APPARATUS FOR BATTERY STATE ESTIMATION

• US 20140340045A1
• Filed: 12/04/2012
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation, KEIO University
• Original Assignee: Calsonic Kansei Corporation, KEIO University
• Inventors: Itabashi, Kinnosuke, Adachi, Shuichi
• Application Number:
  US14/359,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20140340045A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/134
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/367 Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3842 combining voltage and current measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/389 Measuring internal impedance, internal conductance or related variables
• 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: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

An apparatus for battery state estimation can accurately estimate the internal state of a battery by taking into consideration the slow response portion of the battery. The apparatus for battery state estimation includes a charge/discharge current detection unit, a terminal voltage detection unit, an equivalent circuit model including a fast response portion and slow response portion of the battery, a sequential parameter estimation unit that performs sequential parameter estimation, using only the fast response portion among response portions, based on the charge/discharge current value and the terminal voltage value, a constant setting unit that sets a constant representing resistance and capacitance in the slow response portion of the equivalent circuit model, a plurality of multiplication units that multiply the parameter estimated by the sequential parameter estimation unit and the constant by the charge/discharge current value, and an addition unit that obtains an overvoltage value of the battery by adding the multiplied values.

Claims

1. An apparatus for battery state estimation comprising:

a charge/discharge current detection unit configured to detect a charge/discharge current value of a battery;

a terminal voltage detection unit configured to detect a terminal voltage value of the battery;

an equivalent circuit model including a fast response portion and a slow response portion of the battery;

a sequential parameter estimation unit configured to perform sequential parameter estimation, using only the fast response portion among response portions of the equivalent circuit model, based on the charge/discharge current value input from the charge/discharge current detection unit and the terminal voltage value input from the terminal voltage detection unit;

a constant setting unit configured to set a constant representing resistance and capacitance in the slow response portion of the equivalent circuit model;

a first multiplication unit configured to obtain an overvoltage value of the fast response portion by multiplying a parameter estimated by the sequential parameter estimation unit by the charge/discharge current value;

a second multiplication unit configured to obtain an overvoltage value of the slow response portion by multiplying the constant set by the constant setting unit by the charge/discharge current value; and

an addition unit configured to obtain an overvoltage value of the battery by adding the overvoltage value of the fast response portion obtained by the first multiplication unit and the overvoltage value of the slow response portion obtained by the second multiplication unit.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a subtraction unit configured to obtain an open circuit voltage value of the battery by subtracting the overvoltage value obtained by the addition unit from the terminal voltage value obtained by the terminal voltage detection unit; and

an open circuit voltage/state of charge estimation unit configured to determine a state of charge of the battery based on the open circuit voltage obtained by the subtraction unit.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a filter processing unit configured to input the terminal voltage value obtained by the terminal voltage detection unit into the sequential parameter estimation unit by removing a part of the terminal voltage value corresponding to the slow response portion.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the filter processing unit is further configured to input the charge/discharge current value obtained by the charge/discharge current detection unit into the sequential parameter estimation unit by removing a part of the charge/discharge current value corresponding to the slow response portion.

5. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a filter processing unit configured to input the terminal voltage value obtained by the terminal voltage detection unit into the sequential parameter estimation unit by removing a part of the terminal voltage value corresponding to the slow response portion.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the filter processing unit is further configured to input the charge/discharge current value obtained by the charge/discharge current detection unit into the sequential parameter estimation unit by removing a part of the charge/discharge current value corresponding to the slow response portion.