Patent attributes
Provided is a battery pack management apparatus that effectively improves the life of a battery pack. The battery pack management apparatus is an apparatus for managing a battery pack, in which a plurality of battery cells are electrically connected to each other, and includes: a measurement unit configured to measure the number of charging and discharging cycles of each of the plurality of battery cells; a selection unit configured to select at least some battery cells from among battery cells whose number of charging and discharging cycles measured by the measurement unit reached a reference number; and a blocking unit configured to stop operations of the at least some battery cells selected by the selection unit for a first reference time.
