State-of-charge estimating apparatus

• US 8,975,897 B2
• Filed: 06/07/2010
• Issued: 03/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Yoshioka, Shoji, Tabuchi, Akiko, Hatanaka, Keita, Kitanaka, Hidetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): DIAO, M BAYE
• Application Number:
  US13/640,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20130027047A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,737 Days
• Field of Search: 324/427, 324/426, 320/132, 702/63
• US Class Current: 324/427
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/367 Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/389 Measuring internal impedance, internal conductance or related variables
• 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

Abstract

A state-of-charge estimating apparatus includes at least a first arithmetic unit configured to calculate, as a first estimation value, the present estimation value calculated based on a battery capacity, the last estimation value, and an electric current flowing in and out between a current control apparatus, which controls charge and discharge amounts of a power storage apparatus, and the power storage apparatus, and a second arithmetic unit configured to calculate, during constant current control, as the present value of a second estimation value, an estimation value calculated based on an equivalent circuit model of a battery and a voltage of the battery and, on the other hand, calculate, during constant voltage control, as the second estimation value, the present estimation value calculated taking into account a resistance change of the battery based on the equivalent circuit model of the battery and the voltage of the battery.

Claims

1. A state-of-charge estimating apparatus connected to a power storage apparatus, in which a plurality of batteries are connected, and configured to estimate a state of charge indicating a residual capacity of the power storage apparatus, the state-of-charge estimating apparatus comprising:

a first arithmetic unit configured to calculate, as a first state-of-charge estimation value, a present value of a state-of-charge estimation value calculated based on a battery capacity, a last value of the state-of-charge estimation value, and an electric current flowing in and out between a current control apparatus, which controls charge and discharge amounts of the power storage apparatus, and the power storage apparatus;

a second arithmetic unit configured to calculate, during constant current control for charging the power storage apparatus with a constant current, as a present value of a second state-of-charge estimation value, a state-of-charge estimation value calculated based on an equivalent circuit model of the battery and a voltage of the battery and, on the other hand, calculate, during constant voltage control for charging the power storage apparatus with a constant voltage, as the second state-of-charge estimation value, a present value of a state-of-charge estimation value calculated taking into account a resistance change of the battery based on the equivalent circuit model of the battery and the voltage of the battery; and

a correction arithmetic unit configured to periodically correct the first state-of-charge estimation value with the second state-of-charge estimation value.

2. The state-of-charge estimating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the equivalent circuit model of the battery includes an equivalent circuit model including one parallel circuit of a capacitor and a nonlinear resistor or an equivalent circuit model including a plurality of parallel circuits of capacitors and nonlinear resistors.

3. The state-of-charge estimating apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the second arithmetic unit calculates the second state-of-charge estimation value based on charges stored in the capacitor, a capacitance value of the capacitor, resistance of the battery, and the voltage of the battery.

4. The state-of-charge estimating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second arithmetic unit includes a deterioration-amount calculating unit configured to calculate the capacitance value and the resistance until a sum of differences between a continuous plurality of voltage measurement values measured after an electric current changes and a voltage calculation value calculated based on the charges, the capacitance value, and the resistances reaches a predetermined value and output, as an index for estimating a deterioration state of the battery, capacitance of the capacitor and resistance of the battery at the time when the sum of the differences between the voltage measurement value and the voltage calculation value coincides with the predetermined value.

5. The state-of-charge estimating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the deterioration-amount calculating unit calculates a battery capacity based on a product of the capacitance of the capacitor and the resistance of the battery.

6. The state-of-charge estimating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second arithmetic unit includes a resistance calculating unit that calculates resistance of the battery during the constant voltage control based on movable lithium ion concentration and a diffusion coefficient in an active material of lithium ion.

7. The state-of-charge estimating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the second arithmetic unit calculates the second state-of-charge estimation value using the capacitance and the resistance calculated by the deterioration-amount calculating unit.

8. The state-of-charge estimating apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the second arithmetic unit calculates the second state-of-charge estimation value using the resistance of the battery calculated by the resistance calculating unit.