Battery monitoring device

• US 9,767,683 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2016
• Issued: 09/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Shimizu, Hidehiko, Yoshida, Haruhiko, Murata, Ryohtaroh, Ido, Yoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): HUNNINGS, TRAVIS R
• Application Number:
  US15/047,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20160247389A1
• Time in Patent Office: 579 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/182 Level alarms, e.g. alarms responsive to variables exceeding a threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4207 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/425 Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing printed circuits H05K1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/20 Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A battery monitoring device which is mounted in a vehicle and detects state information of a battery including a plurality of cells connected in series, the battery monitoring device is provided with a detection unit mounted on the battery, and a mounting member mounted on the battery. The detection unit comprises a board including a circuit for detecting the state information of the battery, and a first non-contact communication unit which is mounted on the board and performs non-contact communication via electromagnetic wave. The mounting member comprises a second non-contact communication unit which performs non-contact communication via the electromagnetic wave. The first non-contact communication unit transfers the state information of the battery to the second non-contact communication unit, and the second non-contact communication unit transfers the state information of the battery transferred from the first non-contact communication unit to a host device.

Claims

1. A battery monitoring device which is mounted in a vehicle and configured to detect state information of a battery including a plurality of cells connected in series, the battery monitoring device comprising:

a detection unit mounted on the battery; and

a mounting member mounted to the battery,

wherein the detection unit comprises;

a board including a circuit configured to detect the state information of the battery; and

a first non-contact communication unit mounted on the board and configured to perform non-contact communication via electromagnetic wave,

wherein the mounting member comprises;

a second non-contact communication unit configured to perform non-contact communication with the first non-contact communication unit via the electromagnetic wave,

wherein the first non-contact communication unit is configured to transfer the state information of the battery to the second non-contact communication unit, and the second non-contact communication unit is configured to transfer the state information of the battery transferred from the first non-contact communication unit to a host device, and the mounting member is configured to receive instruction information transmitted from the host device.

2. The battery monitoring device according to claim 1,

wherein the first non-contact communication unit and the second non-contact communication unit are arranged to face each other.

3. The battery monitoring device according to claim 1,

wherein the first non-contact communication unit includes a first antenna, and the second non-contact communication unit includes a second antenna, and

wherein the first antenna and the second antenna can mutually transmit and receive the electromagnetic wave.

4. The battery monitoring device according to claim 3,

wherein the second antenna includes a plurality of antennas,

wherein the battery includes a plurality of batteries,

wherein each of the plurality of the antennas corresponds to each of the plurality of the batteries, respectively,

wherein one of the plurality of the antennas are connected to another adjacent antenna, and

wherein the second antenna is connected to the host device via a single communication line.

5. The battery monitoring device according to claim 4,

wherein a bus bar module is mounted on the battery,

wherein the bus bar module includes bus bars configured to transmit respective voltages of the plurality of cells to the detection unit, and

wherein the bus bar module is covered with the mounting member.

6. The battery monitoring device according to claim 1,

wherein the host device includes a battery ECU.