Battery system and energy storage system including the same

• US 9,153,967 B2
• Filed: 02/09/2012
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung SDI Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Samsung SDI Company Limited
• Inventors: Kim, Jae-Soon, An, Jin-Hong
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): BOATENG, ALEXIS ASIEDUA
• Application Number:
  US13/369,909
• Publication Number:
  US 20120249078A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• Field of Search: 320/134, 320/128, 320/135, 320/136, 320/124, 320/125, 320/132, 320/127
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/20 The dispersed energy generation being of renewable origin
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/24 of photovoltaic origin
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/26 involving maximum power point tracking control for photovoltaic sources
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/28 The renewable source being wind energy
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/50 Controlling the sharing of the out-of-phase component
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0031 using battery or load disconnect circuits H02J9/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0071 with a programmable schedule
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/56 Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/76 Power conversion electric or electronic aspects
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 70/30 Systems combining energy storage with energy generation of non-fossil origin

Abstract

A battery system and an energy storage system including a battery module. The battery system includes at least one battery module that may perform charging and discharging, and a battery management unit that controls the charging and the discharging of the battery module. The battery management unit varies a charge limit value for stopping the charging of the battery module and a discharge limit value for stopping the discharging of the battery module. Accordingly, a lifetime of the battery module is extended.

Claims

1. A battery system, comprising:

at least one battery module that has the capacity of being charged and discharged; and

a battery management unit that controls charging and discharging of the at least one battery module,

wherein the battery management unit determines a count value and varies a charge limit value for stopping the charging of the at least one battery module and a discharge limit value for stopping the discharging of the at least one battery module based on the count value, said count value is a number of times the at least one battery module has been charged and discharged since manufacture of the at least one battery module and increases by one count for each charge and discharge cycle, and

wherein the battery management unit determines a speed of decrease of performance of the at least one battery module in accordance with the count value and determine an increment of a width between the charge limit value and the discharge limit value in accordance with the speed of decrease of performance of the at least one battery module.

2. The battery system of claim 1, wherein the battery management unit reduces the increment of the width when the speed of decrease of performance is decreased in accordance with the count value, and increases the increment of the width when the speed of decrease of performance is increased in accordance with the count value.

3. The battery system of claim 2, wherein the battery management unit adjusts the charge limit value and the discharge limit value such that an amount of power that the battery module provides is constant before and after the width is increased.

4. The battery system of claim 1, wherein an amount of power that may be provided at an early stage of use of the at least one battery module is set to be greater than an amount of power required by an external power source/load.

5. The battery system of claim 1, wherein the charge limit value and the discharge limit value are voltage values.

6. The battery system of claim 5, wherein the battery management system comprises a voltage measurement unit that measures a voltage of the battery module,

wherein it is determined whether the at least one battery module reaches the charge limit value or the discharge limit value according to the voltage measured by the voltage measurement unit.

7. An energy storage system, comprising:

a battery system that supplies power to the external power source/load and stores power supplied from an external power source/load; and

a power conversion system that converts first power stored in the battery system into second power required by the external power source/load and converts the second power supplied from the external power source/load into the first power required by the battery system,

wherein the battery system comprises;

at least one battery module that is capable of being charged and discharged; and

a battery management unit determines a count value and controls charging and discharging of the at least one battery module, and varies a charge limit value for stopping the charging of the at least one battery module and a discharge limit value for stopping the discharging of the battery module based on the count value equaling or exceeding a predetermined value, said count value is a number of times the at least one battery module has been charged and discharged since manufacture of the at least one battery module and increases by one count for each charge/discharge cycle, and

wherein the battery management unit determines a speed of decrease of performance of the at least one battery module in accordance with the count value and determine an increment of a width between the charge limit value and the discharge limit value in accordance with the speed of decrease of performance of the at least one battery module.

8. The energy storage system of claim 7, wherein the battery management unit reduces the increment of the width when the speed of decrease of performance is decreased in accordance with the count value, and increases the increment of the width when the speed of decrease of performance is increased in accordance with the count value.

9. The energy storage system of claim 8, wherein the battery management unit adjusts the charge limit value and the discharge limit value such that an amount of power that the at least one battery module provides is constant before and after the width is increased.

10. The energy storage system of claim 7, wherein an amount of power that may be provided at an early stage of use of the at least one battery module is set to be greater than an amount of power required by the external power source/load.

11. The energy storage system of claim 7, wherein the charge limit value and the discharge limit value are voltage values.

12. The energy storage system of claim 11, wherein the battery management unit comprises a voltage measurement unit that measures a voltage of the at least one battery module,

wherein it is determined whether the at least one battery module reaches the charge limit value or the discharge limit value according to the voltage measured by the voltage measurement unit.

13. The energy storage system of claim 8, wherein the predetermined value is a plurality of predetermined values in which the charge limit value is increased and the discharge limit value is decreased each time the count value equals one of the plurality of predetermined values.

14. The energy storage system of claim 13, wherein the charge limit value and the discharge limit value are voltage values.