Onboard Electronics

A long-lived Experience
Our Know-How

I+ME ACTIA has been following since many years new battery technology based on Ni-Mh and Li-Polymer technology. Together
with its long-lived know how in Electronics we have been working and developing consequently since 1995 new battery
management systems enabling the use of NiMH or Li-Polymer batteries for mobile applications.

Together with development partners such as VARTA, GAIA, and ZSW, we build up innovative solutions, which have been already
implemented in different applications:

Battery Management System

BCS - MOSFET
System Interface
Battery Cells Controller
BCS - Mini (7 Cells)

Safety Switch

Enclosure & Housing

BCS -Monitoring SW

BCS -Master BCS -Slave

Features

The implementation of our Battery Management Systems gives you competitive advantages:
By enhancing the battery life
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By enabling the system integration of the battery
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By optimising the charging of batteries through automatic cell balancing
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By reaching high flexibility of use of various numbers of battery cells
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By getting information about the battery, single cells or cell groups
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By ensuring a high security of cells and users through control of the limit values
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By adapting the charging and discharging cycles to the customer and application needs
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By revealing statistics about the battery, such as State of Charge or State of Health, and with it enabling the use in commercial
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applications
By offering minimal power consumption of the BMS thank our automotive electronic know how.
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Battery Management Systems: Advantages

Uses

The advantages of the new battery cells can be enhanced The communication of the BMS with complex car systems
through optimised Battery Management Systems, for is a further crucial advantage in order to indicate for
example by avoiding the drifting of the cell voltages through example the status of the battery to the car or to warn
an active balancing already during the charging. about critical operating use.

Our systems are already implemented for NiMH and Li-

polymer batteries.
These systems offer especially for mobile uses such as
hybrid vehicles, bicycles, fork lifts, wheel chairs and robots
the crucial advantage that they control the charging of the
battery through the software application. This can be
furthermore designed so that it supports also the reversal
handling of onboard electric power train.
This functionality enables a secure function of the whole
system and avoids a premature breakdown of the battery
due to frequent overcharging or deep discharging of the
battery cells.

Techniques +++

The extremely low power consumption and the sleep

§ The system integration is flexible because of the low
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mode are advantageous for the use in mobile application need of place and the modular system architecture.
and vehicles because only few power is requested for
the additional electronic. The best price/performance value of these products
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enables their integration in application with high
The electronics comply with the strict demands of the
§ quantities.
automobile industry and medical technique.
Complementary outputs are available for the control of
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The CAN interfacing is a serial feature and the software
§ external components, such as fan or security switches
has been already designed so that an optimised
integration in onboard networks can be realised with Appropriate chargers can be supplied.
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complementary system communication.

The intelligent BCS enables the dynamic control of

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battery and system

Management of power demand is supported by

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integrated dynamic power prediction.

Through its modular concept (Master and Slaves

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modules), BCS can be easily adapted to different cell
types and cell numbers.

BCS enables short charging cycles. The cell balancing is

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executed automatically.

State of Charge and State of Health are standard

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information.

BCS can be enhanced with addidional components for

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security reasons.
 Technical Data
§BCS consist of one Master and up to 20 Slaves (correspond to approx. 15V - 840V)
§Applicable for a supply voltage of approx. 7-42V ini (7 cells)

BCS - M
§Detailed Measurements of voltage and cell voltage with 16 Bit ADC
§Automatic balancing of the cell voltage up to +/- 5mV
§Identification of charging and discharging ends with an accuracy of 10mV
§Accurate determination of SOC und SOH based on voltage balancing and voltage measurement
as well as other processes
§Identification of Ri (SOC, SOH, T, I, U)
§All limit values can be set up as parameters
§Communication with the vehicle computer per CAN with extensive messages of faults and
warning
§PC Programm for displaying and analysing per CAN or RS232
ion Board
cat

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BCS - Appl
System Supply connections to up to 10
KL30, KL31, KL15 cells of battery
BCS-MASTER BCS-SLAVE
isolated serial
CAN communication
Interface 16 Bit Microcontroller 8 Bit
ter
Microcontroller as

BCS - M
1 MB SRAM
intern RAM
RS232 512 KB Flash
Interface
4 KB Flash
8 KB EEPROM
8 KB EEPROM

Current Relay and Temperature Control

Switch Outputs Safety Control
Isolation Control

ave
Sl

BCS -
Master Function Slave Function

Voltage measurement for the whole battery

§ Measurement of the cell voltage
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Data exchange with the slave modules
§ Balancing of different cell voltages
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System surveillance and triggering of the
§ Measurement of temperature
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protective relay Communication with the Master
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Triggering of fan or other components which are FET
OS
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necessary for the operation of big batteries Order References
BCS - M

Administartion of system information auch as

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SOC, SOH, Date and time BCS
§ 42V Master: IME1912201
Communication to external peripherics through
§ BCS
§ 42V Slave: IME1912202
CAN BCS
§ Mini (7 Cells): IME1914201
BCS
§ protective switch MOSFET: IME1912203
BCS
§ Application Board: IME1914202
BCS
§ Standalone Slave: IME1912204

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I+ME ACTIA
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This Product Information Sheet is offered without charge to the customers of I+ME ACTIA GmbH. Data is the most current known to I+ME ACTIA GmbH at the time of preparation and is
believed to be accurate. It should not be construed as guaranteeing specific properties of the products as described or suitability for a particular application. All Information are suitable
for modification. (c) 2006 I+ME ACTIA GmbH IR11652A