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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2013
Aleksandar Prodic, Toronto, CA;
Mahmoud Shousha, Toronto, CA;
Victor Marten, Flushing, NY (US);
Ioannis Milios, New York, NY (US);
Aleksandar Prodic, Toronto, CA;
Mahmoud Shousha, Toronto, CA;
Victor Marten, Flushing, NY (US);
Ioannis Milios, New York, NY (US);
Sendyne Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
What is described is a battery management architecture that eliminates previously described problems of the previous solutions and compensates for the extra cost of a cell-balancing circuit. These advantages are achieved by integrating the voltage step-up and balancing functions as well as charging functions inside a single converter topology. Instead of providing the entire output voltage and power, the converter in this configuration is merely assisting the battery by providing a portion of the power delivered to the load, rather than the entirety of the power delivered to the load. This portion of power is proportional to the difference between the output and the battery pack voltages.