Electricity storage system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9595842-B2
Application number	US-201214652606-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2012
Priority date	Dec 20, 2012
Publication date	Mar 14, 2017
Grant date	Mar 14, 2017

Abstract

In a system having a plurality of storage batteries equipped with bidirectional invertors respectively, the present invention allows a new storage battery to be easily attached later with a structure in which an inverter control is performed according to a value detected in another storage battery. An electricity storage system of the present invention includes: a current detector ( 22 ) that detects a charging/discharging current or charging/discharging power of a first electricity storage system ( 10 ) directly or indirectly; a second bidirectional inverter ( 23 ) that performs power conversion when charge/discharge of a second storage battery ( 21 ) is performed from/to a power system ( 30 ); and a control device that controls driving the second bidirectional inverter ( 23 ) so as to compensate for charge/discharge of a first storage battery ( 11 ) in response to a detected value of the current detector ( 22 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electricity storage system comprising:
a state detection device that detects directly or indirectly a charging/discharging current or charging/discharging power of another electricity storage system connected to a power system;
a bidirectional inverter that performs power conversion when charge/discharge of a storage battery managed by the electricity storage system is performed from/to the power system; and
a control device that controls driving the bidirectional inverter so as to compensate for charging/discharging the other electricity storage system in response to the charging/discharging current or the charging/discharging power detected by the state detection device, wherein
the state detection device is installed on wiring at a position closer to the power system than a connection point between an external load that generates or consumes power to/from the power system and the other electricity storage system, and
the control device calculates an average value of current or power detected by the state detection device in a predetermined cycle, and controls driving the bidirectional inverter so as to cancel a difference if an absolute value of the difference between the current or the power and the average value exceeds a predetermined threshold.

2. The electricity storage system according to claim 1 , wherein
a plurality of sets of the storage battery, the bidirectional inverter and the control device are arranged mutually in order,
a lower level state detection device is installed between connection points of the two bidirectional inverters in adjacent sets and the power system, and detects current or power at the points to output the detected result to the control device belonging to a lower set in the adjacent sets,
the state detection device is arranged between a connection point of the bidirectional inverter in the highest level of set and the power system and a connection point of the other electricity storage system and the power system,
the control device belonging to the highest level of set controls driving the bidirectional inverter belonging to the highest level of set in response to current or power detected by the state detection device, and
the control device belonging to the second or lower level of set controls driving the bidirectional inverter belonging to the second or lower level of set in response to current or power inputted from the lower level state detection device.

3. The electricity storage system according to claim 1 , wherein
the storage battery managed by the electricity storage system has a higher output/capacity ratio than the storage battery managed by the other electricity storage system.

4. The electricity storage system according to claim 1 , wherein
the state detection device can be attached/detached to/from a wiring contactlessly.

Assignees

• Hitachi Ltd

Inventors

• Takeda Kenji

Classifications

• H02J7/865

  Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply (H02J7/50 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02J7/50

  acting upon multiple batteries simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• G01R31/382

  Arrangements for monitoring battery or accumulator variables, e.g. SoC · CPC title

• H02J3/32

  using batteries or super capacitors with converting means · CPC title

• H02J7/0052 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic