# US 11,299,115 B2 · Power storage unit control device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,299,115 B2 - Document ID: US11299115B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/328,555 - Filed: 2017-08-29 - Published: 2021-09-30 - Granted: 2022-04-12 - Earliest claimed: 2016-08-31 - Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd.; Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.; Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. - Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd.; Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.; Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. - Inventors: Kosei Maekawa - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11299115B2 ## CPC - B60R 16/033: characterised by the use of electrical cells or batteries (for propulsion puposes B60K1/04; supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles B60S5/06; testing of charge state G01R31/36) - H02J 7/342: {The other DC source being a battery actively interacting with the first one, i.e. battery to battery charging (with circuits for polarity protection H02J7/68)} - H02J 7/54: Passive balancing, e.g. using resistors or parallel MOSFETs - H02J 7/575: {Parallel/serial switching of connection of batteries to charge or load circuit} - H02J 7/63: against overdischarge - H02J 7/663: {using battery or load disconnect circuits (H02J9/002 takes precedence)} - H02J 7/855: {with circuits adapted for supplying loads from the battery} - B60L 2240/547: Voltage - H02J 2105/33: exchanging power with road vehicles - B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES ## Abstract A power storage unit control device includes a discharging circuit that discharges from a power storage unit to a load, a control circuit that controls the discharging circuit, and a switching unit that executes a discharge prohibition mode in which discharge control of the discharging circuit by the control circuit is prohibited, if a stop signal based on an operation stopped state of a vehicle is received and a power source unit is greater than or equal to a predetermined voltage, and executes a discharge permission mode in which discharge control of the discharging circuit by the control circuit is permitted, if an operation signal based on the operating state of the vehicle is received and the power source unit is greater than or equal to the predetermined voltage. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A power storage unit control device in an in-vehicle power source system that includes a power source unit, a charging circuit configured to perform charging based on power from the power source unit, a power storage unit configured to be charged by the charging circuit, and a discharging circuit configured to discharge from the power storage unit to a load, the power storage unit control device comprising: the discharging circuit; a control unit configured to control the discharging circuit; and a switching unit configured to monitor a first voltage, which is a voltage of the power source unit that is applied to a wiring unit, the wiring unit coupled to one side of an ignition relay, the ignition relay switches to an ON state in a case where a predetermined start operation for starting a vehicle is performed and switches to an OFF state in the case where a predetermined stop operation for stopping the vehicle is performed, is provided between the power source unit and the ignition relay, and a second voltage, which is a voltage on the other side of the ignition relay that is applied to a conduction path, the switching unit electrically connected to both the wiring unit and the first conduction path via a first path and a second path so as to monitor the first voltage and the second voltage, the ignition relay being interposed between the first path and the second path and, when the first voltage is larger than a predetermined value in a case where the second voltage switches from a state of being larger than a predetermined value to a state of being smaller than the predetermined value, to execute a discharge prohibition mode in which discharge control of the discharging circuit by the control unit is prohibited, and, when the first voltage is smaller than the predetermined value in a case where the second voltage switches from a state of being larger than a predetermined value to a state of being smaller than the predetermined value, to execute a discharge permission mode in which discharge control of the discharging circuit by the control unit is permitted, wherein the control unit causes the discharging circuit to perform a discharging operation in a case where a voltage of the power source unit is less than or equal to a predetermined value in a state where the switching unit is executing the discharge permission mode, and does not cause the discharging circuit to perform the discharging operation in a case where the voltage of the power source unit is less than or equal to a predetermined value in a state where the switching unit is executing the discharge prohibition mode. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The power storage unit control device according to claim 1, comprising the power storage unit.