Battery remaining capacity display device, battery system, and battery remaining capacity display method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10518640-B2
Application number	US-201615758748-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 2, 2016
Priority date	Nov 17, 2015
Publication date	Dec 31, 2019
Grant date	Dec 31, 2019

Abstract

A battery remaining capacity display device ( 30 ) comprises remaining capacity calculators ( 32 A, 32 B), a combined remaining capacity calculator ( 33 ), a display controller ( 35 ), a display instruction component ( 36 ), and a display component ( 34 ). The display controller ( 35 ) controls the display of the individual remaining capacities and the display of the total remaining capacity. The display instruction component ( 36 ) instructs the display controller ( 35 ) to display or not to display. The display component ( 34 ) displays the individual remaining capacities and the total remaining capacity. The display controller ( 35 ) performs control so that the individual remaining capacities and/or the combined remaining capacity is displayed on the display distribution ( 34 ) according to an instruction from the display instruction component ( 36 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A battery remaining capacity display device, comprising:
an individual remaining capacity calculator that calculates individual remaining capacities of a plurality of batteries that are removably connected in parallel to a power consumption element;
a total remaining capacity calculator that calculates total remaining capacity of the plurality of batteries on the basis of the individual remaining capacities calculated by the individual remaining capacity calculator;
a display controller that controls display of the individual remaining capacities and display of the total remaining capacity;
a display instruction component that instructs the display controller either to display or not to display; and
a display component that displays the individual remaining capacities and the total remaining capacity,
wherein the display controller controls so that the individual remaining capacities and/or the total remaining capacity is displayed on the display component according to an instruction from the display instruction component, and
the display instruction component instructs the display controller to display only the total remaining capacity without displaying the individual remaining capacities on the display component during drive of the power consumption element, and to display only the individual remaining capacities without displaying the total remaining capacity on the display component during battery exchange by switching between the display of the individual remaining capacities and the display of the total remaining capacity.

2. The battery remaining capacity display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the display instruction component instructs the display controller to switch the display of the individual remaining capacities and the display of the total remaining capacity on the basis of a user setting.

3. The battery remaining capacity display device according to claim 1 ,
further comprising an input component that accepts an operation from a user,
wherein the display instruction component instructs to switch the display of the individual remaining capacities and the display of the total remaining capacity on the basis of a user operation to the input component.

4. The battery remaining capacity display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the power consumption element is an electric motorcycle, an electric bicycle, an electrically assisted bicycle, or an electric power tool.

5. A battery system, comprising:
a plurality of batteries that are removably connected in parallel to a power consumption element;
an individual remaining capacity calculator that calculates individual remaining capacities of the plurality of batteries;
a total remaining capacity calculator that calculates total remaining capacity of the plurality of batteries on the basis of the individual remaining capacities calculated by the individual remaining capacity calculator;
a display controller that controls display of the individual remaining capacities and display of the total remaining capacity;
a display instruction component that instructs the display controller either to display or not to display; and
a display component that displays the individual remaining capacities and the total remaining capacity,
wherein the display controller controls so that the individual remaining capacities and/or the total remaining capacity is displayed on the display component according to an instruction from the display instruction component, and
the display instruction component instructs the display controller to display only the total remaining capacity without displaying the individual remaining capacities on the display component during drive of the power consumption element, and to display only the individual remaining capacities without displaying the total remaining capacity on the display component during battery exchange by switching between the display of the individual remaining capacities and the display of the total remaining capacity.

6. A remaining battery capacity display method, comprising:
an individual remaining capacity calculation step of calculating individual remaining capacities of a plurality of batteries that are removably connected in parallel to a power consumption element;
a total remaining capacity calculation step of calculating total remaining capacity of the plurality of batteries on the basis of the individual remaining capacities calculated in the individual remaining capacity calculating step;
a display instruction step of instructing whether to display or not display the individual remaining capacities and the total remaining capacity;
a display control step of controlling display of the individual remaining capacities and display of the total remaining capacity according to an instruction from the display instruction step; and
a display step of displaying the individual remaining capacities and/or the total remaining capacity on the basis of control performed in the display control step,
wherein in the display control step, an instruction to display only the total remaining capacity without displaying the individual remaining capacities during drive of the power consumption element and to display only the individual remaining capacities without displaying the total remaining capacity during battery exchange is performed switching between the display of the individual remaining capacities and the display of the total remaining capacity.

Assignees

• Omron Tateisi Electronics Co

Inventors

• Wada Junichi
• Takatsuka Hiromasa
• KASAI Kazuki

Classifications

• B60L58/10

  for monitoring or controlling batteries · CPC title

• G09G2380/10

  Automotive applications · CPC title

• B60L2200/12

  Bikes · CPC title

• G09G5/003

  Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto (specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092) · CPC title

• B60R16/02

  electric {constitutive elements} · CPC title