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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2013
Applicant:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 10/48 (2006.01); G01R 31/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M 10/482 (2013.01); G01R 31/362 (2013.01); G01R 31/3658 (2013.01);
Abstract
A battery monitoring apparatus monitors a battery pack configured by a plurality of battery cells. The battery monitoring apparatus includes a main monitoring unit, a sub monitoring unit and a control unit. The main monitoring unit monitors a plurality of physical quantities indicating a battery state of the battery pack. The sub monitoring unit monitors a part of the physical quantities separately from the main monitoring unit. The control unit detects malfunction of the battery pack on the basis of at least one of a monitoring result of the main monitoring unit and a monitoring result of the sub monitoring unit.