Secondary battery system

• US 9,214,814 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2011
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Wind Development Corporation, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Japan Wind Development Corporation, Ltd.
• Inventors: Bando, Matsuo, Tamakoshi, Tomio, Yasutomi, Sei
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnie, Rexford
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kessie, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/109,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20110278930A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,673 Days
• Field of Search: 307/9.1, 307/10.1, 307 65- 66, 307 80- 82, 307 85- 87, 320/124, 320/118, 320/127, 320/116, 320/119, 320/122
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/38 Arrangements for parallely feeding a single network by two or more generators, converters or transformers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

There is provided a secondary battery system which converts direct current power supplied from secondary batteries into alternating current power by power converters, and supplies the converted power to an electric power system on a load side, the secondary battery system including a control apparatus that stops operating the operating the power converter and starts operating the stopped the power converter when a residual stored power level of the secondary battery corresponding to operating the power converter becomes to be not greater than a predetermined rate of a residual stored power level of the secondary battery corresponding to stopped the power converter.

Claims

1. A secondary battery system comprising:

a plurality of secondary batteries;

a plurality of power converters, which are provided respectively corresponding to the plurality of secondary batteries, and which convert electric power supplied respectively from the corresponding one of the plurality of secondary batteries; and

a control apparatus which is configured to;

compare (i) a residual stored power level of one of the secondary batteries corresponding to one of the power converters which is operating with (ii) a residual stored power level of one of the secondary batteries corresponding to one of the power converters which is stopped;

detect when an inequality C %<

A %×

B % is satisfied, where A % is the residual stored power level of the secondary battery corresponding to the stopped power converter, B % is a setting value, and C % is the residual stored power level of the secondary battery corresponding to the operating power converter; and

when it is detected that the inequality is satisfied, stop operation of the operating power converter and start operation of the stopped power converter.

2. A control apparatus for a secondary battery system which comprises a plurality of secondary batteries and a plurality of power converters which are provided respectively corresponding to the plurality of secondary batteries, and which convert electric power supplied respectively from the corresponding one of the plurality of secondary batteries,

wherein the control apparatus is configured to:

compare (i) a residual stored power level of one of the secondary batteries corresponding to one of the power converters which is operating with (ii) a residual stored power level of one of the secondary batteries corresponding to one of the power converters which is stopped;

detect when an inequality C %<

A %×

B % is satisfied, where A % is the residual stored power level of the secondary battery corresponding to the stopped power converter, B % is a setting value, and C % is the residual stored power level of the secondary battery corresponding to the operating power converter; and

when it is detected that the inequality is satisfied, stop operation of the operating power converter and start operation of the stopped power converter.

3. A control method for a secondary battery system which comprises a plurality of secondary batteries and a plurality of power converters which are provided respectively corresponding to the plurality of secondary batteries, and which convert electric power supplied respectively from the corresponding one of the plurality of secondary batteries, the control method comprising:

comparing (i) a residual stored power level of one of the secondary batteries corresponding to one of the power converters which is operating with (ii) a residual stored power level of one of the secondary batteries corresponding to one of the power converters which is stopped;

detecting when an inequality C %<

A %×

B % is satisfied, where A % is the residual stored power level of the secondary battery corresponding to the stopped power converter, B % is a setting value, and C % is the residual stored power level the secondary battery corresponding to the operating power converter; and

when it is detected that the inequality is satisfied, stopping operation of the operating power converter and starting operation of the stopped power converter.