Battery management apparatus

Abstract

A battery management apparatus mounted in a vehicle, and configured to manage a plurality of battery packs connected in parallel, the battery management apparatus including an acquiring section configured to acquire battery pack information representing a charging amount and a voltage from each of the plurality of battery packs; a selection section configured to select a battery pack to be charged or a battery pack to be discharged from among the plurality of battery packs based on the battery pack information, and a control section configured to charge the battery pack to be charged in a charging mode and discharge the battery pack to be discharged in a discharging mode. When a mode is switched from the charging mode to the discharging mode, the control section performs a control such that the battery pack to be charged is used as it is as the battery pack to be discharged.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.