514results about "Charge equalisation circuit" patented technology

An apparatus is dedicated to controlling the voltage of a battery comprising at least two modules connected in series and each comprising at least one electrochemical cell, and each coupled to voltage balancing means. The apparatus comprises measurement means for determining first voltages across the terminals of each of the modules, calculation means for measuring a second voltage across the terminals of the battery and for determining a mean voltage per module representative of the second voltage divided by the number of modules, and processor means for comparing each measured first voltage with the mean voltage per module and for delivering to the balancing means signals representative of the result of the comparison whenever the first voltage of a module is greater than the mean voltage, such that the balancing means reduce the voltage across the terminals of the module.

Systems and methods for charging and discharging a plurality of batteries are described herein. In some embodiments, a system includes a battery module, an energy storage system electrically coupled to the battery module, a power source, and a controller. The energy storage system is operable in a first operating state in which energy is transferred from the energy storage system to the battery module to charge the battery module, and a second operating state in which energy is transferred from the battery module to the energy storage system to discharge the battery module. The power source electrically coupled to the energy storage system and is configured to transfer energy from the power source to the energy storage system based on an amount of stored energy in the energy storage system. The controller is operably coupled to the battery module and is configured to monitor and control a charging state of the battery module.

Disclosed is a battery health state assessment method, including performing discharge control on a cell until a cutoff voltage; performing charge control on the cell until a preset cell load rated capacity, and performing discharge control on the cell until the cutoff voltage, and generating cell discharge efficiency information; performing charge and discharge cycle control on the cell and acquiring corresponding charge and discharge cycle control efficiency information; using a cell load algorithm to calculate and generate a cell load actual capacity information; and generating a cell health state assessment information according to the ratio between the cell load actual capacity and the cell load rated capacity. The accuracy of the SOH assessment process can be improved by implementing the methods of the embodiments of the present application to optimize the battery performance assessment process and improve the battery charge and discharge efficiency assessment capability.

An electric vehicle charging station for charging electric vehicles includes a plurality of energy storage reservoirs configured to receive and store energy from one or more power sources and / or one or more power generators; one or more power heads for charging the electric vehicles at the electric vehicle charging station, the multiple power heads receiving electrical power from the plurality of energy storage reservoirs, the multiple power heads each being configured for releasably connecting to each of the electric vehicles for charging at the electric vehicle charging station; and a computer control system configured to monitor a charging demand at each of the one or more power heads and to connect one or more of the plurality of energy storage reservoirs to one or more of the power heads based on the charging demand of the one or more power heads.

The present application relates to a battery system and a parallelization method and apparatus thereof. The parallelization method of the battery system includes: acquiring voltages of the battery packs respectively; setting a charging priority of each of the battery packs according to a preset rule and the voltages of the battery packs; and controlling the switching circuit corresponding to the battery pack in the highest charging priority to be turned on to connect a charging loop of the battery pack for charging, and if the voltage of the battery pack currently charged is increased to a value close to the voltage of the battery pack in a next charging priority, controlling the switching circuit corresponding to the battery pack in the next charging priority to be turned on.

An electric vehicle (EV) charging station for fast charging (e.g. 5 to 15 minutes) an electric vehicle (EV). The EV charging station can be configured to include one or more energy storage device comprising multiple electric reservoir modules.

A circuit arrangement (10) for controlling an output voltage of the circuit arrangement (10). The circuit arrangement (10) comprises battery cells (121) forming a plurality of series-connectable cell modules (120, 120′). The cell modules (120, 120′) comprise: a first group of cell modules (150) comprising a first number of cell modules (150), Each cell module (120, 120′) of the first group has a first nominal cell module voltage in a range of 30-200 V, and at least one second group of cell modules (150′) comprising a second number of cell modules (150′). Each cell module (120, 120′) of said at least one second group has a second nominal cell module voltage that is less than the first nominal cell module voltage. The circuit arrangement (10) comprises a control unit (20) configured to: measure the output voltage of the circuit arrangement (10), and in order to control the measured output voltage towards the voltage target, control at least one respective electronic module (100, 100′) to adjust a respective contributing number of cell modules (120, 120′) of at least one of the first and second groups. Each cell module (120, 120′) of the respective contributing number of cell modules (120, 120′) is contributing, positively or negatively, to the output voltage of the circuit arrangement (10).

In a battery monitoring device for monitoring a state of a rechargeable battery that includes an electrolyte and a plurality of electrodes, a response signal input unit is configured to receive a response signal of the rechargeable battery to a predefined AC signal, and a calculation unit is configured to calculate a complex impedance of the rechargeable battery based on the response signal. A power supply unit is configured to receive a power supply voltage from the rechargeable battery and supplies the power supply voltage to at least the calculation unit. A first electrical path connecting the rechargeable battery to the power supply unit and a second electrical path connecting the rechargeable battery to the signal control unit are provided independent of each other. The signal control unit is configured to cause the rechargeable battery to be monitored, as a power source, to output the predefined AC signal.

Systems and methods are described for managing charging and discharging of battery packs. In one or more aspects, a system and method are provided to minimize overcharging of battery cells of specific battery chemistries while still enabling fast charging cycles. In other aspects, a buck converter may be used to reduce a voltage of power used to charge the cells. In further aspects, a fast overcurrent protection circuit is described to address situations involving internal short circuits of a battery cell or battery pack. In yet further aspects, a bypass circuit is provided in series-connected battery packs to improve the charging of undercharged battery packs while also increasing the efficiency of the overall charging process. In other aspects, a circuit is provided that permits a controller to determine a configuration of battery packs. In yet further aspects, a system may determine a discharge current for a collection of battery packs based on each battery pack's state of health (SOH) and forward that determination to an external device.

In an approach to a state of health for grid applications, a system includes one or more battery energy storage systems having a plurality of batteries; energy sources; power distribution systems; and computing devices. The computing devices are configured to: for each of the battery energy storage systems: receive battery parameters for each of the batteries from the battery energy storage systems; determine a lithium plating state, a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) thickness, and a dendrite length for each of the plurality of batteries; determine a battery state of health (SOH) for each of the batteries based on at least one of the lithium plating state, the SEI thickness, and the dendrite length; determine a battery charge profile to mitigate aging for each of batteries based on the SOH; and send updated battery parameters and control thresholds for each of batteries to each of the battery energy storage systems.

A battery assembly configured to be operable during charging or discharging to distribute a common current delivered to or from a common bus and a use of at least one analog battery module. Also disclosed is an analog battery module for distributing current between a plurality of battery strings. Each analog battery module is connectable in series with a respective battery string. The distribution of the current between the battery strings is at least partially given by the respective voltages of the analog battery modules.

There is provided a system including a plurality of switching units connected in parallel to a bus to which a power generation unit and a load are connected, each of the plurality of switching units switching ON / OFF of a connection of a battery pack to the bus; a plurality of battery packs individually connected to each of the plurality of switching units, each of the plurality of battery packs being identical to the battery pack; and a management unit which manages the plurality of switching units such that the plurality of battery packs are alternately discharged so that a discharging rate of each of the plurality of battery packs is increased compared to when all of the plurality of battery packs are discharged.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and apparatus for battery charging. An example method generally includes: performing at least one first charging operation for each of a first battery and a second battery; detecting a first voltage associated with the first battery and a second voltage associated with the second battery; comparing the first voltage and the second voltage to detect whether the first voltage and the second voltage are balanced; and performing a second charging operation for one of the first battery and the second battery to balance the first voltage and the second voltage based on the comparison.

Module-based energy systems are provided having multiple converter-source modules. The converter-source modules can each include an energy source and a converter. The systems can further include control circuitry for the modules. The modules can be arranged in various ways to provide single phase AC, multi-phase AC, and / or DC outputs. Each module can be independently monitored and controlled.

A converter system, e.g., for vehicle-to-vehicle charging, includes galvanically-isolated modular first and second converters having the same maximum voltage rating, a direct current (DC) voltage bus interconnecting the converters, and an electronic controller. An input voltage to the DC bus is converted into an output voltage via switching control signals to the modular converters. The system's voltage rating may equal the maximum of the input and / or output voltage, or it may equal the maximum input voltage and be about 50-percent of the maximum output voltage. The maximum input and output voltages may be equal. When the voltage rating is about 50-percent of the maximum input voltage, capacitors may be connected in parallel with the modular converters on an input side thereof. Switching circuits may be connected to the bus to control the conversion of the input voltage via switching control signals.

A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for controlling a power distribution system includes an islanded microgrid and a control system. The islanded microgrid includes battery energy storage systems (BESSs) that operate as a primary energy source, and a decentralized consensus-based virtual synchronous generator (VSG). The control system simultaneously, emulates inertial response of a synchronous generator by the virtual synchronous generator during grid disruptions to regulate and stabilizes frequency of the islanded microgrid, and maintain consensus among the plurality of battery energy storage systems (BESSs).

Disclosed is a power electronic intelligent battery unit, including: a battery module, the battery module comprising a plurality of battery cells connected in series and sensors for measuring the voltage, current, pressure and / or temperature of the battery cells; and an intelligent battery interface, the intelligent battery interface being connected to an output side of the battery module and the sensors, and the intelligent battery interface having a power interface and an information interface for the outside, wherein the battery module monitors the voltage, current, pressure and / or temperature information of the battery cells, while providing or absorbing power by means of the intelligent battery interface.

A battery system includes: at least two battery packs; a plurality of first relays, each first relay being connected to a respective one of the at least two battery packs; and an auxiliary battery, a first battery pack among the at least two battery packs with a highest voltage is discharged to the auxiliary battery through the first relay connected to the first battery pack so that a voltage of the first battery pack approaches a voltage of another battery pack, a second battery pack with a lowest voltage is charged by the auxiliary battery through the first relay connected to the second battery pack so that the voltage of the second battery pack may approach the voltage of the another battery pack, and the at least two battery packs are connected in parallel.

A battery cell balancing system contains a switch mode circuit employing voltage sensors across the cells and current sensors on the balancing legs to enable reliable and efficient cell balancing during battery charge.

An energy storage device includes a charge storage assembly, an auxiliary storage element, and a charge control circuit. The charge storage assembly includes an array of supercapacitors coupled in series, a plurality of batteries, and a charge retention circuit. Each of the plurality of batteries is electrically coupled to a corresponding supercapacitor in the array of supercapacitors. The charge retention circuit is configured to maintain a charge state of at least one supercapacitor in the array of supercapacitors when the at least one supercapacitor is in an idle state. A charge control circuit is configured to selectively transfer charge between the at least one supercapacitor in the array of supercapacitors and the auxiliary storage element.

In a battery monitoring device, a power management unit manages the power supplied to the battery monitoring device. A monitoring circuit monitors a status of a corresponding battery and measures power consumption of the power management unit. A communication interface receives a first command and a second command from a host through an adjacent monitoring device, and transmits, to the host through the adjacent monitoring device, information for the status of the corresponding battery in response to the first command and information for the measured power consumption in response to the second command. The communication interface also receives a third command, through the adjacent monitoring device, that is generated by the host based on the information for the measured power consumption and information for power consumption of the adjacent monitoring device. A balance module adjusts the power consumption of the power management unit according to the third command.

A battery system includes: a charging apparatus; a plurality of battery modules to connectable in parallel with the charging apparatus; and a controller, in which each of the plurality of battery modules has a battery, and the controller obtains, when a charging command is received, a voltage value of the battery of each of the plurality of battery modules, identifies a first battery having a lowest voltage value and a second battery having a second lowest voltage value, starts charging of the first battery, and after starting the charging of the first battery, starts charging of the second battery when a difference value between a voltage value of a first battery module and the voltage value of the second battery becomes equal to or less than a first threshold value.

A method to control storage into and depletion from multiple energy storage devices. The method enables an operative connection between the energy storage devices and respective power converters. The energy storage devices are connectable across respective first terminals of the power converters. At the second terminals of the power converter, a common reference is set which may be a current reference or a voltage reference. An energy storage fraction is determined respectively for the energy storage devices. A voltage conversion ratio is maintained individually based on the energy storage fraction. The energy storage devices are stored individually with multiple variable rates of energy storage through the first terminals. The energy storage is complete for the energy storage devices substantially at a common end time responsive to the common reference.

A battery dynamic-equalization apparatus includes a power battery including a first battery pack and a second battery pack, a motor controller connected to the power battery, a motor connected to the motor controller, and a controller connected to the motor controller. The controller is configured to: control, in a first preset state, a bridge arm of the electric-motor controller to drive the electric motor, cause a first battery pack and a second battery pack to be alternately charged and discharged so as to realize self-heating of the first battery pack and the second battery pack, and to configure the absolute value of the difference value between the capacitance of the first battery pack and the capacitance of the second battery pack to be lower than a preset threshold value.

A riding lawn mower comprising, a pair of rear drive wheels, a pair of front wheels, a deck positioned between the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear drive wheels, a rotatable cutting blade, and multiple battery packs removably coupled to the riding lawn mower and structured to provide power to the riding lawn mower, each battery pack graspable and removable by a user, wherein the multiple battery packs sequentially provide power to the riding lawn mower.

Provided are a battery management system and a battery pack including the same. The battery management system includes a plurality of slave managers provided to correspond to a plurality of battery modules, and configured to uniformly adjust cell voltages of a plurality of battery cells of respective battery modules, a master manager configured to detect a battery module having a contact defect therein among the battery modules as a defective module using a voltage deviation that is a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the cell voltages, and a data transmitter configured to electrically connect the master manager and the slave managers to enable data exchange.

A method to control storage into and depletion from multiple energy storage devices. The method enables an operative connection between the energy storage devices and respective power converters. The energy storage devices are connectible across respective first terminals of the power converters. At the second terminals of the power converter, a common reference is set which may be a current reference or a voltage reference. An energy storage fraction is determined respectively for the energy storage devices. A voltage conversion ratio is maintained individually based on the energy storage fraction. The energy storage devices are stored individually with multiple variable rates of energy storage through the first terminals. The energy storage is complete for the energy storage devices substantially at a common end time responsive to the common reference.

A riding lawn mower includes a pair of rear drive wheels, a pair of front wheels, a deck positioned between the pair of front wheels and the pair of rear drive wheels, a rotatable cutting blade. a plurality of battery packs removably coupled to the riding lawn mower and structured to provide power to the riding lawn mower, and a battery management system configured to control a plurality of switching elements associated with the plurality of battery packs. The plurality of switching elements configured to control a current flow from each of the plurality of battery packs. The battery management system comprises a master battery management system configured to issue control commands to a plurality of slave battery management systems. Each of the plurality of slave battery management systems is configured to internally control operation of one of the plurality of battery packs.

A battery dynamic equalization apparatus includes a power battery; a motor controller; a direct-current charging and discharging port; and a controller. The controller is connected to the motor controller and configured to: in a first preset state, charge the power battery by the direct-current charging and discharging port, and control bridge arms of the motor controller to alternately charge and discharge a first battery pack and a second battery pack so as to achieve self-heating of the first battery pack and the second battery pack, and allow the absolute value of the difference between the battery level of the first battery pack and the battery level of the second battery pack to be lower than a preset threshold, realizing dynamic equalization of battery levels of the first battery pack and the second battery pack in the self-heating process, thereby improving the battery performance and extending the battery life.