System and method of managing battery of vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11697357-B2
Application number	US-202117458987-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 27, 2021
Priority date	Jul 8, 2020
Publication date	Jul 11, 2023
Grant date	Jul 11, 2023

Abstract

A battery management system of a vehicle includes a first controller configured to control a power-on (IG ON) state and a power-off (IG OFF) state of the plurality of controllers, and a second controller including a real time clock (RTC) and configured to be woken up by directly receiving power from the secondary battery in every preset time period during a preset time calculated based on a count value provided from the RTC when a power-off state is started by the first controller and to monitor states of the main battery and the secondary battery.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery management system of a vehicle including a main battery for storing driving power of the vehicle and a secondary battery having a lower voltage output than the main battery and for storing electric power for a plurality of controllers in the vehicle, the battery management system comprising:
a first controller configured to control a power-on (IG ON) state and a power-off (IG OFF) state of the plurality of controllers; and
a second controller including a real time clock (RTC), and configured to be woken up by directly receiving power from the secondary battery in every preset time period during a preset time calculated based on a count value provided from the RTC when the power-off state is started by the first controller and to monitor states of the main battery and the secondary battery,
wherein, when a state of charge (SoC) of the second battery is equal to or less than a preset reference value as a monitoring result of the states of the main battery and the secondary battery, after woken up, the second controller is configured to turn on a main relay connected to the first battery and to operate a low voltage DC-DC converter, for dropping a voltage of the first battery and applying the dropped voltage to the second battery, to charge the second battery by dropping the voltage of the first battery and applying the dropped voltage to the second battery.

2. The battery management system of claim 1 , wherein the second controller is configured not to monitor the states of the main battery and the secondary battery after a reference time elapses.

3. The battery management system of claim 1 , wherein the second controller is configured to operate in a power latch mode that is executed by directly receiving power from the secondary battery during a preset reference time when the power-off state is started by the first controller, and to be woken up in every preset time period after the power latch mode is terminated.

4. The battery management system of claim 1 , wherein the second controller is configured to turn off the main relay for connecting/interrupting output of the main battery when the power-off state is started by the first controller, and to check a condition in which the states of the main battery and the secondary battery are not monitored.

5. The battery management system of claim 4 , wherein, as the condition, when it is impossible to check the SoC of the second battery for supplying a power voltage of the first controller and the second controller, when an SoC of the first battery is lower than a preset reference, when it is impossible to communicate with the first controller or the low voltage DC-DC converter for dropping the voltage of the first battery and applying the dropped voltage to the second battery, or when the low voltage DC-DC converter malfunctions, the second controller is configured not to monitor the states of the main battery and the secondary battery.

6. The battery management system of claim 1 , wherein, after woken up, the second controller is configured to check whether the main relay connected to the first battery short circuits, and to initiate the preset time calculated based on the count value provided by the RTC in advance when a state in which the main relay short circuits is changed to the power-off state.

7. The battery management system of claim 1 , wherein, when charging of the second battery is terminated, the second controller is configured to turn off the main relay and to continuously maintain the preset time that is calculated based on the count value provided by the RTC in advance rather than resetting the preset time.

8. The battery management system of claim 1 , wherein the preset time is determined based on an analysis result of a vehicle customer relation management (VCRM) system for collecting and analyzing information on driving of the vehicle or a preset limit on a state of charge (SoC) of the second battery consumed by dark current after the vehicle stops traveling.

9. A battery management method of a vehicle, the method comprising:
when an external input of stopping driving of the vehicle is generated, controlling a plurality of controllers in the vehicle in a power-off state, by a first controller;
executing a power latch mode and turning off a main relay connected to a first battery for storing energy for generating power of the vehicle, by a second controller; and
terminating the power latch mode, being woken up by directly receiving power from the secondary battery in every preset time period during a preset time calculated based on a count value provided from a real time clock (RTC) installed in the second controller, and monitoring states of the main battery and the secondary battery, by the second controller,
wherein the monitoring includes: when a state of charge (SoC) of the second battery is equal to or less than a preset reference value as a monitoring result of the states of the main battery and the secondary battery, after woken up, turning on the main relay connected to the first battery and operating a low voltage DC-DC converter, for dropping a voltage of the first battery and applying the dropped voltage to the second battery, to charge the second battery by dropping the voltage of the first battery and applying the dropped voltage to the second battery, by the second controller.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
after turning off the main relay, checking a condition in which the states of the main battery and the secondary battery are not monitored, and non-monitoring the states of the main battery and the secondary battery when the condition is satisfied.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the non-monitoring includes non-monitoring the states of the main battery and the secondary battery by the second controller, as the condition, when it is impossible to check the SoC of the second battery for supplying a power voltage of the first controller and the second controller, when an SoC of the first battery is lower than a preset reference, when it is impossible to communicate with the first controller or the low voltage DC-DC converter for dropping the voltage of the first battery and applying the dropped voltage to the second battery, or when the low voltage DC-DC converter malfunctions.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the monitoring includes:
after woken up, checking whether the main relay connected to the first battery short circuits, by the second controller; and
initiating a preset time that is calculated based on a count value provided by the RTC in advance when a state in which the main relay short circuits is changed to the power-off state, by the second controller.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the monitoring includes, when charging of the second battery is terminated, turning off the main relay and continuously maintaining the preset time that is calculated based on the count value provided by the RTC in advance rather than resetting the preset time.

14. A battery management system of a vehicle including a main battery for storing driving power of the vehicle and a secondary battery having a lower voltage output than the main battery and for storing electric power for a plurality of controllers in the vehicle, the battery management system comprising:
a first controller configured to control a power-on (IG ON) state and a power-off (IG OFF) state of the plurality of controllers; and
a second controller including a real time clock (RTC), and configured to be woken up by directly receiving power from the secondary battery in every preset time period during a preset time calculated based on a count value

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Corp

Inventors

• Lee Sung Il
• Kang Min Su
• Baek Ki Seung

Classifications

• 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

• H02J7/0048

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G01R31/382

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

• B60L58/12 Primary

  responding to state of charge [SoC] · CPC title

• H01M10/425

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