Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080203971 | Battery state monitoring circuit and battery device - An object of the present invention is to provide a battery state monitoring circuit and a battery device which are capable of normally operating when a charger ( | 08-28-2008 |
20080224664 | Charging and discharging control circuit and charging type power supply device - An overcharge detecting comparator ( | 09-18-2008 |
20090079395 | Charge and discharge control circuit and rechargeable power supply device - A charge and discharge control circuit which accommodates pulsed charge and pulsed discharge and can control charge and discharge of a secondary battery with safety, and a rechargeable power supply device having the same built therein are provided. The charge and discharge control circuit includes a delay time switching circuit for shortening a delay time of overcharge detection after charge inhibition is canceled. When overcharge is detected after the charge inhibition is canceled, the charge is inhibited in a delay time which is shorter than a normal delay time of the overcharge detection. | 03-26-2009 |
20090185323 | OVERHEAT PROTECTION CIRCUIT - In order to provide an overheat protection circuit having a small mounting area, the overheat protection circuit includes: a resistor bridge circuit which includes: a plurality of resistors each having a temperature coefficient; an input terminal; and an output terminal; and a comparator circuit connected to the output terminal and the input terminal of the resistor bridge circuit. Parts are each provided in the vicinity of one of the plurality of resistors each having the temperature coefficient, and the comparator circuit outputs an overheat detection signal when a temperature of one of the parts is equal to or higher than an overheat detection temperature. With this structure, a large number of parts can be protected from overheating by a minimum number of overheat protection circuits. Therefore, a circuit scale becomes smaller, and hence a cost for overheat protection becomes lower. | 07-23-2009 |
20090213511 | BATTERY PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided is a battery protection circuit and a battery device which may be manufactured at lower cost. Before all terminals of a battery protection circuit are each connected to batteries, even when a logical circuit malfunctions by an operation of a parasitic bipolar transistor formed by P-wells due to a connection order in which the batteries are connected, the logical circuit is reset by an operation of a parasitic bipolar transistor formed by the P-wells. For this reason, a charge/discharge path of the batteries is not interrupted due to the connection order. Accordingly, no limitation is placed on the connection order. | 08-27-2009 |
20090243543 | CHARGE AND DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided is a charge and discharge control circuit capable of further preventing poor charge of a battery, and a battery device. Cell balance periods are detected before charge of respective batteries is stopped even when an overcharge detection voltage of a certain charge and discharge control circuit becomes lower than a cell balance period detection voltage thereof due to process variations occurring in mass production of the charge and discharge control circuits. That is, the charge of the respective batteries is stopped after cell balance control. Therefore, the respective batteries can be further prevented from being poorly charged. | 10-01-2009 |
20090243546 | CHARGE AND DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided are a charge and discharge control circuit capable of reducing a circuit size, and a battery device. In a charger reverse connection detection circuit ( | 10-01-2009 |
20100194343 | BATTERY STATE MONITORING CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided are a battery state monitoring circuit and a battery device which are capable of inhibiting discharge without enabling an overdischarge cell balance function when an overcurrent detection circuit detects a discharge overcurrent, without the need for an additional terminal of the battery state monitoring circuit. A detection signal of the overcurrent detection circuit is input to each of a communication terminal for overdischarge signal and a communication terminal for overcharge signal included in the battery state monitoring circuit provided on a side of the overcurrent detection circuit. An overdischarge cell balance circuit outputs a cell balance signal when an overdischarge detection signal indicates an overdischarge non-detected state, an overdischarge signal indicates an overdischarge detected state, and an overcharge signal indicates an overcharge non-detected state. | 08-05-2010 |
20110050172 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND CHARGING TYPE POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - Provided are a charge/discharge control circuit and a charging type power supply device which include an intermediate terminal disconnection detection circuit having low current consumption. In the charge/discharge control circuit, a constant current circuit serving as an intermediate terminal disconnection detection circuit is provided to a terminal to which secondary batteries are connected, and includes a depletion type metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor and a resistor connected between a gate terminal and a source terminal of the depletion type MOS transistor. | 03-03-2011 |
20110050176 | BATTERY STATE MONITORING CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided are a battery state monitoring circuit and a battery device that are capable of reliably controlling charge by a charger even if a voltage of a secondary battery drops to around 0 V. In the battery device provided with the battery state monitoring circuit, respective gate voltages of a P-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor and an N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor, which together form a voltage detection circuit for detecting a voltage of around 0 V of the secondary battery, are applied by a voltage dividing resistor circuit that is connected across terminals of the secondary battery. | 03-03-2011 |
20110089906 | BATTERY STATE MONITORING CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided are a battery state monitoring circuit with a small number of terminals and a battery device including the battery state monitoring circuit. An output of an overcharge detection circuit ( | 04-21-2011 |
20110101918 | BATTERY STATE MONITORING CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided are a battery state monitoring circuit capable of detecting disconnection of a battery from a power supply terminal or a ground terminal, and a battery device including the battery state monitoring circuit. The battery state monitoring circuit includes voltage detection circuits provided between the power supply terminal and an intermediate terminal and between the intermediate terminal and another intermediate terminal. For example, if a battery ( | 05-05-2011 |
20110298463 | BATTERY STATE MONITORING CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided are a battery state monitoring circuit and a battery device, in which, even when one secondary battery becomes an overcharged state or an overdischarged state and then a voltage detection circuit operates, power is not consumed in only the one secondary battery. The battery state monitoring circuit includes: a plurality of voltage detection circuits which are provided for a plurality of secondary batteries, respectively, for detecting voltages of the plurality of secondary batteries; and a current bypass circuit provided in each of the plurality of voltage detection circuits, for allowing an operation current of the each of the plurality of voltage detection circuits to flow into a ground terminal. Therefore, when only one secondary battery becomes an overcharged state or an overdischarged state, the battery device operates so that the power of all the secondary batteries is consumed to prevent voltages between the secondary batteries from being unbalanced. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299206 | BATTERY STATE MONITORING CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided is a battery state monitoring circuit which detects that a voltage of a secondary battery has decreased abruptly because of an overcurrent, thereby being capable of protecting a battery device from an abrupt decrease in voltage of the secondary battery caused by the overcurrent. The battery state monitoring circuit includes a voltage comparator circuit and a power supply voltage detection circuit for detecting an abrupt decrease in power supply voltage, in which the voltage comparator circuit detects a normal overcurrent while the power supply voltage detection circuit detects the abrupt decrease in power supply voltage caused by load short-circuit. | 12-08-2011 |
20120056589 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided is a battery device including, in a charge/discharge protection circuit for controlling charge/discharge of a secondary battery by a single bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor, a charge/discharge control circuit with which the number of elements to be used is reduced to reduce the layout area. The charge/discharge control circuit includes a switch circuit for controlling a gate of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor based on an output of a control circuit for controlling the charge/discharge of the secondary battery, the switch circuit including a first terminal connected to a back gate of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor. | 03-08-2012 |
20120056592 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided is a battery device for controlling charge/discharge of a secondary battery by a single bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor, a charge/discharge control circuit with which a leakage current of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor is reduced to perform stable operation. The charge/discharge control circuit includes: a switch circuit for controlling a gate of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor based on an output of a control circuit for controlling the charge/discharge of the secondary battery; and two MOS transistors for preventing back-flow of a charge current and a discharge current. The first MOS transistor has a drain and a back gate which are connected to each other, and a source connected to a drain of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor. The second MOS transistor has a drain and a back gate which are connected to each other, and a source connected to a source of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor. | 03-08-2012 |
20120056593 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided is a battery device including, in a charge/discharge protection circuit for controlling charge/discharge of a secondary battery by a single bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor, a charge/discharge control circuit with which the layout area is reduced and a leakage current of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor is reduced to perform stable operation. The charge/discharge control circuit includes: a switch circuit for controlling a gate of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor based on an output of a control circuit for controlling the charge/discharge of the secondary battery; and two Schottky barrier diodes for preventing back-flow of a charge current and a discharge current. The first Schottky barrier diode has a cathode connected to a drain of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor, and the second Schottky barrier diode has a cathode connected to a source of the bidirectionally conductive field effect transistor. | 03-08-2012 |
20120139493 | CELL BALANCE DEVICE AND BATTERY SYSTEM - Provided are a cell balance device with high cell balance performance and high cell balance speed and requiring no high voltage process, and a battery system including the cell balance devices. The cell balance device includes: three terminals to be connected to secondary batteries; one terminal to be connected to a voltage hold device; three switches provided between the three terminals and the one terminal; and a receiving terminal and a transmitting terminal for a synchronization signal. Alternatively, the cell balance device includes: four terminals to be connected to secondary batteries; two terminals to be connected to a voltage hold device; six switches provided between the four terminals and the two terminals; and a receiving terminal and a transmitting terminal for a synchronization signal. The battery system includes: a plurality of secondary batteries; a plurality of voltage hold devices; a plurality of cell balance devices; and a clock generation circuit. | 06-07-2012 |
20120182065 | RESISTIVE DIVIDER CIRCUIT AND VOLTAGE DETECTION CIRCUIT - A resistive divider circuit capable of preventing an increase in trimming error under a particular condition by eliminating the effects of on resistances of switch elements, and a voltage detection circuit of high precision are provided. The resistive divider circuit includes a plurality of resistance elements connected in series, the resistance elements having weighted resistance values, and switch elements connected in parallel with the respective resistance elements, where it is configured such that ratios between the resistance values of the resistance elements and resistance values of the corresponding switch elements in a shorted state are constant. | 07-19-2012 |
20120299630 | TRIMMING CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - Provided are a trimming circuit which does not need a dedicated terminal to which a current for cutting a fuse is input, and also a semiconductor device including the trimming circuit. The trimming circuit includes: an input terminal connected to a pad which is an external terminal of an internal circuit; a fuse provided between a power supply terminal and an output terminal; and a diode provided between the input terminal and the output terminal. The trimming circuit performs trimming by applying, to the pad, such a voltage that the diode is biased in the forward direction. | 11-29-2012 |
20120313574 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - To solve a problem in that, even after a charge inhibition signal is input from an input terminal and a charge control transistor is turned OFF, if a load is connected between external terminals (EB+, EB−), a discharge current flows, and to solve another problem of power consumption of a charge/discharge control circuit ( | 12-13-2012 |
20130134942 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided are a charge/discharge control circuit having a self-test function, which can dispense with a complicated test device, and a battery device. The battery device includes the charge/discharge control circuits each including a pull-up/pull-down circuit provided at a terminal to which a secondary battery is to be connected. When a self-test start signal is input so as to enter a self-test state, a self-test control circuit controls the pull-up/pull-down circuit, to thereby perform a test on a voltage detection circuit provided at the terminal to which the secondary battery is to be connected. When the self-test is finished, a self-test start signal is output to a next-stage charge/discharge control circuit, to thereby perform a test sequentially on the voltage detection circuits of the cascade-connected charge/discharge control circuits. | 05-30-2013 |
20140167702 | CHARGING AND DISCHARGING CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - There are provided an overcurrent protection circuit which has a smaller circuit area, a charging and discharging control circuit, and a compact battery device. The charging and discharging control circuit includes an overcurrent detection circuit which monitors the voltage of an overcurrent detection resistor connected to an overcurrent detection terminal and which detects the flow of an overcurrent into a secondary battery, an overcurrent release circuit which monitors the voltage at a terminal to which a load is connected through a voltage step-down circuit connected to an overcurrent release terminal and which detects the removal of a load, and a clamping circuit connected to the overcurrent release terminal are provided. The voltage at the overcurrent release terminal is clamped by the voltage step-down circuit and the clamping circuit. | 06-19-2014 |
20140232412 | BATTERY VOLTAGE DETECTOR CIRCUIT - There is provided a battery voltage detector circuit which uses a multiplexer system and which is capable of reducing the influence of the deviation of a detected voltage attributable to a parasitic capacitance, thus improving the accuracy of voltage detection. The battery voltage detector circuit that monitors the voltages of a plurality of batteries connected in series includes a flying capacitor, a multiplexer switch that sequentially connects the flying capacitor to the plurality of batteries, a voltage detecting unit that detects the voltage of the flying capacitor, a first reference potential detecting unit connected to one terminal of the flying capacitor, a second reference potential connecting unit connected to the other terminal of the flying capacitor, and a control circuit that controls the multiplexer switch, the first reference potential connecting unit and the second reference potential connecting unit. | 08-21-2014 |