The present disclosure provides a charging method, device, and system. The charging device includes a voltage regulation circuit, and can charge a charged device through voltage step-down or voltage step-up. In addition, the charging device and a charged device can transfer statuses of a circuit and a battery through a change of a switch status, so that the charging device can regulate a charging voltage and/or a charging current based on the statuses of the circuit and the battery.

In a battery charging system (100), a charger (110) and a smart battery (160) enhance safety in recharging a cell (180) in the smart battery (160) by a power supply (130) of the charger (110). The smart battery (160) is communicable with the charger (110). If a communication failure occurs, the charger (110) disconnects the power supply (130) from the smart battery (160). The smart battery (160) and the charger (110) share the same symmetric encryption key for encrypting and decrypting message data, allowing one party to determine if the other part is an authentic one. When the smart battery (160) finds that the charger (110) is not authentic, or vice versa, the power supply (130) and the cell (180) are disconnected. When the smart battery (160) finds that a no-charging condition occurs due to abnormality in the cell (180), the smart battery (160) requests the charger (110) to stop charging, and also disconnects the cell (180) from the charger (110) even if the charger (110) fails to stop charging the smart battery (160).

Disclosed is a battery disconnect unit including a bottom support substrate having at least one fastening feature for removably connecting the battery disconnect unit to a battery pack enclosure. The battery disconnect unit may include at least one of a contactor, a fuse, or a pre-charge circuit carried on top of the bottom support substrate. Disclosed also are methods of assembling the battery disconnect unit to a battery pack enclosure and a method of removing the battery pack disconnect unit from the battery pack enclosure without removing a battery pack and associated components from the battery pack enclosure.

An electrically powered vehicle may include a DC bus and a plurality of batteries, each coupled in parallel to the DC bus. At least one switch is coupled in series between at least one battery of the plurality of batteries and the DC bus and a plurality of inverter circuits may each be coupled in parallel to the DC bus. A plurality of motors may each be coupled to a respective inverter circuit of the plurality of inverter circuits. In various embodiments, the electrically powered vehicle may further include a plurality of switches, each switch coupled in series between a respective battery of the plurality of batteries.

A multi-port charging assembly for charging electric vehicles and method of using the same. The multi-port charging assembly comprises at least two power inputs. Each power input comprises a corresponding plurality of connections for charging the electric vehicle and is configured for attachment to a corresponding vehicle charger. The multi-port charging assembly also comprises a connection assembly that is structured to consolidate the plurality of connections of the power inputs into a plurality of connections of a power output. The power output is operatively configured for attachment to a charging port of the electric vehicle. The multi-port charging assembly further comprises an electronic processor operatively connected to the plurality of connections of the power inputs and the power output. The processor is structured to process and/or dynamically balance the charges of the power inputs into a combined charge of the power output.

An electric vehicle includes: a third power supply line that supplies power from a quick charger placed outside the vehicle body to a battery, a positive-side line being on an upstream side of a current flowing from the quick charger to the battery, a negative-side line being on a downstream side the current flowing from the quick charger to the battery; a third protection circuit that is capable of cutting off the power via the third power supply line by electrically disconnecting the positive-side line and/or the negative-side line; and a control section that executes control for electrically disconnecting between the battery and the third power supply line when determining, based on a detection result of a third detection section, that the third protection circuit is in a state where each of the positive-side line and the negative-side line is not disconnectable.

An energy storage apparatus includes a cell, a relay which cuts off a current of the cell, a bypass circuit connected in parallel with the relay, and a management device. The bypass circuit includes two back-to-back connected FETs. When an abnormality of the cell is detected by the management device, the management device opens the relay, closes one FET of the two FETs, and opens the other FET, and permits a discharge or a charge of the cell through a path passing through a parasitic diode of the FET. When the discharge or the charge is being performed through the path passing through the parasitic diode, if a current I and an energization time T of the FET(s) reach a predetermined condition or the temperature of the FET(s) reaches a predetermined condition, the management device 150 closes the relay 53 and the other FET(s) that is open.

The present disclosure provides a power supply circuit, a sensing device and an application thereof, comprising: a transducer; an energy storage assembly operably connected to the transducer; a power supply assembly electrically connected between the energy storage assembly and a power consumption module so that the energy storage assembly does not supply power to the power consumption module when the power consumption module is in a non-powered state and the output voltage is within a specified voltage interval; and the energy storage assembly is caused to supply power to the power consumption module when the output voltage is within a non-specified voltage interval.

A circuit breaker module is connected between the energy storage system and a power system, when a working state of the circuit breaker module is an on state, a path for transmitting electric energy between the energy storage system and the power system is in an on state, and when the working state of the circuit breaker module is an off state, the path for transmitting electric energy between the energy storage system and the power system is in an off state. The apparatus includes a control circuit, the control circuit includes a switch module and a release, and the control circuit is configured to drive the circuit breaker module to change from the on state to the off state through the release when a state of the switch module changes.

A battery pack control method includes: detecting real-time load power of a multi-battery pack system; and when the real-time load power is less than a first power threshold, and at least two battery packs discharge in parallel, determining a target battery pack from the battery packs discharging in parallel, maintaining a discharge function of the target battery pack, and disabling a discharge function of another battery pack discharging in parallel other than the target battery pack.