A system for charging at least one energy reservoir cell in a controllable energy reservoir for controlling/supplying electrical energy to an n-phase electrical machine. The controllable energy reservoir has n parallel energy supply branches each having at least two series connected energy reservoir modules, each encompassing at least one electrical reservoir cell having an associated controllable coupling unit. The energy supply branches are connectable to a reference bus and a respective phase of the machine. As a function of control signals, the coupling units interrupt the respective energy supply branch or bypass the cells or switch the associated cells into the respective energy supply branch. To enable charging of at least one cell, at least two phases of the machine are connectable via at least one respective freewheeling diode to a positive pole of a charging device, and the reference bus is connectable to a negative pole of the device.

A communication system comprising: a control line transmitting a control signal for controlling charging of a battery mounted on a vehicle; a reference potential line connected to a reference potential of the vehicle serving as a reference for the control signal; a first PLC communication device connected to the control line and the reference potential line and superposing onto the control signal a differential signal having a higher frequency than the control signal so as to perform communication with an external power supply apparatus; and an inductive element which is provided at a point of connection between the reference potential line 1c and the reference potential or provided in the reference potential line and the inductive element having impedance for a noise having a higher frequency than the control signal is higher than the impedance for the control signal.

A vehicle powertrain includes a bypass diode and a controller. The bypass diode is configured to clamp an inverter DC terminal voltage to a battery voltage. The controller is configured to, while the terminal voltage is within a predetermined range of the battery voltage, maintain off a lower IGBT of a DC-DC converter while in a propulsion mode, and modulate the lower IGBT to increase the terminal voltage to maintain the bypass diode reverse biased while in a regenerative mode.

A charging control unit is used in a system having an engine, an electric power generator, and a battery charged by electric power generated by the electric power generator and being capable of executing stop control for prohibiting the engine from restarting in a state where the engine is stopped. The charging control device is provided with a charging and discharging rate calculation unit calculating a charging and discharging rate, the charging and discharging rate being the ratio of the absolute value of a charging current integrated value of the battery to the absolute value of a discharging current integrated value of the battery following the full charging of the battery, a pre-charging execution unit allowing the execution of the stop control, charging the battery by the electric power generated by the electric power generator, and executing pre-charging for increasing the average remaining capacity of the battery, the pre-charging execution unit shortening a period during which the pre-charging is executed when the calculated charging and discharging rate is high, and a refresh charging execution unit executing refresh charging for charging the battery by the electric power generated by the electric power generator, without executing the stop control, after the execution of the pre-charging and allowing the battery to be fully charged.

A charge method, an adapter and a mobile terminal are provided. The adapter negotiates with the mobile terminal about the charging mode and the charging current of the battery. When determining to charge the battery in the quick charging mode, the adapter adopts the unidirectional pulse current to perform a quick charge on the battery using the negotiated charging current.

According to one embodiment, information related to a positive-electrode electric potential and a negative-electrode electric potential of each of one or more batteries is acquired, and whether deviation of the positive/negative-electrode electric potentials from a reference state is beyond a prescribed range is determined for each of one or more batteries. Further, in response to at least existence of a battery-to-be-restored that is a battery in which the determined deviation of positive/negative-electrode electric potentials from a reference state is beyond a prescribed range, a state of charge of the battery-to-be-restored is held in a restoration holding range for a prescribed time.

An electric power supply system for a vehicle includes a first battery, a second battery connected in parallel with the first battery, a voltage sensor configured to detect a voltage value of the second battery, a current sensor configured to detect a current value of the second battery, an electronic control unit configured to make a voltage of the alternator fluctuate according to a predetermined voltage waveform, and calculate internal resistance of the second battery using the voltage value and the current value of the second battery respectively detected by the voltage sensor and the current sensor while the electronic control unit is making the voltage of the alternator fluctuate according to the predetermined voltage waveform.

An energy storage apparatus includes a plurality of secondary batteries each including a negative electrode including crystalline carbon; and a charge/discharge control unit that controls charge/discharge of the plurality of secondary batteries so that a state of charge does not fall within a range of 50% or more and 70% or less.

A voltage regulator is provided wherein electricity flows through a second transistor in an operating state in which a control unit) applies an operating voltage to a base of the second transistor. A Zener diode sets, in the operating state, a voltage of a second conductive path to a voltage corresponding to a voltage across the Zener diode. A current corresponding to an addition value obtained by adding a value of a current flowing through a second resistor portion in the operating state, a value of a current flowing through a third resistor portion in the operating state, and a value of a current flowing through the Zener diode in the operating state flows through a ground-side resistor portion. A control unit stops the output of the operating voltage when a voltage of the second conductive path is lower than or equal to a threshold value.

In the present invention, a display unit 50 of a pattern generation device 5 displays a reception screen for receiving a selection and/or an input regarding charging/discharging of a power storage system having a power storage device. An operation unit 51 receives, in the reception screen, a selection made from among multiple kinds of operations regarding charging/discharging. On the basis of the operation selected through the operation unit 51, a control unit 53 generates pattern data which is used for predicting a deterioration of the power storage device and which indicates transitions of charging/discharging amounts.