Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Serially connected batteries or cells – With discharge of cells or batteries
Patent
1994-09-14
1996-10-08
Wong, Peter S.
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Serially connected batteries or cells
With discharge of cells or batteries
320 30, 320 35, 320 32, 424427, H02J 704, H02J 716
Patent
active
055634966
ABSTRACT:
A unit that can be a tiny module within a battery pack includes a microprocessor operating through onboard sensors and read circuitry to monitor battery current, voltage and temperature and to develop fast charge termination control data. Various termination schemes are available including negative delta V, dT/dt, dV/dt, absolute temperature, absolute voltage, and override timer. The microprocessor also operates to develop state of charge, percentage of capacity charge and other status data, to store such data along with setup and calibration data, in an EEPROM, to report data to a host periodically or when polled to and to operate automatically or at a user's request to initially perform and update a calibration as to actual battery capacity. During times when the pack is idle, the unit automatically reverts to a low-power mode in which measuring circuitry is deenergized but during such times, it operates periodically to compensate for self-discharge as a function of temperature. In the read circuitry, a ramp generator generates a linear ramp voltage that is compared with voltages proportional to battery voltage, supply voltage, battery current and temperature, using comparators connected to pins of a common port of the microprocessor and using a mask to obtain all readings from a single generation of the ramp. Voltage dividers of the read circuitry are so arranged as to permit accurate readings of current in either direction and to operate in a bridge configuration to obtain normalized measurements independent of ramp slope. Dynamic correction of readings and other features are also provided.
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Span Inc.
Toatley Gregory
Wong Peter S.
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