Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage battery equalization device capable of charging battery pack including storage battery modules having different output voltages in short time
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Application No.: US14760659Application Date: 2013-09-17
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Publication No.: US09620969B2Publication Date: 2017-04-11
- Inventor: Shoichi Kobayashi , Takashi Shindoi , Hiroshi Araki , Kenji Inomata , Toshihiro Wada , Shoji Yoshioka
- Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-ku
- Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-ku
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2013-011363 20130124
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/005466 WO 20130917
- International Announcement: WO2014/115200 WO 20140731
- Main IPC: H02J7/00
- IPC: H02J7/00 ; B60L11/18

Abstract:
A storage battery equalization device is provided with: a battery pack including a plurality of storage battery modules; a plurality of equalization circuits corresponding to the respective storage battery modules, each including a DC/AC mutual converter circuit, a variable capacitor, and a transformer; external wirings interconnecting secondary windings of the transformers; voltage monitors each being connected across both electrodes of a corresponding storage battery module; and an equalization control unit. The equalization control unit determines equalization groups, each including one or more storage battery modules for discharging and one or more storage battery modules for charging, sets one of electrostatic capacitance values to the variable capacitors for each equalization group, the electrostatic capacitances corresponding to resonance frequencies of the equalization circuits, and controls a frequency of an alternating current outputted from the DC/AC mutual converter circuit of each equalization circuit, to be the resonance frequency of the equalization circuit.
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