Abstract: A method for detecting a fault state of at least one battery cell of a battery having multiple battery cells. A cell voltage of a respective battery cell of the multiple battery cells is registered at a measurement time and a comparison value is determined as a function of at least one of the cell voltages and is compared to a provided first reference value. The fault state is detected as a function of a result of the comparison. A scatter value is determined, which represents a scatter of at least part of the cell voltages registered at the specific measurement time, and the fault state is determined as a function of the scatter value.

Abstract: A ground fault monitoring system includes an isolation monitoring unit, a first main switch, a second main switch and a control unit. The isolation monitoring unit is arrangeable between an energy storage system and a ground element. The switches are arrangeable between the energy storage system and an external energy supply system. The isolation monitoring unit includes a first, second and third switchable resistor branches. The control unit is configured to close the switches during charging of the energy storage system for connecting the energy storage system to the external energy supply system and to disconnect the first switchable resistor branch from the energy storage system and connect the second switchable resistor branch and the third switchable resistor branch to the energy storage system for monitoring a current leakage to the ground element during charging of the energy storage system.

Abstract: A battery system includes a plurality of battery modules, each of the battery modules has an assembled battery, which includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series, a monitoring unit that monitors the assembled battery, and an external member that is electrically connected to the monitoring unit. The monitoring unit of each of the battery modules has a generation unit that generates, based on an electric signal input from the external member, an identification information item on the corresponding one of the battery modules, the identification information items of the respective battery modules being different from one another.

Abstract: A method for locating a buried casing stub may include a) identifying a target region, b) providing at each of a plurality of survey points in the target region a casing stub locator that includes a vector magnetometer, c) measuring the magnetic field at each of the survey points using the vector magnetometer so as to generate a plurality of magnetic field measurements, d) using the magnetic field measurements to generate a model of the magnetic field of the target region, e) fitting the model generated in step d) to a selected model of a magnetic anomaly created by the casing stub so as to generate model fit information (MFI), and f) locating the casing stub using the MFI. At each survey point, an expected Earth magnetic field can be subtracted from the measured magnetic field. A total station can measure the position and/or the azimuth of the package.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the monitoring field, and disclose a method for monitoring an insulation monitoring circuit and a battery management system. In some embodiments of this application, the method for monitoring an insulation monitoring circuit includes: in a state in which a first switch and a second switch are closed and a third switch is open, obtaining a first electrical signal detected by a second monitoring module; and based on the first electrical signal and a voltage reference value between a positive electrode of a battery pack and a negative electrode of the battery pack, determining whether an insulation monitoring circuit is faulty; or obtaining a second electrical signal detected by a first monitoring module and a third electrical signal detected by a third monitoring module, and based on the second electrical signal and the third electrical signal, determining whether the insulation monitoring circuit is faulty.

Abstract: Disclosed are circuit and method for width measurement of digital pulse signals. The circuit comprises: a sample clock, used to drive all registers in the circuit; an edge detection and interrupt control unit, used to detect a rising edge and a falling edge of a pulse signal on an input pin Input to control signal collection; an integer encoding unit comprising a counter and registers and used to measure an integer part ? of the width of a high or low level on the input pin Input with one period 1/f of the sample clock as a reference unit; a signal capture chain, used to sample an output level of each delay cell DLL; a decimal encoding unit, used to find out and record the propagation position of the pulse edge on the signal capture chain; and a calibration control unit, used to perform calibration.

Abstract: A self-capacitance-system electrostatic-capacitance detection sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode, one of the first and second electrodes being set as a sense electrode, and the other of the first and second electrodes being set as a drive electrode; a sense-signal generating unit that generates a sense signal to be applied to the sense electrode; a detecting unit that detects, as a detection value, an amount of charge movement corresponding to an electrostatic capacitance of the sense electrode; and a determining unit that determines whether or not a detection target is in close proximity to both the first and second electrodes, based on a subtraction difference between detection values detected by the detecting unit when a first drive signal is applied to the drive electrode and when a second drive signal having the same frequency and a different phase is applied to the drive electrode.

Abstract: An internal short-circuit cell detection method includes detecting a voltage and current of each of a plurality of battery cells, updating in real time G and H parameter values by using an adaptive filter, calculating a G parameter representative value, and calculating an H parameter representative value, and determining whether a short circuit occurs in each of the plurality of battery cells, based on the G and H parameter value of each of the plurality of battery cells, the G parameter representative value, and the H parameter representative value. The G parameter is a parameter indicating a sensitivity of a voltage to a change in current of each of the plurality of battery cells, and the H parameter is a parameter indicating an effective potential determined by a local equilibrium potential distribution and a resistance distribution in each of the plurality of battery cells.

Abstract: A method of monitoring a battery system includes connecting a voltage divider circuit to a battery of the battery system; measuring a first battery voltage; sampling a first chassis voltage for less than a settling time of the first chassis voltage and estimating a settled value of the first chassis voltage using sampled values of the first chassis voltage; changing a configuration of the voltage divider circuit; measuring a second battery voltage; sampling a second chassis voltage for less than a settling time of the second chassis voltage and estimating a settled value of the second chassis voltage using sampled values of the second chassis voltage; and determining isolation impedance of the battery to a chassis using the first and second battery voltages and the estimated settled values of the first and second chassis voltages.

Abstract: A method and a device for acquiring a charging electricity amount, and an electronic device are provided. When a controller determines based on at least operation state information of an external electric meter that the external electric meter is in a fault state, the first amount of electricity, outputted by the charging pile when the external electric meter is in the fault state, can be calculated based on at least first electric energy output data of the charging pile acquired by the charging module of the charging pile when the external electric meter is in the fault state. That is, the amount of electricity consumed by the charging pile can be calculated even when the external electric meter is in the fault state, so that the controller calculates the cost based on the amount of electricity consumed by the charging pile.

Abstract: A battery control system is provided with battery monitoring control circuits for measuring an output voltage of an individual or secondary battery cells, which are connected in an assembled battery divided into blocks; and a control circuit for controlling the battery monitoring control circuits. Each of the batter monitoring control circuits includes a communication interface for communications between the battery monitoring control circuits or communications with the control circuit; a power converter for converting a start-up signal into a DC voltage; and a start-up circuit that receives the DC voltage and generates a start-up control signal for starting the battery monitoring control circuit.

Abstract: A method for analyzing a correlation between rail transit and direct current (DC) magnetic bias of a transformer includes the steps of, A: obtaining a current of a feed cable and a DC magnetic bias current: measuring the feed cable current in rail transit and the DC magnetic bias current of a transformer in a power grid within a certain period by a monitoring apparatus; B: calculating a characteristic quantity of the feed current within the measurement period based on the obtained current of the feed cable; C: calculating a characteristic quantity of the DC magnetic bias current within the measurement period based on the DC magnetic bias current; and D: calculating a support degree and a confidence coefficient based on the calculated characteristic quantity of the feed current and the calculated characteristic quantity of the DC magnetic bias current, and generating a correlation rule.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for diagnosing a failure of a switch unit included in a multi battery pack. The magnitude of a pack current flowing from each of battery packs connected in parallel to a load is measured, a battery pack whose pack current has a magnitude smaller than the average value by a threshold value or more is identified, and it is determined that an open failure occurs at the switch unit included in the identified battery pack, and the information of the battery pack including the switch unit at which the open failure occurs is output. The internal resistance of each battery pack may be statistically analyzed in order to more accurately diagnose the failure at the switch unit. Thus, an open failure of switch units included in battery packs connected in parallel may be easily and reliably diagnosed in a statistical viewpoint.

Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing a battery cell according to an embodiment may include a voltage measurer that measures a voltage of each battery cell of a battery module in a state of an open circuit voltage of a battery, a memory that stores the measured voltage at predetermined time intervals, and an abnormality detector that compares a current measured voltage with a measured voltage before a preset time for each battery cell and determines that an abnormality has occurred in a first battery cell among the battery cells when a difference between the current measured voltage of the at least one battery cell and the measured voltage of the at least one battery cell before the preset time exceeds a reference value.

Abstract: Provided are a battery management system (BMS) and a battery system capable of accurately measuring a voltage without using a precise resistance element and reducing an error even when operating in a wide temperature range. Since a correction amount for the resistor included in the voltage measurement module is generated using a diagnostic power source configured independently of the battery system, and a voltage of the circuit included in the battery system is measured by applying the generated correction amount, the voltage may be precisely measured without using a high-precision resistance element. Since a changeover switch operates periodically to generate and apply an updated correction amount according to a changing environment, the voltage may be precisely measured even if it is applied to a system in which the environment continuously changes, such as a driving electric vehicle.

Abstract: The cost of hardware and the cost of calculation are reduced in the case where a plurality of assembled batteries are used. The amount of change in the voltage of each battery constituting an assembled battery is sequentially measured with a voltage monitor and abnormality is detected from the correlation between the amounts of changes in the voltages of batteries at the same period. Furthermore, abnormality is detected on the basis of the amounts of changes up to the previous step. Inference is made by a reference parameter acquisition system using an IIR filter or an FIR filter.

Abstract: A device and method for diagnosing an increase in resistance of a lead unit of a battery cell, including a first voltage measurement step in which when a battery pack is in an open circuit voltage state, a voltage is measured for each unit cell of the battery pack, a second voltage measurement step in which, when the battery pack is in a charging or discharging state, a voltage is measured for each unit cell according to a predetermined current flowing through the battery pack, and a step for comparing, for each unit cell, a voltage measured in the first voltage measurement step and a voltage measured in the second voltage measurement step, and detecting whether the unit cell is abnormal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an insulation detection circuit for voltage balance, including a bus battery, a bus positive voltage dividing circuit, a bus negative voltage dividing circuit, a differential amplification circuit and a micro controller unit (MCU) module. The bus battery is respectively connected with the bus positive voltage dividing circuit and the bus negative voltage dividing circuit, the bus positive voltage dividing circuit and the bus negative voltage dividing circuit is respectively connected with the differential amplification circuit, and the differential amplification circuit being connected with the MCU module; the bus battery is configured for supplying power to each module; the bus positive voltage dividing circuit is configured for converting a positive voltage of the bus from high voltage to detectable low voltage; the bus negative voltage dividing circuit is configured for converting a negative voltage the bus from high voltage to detectable low voltage.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for detecting a defect of a battery pack, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for detecting a defect of a capacitor provided in the battery pack. According to the present disclosure, since a defect of a capacitor is detected using a noise signal, the defect of the capacitor in an assembled battery pack may be easily detected. In addition, since the present disclosure includes a compact circuit structure for noise signal output, noise signal filtering and voltage measurement, the cost for detecting a defect of the capacitor may be reduced.

Abstract: A method for controlling a wind power installation includes measuring a grid voltage of an electrical power supply grid, setting a DC-link voltage at a converter of the wind power installation depending on the measured grid voltage and using a first time constant and a second time constant, wherein the first time constant is different than the second time constant.