公开(公告)号：US20160178706A1

公开(公告)日：2016-06-23

申请号：US14573232

申请日：2014-12-17

Applicant: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： CHIH-PENG LIU ,  WEI-MIN HSIAO ,  FU-MIN FANG ,  KUO-KUANG JEN ,  MING-LIANG HUANG ,  SHU-HSIEN WEN

IPC: G01R31/36

CPC classification number: G01R31/392 ,  G01R31/367 ,  G01R31/3835 ,  G01R31/389

Abstract: A method and apparatus of detecting the states of a battery involve passing test-oriented charging and discharging pulse pair to a battery under test, and retrieving parameters of the battery, such as voltage, current, and temperature, which respond to the charging and discharging pulse pair, so as to estimate the battery states. The battery states include information pertaining to open-circuit voltage, internal resistance, capacitance, state of charge, and state of health of the battery. The battery state-related information is conducive to quick battery state detection and grading.

Abstract translation: 检测电池状态的方法和装置包括将测试导向的充电和放电脉冲对传送到被测电池，以及检索对充电和放电作出响应的电池的诸如电压，电流和温度的参数 脉冲对，以估计电池状态。 电池状态包括关于电池的开路电压，内部电阻，电容，充电状态和健康状况的信息。 电池状态相关信息有助于快速的电池状态检测和分级。

公开(公告)号：US20190182102A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-13

申请号：US15837026

申请日：2017-12-11

Applicant: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： WEI-MIN HSIAO ,  JENG-CHYAN LIN ,  KUO-KUANG JEN ,  FU-MIN FANG

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/40

CPC classification number: H04L41/0654 ,  H04L12/40019 ,  H04L12/40045 ,  H04L12/40195 ,  H04L2012/40215

Abstract: An electrical system having a master node, at least one slave node and a bus linked to both of the master node and the slave node is illustrated. The master node check whether a reception register of the slave node does not receives a new data for a first time period, and resets the slave node while the reception register of the slave node does not receives the new data for the first time period; and the slave node checks whether the reception register of the slave node does not receives the new data for a second time period, and resets the slave node itself while the reception register of the slave node does not receives the new data for the second time period. Therefore, the communication stability of the electrical system can be enhanced.

公开(公告)号：US20180154794A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-07

申请号：US15370889

申请日：2016-12-06

Applicant: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： WEI-MIN HSIAO ,  KUO-KUANG JEN ,  JENG-CHYAN LIN ,  HSUN-MING HSIEN ,  FU-MIN FANG

IPC: B60L11/18 ,  H02J7/00 ,  B60L8/00 ,  B60L7/10

CPC classification number: B60L11/1866 ,  B60L7/16 ,  B60L8/003 ,  B60L50/50 ,  B60L58/14 ,  B60L58/22 ,  B60L2240/547 ,  H02J7/0016 ,  Y02T10/7055

Abstract: Electric vehicle range extending apparatus includes a step-down voltage provision unit, cell voltage sensing unit, cell switching unit, and control unit. The step-down voltage provision unit has an input port to be coupled to the main battery pack or an auxiliary battery pack, and an output port to output a power balancing signal. The cell voltage sensing unit is for being coupled to the battery cells and sensing individual voltages of the battery cells. The cell switching unit, including a plurality of switches, is coupled to the battery cells respectively, and coupled to the output port. The control unit, coupled to the cell voltage sensing unit, step-down voltage provision unit, and cell switching unit, is for controlling the cell switching unit based on the individual voltages of the battery cells so as to apply the power balancing signal to at least one of the battery cells selectively.

公开(公告)号：US20220285761A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-08

申请号：US17190435

申请日：2021-03-03

Applicant: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： FU-MIN FANG ,  CHIH-HSIEN CHUNG ,  GWO-HUEI YOU ,  KUO-KUANG JEN

IPC: H01M10/6568 ,  H01M10/613 ,  H01M50/522 ,  H01M50/209 ,  H01M10/647 ,  H01M50/211 ,  H01M10/653 ,  H01M50/507 ,  H01M50/249

Abstract: A liquid cooling battery module includes a collector, a cell liquid cooler, a plurality of cells, a base, an upper lid and a plurality of copper busbars. The cell liquid cooler has a plurality of multi-port extrusion tubes spaced apart equidistantly and parallelly. The collector is in communication with the multi-port extrusion tubes to thereby form a cooling liquid circulation space. The collector has therein an adaptor in communication with the cooling liquid circulation space. The cells are disposed between the multi-port extrusion tubes parallelly and alternately. The base is disposed below the cell liquid cooler. A plurality of cell positioning slots are disposed at the bottom of the base and adapted to contain the cells. The multi-port extrusion tubes serve as heat-dissipating tubes between the cells to enable the liquid cooling battery module to control temperature and attain uniform distribution of temperature quickly and effectively by liquid cooling.

公开(公告)号：US20190181654A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-13

申请号：US15837114

申请日：2017-12-11

Applicant: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： WEI-MIN HSIAO ,  JENG-CHYAN LIN ,  KUO-KUANG JEN ,  FU-MIN FANG

IPC: H02J7/00

Abstract: A charging method for a battery set with a plurality of battery cells, having steps of performing a serial charging on the battery cells; determining whether one of the battery cells reaches a saturation voltage; and performing a uniform separately charging on the battery cells when one of the battery cells reaches the saturation voltage, wherein the uniform separately charging comprises sorting the battery cells according to cell voltages of the battery cells; and sequentially and separately charging the sorted battery cells to a Nth segmented voltage in a Nth segmentation, wherein N is a positive integer from 1 to K, and K is a positive integer larger than 1. The charging method of the present disclosure can reduce the temperature rising of the battery cell due to the longtime charging.

公开(公告)号：US20180152028A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-31

申请号：US15361321

申请日：2016-11-25

Applicant: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： WEI-MIN HSIAO ,  KUO-KUANG JEN ,  JENG-CHYAN LIN ,  HSUN-MING HSIEN ,  FU-MIN FANG

IPC: H02J7/00 ,  H01M10/48 ,  H01M10/44 ,  H01M10/42 ,  H02J7/35

CPC classification number: H02J7/0019 ,  H01M10/425 ,  H01M10/441 ,  H01M10/482 ,  H01M2010/4271 ,  H02J7/35

Abstract: A battery active-balancing system comprises an external balancing power; a buck converter having a first side-winding and second side-winding induced thereby, the first and second side-windings each having positive and negative terminals; a battery comprising series-connected cell-units each having positive and negative terminals; a cell voltage-sensing unit coupled to the battery to sense voltage of the cell-units; a main switch component coupled to first side-winding, battery, and external balancing power, to first side-winding and external balancing power in ON state, and to first side-winding and battery in OFF state; a cell-switch unit comprising first and second cell-switch components, with first cell-switch components coupled to positive terminals of the cell-units and second side-winding, respectively, and second cell-switch components coupled to negative terminals of the cell-units and second side-winding, respectively; and a microcontroller for controlling main switch component and cell-switch unit, and determining voltage levels fed back from cell voltage-sensing unit.