An automobile charger, a charging method and a medium are provided. The charger includes a MCU, a switching power supply circuit, a first and second charging circuits, a battery voltage detection circuit, a charging current detection circuit, a constant-current driving control circuit, a constant-voltage driving control circuit and a switch driving control circuit. The charger is provided with the first and second charging circuits, which can realize three charging modes on the battery. The real-time voltage signal and the real-time current signal are collected with the battery voltage detection circuit and the charging current detection circuit, and through feedback of the real-time voltage signal and the real-time current signal, the MCU is configured to output PWM signals with different duty ratios to the constant-current driving control circuit and the constant-voltage driving control circuit, so as to realize output of different voltage values and current values of the switching power supply.

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.

Disclosed is a method to rectify the discharge profile of a rechargeable battery so that the discharge current is greater than the charge current. The method includes two steps. The first step is an intermittent or pulsed discharge current protocol. It assures that the pulse discharge current is always higher than the charge current while the nominal discharge current is lower than the charge current. The second step includes a converter, that is used to convert the pulsed discharge current profile from the rechargeable battery into a continuous discharge current profile wherein the continuous current is smaller than the rechargeable battery charge current. The disclosed rectification method enables the rechargeable battery to power a device at an optimally lower rate for a certain applications with a significantly extended cycle life for the rechargeable battery.

A system and method are provided for controlling charging and discharging of a group of batteries connected in parallel. A battery charging/discharging control system includes a first battery group comprising one or more first batteries connected in parallel, a second battery group connected in parallel with the first battery group and comprising one or more second batteries connected in parallel, and a charging/discharging controller to generate a first current pulse and a second current pulse, different from the first current pulse. The charging/discharging controller supplies the first current pulse and the second current pulse to the first battery group and the second battery group to control charging/discharging.

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.

Embodiments that provide advanced charging of energy source arrangements for energy storage applications are disclosed. The embodiments can be used within energy storage systems having a cascaded arrangement of converter modules. The embodiments can include the application of pulses to an energy source of each module of the system. The pulses can be applied for a duration sufficient to initiate an electrochemical reaction. Feedback based pulse control embodiments are also disclosed.

An external battery, includes a battery cell, a charging unit configured to generate a charging current with an external power supplied from a charger to an input terminal thereof and to transfer the charging current to the battery, a detector configured to sense a voltage state of the input terminal and determine a current value of the charging current supplied to the battery cell, based on the voltage state, and a main controller unit (MCU) configured to control charging of the battery cell by the charging current, calculate an estimated full charging time for fully charging the battery cell, based on a current value of the charging current, and calculate a charging time while the charging current is flowing.

A method of performing fast-charging for a lithium-ion battery (LIB) includes sensing an environmental temperature, performing an initial constant-current charging and subsequent discharge of the LIB, and evaluating whether the sensed environmental temperature falls below a threshold temperature. If the sensed environmental temperature initially falls below a threshold temperature, the LIB is charged via a dynamic alternating current (AC) charging according to a low-temperature charging algorithm to heat and charge the lithium-ion battery. Once the LIB reaches a temperature below the threshold temperature, charging switches to a comparatively high-temperature charging algorithm.

This application provides an energy storage system control method, a control apparatus, and an energy storage system. The energy storage system is coupled to an energy generation system and includes a plurality of energy storage units. The energy storage system control method includes: controlling, in a first stage, the energy generation system to charge a first energy storage unit in the plurality of energy storage units, where the first stage is a charging stage in a charging cycle of the first energy storage unit; and controlling, in a second stage, the first energy storage unit to discharge electricity to a second energy storage unit in the plurality of energy storage units, where the second stage is a discharging stage in the charging cycle of the first energy storage unit.

A system for charging a battery comprising a first switch operably coupled with a power supply. An inductive element, which may be a part of filter, is in operable communication with the switch. The system includes a processor in communication with the switch and in communication with a model of the inductive element. The processor is configured to execute instructions to control the switch to generate a sequence of pulses at the first inductive element to produce a shaped charge waveform responsive to running the model to generate the shaped charge waveform.