Voltage detection device and equalization device

1. An equalization device comprising:

a voltage detection device for detecting a voltage across both ends of each of plural unit batteries which are connected to each other in series;

a single Analog-to-Digital converter which detects a voltage across both ends of each of the unit batteries in a first state;

lowpass filters which are connected between each of the unit batteries and the single Analog-to-Digital converter in the first state, each of the lowpass filters cutting a high-frequency component of a voltage across both ends of a corresponding unit battery and supplying the voltage to the single Analog-to-Digital converter in the first state;

discharge resistors which are connected to connecting points of the unit batteries and the lowpass filters, respectively;

equalization switches each of which is disposed between the both ends of the corresponding unit battery and connected to a corresponding discharge resistor in series;

an equalization controller which outputs an on/off signal to the equalization switches to conduct equalizing by the discharge resistors;

the single Analog-to-Digital converter detecting, in a second state, a connecting point voltage between discharge resistors and the equalization switches, as a voltage detection value of each of the unit batteries that is supplied without passage through the corresponding lowpass filter; and

a filter failure detector which detects whether the lowpass filter is failing by comparing a voltage detection value detected by the single Analog-to-Digital converter in the first state with a voltage detection value detected by the single Analog-to-Digital converter in the second state; and

an equalization switch failure detector which detects whether the equalization switches are failing based on the voltage detection value detected by the single Analog-to-Digital converter in the second state when the equalization controller conducts an equalizing operation,

wherein the first state is a state that a first terminal connecting to a positive side of each of the unit batteries via the lowpass filter is connected to the single Analog-to-Digital converter, and that a second terminal connecting to a connecting point of each of the discharge resistors and each of the equalization switches via a resistor is not connected to the single Analog-to-Digital converter,

wherein the second state is a state that the first terminal connecting to the positive side of each of the unit batteries via the lowpass filter is not connected to the single Analog-to-Digital converter, and that the second terminal connecting to the connecting point of each of the discharge resistors and each of the equalization switches via the resistor is connected to the single Analog-to-Digital converter, and

wherein the equalizing operation includes comparing voltages across pairs of ends of the unit batteries with each other, and outputting on or off signals to discharge unit batteries having high voltages across the pairs of ends.

2. The equalization device according to claim 1 , wherein the voltage detection device further comprises:

a switch unit which switches the voltage to be input to the single Analog-to-Digital converter among the voltages of the unit batteries that are supplied via the lowpass filters to the plurality of first terminals and the voltages of the unit batteries that are supplied without passage through the lowpass filters to the plurality of second terminals.