BATTERY CHARACTERISTIC EVALUATOR

• US 20110173585A1
• Filed: 01/06/2011
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Inventors: NAKAGOMI, Masaru, HAMANO, Satoshi, KAZUMI, Masahiro, YOSHITAKE, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/985,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20110173585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 716/133
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/367 Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables

Abstract

There is provided a battery characteristic evaluator configured to identify a circuit constant of an equivalent circuit model based on a current-voltage characteristic of a battery. The battery characteristic evaluator includes: a current waveform divider configured to divide a certain current waveform into a plurality of step functions with a plurality of infinitesimal time intervals and output the step functions; and a circuit constant optimizing unit configured to calculate the optimized circuit constant of the equivalent circuit model, based on the step functions, a measured voltage value, and equivalent circuit model data.

Claims

1. A battery characteristic evaluator configured to identify a circuit constant of an equivalent circuit model based on a current-voltage characteristic of a battery, the evaluator comprising:

a current waveform divider configured to divide a certain current waveform into a plurality of step functions with a plurality of infinitesimal time intervals and output the step functions; and

a circuit constant optimizing unit configured to calculate the optimized circuit constant of the equivalent circuit model, based on the step functions, a measured voltage value, and equivalent circuit model data.

2. The evaluator of claim 1,

wherein the circuit constant optimizing unit comprises:

a step response calculator configured to calculate a plurality of step response voltages each corresponding to one of the plurality of step functions, based on the plurality of step functions and the equivalent circuit model data;

a voltage adder configured to add each of the step response voltages to output a calculated voltage value; and

a determination unit configured to determine whether the circuit constant is the optimal value, by comparing the calculated voltage value with the measured voltage value,

wherein when the determination unit determines that the circuit constant is not the optimal value, the determination unit generates a new circuit constant based on the comparison result, and provides the new circuit constant to the step response calculator.

5. The evaluator of claim 1, wherein the equivalent circuit model comprises Warburg impedance.

6. The evaluator of claim 2, wherein the equivalent circuit model comprises Warburg impedance.

3. A battery characteristic evaluator configured to identify a circuit constant of an equivalent circuit model based on a current-voltage characteristic of a battery, the evaluator comprising:

a voltage waveform divider configured to divide a certain voltage waveform into a plurality of step functions with a plurality of infinitesimal time intervals and output the step functions; and

a circuit constant optimizing unit configured to calculate the optimized circuit constant of the equivalent circuit model, based on the step functions, a measured current value, and equivalent circuit model data.

4. The evaluator of claim 3,

wherein the circuit constant optimizing unit comprises:

a step response calculator configured to calculate a plurality of step response currents each corresponding to one of the plurality of step functions, based on the plurality of step functions and the equivalent circuit model data;

a current adder configured to add each of the step response currents to output a calculated current value; and

a determination unit configured to determine whether the circuit constant is the optimal value, by comparing the measured current value with the calculated current value,

wherein when the determination unit determines that the circuit constant is not the optimal value, the determination unit generates a new circuit constant based on the comparison result, and provides the generated circuit constant to the step response calculator.

7. The evaluator of claim 3, wherein the equivalent circuit model comprises Warburg impedance.

8. The evaluator of claim 4, wherein the equivalent circuit model comprises Warburg impedance.