more base stations as a virtual power plant, the one or more base stations for supporting the virtual power plant controller application, or one or more power systems of the one or more base stations for supporting the virtual power plant controller application.

A riding lawn mower, including: a frame; a seat; a walking assembly and a walking motor; a cutting assembly and a driving motor configured to drive the cutting assembly; a first energy storage device configured to supply power to at least one of the walking motor or the driving motor, the first energy storage device detachably mounted to the frame and enabled to supply power to a handheld power tool when detached from the riding lawn mower; and a second energy storage device configured to supply power to at least one of the walking motor or the driving motor; wherein a ratio of a total energy of the second energy storage device to a total energy of the first energy storage device is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 20.

The invention relates to a system for a user-side energy storage sharing framework. A power energy scheduling optimization method comprises: establishing a user load model, an energy storage battery model and a user-to-user capacity sharing model; with a minimum electricity cost of a whole community as an objective optimization function, resolving optimal scheduling based on the function using a MILP algorithm as an optimization technique for power energy scheduling of a user-side energy storage sharing framework; and performing power energy scheduling for users according to a resolved result. The invention determines a user cost model under the user-side energy storage sharing framework, establishes an electricity model of non-transferable loads and transferable loads and corresponding constraints, and obtains optimal values of adjustable variables to control electricity consumed by electric loads by resolving an optimal value of an objective function under the precondition of reducing user costs, thus further reducing electricity costs.

A power supply device includes storage circuit including first node connected to power supply, second node grounded, and electrical double-layer capacitor between first and second nodes; discharge circuit to discharge the storage circuit; charge circuit to charge the storage circuit; and power supply controller to measure voltage at first node and control the discharge and charge circuits. The power supply controller performs: measuring the voltage at first node and measuring first capacitance value and first equivalent series resistance value of the electrical double-layer capacitor upon the discharge circuit discharging the storage circuit; measuring the voltage at first node and measuring second capacitance value and second equivalent series resistance value of the electrical double-layer capacitor upon the charge circuit charging the storage circuit; computing third capacitance value based on first and second capacitance values; and computing third equivalent series resistance value based on first and second equivalent series resistance values.

A method of determining the capability of a nonlinear aircraft power source includes accessing status values representing a current state of an energy storage system in an aircraft, accessing demand values related to expected power demands on the energy storage system, modeling an ongoing status of the energy storage system using the status values and the demand values to predict when one of the status values will reach a threshold value, and providing an output of a capability of the aircraft based on the status value reaching the threshold value.

This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for battery power source integration and utilization at a drilling site by adjusting power draw from various power sources based on conditions at the drilling site. Some aspects, more specifically, relate to supplying power to the drilling site using a utility power source, where the utility power source includes a utility setpoint. During this period, detection of an increase in power demand may occur at the drilling site. The increase in the power demand can include a load ramp indicating a rate which the power demand increases over a period of time. Based on the power demand and load ramp, as well as the utility setpoint, embodiments may supply additional power to the drilling site using a battery power source.

A charge control device for charging a battery with electric power supplied from an external power supply includes: an external power supply information acquisition unit that acquires external power supply information including a voltage of the external power supply; a battery information acquisition unit that acquires battery information including a temperature, a voltage, and an electric current of the battery; a power consumption acquisition unit that acquires an amount of electric power supplied from the battery to an auxiliary device as a power consumption amount; and a charge time estimation unit that estimates a charge time of the battery. The charge time estimation unit acquires an initial value of a state of charge of the battery based on the battery information, and estimates the charge time based on the battery temperature, the external power supply information, the power consumption amount, and the initial value of the state of charge.

The present disclosure relates to a battery arrangement with cell voltage verification. The battery arrangement includes a plurality of battery cells configured as one or more battery strings and a plurality of battery cell controllers connected to at least one terminal of the plurality of battery cells. Each battery cell controller includes a power electronics arrangement and a sensor for obtaining at least one battery cell parameter associated with the plurality of battery cell, The battery arrangement further includes a master node connected to each of the one or more battery strings for obtaining a total parameter associated with the battery strings. The cell parameter obtained by the plurality of battery cell controllers is compared with the total parameter obtained by the master node to verify the voltage associated with the battery arrangement.

Examples described herein may include a surgical computing device that directs data communications to surgical networks. The surgical computing device may include a processor that is configured to determine a present network locus, wherein the present network locus is any of a first surgical network or a second surgical network; identify a data communications session; determine a surgical data type of the data communication session, wherein the surgical data type is any of a first type of surgical data or a second type of surgical data, and direct the data communications session to the first surgical network if the surgical data type is the first type of surgical data or to the second surgical network if the surgical data type is the second type of surgical data.

The present invention provides a topology, method and system for bi-directional power conversion of excitation power supply for power battery testing, wherein the topology comprises a three-phase PWM (pulse width modulation) converter, a high-frequency isolation three-level LLC (logical link control) resonant converter and a DC-DC (direct current) converter forming a topology structure for a three-stage power conversion; an input end of the three-phase PWM converter is connected to a power grid side; the high-frequency isolation three-level LLC resonant converter is connected between the three-phase PWM converter and the DC-DC converter in series and is configured for realizing bi-directional DC voltage conversion and isolation, and to raise a busbar voltage between the high-frequency isolation three-level LLC resonant converter and the DC-DC converter; and, the DC-DC converter is configured to generate charging and discharging excitation currents for a power battery testing.

Disclosed is a power electronic intelligent battery unit, including: a battery module, the battery module comprising a plurality of battery cells connected in series and sensors for measuring the voltage, current, pressure and / or temperature of the battery cells; and an intelligent battery interface, the intelligent battery interface being connected to an output side of the battery module and the sensors, and the intelligent battery interface having a power interface and an information interface for the outside, wherein the battery module monitors the voltage, current, pressure and / or temperature information of the battery cells, while providing or absorbing power by means of the intelligent battery interface.

A charging and discharging control method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method is applied to a charging system, the charging system comprising at least two charging devices that are separately connected to batteries. The method comprises: determining, when at least one of the at least two batteries requests to be discharged, a discharging path for the battery requesting to be discharged according to charging and discharging parameters of batteries currently connected. The method autonomously controls the discharging path based on the charging and discharging parameters of the batteries, which helps to shorten the discharging path so that the power discharged from batteries requesting to be discharged at the same moment can be directly charged through the DC bus into the batteries requesting to be charged, thus enabling the conversion path for that part of power to be very short and improving the charging efficiency.

Provided are a charging system, an electrical isolation system, a control system, and a shockwave device. The charging system is provided with at least two electrical isolation circuits, thereby improving the frequency of sending charging control signals and further improving the frequency of charging a shockwave generation apparatus. The electrical isolation system can greatly improve the dielectric strength of the electrical isolation system, reduce a leakage current on the surface of a shockwave generator, and ensure the safety performance of the shockwave generator. The shockwave device can effectively monitor the discharge energy of a shockwave emitter, thereby improving treatment safety, controllability, and working efficiency.

The present disclosure includes an inverter connected to a power supply unit via a positive electrode side electrical path and a negative electrode side electrical path and including switching elements, a rotary electric machine including windings connected to each other at a neutral point and inputting and outputting power from and to the power supply unit via the inverter, a connection path electrically connecting an intermediate point between the storage batteries of the power supply unit to the neutral point of the windings, and a device including a first terminal and a second terminal enabling energization between the power supply unit and the device. The first terminal is connected to the connection path, and the second terminal is connected to at least one of the positive electrode side electrical path and the negative electrode side electrical path.

The present teaching relates to method and system for charging a rechargeable battery deployed in an electric apparatus. The system resides in the electric apparatus. The system comprises a motor, an inverter, an output rectifier, a configurator, and a controller. The motor comprises a stator having a plurality of stator teeth and a plurality of stator windings wounded on the plurality of stator teeth. The inverter comprises a plurality of power switch devices. The configurator comprises a plurality of contactors coupled with the plurality of stator windings and the plurality of power switch devices. The controller controls the plurality of power switch devices and the plurality of contactors, so as to configure the system to operate in one of a traction mode and a charging mode.

A system comprises: a high voltage (HV) direct current (DC) to DC converter (HVDC) including: one or more transformers; a bridge driver connected to a primary side of the one or more transformers; and one or more bridge rectifiers connected to a secondary side of the one or more transformers, the one or more bridge rectifiers including one or more bridge rectifier switches; a low voltage (LV) DC to DC converter (LVDC) connected to the HVDC; and a boost converter including: an inductor connected to the one or more bridge rectifier switches; and one or more boost configuration switches operable, in combination with the one or more bridge rectifier switches, to configure the boost converter into each of a bypass configuration and a boost configuration, to regulate a voltage at the LVDC.

An apparatus for wired and wireless charging of an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display on a surface of the housing, a battery mounted in the housing, a circuit electrically connected with the battery, a conductive pattern positioned in the housing, electrically connected with the circuit, and configured to wirelessly transmit power to an external device, a connector on another surface of the housing and electrically connected with the circuit, a memory, and a processor electrically connected with the display, the battery, the circuit, the connector, and / or the memory. The circuit is configured to electrically connect the battery with the conductive pattern to wirelessly transmit power to the external device and electrically connect the battery with the connector to transmit power to the external device by wire, simultaneously or selectively, with wirelessly transmitting power to the external device.

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for energy management. A system, such as a vehicle, includes a solar cell that generates energy in response to receiving light. The system includes an energy controller, which includes a processor and memory, that predicts an optimal time period for charging an energy storage unit based on information tracking discharging of the energy storage unit over time. The system includes trickle charging circuitry that provides the energy to the energy storage unit during the optimal time period, and the energy storage unit that stores the energy and discharges the energy to power at least one component, such as a vehicle propulsion mechanism.