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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2019
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Naoki Yanagizawa, Nagakute, JP;
Shuji Tomura, Nagakute, JP;
Kyosuke Tanemura, Nagakute, JP;
Kazuo Ootsuka, Nagakute, JP;
Shigeaki Goto, Nagakute, JP;
Junta Izumi, Nagoya, JP;
Kenji Kimura, Miyoshi, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
In a power supply device including a plurality of battery modules each including a secondary battery, in which the battery modules are connected in series to one another according to a gate driving signal from a controller and in each of the battery modules, the gate driving signal is delayed in a gate driving signal processing circuit included in the battery module and then transmitted from upstream to downstream of the series connection, an ID is provided for each of the battery modules by transmitting an ID setting signal for providing an ID unique to the battery module using a gate signal line for transmitting the gate driving signal.