Information processing device

• US 8,841,885 B2
• Filed: 09/02/2011
• Issued: 09/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Platforms, Ltd. (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Ibe, Yukiyasu, Hamada, Teppei, Satoh, Taeko, Sasaki, Takeshi, Miyaji, Takeshi, Yamamoto, Yu
• Primary Examiner(s): Fantu, Yalkew
• Application Number:
  US14/006,878
• Publication Number:
  US 20140009119A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• Field of Search: 320/134, 320/149, 320/155
• US Class Current: 320/134
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/441 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0048 Detection of remaining charge capacity or state of charge [SOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0049 Detection of fully charged condition
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/005 Detection of state of health [SOH]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0063 with circuits adapted for supplying loads from the battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00712 the cycle being controlled or terminated in response to electric parameters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

Provided is an information processing device capable of easily determining the number of times of charge/discharge of each of a plurality of secondary battery packs, the information processing device including a charge/discharge execution unit (21, 22, 23) having the following configuration. That is, the charge/discharge execution unit (21, 22, 23) determines the number of times of charge/discharge of each of a plurality of secondary battery packs (11, 12, 13) based on: the number of times a fully-charged state of the secondary battery pack is detected when the charge to the secondary battery pack is executed; the number of times an intermediate state in which the remaining capacity of the secondary battery pack becomes equal to a predetermined value between the maximum remaining capacity value in the fully-charged state and a remaining capacity of zero is detected when the discharge from the secondary battery pack is executed; and the number of times a remaining capacity near-zero state in which the remaining capacity of the secondary battery pack becomes equal to a near-zero value closer to the remaining capacity of zero than the predetermined value is detected when the discharge from the secondary battery pack is executed.

Claims

1. An information processing device, comprising:

a plurality of secondary battery packs; and

a charge and discharge execution unit for executing a charge to the plurality of secondary battery packs and a discharge from the plurality of secondary battery packs,

wherein the charge and discharge execution unit is configured to, when executing the discharge, select one of the plurality of secondary battery packs as a selected secondary battery pack based on a number of times each of the plurality of secondary battery packs has been charged and a number of times each of the plurality of secondary battery packs has been discharged, and execute the discharge from the selected secondary battery pack,

wherein the charge and discharge execution unit is configured to;

detect a fully-charged state of each of the plurality of secondary battery packs, when the charge to each of the plurality of secondary battery packs is executed, and to count a number of times of the detection of the fully-charged state;

detect an intermediate state in which a remaining capacity of the each of the plurality of secondary battery packs becomes equal to a predetermined value between a maximum remaining capacity value in the fully-charged state and a remaining capacity of zero, when the discharge from the each of the plurality of secondary battery packs is executed, and to count a number of times of the detection of the intermediate state; and

detect a remaining capacity near-zero state, in which the remaining capacity of the each of the plurality of secondary battery packs becomes equal to a near-zero value closer to a remaining capacity of zero than the predetermined value, when the discharge from the each of the plurality of secondary battery packs is executed and to count a number of times of the detection of the remaining capacity near-zero state; and

the charge and discharge execution unit is configured to determine the number of times each of the plurality of secondary battery packs has been charged and a number of times each of the plurality of secondary battery packs has been discharged based on the number of times of the detection of the fully-charged state, the number of times of the detection of the intermediate state, and the number of times of the detection of the remaining capacity near-zero state.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the charge and discharge execution unit is configured to determine the number of times of charge and discharge of the each of the plurality of secondary battery packs based also on a number of times another intermediate state in which the remaining capacity of the each of the plurality of secondary battery packs becomes equal to another predetermined value between the maximum remaining capacity value and the near-zero value is detected and counted when the discharge from the each of the plurality of secondary battery packs is executed.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a device main body,

wherein the charge and discharge execution unit is configured to execute, as the charge, charge to the plurality of secondary battery packs from an external power source, and execute, as the discharge, discharge from the plurality of secondary battery packs to the device main body.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, further comprising an AC adaptor,

wherein the charge and discharge execution unit is configured to execute, as the charge, charge to the plurality of secondary battery packs from the external power source via the AC adaptor.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein, when executing the discharge, the charge and discharge execution unit selects a secondary battery pack having a smallest number of times of charge and discharge among the plurality of secondary battery packs as the selected secondary battery pack, and executes the discharge from the selected secondary battery pack.

6. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the fully-charged state means a remaining capacity of the selected battery is 100%, and the remaining capacity near-zero state means a remaining capacity of the selected battery is 5%.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the charge and discharge execution unit is configured to, when executing the charge, select a secondary battery pack having the smallest remaining capacity among the plurality of secondary battery packs, and executes the charge to the selected secondary battery pack having the smallest remaining capacity.