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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2013
Method and apparatus for performing active balancing control with aid of voltage information sharing
Fu-sheng Tsai, Taoyuan County, TW;
Fu-Sheng Tsai, Taoyuan County, TW;
Other;
Abstract
A method for performing active balancing control with aid of voltage information sharing is provided. The method is applied to a power supply device. The method includes the steps of: obtaining first voltage information from a specific battery module of a set of battery modules connected in series within the power supply device, where each battery module includes at least one battery cell; obtaining second voltage information from at least one other battery module of the set of battery modules; and determining whether to enable at least one portion of an active balancing circuit of the specific battery module according to the first voltage information and the second voltage information. An associated apparatus is further provided.