Battery device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025266695-A1
Application number	US-202519023178-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 15, 2025
Priority date	Feb 20, 2024
Publication date	Aug 21, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A battery device having a charge-discharge path with which a sense resistor is connected in series. The battery device includes: a comparator, detecting an over-current from a voltage drop of the sense resistor during discharge; a control circuit, controlling a discharge control FET based on an output signal of the comparator; a comparator, detecting a voltage of an external negative electrode terminal; and a control circuit, based on an output signal of the comparator, returning to an over-current detection reference of a normal state from an over-charge state. When there is a disconnection between the charge-discharge control circuit and the charge control in the normal state during discharge, the comparator detects a change of the voltage of the external negative electrode terminal due to the voltage drop at a body diode of the charge control FET.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A battery device, having a charge-discharge path with which a sense resistor is connected in series and provided with an external positive electrode terminal and an external negative electrode terminal, the battery device comprising:
a charge control field effect transistor (FET), in which a drain and a source are connected with the charge-discharge path and which comprises a body diode in which a discharge direction of the charge-discharge path is a forward direction; a discharge control FET, in which a drain and a source are connected with the charge-discharge path; and a charge-discharge control circuit, performing ON/OFF control on the charge control FET and the discharge control FET, wherein the charge/discharge control circuit comprises: a current detection comparator, detecting a current flowing through the charge-discharge path from a voltage drop of the sense resistor; a discharge control circuit, based on an output signal of the current detection comparator, turning off the discharge control FET in response to determining that a state is a discharge over-current state, and turning ON the discharge control FET in response to determining that the state is not the discharge over-current state; an over-charge hysteresis reset detection comparator, detecting a voltage of a predetermined location of the charge/discharge path to determine that the state has returned from an over-charge state to a normal state; and an over-charge hysteresis reset control circuit, based on an output signal of the over-charge hysteresis reset detection comparator, returning to an over-current detection reference of the normal state from the over-charge state, wherein, in a case where there is a disconnection between the charge/discharge control circuit and the charge control FET in the normal state during discharge, the over-charge hysteresis reset detection comparator detects a change of a voltage of the external negative electrode terminal due to a voltage drop at the body diode of the charge/control FET and outputs a signal to the discharge control circuit.

2 . The battery device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, when receiving an output signal from the over-charge hysteresis reset detection comparator detecting the change of the voltage of the external negative electrode terminal due to the voltage drop at the body diode, the discharge control circuit outputs a signal that turns off the discharge control FET.

Assignees

• Ablic Inc

Inventors

• Fukuchi Shinya

Classifications

• H02J7/855

  with circuits adapted for supplying loads from the battery · CPC title

• H02J7/80

  including monitoring or indicating arrangements · CPC title

• H02J7/63

  against overdischarge · CPC title

• H02J7/62

  against overcurrent · CPC title

• H02J7/61

  against overcharge · CPC title