Battery system and method for detecting state of health of battery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11967848-B2
Application number	US-202017119351-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2020
Priority date	Jun 12, 2018
Publication date	Apr 23, 2024
Grant date	Apr 23, 2024

Abstract

A battery system is provided, including a processing module and a plurality of battery modules. Each of the plurality of battery modules includes a battery management system and an electrochemical cell pack controlled by the battery management system. The processing module is configured to control the electrochemical cell pack to alternately perform a discharging or charging operation. A sum of power of battery modules other than a first battery module in the plurality of battery modules is greater than power required by a target power-supplied object, and the first battery module is any one of the plurality of battery modules. A battery management system is configured to record a target time. The processing module or the battery management system is configured to determine a state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on the target time.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery system, comprising:
a plurality of battery modules, including a first battery module, wherein each of the battery modules comprises a battery management system and an electrochemical cell pack; and
a processing module configured to control the electrochemical cell pack of each of the battery modules to alternately perform a discharging or charging operation, wherein a sum of power of the electrochemical cell packs in battery modules other than the first battery module is greater than power required by a target power-supplied object,
wherein a battery management system in the first battery module is configured to record a target time representing discharge duration, charging duration, or discharge duration and charging duration of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module, and
wherein the processing module or the battery management system in the first battery module is configured to determine a state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on the target time.

2. The battery system according to claim 1 , wherein the battery system is a backup power supply of a first power supply, and wherein in the plurality of battery modules, battery modules other than a battery module that is performing the discharging or charging operation are configured to supply power to the target power-supplied object when the first power supply cannot supply power to the target power-supplied object.

3. The battery system according to claim 1 , wherein when alternately performing a discharging or charging operation:
the processing module is configured to alternately send first instruction information to battery management systems of the battery modules to instruct to discharge or charge the battery modules; and
the battery management system in each battery module is configured to control, based on the first instruction information, the corresponding electrochemical cell pack to perform the discharging or charging operation.

4. The battery system according to claim 1 , wherein in a process of performing a charging or discharging operation, a discharge current is a preset discharge current, or a charging current is a preset charging current.

5. The battery system according to claim 1 , wherein in a process of performing charging and discharging operations, a discharge current is a preset discharge current and a charging current is a preset charging current, and wherein determining a state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on the target time comprises:
determining a first state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on duration in which discharging is performed based on the preset discharge current;
determining a second state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on duration in which charging is performed based on the preset charging current; and
determining the state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on the first state of health and the second state of health.

6. The battery system according to claim 1 , wherein in a process of performing the charging and discharging operations, a discharge current is a preset discharge current and a charging current is a preset charging current, and wherein determining a state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on the target time comprises:
determining a third state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on duration in which discharging is performed based on the preset discharge current, a first state of charge, and a second state of charge, wherein the first state of charge is obtained before the electrochemical cell pack is discharged, and the second state of charge is obtained after the electrochemical cell pack is discharged to a cut-off voltage and before the electrochemical cell pack is charged;
determining a fourth state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on duration in which charging is performed based on the preset charging current, the second state of charge, and a third state of charge that is obtained after the electrochemical cell pack is fully charged; and
determining the state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on the third state of health and the fourth state of health.

7. The battery system according to claim 1 , wherein determining a state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on the target time comprises:
receiving the target time from the battery management system in the first battery module; and
determining the state of health of the electrochemical cell pack in the first battery module based on the target time.

8. The battery system according to claim 1 , wherein first power generated during the discharging is used to supply power to the target power-supplied object, a sum of the first power and second power is equal to the power required by the target power-supplied object, and the second power is provided by the first power supply.

9. A battery module operating as one of a plurality of battery modules of a battery system, comprising:
an electrochemical cell pack; and
a battery management system configured to
control, based on first instruction information received from a processing module of the battery system, the electrochemical cell pack to perform a discharging or charging operation, wherein the first instruction information is used to instruct to discharge or charge the battery module,
record a target time representing discharge duration, charging duration, or discharge duration and charging duration of the electrochemical cell pack of the battery module, and
determine a state of health of the electrochemical cell pack based on the target time, or send the target time to the processing module of the battery system, so that the processing module determines a state of health of the electrochemical cell pack.

10. The battery module according to claim 9 , wherein a sum of power of other battery modules in the battery system is greater than power required by a target power-supplied object, wherein the other battery modules are configured to supply power to the target power-supplied object when a first power supply cannot supply power to the target power-supplied object, and wherein the battery system is a backup power supply to the first power supply.

11. The battery module according claim 9 , wherein in a process of performing a charging or discharging operation, a discharge current is a preset discharge current, or a charging current is a preset charging current.

12. The battery module according to claim 9 , wherein in a process of performing charging and discharging operations, a discharge current is a preset discharge current and a charging current is a preset charging current, and wherein determining a state of health of the electrochemical cell pack based on the target time comprises:
determining a first state of health of the electrochemical cell pack based on duration in which discharging is performed based on the preset discharge current;
determining a second state of health of the electrochemical cell pack based on duration in which charging is performed based on the preset charging current; and
determining the state of health of the electrochemical cell pack based on the first state of health and the second state of health.

13. The battery module according to claim 9 , wherein in a process of performing the charging and discharging operations, a discharg

Assignees

• Huawei Digital Power Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhong Zheng
• Feng Dong
• Zhang Jianye

Classifications

• H02J7/50 Primary

  acting upon multiple batteries simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• H02J7/84 Primary

  Control of state of health [SOH] · CPC title

• H02J7/96

  in response to battery voltage · CPC title

• H02J7/575 Primary

  Parallel/serial switching of connection of batteries to charge or load circuit · CPC title

• H02J7/005 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic