The systems and methods disclosed herein are directed to a vehicle charging station having at least one energy storage unit in a degraded state. The station may provide power using the energy storage unit to an electric or hybrid vehicle. In an illustrative embodiment, power from the station is provided to the vehicle from the energy storage unit, power grid or a combination thereof. Logic or processes for providing power to the energy storage unit for the charging station may depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, capacity of the energy storage units, number of units, information about an incoming vehicle to charge, etc. After charging, the energy storage unit in its degraded state may be used for fast charging the vehicle.

A failure determination apparatus includes an electricity storage, a state sensor, a data accumulator, and a controller. The state sensor is to detect a state of the electricity storage as data. The data accumulator is to accumulate the data acquired by the state sensor as accumulated data. The controller is to determine, based on the accumulated data, whether a failure occurs in at least one of the electricity storage and the state sensor.

A method of charging and discharging a secondary battery includes detecting a displacement in a secondary battery by one or more sensors and controlling a charging and discharging current based on the detection result of each of the sensors. The charging and discharging current of the secondary battery is controlled so that an amount of displacement of the secondary battery does not exceed a threshold value.

An intelligent rechargeable battery pack having a battery management system for monitoring and controlling the charging and discharging of the battery pack is described. The battery management system includes a memory for storing data related to the operation of the battery, and the battery management system is also configured to communicate the data related to the operation of the battery to other processors for analysis.

A circuit system includes a battery management system, a first switch unit and a controller. In a first state, the first switch unit conductively connects a first energy source to the battery management system, and in a second state it interrupts the energy supply of the battery management system from the first energy source. The controller controls the first switch unit.

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure may include a communication interface and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to receive first battery level information of a first earpiece and second battery level information of a second earpiece, via the communication interface, to identify a charging method corresponding to the first battery level and the second battery level, among a plurality of charging methods for charging at least one of the first earpiece or the second earpiece, and to control to supply charging power to at least one of the first earpiece or the second earpiece, via a cable which connects the electronic device with at least one of the first earpiece or the second earpiece, using the charging method.

The present invention provides a battery balance system which includes a plurality of battery modules and a control module. Each of the battery modules includes a battery, a passive power adjustment unit and an active power adjustment unit. The passive power adjustment units and the active power adjustment units are coupled to the batteries. The control module is coupled to the battery modules, and is configured to monitor charging powers of the batteries. In a charging period, when a charging power of a first battery of a first battery module of the battery modules is higher than a charging power of a second battery of a second battery module of the battery modules, the control module enables the passive power adjustment unit of the first battery module. The control module determines whether or not to enable the active power adjustment unit of the first battery module according to a charging power difference between the first battery and the second battery.

Provided are a circuit control method, a battery controller, a battery management system, a battery, an electrical apparatus, and a vehicle. The circuit control method includes: acquiring an apparatus wake-up signal; determining whether a power source terminal voltage of a charging circuit of a battery on the apparatus is greater than a first threshold and whether a change rate in a first time length is less than a second threshold, wherein the charging circuit is a circuit connecting the battery on the apparatus and a generator, and the power source terminal voltage is an output voltage of the generator; and issuing a first instruction when the power source terminal voltage of the charging circuit of the battery on the apparatus is greater than the first threshold and the change rate in the first time length is less than the second threshold, so that the charging circuit is turned on.

A hybrid battery system is provided for extending the shelf-life of rechargeable batteries. The hybrid battery system may contain sets of non-rechargeable and rechargeable batteries respectively. As the rechargeable batteries are discharged (e.g., from self-discharge), the hybrid battery system may utilize the non-rechargeable batteries to maintain the rechargeable batteries at a preferred state of charge. A preferred state of charge may be selected to extend the shelf-life of the rechargeable batteries. Alternatively, a signal may change the preferred state of charge to prepare the rechargeable batteries for use or for other reasons. The hybrid battery system may contain modular components, thereby allowing for easy replacement of defective or otherwise unsuitable non-rechargeable batteries, rechargeable batteries, or supporting electronics.

A device for storing electrical energy, including a plurality of switched individual cells contained inside a storage pack, a master block and a supply block supplying a DC voltage to the storage pack and the master block. In such a storage device, the storage pack is subdivided into a plurality of storage blocks, each storage block including a plurality of switched cells and a control logic sub block for controlling each switched cell of the storage block. Each storage block furthermore also includes at least one connection sub-block for connection to a bus, each connection sub-block including an electronic switch having two positions, one position, called connected position, in which the electronic switch is open so that the storage block supplies the bus with a voltage, and one position, called short-circuit position, in which the electronic switch is closed.