CN103178562A - Method for building battery charging network - Google Patents

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CN103178562A
CN103178562A CN2011104370470A CN201110437047A CN103178562A CN 103178562 A CN103178562 A CN 103178562A CN 2011104370470 A CN2011104370470 A CN 2011104370470A CN 201110437047 A CN201110437047 A CN 201110437047A CN 103178562 A CN103178562 A CN 103178562A
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The invention relates to a method for building a battery charging network. A data management system is achieved to enable users to select data source nodes, storage bases and data routes aiming at every selection strategy and distribute the strategies which can be managed by the management system.

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Set up the method for charge in batteries network
Technical field
The present invention relates generally to the flexible battery charger that charges for to large-scale batteries.More specifically, what the present invention relates to work together with following storage battery can stacking battery charger: described storage battery is responsive to charge condition, so they need to continue communication and need a large amount of power with rapid charging.
Background technology
The high tension battery system (such as, as the batteries of the composition of individual cell) be some important application (such as, motor vehicle driver and large-scale energy storage system) key element." battery " can mean the single electrochemical cell that is made of elementary cell (that is, positive plate, negative plate and electrolyte).Yet term used herein is not limited to this, but can comprise a Battery pack, and this Battery pack can comprise as the individual unit of the assembly of batteries and to the use of up-to-date storage battery chemical substance (that is, lithium and lithium combination).Storage battery or batteries are the connected in series or in parallel of unit or individual cell.
The extensive market that realization is used high tension battery is accepted need to be for the economically feasible system that the high tension battery group is charged.Solving this demand need to develop and a kind ofly can supply the high power density charging system of controlled charging electric current under high output voltage.Yet, realize that this system need to overcome the specific practical problem relevant to high output voltage.
On principle, battery charger is the power supply with controllable voltage, electric current and power limit.The difference of battery charger and conventional power source is to satisfy the ability that the uniqueness of batteries requires.Typically, battery charger has two tasks and will complete.First and most important task are to recover as quickly as possible capacity, and second task is to keep capacity by compensation self discharge and variation of ambient temperature.These tasks are usually by controlling output voltage, electric current and the power of charger and complete with preset mode (that is, using charging algorithm).
Two prevailing charging algorithms are constant-potential charge and constant current charge.In constant-potential charge, the voltage on the storage battery string is held constant, and wherein the state of storage battery is determined the charging current level.Charging process stops after reaching the special time boundary usually.Constant-potential charge is the most general in floating mode is used.
By contrast, constant current charge keeps charging current constant.The method is used in cycle applications usually, due to its within the relatively short time to battery recharge.
Charge in batteries is that accept, many modification two kinds of basic skills to optimize a series of constant current charge of use and constant-potential charge.Yet these modification need to have the controlled charging device of voltage and current regulating power.In addition, charger is restricted to its design voltage, electric current and power limit.Charger also is restricted to its import-restriction, this means that charger only can should offer from the power supply such as the 120 volts of sockets of standard with 20 peace boundaries the subset of the power of this charger to the storage battery statements based on collusion.
Therefore, what expect is to have following charger: this charger can improve its ability that the charging requirement of more power to satisfy the storage battery string is provided, make the charging of storage battery string can carry out more quickly and can not overcharge, this overcharges may badly damaged storage battery.
Summary of the invention
Although described with function declaration equipment and the method maybe will described for grammer is smooth, but to clearly understand, unless clearly set forth for 112 times at 35 USC, claim is not interpreted as being subject to by any way the restriction of the structure of " device " or " step " restriction, but will give the meaning of the definition that provided by claim and the four corner of equivalent under the judicial principle of equivalent, and in the situation that clearly setting forth claim for 112 times, 35 USC to give whole legal equivalents under 35 USC 112.
The present invention specifically solves and has alleviated the defects that is associated with prior art.According to a preferred aspect of the present invention, the method has been developed following battery charger network: it can add available charger in charging network to satisfy charging requirement and to improve wherein to the complete completely charged speed of storage battery string by larger voltage, electric current and the power of realizing the accumulators string via charging network in some cases.
According on the one hand, the present invention includes a kind of method for via the charger network, the storage battery string being charged, wherein said network comprises at least one charger, at least one storage battery string and at least one device of communicating by letter between charger.Additional resource (such as battery management system) can be added into network to improve function.
In one embodiment of the invention, make two chargers to communicate with one another via communication protocol, and these two charger separate connection are to the power supply (such as wall outlet) that joins with electrical network.In this embodiment, charger by intelligence programming for making charger to communicate with one another and communicating by letter with additional resource (such as battery management system).
Just realize another aspect of the present invention in case set up following communication, charger can be configured so that a battery charger is identified as main equipment (master) by intelligence in this communication, and the second battery charger is identified as from equipment (slave).
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Can by going to the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that proposes as the example shown of the present invention that limits in the claims, understand better the present invention and each embodiment thereof now.Clearly understand, the present invention that claim limits can be wider than the illustrated embodiment that the following describes.
Fig. 1 represents not have the physical connection of the charging system of charger network.
Fig. 2 represents the figure of charger network of the present invention.
Fig. 3 means the flow chart of wherein in fact setting up the logical process of charger network.
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Without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, those of ordinary skill in the art can carry out many changes and modification.Therefore, it must be understood that, only set forth for exemplary purposes illustrated embodiment, and shown embodiment should not be regarded as limiting the present invention who is defined by the following claims.For example; although the below has set forth the fact of the element of claim with particular combination, must clearly understand, the present invention includes still less, other combinations of more or different element; even not claimed these elements at first, also disclose these elements here in these combinations.
Word that be used for to describe the present invention and each embodiment thereof in this specification not only will be understood on the meaning of the implication of its common definition, and will be by specifically defined structure, material or the action that comprises the intended scope that exceeds common definition in this specification.Therefore, if element can be understood to include more than an implication in the context of the present specification, the use in the claims of this element must be understood to be common to the institute that specification and word itself support might implication.
Therefore, the word of claims or the definition of element not only comprise the combination of the element of literal upper elaboration, and comprise for carrying out identical in fact function in identical in fact mode to obtain all equivalent structures, material or the action of identical in fact result.Therefore on this meaning, be contemplated that: the equivalence that can carry out to any element in following claim two or more elements is replaced, and perhaps can utilize two or more elements in individual element replacement claim.Although element may more than be described as with particular combination take action and even initial claimed so; but to clearly understand, can remove in some cases the modification that one or more elements in this combination and claimed combination can relate to sub-portfolio or sub-portfolio from claimed combination.
The non-material change to the present known of claimed theme or design after a while that those of ordinary skill in the art considers clearly is contemplated in the scope that is in equivalently claim.Therefore, or after a while known obvious replacement present to those of ordinary skill in the art is limited in the scope of the element that limits.
Therefore, the detailed description of setting forth below in conjunction with accompanying drawing is intended to the description as currently preferred embodiment of the present invention, wherein can construct or utilize unique form of the present invention and be not intended to expression.This description has been set forth for the embodiment shown in combination and has been constructed and operated function of the present invention and sequence of steps.Yet be appreciated that and realize identical or equivalent function by the different embodiment that also are intended to be contained in spirit of the present invention.
Therefore, claim will be understood to include content, the content that can obviously replace of above concrete signal and the content of description, conceptive equivalence and also comprise the content that merges in fact essential idea of the present invention.
The present invention illustrates in Fig. 1 and 2, and Fig. 1 and 2 shows currently preferred embodiment of the present invention.These figure represent that it is that generally acknowledge and available with the physical network of setting up at least one charger, at least one batteries and at least one power supply and all these that physical connection has been carried out in the present invention and supposition.
Fig. 1 represents charging system, and wherein charger is become make them to charge but lack communicator required in the charger network by physical connection.
Figure in Fig. 2 represents charger network of the present invention, and wherein the charger network is set up by realizing communicator.More specifically, the charger network comprises charger 1(120) and charger 2(130), wherein charger 1 and charger 2 utilize and can come intelligent configuration via microprocessor and the software that communicator (140) communicate.In addition, charger 1(120) and charger 2(130) be physically connected to power supply (110) by means of physical connection (180), make charger 1(120) and charger 2(130) can be from the power supply received power.Represented in the figure charger 1(120) and charger 2(130) be connected to same power supplies (110), but charger 1(120 in fact) be connected with charger 2(130 and will be connected to individually power supply (110) so that they can extract power as much as possible and be not limited to the constraint of a kind of connection or connection type from power supply.Charger 1(120) and charger 2(130) also be connected to power supply by communicator (190) logic, if make the charger network be connected to power supply as intelligent grid, the charger network can communicate, and this is can communicate via communicator (190) and other electronic equipments (such as charger network (100)) because intelligent grid is configured such that it.
Charger 1(120) and charger 2(130) also be physically connected to batteries (160) by physical connection (170) and (175), make charger 1 and charger 2 can accumulators group (160) supply power.Exist and to be connected to the communicator (150) of batteries (160) by the battery management system that is commonly referred to as (BMS) (180) in addition.Battery management system is designed to monitor the charging of each battery in batteries and batteries.This is even more important when batteries is charged, this is not to be configured to know the condition of each battery in batteries due to charger, thus individual cell low capacity may damage and therefore may be subject to the impact of overcharging when whole group is charged in the situation that this battery has more than other batteries in batteries.This communicator allows charger 1(120) and charger 2(130) can with BMS(180) communicate.BMS serves as the identity device of batteries usually.For example, BMS will have battery types, battery capacity, battery tension, battery current and the general health of batteries and even may have this information for each battery in batteries.
Fig. 3 represents wherein to set up by means of charger 1, charger 2, BMS and power supply the logical process of charger network, and wherein charger 1, charger 2, BMS and power supply all comprise the microprocessor that communicates and process for to data.Each can also comprise storage device and computer.The logical process supposition physics that is identified as (300) in Fig. 1 exists charger 1, charger 2, BMS and power supply.In process (300), come charger 1 energising (310) by means of applying power.Then, charger 1 is carried out self check to guarantee that charger is not to experience to be predefined for the fault harmful to the charging of batteries.Then, charger 1 identification its be physically connected to network and attempt in logic to communicate (330) on this network.Then, charger 1 himself is set to the main equipment (340) in the charger network.Then, come charger 2 energisings (350) by means of applying power, and charger 2 is carried out self check (360) to guarantee that charger is not to experience to be predefined for the fault harmful to the charging of batteries.Then, charger 2 identification its be physically connected to network and attempt in logic and communicate on this network (370).This communication causes communicating with the charger 1 that is identified as main equipment, so charger 2 is set to from equipment.This set can be carried out by main equipment.
In case set up the charger network, then charger 1 and charger 2 just can the accumulators group provide power, make batteries can have advantages of via the charger network and are charged by two chargers (charger 1 and charger 2).

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1. method of setting up the charger network by means of the process that comprises the following steps:
Charger is switched on;
Described charger is carried out self check;
Described charger communicates via communicator and network;
Described charger himself is set to main equipment;
Wherein said charger can the accumulators group provide power.
2. system according to claim 1, wherein said system comprises:
Command module makes the user data source can be connected with the storage vault logic.
3. method of setting up the charger network by means of the process that comprises the following steps:
Charger is switched on;
Described charger is carried out self check;
Described charger communicates via communicator and network;
Described charger himself is set to main equipment;
The recharge device is switched on;
Described recharge device is carried out self check;
Described recharge device communicates with described charger on network via communicator;
The described recharge device of described charger is set to from equipment;
Wherein said charger and described recharge device can the accumulators group provide power.
4. system according to claim 2, wherein said system comprises:
Command module makes the user data source can be connected with the storage vault logic.
5. method of setting up the charger network by means of the process that comprises the following steps:
Charger is switched on;
Described charger is carried out self check;
Described charger communicates via communicator and network;
Described charger himself is set to main equipment;
The recharge device is switched on;
Described recharge device is carried out self check;
Described recharge device communicates with described charger on network via communicator;
The described recharge device of described charger is set to from equipment;
Described charger and battery management system communicate;
Wherein said charger and described recharge device can the accumulators group provide power.
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