Battery system monitoring device

• US 9,880,224 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2013
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kudo, Akihiko, Kikuchi, Mutsumi, Kanai, Tomonori
• Primary Examiner(s): Berhanu, Samuel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kebede, Tessema
• Application Number:
  US14/784,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20160061901A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,747 Days
• Field of Search: 320118, 324426
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/10 for monitoring or controlling batteries
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/382 Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3835 involving only voltage measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/396 Acquisition or processing of data for testing or for monitoring individual cells or groups of cells within a battery
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries

Abstract

A battery system monitoring device includes a plurality of battery monitoring circuits, which is respectively provided in cell groups, and a balancing resistor. Each of the battery monitoring circuits includes a cell voltage measurement unit to measure a cell voltage of each single battery cell at predetermined timing, a discharge switch to switch a state of a discharge current which flows from each single battery cell through the balancing resistor, and a balancing control unit configured to control the discharge switch. A filter circuit is connected between the cell voltage measurement unit and each single battery cell. The cell voltage measurement unit determines whether a cell voltage is measured within a transient response period corresponding to a time constant of the filter circuit and corrects a measurement value of a cell voltage by using a correction value correcting a result of the determination.

Claims

1. A battery system monitoring device configured to monitor and control a battery system including a plurality of cell groups in each of which a plurality of single battery cells is connected in series, the device comprising:

a plurality of battery monitoring circuits provided in each of the cell groups; and

a balancing resistor configured to cause each of the single battery cells in a cell group corresponding to each of the battery monitoring circuits to discharge current, wherein

each of the battery monitoring circuits includes a cell voltage measurement unit configured to measure a cell voltage of each of the single battery cells in the corresponding cell group at a predetermined timing, a discharge switch configured to switch a state of a discharge current which flows from each of the single battery cells in the corresponding cell group through the balancing resistor, and a balancing control unit configured to control the discharge switch,

a filter circuit is connected between the cell voltage measurement unit and each of the single battery cells,

the cell voltage measurement unit determines whether the cell voltage is measured within a transient response period corresponding to a time constant of the filter circuit and corrects a measurement value of the cell voltage by using a correction value corresponding to a result of the determination,

the cell voltage measurement unit determines that the cell voltage is measured within the transient response period when a switching state of a discharge switch corresponding to a single battery cell a cell voltage of which is measured or a switching state of a discharge switch corresponding to a single battery cell adjacent to the single battery cell the cell voltage of which is measured is changed within a predetermined set time before measurement of the cell voltage, and

the cell voltage measurement unit determines that the cell voltage is not measured within the transient response period when a switching state of the discharge switch corresponding to the single battery cell the cell voltage of which is measured or a switching state of the discharge switch corresponding to the single battery cell adjacent to the single battery cell the cell voltage of which is measured is not changed within the predetermined set time before measurement of the cell voltage.

2. The battery system monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein when the cell voltage measurement unit determines that the cell voltage is measured within the transient response period, the correction value is varied according to time until the cell voltage is measured after the switching state of the discharge switch corresponding to the single battery cell the cell voltage of which is measured or the switching state of the discharge switch corresponding to the single battery cell adjacent to the single battery cell the cell voltage of which is measured is changed.

3. The battery system monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein

when it is determined that the cell voltage is not measured within the transient response period, the cell voltage measurement unit determines whether at least one of the discharge switch corresponding to the single battery cell the cell voltage of which is measured and the discharge switch corresponding to the single battery cell adjacent to the single battery cell the cell voltage of which is measured is on or off during the measurement of the cell voltage and corrects the measurement value of the cell voltage by using a first correction value when it is determined that at least one of the discharge switches is on, and

the cell voltage measurement unit corrects the measurement value of the cell voltage by using a second correction value smaller than the first correction value when determining that the cell voltage is measured within the transient response period.

4. The battery system monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the balancing control unit controls each of the discharge switches at timing synchronized with timing of measurement of the cell voltage performed by the cell voltage measurement unit.

5. The battery system monitoring device according to claim 1, wherein the cell voltage measurement unit calculates a resistance value of a voltage detection line connected between each of the single battery cells and the cell voltage measurement unit, based on a measurement value of the cell voltage of when current does not flow from the single battery cell to the balancing resistor and a measurement value of the cell voltage of when current flows from the single battery cell to the balancing resistor, and determines the correction value based on a result of the calculation.

6. A battery system monitoring device configured to monitor and control a battery system including a plurality of cell groups in each of which a plurality of single battery cells is connected in series, the device comprising:

a plurality of battery monitoring circuits provided in each of the cell groups; and

a balancing resistor configured to cause each of the single battery cells in a cell group corresponding to each of the battery monitoring circuits to discharge current, wherein

each of the battery monitoring circuits includes a cell voltage measurement unit configured to measure a cell voltage of each of the single battery cells in the corresponding cell group at a predetermined timing, a discharge switch configured to switch a state of a discharge current which flows from each of the single battery cells in the corresponding cell group through the balancing resistor, and a balancing control unit configured to control the discharge switch,

a filter circuit is connected between the cell voltage measurement unit and each of the single battery cells,

the cell voltage measurement unit determines whether the cell voltage is measured within a transient response period corresponding to a time constant of the filter circuit and corrects a measurement value of the cell voltage by using a correction value corresponding to a result of the determination, and

the cell voltage measurement unit calculates a resistance value of a voltage detection line connected between each of the single battery cells and the cell voltage measurement unit, based on a measurement value of the cell voltage of when current does not flow from the single battery cell to the balancing resistor and a measurement value of the cell voltage of when current flows from the single battery cell to the balancing resistor, and determines the correction value based on a result of the calculation.