IMBALANCE IDENTIFYING CIRCUIT, POWER SOURCE APPARATUS AND IMBALANCE IDENTIFICATION METHOD

Provided is an imbalance identifying circuit, including: a voltage detection unit for detecting a terminal voltage in each of a plurality of accumulators; a gradient acquisition unit for performing gradient information acquisition processing of suspending charge when the plurality of accumulators are being charged and acquiring, from each of the terminal voltages detected by the voltage detection unit during the suspension of charge, voltage gradient information showing an amount of change per predetermined time of each of the terminal voltages; and an imbalance identification unit for identifying whether an imbalance of the amount of charge in the plurality of accumulators has occurred by using a plurality of pieces of voltage gradient information corresponding to each of the terminal voltages acquired by the gradient acquisition unit.