Secondary battery cell, battery pack, and electricity consumption device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9766294-B2
Application number	US-201113884663-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 17, 2011
Priority date	Nov 19, 2010
Publication date	Sep 19, 2017
Grant date	Sep 19, 2017

Abstract

There are provided a secondary battery cell, a battery pack, and an electric power consumption device having a configuration and structure capable of accurately and easily detecting the state of the secondary battery cell in the battery pack.
A secondary battery cell 20 of the present invention includes an integrated circuit (an IC chip) 60 having a measuring function to measure a battery status, the battery pack has a plurality of secondary battery cells of the present invention, and the electric power consumption device includes the battery pack of the present invention having the plurality of secondary battery cells of the present invention.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A secondary battery cell, comprising:
an integrated circuit configured to:
store individual information that includes a first identification number in a memory unit of the integrated circuit,
measure a battery status,
receive a second identification number from a control circuit which is outside the secondary battery cell, and
transmit at least one of the individual information or the measured battery status to outside of the secondary battery cell based on the first identification number that is same as the second identification number; and

a battery lid connected to the integrated circuit, wherein the integrated circuit configures the battery lid as an antenna.

2. The secondary battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein the battery status measured by the integrated circuit further includes at least one of a battery current, a battery temperature or a battery terminal voltage.

3. The secondary battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein the integrated circuit is further configured to operate using an electrical signal from the control circuit which is outside of the secondary battery cell.

4. The secondary battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein the integrated circuit is further configured to wirelessly transmit the at least one of the individual information or the measured battery status to the control circuit which is outside of the secondary battery cell.

5. The secondary battery cell according to claim 1 , wherein the integrated circuit is further configured to transmit the at least one of the individual information or the measured battery status to the control circuit which is outside of the secondary battery cell through wire transmission.

6. The secondary battery cell according to claim 5 , wherein the integrated circuit is connected to at least one of an information input terminal or an information output terminal in the secondary battery cell.

7. The secondary battery cell according to claim 5 , wherein the integrated circuit is connected to an electric power line in the secondary battery cell to supply an electric power to the control circuit which is outside of the secondary battery cell.

8. The secondary battery cell according to claim 7 , wherein a bandpass filter is placed between the integrated circuit and the electric power line.

9. A battery pack, comprising:
a plurality of secondary battery cells, each of the plurality of secondary battery cells including:
an integrated circuit configured to:
store individual information that includes a first identification number in a memory unit of the integrated circuit,
measure a battery status,
receive a second identification number from a control circuit which is outside the secondary battery cell, and
transmit at least one of the individual information or the measured battery status to outside of a corresponding secondary battery cell of the plurality of secondary battery cells based on the first identification number that is same as the second identification number; and
a battery lid connected to the integrated circuit, wherein the integrated circuit configures the battery lid as an antenna.

10. An electric power consumption device, comprising:
a battery pack including a plurality of secondary battery cells, each of the plurality of secondary battery cells including:
an integrated circuit configured to:
store individual information that includes a first identification number in a memory unit of the integrated circuit,
measure a battery status,
receive a second identification number from a control circuit which is outside the secondary battery cell, and
transmit at least one of the individual information or the measured battery status to outside of a corresponding secondary battery cell of the plurality of secondary battery cells based on the first identification number that is same as the second identification number; and
a battery lid connected to the integrated circuit, wherein the integrated circuit configures the battery lid as an antenna.

11. A secondary battery cell, comprising:
an integrated circuit configured to
store individual information that includes a first identification number in a memory unit of the integrated circuit,
measure a battery status,
receive a second identification number from a control circuit which is outside the secondary battery cell, and
transmit at least one of the individual information or the measured battery status to outside of the secondary battery cell based on the first identification number that is same as the second identification number; and
an antenna, wherein an exterior material of the secondary battery cell is configured as the antenna.

Assignees

• Nakamura Kazuo
• Uesaka Shinichi
• Ozawa Atsushi
• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Nakamura Kazuo
• Uesaka Shinichi
• Ozawa Atsushi

Classifications

• H01M10/48

  Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte (constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569) · CPC title

• H01M50/569

  Constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals (battery terminal connectors with integrated measuring arrangements G01R31/364) · CPC title

• H01M2/1061

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01M2010/4278

  Systems for data transfer from batteries, e.g. transfer of battery parameters to a controller, data transferred between battery controller and main controller · CPC title

• H01M2010/4271

  Battery management systems including electronic circuits, e.g. control of current or voltage to keep battery in healthy state, cell balancing · CPC title