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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
20120229945 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY ASSEMBLY - There is provided a charge/discharge control circuit and a battery assembly including an accurate overcurrent protecting circuit with low consumption current characteristics. The charge/discharge control circuit comprises a current protecting circuit including: a reference voltage circuit having a reference transistor for detecting overcurrent flowing through a control transistor to turn it on, and a constant current circuit; and a comparison circuit for comparing voltage on the reference voltage circuit with voltage generated by overcurrent flowing through the control transistor, wherein when no overcurrent flows, the electric current flowing through the reference voltage circuit is interrupted to reduce power consumption. | 09-13-2012 |
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 |
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 |
20140217988 | CHARGE/DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - The level shifter circuit includes: a first transistor including a gate connected to an input terminal of the level shifter circuit and a source connected to a first power supply terminal; a first resistor including one terminal connected to the input terminal of the level shifter circuit; a second transistor including a gate connected to another terminal of the first resistor, a drain connected to a drain of the first transistor, and a source connected to a terminal for inputting the voltage subjected to the level conversion; and a third transistor including a gate and a drain connected to the another terminal of the first resistor, and a source connected to the terminal for inputting the voltage subjected to the level conversion. Further, the battery device includes the charge/discharge control circuit. | 08-07-2014 |
20140239884 | CHARGE AND DISCHARGE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND BATTERY DEVICE - Provided is a charge and discharge control circuit and a battery device which ensure high safety, even when a charger is reversely connected. The charge and discharge control circuit includes a consumption current increase circuit for supplying a current from a power supply terminal to a ground terminal, the consumption current increase circuit including a switch circuit configured to be turned on in response to a detection signal from a charger reverse connection detection circuit, which indicates that a charger is reversely connected. | 08-28-2014 |
20140248514 | BATTERY DEVICE - Provided is a battery device with high safety, which has improved accuracy of overcurrent detection. In the battery device, an overcurrent detection terminal of a battery state monitoring circuit is connected to a node between a discharge control switch and a charge control switch via a resistor. | 09-04-2014 |
20140253044 | CHARGING/DISCHARGING CONTROL CIRCUIT, CHARGING/DISCHARGING CONTROL DEVICE, AND BATTERY DEVICE - There is provided a battery device in which the accuracy of an over-current detection current value is high to have high safety. In a charging/discharging control circuit, a reference voltage circuit of an over-current detection circuit is configured to include a constant current circuit, a resistor, and a transistor having a resistance value that varies with a voltage of a secondary cell, that are connected to both ends of the secondary cell, and outputs, as a reference voltage, a voltage that is generated due to the flowing of a current of the constant current circuit to the resistor and the transistor. | 09-11-2014 |