Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Minoru Oota

Shinya Sato

Jun Takahashi

Kazuto Kuroda

Masahiro Sekino

Ryo Okabe

Yosuke Saeki

Atsushi Inamura

Keita Nakata

An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a positive and a negative electrode terminals; modules each including an assembled battery and a CMU, the assembled battery including cells, the CMU to detect a voltage and a temperature of the assembled battery; a main circuit for electrical connection between terminals of the modules and the positive and negative electrode terminals; a BMU to receive information about the voltage and the temperature from the respective CMU; a supply circuit to convert DC power from the main circuit and supply the converted power to the BMU; a breaker for interrupting the main circuit; and a circuit to block a current flowing through the main circuit in a direction of charging the modules, in response to a stop of a control signal from the BMU.

Storage battery apparatus with current cutoff control

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Tokyo, Japan

Minoru Oota