Management method for a battery system having parallel battery packs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12149104-B2
Application number	US-202017607899-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2020
Priority date	Aug 19, 2020
Publication date	Nov 19, 2024
Grant date	Nov 19, 2024

Abstract

A management method for a battery system having parallel battery packs includes a charging control operation of sequentially closing battery packs having a low voltage value level and completing a charging of the battery packs. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a management method for a battery system having parallel battery packs which is applicable to multiple parallel battery packs being charged in parallel, to solve the technical problems that a safe and stable operation of the entire battery packs cannot be ensured caused by the failure of the battery packs, and excessive current impact may be generated due to an excessive voltage difference among the battery packs.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A management method for a battery system having parallel battery packs, comprising a charging control operation including sequentially connecting battery packs having a low voltage value level and completing a charging of the battery packs, the charging control operation comprising steps of:
C 100 , collecting voltage data and status data of each battery pack in real time, closing a switch of the battery pack having a low voltage value level, and maintaining a normal charging current;
C 200 , keeping a constant voltage and reducing the charging current, if a voltage of a connected battery pack reaches a lowest voltage value of an unconnected battery pack;
C 300 , connecting the unconnected battery pack that is located at the lowest voltage value, and increasing and returning to the normal charging current, if a current value of the system is lower than a preset value Y;
C 400 , repeating steps C 200 to C 300 until all battery packs are fully charged;
in step C 300 , a method for determining the preset value Y comprising determining the preset value Y accordingly to a selection of a contactor, namely closing the contactor under an impulse current no greater than the preset value Y, to still guarantee a life span more than 10,000 times for the contactor.

2. The management method of claim 1 , wherein in step C 100 , the battery packs having the low voltage value level are those located at the lowest voltage value and located at a certain voltage value having a preset difference value X 1 compared with the lowest voltage value.

3. The management method of claim 2 , wherein in step C 100 , the preset difference value X 1 is determined by calculating an internal resistance of parallel battery packs, and calculating the preset difference value X 1 according to the preset value Y in step C 300 and the internal resistance.

4. The management method of claim 3 , further comprising a startup control operation including closing a switch of a normal battery pack based on data of each battery pack when all battery packs are disconnected, and the startup control operation comprising steps of:
A 100 , disconnecting all battery packs;
A 200 , collecting voltage data and status data of each battery pack in real time;
A 300 , closing switches of the battery packs those have no serious faults and have a high voltage value level, according to the voltage data and the status data.

5. The management method of claim 4 , wherein in step A 300 of the startup control operation, the serious faults comprise contactor adhesion faults, insulation faults, high-voltage connection faults, serious over-temperature with safety hazards, and CAN communication faults.

6. The management method of claim 4 , wherein in step A 300 of the startup control operation, the battery packs having the high voltage value level are those located at a highest voltage value and located at a certain voltage value having a preset difference value X 2 compared with the highest voltage value; in step A 300 , the preset difference value X 2 is determined by calculating an internal resistance of parallel battery packs, and calculating the preset difference value X 2 according to the preset value Y in step C 300 and the internal resistance.

7. The management method of claim 3 , further comprising a running control operation of controlling an output power value of the system according to a fault generated in battery packs until a faulty battery pack is disconnected; and the running control operation comprising steps of:
B 100 , collecting voltage data and status data of each battery pack in real time;
B 200 , limiting the output power value of the system, if a fault that is unrecoverable automatically occurs on the status data of a certain battery pack;
B 300 , disconnecting the battery pack and restoring the output power value of the system, if the system current value is lower than the preset value Y of step C 300 .

8. The management method of claim 7 , wherein in step B 200 of the startup control operation, the fault that is unrecoverable automatically is the fault that affects system safe operation and/or has a serious impact on system performance.

9. The management method of claim 2 , further comprising a startup control operation including closing a switch of a normal battery pack based on data of each battery pack when all battery packs are disconnected, and the startup control operation comprising steps of:
A 100 , disconnecting all battery packs;
A 200 , collecting voltage data and status data of each battery pack in real time;
A 300 , closing switches of the battery packs those have no serious faults and have a high voltage value level, according to the voltage data and the status data.

10. The management method of claim 9 , wherein in step A 300 of the startup control operation, the serious faults comprise contactor adhesion faults, insulation faults, high-voltage connection faults, serious over-temperature with safety hazards, and CAN communication faults.

11. The management method of claim 9 , wherein in step A 300 of the startup control operation, the battery packs having the high voltage value level are those located at a highest voltage value and located at a certain voltage value having a preset difference value X 2 compared with the highest voltage value; in step A 300 , the preset difference value X 2 is determined by calculating an internal resistance of parallel battery packs, and calculating the preset difference value X 2 according to the preset value Y in step C 300 and the internal resistance.

12. The management method of claim 2 , further comprising a running control operation of controlling an output power value of the system according to a fault generated in battery packs until a faulty battery pack is disconnected; and the running control operation comprising steps of:
B 100 , collecting voltage data and status data of each battery pack in real time;
B 200 , limiting the output power value of the system, if a fault that is unrecoverable automatically occurs on the status data of a certain battery pack;
B 300 , disconnecting the battery pack and restoring the output power value of the system, if the system current value is lower than the preset value Y of step C 300 .

13. The management method of claim 12 , wherein in step B 200 of the startup control operation, the fault that is unrecoverable automatically is the fault that affects system safe operation and/or has a serious impact on system performance.

14. The management method of claim 1 , further comprising a startup control operation including closing a switch of a normal battery pack based on data of each battery pack when all battery packs are disconnected, and the startup control operation comprising steps of:
A 100 , disconnecting all battery packs;
A 200 , collecting voltage data and status data of each battery pack in real time;
A 300 , closing switches of the battery packs those have no serious faults and have a high voltage value level, according to the voltage data and the status data.

15. The management method of claim 14 , wherein in step A 300 of the startup control operation, the serious faults comprise contactor adhesion faults, insulation faults, high-voltage connection faults, serious over-temperature with safety hazards, and CAN communication faults.

16. The management method of claim 14 , wherein in step A 300 of the startup control operation, the battery packs having the high voltage value level are those located at a highest voltage value and located at a certain voltage value having a preset diffe

Assignees

• Microvast Gmbh
• Microvast Inc
• Microvast Power Systems Co Ltd

Inventors

• Xiao Rui
• Huang Ying
• Wu Donglei

Classifications

• H02J7/965

  obtained with the battery disconnected from the charge or discharge circuit · CPC title

• H02J7/56 Primary

  Active balancing, e.g. using capacitor-based, inductor-based or DC-DC converters · CPC title

• H02J7/933

  the cycle being controlled or terminated in response to electric parameters · CPC title

• H02J7/663

  using battery or load disconnect circuits (H02J9/002 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02J7/585

  Sequential battery discharge in systems with a plurality of batteries · CPC title