Battery Cell Balancing with Voltage Deviation Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing battery cell balancing methods struggle to effectively monitor and verify the performance of cell balancing operations, leading to potential over-discharge or over-charge issues that can degrade battery packs and reduce their lifespan, and fail to detect abnormal situations post-balancing control.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for battery cell balancing that includes entry condition checking, detecting battery banks requiring balancing, recording and comparing voltage deviations before and after balancing, and generating notifications for failed balancing operations, ensuring that cell balancing is only terminated when voltage deviations are within a prescribed range, thereby improving reliability and enabling proactive measures for abnormalities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If typical cell balancing manners (first to third) are used to balance battery cells, then voltage differences between battery cells can be adjusted within a prescribed range, but it is difficult to check the balancing performance result and verify if balancing is truly achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevoltage balancing precisionVSAvoidbalancing performance verification
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism by recording the voltage deviation before balancing starts, performing the balancing operation, then recording the voltage deviation after balancing ends. The system compares the before and after voltage deviations to determine whether balancing was successfully achieved. This closed-loop feedback approach allows verification of balancing performance results, resolving the contradiction between achieving voltage balance and verifying balancing effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If cell balancing is performed without monitoring abnormal situations, then the balancing process can be completed, but information about abnormal battery situations that may occur after balancing control cannot be detected

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebalancing operation completionVSAvoidpost-balancing abnormality detection
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent records the voltage deviation before balancing starts as a reference value, then performs balancing operations. After balancing, it records the voltage deviation again and compares it with the pre-balancing reference. This preliminary recording of baseline data enables post-balancing verification and abnormality detection, allowing the system to identify when balancing fails or when abnormal situations occur after balancing control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If voltage deviation is not monitored and compared before and after balancing, then the balancing process can proceed without complex monitoring, but it is impossible to determine whether balancing was successfully achieved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebalancing operation simplicityVSAvoidbalancing result verification
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a straightforward feedback mechanism: record voltage deviation before balancing, perform balancing, record voltage deviation after balancing, and compare the two values. If the after-balancing voltage deviation is less than or equal to the before-balancing voltage deviation, balancing is considered successful. This simple comparison approach maintains ease of operation while enabling accurate balancing result verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3340426B1Battery cell balancing method and system
Publication Date: 2022.06.15 LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for stabilizing a battery through cell balancing of a battery pack, and more particularly, to a method and system for performing battery cell balancing and determining a control situation through a feedback for the cell balancing, thereby improving reliability for the battery cell balancing and enabling a proactive measure for a battery abnormality