CN113675924A

CN113675924A - Battery active equalization device, chip, battery management system and electric equipment

Info

Publication number: CN113675924A
Application number: CN202110991220.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 不公告发明人
Original assignee: Zhuhai Maiju Microelectronics Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhuhai Maiju Microelectronics Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-08-26
Filing date: 2021-08-26
Publication date: 2021-11-19

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a battery active equalization apparatus, including: a plurality of battery equalizers, each battery equalizer corresponding to a cell of a battery pack, the battery equalizers comprising: a charge transfer device that transfers charge of the battery cell; and an energy storage capacitor, wherein the energy storage capacitor at least transfers the charge transferred by the charge transfer device to the battery pack. The disclosure also provides a semiconductor chip, a battery management system and electric equipment.

Description

Battery active equalization device, chip, battery management system and electric equipment

Technical Field

The disclosure relates to the technical field of active equalization of batteries, in particular to an active equalization device of a battery, a semiconductor chip, a battery management system and electric equipment.

Background

In an energy storage system or a new energy automobile, more and more high-capacity lithium batteries are connected in series to form a suitable battery system so as to provide working voltage required by loads (such as a new energy automobile motor and a grid-connected converter for energy storage). In order to ensure that the system works normally and to make the most of the energy storage space of all the batteries possible, a high demand is placed on the consistency of lithium batteries.

In a series battery system group, since the discharge current of all the batteries is the same, Q ═ Idt, the charge charged or discharged by all the batteries is the same in the same time. However, the capacity of lithium batteries, inconsistency between lithium batteries due to variations in process control, the presence of impurities, temperature differences, and the like, the storable capacity of each lithium battery, and the voltage corresponding to the capacity are different, and the differences are affected by conditions such as the lifetime of the lithium battery, the external temperature, and the like, and the differences are also changed. Therefore, the inconsistency of the characteristics of these lithium batteries themselves, as well as the inconsistency of external conditions (e.g., temperature, etc.), causes the remaining capacity and the port voltage of the lithium batteries to be different under the same charging or discharging conditions. In the actual use process, in the series battery system, the battery with relatively low capacity or the battery with aged service life may reach the discharging under-voltage point or the charging full-charge voltage point first, and the lithium battery is emptied or fully charged. When the discharging under-voltage point is reached, or the lithium battery is in a full state, the lithium battery needs to be protected, and charging or discharging is stopped. Meanwhile, in the whole series battery system, other lithium batteries with relatively large capacity and good health state still can be discharged or store more charge/energy without reaching the emptying state or the full state. Thus, the energy allowed to discharge and the energy charged to the entire series battery is limited by the lowest capacity, or most severely aged, cell.

The battery equalization system is divided into passive equalization and active equalization. Passive equalization can only work during charging, allowing as much charge as possible to be stored in all cells. However, during the discharge process, as much energy as possible cannot be released. Due to the high efficiency and the energy transfer mode of the active equalization, the active equalization can achieve the purpose of maximizing the utilization rate of the battery capacity in the actual use process and the charging and discharging processes.

In the conventional active equalization, schemes such as a flying capacitor (fig. 1), an isolated power supply (fig. 2), a non-isolated Buck-Boost (fig. 3), an isolated Flyback (fig. 4) and the like can be adopted.

As shown in fig. 1, the active equalization scheme using the adjacent flying capacitor scheme has a simple control method, and the transfer capacity Δ Q ═ V per cycle_BATn+1-V_BATn-1|*C_FlyHowever, the transfer efficiency of the scheme is influenced by the voltage difference, the equalization precision is influenced by the voltage drop of the device, and the smaller the voltage difference is, the lower the equalization efficiency is at the later stage of equalization.

As shown in fig. 2, the active equalization technical scheme using the isolated power scheme has high and stable energy transfer efficiency, the switch may use a common source MOSFET or an optical coupling MOSFET, but the number of switches is large, the control is complex, the failure risk is high, the high voltage MOSFET is expensive, and it needs to be blocked bidirectionally, the DC/DC is isolated by a transformer, the production cost is high, and the failure cost is high.

As shown in fig. 3, the active equalization technical scheme adopting the non-isolated buck-boost scheme has high and stable energy transfer efficiency, but the adjacent energy transfer needs one-level energy transfer, the loss is large, the number of inductors is large, the EMI design is difficult, short circuit is easy to occur after failure, and potential safety hazard exists.

As shown in fig. 4, in the active equalization technical scheme adopting the isolation Flyback scheme, each battery cell corresponds to one Flyback, the transfer energy is high and stable, but the number of transformers is large, the failure risk is large, the production cost is high, and the EMI design is difficult.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve at least one of the above technical problems, the present disclosure provides a battery active equalization apparatus, a semiconductor chip, a battery management system and an electric device.

The battery active equalization device, the semiconductor chip, the battery management system and the electric equipment are realized by the following technical scheme.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a battery active equalization apparatus, including:

a plurality of battery equalizers, each battery equalizer corresponding to a cell of a battery pack, the battery equalizers comprising:

a charge transfer device that transfers charge of the battery cell; and the number of the first and second groups,

an energy storage capacitor that transfers at least the charge transferred by the charge transfer device into a battery pack.

According to the active battery equalization device of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the charge transfer device is disposed in a loop connecting two ends of the battery unit, one end of the energy storage capacitor is connected to a positive terminal of the battery pack, and the other end of the energy storage capacitor is connected to a negative terminal of the battery pack or grounded.

According to the active battery equalization device of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the charge transfer device charges the energy storage capacitor to raise the voltage of the energy storage capacitor to a first preset voltage greater than the voltage of the battery pack, and the energy storage capacitor charges the battery pack based on the first preset voltage greater than the voltage of the battery pack.

According to the active equalizing device of the battery of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the charge transfer device is a multi-stage charge pump.

According to the active equalizing device for the battery, in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the charge transfer device charges the energy storage capacitor through a first charge transfer direction control device (such as a diode, a field effect transistor, a relay, etc.), and when the charge transfer device charges the energy storage capacitor, the first charge transfer direction control device is turned on.

According to the active battery equalization device of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, a switch device is disposed between a battery unit and a charge transfer device, when the switch device is turned on, the battery unit charges the energy storage capacitor via the charge transfer device, and when the switch device is turned off, the charge transfer device stops transferring charges to the energy storage capacitor.

According to the active battery equalization device of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the battery pack voltage of the battery pack is reduced to a second preset voltage through the charge transfer device to charge the battery unit.

According to the active equalization apparatus for a battery of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, a battery pack voltage of the battery pack is lowered to a second preset voltage via a charge transfer apparatus by a second charge transfer direction control device (e.g., a diode, a field effect transistor, a relay, etc.), which is turned on.

According to the active battery equalization device of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, a switch device is arranged between the battery unit and the charge transfer device, when the switch device is turned on, the charge transfer device charges the battery unit, and when the switch device is turned off, the charge transfer device stops charging the battery unit.

According to the active equalization device of the battery of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, in the first half period of the discharge of the battery unit, the charge transfer device accumulates the charge from the battery unit, and the energy storage capacitor accumulates the charge from the battery pack voltage of the battery pack; during the next half-cycle of the battery cell discharge, the charge accumulated by the charge transfer device and the charge accumulated by the energy storage capacitor are transferred to the battery pack.

According to the active equalization device for the battery of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, in the upper half period of the charging of the battery unit, the charge transfer device and the energy storage capacitor accumulate the charges from the battery pack voltage of the battery pack, and in the lower half period of the charging of the battery unit, the charge transfer device releases the charges accumulated by the charge transfer device to the battery unit.

According to the active equalization device for the battery, the charge transfer device comprises a switch group and a charge transfer capacitor, the charge transfer capacitor is connected to a loop where two ends of a battery unit are located through the switch group to charge the charge transfer capacitor or release charges accumulated by the charge transfer capacitor to the battery unit, or the charge transfer capacitor is connected with an energy storage capacitor in series to charge the battery pack or accumulate charges from the battery pack voltage of the battery pack.

The active battery equalization device according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure further includes a fifth switch, and the fifth switch connects the energy storage capacitor to the battery pack voltage of the battery pack by turning on or off or connects the energy storage capacitor in series with the charge transfer capacitor.

According to at least one embodiment of this disclosure, the switch group includes a chopping switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, the charge transfer device further includes a third capacitor and a fourth capacitor, the third capacitor is disposed between the first end of the charge transfer capacitor and the chopping switch, and the fourth capacitor is disposed between the second end of the charge transfer capacitor and the chopping switch.

According to the active equalizing device of battery of at least one embodiment of this disclosure, the battery equalizer further includes a control & protector, the control & protector includes a first current detection portion and a second current detection portion, the first current detection portion is used for monitoring the charging current and the discharging current of the charge transfer capacitor, and the second current detection portion is used for monitoring the charging current and the discharging current of the energy storage capacitor.

According to the battery initiative equalizing device of at least one embodiment of this disclosure, control & protector still includes first voltage acquisition portion, second voltage acquisition portion, third voltage acquisition portion and fourth voltage acquisition portion, first voltage acquisition portion and second voltage acquisition portion gather the both ends voltage of charge transfer electric capacity in order to monitor charge transfer electric capacity, and third voltage acquisition portion monitors group battery voltage, and fourth voltage acquisition portion is right energy storage electric capacity's both ends voltage monitors.

According to the active equalization device for the battery, the charge transfer device comprises a first charge transfer capacitor, a second charge transfer capacitor and a switch group, in the upper half period of the discharge of the battery unit, the first charge transfer capacitor and the second charge transfer capacitor of the charge transfer device are in a series connection state through the control of the switch group so as to accumulate the charge from the battery unit, and the energy storage capacitor accumulates the charge from the voltage of the battery pack; during the next half-cycle of the battery cell discharge, the charge accumulated by the charge transfer device and the charge accumulated by the energy storage capacitor are transferred to the battery pack.

According to the active battery equalization device of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the charge transfer device is connected in a loop where two ends of the battery unit are located through a switch device, the switch device includes a first switch and a second switch, the first switch is connected to a positive end of the battery unit, and the second switch is connected to a negative end of the battery unit.

According to the active battery equalization device of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the switch group comprises a sixth switch, a seventh switch, an eighth switch, a third switch and a fourth switch; the first end of the second charge transfer capacitor is connected with the positive electrode end of the battery unit through a first switch; the first end of the second charge transfer capacitor is also connected with the first end of the first charge transfer capacitor through a sixth switch; the second end of the second charge transfer capacitor is connected with the first end of the first charge transfer capacitor through a seventh switch, and the second end of the second charge transfer capacitor is also connected with the second end of the first charge transfer capacitor through an eighth switch; the second end of the first charge transfer capacitor is also connected with the negative electrode end of the battery unit through a second switch.

According to the active battery equalization device of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, during the next half period of the discharge of the battery unit, the first charge transfer capacitor and the second charge transfer capacitor of the charge transfer device are connected in parallel under the control of the switch group and are connected in series with the energy storage capacitor together under the control of the fifth switch, so as to transfer the charges accumulated by the charge transfer device and the charges accumulated by the energy storage capacitor to the battery pack.

According to the active equalization device of the battery of at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, the active equalization device is in the form of a semiconductor chip.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a semiconductor chip formed with the active equalizing device for a battery of any one of the above.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a battery management system including: the active battery balancing device of any one of the above claims, wherein the active battery balancing device actively balances the battery pack.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an electric device including: a battery pack; and the battery management system is used for actively balancing the battery pack at least based on the battery active balancing device.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the disclosure and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate exemplary embodiments of the disclosure and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the disclosure.

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of a prior art active equalization scheme employing a neighboring flying capacitor scheme.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an active equalization scheme using an isolated power scheme in the prior art.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of an active equalization scheme using a non-isolated buck-boost scheme in the prior art.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of an active equalization scheme using an isolation Flyback scheme in the prior art.

Fig. 5 is a schematic circuit configuration diagram of a battery equalizer of the active battery equalization apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 6 is a schematic circuit configuration diagram of a battery equalizer of a battery active equalization apparatus according to still another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 7 is a schematic circuit configuration diagram of a battery equalizer of a battery active equalization apparatus according to still another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 8 is a schematic circuit configuration diagram of a battery equalizer of a battery active equalization apparatus according to still another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 9 is a schematic circuit configuration diagram of a battery equalizer of a battery active equalization apparatus according to still another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 10 is a driving signal control timing of the battery equalizer shown in fig. 9.

Fig. 11 and 12 show the operation states of the battery equalizer of fig. 9 during the charge accumulation period (upper half cycle) and the charge release period (lower half cycle), respectively.

Fig. 13 is a schematic circuit configuration diagram of a battery equalizer of a battery active equalization apparatus according to still another embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 14 is a driving signal control timing of the battery equalizer shown in fig. 13.

Fig. 15 and 16 show the operation states of the battery equalizer of fig. 13 during the charge accumulation period (upper half cycle) and the charge release period (lower half cycle), respectively.

Fig. 17 is a block diagram schematically illustrating the structure of a battery active equalization apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Fig. 18 is a block diagram illustrating a structure of an electric device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

The present disclosure will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and embodiments. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are for purposes of illustration only and are not to be construed as limitations of the present disclosure. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only the portions relevant to the present disclosure are shown in the drawings.

It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present disclosure may be combined with each other without conflict. Technical solutions of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments.

Unless otherwise indicated, the illustrated exemplary embodiments/examples are to be understood as providing exemplary features of various details of some ways in which the technical concepts of the present disclosure may be practiced. Accordingly, unless otherwise indicated, features of the various embodiments may be additionally combined, separated, interchanged, and/or rearranged without departing from the technical concept of the present disclosure.

The use of cross-hatching and/or shading in the drawings is generally used to clarify the boundaries between adjacent components. As such, unless otherwise noted, the presence or absence of cross-hatching or shading does not convey or indicate any preference or requirement for a particular material, material property, size, proportion, commonality between the illustrated components and/or any other characteristic, attribute, property, etc., of a component. Further, in the drawings, the size and relative sizes of components may be exaggerated for clarity and/or descriptive purposes. While example embodiments may be practiced differently, the specific process sequence may be performed in a different order than that described. For example, two processes described consecutively may be performed substantially simultaneously or in reverse order to that described. In addition, like reference numerals denote like parts.

When an element is referred to as being "on" or "on," "connected to" or "coupled to" another element, it can be directly on, connected or coupled to the other element or intervening elements may be present. However, when an element is referred to as being "directly on," "directly connected to" or "directly coupled to" another element, there are no intervening elements present. For purposes of this disclosure, the term "connected" may refer to physically, electrically, etc., and may or may not have intermediate components.

For descriptive purposes, the present disclosure may use spatially relative terms such as "below … …," below … …, "" below … …, "" below, "" above … …, "" above, "" … …, "" higher, "and" side (e.g., "in the sidewall") to describe one component's relationship to another (other) component as illustrated in the figures. Spatially relative terms are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in use, operation, and/or manufacture in addition to the orientation depicted in the figures. For example, if the device in the figures is turned over, elements described as "below" or "beneath" other elements or features would then be oriented "above" the other elements or features. Thus, the exemplary term "below … …" can encompass both an orientation of "above" and "below". Further, the devices may be otherwise positioned (e.g., rotated 90 degrees or at other orientations) and the spatially relative descriptors used herein interpreted accordingly.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Furthermore, when the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising" and variations thereof are used in this specification, the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components and/or groups thereof are stated but does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components and/or groups thereof. It is also noted that, as used herein, the terms "substantially," "about," and other similar terms are used as approximate terms and not as degree terms, and as such, are used to interpret inherent deviations in measured values, calculated values, and/or provided values that would be recognized by one of ordinary skill in the art.

The active battery balancing apparatus, the semiconductor chip, the battery management system and the electric device according to the present disclosure are described in detail with reference to fig. 1 to 18.

As shown in fig. 5, the battery pack 20 includes a plurality of battery CELLs 201 connected in series, each battery CELL 201(CELL) corresponds to one charge transfer device 101 and one energy storage capacitor 102, in the last half period, the battery CELL 201(CELL) charges the energy storage capacitor 102 through the charge transfer device 101, the charge transfer device 101 can raise the CELL voltage VCELL of the battery CELL 201 to a preset voltage (for example, the voltage is raised according to a ratio of 1: X1, and the preset voltage is VCELL X1) greater than the battery pack voltage VBAT, in the next half period, the energy storage capacitor 102 charges the battery pack 20 based on the preset voltage (VCELL X1) greater than the battery pack voltage VBAT, and the battery CELL 201 is discharged to charge the battery pack 20.

Preferably, the charge transfer device 101 may be a multi-stage charge pump.

As shown in fig. 5, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the active battery equalization apparatus 1000 includes a plurality of battery equalizers 100, each battery equalizer 100 corresponds to one battery cell 201, each battery equalizer 100 includes a charge transfer device 101 and an energy storage capacitor 102, the charge transfer device 101 charges the energy storage capacitor 102 based on a battery cell voltage VCELL of the battery cell 201 to raise a voltage of the energy storage capacitor 102 to a first preset voltage greater than a battery pack voltage VBAT, and the energy storage capacitor 102 charges the battery pack 20 based on the first preset voltage greater than the battery pack voltage VBAT.

According to the preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the charge transfer device 101 charges the energy storage capacitor 102 through the first charge transfer direction control device (the first diode 103 is taken as an example in fig. 5, and the first charge transfer direction control device may also be a device for controlling the conducting direction of a circuit, such as a field effect transistor or a relay), and when the charge transfer device 101 charges the energy storage capacitor 102, the first diode 103 is in forward conduction. When the energy storage capacitor 102 is charged to a first predetermined voltage greater than the battery voltage VBAT, the charge transfer device 101 stops charging the energy storage capacitor 102.

According to the preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, a switch device is provided between the battery unit 201 and the charge transfer device 101, by which the battery unit 201 is controlled to charge the energy storage capacitor 102 via the corresponding charge transfer device 101, and when the switch device is turned off, the battery unit 201 stops charging the energy storage capacitor 102.

Preferably, the switching device includes two switching portions 104 respectively disposed at the positive terminal and the negative terminal of the battery cell 201, and the charge transfer device 101 is disposed between the two switching portions 104.

As shown in fig. 5, the cell voltage VCELL of the single battery cell 201 is discharged to charge the battery pack 20, and the following conditions are satisfied:

where n denotes the nth switch (switches S1, S2, S3, S4, S6, S7, S8 are shown in fig. 5), V in the multistage charge pump_DIs the turn-on voltage of the first diode 103. R_SWn,ONIs shown asWhen n switches are on (closed), the resistance of the switch, i_nIs the current flowing through the switch. V_DIs the turn-on voltage of the diode 103.

On the basis of the above embodiment, preferably, referring to fig. 6, the active battery equalization apparatus 1000 includes a battery equalizer 300, the battery equalizer 300 includes a charge transfer apparatus 301 and an energy storage capacitor 302, and the battery voltage VBAT is reduced to a second preset voltage by the charge transfer apparatus 301 (e.g. VBAT is reduced to a preset voltage slightly higher than the cell voltage VCELL by a proportional relationship X2: 1) to realize charging of the battery cell 201.

In this embodiment, the battery voltage VBAT is reduced to the second predetermined voltage by the second charge transfer direction control device (the second diode 303 is taken as an example in fig. 6) via the charge transfer device 301, and the second diode 303 is turned on in the forward direction.

Preferably, a switching device is provided between the battery cell 201 and the charge transfer device 301, by which the charge transfer device 301 is controlled to charge the battery cell 201, and when the switching device is turned off, the charging of the battery cell 201 is stopped.

Preferably, the switching device includes two switching parts 304 respectively disposed at the positive terminal and the negative terminal of the battery cell 201, and the charge transfer device 301 is disposed between the two switching parts 304.

As shown in fig. 6, when the battery voltage VBAT is discharged and the single battery cell 201 is charged by the multi-stage charge pump step-down, the conditions to be satisfied are:

wherein, V in the formula_DIs the turn-on voltage of diode 303.

The active battery equalization apparatus 1000 of the present disclosure may include a plurality of battery equalizers 100 or a plurality of battery equalizers 300, which are only used as active equalization circuits for charging in one direction or discharging in one direction.

The active battery equalization apparatus 1000 of the present disclosure may also include a plurality of battery equalizers 100 and a plurality of battery equalizers 300, which are used as active equalization circuits in both directions (charging direction and discharging direction).

Preferably, a voltage regulator 105 (e.g., LDO) is further disposed in the battery balancer 100, and a voltage regulator 305 (e.g., LDO) is further disposed in the battery balancer 300.

In the above embodiment, the switches (S1, S2, S3, S4, S6, S7, and S8) in the switch unit 104, the switch unit 304, and the multistage charge pump are all MOSFETs.

The battery pack 20 is generally composed of 4 to 6 battery cells 201 connected in series, and if the cell voltage VCELL of a single battery cell 201 is raised above the pack voltage VBAT of the battery pack 20, the ratio between the number of stages of the multi-stage charge pump and the number of battery cells 201 needs to be adjusted. If the number of stages of the multi-stage charge pump is large, the number of switches (MOSFETs) is large, resulting in large energy loss.

According to still another preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, referring to fig. 7, the active battery equalization apparatus 1000 includes a plurality of battery equalizers 400, one battery equalizer 400 for each battery cell 201, the battery equalizer 400 includes a first capacitor C1, a second capacitor C2, and a switch set including a first switch S1, a second switch S2, a third switch S3, a fourth switch S4, and a fifth switch S5.

Operation of the battery balancer 400: the cell voltage VCELL of the single cell 201 of the upper half cycle charges the first capacitor C1 while VBAT charges the second capacitor C2, i.e., the first switch S1, the second switch S2, the fifth switch S5 are closed (on), and the third switch S3 and the fourth switch S4 are open.

The first half cycle satisfies the condition:

V_C1＝V_CELL (3)

V_C2＝V_BAT (4)

during the next half-cycle, the first capacitor C1 and the second capacitor C2 in series (the first switch S1, the second switch S2, the fifth switch S5 are open, and the third switch S3 and the fourth switch S4 are closed) together discharge the battery pack 20, releasing the charge stored by the first capacitor C1 and the second capacitor C2 to the battery pack voltage VBAT of the battery pack 20.

The following half cycle satisfies the condition:

ΔV＝V_C1+V_C2-V_BAT＝V_CELL (6)

where Δ VC1 is the voltage change during the process of the first capacitor C1 releasing the stored charge to the battery pack 20, and Δ VC2 is the voltage change during the process of the second capacitor C2 releasing the stored charge to the battery pack 20.

According to the above equation (6), the single battery cell 201 releases energy when discharging, and since the battery cell voltage of the single battery cell 201 is in the range of 2V-4.5V, the voltage difference between VCELL and VBAT is large when the first capacitor and the second capacitor are discharged, which causes a large current spike (peak current).

In this embodiment, the battery equalizer 400 includes a charge transfer device, which itself includes a charge transfer capacitor (i.e., the first capacitor C1), and the second capacitor C2 serves as an energy storage capacitor.

According to a further preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, referring to fig. 8, the active battery equalization apparatus 1000 includes a plurality of battery equalizers 400, one battery equalizer 400 for each battery cell 201, the battery equalizer 400 includes a first capacitor C1, a second capacitor C2, a third capacitor C3, a fourth capacitor C4, and a switch set including a chopping switch 401, a third switch S3, a fourth switch S4, and a fifth switch S5.

In this embodiment, the third capacitor C3 and the fourth capacitor C4 are added to control the charging voltage VC1 of the first capacitor C1, and the chopping switch 401 controls VC1 to indirectly control the voltage difference between VC1-VC2 and VBAT, thereby controlling the peak current.

In this embodiment, the battery equalizer 400 includes a charge transfer device, which itself includes a charge transfer capacitor (first capacitor C1).

In the present embodiment, during the upper half cycle, the single battery unit 201 charges C1 while VBAT charges the second capacitor C2, and during the lower half cycle, the first capacitor C1 and the second capacitor C2 are connected in series to discharge the battery pack 20, and the charges stored in the first capacitor C1 and the second capacitor C2 are discharged to the battery pack voltage VBAT of the battery pack 20.

Fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a battery equalizer 400 of a battery active equalization apparatus 1000 according to still another preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, and based on the battery equalizer 400 shown in fig. 7, the battery equalizer 400 further includes a control & protector 900, where the control & protector 900 may be in the form of a control chip having preset control & protection logic, and the control & protector 900 includes a first current detection unit 901 and a second current detection unit 902, where the first current detection unit 901 is configured to monitor a charging current and a discharging current of a first capacitor C1, and the second current detection unit 902 is configured to monitor a charging current and a discharging current of a second capacitor C2.

The control & protector 900 further includes a first voltage collecting portion 903, a second voltage collecting portion 904, a third voltage collecting portion 905 and a fourth voltage collecting portion 906, the first voltage collecting portion 903 and the second voltage collecting portion 904 collect voltages at both ends of the first capacitor C1 to monitor the first capacitor C1, the third voltage collecting portion 905 monitors the battery voltage VBAT, and the fourth voltage collecting portion 906 monitors voltages at both ends of the second capacitor C2.

Preferably, the control & protector 900 generates corresponding control signals to control the closing or opening of the first switch S1, the second switch S2, the third switch S3, the fourth switch S4 and the fifth switch S5 based on the voltage monitoring value and the current monitoring value.

Fig. 10 shows the drive signal control timing of the present embodiment, and the generation of the drive signal can be generated by the control & protector 900 in fig. 9. Each switch is preferably a MOS transistor switch.

In fig. 10, tf is a fall time, tr is a rise time, td is a delay time, and tw is one cycle duration.

Fig. 11 and 12 are schematic diagrams showing the operation states of the battery equalizer 400 during the charge accumulation period (the upper half cycle) and the charge release period (the lower half cycle), respectively, and the whole cycle realizes the charge transfer of the single battery Cell (Cell n) to the battery pack 20 by using the first capacitor C1, thereby realizing the energy transfer of the active equalization.

According to a more preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, referring to fig. 13, the active battery equalization apparatus 1000 includes a plurality of battery equalizers 400, one battery equalizer 400 for each battery cell 201, the battery equalizer 400 includes a first capacitor C1, a second capacitor C2, a third capacitor C3, and a switch set including a first switch S1, a second switch S2, a third switch S3, a fourth switch S4, a fifth switch S5, a sixth switch S6, a seventh switch S7, and an eighth switch S8.

In this embodiment, the battery equalizer 400 includes a charge transfer device, which itself includes a charge transfer capacitor (C1, C3), and the second capacitor C2 serves as an energy storage capacitor.

Fig. 14 shows a driving signal control timing of the battery equalizer 400 of the present disclosure.

Fig. 15 and 16 are schematic diagrams illustrating the operation states of the battery equalizer 400 during the charge accumulation period (the upper half cycle) and the charge release period (the lower half cycle), respectively, and the whole cycle realizes the energy transfer of active equalization by transferring the charge amount of the single battery Cell (Cell n) to the battery pack 20 through the first capacitor C1 and the third capacitor C3.

In fig. 15, the following conditions are satisfied:

V_Celln＝V_C1+V_C3+i_C1*R_tot

R_tot＝R_int+R_S1+R_S7+R_S2+R_C3ser+R_C1ser

V_BAT＝V_C2+i_C2*(R_C2ser+R_S5)

wherein R is_intIs the internal resistance of the battery cell 201.

The active battery equalization apparatus 1000 of the present disclosure may include a plurality of the above-described battery equalizers 400 (the battery equalizer 400 in fig. 7, the battery equalizer 400 in fig. 8, the battery equalizer 400 in fig. 9, or the battery equalizer 400 shown in fig. 13), referring to fig. 17.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a battery management system is provided, which includes the active battery balancing apparatus 1000 of any one of the above embodiments.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, the active battery balancing apparatus 1000 includes:

a plurality of battery equalizers (100, 300, 400), each battery equalizer corresponding to a cell 201 of the battery pack 20, the battery equalizers comprising:

a charge transfer device that transfers the charge of the battery cell 201; and an energy storage capacitor (102, 302, C2) that transfers at least the charge transferred by the charge transfer device into the battery pack 20.

Wherein, the number of the battery equalizers is more than two.

According to still another technical solution of the present disclosure, on the basis of the above technical solution, the charge transfer device 101 of the battery equalizer is disposed in a loop connecting two ends of the battery unit 201, one end of the energy storage capacitor 102 is connected to a positive terminal of the battery pack 20, and the other end of the energy storage capacitor 102 is connected to a negative terminal of the battery pack 20 or grounded.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, on the basis of the above-mentioned technical solution, the charge transfer device 101 of the battery equalizer boosts the cell voltage VCELL of the battery cell 201 to a first preset voltage greater than the battery pack voltage VBAT to charge the energy storage capacitor 102, and the energy storage capacitor 102 charges the battery pack 20 based on the first preset voltage greater than the battery pack voltage VBAT.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, based on the above aspect, the charge transfer device 101 of the battery equalizer is a multi-stage charge pump.

According to still another technical solution of the present disclosure, on the basis of the above technical solution, the charge transfer device 101 of the battery equalizer charges the energy storage capacitor 102 through the diode 103, and when the charge transfer device 101 charges the energy storage capacitor 102, the diode 103 is in forward conduction.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, in addition to the above aspect, a switching device is provided between the battery unit 201 and the charge transfer device 101, when the switching device is turned on, the battery unit 201 charges the energy storage capacitor 102 via the charge transfer device 101, and when the switching device is turned off, the charge transfer device 101 stops transferring charges to the energy storage capacitor 102.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the battery pack voltage of the battery pack 20 is lowered to a second preset voltage by the charge transfer device 301 to charge the battery cell 201.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the battery pack voltage of the battery pack 20 is reduced to the second preset voltage through the diode 303 via the charge transfer device 301, and the diode 303 is forward-conducted.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, a switching device is provided between the battery cell 201 and the charge transfer device 301, and when the switching device is turned on, the charge transfer device 301 charges the battery cell 201, and when the switching device is turned off, the charge transfer device 301 stops charging the battery cell 201.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, in the first half cycle of the discharge of the battery cell 201, the charge transfer device of the battery balancer 400 accumulates the charge from the battery cell 201, and the energy storage capacitor (C2) accumulates the charge from the pack voltage of the battery pack 20; during the next half-cycle of the discharge of the battery cell 201, the charge accumulated by the charge transfer device and the charge accumulated by the energy storage capacitor (C2) are transferred to the battery pack.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the charge transfer device of the battery equalizer 400 and the energy storage capacitor (C2) accumulate the charge from the battery pack voltage of the battery pack in the upper half cycle of the battery CELL charging, and the charge transfer device discharges the charge accumulated by the charge transfer device to the battery CELL 201(CELL) in the lower half cycle of the battery CELL 201 charging.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the charge transfer apparatus of the battery equalizer 400 includes a switch group and a charge transfer capacitor (C1), wherein the charge transfer capacitor (C1) is connected to a circuit in which two ends of the battery cell 201 are located through the switch group (S1, S2, S3, S4) to charge the charge transfer capacitor (C1) or discharge the charge accumulated by the charge transfer capacitor (C1) to the battery cell, or the charge transfer capacitor (C1) is connected in series with the energy storage capacitor (C2) to charge the battery pack or accumulate the charge from the battery pack voltage of the battery pack.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the battery balancer 400 further includes a fifth switch (C5), and the fifth switch (C5) connects the energy storage capacitor (C2) to the battery voltage of the battery pack by turning on or off or connects the energy storage capacitor (C2) in series with the charge transfer capacitor (C1).

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the switch set of the battery equalizer 400 includes a chopping switch 401, a third switch (C3), and a fourth switch (C4), and the charge transfer device further includes a third capacitor (C3) and a fourth capacitor (C4), the third capacitor (C3) is disposed between the first end of the charge transfer capacitor (C1) and the chopping switch 401, and the fourth capacitor (C4) is disposed between the second end of the charge transfer capacitor (C1) and the chopping switch 401.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the battery equalizer 400 further includes a control & protector 900, the control & protector 900 includes a first current detecting unit 901 and a second current detecting unit 902, the first current detecting unit 901 is configured to monitor a charging current and a discharging current of the charge transfer capacitor (C1), and the second current detecting unit 902 is configured to monitor a charging current and a discharging current of the energy storage capacitor (C2).

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the control & protection device 900 of the battery balancer 400 further includes a first voltage collecting part 903, a second voltage collecting part 904, a third voltage collecting part 905, and a fourth voltage collecting part 906, the first voltage collecting part 903 and the second voltage collecting part 904 collect voltages at both ends of a charge transfer capacitor (C1) to monitor the charge transfer capacitor (C1), the third voltage collecting part 905 monitors a battery pack voltage, and the fourth voltage collecting part 906 monitors voltages at both ends of an energy storage capacitor.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the charge transfer device of the battery equalizer 400 includes a first charge transfer capacitor (C1), a second charge transfer capacitor (C3), and a switch bank (S6, S7, S8, S3, S4), in a first half cycle of discharging the battery cell 201, the first charge transfer capacitor and the second charge transfer capacitor of the charge transfer device are in series connection through control of the switch bank to accumulate charges from the battery cell 201, and the energy storage capacitor (C2) accumulates charges from a battery voltage of the battery pack; during the next half-cycle of the battery cell 201 discharging, the charge accumulated by the charge transfer device and the charge accumulated by the energy storage capacitor are transferred to the battery pack.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the charge transfer device of the battery balancer 400 is connected in a loop in which both ends of the battery cell are located through a switching device (S1, S2), the switching device including a first switch connected to a positive terminal of the battery cell and a second switch connected to a negative terminal of the battery cell.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, the switch set of the battery balancer 400 includes a sixth switch, a seventh switch, an eighth switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch; a first terminal of a second charge transfer capacitor (C3) is connected to the positive terminal of the battery cell through a first switch; the first terminal of the second charge-transfer capacitance (C3) is also connected to the first terminal of the first charge-transfer capacitance through a sixth switch; the second end of the second charge transfer capacitor (C3) is connected with the first end of the first charge transfer capacitor through a seventh switch, and the second end of the second charge transfer capacitor (C3) is also connected with the second end of the first charge transfer capacitor through an eighth switch; the second end of the first charge transfer capacitor is also connected with the negative pole end of the battery unit through a second switch.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, in the next half-cycle of the discharging of the battery cell 201, the first charge transfer capacitor and the second charge transfer capacitor of the charge transfer device are connected in parallel under the control of the switch group, and are connected in series with the energy storage capacitor in common under the control of the fifth switch, so as to transfer the charges accumulated by the charge transfer device and the charges accumulated by the energy storage capacitor to the battery pack.

According to yet another aspect of the present disclosure, the battery active equalization apparatus 1000 is in the form of a semiconductor chip.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, a semiconductor chip is formed with the active battery balancing apparatus 1000 of any one of the above aspects.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, an electric device includes: a battery pack; and the battery management system, which performs active balancing on the battery pack 20 based on at least the battery active balancing device 1000. Refer to fig. 18.

The electric equipment may be an electric vehicle or the like.

In the description herein, reference to the description of the terms "one embodiment/mode," "some embodiments/modes," "example," "specific example" or "some examples" or the like means that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment/mode or example is included in at least one embodiment/mode or example of the present disclosure. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to be the same embodiment/mode or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments/modes or examples. Furthermore, the various embodiments/aspects or examples and features of the various embodiments/aspects or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without conflicting therewith.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present disclosure, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless explicitly specifically limited otherwise.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing embodiments are merely for clarity of illustration of the disclosure and are not intended to limit the scope of the disclosure. Other variations or modifications may occur to those skilled in the art, based on the foregoing disclosure, and are still within the scope of the present disclosure.

Claims

1. An active equalization device for a battery, comprising:

a charge transfer device that transfers charge of the battery cell; and

2. The active battery equalization device according to claim 1, wherein the charge transfer device is disposed in a loop connecting two ends of the battery unit, one end of the energy storage capacitor is connected to a positive terminal of the battery pack, and the other end of the energy storage capacitor is connected to a negative terminal of the battery pack or grounded.

3. The active battery equalization device as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the charge transfer device charges the energy storage capacitor to raise the voltage of the energy storage capacitor to a first predetermined voltage greater than the voltage of the battery pack, and the energy storage capacitor charges the battery pack based on the first predetermined voltage greater than the voltage of the battery pack.

4. The active equalization device according to any of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the charge transfer device is a multi-stage charge pump.

5. The active equalization apparatus for battery as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the charge transfer apparatus charges the energy storage capacitor through a first charge transfer direction control device, and the first charge transfer direction control device is turned on when the charge transfer apparatus charges the energy storage capacitor.

6. The active battery equalization device of claim 5 wherein a switch device is disposed between the battery cell and the charge transfer device, wherein when the switch device is turned on, the battery cell charges the energy storage capacitor via the charge transfer device, and when the switch device is turned off, the charge transfer device stops transferring charge to the energy storage capacitor.

7. The active equalization device for battery as claimed in claim 2, wherein the battery voltage of the battery pack is lowered to a second predetermined voltage by the charge transfer device to charge the battery cells.

8. A semiconductor chip characterized in that the active equalizing device for batteries according to any one of claims 1 to 7 is formed.

9. A battery management system, comprising: the active balancing device for batteries of any one of claims 1 to 7, which actively balances a battery pack.

10. An electrical device, comprising:

a battery pack; and

the battery management system of claim 9, the battery management system actively balancing the battery pack based at least on the battery active balancing means.