The bqJUNIOR series are highly accurate stand-alone single-cell Li-Ion and Li-Pol battery capacity monitoring and reporting devices targeted at space-limited, portable applications. The IC monitors a voltage drop across a small current sense resistor connected in series with the battery to determine charge and discharge activity of the battery. Compensations for battery age, temperature, self-discharge, and discharge rate are applied to the capacity measurments to provide available time-to-empty information across a wide range of operating conditions. Battery capacity is automatically recalibrated, or learned, in the course of a discharge cycle from full to empty. Internal registers include current, capacity, time-to-empty, state-of-charge, cell temperature and voltage, status, and more.
The bqJUNIOR can operate directly from single-cell Li-Ion and Li-Pol batteries and communicates to the system over a HDQ one-wire or I2C serial interface.
bqJUNIOR is a trademark of Texas Instruments.
| Cell chemistry | Li-Ion/Li-Polymer |
| Number of series cells | Single Cell |
| Communication interface | I2C |
| Battery capacity (min) (mAh) | 300 |
| Battery capacity (max) (mAh) | 6000 |
| Implementation | Pack |
| External capacity indication | None |
| Features | Impedance Track™ algorithm |
| Operating temperature range (°C) | -20 to 70 |
| Rating | Catalog |
| VSON (DRK) | 10 | 12 mm² 4 x 3 |