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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
May. 17, 2019
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Takuya Egashira, Hyogo, JP;
Noriharu Kobayashi, Hyogo, JP;
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Daito, JP;
Abstract
The power supply device including: a plurality of secondary battery cells each including a gas discharge valve for discharging internal gas; a plurality of voltage detection lines for detecting voltage of the corresponding plurality of secondary battery cells; a plurality of current fuses provided in the respective plurality of voltage detection lines to shut off current flow when currents flowing through the respective voltage detection lines exceed a predetermined value; and gas guide path communicating with the gas discharge valve to discharge gas discharged from the gas discharge valve to the outside. At least one of the plurality of current fuses is disposed in gas guide path, and is composed of thermal fuse that shuts off current flow depending on temperature of the gas discharged from the gas discharge valve.