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Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 29, 2013
Applicant:

Renesas Electronics Corporation, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Hidekazu Nagato, Kawasaki, JP;

Hiromasa Takahashi, Kawasaki, JP;

Masaki Komatsu, Kawasaki, JP;

Kenta Kobayashi, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

Renesas Electronics Corporation, Koutou-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/362 (2013.01);
Abstract

A battery control IC includes a voltage measurement unit that measures, in a normal current mode, a voltage value of each of a plurality of unit battery cells forming a battery pack, and measures, in a short-time large-current mode, a voltage value of a unit battery cell that has exhibited a lowest voltage value in the normal current mode, and a calculation unit that calculates an available power value of the battery pack in the short-time large-current mode based on a voltage value, measured in the short-time large-current mode, of the unit battery cell that has exhibited the lowest voltage value in the normal current mode.


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