Power management system and operating method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10879709-B2
Application number	US-201816220180-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 14, 2018
Priority date	May 31, 2018
Publication date	Dec 29, 2020
Grant date	Dec 29, 2020

Abstract

A power management system includes a battery charging system, a power supplying system, a first switching module, and a second switching module. The power management system is switched between the battery charging system and the power supplying system via the first switching module and the second switching module. With a charging electric energy generated by the waveform generating module, the battery charging system could restore the aging battery or the battery with degraded performance to a better state when the batteries are charging. By sensing a battery state of batteries, the power supplying system provides a supplementing power to the batteries, and the supplementing power and a power of the batteries could be supplied to a load together.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An operating method of a power management system, wherein the power management system is electrically connected to a battery pack, and the battery pack is electrically connected to a load; the battery pack includes a plurality of batteries that are electrically connected in series; the power management system includes a sensing module, a waveform generating module, a power supplementing module, a control device, a first switching module, and a second switching module, wherein the sensing module is electrically connected to the batteries; the waveform generating module has a power source side and a load side; the power source side is electrically connected to a power source and is adapted to receive a power sent from the power source; the load side is electrically connected to the batteries respectively via the first switching module; the power supplementing module is electrically connected to the power source and is electrically connected to the batteries respectively via the second switching module; the control device is electrically connected to the sensing module, the waveform generating module, the power supplementing module, the first switching module, and the second switching module; the control device operates in one of a plurality of operation modes, wherein the operation modes include a first operation mode and a second operation mode; the first operation mode comprising steps of:
A1. controlling the first switching module to turn on by the control device, and controlling the second switching module to turn off by the control device, and sensing a battery state of each of the batteries by the sensing module;
A2. sending a first parameter value corresponding to the battery state of each of the batteries to the control device;
A3. controlling the waveform generating module to convert the power sent from the power source into a plurality of charging waveforms corresponding to the first parameter values by the control device according to the first parameter value, and mixing the charging waveforms to form a charging electric energy having a composite waveform, and sending the charging electric energy to the batteries from the load side of the waveform generating module for charging;
the second operation mode comprising steps of:
B1. controlling the second switching module to turn on by the control device, and controlling the first switching module to turn off by the control device, and sensing the battery state of each of the batteries by the sensing module, and sending a second parameter value corresponding to the battery state to the control device;
B2. determining whether the second parameter value of any of the batteries is smaller than a predetermined value;
if so, sending a supplementing power to each of the batteries which has the second parameter value smaller than the predetermined value, and supplying electricity to the load from both of the supplementing power and a power of the batteries;
otherwise, sending the power of the batteries to the load.

2. The operating method of claim 1 , further comprising a third switching module electrically connected to the control device and a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery pack respectively, wherein step A1 further comprising controlling the third switching module to turn off by the control device, while step B1 further comprising controlling the third switching module to turn on by the control device.

3. The operating method of claim 1 , wherein in step A1, the battery state includes a direct-current internal resistance (DCIR), and the sensing module senses the DCIR of at least one of the batteries; in step A2, the first parameter value is a resistance value corresponding to the DCIR; in step A3, setting an amplitude of the charging electric energy according to the resistance value.

4. The operating method of claim 1 , wherein in step A1, the battery state includes a state of health (SOH), and the sensing module senses the SOH of at least one of the batteries; in step A2, the first parameter value is a voltage value corresponding to the SOH; in step A3, setting an offset voltage according to the voltage value.

5. The operating method of claim 1 , wherein in step A1, the battery state includes an alternating current internal resistance (ACIR), and the sensing module senses the ACIR of at least one of the batteries; in step A2, the first parameter value is a resistance value corresponding to the ACIR; in step A3, setting a charging frequency of the charging electric energy according to the resistance value.

6. The operating method of claim 1 , wherein in step B1, the second parameter value is a current value, and the supplementing power in step B2 is a charging current.

7. The operating method of claim 1 , wherein the charging waveforms in step A2 and step A3 include at least one of a square wave, a pulse wave, a sine wave, and a triangular wave.

8. The operating method of claim 1 , wherein the control device further comprises a data storage unit and a computing unit, and after step A3 further comprising a step of storing the first parameter value and a plurality of charging data into the data storage unit, and computing a relation between each of the first parameter values and the corresponding charging data by the computing unit.

9. The operating method of claim 1 , wherein after step A3 further comprising a step of repeating step A1, step A2, and step A3 by sensing a charging power of each of the batteries by the sensing module or according to a charging time interval of each of the batteries.

Assignees

• Univ Nat Taipei Technology

Inventors

• Huang Kuohsiu David
• Lai Ching-Ming

Classifications

• H02J7/50

  acting upon multiple batteries simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• H02J7/875 Primary

  Charging or discharging for charge maintenance, battery initiation or rejuvenation · CPC title

• H02J7/663

  using battery or load disconnect circuits (H02J9/002 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02J7/0021 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic