A charge and discharge control method comprises: when a battery heating condition is satisfied, turning on a connecting circuit between a neutral point of a first electric motor and a neutral point of a second electric motor, wherein a first electric motor controller connected to the first electric motor and a second electric motor controller connected to the second electric motor are both connected between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a battery; and controlling the turning-on/turning-off of bridge arms in the first electric motor controller and the second electric motor controller, and forming, in a circuit in which the battery is located, a charging loop and a discharging loop which are alternately switched.

A charging method for supplementarily charging a plurality of secondary batteries accommodated in a casing on a regular basis includes the steps of: charging the plurality of secondary batteries at the same time at the time of initial supplementary charging; acquiring each of peak temperatures during charging of the plurality of secondary batteries; listing combination patterns when the plurality of secondary batteries are split into a plurality of charging groups; predicting, for each of the combination patterns, each of the peak temperatures in a case in which charging is performed for each of the charging groups, on the basis of the peak temperatures at the time of the initial supplementary charging; and split-charging the plurality of secondary batteries in the combination pattern that minimizes a variation in the predicted peak temperatures.

A pack for containing and recharging an e-cigarette includes: a re-chargeable pack battery; a first connector which is electrically connectable to an external power source; a first recharging mechanism for re-charging the pack battery using the external power source when the first connector is electrically connected to the external power source; a second connector which is electrically connectable to an e-cigarette contained within the pack; and a second recharging mechanism for re-charging the e-cigarette when the e-cigarette is electrically connected to the second connector. The first recharging mechanism includes a first protection circuit module and the second re-charging mechanism includes a second protection circuit module, wherein the protection modules protect the pack and e-cigarette against excessive voltage or current during re-charging.

A computer device includes a non-transitory storage medium configured to store a plurality of processor executive commands and a processor configured to execute the plurality of processor executive commands. By executing the processor executive commands, the processor may be configured to estimate a state of charge (SOC) based on at least one of a measured voltage value, a measured current value, and a measured temperature value, correct the estimated SOC based on a polarization voltage of a secondary battery, determine a magnitude of a charging current based on the corrected SOC and the measured temperature value, and provide information on the determined magnitude of the charging current to a charging device.

When charging a high-voltage battery at a DC charging station, a first step opens charging contactors, closes switching elements, and charges the high-voltage battery via the on-board charger and to transfer charge from one partial battery to the other partial battery or vice versa by an inverter. In a second step, when the high-voltage battery has been warmed up to a predetermined target temperature by the recharging process, operation of the inverter is stopped, the charging contactors are closed and in parallel with this is charged charging via the onboard charger and charged via the charging contactors, and the on-board charger is then deactivated and the charging process continues exclusively via the charging contactors.

An energy storage system may include one or more first battery racks, one or more second battery racks, one or more DC/DC converters configured to manage the one or more second battery racks respectively, and a battery system controller configured to monitor outputs of the one or more first battery racks and outputs of the one or more DC/DC converters, and to control the outputs of the one or more DC/DC converters. Tye one or more second battery racks and the one or more DC/DC converters are additionally installed in the energy storage system after the first battery racks are installed in the energy storage system to augment the first battery racks.

A battery pack includes a housing and at least one battery cell located within the housing, a charging and discharging port disposed on the housing, the charging and discharging port is provided with a connection terminal, the connection terminal is configured to be connected to the battery cell; the external device is configured to be connected to the battery cell through the charging and discharging port and configured to charge or obtain electrical energy from the battery cell; the battery pack is discharged at a continuous discharge rate of greater than or equal to 4 C at normal temperature, the absolute temperature of the battery pack is less than the charging protection temperature when the discharge process is completed.

A method for controlling a cell current limiting value for a battery management system. In some examples, the method includes determining quadratic reference currents of a battery cell; calculating a corresponding reference time constant for each reference current using a model for the calculation of a RMS value of a cell current by reference to a continuous current; constituting a diagram for the relationship between the reference time constant and the quadratic reference current; determining a predictive time constant by the comparison of a quadratic measured value of a cell current with the quadratic reference currents; calculating a predictive RMS limiting value of the cell current; calculating a first predictive limiting value for a short predictive time, a second predictive limiting value for a long predictive time, and a third predictive limiting value for a continuous predictive time; and calculating additional RMS limiting value for the cell current.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses related to hoist systems are provided herein. The system includes a battery and a hoist. The hoist includes a motor configured to move the hoist relative to a cable and to provide power generated by moving the hoist to the battery and a controller. The controller is configured to receive data indicative of a load on the hoist and to operate the motor to stop movement of the hoist relative to the cable based on the load on the hoist exceeding a predefined threshold.

A battery pack includes: a sensor that generates sensor data indicating an operating parameter of the battery pack; and an electronic controller including a machine learning program. The electronic controller is configured to: receive the sensor data; process the sensor data using the machine learning program, where the machine learning program includes a trained neural network model; and use the machine learning program to generate an output based on the sensor data, where the output indicates at least one of a state of charge (SOC), a state of temperature (SOT), a state of health (SOH), and a state of power (SOP) of a cell. The effective utilization of a battery is improved.