Battery management device, battery monitoring circuit, and control system

• US 10,386,419 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2016
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kanai, Tomonori, Kudo, Akihiko, Arima, Tomoyuki, Tsukamoto, Akiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Thang X
• Application Number:
  US15/555,750
• Publication Number:
  US 20180052207A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,264 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 19/16542 for batteries charge condition monitoring in G01R31/36
• 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: G01R 31/364 Battery terminal connectors with integrated measuring arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3828 using current integration
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3835 involving only voltage measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/386 using test-loads
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/388 involving voltage measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/396 Acquisition or processing of data for testing or for monitoring individual cells or groups of cells within a battery
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 35/00 Testing or calibrating of apparatus covered by the other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/20 Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane

Abstract

Measurement of a cell voltage is executed immediately after diagnosis of a battery management device is ended. In a battery management device, current sources repeatedly perform an energization operation to cause a current to flow to voltage detection lines with a magnitude of the current that enables each amount of charge stored in capacitors changed by one energization operation to fall within a range corresponding to a fluctuation width of terminal voltages of battery cells during the energization operation when resistors are in a normal state. When the difference between the current terminal voltage of the battery cell and the past terminal voltage of the battery cell is larger than the predetermined threshold value, the microcomputer diagnoses that the resistor is in the open state.

Claims

1. A battery management device comprising:

a voltage detection unit that is electrically connected to both poles of each of a plurality of battery cells via a voltage detection line and detects each terminal voltage of the plurality of battery cells;

a filter circuit that is configured using a resistor and a capacitor and electrically connected to the voltage detection line;

a current source that repeatedly performs an energization operation to cause a current to flow to the voltage detection line in order to change a stored charge amount of the capacitor; and

a diagnosis unit that diagnoses whether the resistor is in a normal state or an open state based on a result of detection of the terminal voltage performed by the voltage detection unit,

wherein the current source performs the energization operation with a magnitude of a current that enables the stored charge amount changed by the energization operation performed once to fall within a range corresponding to a fluctuation width of the terminal voltage during the energization operation when the resistor is in the normal state,

the diagnosis unit diagnoses that the resistor is in the open state when a difference between the terminal voltage detected at a current time and the terminal voltage detected at a past time is larger than a predetermined threshold value, and

wherein the diagnosis unit diagnoses that the resistor is in the open state when the difference between the terminal voltage detected at the current time and the terminal voltage detected a predetermined diagnosis time before the current time is larger than the threshold value, and

the diagnosis time is set based on a time required until a voltage change of the voltage detection line, caused depending on a sum of the stored charge amount changed by a plurality times of the energization operations performed within the time, exceeds the threshold value when the resistor is in the open state.

2. The battery management device according to claim 1, wherein

the filter circuit is configured using a plurality of the resistors and the capacitors electrically connected to each of a plurality of the voltage detection lines, and

the current source performs the energization operation such that each stored charge amount of the plurality of capacitors changes in the same direction.

3. The battery management device according to claim 1, further comprising

a selection circuit that sequentially selects the plurality of voltage detection lines to be connected to the voltage detection unit,

wherein the current source is connected to the voltage detection line via the selection circuit, and

the current intermittently flows from the current source to each of the plurality of voltage detection lines in accordance with a selection operation of the selection circuit.

4. The battery management device according to claim 3, wherein

the selection circuit sequentially selects the plurality of voltage detection lines such that each of the plurality of voltage detection lines is connected to the voltage detection unit for the same number of times.

5. A control system comprising:

the battery management device according to claim 1;

a traveling inverter that performs drive control of a traveling motor configured to cause a vehicle equipped with the battery management device to travel using power supplied from an assembled battery configured of the plurality of battery cells; and

a vehicle control device that controls the traveling inverter,

wherein the battery management device outputs abnormality information on an abnormality to the vehicle control device when it is diagnosed that at least one of the plurality of battery cells is abnormal or diagnosed that the resistor is in an open state,

the vehicle control device performs control to limit power supply from the assembled battery with respect to the traveling inverter based on the abnormality information, and

the vehicle control device mitigates the limit on the power supply from the assembled battery when the resistor is the open state as compared to a case where at least any one of the plurality of battery cells is abnormal during the control.

6. A control system comprising:

the battery management device according to claim 1; and

a control device that performs control of a device using power to be supplied from an assembled battery configured of the plurality of battery cells,

wherein the control device outputs noise information on noise, output from the device to the assembled battery, to the battery management device, and

the battery management device invalidates diagnosis of the resistor performed by the diagnosis unit and/or detection of the terminal voltage performed by the voltage detection unit based on the noise information.

7. A control system comprising:

the battery management device according to claim 1; and

a control device that performs control of a device using power to be supplied from an assembled battery configured of the plurality of battery cells,

wherein the control device estimates noise to be output from the device to the assembled battery and invalidates a diagnosis result of the resistor and/or a detection result of the terminal voltage output from the battery management device based on an estimation result.