STORAGE BATTERY TRANSFER SUPPORT DEVICE AND STORAGE BATTERY TRANSFER SUPPORT METHOD

• US 20140320144A1
• Filed: 12/04/2012
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakaya, Satoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,555,717 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/434
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/54 related to batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/72 Charging station selection relying on external data
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/80 Time limits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/50 by future state prediction
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/10 for monitoring or controlling batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/367 Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/382 Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/392 Determining battery ageing or deterioration, e.g. state of health
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06315 Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/482 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/54 Reclaiming serviceable parts of waste accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2010/4278 Systems for data transfer from batteries, e.g. transfer of battery parameters to a controller, data transferred between battery controller and main controller
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/20 Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
• 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: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/84 Recycling of batteries or fuel cells

Abstract

The present invention serves to reduce the costs associated with the overall life cycle of storage batteries by performing support so that a plurality of batteries are transferred between and used at a plurality of facilities. This storage battery transfer support device comprises: a collection unit that collects battery information representing the status of each battery used at a plurality of facilities; a battery information storage unit that stores the battery information collected by the collection unit; and a deterioration prediction unit that, on the basis of the battery information stored in the battery information storage unit, predicts deterioration of storage batteries that have been transferred between and used at a plurality of facilities.

Claims

1. A storage battery relocation assistance apparatus comprising:

a collection section that collects battery information representing a state of a plurality of storage batteries used in a plurality of facilities;

a battery information storing section that stores the battery information collected by the collection section; and

a deterioration prediction section that predicts deterioration of the plurality of storage batteries when the plurality of storage batteries are relocated and used among the plurality of facilities, based on the battery information stored in the battery information storing section.

2. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a requirement information storing section that stores requirement information for a storage battery in the plurality of facilities;

a relocation determination section that determines a relocation schedule including relocation time and a relocation destination when the plurality of storage batteries are relocated and used in the plurality of facilities, based on a prediction result of the deterioration prediction section and the requirement information stored in the requirement information storing section; and

an information output section that externally outputs information on the relocation schedule determined by the relocation determination section.

3. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the plurality of facilities include a plurality of vehicles each of which runs with electric power from a storage battery, a plurality of residential facilities in each of which an appliance is operated with electric power from a storage battery, and a plurality of factory facilities in each of which an industrial appliance is operated with electric power from a storage battery; and

the deterioration prediction section predicts deterioration of the plurality of storage batteries according to a relocation pattern for first using each of the plurality of storage batteries in any of the plurality of vehicles and then relocating the each of the plurality of storage batteries to another facility.

4. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the plurality of facilities include a plurality of vehicles each of which runs with electric power from a storage battery, a plurality of residential facilities in each of which an appliance is operated with electric power from a storage battery, and a plurality of factory facilities in each of which an industrial appliance is operated with electric power from a storage battery; and

the deterioration prediction section predicts deterioration of the plurality of storage batteries according to a relocation pattern for first using each of the plurality of storage batteries in any of the plurality of vehicles and then relocating the each of the plurality of storage batteries to another facility.

5. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of storage batteries include one of or both a new storage battery to be newly supplied and a collected secondhand storage battery.

6. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the relocation determination section determines the relocation schedule by performing a calculation process for comprehensively improving requirement sufficiency levels of a plurality of determination requirements representing relocation conditions for a storage battery.

7. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of determination requirements include a requirement of setting relocation time in a way that makes the relocation time close to a time when performance of a storage battery used in each of the facilities reaches near a lower limit of performance required for the facility.

8. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of determination requirements include a requirement of relocating, before an electric power supply amount from a storage battery required for each of the facilities is no longer maintained, another storage battery to this facility for maintaining the required electric power supply amount.

9. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the plurality of determination requirements include a requirement of reducing a variation in deterioration degrees of a plurality of storage batteries used in one of the facilities.

10. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the requirement information includes information on an installation space for a storage battery in each of the facilities; and

the plurality of determination requirements include a requirement of increasing a usage rate of the installation space for a storage battery in each of the facilities.

11. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 6, wherein:

the plurality of storage batteries include a new storage battery to be newly supplied; and

the plurality of determination requirements include a requirement of reducing frequency of supplying the new storage battery in the facilities other than the vehicle.

12. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 2, wherein:

the deterioration prediction section predicts deterioration of each of the plurality of storage batteries when the each of the plurality of storage batteries is relocated in the plurality of relocation patterns among the plurality of facilities; and

the relocation determination section determines the relocation schedule with reference to results of deterioration prediction for relocation in the plurality of relocation patterns.

13. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the battery information includes log information on a voltage when each of the plurality of storage batteries is charged and discharged, log information on a current when each of the plurality of storage batteries is charged and discharged, log information on each temperature of the plurality of storage batteries, log information on each state of charge of the plurality of storage batteries, log information on each deterioration state of the plurality of storage batteries, or log information on charge and discharge allowable electric power of each of the plurality of storage batteries.

14. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the requirement information includes information on supply electric power from a storage battery promised to a user of each of the facilities, information on a capacity of a storage battery promised to the user of each of the facilities, and information on an installation space for a storage battery in each of the facilities.

15. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the relocation determination section determines the relocation schedule, based on the information on the installation space with an assumption that a larger installation space allows relocation of a larger number of progressively deteriorated storage batteries.

16. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the predicting of deterioration by the deterioration prediction section and the determining of relocation by the relocation determination section are performed in units of battery packs, battery modules, or battery cells of storage batteries.

17. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an input section that inputs information, wherein;

the requirement information storing section allows for addition of the requirement information on a new facility inputted through the input section; and

the relocation determination section determines the relocation schedule when the plurality of storage batteries are relocated and used among the plurality of facilities including the new facility.

18. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the collection section collects the battery information through one of or both a communication network and a storage medium.

19. A storage battery relocation assistance apparatus comprising:

a collection section that collects battery information representing a state of a plurality of storage batteries used in a plurality of facilities;

a battery information storing section that stores the battery information collected by the collection section;

a requirement information storing section that stores requirement information for a storage battery in the plurality of facilities; and

a relocation determination section that determines a relocation schedule including relocation time and a relocation destination when the plurality of storage batteries are relocated and used in the plurality of facilities, based on the battery information stored in the battery information storing section and the requirement information stored in the requirement information storing section.

22. The storage battery relocation assistance apparatus according to claim 19, further comprising an information output section that externally outputs information on the relocation schedule determined by the relocation determination section.

20. A storage battery relocation assistance method comprising:

collecting battery information representing a state of a plurality of storage batteries used in a plurality of facilities, through a communication network or a storage medium;

storing, in a battery information storing section, the battery information collected by the collecting; and

predicting, by a deterioration prediction section, deterioration of the plurality of storage batteries when the plurality of storage batteries are relocated and used among the plurality of facilities, based on the battery information stored in the battery information storing section.

21. The storage battery relocation assistance method according to claim 20, further comprising:

storing, in a requirement information storing section, requirement information for a storage battery in the plurality of facilities;

determining, by a relocation determination section, a relocation schedule including relocation time and a relocation destination when the plurality of storage batteries are relocated and used in the plurality of facilities, based on a prediction result in the predicting and the requirement information stored in the requirement information storing section; and

outputting, from an information output section, information on the relocation schedule determined by the determining.

23. A storage battery relocation assistance method comprising:

collecting battery information representing a state of a plurality of storage batteries used in a plurality of facilities;

storing, in a battery information storing section, the battery information collected by the collecting;

storing, in a requirement information storing section, requirement information for a storage battery in the plurality of facilities; and

determining a relocation schedule including relocation time and a relocation destination when the plurality of storage batteries are relocated and used in the plurality of facilities, based on the battery information stored in the battery information storing section and the requirement information stored in the requirement information storing section.

24. The storage battery relocation assistance method according to claim 23, further comprising outputting, from an information output section, the information on the relocation schedule determined by the determining.