Storage battery device, storage battery device control method, and computer program product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10581238-B2
Application number	US-201616082898-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 9, 2016
Priority date	Mar 9, 2016
Publication date	Mar 3, 2020
Grant date	Mar 3, 2020

Abstract

A storage battery device includes a battery unit, a first circuit breaker, a second circuit breaker, and a control unit. The first circuit breaker switches between connecting and disconnecting a first-electrode side of the battery unit and an external device. The second circuit breaker switches between connecting and disconnecting a second-electrode side of the battery unit and the external device. The control unit supplies power to the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker in sequence with the power supplied to the second circuit breaker offset relative to the power supplied to the first circuit breaker by a time period equal to or longer than a time difference required for a sum of currents flowing through the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker to reach an upper bound current that is set as an upper bound of a current.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A storage battery device comprising:
a battery unit that includes one or more storage batteries;
a first circuit breaker that switches between connecting and disconnecting a first-electrode side of the battery unit and an external device;
a second circuit breaker that switches between connecting and disconnecting a second-electrode side of the battery unit and the external device; and
a control unit that controls connection and disconnection by supplying power to the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker, wherein
the control unit supplies power to the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker in sequence with the power supplied to the second circuit breaker offset relative to the power supplied to the first circuit breaker by a time period equal to or longer than a time difference required for a sum of currents flowing through the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker to reach an upper bound current that is set as an upper bound of a current.

2. The storage battery device according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit supplies power to the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker in sequence with the power supplied to the second circuit breaker offset relative to the power supplied to the first circuit breaker by the time period less than a time difference required for the sum of the currents flowing through the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker to reach a lower bound current that is set as a lower bound of the current.

3. The storage battery device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a third circuit breaker that is connected in parallel with the second circuit breaker on the second-electrode side of the battery unit, and that switches between connecting and disconnecting the second electrode of the battery unit and the external device; and
a preliminary resistor that is serially connected to the third circuit breaker, wherein
the control unit supplies power to the first circuit breaker, the second circuit breaker, and the third circuit breaker in sequence with each successive supplying of power offset by the time period equal to or longer than a time difference required for a sum of currents flowing through the first circuit breaker, the second circuit breaker, and the third circuit breaker to reach the upper bound current.

4. The storage battery device according to claim 3 , wherein the control unit supplies power to the first circuit breaker, the second circuit breaker, and the third circuit breaker in sequence with each successive supplying of power offset by the time period less than a time difference required for the sum of currents flowing through the first circuit breaker, the second circuit breaker, and the third circuit breaker to reach a lower bound current set as a lower bound of the current.

5. A storage battery device control method comprising:
a step of supplying power for switching between connecting and disconnecting of a first circuit breaker connected to a first-electrode side of a battery unit including one or more storage batteries, and an external device;
a step of supplying power for switching between connecting and disconnecting of a second circuit breaker connected to a second-electrode side of the battery unit and an external device, offset by a time period equal to or longer than a time difference required for a sum of a current flowing through the second circuit breaker and a current flowing through the first circuit breaker to reach an upper bound current that is set as an upper bound of a current.

6. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium including a program causing a computer to execute:
acquiring information related to an upper bound current that is set as an upper bound of a current; and
controlling a first circuit breaker switching between connecting and disconnecting a first-electrode side of a battery unit including one or more storage batteries and an external device, and a second circuit breaker switching between connecting and disconnecting a second-electrode side of the battery unit and an external device, wherein
at the controlling, after switching between connecting and disconnecting by supplying power to the first circuit breaker, switching between connecting and disconnecting by supplying power to the second circuit breaker is executed offset by a time period equal to or longer than a time difference required for a sum of currents flowing through the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker to reach the upper bound current that is set as the upper bound of the current.

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk
• Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corp
• Toshiba Infrastructutre Systems & Solutions Corp

Inventors

• Okabe Ryo
• Kaneko Norihiro
• Kikuchi Yusuke
• Onoda Takayuki
• Kuroda Kazuto
• Sekino Masahiro
• Takahashi Jun

Classifications

• H01M10/425

  Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing (printed circuits H05K1/00) · CPC title

• H01M2010/4271

  Battery management systems including electronic circuits, e.g. control of current or voltage to keep battery in healthy state, cell balancing · CPC title

• G01R19/16542

  for batteries (charge condition monitoring in G01R31/36) · CPC title

• H02J7/00

  Circuit arrangements for charging or discharging batteries or for supplying loads from batteries · CPC title

• H02H7/18 Primary

  for batteries; for accumulators · CPC title