Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Mika Kirimoto

Kozo Okuda

Hiroya Murao

Hiroki Onishi

Hiroyuki Hirai

Degradation degree table is a degradation degree table that describes a degradation degree of a secondary battery when the secondary battery is charged or discharged at a prescribed current rate with prescribed frequency. Degradation degree table describes the degradation degree in each of a plurality of state of charge (SOC) regions obtained through division of an SOC range of the secondary battery into the plurality of regions. Upper limit current determining part determines an upper limit current value to be used as a current rate at a time of charge or discharge, based on an estimated SOC and a target degradation degree with reference to degradation degree table.

Control system and vehicle power supply

A state-of-charge equalizing device equalizes the state of charge of each of cells connected in series to form an assembled battery, and comprises charging/discharging circuits connected in parallel to the respective cells to discharge and/or charge the respective cells, voltage measurement circuits connected to the respective charging/discharging circuits to measure the voltages across the respective cells, and a control circuit. The control circuit comprises a unit calculating an equalization target voltage based on the measured voltages before the charge or discharge starts, a unit starting discharging/charging the cells having a voltage thereacross different from the target voltage, a unit correcting the target voltage to thereby calculate a corrected equalization target voltage for each of those cells based on the difference between the measured voltages before and at a certain time period after the charging/discharging, and a unit ending the discharging/charging when the measured voltage reaches the corrected target voltage.

State of charge equalizing device and assembled battery system including same

An audio decoding device includes a playback speed change device for changing, with respect to a decoded audio signal obtained by a decoding device, the playback speed thereof; an output buffer for temporarily storing a digital audio signal outputted from the playback speed change device; a read out device for reading out the digital audio signals stored in the output buffer at predetermined time intervals; a playback speed control device for controlling the playback speed change device on the basis of the number of packets stored in the jitter buffer; and decoding timing control means for controlling the timing of decoding by the decoding device on the basis of the amount of data stored in the output buffer.

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Osaka, Japan

Mika Kirimoto