Battery Management System for Measuring Remaining Charges in a Battery Packet with Multi-Cells

• US 20100217552A1
• Filed: 02/22/2010
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Neotec Semiconductor, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Neotec Semiconductor, Ltd.
• Inventors: Shiue, Tzong-Liang, Hsu, Hung-An
• Application Number:
  US12/709,689
• Publication Number:
  US 20100217552A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/63
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3833 using analog integrators, e.g. coulomb-meters
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/396 Acquisition or processing of data for testing or for monitoring individual cells or groups of cells within a battery
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/482 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/486 for measuring temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0016 using shunting, discharge or bypass circuits
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery management system for measuring remaining charges in a battery packet with multi-cells is disclosed. The battery comprises electric property and non-electric property measuring modules, multi-cells, a slave communication protocol controller, and a battery protective circuit. The portable device comprises an embedded controller and a charge gauge module and a master communication protocol controller. The parameters demanded for calculating the remaining charges of the multi-cells are measured by the electric property and non-electric property measurement modules and transferred through the SMBus interface to the embedded controller and the charge gauge module. Therefore, the battery management system can manage the remaining charges of every cell in the multi-cells without a microprocessor in the battery packet.

Claims

1. A battery management system for measuring remaining charges in a battery packet with multi-cells comprising:

a battery packet having multi-cells for a portable device, electric property and non-electric property measuring modules, a slave communication protocol controller, and a battery protective integrated circuit, wherein said electric property and non-electric property measuring modules are connected in between said multi-cells and the slave communication protocol controller to provide data of electric property and non-electric property of every cell in said multi-cells and said data are transferred to said slave communication protocol controller, further, said slave communication protocol controller provided to receive first control parameters and second control parameters from the portable device so as to manage said multi-cells;

a charge gauge module and a master communication protocol controller installed in the portable device, said master communication protocol controller inquiring said data of electric property and non electric property of every cell and calculating remaining charging of each cell of said multi-cells and transferring said first parameters and said second parameters to said slave communication protocol controller.

2. The battery management system according to claim 1, wherein said data of electric property and non-electric property comprises the terminal voltage of every cell of said multi-cells.

3. The battery management system according to claim 2, wherein said data further comprises output current from every cell and input current into every cell of said multi-cells.

4. The battery management system according to claim 1, wherein said first control parameters are provided to control charging and discharging of every cell of said multi-cells.

5. The battery management system according to claim 1, wherein said second control parameters are provided to control charging and discharging of said battery packet.

6. The battery management system according to claim 1, wherein said charge gauge module is installed at an embedded controller of said portable device.

7. The battery management system according to claim 6, wherein said charge gauge module is in a form of software or firmware written in said embedded controller.

8. The battery management system according to claim 6, wherein said embedded controller is installed in a key board controller of said portable device.

9. The battery management system according to claim 1 wherein said master and slave communication protocol controllers are selected from the group consisting of SMBus, I²C, and HDQ.

10. The battery management system according to claim 1 wherein said electric property and non-electric property measuring modules comprise a coulomb counter to count current into and out from every cell of said multi-cells.