Patent ID: 11876193
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A battery system comprising:
a plurality of battery cells connected in series;
a monitoring unit configured to monitor the plurality of battery cells; and
a plurality of temperature sensors electrically connected to the monitoring unit by a plurality of wirings,
wherein the monitoring unit comprises:
a connector that includes a plurality of terminals that are connected to the plurality of electric wirings extending from the plurality of temperature sensors, a number of the plurality of terminals of the connector being greater than a number of the plurality of temperature sensors so that at least one of the plurality of terminals is not connected to a wiring and is thus an unused terminal,
the plurality of temperature sensors being configured to output voltage signals indicative of temperatures of the plurality of battery cells to the respective terminals of the connector;

a generation unit configured to generate, based on the voltage signals input to the respective terminals from the plurality of temperature sensors, an identification information item; and
an input processing unit configured to:
perform input processing on the voltage signals outputted from the plurality of temperature sensors with a predetermined voltage range; and
cause a voltage at the unused terminal to be outside the predetermined voltage range.