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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2015
Applicant:
Makita Corporation, Anjo-shi, Aichi, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuyuki Sakakibara, Okazaki, JP;
Assignee:
MAKITA CORPORATION, Anjo-shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/0019 (2013.01); H02J 7/0026 (2013.01); H02J 7/0021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A battery pack in one aspect of the present disclosure comprises: a plurality of battery blocks, a plurality of conduction/interruption units, and a control unit. The control unit selects one battery block to be electrically connected to an external device from among the plurality of battery blocks, on the basis of detection results obtained from a state detection unit, and sets the conduction/interruption unit corresponding to the selected battery block to a conducting state.