Battery Protection Polling Circuit With Priority-Based Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing battery protection technologies waste power consumption and resources due to constant polling intervals, which become more pronounced with an increase in detection items, rendering them inefficient and wasteful.

Innovation Solution

A battery protection chip and polling detection circuit that prioritize detection items, allocating time and resources effectively by using a polling signal generator to determine the next item to be detected based on priorities, ensuring timely and efficient polling through a combination of polling clock signals and selection signals, thereby optimizing the detection of key performance parameters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If constant polling interval is used to monitor all detection items, then polling timeliness is ensured, but power consumption and resource waste increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepolling timelinessVSAvoidpower consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the polling interval adaptive rather than fixed. The control unit dynamically adjusts the polling interval for each detection item based on its priority level and historical data, allowing high-priority items to be polled more frequently while low-priority items are polled less often, thus resolving the contradiction between polling timeliness and power consumption

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements local quality by assigning different polling frequencies to different detection items based on their specific needs. Each detection item receives a customized polling strategy tailored to its importance and characteristics, rather than applying a uniform polling approach to all items, which reduces overall power consumption while maintaining necessary monitoring quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If polling frequency is increased to improve detection accuracy, then response time to faults is reduced, but resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection accuracyVSAvoidresource efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts polling frequency based on detected conditions. When abnormal conditions are detected, the polling frequency automatically increases for relevant detection items to improve detection accuracy and response time. When conditions are normal, polling frequency decreases to improve resource efficiency, thus resolving the contradiction between detection accuracy and resource efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Reliability

If all detection items are monitored with equal priority, then comprehensive monitoring is achieved, but polling efficiency decreases due to unnecessary polling

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemonitoring completenessVSAvoidpolling efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments detection items into different priority levels (first priority, second priority, etc.) based on their importance. This segmentation allows the system to apply different polling strategies to different groups of detection items, ensuring comprehensive monitoring of all items while improving polling efficiency by focusing resources on high-priority items

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of polling frequency based on detection item priority. High-priority items receive higher polling frequencies while low-priority items receive lower frequencies, optimizing the balance between monitoring completeness and polling efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12174261B2Battery protection chip, polling detection circuit and method based on battery protection chip
Publication Date: 2024.12.24 SG MICRO CORP
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AI summary

A battery protection chip, a polling detection method and a polling detection circuit based on a battery protection chip are provided. The circuit includes: a polling signal generator generating first and second selection signals based on a basic clock signal, a plurality of state signals and a priority of a plurality of detection items. An input array selector selects one of a plurality of reference signals and one of a plurality of feedback signals to output to a comparator based on the first selection signal; the comparator compares the feedback reference signals and outputs an indication signal. An output sampler samples the indication signal according to the second selection signal and updates the plurality of state signals according to a sampling result.