Storage battery management device, method, and computer program product

• US 10,205,335 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2015
• Issued: 02/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakata, Yasuji, Mizutani, Mami, Kobayashi, Takenori, Toyosaki, Tomohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Pelton, Nathaniel R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dibenedetto, Michael N
• Application Number:
  US14/772,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20160372935A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,449 Days
• Field of Search: 320132, 320144, 320150, 36167901
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/36 Arrangements for testing, measuring or monitoring the electrical condition of accumulators or electric batteries, e.g. capacity or state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/48 Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0048 Detection of remaining charge capacity or state of charge [SOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/005 Detection of state of health [SOH]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a storage battery management device includes a chargeable/dischargeable capacity table, a controller, and a communication controller. The chargeable/dischargeable capacity table stores therein in advance a chargeable/dischargeable capacity corresponding to a temperature, a state of charge (SOC), a required charge rate or discharge rate, and a battery degradation rate of a secondary battery. The controller calculates an actual chargeable/dischargeable capacity by referring to the chargeable/dischargeable capacity table based on the temperature, the SOC, the required charge rate or discharge rate, and the battery degradation rate of the secondary battery. The communication controller informs a host device about the chargeable/dischargeable capacity of the secondary battery.

Claims

1. A storage battery management device that manages a battery system including a secondary battery, the secondary battery connected to a power generation unit which generates and outputs power as system power, wherein the secondary battery charges the generated power or discharges stored power and superimposes the charged or discharged power on the generated power in accordance with a difference between required system power and the generated power, the device comprising:

chargeable capacity tables for different charge rates, each of which stores therein in advance a chargeable capacity corresponding to a temperature, a state of charge (SOC), a required charge rate, and a battery state of health of the secondary battery;

dischargeable capacity tables for different discharge rates, each of which store therein in advance a dischargeable capacity corresponding to the temperature, the SOC, a required discharge rate, and the state of health of the secondary battery;

a controller that calculates an actual chargeable power amount or an actual dischargeable power amount by referring to the chargeable/dischargeable capacity tables or the chargeable/dischargeable capacity tables that correspond to table based on the temperature, the SOC, the required charge rate or discharge rate, and the state of health of the secondary battery; and

a communication controller that informs a host device about the actual chargeable or dischargeable power amount of the secondary battery,

wherein the controller controls the charge and discharge of the secondary battery of the battery system in accordance with a charge and discharge control of the host device responding to the informed actual chargeable or dischargeable power amount.

2. The storage battery management device according to claim 1, wherein the controller sets, with a particular margin, the actual chargeable or dischargeable power amount to the chargeable or dischargeable capacity obtained from the referred chargeable or dischargeable capacity.

3. The storage battery management device according to claim 2, wherein the controller, on receiving a request from the host device of the storage battery management device, sets the margin temporarily to zero.

4. The storage battery management device according to claim 2, wherein the controller sets the actual chargeable or dischargeable power amount based on a reference SOC set in advance.

5. The storage battery management device according to claim 1, wherein the controller calculates the state of health based on a measurement value or an estimation value of an internal resistance value of the secondary battery.

6. The storage battery management device according to claim 1, wherein the chargeable dischargeable capacity tables store the chargeable and dischargeable capacities calculated by simulation using an equivalent circuit model of the secondary battery and a characteristic value of the secondary battery.

7. A method, executed by a storage battery management device that manages a battery system including a secondary battery, the secondary battery connected to a power generation unit which generates and outputs power as system power, wherein the secondary battery charges the generated power or discharges stored power and superimposes the charged or discharged power on the generated power in accordance with a difference between required system power and the generated power, wherein the device includes chargeable capacity tables for different charge rates, each of which stores therein in advance a chargeable capacity corresponding to a temperature, a state of charge (SOC), a required charge rate, and a battery state of health of a secondary battery, and dischargeable capacity tables for different discharge rates, each of which store therein in advance a dischargeable capacity corresponding to the temperature, the SOC, a required discharge rate, and the battery state of health of the secondary battery the method comprising:

referring to either the chargeable capacity tables or the dischargeable capacity tables that correspond to the temperature, the SOC, the required charge rate or discharge rate, and the state of health of the secondary battery;

calculating an actual chargeable power amount or an actual dischargeable power amount;

informing a host device about the actual chargeable or dischargeable power amount of the secondary battery; and

controlling the charge and discharge of the secondary battery of the battery system in accordance with a charge and discharge control of the host device responding to the informed actual chargeable or dischargeable power amount.

8. A computer program product including programmed instructions embodied in and stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium, wherein the instructions for controlling a storage battery management device that manages a battery system including a secondary battery, the secondary battery connected to a power generation unit which generates and outputs power as system power, wherein the secondary battery charges the generated power or discharges stored power and superimposes the charged or discharged power on the generated power in accordance with a difference between required system power and the generated power, chargeable capacity tables for different charge rates, each of which store therein in advance a chargeable capacity corresponding to a temperature, a state of charge (SOC), a required charge rate, and a battery state of health of the secondary battery, and dischargeable capacity tables for different discharge rates, each of which store therein in advance a dischargeable capacity corresponding to the temperature, the SOC, a required discharge rate, and the battery state of health of the secondary battery, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform:

referring to either the chargeable capacity tables or the dischargeable capacity tables that correspond to the temperature, the SOC, the required charge rate or discharge rate, and the battery state of health of the secondary battery;

calculating an actual chargeable power amount or an actual dischargeable power amount;

informing a host device about the actual chargeable or dischargeable power amount of the secondary battery; and

controlling the charge and discharge of the secondary battery of the battery system in accordance with a charge and discharge control of the host device responding to the informed actual chargeable or dischargeable power amount.