Storage battery system charging control device, storage battery system, and storage battery charging control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11422190-B2
Application number	US-201816607009-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2018
Priority date	Jul 19, 2017
Publication date	Aug 23, 2022
Grant date	Aug 23, 2022

Abstract

In a storage battery system charging control device, on the basis of estimated temperature data until the end of life of a storage battery calculated by a power estimation unit, an ambient temperature estimation unit, and a temperature estimation unit, and a deterioration coefficient stored in a data storage unit, a capacity retention calculation unit sequentially calculates capacity retention data with respect to each state of charge until the end of life of the storage battery, using the state of charge as a parameter. A cumulative capacity calculation unit calculates a cumulative capacity corresponding to each state of charge, on the basis of the rated capacity of the storage battery and the capacity retention data. A charging control voltage determination unit determines charging control voltage on the basis of the cumulative capacities calculated by the cumulative capacity calculation unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A storage battery system charging control device comprising:
a power estimator to store power data of a storage battery detected by a state detector of a storage battery unit, and calculate power until an end of life of the storage battery, as estimated power data, on the basis of the power data;
an ambient temperature estimator to acquire ambient temperature prediction information, and calculate an ambient temperature until the end of life of the storage battery, as estimated ambient temperature data, on the basis of the ambient temperature prediction information;
a temperature estimator to calculate a temperature of the storage battery until the end of life of the storage battery, as estimated storage battery temperature data, on the basis of the estimated power data and the estimated ambient temperature data;
a data storage to store a deterioration coefficient corresponding to the temperature of the storage battery and a state of charge of the storage battery;
a capacity retention calculator to acquire the deterioration coefficient and the estimated storage battery temperature data, and on the basis of the deterioration coefficient and either one of an operation time period until the end of life of the storage battery or a number of cycles until the end of life of the storage battery, using the state of charge as a parameter, sequentially calculate capacity retention data with respect to each state of charge until the end of life of the storage battery;
a cumulative capacity calculator to calculate a cumulative capacity corresponding to each state of charge, on the basis of a rated capacity of the storage battery and the capacity retention data; and
a charging control voltage determiner to determine charging control voltage on the basis of the cumulative capacities corresponding to the respective states of charge.

2. The storage battery system charging control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the charging control voltage determiner determines, as a control state-of-charge, the state of charge corresponding to the cumulative capacity that has the greatest value among the cumulative capacities corresponding to the respective states of charge, and converts the control state-of-charge to the charging control voltage.

3. The storage battery system charging control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the charging control voltage is re-calculated every time a predetermined operation time period of the storage battery or a predetermined number of cycles have passed.

4. The storage battery system charging control device according to claim 3 , further comprising a storage battery deterioration error corrector to calculate capacity retention of the storage battery at a time of the re-calculation, on the basis of voltage data, current data, and temperature data of the storage battery detected by the state detector, and if there is error between the capacity retention and the capacity retention data calculated by the capacity retention calculator, calculate correction data for correcting the capacity retention data, wherein
the capacity retention calculator further acquires the correction data calculated by the storage battery deterioration error corrector, and corrects the capacity retention data with respect to each state of charge until the end of life of the storage battery.

5. The storage battery system charging control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the charging control voltage is re-calculated every time a predetermined operation time period of the storage battery or a predetermined number of cycles have passed.

6. The storage battery system charging control device according to claim 5 , further comprising a storage battery deterioration error corrector to calculate capacity retention of the storage battery at a time of the re-calculation, on the basis of voltage data, current data, and temperature data of the storage battery detected by the state detector, and if there is error between the capacity retention and the capacity retention data calculated by the capacity retention calculator, calculate correction data for correcting the capacity retention data, wherein
the capacity retention calculator further acquires the correction data calculated by the storage battery deterioration error corrector, and corrects the capacity retention data with respect to each state of charge until the end of life of the storage battery.

7. The storage battery system charging control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the ambient temperature estimator calculates the ambient temperature until the end of life of the storage battery, as the estimated ambient temperature data, on the basis of one or more of weather forecast prediction data, past weather data, and weather change prediction data.

8. The storage battery system charging control device according to claim 1 , further comprising a user information acquirer to acquire user information, wherein
in a case where charging of the storage battery has not been started yet, the power estimator calculates the estimated power data until the end of life of the storage battery, on the basis of the user information.

9. A storage battery system comprising:
a battery storage including a storage battery and a state detector to detect storage battery data of the storage battery;
a storage battery system charging controller to perform charging/discharging control of the storage battery; and
a system controller to control monitoring, configured to connect the storage battery system charging controller and the battery storage,
wherein the storage battery system charging controller includes:
a power estimator to store power data of the storage battery detected by the state detector of the battery storage, and calculate power until an end of life of the storage battery, as estimated power data, based on the power data,
an ambient temperature estimator to acquire ambient temperature prediction information, and calculate an ambient temperature until the end of life of the storage battery, as estimated ambient temperature data, based on the ambient temperature prediction information,
a temperature estimator to calculate a temperature of the storage battery until the end of life of the storage battery, as estimated storage battery temperature data, based on the estimated power data and the estimated ambient temperature data,
a data storage to store a deterioration coefficient corresponding to the temperature of the storage battery and a state of charge of the storage battery,
a capacity retention calculator to acquire the deterioration coefficient and the estimated storage battery temperature data, and based on the deterioration coefficient and either one of an operation time period until the end of life of the storage battery or a number of cycles until the end of life of the storage battery, using the state of charge as a parameter, sequentially calculate capacity retention data with respect to each state of charge until the end of life of the storage battery,
a cumulative capacity calculator to calculate a cumulative capacity corresponding to each state of charge, based on a rated capacity of the storage battery and the capacity retention data, and
a charging control voltage determiner to determine charging control voltage based on the cumulative capacities corresponding to the respective states of charge.

10. A storage battery charging control method comprising:
detecting power data of a storage battery;
storing the power data and calculating power until an end of life of the storage battery, as estimated power data, on the basis of the power data;
acquiring ambient temperature prediction information and calculating an ambient tem

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Hara Satoshi
• Fukumoto Hisatoshi
• Wada Toshihiro
• Ida Takahito
• Ishihara Hiroki

Classifications

• H02J7/865

  Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply (H02J7/50 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02J7/82

  Control of state of charge [SOC] · CPC title

• H02J7/84

  Control of state of health [SOH] · CPC title

• H02J7/975 Primary

  in response to temperature · CPC title

• H01M10/48

  Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte (constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569) · CPC title