Cell state estimation device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9291679-B2
Application number	US-201414476506-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2014
Priority date	Mar 21, 2012
Publication date	Mar 22, 2016
Grant date	Mar 22, 2016

Abstract

After discharging has been stopped, a transient response component of the voltage remaining in the cell unit is calculated as an initial remaining voltage value (V DIFF ) from the difference between the measured voltage value (CCV OFF [t C1 ]) and the open-circuit voltage value (OCV ON:EST [t C0 ]). The open-circuit voltage value is thereafter estimated on the basis of the initial remaining voltage value, a predetermined time constant, and the measured voltage value during the interval in which discharge is stopped, with consideration given to the fact that the transient response component attenuates with a predetermined time constant.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A battery state estimation device comprising:
a measured value acquisition unit for acquiring a measured current value which is a measured value of a current flowing to a battery part and a measured voltage value which is a measured value of a terminal voltage of the battery part;
a first open-circuit voltage estimation unit for estimating an open-circuit voltage value of the battery part on the basis of the measured voltage value and the measured current value, or estimating the open-circuit voltage value of the battery part on the basis of a remaining capacity of the battery part estimated from an integrated value of the measured current value, in a first period during which charge or discharge of the battery part is performed; and
a second open-circuit voltage estimation unit for estimating the open-circuit voltage value of the battery part on the basis of the measured voltage value and an estimated open-circuit voltage value by the first open-circuit voltage estimation unit, in a second period during which the charge and discharge of the battery part are stopped, after the first period.

2. The battery state estimation device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second open-circuit voltage estimation unit includes an initial remaining voltage derivation unit for deriving, on the basis of the measured voltage value of the battery part at a specific time in the second period and the estimated open-circuit voltage value by the first open-circuit voltage estimation unit, an initial remaining voltage value which is a transient response component of a voltage remaining inside the battery part at the specific time, and estimates the open-circuit voltage value on the basis of the initial remaining voltage value, a predetermined time constant, and the measured voltage value in the second period.

3. The battery state estimation device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a current amount derivation unit for deriving a total current amount which has flowed to the battery part between two reference times when the charge and discharge of the battery part are stopped from an integration result of the measured current value between the two reference times; and
a full charge capacity estimation unit for estimating a full charge capacity of the battery part on the basis of the total current amount and the open-circuit voltage values of the battery part at the two reference times,
wherein at least one of the two open-circuit voltage values at the two reference times used in estimation in the full charge capacity estimation unit is the estimated open-circuit voltage value by the second open-circuit voltage estimation unit.

4. The battery state estimation device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first remaining capacity estimation unit for deriving first estimated remaining capacity data by estimating the remaining capacity of the battery part through integration of the measured current value;
a second remaining capacity estimation unit for deriving second estimated remaining capacity data by estimating the remaining capacity of the battery part on the basis of the estimated open-circuit voltage value of the second open-circuit voltage estimation unit; and
a remaining capacity processing unit for correcting the first estimated remaining capacity data by using the second estimated remaining capacity data, or generating output data of the remaining capacity on the basis of the first and second estimated remaining capacity data.

5. The battery state estimation device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the remaining capacity processing unit sets a correction coefficient on the basis of the first and second estimated remaining capacity data in the second period, and thereafter makes the first remaining capacity estimation unit estimate the remaining capacity using the measured current value and the correction coefficient.

6. The battery state estimation device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the remaining capacity processing unit sets the correction coefficient such that a difference between the first and second estimated remaining capacity data gradually decreases during the charge or discharge of the battery part after the correction coefficient is set.

7. The battery state estimation device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the remaining capacity processing unit generates the output data by taking a weighted average of the first and second estimated remaining capacity data in the second period.

8. The battery state estimation device according to claim 7 ,
wherein the remaining capacity processing unit takes the weighted average such that a contribution rate of the second estimated remaining capacity data to the output data increases as time passes in the second period.

9. The battery state estimation device according to claim 4 ,
wherein the remaining capacity processing unit substitutes the second estimated remaining capacity data for the first estimated remaining capacity data when the second estimated remaining capacity data is obtained in the second period.

Assignees

• Sanyo Electric Co

Inventors

• Yamada Akihiko

Classifications

• H02J7/96

  in response to battery voltage · CPC title

• H02J7/82

  Control of state of charge [SOC] · CPC title

• H02J7/825

  Detection of fully charged condition · CPC title

• G01R31/3842

  combining voltage and current measurements · CPC title

• H01M10/0525

  Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries · CPC title