BATTERY SYSTEM

• US 20130252051A1
• Filed: 08/01/2011
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Hiramura, Yasuaki, Takeyama, Akira
• Application Number:
  US13/876,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20130252051A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 429/92
• 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: H01M 10/482 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery system including: a secondary battery (7A) including a stacked electrode body housed in a battery can (11A), a positive electrode terminal and the battery can (11A) being electrically connected; a secondary battery (7B) including a stacked electrode body housed in a battery can (11B), a positive electrode terminal and the battery can (11B) being electrically connected; a cell can voltage sensor (9A) that measures a first voltage of the battery can (11A); a cell can voltage sensor (9B) that measures a second voltage of the battery can (11B); and a BMU (15) that receives information corresponding to the measured first and second voltages of the cell can voltage sensors (9A, 9B). The BMU (15) activates expansion detection information based on the information when the first voltage increases and the second voltage decreases substantially simultaneously with the increase, thereby enabling detection of presence or absence of expansion.

Claims

1. A battery system comprising:

a first secondary battery including a stacked electrode body connected to a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal, the stacked electrode body being housed in a first battery can, the first electrode terminal and the first battery can being electrically connected through a first conductive path;

a second secondary battery including a stacked electrode body connected to a third electrode terminal and a fourth electrode terminal, the stacked electrode body being housed in a second battery can, the third electrode terminal and the second battery can being electrically connected through a second conductive path;

a first battery can voltage sensor that measures a first voltage of the first battery can;

a second battery can voltage sensor that measures a second voltage of the second battery can; and

a control device that receives information corresponding to the measured first and second voltages of the first and second battery can voltage sensors,

wherein the control device activates expansion detection information based on the information when the first voltage increases and the second voltage decreases substantially simultaneously with the increase.

2. The battery system according to claim 1, wherein

the first and third electrode terminals are positive electrode terminals,

the second and fourth electrode terminals are negative electrode terminals, and

the first and second conductive paths are formed of a pull-up resistor.

3. The battery system according to claim 1, wherein

the first and third electrode terminals are negative electrode terminals,

the second and fourth electrode terminals are positive electrode terminals, and

the first and second conductive paths are formed of a pull-down resistor.

4. The battery system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first temperature sensor that measures a first temperature of the first battery can and outputs information corresponding to the first temperature to the control device; and

a second temperature sensor that measures a second temperature of the second battery can and outputs information corresponding to the second temperature to the control device,

wherein the control device determines that the first or second battery can in which the first or second temperature sensor that outputs information corresponding to a higher one of the first temperature and the second temperature has expanded.

5. The battery system according to claim 4, further comprising a display device, wherein

the control device causes the display device to perform an abnormal display when the expansion detection information is active.