Diagnosis method of battery, diagnosis apparatus of battery, management system of battery, and non-transitory storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023400526-A1
Application number	US-202318451330-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 17, 2023
Priority date	Nov 25, 2021
Publication date	Dec 14, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

In a diagnosis method of an embodiment, a battery, which includes, as electrode active materials, a first electrode active material whose impedance has a first natural frequency and a second natural frequency lower than the first natural frequency and a second electrode active material whose impedance has a third natural frequency with a magnitude between the first natural frequency and the second natural frequency, is diagnosed. In the method, an impedance of the battery is measured at each of a plurality of measurement target frequencies by setting, as a measurement range, a first measurement range including the first natural frequency and not including the second and third natural frequencies, and a second measurement range including the second natural frequency and not including the first and third natural frequencies.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A diagnosis method of a battery including, as electrode active materials, a first electrode active material whose impedance has a first natural frequency and a second natural frequency lower than the first natural frequency and a second electrode active material whose impedance has a third natural frequency with a magnitude between a magnitude of the first natural frequency and a magnitude of the second natural frequency, the method comprising:
measuring an impedance of the battery at each of a plurality of measurement target frequencies by setting, as a measurement range, a first measurement range including the first natural frequency and not including the second natural frequency and the third natural frequency, and a second measurement range including the second natural frequency and not including the first natural frequency and the third natural frequency; and determining a state of the battery based on a measurement result of the impedance of the battery at each of the measurement target frequencies.

2 . The diagnosis method according to claim 1 , wherein
in the determining the state of the battery, a frequency characteristic of a charge transfer impedance of the second electrode active material and a charge transfer resistance of the second electrode active material are calculated based on the measurement result of the impedance of the battery at each of the measurement target frequencies.

3 . The diagnosis method according to claim 2 , wherein
in the calculating the frequency characteristic of the charge transfer impedance of the second electrode active material and the charge transfer resistance of the second electrode active material, by performing fitting calculation using an equivalent circuit set with a plurality of electric characteristic parameters including electric characteristic parameters corresponding to impedance components of the third natural frequency and the measurement result of the impedance of the battery at each of the measurement target frequencies, each of the electric characteristic parameters of the equivalent circuit is calculated, and the frequency characteristic of the charge transfer impedance of the second electrode active material and the charge transfer resistance of the second electrode active material are calculated based on calculation results of the electric characteristic parameters corresponding to the impedance components of the third natural frequency.

4 . The diagnosis method according to claim 1 , wherein
in the determining the state of the battery, a frequency characteristic of a charge transfer impedance of the first electrode active material and a charge transfer resistance of the first electrode active material are calculated based on the measurement result of the impedance of the battery at each of the measurement target frequencies.

5 . The diagnosis method according to claim 4 , wherein
in the calculating the frequency characteristic of the charge transfer impedance of the first electrode active material and the charge transfer resistance of the first electrode active material, by performing fitting calculation using an equivalent circuit set with a plurality of electric characteristic parameters including electric characteristic parameters corresponding to impedance components of the first natural frequency and electric characteristic parameters corresponding to impedance components of the second natural frequency, and the measurement result of the impedance of the battery at each of the measurement target frequencies, the electric characteristic parameters of the equivalent circuit are calculated, and the frequency characteristic of the charge transfer impedance of the first electrode active material and the charge transfer resistance of the first electrode active material are calculated based on calculation results of the electric characteristic parameters corresponding to the impedance components of the first natural frequency and the second natural frequency.

6 . The diagnosis method according to claim 1 , further comprising specifying the first natural frequency and the second natural frequency of the impedance of the first electrode active material based on at least one of a charging amount, an SOC, and a temperature of the battery.

7 . The diagnosis method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, in a state where the battery is operating, whether the battery is being charged, and determining, in a state where the battery is not operating, whether a last operation of the battery is charging; and measuring, in each of a case where the battery is being charged and a case where the last operation of the battery is the charging, the impedance of the battery at each of the measurement target frequencies by setting the first measurement range and the second measurement range as the measurement range.

8 . A diagnosis apparatus of a battery including, as electrode active materials, a first electrode active material whose impedance has a first natural frequency and a second natural frequency lower than the first natural frequency and a second electrode active material whose impedance has a third natural frequency with a magnitude between a magnitude of the first natural frequency and a magnitude of the second natural frequency, the apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to measure an impedance of the battery at each of a plurality of measurement target frequencies by setting, as a measurement range, a first measurement range including the first natural frequency and not including the second natural frequency and the third natural frequency, and a second measurement range including the second natural frequency and not including the first natural frequency and the third natural frequency, and determine a state of the battery based on a measurement result of the impedance of the battery at each of the measurement target frequencies.

9 . A management system of a battery, comprising:
a diagnosis apparatus defined in claim 8 ; and the battery diagnosed by the diagnosis apparatus.

10 . The management system according to claim 9 , wherein in the battery, a ratio of the first natural frequency of the impedance of the first electrode active material to the second natural frequency of the impedance of the first electrode active material is not less than 50 to not more than 5,000.

11 . The management system according to claim 9 , wherein in the battery, a ratio of the third natural frequency of the impedance of the second electrode active material to the second natural frequency of the impedance of the first electrode active material is not less than 10 to not more than 1,000.

12 . The management system according to claim 9 , wherein
the first electrode active material is an electrode active material that performs a two-phase coexistence reaction, and the second electrode active material is an electrode active material that performs a single-phase reaction.

13 . The management system according to claim 12 , wherein the first electrode active material is one of lithium titanate and lithium iron phosphate.

14 . The management system according to claim 9 , wherein the battery includes
a first electrode including the first electrode active material as an electrode active material, and a second electrode having a polarity opposite to a polarity of the first electrode and including the second electrode active material as an electrode active material.

15 . A non-transitory storage medium storing a diagnosis program of a battery, the battery including, as electrode active materials, a f

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk

Inventors

• Kanai Yuta
• Yagi Ryosuke
• Uno Wataru
• Yoshinaga Norihiro

Classifications

• H02J7/80 Primary

  including monitoring or indicating arrangements · CPC title

• G01R31/389 Primary

  Measuring internal impedance, internal conductance or related variables · CPC title

• H02J7/0047

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title

• G01R31/367

  Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables · CPC title