Battery voltage measuring device

• US 6,255,826 B1
• Filed: 10/17/2000
• Issued: 07/03/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Maeda, Tomohiko, Tsurumi, Takafumi, Ohsawa, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Edward H.
• Application Number:
  US09/688,383
• Time in Patent Office: 259 Days
• Field of Search: 324/426, 324/430, 324/433, 320/116, 320/118, 320/119, 320/122, 320/132
• US Class Current: 324/426
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/28 characterised by the electric energy storing means, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/547 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/18 of two or more battery modules
• 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: G01R 31/52 Testing for short-circuits, leakage current or ground faults
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/54 Testing for continuity
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0047 with monitoring or indicating devices or circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0048 Detection of remaining charge capacity or state of charge [SOC]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/903 having energy storing means, e.g. battery, capacitor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/907 Electricity storage, e.g. battery, capacitor

Abstract

The present invention provides a battery voltage measuring device capable of immediately detecting a breakage in the voltage measuring line in a battery voltage measuring device that detects the battery voltage. In blocks formed by connecting a plurality of secondary batteries in series, voltage sensors that detect the voltage of each block are respectively provided. In addition, before these voltage sensors noise filters are provided, and in addition, a measuring line breakage detecting resistor for detecting a breakage in the voltage measuring line is connected in parallel to each block. In a battery voltage measuring device having this type of structure, in the case that the voltage measuring line Q is broken, the voltage values V1 and V2 detected by the voltage sensors 20-1 and 20-2 become voltage values that accompany the resistance ratio of the measuring line breakage detecting resistors 60-1 and 60-2. Thereby, the voltage sensor detects a voltage that is not normally detected, and as a result, it becomes possible to immediately detect the breakage in the voltage measuring line.

Claims

1. A battery voltage measuring device in which a plurality of secondary batteries connected in series is divided into a plurality of blocks constituted of at least one secondary battery, and which measure the voltage of each block, comprising:

a voltage measuring device provided on each of said blocks for measuring the voltage of said blocks;

a noise filter provided before said voltage measuring device and having a capacitor; and

a measuring line breakage detecting resistor, which is interposed between each of said blocks and said voltage measuring devices, and is connected in parallel to said blocks;

wherein the resistance ratio of the measuring line breakage detection resistors corresponding to adjacent blocks is set at the value in which the voltage value divided by said measuring line breakage detection resistors at the time of breakage of the measuring line becomes a voltage value not normally detected when the measuring line is not broken.

2. A battery voltage measuring device according to claim 1, wherein the resistance ratio of said measuring line breakage detection resistors corresponding to adjacent blocks is set within a range of 1:

1.5 to 1;

3.