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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2018
Applicant:
Tdk Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Takayuki Mino, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Yamashima, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
TDK CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01); H01M 10/42 (2006.01); H01M 10/0525 (2010.01); H01M 2/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/0019 (2013.01); H01M 2/1077 (2013.01); H01M 10/0525 (2013.01); H01M 10/425 (2013.01); H01M 10/482 (2013.01); H02J 7/00 (2013.01); H02J 7/0021 (2013.01); H01M 2010/4271 (2013.01); H02J 2207/10 (2020.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a battery module that includes an external power supply terminal, a battery cell, a monitoring circuit that monitors a state of the battery cell, and a switch circuit that supplies one of an electric power supplied from the external power supply terminal and an electric power supplied from the battery cell to the monitoring circuit based on a switching signal.