A battery management system includes a sensing unit to generate a sensing signal indicating a battery voltage and a battery current of a battery, a memory unit to store a charge map recording first to n.sup.th reference currents, first to n.sup.th reference voltage ranges, first to n.sup.th reference states of charge (SOCs) and first to n.sup.th reference voltage curves for multi-stage constant-current charging, and a control unit to command constant-current charging to a charging circuit using a k.sup.th reference current corresponding to a k.sup.th reference voltage range to which the battery voltage belongs, and update the charge map by comparing a k.sup.th measured voltage curve indicating a correlation between the battery voltage and the SOC of the battery over a charging period of the constant-current charging with a k.sup.th reference voltage curve in response to the battery voltage having reached an upper limit of the k.sup.th reference voltage range.

An embodiment of this application provides an energy storage system and an energy storage system control method. The energy storage system includes N battery clusters and N-X first conversion units, where N is a positive integer greater than 1 and X is a positive integer less than N. A first side of each of N-X first conversion units is connected in series to a power transmission circuit of one of N-X first battery clusters among the N battery clusters, so as to combine with a corresponding first battery cluster to form a series branch circuit. The N-X series branch circuits are connected in parallel to X second battery clusters in the N battery clusters.

The power supply device performs one-side charge control for controlling the system main relay, the charging relay, the series connection relay, the parallel connection relay, and the first and second neutral point relays so that only the first power storage unit is charged using the external DC power until the voltage of the first power storage unit becomes equal to or higher than the voltage of the second power storage unit before the first and second neutral point relays are turned on and the power storage device is charged using the external DC power.

A charge control method includes acquiring a measured temperature of a lithium ion battery, acquiring a threshold value for stopping charging of the lithium ion battery according to the measured temperature of the lithium ion battery based on a relationship between a cycle life and a charging capacity of the lithium ion battery for each temperature of the lithium ion battery, and, charging the lithium ion battery based on the threshold value.

A light unit executes up to three different functions (cabin area illumination, individual/dedicated/decorative illumination and emergency illumination) and an emergency illuminated sign unit, each one with an internal controller and a rechargeable capacitor. An example non-limiting embodiment also provides a cabin light system and an emergency lighting system, where each illumination unit (light source or illuminated sign) is as described above.

Systems and apparatus may carry out analysis of battery physical phenomena, and characterize batteries based on phenomena occurring in particular time and/or frequency domains. These systems may be additionally responsible for charging and/or monitoring a rechargeable battery. Examples of battery physical phenomena include mass transport (e.g., diffusion and/or migration) in battery electrolytes, mass transport in battery electrodes, and reactions on battery electrodes.

A method for charging an energy store of a field device having at least one charging current source and a control unit in which the charging current source loads the energy store of the field device with a charging current. A field device carrying out the method includes a chargeable energy store, at least one charging current source and a control unit. The useful life of the field device can be increased by the method and the field device according to the disclosure.

Disclosed are a system and a method for controlling charging of a battery cell. The system for controlling charging of a battery cell includes a charging unit configured to generate a charging current by using external power and to transmit the charging current to the battery cell. A charging control unit is configured to control the charging unit to charge the battery cell by reducing the charging current when a voltage of the battery cell reaches a full charge voltage. The charging control unit is also configured to determine a current reduction rate based on a charging unit response time required for changing the charging current. The charging control unit is further configured to control the charging unit to charge the battery cell by reducing the charging current by the determined current reduction rate.

A system for controlling charging and discharging of a battery includes a charging and discharging switch configured to perform a switching operation for the charging and discharging of a battery. An analog front end (AFE) unit is configured to detect a voltage of the battery and to be stopped after transmitting a specific signal when detecting a voltage having a certain voltage parameter value or more. A main controller unit (MCU) configured to turn off the charging and discharging switch when receiving the specific signal from the analog front end unit.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a power conversion device included in a power system may include a conversion circuit configured to transform a direct current (DC) voltage output from batteries, and a balancing circuit connected to a primary side of the conversion circuit and configured to balance states of charge of the batteries, the balancing circuit may perform driving so that a balancing target battery among the batteries is charged or discharged based on a gate signal for the conversion circuit, and the balancing target battery may be connected to the balancing circuit based on an average voltage of the batteries.