Heating control method and heating control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11309598-B2
Application number	US-201816233096-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 27, 2018
Priority date	May 22, 2018
Publication date	Apr 19, 2022
Grant date	Apr 19, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a heating control method and a heating control device. The heating control method includes: acquiring an average current value in a heating circuit of a power battery pack; calculating a current output value required for nth cycle according to an average current value of the nth cycle, an average current value of (n−1)th cycle, an average current value of (n−2)th cycle, a preset current value, n is equal to or greater than 3; outputting a PWM signal to a switch device of the heating circuit according to a pre-calibrated PWM control parameter corresponding to the current output value so that a difference between an actual current value in the heating circuit and the preset current value is less than a preset threshold.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A heating control method, comprising:
acquiring, by a heating controlling device, an average current value in a heating circuit of a power battery pack based on currents sampled by an analog-to-digital converter, wherein the average current value comprises an average current value of an n th cycle, and an average current value of an (n−1) th cycle and an average current value of an (n−2) th cycle, wherein the n is equal to or greater than 3 and wherein each cycle is a period of time for current sampling;
calculating, by the heating controlling device, a current output value required for the n th cycle according to the average current value of the n th cycle, the average current value of the (n−1) th cycle, the average current value of the (n−2) th cycle and a preset current value; and
outputting, by the heating controlling device, a Pulse width Modulation (PWM) signal to a switch device of the heating circuit according to a pre-calibrated PWM control parameter, wherein the pre-calibrated PWM control parameter corresponds to the current output value required for the n th cycle,
wherein an actual current value is generated in the heating circuit according to switching of the switch device based on the PWM signal, and wherein a difference between the actual current value and the preset current value is less than a preset threshold, and wherein the power battery pack is heated by a discharge process and a charging process with the generated actual current value;
wherein the calculating of the current output value required for the n th cycle according to the average current value of the n th cycle, the average current value of the (n˜1) th cycle, the average current value of the (n−2) th cycle and the preset current value comprises:
setting a difference between the preset current value and the average current value of the n th cycle as an n th cycle difference value, setting a difference between the preset current value and the average current value of the (n−1) th cycle as an (n−1) th cycle difference value, and setting a difference between the preset current value and the average current value of the (n−2) th cycle as an (n−2) th cycle difference value;
acquiring a state of charge section of the power battery pack from a battery management system;
determining a current increment required for the n th cycle according to a pre-calibrated feedback adjustment coefficient corresponding to the state of charge section, the n th cycle difference value, the (n−1) th cycle difference value and the (n−2) th cycle difference value;
determining the current output value required for the n th cycle based on the current increment and the average current value of the (n−1) th cycle.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein before the determining of the current increment required for the n th cycle according to the pre-calibrated feedback adjustment coefficient corresponding to the state of charge section, the n th cycle difference value, the (n−1) th cycle difference value and the (n−2) th cycle difference value , the method further comprises:
determining a relationship between state of charge sections of the power battery pack and feedback adjustment coefficients, wherein the state of charge sections comprises the acquired state of charge section, and the feedback adjustment coefficients comprises the pre-calibrated feedback adjustment coefficient.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein each of the feedback adjustment coefficients comprises a proportional adjustment coefficient, an integral adjustment coefficient and a differential adjustment coefficient, and the determining of the relationship between the state of charge sections of the power battery pack and the feedback adjustment coefficients comprises:
for each of the state of charge sections, gradually increasing the proportional adjustment coefficient from 0 until a change rate of the average current value is greater than a first threshold determined based on the proportional adjustment coefficient, and determining a relationship between the state of charge section and the proportional adjustment coefficient;
for each of the state of charge sections, gradually increasing the integral adjustment coefficient from 0 until fluctuation magnitude of the average current value is greater than a second threshold determined based on the integral adjustment coefficient, and determining a relationship between the state of charge section and the integral adjustment coefficient;
for each of the state of charge sections, gradually increasing the differential adjustment coefficient from 0 until the fluctuation magnitude of the average current value is greater than a third threshold determined based on the differential adjustment coefficient, and determining a relationship between the state of charge section and the differential adjustment coefficient.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein before the outputting of the Pulse width Modulation (PWM) signal to the switch device of the heating circuit according to the pre-calibrated PWM control parameter, the method further comprises: for each of the state of charge sections,
continuously adjusting a value of a PWM control parameter; and
determining the value of the PWM control parameter when the average current value of the heating circuit reaches to be constant as the pre-calibrated PWM control parameter.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein before the acquiring the average current value in the heating circuit of the power battery pack, the method further comprises:
acquiring, in the case that the power battery pack has a demand of being heated, power requirement for the power battery pack being heated from a temperature at the n th cycle to a target temperature;
determining whether the state of charge of the power battery pack meets the power requirement;
obtaining the average current value in the heating circuit of the power battery pack if the state of charge of the power battery pack meets the power requirement.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein after the determining whether the state of charge of the power battery pack meets the power requirement, the method further comprises:
sending a charging prompt signal to a battery management system (BMS) of the power battery pack if the state of charge of the power battery pack does not meet the power requirement in order to charge the power battery pack until the state of charge of the power battery pack meets the power requirement.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein after the outputting the Pulse width Modulation (PWM) signal to the switch device of the heating circuit according to the pre-calibrated PWM control parameter, the method further comprises:
stopping outputting the PWM signal if the heating circuit satisfies any one of predetermined stopping conditions including: the average current value in the heating circuit is greater than an allowable current threshold, any cell in the power battery pack has a temperature and voltage greater than an allowable operating range, and temperature of the power battery pack reaches the target temperature.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer instructions, that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to implement steps of the method according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd

Inventors

• Dan Zhimin
• Lu Wenbin
• Zhang Wei
• Hou Yizhen
• Yu Teng
• Zuo Xiyang
• Wu Xingyuan
• Zhu Taosheng

Classifications

• H01M10/651

  characterised by parameters specified by a numeric value or mathematical formula, e.g. ratios, sizes or concentrations · CPC title

• H01M10/615 Primary

  Heating or keeping warm · CPC title

• G01R31/382

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

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · 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