Power storage device and power storage system

• US 9,614,258 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2013
• Issued: 04/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Takahashi, Minoru, Takahashi, Kei, Koyama, Jun, Momo, Junpei, Moriwaka, Tamae
• Primary Examiner(s): PELTON, NATHANIEL R
• Application Number:
  US14/107,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20140184165A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,205 Days
• Field of Search: 320134, 429 90, 429 91
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/382 Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/48 Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/486 for measuring temperature
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

To provide a power storage device, an operation condition of which is easily analyzed. A secondary battery includes a sensor that is a measurement unit, a microcontroller unit that is a determination unit, and a memory that is a memory unit. With the sensor, conditions of the secondary battery such as the remaining battery power, the voltage, the current, and the temperature are measured. The microcontroller unit performs arithmetic processing of the measurement results and determines the operation condition of the secondary battery. Further, the microcontroller unit stores the measurement result in the memory in accordance with the operation condition of the secondary battery.

Claims

1. A power storage system comprising:

a secondary battery;

a sensors;

a micro controller unit; and

a memory,

wherein the memory comprises a first memory region and a second memory region,

wherein the secondary battery is configured to operate in a first operation mode and a second operation mode,

wherein the sensors are configured to obtain information of the secondary battery,

wherein the micro controller unit is configured to determine whether the secondary battery is in the first operation mode or the second operation mode in accordance with the information, and in the case where the secondary battery is in the first operation mode, the micro controller unit stores the information in the first memory region, and in the case where the secondary battery is in the second operation mode, the micro controller unit stores the information in the second memory region,

wherein the first operation mode is a charge mode including a constant-current charge mode and a constant-voltage charge mode,

wherein the second operation mode is a discharge mode including a rapid discharge mode,

wherein a remaining battery power, a voltage, a current, and a temperature at a start time of each the constant-current charge mode, the constant-voltage charge mode, and the rapid discharge mode and an ending time of the corresponding mode are stored in the first memory region,

wherein a time period from the start to end of each the constant-current charge mode, the constant-voltage charge mode, and the rapid discharge mode is stored in the first memory region, and

wherein maximum value of current flowing during the rapid discharge mode is stored in the second memory region.

2. The power storage system according to claim 1, wherein the micro controller unit includes an oxide semiconductor.

3. The power storage system according to claim 1, wherein the sensors are a temperature sensor, a voltmeter, an ammeter, or a coulomb counter.

4. The power storage system according to claim 1, further comprising a communication unit connected to the micro controller unit.

5. A power storage system comprising:

a secondary battery;

sensors;

a micro controller unit; and

a memory including a transistor,

wherein the memory comprises a first memory region and a second memory region,

wherein the secondary battery is configured to operate in a first operation mode and a second operation mode,

wherein the sensors are configured to obtain information of the secondary battery,

wherein the micro controller unit is configured to determine whether the secondary battery is in the first operation mode or the second operation mode in accordance with the information, and in the case where the secondary battery is in the first operation mode, the micro controller unit stores the information in the first memory region, and in the case where the secondary battery is in the second operation mode, the micro controller unit stores the information in the second memory region, and

wherein the transistor comprises an oxide semiconductor film including a channel formation region,

wherein the first operation mode is a charge mode including a constant-current charge mode and a constant-voltage charge mode,

wherein the second operation mode is a discharge mode including a rapid discharge mode,

wherein a remaining battery power, a voltage, a current, and a temperature at a start time of each the constant-current charge mode, the constant-voltage charge mode, and the rapid discharge mode and an ending time of the corresponding mode are stored in the first memory region,

wherein a time period from the start to end of each the constant-current charge mode, the constant-voltage charge mode, and the rapid discharge mode is stored in the first memory region, and

wherein maximum value of current flowing during the rapid discharge mode is stored in the second memory region.

6. The power storage system according to claim 5, wherein the micro controller unit includes an oxide semiconductor.

7. The power storage system according to claim 5, wherein the sensors are a temperature sensor, a voltmeter, an ammeter, and a coulomb counter.

8. The power storage system according to claim 5, further comprising a communication unit connected to the micro controller unit.