Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Voltage equalizer
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Application No.: US14436311Application Date: 2013-09-26
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Publication No.: US09705343B2Publication Date: 2017-07-11
- Inventor: Satoshi Yamamoto , Shinji Hirose , Wataru Makishi
- Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi
- Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
- Current Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2012-244980 20121107
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/076074 WO 20130926
- International Announcement: WO2014/073280 WO 20140515
- Main IPC: H02J7/00
- IPC: H02J7/00 ; H01M10/44 ; H01M10/48 ; H01M10/42

Abstract:
A voltage equalizer includes voltage detectors that detect voltages of respective cells, switches, and a controller that repeatedly sets a lowest voltage among voltages detected by one of the voltage detectors to be a target voltage Vt1 or Vt2 in each of the battery packs, and that repeatedly turns on/off each of the switches such that the voltages of the cells other than the cell having the lowest voltage become the target voltage Vt1 or Vt2 in each of the battery packs, until the controller determines on the basis of the respective voltages detected by the voltage detectors that a cell balance control operation does not need to be performed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150244190A1 VOLTAGE EQUALIZER Public/Granted day:2015-08-27
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