Battery control device and electricity storage device

• US 8,981,721 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2011
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yamauchi, Tatsumi, Kudo, Akihiko, Machida, Akihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): DIAO, M BAYE
• Application Number:
  US13/151,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20110298424A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,384 Days
• Field of Search: 320/116, 320/134, 320/163
• US Class Current: 320/116
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/20 for control of the vehicle or its driving motor to achieve a desired performance, e.g. speed, torque, programmed variation of speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/10 DC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/30 AC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/14 Synchronous machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/421 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/545 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/547 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/549 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2270/20 Inrush current reduction, i.e. avoiding high currents when connecting the battery
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0046 relating to electric energy storage systems, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0069 relating to the isolation, e.g. ground fault or leak current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/18 of two or more battery modules
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/20 having different nominal voltages
• 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 31/396 Acquisition or processing of data for testing or for monitoring individual cells or groups of cells within a battery
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/441 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/482 : for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/48 : for electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 : Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 : acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0016 : using shunting, discharge or bypass circuits
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 : Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 : Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 : Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 : Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 : Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

A battery control device that controls a battery module in which a plurality of cell groups, in each of which a plurality of cells are connected in series, are connected in series or series-parallel, includes: a plurality of cell controller ICs that control each of the plurality of cell groups; and one or more connectors that are provided for connecting the plurality of cell controller ICs to the battery module; wherein: the plurality of cell controller ICs include first and second cell controller ICs that are provided in sequence, so as to control two or more of the cell groups that are connected in series; and an auxiliary connection member (a pin) is provided for connecting GND terminal side wiring of the first cell controller IC and VCC terminal side wiring of the second cell controller IC together, externally to the battery control device.

Claims

1. A battery control device that controls a battery module in which a plurality of cell groups, in each of which a plurality of cells are connected in series, are connected in series or series-parallel, comprising:

a plurality of cell controller ICs that control each of the plurality of cell groups; and

one or more connectors that are provided for connecting the plurality of cell controller ICs to the battery module;

wherein;

the plurality of cell controller ICs include first and second cell controller ICs that are provided in sequence, so as to control two or more of the cell groups that are connected in series;

GND terminal side wiring of the first cell controller IC and VCC terminal side wiring of the second cell controller IC are electrically connected together, on the outside of the battery control device; and

the first cell controller IC and the second cell controller IC are configured to operate with different voltage levels provided by different cell groups of the plurality of cell groups.

2. A battery control device according to claim 1, wherein:

an auxiliary connection member is provided for electrically connecting together the GND terminal side wiring of the first cell controller IC and the VCC terminal side wiring of the second cell controller IC on the outside of the battery control device.

3. A battery control device according to claim 2, wherein a connector is provided for the plurality of cell controller ICs, and the auxiliary connection member is provided integrally with the connector.

4. A battery control device according to claim 2, wherein:

a connector is provided for each of the plurality of cell controller ICs; and

an auxiliary connector, to which the auxiliary connection member is integrally provided, is provided separately from the connector.

5. A battery control device according to claim 2, wherein the auxiliary connection member is provided for each pair of successive cell controller ICs.

6. A battery control device according to claim 5, wherein:

the auxiliary connection member is provided to each of the two successive cell controller ICs among a group of cell controller ICs in which two or more cell controller ICs are provided in succession; and

the battery control device comprises a battery control device side auxiliary connector for establishing connection by all of the auxiliary connection members of the group all together.

7. A battery control device according to claim 6, wherein a connection member for establishing connection between a VCC terminal side wiring of a highest level cell controller IC of the group and a highest level voltage detection line of the cell group connected to this highest level cell controller IC, and a connection member for establishing connection between a GND terminal side wiring of the lowest level cell controller IC of the group and a lowest level voltage detection line of a cell group connected to this lowest level cell controller IC, are provided as integrated with the battery control device side auxiliary connector.

8. A battery control device according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of cell controller ICs includes one or more sets, each of which includes a first cell controller IC group that includes two or more cell controller ICs, and a second cell controller IC group that includes two or more cell controller ICs, provided in succession to the first cell controller IC group;

and the auxiliary connection member is provided for each of these sets of the first cell controller IC group and the second cell controller IC group.

9. A battery control device according to claim 1, wherein an electronic component for current limitation is connected between the GND terminal side wiring and the VCC terminal side wiring.

10. An electricity storage device, comprising:

a battery control device according to claim 1; and

a connector on the battery module side.

11. A vehicle which can be driven electrically, comprising an electricity storage device according to claim 10, and an electric motor for propulsion driven by electrical power controlled by the electricity storage device.

12. A battery control device according to claim 1, wherein the GND terminal side wiring of the first cell controller IC and the VCC terminal side wiring of the second cell controller IC are electrically connected together only on the outside of the battery control device.