Method for checking a wire connection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10481209-B2
Application number	US-201715854955-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 27, 2017
Priority date	Dec 28, 2016
Publication date	Nov 19, 2019
Grant date	Nov 19, 2019

Abstract

A method for checking a wire connection comprises providing a first current by a first power channel and measuring a first voltage by a first measuring channel when each of a positive terminal of the first measuring channel and a positive terminal of the first power channel is connected to one of positive terminals of batteries and each of a negative terminal of the first measuring channel and a negative terminal of the second measuring channel is connected to one of negative terminals of the batteries after measuring the first voltage, providing a second current by the first power channel and measuring a second voltage by the first measuring channel, and determining whether the first measuring channel and the first power channel are connected to a same battery of the batteries.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for checking a wire connection, comprising:
providing a first current to one of batteries by a first power channel and measuring a first voltage by a first measuring channel when the first power channel is connected to said one of the batteries and the first measuring channel is connected to said one or another one of the batteries,
after measuring the first voltage by the first measuring channel, providing a second current to said one of the batteries by the first power channel and measuring a second voltage by the first measuring channel; and
determining whether the first measuring channel and the first power channel are connected to a same battery of the batteries according to a difference between the second voltage and the first voltage,
wherein the first and second current have different values.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein providing the first current by the first power channel and measuring the first voltage by the first measuring channel further comprises:
starting to measure the first voltage by the first measuring channel after providing the first current by the first power channel for a first period; and
wherein providing the second current by the first power channel and measuring the second voltage by the first measuring channel comprises:
starting to measure the second voltage by the first measuring channel after providing the second current by the first power channel for a second period.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein providing the first current by the first power channel and measuring the first voltage by the first measuring channel further comprises:
starting to measure the first voltage by the first measuring channel after providing the first current by the first power channel for a first period; and
wherein providing the second current by the first power channel and measuring the second voltage by the first measuring channel comprises:
immediately starting to measure the second voltage by the first measuring channel while providing the second current by the first power channel.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining the first measuring channel and the first power channel are respectively connected to two different batteries of the batteries when the difference between the second voltage and the first voltage is less than a threshold.

5. The method according to claim 4 , further comprising:
measuring a plurality of third voltages respectively by a plurality of second measuring channels when the first current is provided by the first power channel;
measuring a plurality of fourth voltages respectively by the plurality of second measuring channels when the second current is provided by the first power channel; and
providing a correct wire connection according to a difference between each of the plurality of fourth voltages and a respective one of the plurality of third voltages when the first measuring channel and the first power channel are respectively connected to two different batteries of the batteries.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the plurality of second measuring channel starts to measure the plurality of third voltages respectively after the first power channel provides the first current for a first period, and immediately starts to measure the plurality of fourth voltages respectively while the first power channel provides the second current.

7. The method according to claim 5 , further comprising when the difference between one of the plurality of third voltages and one of the plurality of fourth voltages measured by a same one of the plurality of second measuring channels is not less than the threshold, determining the correct wire connection is to connect the first measuring channel to a correct battery, with said one of the plurality of second measuring channels obtaining said difference not less than the threshold from said correct battery.

8. The method according to claim 4 , further comprising:
providing a fifth voltage by the first power channel and measuring a sixth voltage by the first measuring channel; and
determining whether the first measuring channel and the first power channel are connected to a same battery of the batteries according to a difference between the sixth voltage and the fifth voltage.

9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:
determining the first measuring channel and the first power channel are respectively connected to two different batteries of the batteries when the difference between the fifth voltage and the sixth voltage is larger than the threshold.

10. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the plurality of second measuring channel starts to measure the plurality of third voltages respectively after the first power channel provides the first current for a first period, and starts to measure the plurality of fourth voltages respectively after the first power channel provides the second current for a second period.

Assignees

• Chroma Ate Inc

Inventors

• Wang Chih-Hsien
• He Kun-Che
• Huang Chung-Kuan
• Lin Hong-Yu

Classifications

• G01R31/67

  Testing the correctness of wire connections in electric apparatus or circuits · CPC title

• G01R31/3644 Primary

  Constructional arrangements · CPC title

• G01R31/041

  Physics · mapped topic