Battery monitoring device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9966639-B2
Application number	US-201515129189-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 2, 2015
Priority date	Apr 8, 2014
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

A battery monitoring device is configured to include a monitoring unit that transmits state information that indicates a state of a battery and that interrupts, using an interrupter, a power supply from a battery to a load upon receiving a power-interruption request or when a power supply to the monitoring unit is interrupted, and a controller that transmits a power-interruption request to the monitoring unit upon determining, on the basis of the state information transmitted from the monitoring unit, that an anomaly has occurred in the battery, wherein the controller interrupts, using an interrupter, a power supply to the monitoring unit upon determining that a communication anomaly has occurred between the monitoring unit and the controller, or that an anomaly has occurred in the monitoring unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A battery monitoring device comprising:
a battery module that includes:
a battery;
a first interrupter connected between the battery and a load and configured to electrically connect/disconnect the battery and the load to/from each other; and
a monitoring unit configured to control the first interrupter; and

a control electronic control unit (ECU) that includes:
a power source configured to supply power to the monitoring unit;
a second interrupter connected between the power source and the monitoring unit and configured to electrically connect/disconnect the power source and the monitoring unit to/from each other; and
a controller configured to control the second interrupter, wherein

the monitoring unit:
is driven by power supplied from the power source through the second interrupter;
transmits state information that indicates a state of the battery;
performs control to disconnect the first interrupter and interrupts a power supply from the battery to the load upon receiving a power-interruption request transmitted from the controller or when a power supply to the monitoring unit is interrupted; and

the controller:
transmits, to the monitoring unit, the power-interruption request that instructs the monitoring unit to interrupt the first interrupter, upon determining, on a basis of the state information that is transmitted from the monitoring unit, that an anomaly has occurred in the battery, and

when determining that a communication anomaly has occurred between the monitoring unit and the controller, or that an anomaly has occurred in the monitoring unit, performs control to disconnect the second interrupter and interrupts the power supply from the power source to the monitoring unit.

2. The battery monitoring device according to claim 1 , wherein
when the controller determines that a communication anomaly has occurred between the monitoring unit and the controller, the controller interrupts, using the second interrupter, the power supply to the monitoring unit after a predetermined period of time has elapsed.

3. The battery monitoring device according to claim 2 , wherein
the monitoring unit transmits the state information to the controller when the monitoring unit receives a state-information-transmission request regularly transmitted from the controller, and moves on to a sleep mode when the monitoring unit does not receive a state-information-transmission request regularly transmitted from the controller, and
when the controller determines that a communication anomaly has occurred between the monitoring unit and the controller, the controller interrupts, using the second interrupter, the power supply to the monitoring unit after the predetermined period of time has elapsed since the controller terminates processing of regularly transmitting the state-information-transmission request.

4. A battery monitoring device comprising:
first and second interrupters;
a monitoring unit configured to transmit state information that indicates a state of a battery and to interrupt, using the first interrupter, a power supply from the battery to a load upon receiving a power-interruption request or when a power supply to the monitoring unit is interrupted;
a controller configured to transmit a power-interruption request to the monitoring unit upon determining, on a basis of the state information that is transmitted from the monitoring unit, that an anomaly has occurred in the battery, wherein
when the controller determines that a communication anomaly has occurred between the monitoring unit and the controller, or that an anomaly has occurred in the monitoring unit, the controller interrupts the power supply to the monitoring unit using the second interrupter; and
a third interrupter, wherein
when the power supply to the monitoring unit is interrupted, the monitoring unit interrupts a power supply to the first interrupter using the third interrupter, and
when a power supply to the first interrupter is interrupted, the first interrupter interrupts the power supply from the battery to the load.

5. The battery monitoring device according to claim 2 , comprising:
a third interrupter, wherein
when the power supply to the monitoring unit is interrupted, the monitoring unit interrupts a power supply to the first interrupter using the third interrupter, and
when a power supply to the first interrupter is interrupted, the first interrupter interrupts the power supply from the battery to the load.

6. The battery monitoring device according to claim 3 , comprising:
a third interrupter, wherein
when the power supply to the monitoring unit is interrupted, the monitoring unit interrupts a power supply to the first interrupter using the third interrupter, and
when a power supply to the first interrupter is interrupted, the first interrupter interrupts the power supply from the battery to the load.

7. The battery monitoring device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller regularly transmits a state-information-transmission request to the monitoring unit, and terminates the processing of transmitting the state-information-transmission request when the controller determines that the state information has not been received for a first time period since transmission of the state-information-transmission request,
the monitoring unit moves on to a sleep mode when the monitoring unit does not receive the state-information-transmission request regularly transmitted from the controller, the sleep mode being a mode in which some of all functions included in the monitoring unit are stopped,
the controller interrupts, using the second interrupter, a power supply from the power source to the monitoring unit after a second time period has elapsed since the termination of the processing of transmitting the state-information-transmission request, and
the second time period is equal to or longer than a period of time required for the monitoring unit to move on to the sleep mode after the controller has terminated the processing of transmitting the state-information-transmission request.

8. The battery monitoring device according to claim 1 , wherein
when a current value indicated by the state information transmitted from the monitoring unit is equal to or higher than a threshold after the controller has transmitted the power-interruption request to the monitoring unit, the controller interrupts, using the second interrupter, a power supply from the power source to the monitoring unit.

Assignees

• Toyota Jidoshokki Kk

Inventors

• Hase Ryusuke
• Tsuzuku Takahiro
• Yamamoto Satoshi
• Kato Hiroaki

Classifications

• H01M10/482 Primary

  for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• H01M10/425

  Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing (printed circuits H05K1/00) · CPC title

• G01R31/371

  with remote indication, e.g. on external chargers · CPC title

• G01R35/00

  Testing or calibrating of apparatus covered by the other groups of this subclass · CPC title

• G01R31/3842

  combining voltage and current measurements · CPC title