Denso Corporation

Nobuyoshi Osamura

Ryotaro Miura

Hiroyuki Ban

Tomomichi Mizoguchi

Kazutaka Honda

Tetsuya Makihara

Yukihiro Tomonaga

Teppei Kawamoto

Takaharu Hutamura

A route switching circuit includes: a pair of normal detection routes that output voltages of a positive side connection point and a negative side connection point, which are different from each other, in multiple batteries for constituting an assembled battery; and a pair of diagnosis detection routes that output the voltages of the positive side connection point and the negative side connection point, and confirm a connection state of the normal detection routes by using the normal detection routes, which output at least one of a voltage of a positive side battery connected to a positive side from the positive side connection point and a voltage of a negative side battery connected to a negative side from the negative side connection point.

Route switching circuit and voltage detection device

An equalization device for equalizing voltages of battery cells connected in series includes equalization switches, resistors, and a control circuit. Each equalization switch has energization terminals interposed between terminals of a corresponding battery cell. A current path between the energization terminals conducts when a control voltage not less than a threshold voltage is applied between control terminals of the equalization switch. Each resistor is connected between the control terminals of the corresponding equalization switch. The control circuit switches an equalization execution state and an equalization stop state in accordance with an equalization signal provided for each battery cell. In the execution state, the control circuit passes an electric current through the corresponding resistor to generate the control voltage not less than the threshold voltage. In the stop state, the control circuit causes the corresponding resistor to generate the control voltage less than the threshold voltage.

Equalization device for assembled battery

Upon detecting a disconnection, a current detection circuit supplies a detection current to connection lines between each cell and the corresponding voltage monitoring circuit. The detection current is larger than a consumption current flowing via each voltage monitoring circuit in a normal state. When the disconnection occurs, a diode changes a route in which the detection current flows so as to reverse an electric potential relation between a positive-side power line and a negative-side power line of the corresponding cell and a reverse detection circuit detects the reverse of the electric potential relation to output a disconnection detection signal.

Disconnection detection device of assembled battery system and disconnection detection method of same

An output circuit comprises first and second transistors, a driving circuit and a current mirror circuit. The driving circuit supplies a relatively small constant current to the base of the first transistor. When a current flows to the collector of the first transistor, a current with a magnitude set at a fixed ratio with respect to the current flows to the collector of the second transistor, and a current proportional to the current flowing to the collector of the second transistor flows to the base of the first transistor by way of the current mirror circuit. That is, a current, which is determined in accordance with a current flowing to the collector of the first transistor, flows to the base of the first transistor.

Output circuit and operational amplifier

In a power supply circuit, a main transistor, which transmits power from an input terminal to an output terminal, is controlled so that a detected voltage from an input voltage is consistent with a reference voltage indicating a target voltage. An output current is detected and a limited value of the output current is set so that the limited value increases gradually when the output voltage rises up to the target voltage. The main transistor is controlled so that the output current keeps a value less than or equal to the limited value. This configuration is able to suppress an overshoot of the output voltage, thanks to a gradually raised control of the limited value. Additionally, to avoid the influence of a ringing component of the input voltage, a delay control circuit to give a delay to the start of rise of the output voltage can be provided.

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Nishio, Japan

Nobuyoshi Osamura