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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Lg Innotek Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
LG INNOTEK CO., LTD., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 10/44 (2006.01); H01M 10/46 (2006.01); H02J 3/38 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02S 40/38 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02S 40/38 (2014.12); H02J 3/381 (2013.01); H02J 7/00712 (2020.01); H02J 2300/24 (2020.01);
Abstract
One embodiment discloses a DC-DC converter which, in a solar-related energy storage system, cuts-off the over-discharging of a battery, and a control method thereof. Specifically, disclosed are a DC-DC converter which protects a battery by appropriately switching between a sleep mode which minimizes battery consumption by maintaining only minimized functions and a cut-off mode which prevents the battery from over-discharging by physically cutting off a circuit connected to the battery, and a control method thereof.