INTERNAL RESISTANCE CALCULATING DEVICE

• US 20170052230A1
• Filed: 08/16/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Takagi, Youko, Syouda, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 10,042,005 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/10 for monitoring or controlling batteries
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/389 Measuring internal impedance, internal conductance or related variables
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0068 Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply H02J7/0013 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries

Abstract

An internal resistance calculating device includes a charging unit charging a secondary battery, a voltage measuring unit measuring a both-end voltage value of the secondary battery, a capacitor holding a first voltage value predetermined by the both-end voltage value measured by the voltage measuring unit after charging is started, a capacitor holding, as a second voltage value, the both-end voltage value when charge current is changed for a predetermined current value or more within predetermined time after the both-end voltage value become the first voltage value, a current measuring unit measuring a first charge current value when the both-end voltage value become a threshold-value voltage and a second charge current value when the both-end voltage value become the second voltage value, and a μCOM calculating an internal resistance value of the secondary battery based on the first and second voltage values and the first and second charge current values.

Claims

1. An internal resistance calculating device for calculating an internal resistance value of a secondary battery, the device comprising:

a charging/discharging unit configured to charge or discharge the secondary battery;

a voltage measuring unit configured to measure a both-end voltage value of the secondary battery;

a first voltage holding unit. configured to hold a first voltage value which is predetermined by the both-end voltage value measured by the voltage measuring unit after the charging or the discharging carried out by the charging/discharging unit is started;

a second voltage holding unit configured to hold, as a second voltage value, the both-end voltage value of the secondary battery when charge current or discharge current is changed for a predetermined value or more within a predetermined. time after the both-end voltage value has become the first voltage value;

a current measuring unit configured to measure

a first current value which is a charge current value or a discharge current value when the both-end voltage value has become the first voltage value, and

a second current value which is a charge current value or a discharge current value when the both-end voltage value has become the second voltage value; and

an internal resistance calculating unit configured to calculate an internal resistance value of the secondary battery based on the first voltage value, the second voltage value, the first current value and the second current value.

2. The internal resistance calculating device according to claim 1, wherein the internal resistance calculating unit includes a differential amplifier configured to calculate a difference between the first voltage value held in the first voltage holding unit and the second voltage value held in the second voltage holding unit.

3. The internal resistance calculating device according to claim 2, wherein each of the first voltage holding unit and the second voltage holding unit is constituted of a capacitor, and

the internal resistance calculating device includes a switching unit configured to switch between the capacitor holding the first voltage value and the capacitor holding the second voltage value to connect the switched one of the capacitors to one of terminals of the secondary battery.

4. The internal resistance calculating device according to claim 3, wherein the second voltage holding unit holds, as the second voltage value, the both-end voltage value of the secondary battery after charging time of the capacitor is elapsed after the charge current or the discharge current is changed for the predetermined current value or more within the predetermined time, and

the current measuring unit measures, as the second current value, the charge current value or the discharge current value after the charging time is elapsed.