Abstract: A battery monitoring includes a plurality of monitoring units and a wireless transmission unit. The plurality of monitoring units is configured to acquire battery-related information including at least information indicating a state of a battery. The wireless transmission unit is configured to wirelessly transmit the battery-related information acquired by the plurality of monitoring units to a control device.

Abstract: A battery monitoring system includes measurement devices and a battery monitoring device. Each measurement device measures a cell state of a corresponding cell constituting a battery. The battery monitoring device sequentially communicates, by using wireless communication, with the measurement devices during a communication period; and acquires state information indicating the cell state from each measurement device. In a case where transmitting a measurement instruction of the cell state to each of the measurement devices, the battery monitoring device transmits, to each of the plurality of measurement devices, a corresponding stand-by time interval such that measurement timings of the measurement devices synchronize, the stand-by time interval being a time interval from reception of the measurement instruction until the measurement timing.

Abstract: In a technique for monitoring a state of a battery, battery monitoring information is acquired via wireless communication from monitoring devices that acquire the battery monitoring information from the battery. A predetermined process is executed based on the battery monitoring information. Instructions are transmitted to the monitoring devices via unicast communication and broadcast communication within a communication cycle. The instructions include an instruction transmitted via the unicast communication to each of the monitoring devices about acquisition of the battery monitoring information, and an instruction transmitted via the broadcast communication to the monitoring devices about a timing of acquisition of the battery monitoring information.

Abstract: A battery management system includes at least one monitoring device and a controller. The monitoring device is arranged in a housing accommodating a battery to monitor the battery and acquires battery monitoring information that includes information indicating a state of the battery. The controller performs wireless communication with the monitoring device and executes a predetermined process based on the battery monitoring information. The monitoring device inserts the battery monitoring information in a packet and transmits the packet to the controller during a period of a connection process executed for establishing the wireless communication between the at least one monitoring device and the controller.

Abstract: A monitoring system includes monitoring devices provided in a monitored device, and a controller that wirelessly communicates with the monitoring devices to acquire monitoring information. In an operating state of the monitored device, the controller and the monitoring devices establish individual connections in which the controller acting as a communication master performs wireless communication with each of the monitoring devices acting as communication slaves. In a non-operating state of the monitored device, the controller and the monitoring devices maintain communication between the controller and the monitoring devices by establishing a sequential connection.

Abstract: A battery management system includes monitoring devices and a controller. The monitoring devices are arranged in a housing accommodating a battery. The monitoring devices monitor the battery and acquire battery monitoring information that includes information indicating a state of the battery. The controller performs wireless communication with the monitoring devices and executes a predetermined process based on the battery monitoring information. The controller executes a wireless communication process with each of the monitoring devices individually. The wireless communication process includes a connection process of the wireless communication, and a periodic communication process in which the each of the monitoring devices periodically transmits the battery monitoring information to the controller after completion of the connection process. The controller executes the wireless communication process with the monitoring devices in order of predetermined priority.

Abstract: A monitoring system includes monitoring devices and a controller configured to wirelessly communicate with the monitoring devices to acquire monitoring information of a monitored device. In a non-operating state of the monitored device, the monitoring devices establish communication connections between the monitoring devices and periodically perform communication through the communication connections. One monitoring device acts as a communication master and another one monitoring device acts as a communication slave in each of the communication connections. Each of the monitoring devices acts as a communication master for another of the monitoring devices and also as a communication slave for another of the monitoring devices.

Abstract: A battery management system includes more than three monitoring devices arranged inside a housing together with a battery. The monitoring devices monitor the battery and acquire battery monitoring information. The monitoring devices and a controller perform wireless communication via a communication path from the controller through each of the monitoring devices to the controller. The controller transmits a request signal to a receiving device that is one of the monitoring devices. The controller receives the battery monitoring information of all the monitoring devices from a transmitting device that is another of the monitoring devices. Another of the monitoring devices is a far device farther from the controller than the receiving device and the transmitting device are. The far device receives the request signal through the receiving device, and transmits the battery monitoring information to the controller through the transmitting device in response to the request signal.

Abstract: A battery management system includes a monitoring device and a controller. The monitoring device is arranged in a housing accommodating a battery, monitors the battery and acquires battery monitoring information that includes information indicating a state of the battery. The controller performs wireless communication with the monitoring device and execute a predetermined process based on the battery monitoring information. The controller transmits a request for battery monitoring information to the monitoring device. The monitoring device transmits the battery monitoring information to the controller in response to the request. The controller determines whether missing of the battery monitoring information has occurred based on a correlation between the battery monitoring information acquired from the monitoring device via wireless communication and relationship information held by the controller related to the battery monitoring information.

Abstract: A monitoring system includes monitoring devices provided in a monitored device and monitoring the monitored device, and a controller that wirelessly communicates with the monitoring devices to acquire monitoring information of the monitored device from the monitoring devices. The monitored device is switchable between an operating state and a non-operating state. In the non-operating state of the monitored device, the monitoring devices establish communication connections in which at least one of the monitoring devices acts as a communication master and others of the monitoring devices act as communication slaves for the communication master. In the non-operating state of the monitored device, the controller does not act as a communication master for the monitoring devices.

Abstract: A battery management system includes a monitoring device and a controller. The monitoring device is arranged in a housing accommodating a battery. The monitoring device monitors the battery and acquires battery monitoring information that includes information indicating a state of the battery. The controller performs wireless communication with the monitoring device and executes a predetermined process based on the battery monitoring information. The monitoring device holds imperfect information that is battery monitoring information indicating failure of data transmission/reception between the monitoring device and the controller. The monitoring device retransmits information corresponding to the imperfect information from next time the battery monitoring information is transmitted.

Abstract: A battery management system includes monitoring devices arranged in a housing accommodating a battery. The monitoring devices monitor the battery and acquire battery monitoring information. The controller performs wireless communication with each of the monitoring devices via a wireless communication connection. The controller transmits a disconnection instruction to each of the monitoring devices. Each of the monitoring devices periodically executes a requesting operation after disconnection of the wireless communication connection. The controller accepts the requesting operation to establish the wireless communication connection. The controller and each of the monitoring devices perform a periodic communication of the battery monitoring information via the established wireless communication connection.

Abstract: A battery management system includes multiple monitoring devices and a control device. The monitoring devices are disposed in a housing that accommodates a battery of a vehicle and monitors battery information indicating a state of the battery. The control device performs wireless communication with each of the monitoring devices and acquires data including the battery information to execute a predetermined process. The control device sets a cycle in which the multiple monitoring devices make a round in order to perform wireless communication with each of the monitoring devices, and is capable of adjusting the cycle.

Abstract: A battery management system in a vehicle includes: monitoring devices arranged in a housing accommodating battery; and a control device arranged in the housing, acquiring battery information from the monitoring devices, and performing a predetermined process. The control device stores, in advance as learning data, data that correlates with an electric field intensity in the housing for frequency channels that are usable to transmit and receive data to and from each of the monitoring devices performing wireless communication. The control device determines a target frequency channel of the frequency channel hopping based on the learning data.

Abstract: A battery management system includes a monitoring device and a control device. The control device transmits request data requesting transmission of battery information, and the monitoring device transmits response data including the battery information to the control device. The control device makes next request data include communication establishment information and transmits the next request data. The monitoring device includes a transmission buffer capable of individually accumulating the battery information for multiple times. The monitoring device deletes the battery information corresponding to communication establishment from the transmission buffer, and holds the battery information corresponding to communication failure in the transmission buffer based on the communication establishment information.

Abstract: A battery management system includes monitoring devices arranged in a housing that houses batteries and a control device. The monitoring device includes (i) a monitoring IC capable of acquiring battery information and (ii) a wireless IC. At a start-up time of the plurality of monitoring devices, each of the wireless ICs performs an advertising operation in a cyclic advertising event for establishing a connection of wireless communication between the plurality of monitoring devices and the control device, and the control device performs a scan operation. The wireless IC of each of the two or more monitoring devices has, respectively, an event management unit that manages a generation cycle of the adverting event, for performing the advertising operation at respectively different timings.

Abstract: A battery management device is configured to set a limited measurement range that limits a range for measuring a voltage of each of a plurality of batteries for a vehicle. The battery management device is configured to measure the voltage of each of the plurality of batteries within the limited measurement range.