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Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nagano Japan Radio Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Nishizawa

Fujio Matsui

Seiichi Anzawa

Mitsunori Ishii

Chihiro Inoue

A voltage detection circuit for detecting terminal-to-terminal voltages of a plurality of storage devices Band Bconnected in series. In the voltage detection circuit for storage devices, voltage judgment units VPL-, VPL-, VPH-and VPH-are provided between the terminals of the plurality of storage devices respectively, and the detection result of the initial-stage voltage judgment unit is transmitted to the next-stage voltage judgment unit without being isolated, so that the judgment result of the final-stage voltage judgment unit is obtained.

Voltage detection circuit for storage devices

A current breaker circuit by which currents flowing in loads respectively connected to a plurality of storage devices connected in series are broken in accordance with a single external control signal. The current breaker circuit includes semiconductor switching devices inserted between the storage devices and the loads respectively, a unit for supplying the external control signal to at least one of the semiconductor switching devices, and control signal generating units for generating ON/OFF signals in accordance with turning ON/OFF of the semiconductor switching device supplied with the external control signal so as to supply the ON/OFF signals to the other semiconductor switching devices.

Current breaker circuit for storage devices, and abnormality detection circuit

A voltage equalizing apparatus for battery devices includes a core, a plurality of first battery devices interconnected in series with each other, each consisting of one or more cells, a plurality of secondary windings magnetically connected with each other through the core, a plurality of first switching devices, each connected to one of the plurality of secondary windings and one of the plurality of first battery devices to constitute a first closed circuit, one or more second battery devices provided separately from said plurality of first battery devices interconnected in series or a second battery device provided by rendering the whole of said plurality of first battery devices interconnected in series one battery device, a primary winding magnetically connected with the plurality of secondary windings through the core, and a second switching device connected in series with the second battery device and the primary winding to constitute a second closed circuit. The plurality of first switching devices and the plurality of second switching device are alternately turned ON and OFF to equalize the output voltages of the first battery devices. The plurality of first switching devices continue to be turned ON after exciting energy stored in the core is transported by the charging to the battery devices having lower voltages among said plurality of first battery devices, to effect the charging from the battery devices having higher voltages among said plurality of first battery devices to the battery devices having lower voltages among said plurality of first battery devices and/or to store energy in said core.

Voltage equalizing apparatus for battery devices

a voltage equalizing apparatus for battery devices includes a core, a plurality of first closed circuits and a second closed circuit. The plurality of first closed circuits each includes one of a plurality of first battery devices interconnected in series, one of a plurality of secondary windings magnetically connected with each other through the core, and one of a plurality of first switching devices. The second closed circuit includes a second battery device, a primary winding magnetically connected with the secondary windings through the core, and a second switching device. The first switching devices and the second switching device are alternately turned ON and OFF to equalize the output voltages of the first battery devices. The first switching devices continue to be turned ON after completion of the transportation of the exciting energy stored in the core. In the voltage equalizing apparatus for battery devices, the ON-duration ratio T /T between the ON duration T of the first switching devices S to Sn and the ON duration T of the second switching device S is set so that the voltages of the first battery devices B to Bn become a predetermined voltage.

In such a voltage equalizer circuit in which each of plural windings P to Pn electromagnetically coupled to each other, each of plural storage elements E to En series-connected to each other, and each of plural first switching elements S to Sn are connected to each other in a series connecting manner so as to constitute a plurality of closed circuits, this voltage equalizer apparatus is featured by that a reference voltage winding Pp electromagnetically coupled to the plurality of windings is provided; both a DC power supply Ep and a second switching element Sp are series-connected to the second winding; and all of the plural first switching elements and the second switching element are turned ON/OFF in a synchronous manner.

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Hiroshi Nishizawa