ELECTRIC POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20120176095A1
• Filed: 03/21/2012
• Published: 07/12/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: OKUDA, Yasuo, SAKAI, Souichi, IWASAKI, Toshiya
• Application Number:
  US13/426,207
• Publication Number:
  US 20120176095A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/134
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/443 in response to temperature
• 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 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0071 with a programmable schedule
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00714 in response to battery charging or discharging current
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00718 in response to charge current gradient
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007182 in response to battery voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007194 of the battery
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

An electric power management system is provided which executes charge and discharge control by detecting a state of charge of a storage battery pack with a high precision and controls charging and discharging of a storage battery system comprising a plurality of storage battery units. A total storage battery unit manager calculates an SOC of all storage battery packs in the storage battery system, and controls charging and discharging based on the calculated SOC. When a wait state, where the storage battery system is not charging or discharging, continues for a predetermined period, the SOC is calculated using a correlation relationship between an electromotive force and the SOC, to remove the influence of hysteresis.

Claims

1. An electric power management system which controls charging and discharging of an electricity storage unit which is charged by electric power from an electric power supply and which discharges the stored electric power to a load, the system comprising:

a detection unit which detects a state of charge of each of a plurality of storage battery packs included in the electricity storage unit; and

a control unit which controls the charging and the discharging of the electricity storage unit according to the detected state of charge, wherein

the detection unit detects, in a wait state in which the electricity storage unit is not charging or discharging, the state of charge using accumulated values of charging and discharging currents until the wait state continues for a predetermined period, and detects the state of charge using a correlation relationship between an open end voltage and the state of charge when the wait state has continued for the predetermined period.

2. The electric power management system according to claim 1, wherein

the predetermined period is variable.

3. The electric power management system according to claim 2, wherein

the predetermine period is adaptively set according to at least one of a continued time of charging and discharging immediately prior to the wait state, a charging and discharging rate, a battery temperature of the electricity storage unit, and a battery type of the storage battery.

4. The electric power management system according to claim 2, wherein

the predetermined period is adaptively set according to a transition with respect to time of a change of voltage in the wait state in the past.

5. The electric power management system according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit applies control to prohibit the charging and the discharging of the electricity storage unit until the predetermined period has elapsed.

6. The electric power management system according to claim 1, wherein

the detection unit counts a continued time of the wait state, and, when the charging or the discharging is started again before the predetermined period has elapsed, resets and stops the count until the charging or discharging is completed, and detects the state of charge using the accumulated values of the charging and discharging current in this charging or discharging period.

7. An electric power management system which controls charging and discharging of an electricity storage unit which is charged by electric power from an electric power supply and which discharges the stored electric power to a load, the system comprising:

a detection unit which detects a state of charge of each of a plurality of storage battery packs included in the electricity storage unit; and

a control unit which controls the charging and the discharging of the electricity storage unit according to the detected state of charge, wherein

the detection unit detects the state of charge using accumulated values of charging and discharging currents until a state where an amount of change of voltage per unit time is less than or equal to a threshold value has continued for a predetermined period, and detects the state of charge using a correlation relationship between an open end voltage and the state of charge when the state continues for the predetermined period.