摘要 |
A protective semiconductor apparatus for protecting an assembled battery including N secondary cells connected in series includes a disconnection detecting circuit including, for each of the N secondary cells, a voltage-sensing resistor dividing a voltage of a corresponding one of the secondary cells, a reference voltage, and a first comparator comparing a voltage obtained by the voltage-sensing resistor with the reference voltage. The protection semiconductor apparatus also includes a circuit connecting an internal resistor having a resistance value smaller than a resistance value of a corresponding one of the voltage-sensing resistors in parallel to the corresponding voltage-sensing resistors successively and selectively at predetermined time intervals. The disconnection detecting circuit detects disconnection between the N secondary cells and the protective semiconductor apparatus based on an output from the first comparator when the internal resistor is connected in parallel to the corresponding voltage-sensing resistor. |