Patent ID: 9606187
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G01R,H01M,H04Q,Y02E

Claim:
1. A battery pack, the battery pack comprising: n battery modules; n slave battery management systems corresponding to the n battery modules, the n slave battery management systems respectively and sequentially coupled to each other; and a master battery management system coupled to the n slave battery management systems, wherein the master battery management system is configured to apply a trigger signal to a first slave battery management system of the n slave battery management systems, wherein the first to (n−1)th slave battery management systems are configured to transmit the trigger signal and first to (n−1)th signals including different connection error order information for indicating whether the slave battery management systems are connected in order, which are different from each other, to a next slave battery management system of the n slave battery management systems, wherein an nth slave battery management system of the n slave battery management systems is configured to transmit an nth signal to the master battery management system, and wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to two.