Current balancing for battery strings

Patent · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:865360

Galloway, James H ^[1]

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1. New Baltimore, MI

A battery plant is described which features magnetic circuit means for balancing the electrical current flow through a pluraliircuitbattery strings which are connected electrically in parallel. The magnetic circuit means is associated with the battery strings such that the conductors carrying the electrical current flow through each of the battery strings pass through the magnetic circuit means in directions which cause the electromagnetic fields of at least one predetermined pair of the conductors to oppose each other. In an alternative embodiment, a low voltage converter is associated with each of the battery strings for balancing the electrical current flow through the battery strings.

• Research Organization: ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ASSOC
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-78ET26923
• Assignee: Energy Development Associates, Inc. (Madison Heights, MI)
• Patent Number(s): US 4502001
• OSTI ID: 865360
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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