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US 9,871,371 · App. 14/939,305 · Granted Jan 16, 2018

Battery short-circuit protection circuit

Inventors: Xintian Liu (Hefei, CN); Yao He (Hefei, CN); Xinxin Zheng (Hefei, CN); Guojian Zeng (Hefei, CN)
Assignee: Heifei University of Technology
H02H3/087H02J7/0031B60L3/04F02D2041/2093H01L27/0251H02J7/007H02J2007/0039
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Patent No.
US 9,871,371
App. No.
14/939,305
Granted
Jan 16, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

This invention involves a battery short-circuit protection circuit installed in a battery-load circuit. In the battery-load circuit, there is a battery and a load RL. The battery and RL form a circuit. The two ends of the battery are positive discharge end P+ and negative discharge end P−, respectively. The battery short-circuit protection circuit is in series with the battery-load circuit. The battery short-circuit protection circuit includes a charge-discharge circuit, a current amplifier circuit, and a current comparator circuit. The charge-discharge circuit includes MOS transistors and a sampling resistor. The current amplifier circuit includes a signal conditioning circuit and a current amplifier. The current comparator circuit includes a current comparator, a current reference circuit for short-circuit protection consisting, a MOS transistor, a diode, a resistor, and an optronics relay.

Claims (7)

1. In a battery-load circuit including a load RL and a battery having a positive discharge end and a negative discharge end, a battery short-circuit protection circuit m series with the battery-load circuit, the battery short-circuit protection circuit comprising:

a current amplifier circuit including a signal conditioning circuit and a current amplifier;

a charge-discharge circuit including MOS transistors and a sampling resistor, the sampling resistor connected with the battery negative discharge end in order to sample the current in the battery-load circuit, and the sampling resistor connected with the current amplifier through the signal conditioning circuit; and

a current comparator circuit including a current comparator and a current reference circuit, the current reference circuit comprising a MOS transistor, a diode, a resistor, and an optronics relay, the current comparator connected with the current reference circuit connection and consecutively connected in series with the MOS transistor, diode, resistor, and optronics relay, and wherein the optronics relay includes a pin for connecting power, a pin for connecting the resistor, a pin for a ground connection, and a pin for connecting the a charge-discharge circuit;

wherein the current amplifier outputs a current sampling value to the current comparator;

wherein the current comparator compares the output current sampling value with the short-circuit protection current reference in the current reference circuit and, if the current sampling value is higher than the short-circuit protection reference current, the current comparator outputs a high voltage level to turn on the MOS transistor, which turns on the circuit connecting power, optronics relay, resistor, diode, MOS transistor and ground connector, the optronics relay pins for the ground connection and for connecting the a charge-discharge circuit are short circuited, and the pin for connecting the charge-discharge circuit outputs a low voltage level; and

when the charge-discharge circuit receives the low voltage level signal, the charge-discharge disconnects and the remaining charge discharges through the charge-discharge, thereby disconnecting the battery circuit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 28, 2016
From: LIU, XINTIAN; HE, YAO; ZHENG, XINXIN; ZENG, GUOJIAN
To: HEIFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Reel/Frame 038401/0195 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2015 1 0443886 · Jul 23, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170025843A1 · Jan 26, 2017