A method for predicting a state-of-power, SoP, of an electric energy storage system, ESS, comprising at least two battery units electrically connected in parallel. The method includes obtaining operational data from the at least two battery units of the ESS during operation of the ESS; computing the state-of-power of the ESS based on the obtained operational data and by using an algorithm based on a system-level model of the ESS, wherein the system-level model of the ESS takes into account on one hand each one of the at least two battery units of the ESS, and on the other hand at least one electrical connection between the at least two battery units, and wherein the system-level model of the ESS further takes into account a dynamic parallel load distribution between the at least two battery units.

An apparatus including a monitoring unit including a voltage detection circuit which detects a voltage of the plurality of battery cells, a balancing unit including a first common resistor element and a switching module, the first common resistor element connected between a first common node and a second common node, and a control unit operably coupled to the monitoring unit and the switching module, the control unit determining a balancing target including at least one of the plurality of battery cells based on the voltage of each of the plurality of battery cells, controlling the switching module to form a current channel between the first common resistor element and the balancing target and determining a maximum number of battery cells that can be included in the balancing target based on resistance of the first common resistor element and the voltage of each of the plurality of battery cells.

A battery system with a large-format Li-ion battery powers attached equipment by discharging battery cells distributed among a plurality of battery packs. The discharging of the battery cells is controlled in an efficient manner while preserving the expected life of the Li-ion battery cells. Each battery pack internally supports a battery management system and may have identical components, thus supporting an architecture that easily scales to higher power/energy. Battery packs may be added or removed without intervention with a user, where one of battery packs serves as a master battery pack and the remaining battery packs serve as slave battery packs. When the master battery pack is removed, one of the slave battery packs becomes the master battery pack. Charging and discharging of the battery cells is coordinated by the master battery pack with the slave battery packs over a communication channel such as a controller area network (CAN) bus.

A portable charger capable of jump starting a 12 V car battery includes a charger battery, a jump start circuit operatively electrically connected with the charger battery and with an ignition power outlet, and a microcontroller for coordinating safety functions to establish or interrupt the operative electrical connection of the jump start circuit with the ignition power outlet. The ignition power outlet comprises a positive power socket, a negative power socket, a positive sensing socket and a negative sensing socket. The sensing sockets are electrically isolated from the power sockets, and the microcontroller senses voltage across the sensing sockets and is configured to interrupt the operative electrical connection of the jump start circuit to the ignition power outlet until proper voltage is sensed across the sensing sockets.

A battery control method includes obtaining a first voltage value of a first battery pack of an electronic device; obtaining a second voltage value of a second battery pack of the electronic device, a rated capacity of the first battery pack being different from a rated capacity of the second battery pack; and controlling, based on the first voltage value and the second voltage value, a control switch to be turned on according to a control strategy to connect the second battery pack and the first battery pack in parallel.

One or more embodiments herein can facilitate charging and/or discharging of one or more units (e.g., battery cells and/or multi-cell battery clusters of battery cells) based at least in part on state of charge and/or state of health monitoring at one or more of the cell-level and/or cluster-level. An exemplary method can comprise monitoring, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, cell states of cells of a multi-cell battery cluster, and selectively determining, by the system, based on the cell states, a time-based order for electrically connecting the cells to an external apparatus for current flow between the external apparatus and the cluster. The cell states can be provided as a function of a cluster state of the cluster. The cell states can be provided as one or more of states of health of the cells or states of charge of the cells determined from the monitoring.

A method of controlling state of charge (SOC) of a first battery and a second battery that are connected in parallel with each other, includes: calculating the SOC of the first battery and the SOC of the second battery; controlling output voltage command values of a first direct current (DC-DC) converter and a second DC-DC converter based on the SOC of the first battery and the SOC of the second battery, the first DC-DC converter and the second DC-DC converter being connected to ends of the first battery and the second battery, respectively; and controlling the SOC of the first battery and the SOC of the second battery based on the controlling of the output voltage command values of the first DC-DC converter and the second DC-DC converter.

An electric vehicle battery disconnect bracket configured disconnect one or more battery cells or modules experiencing a thermal event within a battery pack to mitigate propagation of the thermal event throughout the battery pack, including a bracket body formed of a first material on a first major surface of the body, and a second material on an opposing second major surface of the body, the first material having a larger coefficient of thermal expansion than the second material, such that an increase in temperature above a defined threshold experienced by the body causes the first material to expand more than the second material, thereby transitioning the body from a first equilibrium state representing a closed, conductive position to a second equilibrium state representing an open, isolation position.

An energy management system may include local unit(s) associated with energy storage devices. The local unit(s) may compare operating parameter values of the storage devices with a setpoint. The local unit(s) can generate an output signal representative of a comparison of the operating parameters values with the setpoint value. The system also may include a monitoring unit operably coupled with the local unit(s). The monitoring unit may receive the comparison from the local unit(s) and generate a time-varying, repeating signal that is based on the comparison. This signal has one or more characteristics indicative of the number of the energy storage devices having operating parameter values that are outside of the designated range.

A battery overcharge preventing device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a voltage distribution unit connected to both ends of at least one battery cell in a battery module including multiple battery cells, the voltage distribution unit being configured to distribute a voltage of the at least one battery cell according to a preset ratio; a voltage sensing unit operating so as to allow a control current to flow when the voltage distributed by the voltage distribution unit is greater than a preset reference voltage; and a second relay configured to block, by operation of the voltage sensing unit, operation of a first relay that establishes an electrical connection between the battery module and a charging module.