Patent ID: 6442494
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
A distributed battery control network for a battery string having a plurality of batteries comprising:a plurality of sensing modules coupled in series, each of said plurality of sensing modules associated with a respective one of said plurality of batteries, each sensing module having a respective sequencing input and a sequencing output, said sequencing output coupled to an adjacent sequencing input; a network coupled to each of said plurality of sensing modules; and a controller coupled to said bus and communicating with each of said plurality of sensing modules, said controller loading each of said plurality of sensing modules with an address and a signature type, said controller determining which of said plurality of modules has a sequencing input with a predetermined signature type, storing said address in a particular one of said plurality of modules with said sequencing input equal to said signature type, and generating an identifying signature at an output of said particular one of said plurality of modules with said sequencing input equal to said signature type.