Patent ID: 9362759
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: B60L,H01M,H02J,Y02E,Y02T

Claim Text:
1. A battery control circuit comprising: a plurality of cell control devices each powered by electricity supplied from a plurality of battery groups, wherein each cell control device is configured to: collect information on the battery groups, monitor and control a state of individual batteries within the battery groups, and control a consumption current that consumes the electricity by changing a sampling speed that the information is collected on the battery groups, wherein the battery groups are connected in series to form a battery unit; and a battery unit control device, wherein the battery unit control device is configured to: control the plurality of cell control devices; determine whether each of the plurality of cell control devices is operating in a Normal Mode or an Operation Mode; receive received information from the plurality of cell control devices, wherein the received information includes a charge state of the battery groups; determine if the battery control circuit is charging; compare the received information from each of the plurality of cell control devices to a predetermined charged state; and increase the consumption current for each of the plurality of cell control devices in the Normal Mode, if the battery control circuit is not charging and the received information from the cell control devices is greater than the predetermined charge state.