Battery pack with monitoring function utilizing association with a battery charging system

The present invention pertains in general to battery packs and, more particularly, to a battery pack for obtaining information about the charge state of a battery and relaying it to an associated charging system. A battery detect circuit () is provided that is operable to dispose a sense resistor () in series with the battery to determine whether the charge is being provided to the battery or being extracted from the battery. The voltage across the sensor resistor () is sensed by a voltage/frequency converter (). The voltage/frequency converter () is a differential structure comprised of two integrator structures () and () that are operable to utilize a switched capacitor configuration to drive comparators on the output thereof. Each of the integrator structures () and () has associated therewith passive elements and active elements. The integrators () and () have associated therewith integration capacitors () and (). Additionally, there are two operational amplifiers () and () that provide the active components of each of the integrators () and (). The various switched capacitor circuits () and () associated with the amplifiers () and () are provided to provide the integration operation. Both the amplifiers () and () and their associated switched capacitor circuits () and () are dynamically balanced such that they are switched between integrator () and integrator () on a periodic basis. This therefore allows the errors between the active and passive elements to be switched between the two integrators () and () such that no accumulative error occurs.