Abstract: A battery monitoring system includes a battery, a battery monitoring device that monitors a state of the battery, and a battery control device that performs wireless communication with the battery monitoring device to acquire battery information representing results of the monitoring by the battery monitoring device and execute various controls. Moreover, the battery monitoring device is configured to execute, while executing a first process between it and the battery control device via the wireless communication, a second process that is different from the first process.

Abstract: A wireless device of a battery monitoring system includes a wireless antenna and a proximate conductor that overlaps at least a portion of a projection plane of the wireless antenna in a predefined projection direction.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a battery, a battery monitoring apparatus, a battery control apparatus, a housing, a transmissive portion, and a protection mechanism. The battery monitoring apparatus that monitors a state of the battery; a battery control apparatus that performs wireless communication with the battery monitoring apparatus, acquires battery information that is a monitoring result from the battery monitoring apparatus, and performs various types of control. The housing houses the battery, the battery monitoring apparatus, and the battery control apparatus. The transmissive portion is provided in at least a portion of the housing and allows transmission of radio waves. The protection mechanism is provided in the battery monitoring apparatus and the battery control apparatus and protects the battery information when wireless communication is performed.

Abstract: A power system includes a battery module and a battery ECU. The battery module includes multiple battery stacks. Each of multiple battery stacks includes multiple battery cells, multiple detectors which independently detect physical values of the multiple battery cells, respectively, and multiple individual communicators which wirelessly output detection results of the multiple detectors. Each of the multiple individual communicators communicates a radio signal wirelessly to and from a general monitor. The multiple battery stacks and the general monitor are accommodated in a storage space in a housing having electromagnetic shielding performance. A shield is also accommodated in the storage space while facing a communication hole formed on the housing.

Abstract: A circuit board is to be used for a battery monitoring system configured to monitor a battery condition of a battery unit. The circuit board includes: a wireless antenna; a wireless unit configured to perform wireless communication through the wireless antenna to transmit or receive the battery condition; and a connecting conductor configured to be connectable to an electrical path between the wireless unit and the wireless antenna and configured to allow an inspection terminal to be electrically connected thereto.

Abstract: A battery pack includes a housing, a plurality of assembled batteries disposed in the housing, obtaining units arranged one for each of the assembled batteries in the housing, and the monitoring device equipped with a master antenna. The obtaining units obtain battery information about the assembled batteries and transmit it to the master antenna of the monitoring device through wireless communication using slave antennas. The master antenna and/or the slave antennas are each implemented by a directional antenna which emits a radio wave to be higher in power in a given directional direction than in a given undirectional direction. This minimizes a risk of a communication failure arising from radio wave interference.

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 a battery, monitoring devices and a controller. The monitoring devices are arranged in a housing accommodating the 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 that controls voltage of the battery 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, and a periodic communication process in which each of the monitoring devices periodically transmits the battery monitoring information to the controller after completion of the connection process.

Abstract: An application system requires data at each system period. A slave node transmits the data to a master node. The master node and the slave node execute bidirectional wireless communication multiple times within the system period. When the application system has successfully acquired the data in a predetermined number of the multiple times of the bidirectional wireless communication, the master node transmits success information to the slave node. In response to receiving the success information, the slave node stops a remaining number of the multiple times of the bidirectional wireless communication.

Abstract: A battery management system includes more than three monitoring devices arranged inside a housing with a battery. The monitoring devices monitor the battery and acquire battery monitoring information. The monitoring devices and a controller that controls the battery voltage 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, and receives the battery monitoring information of all the monitoring devices from a transmitting device that is another of the monitoring devices. Another monitoring device is a far device farther in distance 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 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: In a battery pack having a housing, battery modules composed of a plurality of battery cells, acquisition units equipped with slave antennas, and a monitoring device equipped with a parent antenna, the monitoring device and the acquisition units perform wireless communication to obtain battery information such as a state of change of each battery cell. A radio wave absorption part is formed on at least one of surfaces of the housing and an inside part of the housing. The radio wave absorption part absorbs a part of radio waves emitted from the parent antenna and the slave antennas.

Abstract: A battery module includes: a plurality of assembled batteries; a plurality of individual detection units configured to individually detect a physical quantity of each of the plurality of assembled batteries; a plurality of individual communication units configured to output a detection result of each of the plurality of individual detection units as wireless signal; a monitoring unit configured to wirelessly communicate with each of the plurality of individual communication units; and an electromagnetic reflection housing having a storage space to store the plurality of assembled batteries, the plurality of individual detection units, the plurality of individual communication units, and the monitoring unit.

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 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 power system includes a battery module and a battery ECU. The battery module includes multiple battery stacks. Each of multiple battery stacks includes multiple battery cells, multiple detectors which independently detect physical values of the multiple battery cells, respectively, and multiple individual communicators which wirelessly output detection results of the multiple detectors. Each of the multiple individual communicators communicates a radio signal wirelessly to and from a general monitor. The multiple battery stacks and the general monitor are accommodated in a storage space in a housing having electromagnetic shielding performance. A shield is also accommodated in the storage space while facing a communication hole formed on the housing.

Abstract: A battery monitoring system includes battery measuring devices and a battery monitoring device. Each of the battery measuring devices detects voltage information on a corresponding battery. The battery monitoring device is configured to: acquire the voltage information from each of the battery measuring devices by using wireless communication; and acquire current information on current flowing through the corresponding battery from an electric-current sensor. The battery monitoring device includes a control unit and a wireless communication unit. The wireless communication unit executes wireless communication with the battery measuring devices with a predetermined period.

Abstract: A battery monitoring apparatus includes a battery ECU, satellite devices each of which measures the voltage at a battery cell in response to a command signal from the battery ECU, and a wireless module which achieves a wireless communication between the battery ECU and each of the satellite devices after a wireless connection between the battery ECU and each of the satellite devices is completed. when receiving a start signal outputted before a start switch for a drive power source of the vehicle is turned on, the wireless module is activated to start the wireless connection between the battery ECU and each of the satellite devices. This establishes and completes the wireless connections faster than when the wireless module is activated simultaneously with turning on of the start switch for the drive power source. This achieves quick monitoring of the state of the battery cells.

Abstract: The wireless communication apparatus includes a communicator that performs at least one of transmission of signals to an antenna and reception of the signals from the antenna through a microstrip line. The microstrip line is formed with a first stub provided on the side of the communicator and a second stub provided on the side of the antenna, which stubs have resonant characteristics.

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.