Battery control device and vehicle system

• US 10,589,732 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2016
• Issued: 03/17/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Vehicle Energy, Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Vehicle Energy Japan, Inc. (Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ohkawa, Keiichiro, Nakao, Ryohhei
• Primary Examiner(s): Shudy, Angelina
• Application Number:
  US15/555,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20180050681A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• Field of Search: 701 22
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/545 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/547 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/549 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/42 by adaptive correction
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/06 including control of combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/26 for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/13 in order to stay within battery power input or output limits; in order to prevent overcharging or battery depletion
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/40 Controlling the engagement or disengagement of prime movers, e.g. for transition between prime movers power-up or power-down of the driveline B60W30/192
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/244 Charge state
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3828 using current integration
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3835 involving only voltage measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3842 combining voltage and current measurements
• 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: H01M 50/569 Constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals battery terminal connectors with integrated measuring arrangements G01R31/364
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/93 Conjoint control of different elements

Abstract

A device for controlling current for charging/discharging a battery with a high accuracy includes a time-point setting unit which calculates a voltage difference by subtracting a calculated open-circuit voltage from a measured closed-circuit voltage, and sets first and second time points, at which an absolute value of the voltage difference becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value and an absolute value of a difference in the open-circuit voltage becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value. The control device further includes a current correction amount calculation unit to obtain the current integral amount, calculate the current error in a detection signal and set the current error as the current correction amount on the basis of the current integral amount and the time from the first time point to the second time point. The current correction unit corrects the detection signal using the current correction amount.

Claims

1. A battery control device, comprising:

a current sensor that detects a current flowing through a secondary battery;

a closed-circuit voltage sensor that detects an inter-terminal voltage of the secondary battery to acquire a closed-circuit voltage; and

a controller that is communicatively coupled to the current sensor and the close circuit voltage sensor, wherein the controller is configured to;

calculate an open-circuit voltage based on the closed circuit voltage;

calculate voltage difference obtained by subtracting the open-circuit voltage from the closed-circuit voltage,

set a first time point and a second time point at which an absolute value of the voltage difference is equal to or less than a predetermined value and an absolute value of a difference of the open-circuit voltage becomes equal to or less than a predetermined value,

determine a current integral amount, wherein the current integral amount is a time integral amount of a current flowing through the secondary battery between the first time point and the second time point,

calculate a current error based on the current integral amount and a time from the first time point to the second time point,

set the current error as a current correction amount; and

generates a detection signal using the current correction amount, wherein the detection signal indicates a State of Charge (SOC) of the secondary battery.

2. The battery control device according to claim 1, wherein:

the controller is further configured to calculate an SOC difference between an SOC at the first time point and an SOC at the second time point;

the current correction amount is further based on the SOC difference.

3. The battery control device according to claim 2,

wherein the controller further calculates each SOC based on the open-circuit voltage, and sets the first and second time points at which an absolute value of the SOC difference is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

4. The battery control device according to claim 1,

wherein the controller further:

attenuates the current error as time elapses during a period when the current error is not calculated by the controller so as to correct the current.

5. The battery control device according to claim 1,

wherein the controller calculates a difference in a current value flowing through the secondary battery, and sets the first and second time points at which an absolute value of the difference of the current value is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

6. The battery control device according to claim 1,

wherein the controller further calculates a temporal variation amount of the current flowing through the secondary battery, and sets the first and second time points at which an absolute value of the temporal variation amount of the current flowing through the secondary battery is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

7. The battery control device according to claim 1,

wherein the controller further calculates an absolute value of the current flowing through the secondary battery, and sets the first and second time points at which an absolute value of the current flowing through the secondary battery is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

8. The battery control device according to claim 1,

wherein the controller further sets the first and second time points at which a time interval becomes equal to or more than a predetermined value.

9. The battery control device according to claim 1,

wherein the controller further sets the first time point and the second time point when a temperature of the secondary battery falls within a predetermined range.

10. The battery control device according to claim 1, wherein the controller further:

calculates the current correction amount of a plurality of time periods to for a set of current measurements,

performs a weighted average using the set of current measurements to obtain an average current correction amount, and corrects the current using the average current correction amount, and

wherein a weight in the weighted average is assigned according to an error of each measurement calculated in the set of current measurements.

11. The battery control device according to claim 1,

wherein the battery control device is mounted in a vehicle system,

wherein the vehicle system is provided with an engine, a motor generator that is driven by power from the secondary battery at the time of powering, and generates regenerative electric power to charge the secondary battery at the time of regenerating, and a system control unit that controls at least the engine and the motor generator;

wherein the engine and the motor generator comprise a drive system, and

wherein the system control unit includes an Electric Vehicle (EV) driving mode in which the drive system is driven by the motor generator without using the engine, and a Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) driving mode in which the drive system is driven by the engine and the motor generator.

12. The battery control device according to claim 11, further comprising:

a command unit that outputs a command to the system control unit to switch a driving mode to the HEV driving mode in a case where a chance to calculate the current correction amount is equal to or less than a predetermined number of times in the EV driving mode.

13. The battery control device according to claim 11, further comprising:

a command unit that outputs a command to the system control unit to increase a ratio of HEV running after the vehicle system starts to run and a predetermined period elapses.

14. A vehicle system, comprising:

an engine;

a motor generator that is driven by power from the secondary battery at the time of powering, and generates regenerative electric power to charge the secondary battery at the time of regenerating;

the battery control device according to claim 1; and

a system control unit that controls at least the engine and the motor generator,

wherein the engine and the motor generator comprise a drive system, and

wherein the system control unit includes an Electric Vehicle (EV) driving mode in which the drive system is driven by the motor generator without using the engine, and an Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) driving mode in which the drive system is driven by the engine and the motor generator.

15. The vehicle system according to claim 14,

wherein the system control unit switches a driving mode to the HEV driving mode in a case where a chance to calculate the current correction amount is equal to or less than a predetermined number of times in the EV driving mode.

16. The vehicle system according to claim 14,

wherein the system control unit increases a ratio of the HEV driving mode after the vehicle system starts to run and a predetermined period elapses.