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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2018
Applicant:
Gs Yuasa International Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Tomoshige Inoue, Kyoto, JP;
Katsuhisa Michinaga, Kyoto, JP;
Takatomo Yoshioka, Kyoto, JP;
Takashi Ikeda, Kyoto, JP;
Kota Seto, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
GS Yuasa International Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/0014 (2013.01); H02J 7/0013 (2013.01); H02J 7/0016 (2013.01); H02J 7/0048 (2020.01); H02J 7/007182 (2020.01); Y02E 60/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A management devicecomprising a main control partthat, during charging of a plurality of power storage elementsconnected in series, outputs a first pull-down signal to a converterso as to lower a charging voltage when the cell voltage of any of the power storage elementsis equal to or greater than a first threshold value.