Battery voltage measurement device

• US 6,639,409 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2001
• Issued: 10/28/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Morimoto, Naohisa, Yudahira, Hirofumi, Maki, Ichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Vincent Q.
• Application Number:
  US10/000,911
• Publication Number:
  US 20020075015A1
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• Field of Search: 324/434, 324/73.1, 324/522, 324/771, 324/439, 324/649
• US Class Current: 324/434
• 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

Abstract

A battery voltage measurement device includes: a plurality of first switching sections, wherein each pair of adjacent first switching sections sequentially selects two output terminals of each of a plurality of battery blocks included in a battery pack so that each of the selected output terminals are connected to one of a pair of conductor wires; a voltage detection section for detecting a battery voltage of each of the plurality of battery blocks via the pair of conductor wires; and second switch sections each being provided on a respective one of the pair of conductor lines and being serially connected to each group of the plurality of first switch sections connected in parallel to one of the pair of conductor lines.

Claims

1. A battery voltage measurement device comprising:

a plurality of first switching sections, wherein each pair of adjacent first switching sections sequentially selects two output terminals of each of a plurality of battery blocks included in a battery pack so that each of the selected output terminals reconnected to one of a pair of conductor wires;

a voltage detection section for detecting a battery voltage of each of the plurality of battery blocks via the pair of conductor wires;

second switch sections each being provided on a respective one of the pair of conductor lines and being serially connected to each group of the plurality of first switch sections connected in parallel to one of the pair of conductor lines;

a capacitance section laid between the pair of conductor lines for selectively storing a battery voltage of each of the battery blocks via the first and second switching sections; and

a third switching section for selectively applying the battery voltage stored in the capacitance section to the voltage detection section,

wherein

the voltage detection section detects the battery voltage stored in the capacitance section via the third switching section.

2. A battery voltage measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the third switching section includes a plurality of serially-connected switching sections.

3. A battery voltage measurement device according to claim 1, wherein the second switching section includes a plurality of serially-connected switching sections.

4. A battery voltage measurement device according to claim 1, wherein a relationship between a parasitic capacitance Ca of the plurality of first switching sections connected in parallel to the pair of conductor lines and a parasitic capacitance Cb of the second switching sections is represented by Ca≧

Cb.

5. A battery voltage measurement device according to claim 1, further comprising overvoltage prevention sections each being connected to a respective one of the pair of conductor lines, which serially connect the first switching sections to second switching sections, in a forward direction from two output terminals of a designated battery block.

6. A battery voltage measurement device comprising:

a battery pack including a plurality of battery blocks;

a plurality of first switching sections, wherein each pair of adjacent first switching sections sequentially selects two output terminals of each of the plurality of battery blocks so that each of the selected output terminals are connected to a respective one of a pair of conductor wires;

a voltage detection section for detecting a battery voltage of each of the plurality of battery blocks via the pair of conductor wires;

second switch sections each being provided on a respective one of the pair of conductor lines and being serially connected to each group of the plurality of first switch sections connected in parallel to one of the pair of conductor lines;

a capacitance section laid between the pair of conductor lines for selectively storing a battery voltage of each of the battery blocks via the first and second switching sections; and

a third switching section for selectively applying the battery voltage stored in the capacitance section to the voltage detection section,

wherein

the voltage detection section detects the batter voltage stored in the capacitance section via the third switching section.

7. A battery voltage measurement device according to claim 6, wherein the third switching section includes a plurality of serially-connected switching sections.

8. A battery voltage measurement device according to claim 6, wherein the second switching section includes a plurality of serially-connected switching sections.

9. A battery voltage measurement device according to claim 6, wherein a relationship between a parasitic capacitance Ca of the plurality f first switching sections connected in parallel to the pair of conductor lines and a parasitic capacitance Cb of the second switching sections is represented by Ca≧

Cb.

10. A battery voltage measurement device according to claim 6, further comprising overvoltage prevention sections each being connect d to a respective one of the pair of conductor lines, which serially connect the first switching sections to the second switching sections, in a forward direction from two output terminals of a designated battery block.