Battery management system for vehicle and controlling method thereof

• US 9,991,724 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2015
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Kim, Yu Seok, Park, Jin Ho, Min, Kyung In, Choi, Jae Hoon, Kim, Dong Gun, Lim, Do Kyoung, Bang, Jun Ho, Kim, Dong Il, Lee, Yoon Jun, Yang, Hee Tae, Ahn, Kyun Young, Kim, Kyung Ho, Kim, Suk Hyung, Kim, Jin Wook
• Primary Examiner(s): Zweizig, Jeffrey
• Application Number:
  US14/947,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20170028948A1
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/547 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/549 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/22 Standstill, e.g. zero speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/14 Preventing excessive discharging
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/15 Preventing overcharging
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/40 The network being an on-board power network, i.e. within a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00306 Overdischarge protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/14 for charging batteries from dynamo-electric generators driven at varying speed, e.g. on vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries

Abstract

A battery management system for a vehicle is provided to prevent current consumption of a battery by operating a relay connected between the battery and electronic loads to prevent an over-discharge of the battery. The battery management system includes a sensing unit that is configured to measure a current and a voltage of a battery for a vehicle and a relay that is connected between the battery for the vehicle and electronic units of the vehicle. Additionally, a controller is configured to receive data from the sensing unit to turn off the relay.

Claims

1. A battery management system for a vehicle, comprising:

a sensing unit configured to measure a current and a voltage of a battery for a vehicle;

a relay connected between the battery for the vehicle and electronic units of the vehicle; and

a controller configured to receive data from the sensing unit to turn off the relay wherein in response to determining based on the measured voltage and current that a measured state of the battery is a predefined sleep reference value or greater, the controller for the vehicle is configured to maintain a standby mode during a sleep time period and measure voltage and current.

2. The battery management system according to claim 1, wherein when a state of charge (SOC) of the battery for the vehicle is the predefined sleep reference value or less, the controller is configured to turn off the relay.

3. The battery management system according to claim 1, wherein when a state of health (SOH) of the battery for the vehicle is the predefined sleep reference value or less, the controller is configured to turn off the relay.

4. The battery management system according to claim 1, wherein when driving of the vehicle ends, the controller is configured to receive the data from the sensing unit at every predefined sleep time.

5. The battery management system according to claim 1, wherein when a sleep time varied based on the current and the voltage measured by the sensing unit elapses, the controller is configured to receive the data from the sensing unit.

6. The battery management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an on-switch configured to turn on the relay based on a user manipulation.

7. The battery management system according to claim 6, wherein when the battery is not charged within a predefined standby time after the on-switch turns on the relay, the controller is configured to turn off the relay.

8. The battery management system according to claim 6, wherein when the battery is not charged within a predefined standby time after the on-switch turns on the relay, the sensing unit is configured to transmit data of the voltage and the current of the battery to the controller.

9. A controlling method of a battery management system for a vehicle, comprising:

measuring, by a controller, a voltage and a current of a battery for a vehicle in response to driving of an engine being terminated; and

in response to determining based on the measured voltage and current that a measured state of the battery is a predefined sleep reference value or less, turning off, by the controller, a relay connected between the battery for the vehicle and electronic units of the vehicle and in response to determining based on the measured voltage and current that a measured state of the battery is the predefined sleep reference value or greater, the controller for the vehicle is configured to maintain a standby mode during a sleep time period and measure voltage and current.

10. The controlling method according to claim 9, wherein when the state of the battery is the predefined sleep reference value or greater, the measuring of the voltage and the current is repeated after a sleep time elapses.

11. The controlling method according to claim 10, wherein the sleep time is varied based on a difference between the state of the battery and the sleep reference value.

12. The controlling method according to claim 9, further comprising:

turning on, by the controller, the relay based on a user manipulation.

13. The controlling method according to claim 12, wherein when the battery for the vehicle does not begin charging within a predefined standby time after the turning on of the relay, the turning off of the relay is repeated.