Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging – Serially connected batteries or cells – With discharge of cells or batteries
Patent
1992-06-10
1993-10-19
Peckman, Kristine L.
Electricity: battery or capacitor charging or discharging
Serially connected batteries or cells
With discharge of cells or batteries
320 39, H02J 704
Patent
active
052549305
ABSTRACT:
According to the invention a battery charger for charging a plurality of batteries includes a voltage supply connected by a pair of switches to a power converter including a transformer having a primary winding and a plurality of secondary windings. Each secondary winding is coupled to a battery. Voltage is transferred from the voltage supply to the primary winding when the switches are closed and current is transferred from the secondary windings to the batteries when the switches are open. Charge control circuitry monitors the voltage of each battery and the total battery voltage and determines the amount of current to supply to the batteries. Supervisory logic monitors the current received from the secondary windings by each of the batteries and the voltage of each of the batteries to determine the charge status of each battery and the operating status of the power converter. If one battery continues drawing a greater proportion of the maximum current relative to the remaining batteries after the predetermined voltage limit has been reached, this indicates that there is a short circuited cell causing one battery to draw a greater proportion of current or that there is a cell with high impedance causing one battery to draw a smaller proportion of current. For both fault conditions, the supervisory circuit detects the current imbalance and generates a shutdown signal. The shutdown signal is also asserted when the supervisory circuit detects an over voltage condition in any of the batteries, or an over current in the primary winding. The shutdown signal subsequently precludes further operation of the charge control circuit for a predetermined time period, alerting the system operator of a problem within the battery backup system, and avoiding the loss of vital information and expensive computing time by allowing for correction of the fault condition before damage results.
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Cefalo Albert
Digital Equipment Corporation
Maloney Denis G.
Peckman Kristine L.
Young Barry
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