JAJSCB2K April 2020 – July 2020 BQ77904 , BQ77905
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As an example, using a 5-Ah battery, with 1C-rate (5 A) charge and 2C-rate (10 A) discharge, the sense resistor is 3 mΩ or less. The typical current to turn on the FET body diode protection is 667 mA using this example. Because there is no built-in hysteresis, noise can reset the state comparator counter and toggle off the FET body diode protection and vice versa; thus, it is normal to observe the device toggles the FET body diode protection on or off within a 1-mV to 3-mV range. With a 3-mΩ sense resistor, it is about 330 mA to 1 A. As this behavior is due to noise from the system, the FET toggling behavior usually occurs right at the typical 2-mV state comparator threshold. As current increases or decreases from the typical value, the detection is more solid and has less frequent FET toggling. Using this example, either charge or discharge should provide a solid FET body diode protection detection.
Look at the device behavior during an OV event (and no other fault is detected). In an OV event, CHG FET is off and DSG FET is on. If a discharge of > –1 A occurs, the device would turn on the CHG FET immediately to allow the full discharge current to pass through. Once the overcharged cell is discharged to the OV recovery level, the OV fault is recovered and the CHG driver turns on (or remains on in this scenario) and the state comparator is turned off.
If the discharge current is < 1 A when the device is still in an OV fault, the CHG FET may toggle on and off until the overcharged cell voltage is reduced down to the OV recovery level. When the OV fault recovers, the CHG FET is solidly turned on and the state comparator is off.
Without the FET body diode protection, if a discharge occurs during an OV fault state, the discharge current can only pass through the CHG FET body diode until the OV fault is recovered. This increases the risk of damaging the CHG FET if the MOSFET is not rated to sustain this amount of current through its body diode. It also increases the FET temperature as current is now carried through the body diode.