Battery management system and driving method thereof

• US 8,796,986 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2007
• Issued: 08/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung SDI Company Limited
• Inventors: Lim, Gye-Jong, Choi, Soo-Seok, Lee, Young-Jo, Tae, Yong-Jun, Yun, Han-Seok, Seo, Se-Wook, Kim, Beom-Gyu, Park, Ho-Young
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): PIGGUSH, AARON C
• Application Number:
  US11/896,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20080100268A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,532 Days
• Field of Search: 320/136, 320/104, 320/157, 324/427, 324/429
• US Class Current: 320/104
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/547 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/18 of two or more battery modules
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/22 Balancing the charge of battery modules
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/3835 involving only voltage measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/392 Determining battery ageing or deterioration, e.g. state of health
• 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: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries

Abstract

A battery management system of a vehicle utilizing electrical energy and a driving method thereof is provided. The battery management system includes a sensing unit and a main control unit (MCU). The sensing unit detects voltage of a battery cell. MCU determines an operation state of a vehicle, and generates a sampling signal depending on the operation state of the vehicle. The sampling control signal transmits to the sensing unit, and controls the detection of the voltage of the battery cell. The operation state of the vehicle includes a running state and a stopping state.

Claims

1. A battery management system coupled to a battery having a plurality of cells in a vehicle, the battery management system comprising:

a sensing unit coupled to the battery, the sensing unit detecting a voltage of each cell of the battery; and

a main control unit coupled to the sensing unit, the main control unit determining an operation state of the vehicle, the main control unit generating a first sampling signal when the operation state is a first state and generating a second sampling signal different from the first sampling signal when the operation state is a second state different from the first state, the first and second sampling signals being provided to the to the sensing unit to control a sampling speed in detecting the voltage of each cell.

2. The battery management system of claim 1, the first state being a running state and the second state being a stopping state.

3. The battery management system of claim 1, each of the first sampling signal and the second sampling signal comprising:

a first control signal having a first level and a second level, the first control signal controlling a sequential sampling of the battery cells in sequentially detecting the voltage of each cell;

a second control signal having a first level and a second level, the second control signal controlling storage of the detected voltage of each cell; and

a third control signal having a first level and a second level, the first level of the third control signal being applied during a time period in which the first control signal is at the second level and the second control signal is at the second level, the third control signal controlling read out and amplification of the stored voltages.

4. The battery management system of claim 3, the first state being a running state and the second state being a stopping state.

5. The battery management system of claim 3, the sensing unit being a voltage sensing unit comprising:

a plurality of cell relays, each cell being connected to a corresponding one of the cell relays, the first control signal controlling each of the cell relays;

a first relay connected to each of the cell relays;

a storage capacitor connected to the first relay, the second control signal controlling the first relay to store the detected voltage of each cell in the storage capacitor;

a second relay connected to the storage capacitor, the third control signal controlling read out of the stored voltages from the capacitor; and

a differential amplifying terminal, the differential amplifying terminal receiving and amplifying the read out voltages.

6. The battery management system of claim 5, further comprising an analog to digital converter converting the amplified read out voltages to digital data, the digital data being provided to the main control unit.

7. The battery management system of claim 5, the first control signal comprising a corresponding plurality of cell relay control signals to control the sequential sampling of the battery cells in sequentially detecting the voltage of each cell, each cell relay control signal having a single pulse having a first time period.

8. The battery management system of claim 7, the second control signal comprising a plurality of pulses, each having the first time period.

9. The battery management system of claim 8, the third control signal comprising a plurality of pulses, the time period of each pulse having the first level being shorter than the first time period.