Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for supplying power from a multi-cell battery to a single-cell power management system
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Application No.: US16937377Application Date: 2020-07-23
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Publication No.: US11721992B2Publication Date: 2023-08-08
- Inventor: Peter J. Bartels , Javier Alfaro , Kevin D. Elliott
- Applicant: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US IL Chicago
- Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
- Current Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Chicago
- Agency: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
- Main IPC: H02J7/00
- IPC: H02J7/00

Abstract:
Systems and methods for supplying power from a multi-cell battery to a single-cell power management integrated circuit. One implementation of the system includes a voltage converter circuit, a control circuit, and a signal buffer circuit. The voltage converter circuit is configured to scale a positive battery terminal voltage signal received from the multi-cell battery to generate a scaled voltage signal. The control circuit is configured to select one of the scaled voltage signal or a cell voltage signal received from the multi-cell battery. The control circuit is also configured to output a high-impedance single-cell power signal including the selected one of the scaled voltage signal or the cell voltage signal. The signal buffer circuit is configured to buffer the high-impedance single-cell power signal to generate a low-impedance single-cell power signal for a voltage sense pin of the single-cell power management integrated circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220029435A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUPPLYING POWER FROM A MULTI-CELL BATTERY TO A SINGLE-CELL POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2022-01-27
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