Battery device, detection method thereof, and screening method and device of battery unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12130336-B2
Application number	US-202217855766-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 30, 2022
Priority date	May 12, 2022
Publication date	Oct 29, 2024
Grant date	Oct 29, 2024

Abstract

The invention discloses a battery device, a detection method thereof, and a screening method and device of a battery unit. A difference between characteristic values of any two battery units in the target charge state within a first preset range is controlled. Through the difference in overpotential of different battery units, the polarization difference between different battery units is reflected, thus reflecting the consistency difference between different battery units. The solution may dynamically monitor the consistency of various battery units, which may reflect the consistency of the battery unit during use, realize the online monitoring of the battery unit, and provide guidance for use of the battery device in subsequent process.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery device, comprising at least two battery units, wherein a relative difference between characteristic values of any one of the at least two battery units under a target charge state is within a first preset range;
wherein the first preset range is 0.5% to 10%, and the relative difference is a ratio of a difference between two of the characteristic values to a larger value of two of the characteristic values;
the characteristic values are obtained through testing as follows:
any one of the at least two battery units at 3.6 Volt (V) is discharged at a discharge rate of 6 Capacity (C) for 40 second(s), and a variation curve between a differential result of an overpotential and a time and the time is obtained, and a target point corresponding to the differential result with a value of 0.02 is selected from the variation curve, when the target point comprises two target points, the characteristic values are determined according to a maximum value of the time corresponding to each of the two target points,
wherein one of the characteristic values of any one of the at least two battery units under the target charge state is within a second preset range;
wherein the second preset range is 27 s to 36 s.

2. The battery device according to claim 1 , wherein the first preset range is set to 2% to 5%.

3. The battery device according to claim 1 , wherein a material for manufacturing a casing of the at least two battery units comprises non-metal, and the second preset range is 27 s to 33 s; or
the material for manufacturing the casing of the at least two battery units comprises metal, and the second preset range is 27 s to 36 s.

4. A screening method of a battery unit, comprising:
for a plurality of battery units to be selected, determining a characteristic value of each of the plurality of battery units in a target charge state; wherein the characteristic value is determined according to an overpotential obtained by discharging each of the plurality of battery units according to a target discharge rate corresponding to the target charge state in the target charge state;
calculating a difference between any two of the characteristic values; and
selecting the battery unit with the difference between any two of the characteristic values falls within a first preset range,
wherein one of the characteristic values of any one of the at least two battery units under the target charge state is within a second preset range;
wherein the second preset range is 27 s to 36 s.

5. The screening method according to claim 4 , wherein the step of determining the characteristic value of each of the plurality of battery units in the target charge state according to the overpotential comprises the following:
when the battery unit in the target charge state is discharged according to the target discharge rate, obtaining a variation curve between a differential result of the overpotential and the time and the time; and
according to preset selection requirements, selecting a target point from the variation curve, and determining the characteristic value according to the target point.

6. The screening method according to claim 5 , wherein the step of, according to the preset selection requirements, selecting the target point from the variation curve and determining the characteristic value according to the target point comprises the following:
determining a point corresponding to a preset differential result in the variation curve as the target point; and
when the target point comprises one target point, adopting a time corresponding to the target point as the characteristic value; or, when the target point comprises a plurality of target points, adopting a maximum value of the time corresponding to each of the plurality of target points as the characteristic value.

7. The screening method according to claim 5 , further comprising:
screening the plurality of battery units, from the selected plurality of battery units, for which the characteristic values fall within the second preset range,
wherein the second preset range is determined according to a found characteristic value range, and the found characteristic value range corresponding to the target charge state is found in a correspondence relationship between a preset charge state, a maximum discharge rate and a characteristic value range.

8. A screening device for battery units, comprising:
a memory, configured for storing program instructions; and
a processor, configured to invoke the program instructions stored in the memory, and execute the screening method according to claim 5 according to an obtained program.

9. The screening method according to claim 4 , further comprising:
screening the plurality of battery units, from the selected plurality of battery units, for which the characteristic values fall within the second preset range,
wherein the second preset range is determined according to a found characteristic value range, and the found characteristic value range corresponding to the target charge state is found in a correspondence relationship between a preset charge state, a maximum discharge rate and a characteristic value range.

10. The screening method according to claim 9 , wherein the target discharge rate is determined according to the maximum discharge rate corresponding to the target charge state found in the correspondence relationship.

11. The screening method according to claim 9 , wherein the method for determining the correspondence relationship comprises the following:
determining the maximum discharge rate corresponding to the target charge state according to the overpotential obtained when a sample battery unit is discharged in any of target charge states at different discharge rates;
when the sample battery unit comprises a plurality of sample battery units, and each of the plurality of sample battery units is discharged according to the maximum discharge rate in the target charge state, and an overpotential corresponding to each of the plurality of sample battery units is obtained, determining a characteristic value of each of the plurality of sample battery units according to the overpotential corresponding to each of the plurality of sample battery units;
calculating a mean and a variance of the characteristic values respectively, and determining a characteristic value range corresponding to the target charge state according to the calculated mean and the calculated variance of the characteristic values; and
establishing the correspondence relationship between the preset charge state, the maximum discharge rate and the characteristic value range.

12. The screening method according to claim 11 , wherein the step of determining the maximum discharge rate corresponding to the target charge state according to the overpotential obtained when the sample battery unit is discharged in any of the target charge states at the different discharge rates comprises the following:
according to a preset sequence of the different discharge rates from small to large, controlling the sample battery unit to discharge in sequence in any of the target charge states at the different discharge rates, and obtaining corresponding variation curves between the differential results of the overpotential and the time and the time in sequence; and
determining each of the different discharge rates corresponding to the variation curve with an abrupt change at an end as the maximum discharge rate corresponding to the target charge state.

13. A screening device for battery units, comprising:
a memory, configured for storing program instructions; and
a processor, configured to invoke t

Assignees

• Calb Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ma Ruijun
• Zhang Shihui
• Liu Zhipeng
• Li Qiru

Classifications

• H01M10/482

  for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• H01M10/441

  for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• H01M50/119

  Metals · CPC title

• G01R31/385 Primary

  Arrangements for measuring battery or accumulator variables (for monitoring G01R31/382) · CPC title

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title