Battery temperature adjusting system and operating method thereof

• US 9,837,688 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2013
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Energy Solution Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Chem Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Seung Su, Choi, Seung Don, Choi, Dae Sik, Jeong, Chang Moon, Kim, Hong Sin, Yoon, You Rim
• Primary Examiner(s): Stagg, Miriam
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lynch, Victoria
• Application Number:
  US14/085,043
• Publication Number:
  US 20140079962A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,476 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/19 characterised by the use of electric means G05D23/1393 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/052 Li-accumulators
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/615 Heating or keeping warm
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/625 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/647 Prismatic or flat cells, e.g. pouch cells
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/6571 Resistive heaters arrangements for heating the battery by its resistance to the internal current H01M10/637
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/20 Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 1/0236 for vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

The present invention relates to a battery temperature adjusting system including: a battery unit having a heating pad; a leading wire connected to the battery unit; and a current induction unit surrounding the leading wire, wherein the current induction unit is electrically connected to the heating pad. The battery temperature adjusting system according to the present invention generates the induced current by applying the current induction unit surrounding the leading wire connected to the battery unit, and increases the temperature of the battery unit by supplying the induced current to the heating pad, thereby obtaining a desired battery output in a low-temperature region even without the use of an external power source.

Claims

1. A battery temperature adjusting system, comprising:

a battery unit including a heating pad;

a leading wire connected to the battery unit; and

a current induction unit surrounding the leading wire,

wherein the current induction unit is electrically connected to the heating pad,

wherein the heating pad has a first heating pad disposed in an upper portion and a second heating pad disposed in a lower portion, and a heating wire disposed between the first heating pad and the second heating pad,

wherein current induced in the current induction unit is supplied to the heating wire,

wherein the heating wire is connected continuously from a first end point of the heating pad to a second end point of the heating pad, the second end point being located opposite the first end point,

wherein the current induction unit comprises a solenoid coil,

wherein the battery unit comprises a plurality of cells and a plurality of heating pads which are alternatively stacked, and

wherein the heating wire is formed in a zig-zag shape with respect to a cell stacking direction.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a motor electrically connected to the battery unit by the leading wire.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the cell is a lithium secondary battery.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the battery unit is used as at least one power source for a middle- or large-sized device from among an electrically driven vehicle including an electric vehicle (EV), a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV);

an electric truck;

an electric commercial vehicle; and

a power storage system.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the solenoid coil is made of metal or metal alloy having a conductivity of 5.80×

106 mhos/m or more.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a control unit for controlling the temperature of the battery unit.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the control unit is a solid state relay switch unit.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a device for increasing the temperature of the battery unit by using power of the battery itself.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a device for increasing the temperature of the battery unit by using an extra power source.

10. A method for operating a battery temperature adjusting system, the method comprising:

(a) charging and discharging a battery unit by generating a current in a leading wire connected to the battery unit, and generating a magnetic force around the leading wire, the battery unit including a heating pad;

(b) generating an induced current in a current induction unit surrounding the leading wire through the magnetic force generated in operation (a); and

(c) supplying the induced current generated in operation (b) to a heating wire,

wherein the heating pad has a first heating pad disposed in an upper portion and a second heating pad disposed in a lower portion, and the heating wire disposed between the first heating pad and the second heating pad,

wherein the heating wire is connected continuously from a first end point of the heating pad to a second end point of the heating pad, the second end point being located opposite the first end point,

wherein the current induction unit comprises a solenoid coil,

wherein the battery unit comprises a plurality of cells and a plurality of heating pads which are alternatively stacked, and

wherein the heating wire is formed in a zig-zag shape with respect to a cell stacking direction.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the leading wire is connected to a motor, and

wherein the induced current is supplied to the heating pad.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising cutting off the induced current supplied in operation (c) when the temperature of the battery unit is increased over a reference temperature.