Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd.

Contemporary Amperex Technology (hong Kong) Limited

Contemporaryamperextechnologyco.,limited

Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited

Qiandeng Li

Le Chu

Kai Wu

Yuqun Zeng

Yanhui Fu

Jianwei Zhuo

Baohai Du

Jirong Huo

Qidong Lou

Wei Dai

Changjian Liu

Chao Wang

Fuming Ye

Guoxiu Wu

Yu Liu

Fangjie Zhou

Fupeng Cai

Jinglin Li

Huixiu Luo

Zhongliang Guo

Wei Zhang

Yizhen Hou

Xiyang Zuo

Zhiwei Yan

Weiqiang Li

Sixia Meng

Xinxin Jiang

Dachun Yang

Jiayu Yu

Daqun Yang

This application relate to a rechargeable battery monitoring system, a battery pack, and an electric vehicle. A rechargeable battery includes battery units and an MSD switch. The battery units are serially-connected, and the MSD switch is connected between adjacent battery units. The monitoring system includes a BMU and an equal number of CMCs that have one-to-one correspondence with the battery units. The CMCs are divided into CMC groups that meet preset conditions. The monitoring system further includes an equal number of daisy chain buses that are in one-to-one correspondence with the CMC groups. Each CMC group is connected to the BMU through one daisy chain bus. This embodiment helps a battery pack and an electric vehicle to avoid damage caused by a chip on the CMC in a process of plugging or unplugging the MSD switch, and help the CMC accurately monitor the battery units in the rechargeable battery.

Rechargeable battery monitoring system, battery pack and electric vehicle

A storage battery monitoring system and method are provided. The system includes n cell monitoring cells (CMCs), a control module (), and several daisy chain buses. The n CMCs are configured to monitor a plurality of cell modules electrically connected in a storage battery, and each CMC is configured to monitor at least one of the cell modules. The n CMCs are connected to the control module () through each daisy chain bus. The control module is configured to receive monitoring data of the plurality of cell modules uploaded by the n CMCs through a transmission path formed by at least one daisy chain bus. The control module () is further configured to identify a fault location according to the monitoring data when a fault occurring to the transmission path is detected, and adjust the transmission path according to the fault location so as to receive the monitoring data.

Storage battery monitoring system and method

Embodiments of this application disclose a rechargeable battery monitoring system, a battery pack, and an electric vehicle. The rechargeable battery monitoring system includes multiple CMCs, a BMU, and a first bus. Each CMC is connected to the first bus and configured to monitor at least one battery module of a battery pack. The BMU is connected to the first bus and configured to communicate with at least one CMC. The rechargeable battery monitoring system further includes multiple pull-up and/or pull-down modules disposed on a communication path between two adjacent CMCs as part of the first bus. This rechargeable battery monitoring system can stabilize a level on the communication path between the two adjacent CMCs, mitigate an impact caused by external interference onto communication, and improve communication quality.

The present application provides a method for controlling a power-down detection circuit, a controller and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving, by a controller of a power-down detection circuit, a power-down signal, wherein the power-down signal is sent from a power-down detection sub-circuit of the power-down detection circuit when it is determined by the power-down detection sub-circuit that an output voltage of a low-voltage side power supply of the power-down detection circuit is smaller than a threshold, and wherein the power-down detection sub-circuit and the controller are powered by the low-voltage side power supply; controlling, by the controller, a memory of the power-down detection circuit to record fault information, wherein the fault information comprises current information of a high voltage bus sensed by a high-voltage side current sensor of the power-down detection circuit; and performing, by the controller, a fault diagnosis based on the fault information.

Method for controlling a power-down detection circuit, controller and computer readable storage media

Embodiments of the present application provide a detection apparatus of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and a battery management system, the detection apparatus including a waveform generator, where the waveform generator is integrated in a battery monitoring chip; an excitation resistor; a detection resistor; and an MOS switch, wherein the waveform generator is configured to generate a pulse waveform, a gate electrode of the MOS switch is configured to receive the pulse waveform; the excitation resistor is configured to enable the battery to generate an excitation current when the gate electrode of the MOS switch receives the pulse waveform; the detection resistor is configured to convert the excitation current into an excitation voltage, the excitation voltage is configured to calculate an electrochemical impedance of the battery, The detection apparatus of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in embodiments of the present application can lower cost and volume of EIS detection.

Detection apparatus of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and battery management system

The present disclosure provides a high-voltage interlock system and a detection method thereof. The high-voltage interlock system includes a target control device and at least one non-target control device connected in sequence. The target control device includes a detection unit, a current generation controller, a current generator, and a second high-voltage component. A controller in the target control device generates a pulse drive signal for driving the current generation controller, receives a detection result signal output from a current detector, and determines a fault of a high-voltage interlock circuit according to the detection result signal; the current generation controller generates an alternating voltage signal according to the pulse drive signal; the current generator outputs an alternating current signal according to the alternating voltage signal; the current detector acquires a voltage signal across a detection resistor set and outputs the detection result signal.

High-voltage interlock system and detection method thereof

A circuit includes: an isolation power module, a first and second sampling modules, a first and second sampling points, a processor. A first terminal of the first sampling module is connected to a positive electrode of a battery pack and first terminal of a positive switch module, a second terminal of the first sampling module is connected to a negative electrode of the battery pack and a first terminal of the negative switch module, a third terminal of the first sampling module is connected to a first reference voltage end; a first terminal of the second sampling module is connected to a second terminal of the positive switch module and a positive electrode of the isolation power module, a second terminal of the second sampling module is connected to a second terminal of the negative switch module and a negative electrode of the isolation power module.

Insulation detection circuit, detection method and battery management system

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of battery technologies, and disclose a pre-charging circuit for a high voltage battery pack and a pre-charging method therefor. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, during a charging process, a control module switches on a charging switching module and switches off a charging pre-charging module after determining that a voltage at the first end of the charging switching module and a voltage at the second end of the charging switching module comply with a first constraint relationship; during a discharging process, the control module switches on the main positive switching module and switches off the main positive pre-charging module after determining that a voltage at the first end of the main positive switching module and a voltage at the second end of the main positive switching module comply with a second constraint relationship.

Pre-charging circuit and pre-charging method for high voltage battery pack

Battery heating systems and methods are provided in the present disclosure. A battery heating system includes: a temperature sampling module configured to collect a target sampling temperature; a first switch configured to be turned on or off based on a driving signal; a control module configured to determine, based on the target sampling temperature and a correspondence between the target sampling temperature and the driving signal, a duration where the first switch is controlled to be turned on and a duration where the first switch is controlled to be turned off, and generate the driving signal; and a heating module configured to heat the battery module set using an output power of the battery module set when the first switch is turned on, and stop heating the battery module set when the first switch is turned off. As a result, fineness of battery heating can be improved.

Battery heating system and method

Disclosed are a load state detection circuit and method. A microcontroller is connected to a switch unit which is connected between a detecting power supply and a load to be tested. A voltage sampling point is formed at either terminal of the load to be tested, and the voltage sampling circuit is connected between the voltage sampling point and the microcontroller. The voltage sampling circuit is configured to sample a voltage at the voltage sampling point. The microcontroller is configured to connect the load to be tested and the detecting power supply by controlling the switch unit, and determine whether a fault exists in the load to be tested according to a received voltage at the voltage sampling point sampled by the voltage sampling circuit, before connecting the load to be tested with the drive power supply.

Load state detection circuit and method

The disclosure provides high voltage interlock circuit and detection method. The circuit comprises: a power module, a positive electrode of the power module being connected to one end of a current generating module; the current generating module, the other end of the current generating module being connected to a first terminal of a high voltage component module to inject a constant DC current into the high voltage component module; a first voltage dividing module, one end of the first voltage dividing module being connected to a second terminal of the high voltage component module, and the other end of the first voltage dividing module being connected to a negative electrode of the power module and a power ground; and a processing module to determine a fault of the high voltage component module based on a first voltage collected from the second terminal of the high voltage component module.

High voltage interlock circuit and detection method

The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a battery heating system and method, and relate to the field of batteries. The battery heating system may include: a temperature sampling module configured to collect a target sampling temperature; a control module configured to control a heating module to enter a first heating mode when the target sampling temperature is not lower than a preset expected heating temperature; the heating module configured to enter the first heating mode to intermittently heat the battery module set by using a first portion of external electric energy, so as to maintain the target sampling temperature at the preset expected heating temperature.

The present disclosure discloses a detection circuit and method. The detection circuit comprises: a controller, a battery pack, a main positive switch module, a main negative switch module and at least one detection loop. The controller collects voltages of a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery pack and a voltage between external sides of the main positive switch module and the main negative switch module when turning on the main positive or negative switch module and after turning on any detection loop, and obtains resistance values of insulation resistors of the external sides according to resistance values of insulation resistors of internal sides of the main positive and negative switch module, as well as the voltages of the positive electrode and the negative electrode and the voltage between the external sides of the main positive switch module and the main negative switch module, which are collected twice.

Detection circuit and method

The present application provides a high voltage detection circuit and method. The high voltage detection circuit includes a current adjustment module configured to be turned on or off to adjust a current in a high voltage circuit, a first detection module configured to provide a detection signal and transmit the detection signal to a processor module and the processor module configured to determine whether a master positive switch or a master negative switch is in malfunction according to a desired operation state of the master positive switch, a desired operation state of the master negative switch and the detection signal.

High voltage detection circuit and method

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a battery management system. In the system, a first microcontroller is connected to a second microcontroller; a battery monitoring module is configured to monitor a state of the battery pack and transmit the state of the battery pack to the first and the second microcontroller respectively via a state signal of the battery pack, and control the state of the battery pack according to a control instruction from the first and the second microcontroller; a sampling control module is configured to detect the state of a high voltage loop of the battery pack, and transmit the state of the high voltage loop to the first and the second microcontroller respectively via a state signal of the high voltage loop of the battery pack, and control the state of the high voltage loop according to a control instruction from the first and the second microcontroller.

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Qiandeng Li