Patent ID: 7557539

Claim:
A charging device comprising: an assembled battery having plural secondary batteries serially connected; a charge power source unit for supplying charging current to both ends of the assembled battery having said plural secondary batteries serially connected; plural charge controllers connected to both ends of the respective secondary batteries of said plural secondary batteries, wherein said charge power source unit comprises: a charging current output unit for outputting charging current to said assembled battery; and a control unit for controlling the current of said charging current output unit based on notification of bypass current from said charge controllers, and each of said plural charge controllers comprises: a current control unit for bypassing the current that flows to said secondary battery when the terminal voltage of said secondary battery reaches a preset voltage value; and a notification unit for notifying the control unit of said charge power source unit of said bypass current, wherein said charge power source unit detects the bypass currents flowing to said plural charge controllers, and wherein said control unit, when bypass current begins to flow in all of the charge controllers to which the respective secondary batteries are connected, detects the minimum current value of the bypass currents flowing to the plural charge controllers, and the charging current from the charge power source unit is reduced by the minimum value of these bypass currents.