BATTERY PACK AND SECONDARY BATTERY SYSTEM

• US 20100308775A1
• Filed: 01/15/2009
• Published: 12/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Mouri, Fumitaka, Nakahama, Takafumi, Kakuchi, Takeo, Monden, Yukitaka, Mizutani, Mami, Morikawa, Ryuichi
• Application Number:
  US12/812,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20100308775A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/162
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/548 on opposite sides of the cell
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/55 on the same side of the cell
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/553 Terminals adapted for prismatic, pouch or rectangular cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 50/555 Window-shaped terminals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery pack is a battery pack chargeable a normal charge and a quick charge, and includes: a normal charging terminal 10 (11, 12) configured to apply a current of a first predetermined value to a battery cell; and a quick charging terminal 30 (31, 32) configured to apply to the battery cell a current of a second predetermined value exceeding the first predetermined value, the quick charging terminal having a different shape from a shape of the normal charging terminal.

Claims

1. A battery pack chargeable a normal charge and a quick charge, comprising:

a normal charging terminal configured to apply a current of a first predetermined value to a battery cell; and

a quick charging terminal configured to apply to the battery cell a current of a second predetermined value exceeding the current of the first predetermined value, the quick charging terminal having a shape different from a shape of the normal charging terminal.

2. The battery pack according to claim 1, comprising:

a normal charge protection switching element provided between the normal charging terminal and the battery cell; and

a quick charge protection switching element provided between the quick charging terminal and the battery cell.

3. A secondary battery system comprising:

a normal charge charger configured to output a current of a first predetermined value;

a quick charge charger configured to output a current of a second predetermined value exceeding the first predetermined value; and

a battery pack,

wherein the battery pack includes;

a normal charging terminal configured to apply to a battery cell the current of the first predetermined value outputted from the normal charge charger;

a normal charge protection switching element provided between the normal charging terminal and the battery cell; and

a quick charging terminal configured to apply directly to the battery cell the current of the second predetermined value outputted from the quick charge charger, the quick charging terminal having a shape different from a shape of the normal charging terminal, and

the quick charge charger includes a quick charge protection switching element provided at a stage preceding an output terminal which outputs the current of the second predetermined value.

4. The secondary battery system according to claim 3, comprising:

a communication line which allows the quick charge charger and the battery pack to transmit and receive information therebetween,

wherein the quick charge charger controls whether or not to output the current of the second predetermined value based on the information transmitted from the battery pack.

5. The secondary battery system according to claim 4, comprising:

a communication line which allows the quick charge charger and the battery pack to transmit and receive information therebetween,

wherein the normal charge charger controls whether or not to output the current of the first predetermined value based on the information transmitted from the battery pack.