Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Yazaki Corporation

Naoaki Sugimura

Takaaki Izawa

Masaru Sekiguchi

Danya Sugai

Hidekazu Kikuchi

Hisao Ohtake

Takeshi Wakamatsu

Kouji Morita

A battery monitoring system includes a first group of a plurality of battery cells connected in series and including a first battery cell at a highest potential and a second battery cell at a lowest potential; a second group of a plurality of battery cells connected in series and including a third battery cell at a highest potential and a fourth battery cell at a lowest potential, the second group of the battery cells being connected to the first group of the battery cells in series; and first and second semiconductor devices capable of measuring a voltage of the first group of the battery cells and a voltage of the second group of the battery cells, respectively.

Battery monitoring system and semiconductor device

A battery monitoring system includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series; a cell voltage measurement circuit for measuring a voltage of the battery cells; a first terminal connected to the cell voltage measurement circuit; a second terminal isolated from the cell voltage measurement circuit; a plurality of protection elements each corresponding to each of the battery cells; and a protection circuit connected to the second terminal for discharging an electric current from the protection elements through the second terminal.

A semiconductor device includes: a boosting section configured to output a second voltage boosted from a first voltage; a voltage lowering section configured to output a lowered voltage that has been lowered from the second voltage by a predetermined voltage; a first buffer amp including a non-inverting input terminal connected to an output of the voltage lowering section; a second buffer amp including a non-inverting input terminal that is input with the first voltage; and a difference output section configured to output a voltage corresponding to a difference between output of the first buffer amp and output of the second buffer amp.

Semiconductor device and battery monitoring system

A semiconductor device including a first buffer amplifier into which a voltage of a high potential side of one battery cell selected from plural battery cells that are connected in series is input; a second buffer amplifier into which a voltage of a low potential side of the one battery cell other than a lowermost stage battery cell is input; an analog level shifter into which a voltage output from the first buffer amplifier and a voltage output from the buffer amplifier are input; a first switch that switches a voltage input to the analog level shifter from the voltage output from the second buffer amplifier to a reference voltage; and a second switch that switches a voltage input to the first buffer amplifier from the voltage of the high potential side of the one battery cell to the reference voltage.

Semiconductor device and battery voltage measuring method that prevents measurement error caused by parametric capacitance

A battery monitoring system includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series; a cell voltage measurement circuit for measuring a voltage of the battery cells; a first terminal connected to the cell voltage measurement circuit; a second terminal having a potential higher than that of the first terminal; and a protection circuit connected to the second terminal for discharging an electric current to the second terminal so that the cell voltage measurement circuit is protected.

A semiconductor device including plural first switches, each provided so as to correspond to one of plural battery cells connected in series, each first switch including one end connected to a corresponding battery cell and another end connected to one electrode of a corresponding charge storage section of plural charge storage sections, each of the charge storage sections being provided so as to correspond to one of the plural battery cells, and another electrode of each charge storage section being connected to a fixed potential; plural second switches, each provided so as to correspond to one of the plural first switches, each second switch including one end connected to the other end of the corresponding first switch; and processing section connected to each other end of the plural second switches, that processes voltages supplied via the second switches.

Semiconductor device, battery monitoring device, and voltage detection method of battery cell

A semiconductor device for measuring a voltage of a battery cell, including first and second nodes, and first and second battery voltage measurement units. The first node is configured to receive a first voltage, the first voltage being a voltage of a capacitor that accumulates an electric charge based on the voltage of the battery cell. The first battery voltage measurement unit measures the first voltage through a first path. The second node is configured to receive a second voltage based on the voltage of the battery cell, the second node being different from the first node. The second battery voltage measurement unit measures the second voltage through a second path that is different from the first path.

Semiconductor device, battery monitoring system, and diagnostic method for semiconductor device

An assembled-battery system, a semiconductor circuit, and a diagnostic method enables appropriate self-diagnosis of a measuring unit. An output value (A-B) output from an analog-to-digital converter through power-supply lines, a cell-selection switch, and a level shifter is summed with an output value (B-VSS) obtained by a directly input reference voltage B being output from the analog-to-digital converter. When the summed value is considered equal the reference voltage A&#x2014;the voltage VSS, it is diagnosed that an abnormality such as a breakdown has not occurred.

Assembled-battery system, semiconductor circuit, and diagnostic method

The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device including: a first buffer amplifier into which a voltage of a high potential side of one battery cell selected from plural battery cells that are connected in series is input; a second buffer amplifier into which a voltage of a low potential side of the one battery cell other than a lowermost stage battery cell is input; an analog level shifter into which a voltage output from the first buffer amplifier and a voltage output from, the buffer amplifier are input; a first switch that switches a voltage input to the analog level shifter from the voltage output from the second buffer amplifier to a reference voltage; and a second switch that switches a voltage input to the first buffer amplifier from the voltage of the high potential side of the one battery cell to the reference voltage.

The present invention appropriately detects line-breakages in a signal line related to a battery connected to a discharge circuit for discharging. Namely, an initialization operation produces a state in which a capacitor (C) is charged with the difference between the voltage of a signal line (Vn) and a self-threshold voltage (Vx), and a capacitor (C) is charged with the difference between the voltage of a signal line (Vn&#x2212;1) and a self-threshold voltage (Vx), in a comparison circuit (). In a comparison operation, a voltage adjusting section (ILn+1) produces a state in which line-breakage detection current is drawn out from a signal line (Ln), a signal line (Lc) is connected to the capacitors (C, C) and a voltage (DVn) is input to the capacitors (C, C). When an output OUT=L level, it is detected that there is no line-breakage, and when the output OUT=H level, it is detected that there is a line-breakage.

Battery monitoring system, semiconductor circuit, line-breakage detection program, and line-breakage detection method

A battery monitoring system includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series and including a first battery cell at a highest potential; a discharge circuit connected to a high potential side of the first battery cell through a first line; a circuit connected to the high potential side of the first battery cell through a second line; and a plurality of electro-static protection circuits each including one end portion connected to at least one of a high potential side and a low potential side of each of the battery cells, and another end portion connected to the first line.

The present invention provides a boosting system, a diagnosing method and a diagnosing program, that may diagnose a boosting section while suppressing consumption of electric power and current, and without being carrying out by a CPU. Namely, during an initializing operation, difference between power supply voltage and own threshold voltage charges capacitor Cof a comparison circuit, and a difference between voltage of a constant voltage and the own threshold voltage charges capacitor C. In a comparing operation, a boosting section and the capacitor Care connected so that boosted voltage is inputted, and GND and the capacitor Care connected so that GND voltage is inputted. At this time, if output OUT is L level, it is diagnosed that there is no defect, whereas if the output OUT is H level, it is diagnosed that there is defect.

Boosting system, diagnosing method, and computer readable medium storing diagnosing program for diagnosing the boosting functions of a boosting section

A semiconductor circuit includes a drive component that includes first switching elements connected to discharge switching elements and resistive elements; and a drawing component. The first switching elements interconnect, in accordance with a drive time of the discharge switching elements, drive current sources that supply charge to control signal lines and the control signal lines. The drawing component draws charge with draw current sources in accordance with a draw time in which the drawing component draws the charge supplied from the drive component.

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Naoaki Sugimura