Temperature detecting apparatus

• US 10,355,323 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2017
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Tanigawa, Junya, Shoda, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Verbitsky, Gail Kaplan
• Application Number:
  US15/450,090
• Publication Number:
  US 20170179550A1
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: 374144, 374163, 374183, 374184, 374185, 374152, 320104, 320150, 702 63, 702 57
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 7/24 in a specially-adapted circuit, e.g. bridge circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/486 for measuring temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00041 in response to measured battery parameters, e.g. voltage, current or temperature profile
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A temperature detecting apparatus which detects a temperature of an assembled battery in which a plurality of cells are assembled, the temperature detecting apparatus includes a plurality of detecting circuits which respectively correspond to the plurality of the cells, a pair of detection lines which electrically connects the plurality of the detecting circuits in parallel, and a processing part which outputs a sine-wave detection signal to the pair of the detection lines through a voltage-dividing resistor so as to detect a temperature of each of the plurality of the cells. Each of the plurality of the detecting circuits includes a circuit in which a temperature-sensitive resistor whose electrical characteristic changes responding to a temperature, a coil and a capacitor are connected in series.

Claims

1. A temperature detecting apparatus which detects a temperature of an assembled battery in which a plurality of cells are assembled, the temperature detecting apparatus comprising:

a plurality of detecting circuits which respectively correspond to the plurality of the cells,

a pair of detection lines which electrically connects the plurality of the detecting circuits in parallel, and

a processing part which outputs a sine-wave detection signal to the pair of the detection lines through a voltage-dividing resistor so as to detect a temperature of each of the plurality of the cells,

wherein each of the plurality of the detecting circuits includes a circuit in which a temperature-sensitive resistor whose electrical characteristic changes responding to a temperature, a coil and a capacitor are connected in series.

2. The temperature detecting apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein an inductance of the coil and a capacitance of the capacitor in each of the plurality of the detecting circuits are set so that a resonance frequency of each of the plurality of the detecting circuits is a different value from each other, and

wherein the processing part outputs the sine-wave detection signal to the pair of the detection lines on varying a frequency of the sine-wave detection signal so as to correspond to the resonance frequency of each of the plurality of the detecting circuits.

3. The temperature detecting apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the processing part calculates a resistance value of the temperature-sensitive resistor in each of the detecting circuits in which the frequency of the sine-wave detection signal corresponds to the resonance frequency, based on a voltage applied to the voltage-dividing resistor, and

wherein the processing part detects the temperature of each of the plurality of the cells provided with the plurality of the detecting circuits, based on the resistance value of the temperature-sensitive resistor.

4. The temperature detecting apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the temperature-sensitive resistor is a thermistor.

5. The temperature detecting apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the temperature-sensitive resistor is a thermistor.

6. The temperature detecting apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein in each of the plurality of the detecting circuits, the inductance of the coil is set to be a common value and the capacitance of the capacitor is set to be a different value so that the resonance frequency of each of the plurality of the detecting circuits is a different value from each other.

7. The temperature detecting apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein in each of the plurality of the detecting circuits, the capacitance of the capacitor is set to be a common value and the inductance of the coil is set to be a different value so that a resonance frequency of each of the plurality of the detecting circuits is a different value from each other.