Methods and apparatus for inhibiting excessive battery discharge

    公开(公告)号:US11509150B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-22

    申请号:US16781777

    申请日:2020-02-04

    发明人: Hideo Kondo

    IPC分类号: H02J7/00

    摘要: A system for it inhibiting the excessive discharge of a battery in an electronic device, in some embodiments, comprises: a battery to supply power to the electronic device; and a fuel gauge coupled to the battery to monitor said power, wherein the fuel gauge enters a standby mode upon determining that a voltage supplied by the battery is at or below a voltage threshold and that a capacity of the battery is at or below a capacity threshold.

    Methods and apparatus for a battery

    公开(公告)号:US11280839B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-22

    申请号:US16853063

    申请日:2020-04-20

    发明人: Hideo Kondo

    摘要: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and apparatus for a battery. The apparatus may compute a state of charge (SOC) of the battery using a coulomb counting method and adjust the computed SOC based on an extracted SOC. The apparatus may determine whether the battery is in an open circuit condition and, if so, the extracted SOC is determined during the open circuit period.

    Method for determining a power level of a battery and circuit therefor
    5.
    发明授权
    Method for determining a power level of a battery and circuit therefor 有权
    用于确定电池及其电路的功率电平的方法

    公开(公告)号:US09261567B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-02-16

    申请号:US14194815

    申请日:2014-03-02

    IPC分类号: H01M10/44 H01M10/46 G01R31/36

    CPC分类号: G01R31/3644 G01R31/3651

    摘要: A remaining battery power calculation circuit includes: a detection unit configured to detect an output voltage of a battery; a data storage unit configured to store data in an associated manner with each of a plurality of current values for charge or discharge of the battery, the data indicating a relationship between the output voltage and a ratio of remaining power of the battery to a capacity of the battery in a case where the battery is charged or discharged with each of the plurality of current values; and a first calculation unit configured to calculate a charging/discharging current of the battery based on the data and the output voltage.

    摘要翻译: 剩余电池电力计算电路包括:检测单元,被配置为检测电池的输出电压; 数据存储单元,被配置为以与电池的充电或放电的多个当前值中的每一个相关联的方式存储数据,所述数据指示输出电压与电池的剩余电量的比率与电池的容量之间的关系 在电池以多个电流值中的每一个充电或放电的情况下的电池; 以及第一计算单元,被配置为基于所述数据和所述输出电压来计算所述电池的充电/放电电流。

    Methods and apparatus for a battery system

    公开(公告)号:US11588336B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-21

    申请号:US16948808

    申请日:2020-10-01

    发明人: Hideo Kondo

    IPC分类号: H02J7/00

    摘要: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and apparatus for a battery system. The apparatus may provide a protection control circuit to detect undesired battery conditions and a fuel gauge circuit to confirm the detected battery condition, record the detected condition, and report the recorded conditions.

    Battery system for battery degradation estimation

    公开(公告)号:US11448709B1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-20

    申请号:US17190923

    申请日:2021-03-03

    发明人: Hideo Kondo

    摘要: According to an aspect, a battery system includes a current sensor configured to measure a current that charges or discharges a battery, a voltage monitor configured to measure a cell voltage of the battery, a state-of-charge (SoC) calculation engine configured to calculate an SoC value, and an energy calculation engine configured to compute charge energy loss of the battery for a sampling period based on the current, cell voltage, and the SoC value and compute a capacity degradation metric based on the charge energy loss and reference charge loss of a reference battery. The energy calculation engine is configured to transmit, via an interface, the capacity degradation metric to a battery manager of a device.

    Methods and apparatus for a battery

    公开(公告)号:US11316356B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-26

    申请号:US16822492

    申请日:2020-03-18

    发明人: Hideo Kondo

    摘要: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and apparatus for a battery. The apparatus may be configured to autonomously select an appropriate battery profile for a given battery. Autonomous selection may be achieved by measuring the time that the battery voltage is within a specified range and comparing the time results to a reference table having known battery data.

    Methods and system for a battery
    10.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11275119B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-15

    申请号:US16670650

    申请日:2019-10-31

    发明人: Hideo Kondo

    摘要: Various embodiments of the present technology may provide methods and system for a battery. The system may provide a fuel gauge circuit configured to select an energy curve from a plurality of energy curves and determine a remaining energy value based on the selected energy curve and a computed remaining capacity of the battery. The fuel gauge circuit controls a current to a load based on the remaining energy value.