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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2016
Applicant:
Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Inventor:
Bart De Cock, Haacht, BE;
Assignee:
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/0019 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method of forming a balancing circuit for a plurality of battery cells includes configuring the balancing circuit to selectively pre-charge a transfer element from a power source, and to subsequently selectively couple the transfer element to one battery cell of the plurality of battery cells to transfer energy from the transfer element to the one battery cell.