Battery degradation determination device, battery degradation determination method and battery degradation determination system

• US 9,043,176 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2012
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Ryuuta
• Primary Examiner(s): Raymond, Edward
• Application Number:
  US13/556,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20130030736A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,036 Days
• Field of Search: 702/63, 702/64, 702182-185
• US Class Current: 702/63
• 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 31/392 Determining battery ageing or deterioration, e.g. state of health
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery degradation determination device includes a fitting module configured to fit AC impedance measurement data into an equivalent circuit model including at least one circuit block in which a resistance and a constant phase element are connected in parallel, and to obtain circuit constants in the equivalent circuit model, a P-value saving module configured to save P values being index of the constant phase element obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of a reference battery to the equivalent circuit model, and a degradation determination module configured to perform degradation determination for a battery as a determination target based on circuit constants obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of the battery as a determination target to the equivalent circuit model with the use of the P values as fixed values, with reference to correlations between degrees of battery degradation and the circuit constants in the equivalent circuit model.

Claims

1. A battery degradation determination device comprising:

a fitting module configured to fit AC impedance measurement data into an equivalent circuit model including at least one circuit block in which a resistance and a constant phase element are connected in parallel, and to obtain circuit constants in the equivalent circuit model;

a P-value saving module configured to save P values being index of the constant phase element obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of a reference battery to the equivalent circuit model; and

a degradation determination module configured to perform degradation determination for a battery as a determination target based on circuit constants obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of the battery as a determination target to the equivalent circuit model with the use of the P values as fixed values, with reference to correlations between degrees of battery degradation and the circuit constants in the equivalent circuit model.

2. The battery degradation determination device according to claim 1,

wherein the degradation determination module is configured to determine that use of the battery as a determination target is not appropriate when fitting error by the obtained circuit constants is equal to or greater than a reference value.

3. The battery degradation determination device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a fitting initial value setting module configured to set initial values of the circuit constants prior to the fitting by the fitting module,

wherein the fitting initial value setting module is configured to set the initial values with the use of a zero crossing point at which Zim=0 and elliptical approximation using an inflection point and zero of a frequency characteristic diagram of dZim/dZre when AC impedance measurement data is expressed as a Nyquist diagram.

4. A battery degradation determination method comprising:

saving P values being index of a constant phase element obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of a reference battery to an equivalent circuit model including at least one circuit block in which a resistance and the constant phase element are connected in parallel; and

performing degradation determination for a battery as a determination target based on circuit constants obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of the battery as a determination target to the equivalent circuit model with the use of the P values as fixed values, with reference to database storing correlations between degrees of battery degradation and the circuit constants in the equivalent circuit model.

5. The battery degradation determination method according to claim 4, further comprising:

creating the database by recording correlations between a plurality of known degrees of degradation and circuit constants obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of a battery whose degree of degradation is known to the equivalent circuit model with the use of the P values as fixed values.

6. A battery degradation determination system comprising:

an AC impedance measurement device configured to measure AC impedance of a battery;

a battery degradation determination device comprising a fitting module configured to fit AC impedance measurement data obtained from the AC impedance measurement device into an equivalent circuit model including at least one circuit block in which a resistance and a constant phase element are connected in parallel, and to obtain circuit constants in the equivalent circuit model; and

a database configured to store correlations between degrees of battery degradation and the circuit constants in the equivalent circuit model, wherein

the battery degradation determination device comprises

a P-value saving module configured to save P values being index of the constant phase element obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of a reference battery obtained from the AC impedance measurement device to the equivalent circuit model, and

a degradation determination module configured to perform degradation determination for a battery as a determination target based on circuit constants obtained by fitting AC impedance measurement data of the battery as a determination target obtained from the AC impedance measurement device to the equivalent circuit model with the use of the P values as fixed values, with reference to the database.