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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:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2013
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/0063 (2013.01); H02J 7/0016 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7055 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to an example embodiment, a battery system includes: a plurality of modules, each including a plurality of cells connected to each other in series and a cell balancing circuit performing a balancing operation between the plurality of the cells based on voltages of the plurality of the cells; and a module balancing circuit performing a balancing operation between the modules based on voltages of the modules.