Back to results
US 12,640,405 B2Granted
Configuration of battery management device for temperature measurement of microcontroller, and control method therefor
AssigneeLG Energy Solution, Ltd.
InventorJin Kyu Jung
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The present invention relates to a temperature measurement device of a microcontroller of a battery management system (BMS) and a method therefor, and enables accurate temperature measurement of a microcontroller while facilitating channel utilization by connecting a temperature measurement device for a microcontroller and a temperature measurement device for an application to one channel of the microcontroller.
Claims9
A battery management device comprising:
- a microcontroller configured to control a boot mode and an application mode of a battery management system (BMS), and including a plurality of input/output channels;
- a first temperature measurement unit configured to measure one or more application temperatures of the BMS;
- a first switch having a first end connected to the first temperature measurement unit and a second end connected to a designated channel of the microcontroller among the plurality of input/output channels;
- a second temperature measurement unit configured to measure a temperature of the microcontroller;
- and
- a second switch having a first end connected to the second temperature measurement unit and a second end connected to the designated channel of the microcontroller,
- wherein each of the first switch and the second switch has an on/off state set differently according to a control of the microcontroller.
4 more elements
A control method of a battery management device, the method comprising:
- a software update command input step of receiving a software update command from a battery management system (BMS);
- a micro controller temperature measurement step of measuring a temperature of the microcontroller according to the software update command;
- a boot mode switching determination step of determining whether to proceed in a boot mode according to the measured temperature of the microcontroller;
- a boot mode starting step of starting the boot mode for performing a software update when the temperature of the microcontroller satisfies a predetermined condition in the boot mode switching determination step;
- and
- a boot mode ending step of ending the boot mode when the software update is finished.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.