Power storage service system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10361569-B2
Application number	US-201615377228-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2016
Priority date	Dec 15, 2015
Publication date	Jul 23, 2019
Grant date	Jul 23, 2019

Abstract

One aspect of the present invention is a power storage service system configured to control a power system using an assembled battery system including a plurality of unit cells, the power storage service system including: a first measurer configured to measure a self-discharge current difference among the plurality of the unit cells; and a second measurer configured to obtain a residual time of the assembled battery using the self-discharge current difference measured by the first measurer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power storage service system configured to control a power system using an assembled battery system including a plurality of battery cells, the plurality of battery cells including a first battery cell and a second battery cell, the power storage service system comprising:
a residual capacity measurer configured to detect at least a residual capacity of the first battery cell and a residual capacity of the second battery cell;
a first measurer configured to calculate a self-discharge current difference between the first battery cell and the second battery cell, on the basis of a first difference between the residual capacities of the first battery cell and the second battery cell detected by the residual capacity measurer at a first point in time and a second difference between the residual capacities of the first battery cell and the second battery cell detected by the residual capacity measurer at a second point in time, the second point in time being later than the first point in time, the self-discharge current difference being a difference between a self-discharge current occurring in the first battery cell and a self-discharge current occurring in the second battery cell; and
a second measurer configured to obtain a residual time of the assembled battery using a difference between the residual capacities of the first battery cell and the second battery cell detected by the residual capacity measurer and the self-discharge current difference calculated by the first measurer.

2. The power storage service system according to claim 1 , wherein the first measurer comprises:
a residual capacity equalizer configured to reduce the residual capacity of the first battery cell by causing the first battery cell to discharge an equalization current;
a time stamper configured to record at least an operation starting time, an operation ending time, and a measuring time of the residual capacity, of the residual capacity equalizer as a time stamp result;
a time stamp result storage configured to store the time stamp result recorded by the time stamper;
a current value detector configured to detect a current value of the equalization current as a residual capacity equalization current value and a current value of the assembled battery system;
a current value storage configured to store the residual capacity equalization current value obtained from the current value detector;
a first obtainer configured to obtain a equalization adjustment quantity for equalizing the residual capacity of the each of the battery cells using the residual capacity equalization current value obtained from the residual capacity measurer, the time stamp result stored in the time stamp result storage, and the residual capacity equalization current value stored in the current value storage; and
a second obtainer configure to obtain the self-discharge current difference from the residual capacity measurement value obtained from the residual capacity measurer, the time stamp result stored in the time stamp result storage, and the equalization adjustment quantity obtained from the first obtainer.

3. The power storage service system according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a voltage measurer configured to measure a voltage of each of the battery cells;
wherein the residual capacity measurer detects the residual capacity of the battery cell by using a first differential characteristic curve of the voltage value of the battery cell measured by the voltage measurer and the current value of the assembled battery measured by the current detector, a second differential characteristic curve as a criterion, and an optimization function.

4. The power storage service system according to claim 2 , wherein the first obtainer integrates the residual capacity equalization current value based on the operation starting time and the operation ending time stored in the time stamper.

5. The power storage service system according to claim 2 , wherein the second obtainer obtains the self-discharge current difference based on a value obtained from the residual capacity of the battery cell measured by the residual capacity measurer by using a calculation method including at least a maximum value, a minimum value, an average value, and a multiplication of a coefficient.

6. The power storage service system according to claim 2 , wherein the second obtainer obtains the self-discharge current difference based on the residual capacity of at least one battery cell obtained from the residual capacity measurer.

7. The power storage service system according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a residual capacity limit value setter configured to set an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the residual capacity obtained from the residual capacity measurer; and
a residual capacity limiter configured to store the upper limit value and the lower limit value of the residual capacity measurement value set by the residual capacity limit value setter.

8. The power storage service system according to claim 2 , wherein the second measurer comprises:
a third obtainer configured to obtain a time required for an additional operation of the residual capacity equalizer by using the self-discharge current difference, the residual capacity equalization current value, and the residual capacity, in a case where the self-discharge current difference obtained from the second obtainer is smaller than the residual capacity equalization current value stored in the current value storage; and
a fourth obtainer configured to obtain the residual time of the assembled battery system by using an SOC limit range, the self-discharge current difference, the residual capacity equalization current value, and the residual capacity, in a case where the self-discharge current difference is larger than the residual capacity equalization current value,
wherein the SOC limit range is a range of SOC in which each of the first and second battery cells is allowed to be charged or discharged.

9. The power storage service system according to claim 8 , wherein the second measurer comprises:
a battery state value output unit configured to output a current state value indicating that the self-discharge current difference is expanding if a ratio of an absolute value of the self-discharge current difference to the residual capacity equalization current value is larger than or equal to a predetermined ratio.

10. The power storage service system according to claim 8 , wherein the second measurer comprises:
a battery state value output unit configured to output a current state value indicating that the self-discharge current difference is normal if a ratio of an absolute value of the self-discharge current difference to the residual capacity equalization current value is smaller than a predetermined ratio.

11. The power storage service system according to claim 8 , wherein the second measurer comprises:
a battery state value output unit configured to output a current state value indicating that a non-stationary maintenance service is required if the residual time obtained by the fourth obtainer is less than a residual time until a predetermined maintenance service time.

12. The power storage service system according to claim 7 , wherein the residual capacity limiter decreases a residual capacity lower limit value based on a setting of the residual time expanding signal for expanding a time it takes for an effective SOC range of the assembled battery system to become zero, and
wherein the effective SOC range is obtained from a difference between an SOC limit range and a difference between the residual capacities of the first and second battery cells, the SO

Assignees

• Yokogawa Electric Corp

Inventors

• Hayashizaki Hironori
• Yoshitake Satoshi
• Tanaka Ryuuta
• Murai Jun
• Horie Hideaki

Classifications

• H02J7/84

  Control of state of health [SOH] · CPC title

• H02J7/82

  Control of state of charge [SOC] · CPC title

• H02J7/54

  Passive balancing, e.g. using resistors or parallel MOSFETs · CPC title

• G01R31/392 Primary

  Determining battery ageing or deterioration, e.g. state of health · CPC title

• G01R31/3832

  without measurement of battery voltage · CPC title