Battery pack
AssigneeSamsung SDI Co., Ltd.
InventorCheolgi Son
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Abstract
A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules, a battery module of the plurality of batter modules including at least one cell and a control circuit configured to manage the at least one cell, a main controller configured to wirelessly communicate with the control circuit, and a plurality of structures corresponding to the plurality of battery modules, a structure of the plurality of structures is configured to adjust signal intensity of a radio signal transmitted to the main controller from the control circuit of the battery module, wherein the structure is further configured to vary a degree of adjusting signal intensity of the radio signal according to a position of the battery module.
Claims9
A battery pack comprising:
- a plurality of battery modules, a battery module of the plurality of battery modules comprising at least one cell and a control circuit configured to manage the at least one cell;
- a main controller configured to wirelessly communicate with the control circuit;
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- a plurality of structures corresponding to the plurality of battery modules, a structure of the plurality of structures being configured to adjust signal intensity of a radio signal transmitted to the main controller from the control circuit of the battery module,
- wherein the structure is further configured to vary a degree of adjusting signal intensity of the radio signal relative to noise according to a position of the battery module,
- wherein the structure comprises a noise generator configured to generates a noise signal for application to the radio signal, an output power of the noise signal that is output by the noise generator is different from that of another noise signal of a corresponding noise generator of another structure of the plurality of structures such that a signal to noise ratio of the radio signal is indicative of the position or a connection order of the battery module among the plurality of battery modules within the battery pack.
A battery pack comprising:
- a plurality of battery modules, each battery module of the plurlaity of battery modules comprising at least one cell and a control circuit configured to manage the at least one cell;
- a main controller configured to wirelessly communicate with the control circuit of each battery module;
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- a plurality of shield filters corresponding to the plurality of battery modules, each shield filter of the plurality of shield filters being configured to adjust a signal intensity of a radio signal transmitted from the control circuit of a corresponding battery module to the main controller,
- wherein each shield filter is further configured to vary a degree of adjusting signal intensity of the radio signal according to a position or a connection order of the corresponding battery module, and
- wherein each shield filter adjusts the signal intensity of the radio signal by at least one of reflection, scattering, diffraction, and absorption of electromagnetic waves.
A battery pack comprising:
- a plurality of battery modules, a battery module of the plurality of batter modules comprising at least one cell and a control circuit configured to manage the at least one cell;
- a main controller configured to wirelessly communicate with the control circuit;
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- a plurality of signal generators respectively corresponding to the plurality of battery modules, each one of the plurality of signal generators comprising a voltage dividing circuit configured to generate a voltage signal having a voltage value that varies according to a position or a connection order of the battery module,
- wherein the control circuit is further configured to acquire position identification information based on the voltage signal of the signal generator, and to transmit a radio signal comprising the position identification information to the main controller,
- wherein resistances of the voltage dividing circuit of one of the plurality of signal generators is different from those of a corresponding voltage dividing circuit of another one of the signal generators.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.