Monitoring apparatus for a series assembly of battery modules
US6020717A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 6, 1995 |
| Grant date | Feb 1, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 6, 2015 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02T90/16
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Voltage monitoring units are connected in parallel to each of battery modules constituting a battery pack, and they measure the voltages; photocouplers which receive outputs of the units as the primary inputs generate secondary outputs which are electrically insulated from the primary inputs; and the secondary outputs are transmitted to an external control apparatus.
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