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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2018
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Linyu Sun, Anjo, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A power supply system includes a plurality of batteries, a plurality of battery control devices, and a charging device configured to receive charging information of the batteries transmitted from the battery control devices. The batteries are connected in parallel. Each of the battery control devices is configured to set any one of the batteries as a target battery, and control a charging state of the target battery. Each of the battery control devices is configured to transmit and receive an internal resistance value obtained from the target battery to and from other battery control devices, and generate and transmit charging information of the target battery based on the internal resistance values of the batteries. The charging device is configured to execute charging processing of the batteries based on the charging information of the batteries.