Battery state detector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10404081-B2
Application number	US-201715712350-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2017
Priority date	Sep 26, 2016
Publication date	Sep 3, 2019
Grant date	Sep 3, 2019

Abstract

A battery state detector includes a main unit configured to detect a state of one battery assembly in a battery pack storing therein a plurality of battery assemblies each including a plurality of battery cells arranged in rows, a subunit configured to detect a state of a battery assembly in the battery pack other than the battery assembly that is a detection target of the main unit, and a first communication line that connects the main unit with the subunit. The main unit is connected to a controller configured to control the battery pack via a second communication line that is separate from the first communication line.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery state detector comprising:
a main unit configured to detect a state of one battery assembly in a battery pack storing therein a plurality of battery assemblies each including a plurality of battery cells arranged in rows, and the main unit is provided to the one battery assembly;
a subunit configured to detect a state of a battery assembly in the battery pack other than the one battery assembly that is a detection target of the main unit, and the subunit is provided to the battery assembly that is a detection target;
a second subunit configured to detect a state of a second battery assembly in the battery pack, and the second subunit is provided to the second battery assembly; and
a first communication line that connects the main unit with the subunit,
wherein the main unit is connected to a controller configured to control the battery pack via a second communication line that is separate from the first communication line,
wherein the main unit is arranged between the subunit and the second subunit,
wherein the battery assembly and the second battery assembly are adjacent battery assemblies adjacent to the one battery assembly, and
wherein the one battery assembly has a rectangular parallelepiped shape and is disposed in the battery pack so that longitudinal side surfaces of the adjacent batter assemblies face longitudinal side surfaces of the one battery assembly.

2. The battery state detector according to claim 1 , wherein
the main unit receives a detection result of the subunit from the subunit via the first communication line, and
the main unit transmits management information based on the detection result of the subunit and a detection result of the main unit to the controller via the second communication line.

3. The battery state detector according to claim 1 , wherein
the main unit is integrated with a busbar module that electrically connects the battery cells in the one battery assembly, a state of the one battery assembly being detected by the main unit, and
the subunit is integrated with a busbar module that electrically connects the battery cells in the battery assembly, a state of the battery assembly being detected by the subunit.

4. The battery state detector according to claim 2 , wherein
the main unit is integrated with a busbar module that electrically connects the battery cells in the one battery assembly, a state of the one battery assembly being detected by the main unit, and
the subunit is integrated with a busbar module that electrically connects the battery cells in the battery assembly, a state of the battery assembly being detected by the subunit.

5. The battery state detector according to claim 1 , wherein the main unit is further configured to determine whether each of the subunit and second subunit is in a normal state before reporting any of the state, of the battery assembly in the battery pack other than the one battery assembly that is the detection target of the main unit, and the state, of the second battery assembly, to the controller.

Assignees

• Yazaki Corp

Inventors

• Ota Takao
• HARAKAWA Kazuya
• Shoji Takao
• Yanagihara Shinichi

Classifications

• H02J7/80

  including monitoring or indicating arrangements · CPC title

• H02J7/50

  acting upon multiple batteries simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• G01R31/382 Primary

  Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC · CPC title

• H01M10/482

  for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• H01M50/507

  comprising an arrangement of two or more busbars within a container structure, e.g. busbar modules · CPC title