KR20120120889A - Apparatus and Method for estimating battery's state of health - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A battery capacity degeneration estimating apparatus and method are provided to prevent excessive charging and excessive discharging by controlling charge and discharge capacity of a battery according to capacity degeneration, thereby improving stability of the battery. CONSTITUTION: A battery capacity degeneration estimating apparatus comprises sensing units(101,103), a memory unit(106), and a controller(105). The sensing units measure voltage and current of a battery in the predetermined charge voltage section. The memory unit stores an ampere hour value according to SOH(State Of Heart) which is obtained from an ampere hour experiment of the battery. The controller integrates a current measuring value saved in the memory units and calculates the ampere hour value. The controller estimates an SOH value by mapping the SOH value corresponding to the ampere hour value from the ampere hour value according to the SOH. [Reference numerals] (100) Battery; (101) Voltage sensing unit; (102) Temperature sensing unit; (103) Current sensing unit; (105) Controller; (106) Memory unit; (107) Load

Description

Apparatus and Method for estimating battery's state of health}

The present invention relates to a device and a method for estimating a state of health (SOH), which is a parameter indicating a capacity decay of a battery. An apparatus and method for estimating the SOH of a battery using the same.

In general, an electric vehicle or a hybrid electric vehicle (hereinafter, these vehicles are referred to as electric driving vehicles) drives an automobile by using electric energy stored in a battery in an electric driving mode.

The battery used at this time is generally a secondary battery, deteriorates with repeated charge and discharge, and its performance is degraded. Therefore, in using the secondary battery, a technique for quantitatively evaluating the degree of capacity deterioration is required.

SOH is a parameter that quantitatively shows changes in the capacity characteristics of a battery due to the aging effect, and it shows how much the battery capacity has deteriorated. Therefore, if the SOH is known, the battery can be replaced at an appropriate time, and the overcharge and overdischarge of the battery can be prevented by adjusting the charge / discharge capacity of the battery according to the usage period of the battery.

Since the change in the battery capacity characteristics is reflected in the change in the internal resistance of the battery, it is known that the SOH can be estimated by the internal resistance and temperature of the battery. In other words, the battery capacity is measured according to the internal resistance and temperature of the battery through charge and discharge experiments. A look-up table for SOH mapping is then obtained by relative quantification of the measured capacity based on the initial capacity of the battery. Then, the SOH of the battery may be estimated by measuring the internal resistance and the temperature of the battery in an actual battery use environment and mapping the SOH corresponding to the internal resistance and the temperature from the lookup table.

However, the most important thing in the above-described SOH estimation method is how accurately the internal resistance of the battery can be obtained. However, it is practically impossible to directly measure the internal resistance of a battery during charge and discharge of the battery. Therefore, in general, the battery internal resistance is calculated indirectly by Ohm's law by measuring the voltage and charge / discharge current of the battery. However, since the voltage of the battery shows an error with the actual voltage due to the IR drop effect, and the current of the battery also has a measurement error, the internal resistance calculated by Ohm's law and the SOH estimated therefrom are not as reliable. have.

For reference, the IR drop phenomenon refers to a phenomenon in which the voltage changes rapidly when the battery is connected to the load to start discharging or when the battery starts charging from an external power source. That is, the battery voltage drops sharply when discharge starts, and the voltage rises sharply when charging starts.

Other examples of SOH estimation methods are full discharge tests, chemical tests, and ohmic tests. The full discharge test discharges the fully charged battery cell to the end and estimates the SOH by measuring the capacity of the battery cell. This method has the disadvantage of disturbing the operation of the system connected to the battery and wasting energy of the battery cells. The chemical test estimates the SOH by measuring the substrate corrosion of lead acid batteries and the electrolyte concentration. Ohm test estimates SOH by measuring resistance, conductance and impedance. These methods have the disadvantage of requiring invasive measurements on the battery. Therefore, in the case of an electric drive car, etc., in which a secondary battery is actually used, there is no need to disturb the system, waste energy of the battery, and a non-invasive method is required.

Another example of the SOH estimating method satisfying the above requirements is a method of estimating the state of charge (SOC) of the battery by integrating the charge / discharge current of the battery and estimating the SOH using the estimated SOC. This method has a limitation in that it is difficult to estimate reliable SOH because the accuracy of SOC used as basic data for SOH estimation becomes poor over time due to the continuous accumulation of measurement errors generated in measuring current.

Another example of the SOH estimation method is a method of estimating SOH using a Kalman filter or an extended Kalman filter. However, these methods use complex mathematical models to estimate SOH, which not only complicates the calculation process but also requires the high-performance central processor to implement the technology.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems of the prior art, and aims to provide a simple and accurate SOH estimation apparatus and method.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an SOH estimating apparatus and method capable of easily and accurately estimating SOH by using an SOH-specific integrated current value obtained from a current accumulation experiment of a battery that knows the actual degree of degeneration during SOH estimation.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for estimating SOH, which can further improve the accuracy of SOH estimation by estimating arithmetic mean or weighted average of a plurality of SOH values estimated at different time points as SOH values at the present time point. It is.

Battery capacity deterioration estimation apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem, the sensing unit for measuring the voltage and current of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section; A memory unit for storing the voltage measurement value and the current measurement value measured by the sensing unit, and the SOH-specific integrated current value obtained from an ampere counting experiment of a battery having a known degree of actual degeneration; The controller calculates an integrated current value by integrating a current measurement value stored in the memory unit in the charging voltage section, and estimates an SOH value by mapping an SOH value corresponding to the integrated current value from the integrated current value for each SOH stored in the memory unit. It includes;

According to an aspect of the present invention, the controller may store the estimated SOH value in a memory unit and estimate the SOH value by averaging the estimated SOH value and a previous SOH value stored in the memory unit.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the control unit stores the estimated SOH value in the memory unit, and weighted average of the estimated SOH value and the previous SOH value stored in the memory unit Large weight) to estimate the SOH value.

In the present invention, the charging voltage section preferably includes a voltage section of 3.7 V to 4 V.

Preferably, the controller may output the estimated SOH value stored in the memory unit to the display device.

Battery capacity deterioration estimation apparatus according to another aspect of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem, the sensing unit for measuring the voltage, current and temperature of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section; A memory unit configured to store the voltage measurement value, the current measurement value, and the temperature measurement value measured by the sensing unit, and the SOH-specific integrated current value according to the temperature obtained from the current integration experiment according to the temperature of the battery which knows the actual degree of degeneration; And calculating an integrated current value by integrating the current measurement value stored in the memory unit in the charging voltage section, and calculating the integrated current value and the SOH value corresponding to the temperature of the battery from the integrated current value for each SOH according to the temperature stored in the memory unit. And a controller configured to estimate the SOH value by mapping.

According to the present invention, the controller calculates an average temperature of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section and maps the integrated current value and the SOH value corresponding to the average temperature from the integrated current value for each SOH according to the temperature stored in the memory unit. The SOH value can be estimated.

Battery capacity deterioration estimation method according to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the technical problem, (a) storing the accumulated current value for each SOH obtained from the current integration experiment of the battery knows the actual degree of degeneration; (b) measuring the voltage and current of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section and storing the voltage measurement value and the current measurement value; (c) calculating an integrated current value by integrating the stored current measurement value in the charging voltage section; And (d) estimating an SOH value by mapping the integrated current value from the stored SOH-specific integrated current values.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for estimating battery capacity deterioration, comprising: (a) storing an integrated current value for each SOH according to a temperature obtained from a current integration experiment of a battery having a known degree of actual degeneration; (b) measuring voltage, current, and temperature of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section and storing the voltage measurement value, the current measurement value, and the temperature measurement value; (c) calculating an integrated current value by integrating the stored current measurement value in the charging voltage section; And (d) estimating the SOH value by mapping the integrated current value and the battery temperature from the integrated current value for each SOH according to the stored temperature.

According to the present invention, capacity decay of a battery can be estimated without going through complicated calculations. In addition, accurate estimation of battery capacity deterioration enables various applications, such as estimating battery replacement time. Furthermore, by accurately estimating capacity deterioration and adjusting the charge / discharge capacity of the battery according to the capacity deterioration of the battery, it is possible to further improve the safety of the battery by preventing overcharge and overdischarge.

The following drawings attached to this specification are illustrative of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and together with the detailed description of the invention to serve to further understand the technical spirit of the present invention, the present invention is a matter described in such drawings It should not be construed as limited to.
1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a functional configuration of an apparatus for estimating battery capacity according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a graph showing a profile in which a charging voltage section according to an embodiment of the present invention is integrated with current measurement values in a voltage section of 3.7V to 4V.
3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a method for estimating battery capacity deterioration according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a method of estimating battery capacity deterioration according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an apparatus for estimating battery capacity according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a battery capacity deterioration estimating apparatus according to the present invention is connected between a battery 100 and a load 107, and includes a voltage sensing unit 101, a current sensing unit 103, and a sense resistor 104. And a control unit 105 and a memory unit 106.

The battery 100 includes one or more cells, and the type of the battery is not particularly limited. A lithium ion battery, a lithium polymer battery, a nickel cadmium battery, a nickel hydride battery, a nickel zinc battery, which can be recharged and require a state of charge And the like.

The type of the load 107 is not particularly limited, and may be configured as a portable electronic device such as a video camera, a portable telephone, a portable PC, a PMP, or an MP3 player, a motor of an electric vehicle or a hybrid vehicle, a DC to DC converter, or the like. .

The voltage sensing unit 101 periodically measures the voltage of the battery and outputs the voltage measurement value to the control unit 105. The voltage of the battery refers to the output voltage of the battery and is measured while the battery is being charged or discharged. The voltage of the battery has a value between the discharge end voltage and the charge upper limit voltage.

The current sensing unit 103 measures the current flowing through the sense resistor 104 and outputs it to the control unit 105. When the battery 100 is charged, a charging current flows through the sense resistor 104, and conversely, when the battery 100 is discharged, a discharge current flows through the sense resistor 104.

The controller 105 receives the voltage measurement value of the battery output from the voltage sensing unit 101 and stores the measured voltage in the memory unit 106. In addition, the control unit 105 receives a battery current measurement value output from the current sensing unit 103 and stores it in the memory unit 106. The memory unit 106 is formed of a mass storage medium such as a hard disk or a semiconductor device known in the art that can record and erase data such as RAM, ROM, EEPROM, and the like.

On the other hand, the memory unit 106 is previously stored in the SOH mapping table for estimating the SOH value through the mapping. Table 1 below shows an example of the SOH mapping table.

The SOH mapping table includes an integrated current value for each SOH. The integrated current value for each SOH is obtained through current integration experiments performed on a plurality of batteries having a known SOH value in a predetermined charging voltage section. For example, select 31 batteries whose SOH values are in the range of 70% to 100% and increase the SOH value by 70% to 1%, discharge each battery fully, and charge the battery to the full charge voltage. The current integration experiment is performed in the voltage section to obtain the integrated current value for each SOH.

Preferably, the charging voltage section is set to a voltage section showing a stable change behavior of the charging voltage of the battery. For example, the charging voltage section may be set to include a voltage section of 3.7V to 4.0V.

On the other hand, the charging voltage section is only one embodiment and does not represent all of the technical spirit of the present invention, it should be understood that it is possible to set a variety of charging voltage section that can replace them at the time of the present application. In addition, the current integration method is a method widely known in the art to which the present invention belongs, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The control unit 105 calculates an integrated current value by integrating the current measurement value of the battery with reference to the voltage measurement value and the current measurement value of the battery stored in the memory unit 106 and stores the calculated integrated current value in the memory unit 106. ). Here, it is preferable that the measured current value of the battery integrated for calculating the integrated current value is measured in a predetermined charging voltage section. Preferably, the charging voltage section is substantially the same as the voltage section in which the current is accumulated in the current integration experiment conducted for the configuration of the SOH mapping table.

Referring to FIG. 2, the charging voltage section according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a graph showing how the integrated current value is obtained by integrating the current measurement value in the voltage section of 3.7V to 4.0V.

When the integrated current value is calculated in the predetermined charging voltage section, the controller 105 estimates the SOH value by mapping the SOH value corresponding to the calculated integrated current value from the SOH-specific integrated current value stored in the memory unit 106. .

That is, the control unit 105 maps the SOH value corresponding to the integrated current value calculated in the predetermined charging voltage section by referring to the integrated current value for each SOH stored in the memory unit 106 (Table 1). You can simply estimate the SOH value of the battery.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the control unit 105 stores the SOH value estimated at the present time in the memory unit 106 and stores the average value of the estimated SOH value and the previous SOH value stored in the memory unit 106. It can be estimated from the SOH value of the battery. Since the SOH value of the battery does not change rapidly with time, estimating the average value of the previous SOH value and the current SOH value as the SOH value may solve the problem of sudden change of the SOH value due to unknown causes.

For example, the controller 105 may estimate an arithmetic mean value of the SOH value estimated at the present time and the SOH values estimated in the past as the SOH value using Equation 1 below.

In Equation 1, SOH _n represents the SOH value estimated at the present time, and SOH _{n -1} to SOH ₁ represent the SOH values estimated in the past. The number of SOH values that can be considered in the calculation of the average SOH is appropriately controllable, and as the number of SOH values estimated in the past increases, the robustness to sudden changes in the SOH values is obtained.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the controller 105 may estimate the weighted average value of the SOH values estimated at the present time and the SOH values estimated in the past as SOH values using Equation 2 below.

In Equation 2, SOH _n represents an SOH value estimated at the present time, and SOH _{n -1} to SOH ₁ represent SOH values estimated in the past. The number of SOH values that can be considered in the calculation of the weighted average SOH is appropriately adjustable, and as the number of SOH values estimated in the past increases, the robustness against sudden changes in the SOH values is obtained. A _k tends to decrease as the k value increases. For example, when n = 100, the A _k value may have a value starting from 100 and decreasing by 1 as the k value increases. In an alternative example, A _{n −2} to A ₁ may be set to 0 in Equation 2 above. Even in this case, the tendency of the A _k value remains the same as described above. For example, it is possible to give a relatively large value to A _{n -1} than A _n. For example, values of 10 and 90 can be assigned to A _n and A _{n -1} , respectively.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the controller 105 may output the estimated SOH value to an external display device. The display device is not particularly limited as long as the display device can visually display the estimated SOH value. For example, the display device may be a liquid crystal display, an LCD display, an LED display, or the like.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the controller 105 may transmit the estimated SOH value to an external computing device through a network interface. When the battery 100 is a battery mounted in an electric vehicle, the external computing device may be a electronic device mounted in an automobile or a diagnosis device used to inspect the automobile.

On the other hand, the battery capacity deterioration estimation apparatus according to the present invention may further include a temperature sensing unit 103 to further use the temperature of the battery in the process of estimating the SOH value of the battery.

The temperature sensing unit 103 periodically measures the temperature of the battery and outputs the temperature measurement value to the control unit 105. Then, the controller 105 stores the temperature measurement value of the battery in the memory unit 106.

When the battery temperature is used to estimate the SOH value, the SOH mapping table stored in the memory unit 106 may be modified as shown in Table 2 below.

Referring to Table 2, the SOH mapping table has a data structure capable of mapping SOH values according to battery temperature. This SOH mapping table can be obtained by performing the above-described current integration experiment while variously adjusting the temperature of the battery.

When the temperature of the battery is used when estimating the SOH value, the controller 105 calculates an integrated current value in a predetermined charging voltage section according to the above-described method, and then refers to the SOH lookup table stored in the memory unit 106. The SOH value corresponding to the calculated integrated current value may be mapped from the SOH-specific integrated current value corresponding to the temperature measurement value of the battery to estimate the SOH value at the present time. Of course, even in this case, it is apparent that the control unit 105 may estimate the SOH value as an average value of the plurality of SOH values by using Equation 1 or 2 described above.

On the other hand, when the temperature of the battery does not have a constant value in the charging voltage section in which the integrated current value is calculated, the controller 105 may calculate the average temperature of the battery in the charging voltage section and estimate the SOH value using the average temperature. have. Since the SOH value of the battery depends on the temperature of the battery, the SOH value can be estimated more accurately by considering the temperature.

The controller 105 may be configured as a microprocessor capable of executing code programmed with the method for estimating battery capacity deterioration according to the present invention, and may include a logic circuit implementing the control flow of the method for estimating battery capacity deterioration according to the present invention. It can also be configured as a chip, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

The battery capacity deterioration estimating apparatus according to the present invention described above may be used in combination with a battery pack driving device which is powered from a battery pack.

For example, the present invention may be included and used in various electronic products that receive a driving voltage from a battery, such as a laptop, a mobile phone, and a personal portable multimedia player.

As another example, the present invention may be used in combination with various power units equipped with batteries such as fossil fuel vehicles, electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, and electric bicycles.

In addition, the battery capacity deterioration estimating apparatus according to the present invention may be included in a battery management system (BMS) that controls charging and discharging of a battery pack and protects the battery pack from overcharging or overdischarging.

Furthermore, the battery capacity deterioration estimating apparatus according to the present invention can be included in a battery pack and used.

Next, a battery capacity deterioration estimation method using the above-described battery capacity deterioration estimating apparatus will be described.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of estimating battery capacity deterioration according to an embodiment of the present invention. First, the controller 105 stores the integrated current value for each SOH in the memory unit (S10). Since the method and data structure of acquiring the integrated current value for each SOH have been described in detail with reference to Table 1, repeated description thereof will be omitted. On the other hand, in order to perform step S10, the control unit 105 may be linked with an interface that can receive the SOH integrated current value. The interface may be a data communication interface, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

Next, the control unit 105 determines whether the charging mode of the battery is in progress above the lower limit voltage of the predetermined charging voltage section (S20). If it is determined that the charging mode of the battery is in progress (YES in S20), the controller 105 measures the voltage and current of the battery and stores the voltage measurement value and the current measurement value of the battery in the memory unit 106. (S30). On the other hand, if it is determined that the charging mode of the battery is not in progress (NO in S20), the controller 105 ends the estimation process of the SOH value.

       Step S30 is preferably repeated periodically during the charging of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section, for example, a voltage section including 3.7V to 4.0V. To this end, the controller 105 proceeds to step S30 and then determines whether the charging voltage of the battery exceeds the upper limit of the predetermined charging voltage section (S40).

If the voltage of the battery does not exceed the upper limit of the predetermined charging voltage section (NO in S40), the controller 105 proceeds to step S30 to display the voltage measurement value and the current measurement value of the battery in the memory unit 106. Retry the operation to save.

On the other hand, if the voltage of the battery exceeds the upper limit of the predetermined charging voltage section, the controller 105 calculates an integrated current value by integrating the current measurement value measured in the predetermined charging voltage section (S50).

When the integrated current value is calculated, the controller 105 maps the SOH value corresponding to the calculated integrated current value with reference to the integrated current value for each SOH stored in the memory unit 106 to map the SOH value at the present time for the battery. It is estimated (S60). For example, when the integrated current value is 16.89mAh, the SOH value is estimated to 97% (see Table 1).

As an alternative to step S60, the controller 105 may estimate the SOH value at the current time for the battery as the average value of the SOH value estimated at the present time and the previously estimated SOH value. In this case, since the method of calculating the average value has been described above with reference to Equations 1 and 2, repeated description thereof will be omitted.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of estimating battery capacity deterioration according to another embodiment of the present invention.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the controller 105 estimates the SOH value of the battery in consideration of the integrated current value calculated in the predetermined charging voltage section and the temperature of the battery.

To this end, the controller 105 stores the integrated current value for each SOH according to the temperature in the memory unit 106 (P10). The method and data structure of acquiring the integrated current value for each SOH according to temperature have been described with reference to Table 2, and thus repetitive description thereof will be omitted.

Next, the control unit 105 determines whether or not the charging mode of the battery proceeds above the lower limit voltage of the predetermined charging voltage section (P20); Measuring voltage, current, and temperature of the battery and storing the voltage measurement value, the current measurement value, and the temperature measurement value in the memory unit 106 when the battery charging mode is in progress (P30); Determining whether the voltage of the battery exceeds the upper limit of the predetermined charging voltage (P40); Repeatedly storing the voltage measurement value, the current measurement value, and the temperature measurement value of the battery in the memory unit 106 when the charging voltage of the battery does not exceed the upper limit of the predetermined charging voltage (NO in P40); When the voltage of the battery exceeds the upper limit of the predetermined charging voltage, the integrated current value is calculated by integrating the stored current measurement value in the charging voltage section (P50).

Here, the steps P20 to P50 are substantially the same as the above steps S20 to S50 except that the temperature measurement value of the battery is stored in the memory unit 106.

When the integrated current value is calculated, the controller 105 maps the calculated integrated current value and the SOH value corresponding to the battery temperature by referring to the integrated current value for each SOH according to the temperature stored in the memory unit 106. Estimate the SOH value for the battery of (P60). For example, when the battery temperature is 20 degrees and the integrated current value is 12.53 mAh, the SOH value is estimated to be 72% (see Table 2). On the other hand, when the battery temperature is not constant in the charging voltage section, it is preferable to use the average temperature of the temperature measurement value obtained in the charging voltage section of the battery.

As another alternative to step P60, the controller 105 may estimate the SOH value of the current time point for the battery as an average value of the SOH value estimated at the present time point and the previously estimated SOH value. In this case, since the method of calculating the average value has been described above with reference to Equations 1 and 2, repeated description thereof will be omitted.

The method may be embodied in computer-implemented processes and apparatus for implementation. The method may also be implemented by storing computer program code on a floppy diskette, CD-ROM, hard drive, or any form of computer readable storage device. At this time, the computer is a device for executing the method by the computer program code contained in the storage device is read and executed by the computer. The method may also be embodied in the form of data signals transmitted to storage devices or conductors, cables, optical fibers, electromagnetic waves, or the like, which are read and executed by a computer. In this case, the computer receives the storage device or the data signal and is read and executed by the computer to implement the method.

<Experimental Example>

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail by experimental examples. However, experimental examples are only examples of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

First, an experiment was performed with a lithium secondary battery having a capacity of 43 Ah and SOH 100%. After the lithium secondary battery with full discharge was connected to the charging device, the lithium secondary battery was placed in a chamber for maintaining the lithium secondary battery at room temperature. Then, while charging the battery at a constant voltage, the charging current was measured from when the voltage of the battery corresponds to 3V until the voltage of the battery reaches 4V. The integrated current value was calculated by integrating the measured current value, and as a result, 26.88091Ah was charged for 4501 seconds.

Next, the same experiment was conducted with the batteries having SOH of 98%, 97%, 77% and 72%. As a result, 26.34897Ah for 4441 seconds for batteries with SOH 98%, 26.22061Ah for 4416 seconds for batteries with SOH 97%, 20.94577Ah for 3504 seconds for batteries with SOH 77% and 19.12639Ah for 3201 seconds for batteries with SOH 72% Was charged.

Table 3 below compares the actual experimental data with the case of calculating the expected integrated current value according to SOH using the above experimental results. In calculating the expected integrated current value according to SOH, first, 26.88091Ah, which is an integrated current value of a battery having SOH of 100%, is set as a reference value. Then, multiply each SOH by the reference value to calculate an expected integrated current value according to SOH. This calculation method is based on the premise that the integrated current value decreases at a constant rate in accordance with SOH in the voltage section.

Referring to Table 3, it can be seen that the integrated current value and the actual integrated current value calculated according to the reference value are different from each other. Specifically, when the SOH is 98%, 97%, the error is not relatively large, but when the SOH is 77%, 72% it can be seen that the error is larger. Since the decrease in capacity due to the deterioration of the battery does not occur at a constant rate in all voltage sections, an error occurs as described above. In addition, it can be seen that as the SOH decreases, the error becomes larger.

Therefore, it can be seen that using the accumulated current value obtained through actual experiments can reduce the error, rather than the integrated current value calculated by simple ratio calculation as basic data for estimating the SOH of the battery.

In addition, Table 4 below compares the estimated SOH and the actual SOH based on a simple ratio between the reference value and the actual integrated current value. SOH estimation based on a simple ratio is obtained by dividing the integrated current value by a reference value and estimating the ratio as SOH.

Referring to Table 4, when the SOH is estimated according to the simple ratio of the integrated current value, it can be seen that the actual SOH and the error occurs. Moreover, since the error will accumulate as the number of charge / discharge cycles of the battery increases, it is obvious that the estimated SOH value will have a larger error. Therefore, it can be seen that the accuracy of SOH estimation can be improved by estimating SOH using the integrated current value obtained through actual experiments.

In this experimental example, when the SOH of the battery is estimated using the SOH integrated current value obtained from the current accumulation experiment of the battery which knows the actual degree of degradation, the SOH of the battery can be easily estimated, and the estimated SOH is also accurate. You can see this improvement.

According to the present invention described above, it is possible to estimate the capacity decay of the battery without going through a complicated calculation, unlike the prior art. In addition, the estimation of the capacity deterioration of the battery using the actual experimental data has high reliability, and thus various applications such as estimation of the replacement time of the battery are possible. Furthermore, by controlling the charge and discharge capacity of the battery according to capacity deterioration, it is possible to prevent overcharging and overdischarging, thereby further improving the safety of the battery.

Meanwhile, in describing the present invention, each component of the battery capacity deterioration estimating apparatus of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 or the like should be understood as logically divided components rather than physically divided components.

That is, each configuration corresponds to a logical component in order to realize the technical idea of the present invention, so that even if each component is integrated or separated, if the function performed by the logical configuration of the present invention can be realized, It should be construed that it is within the scope, and that components that perform the same or similar functions should be construed as being within the scope of the present invention regardless of whether their names are consistent.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the details thereof and that various changes and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art. And various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of the appended claims.

100: battery pack 101: voltage sensing unit
102: temperature sensing unit 103: current sensing unit
104: sense resistor 105: control unit
106: memory 107: load

Claims (18)

A sensing unit measuring a voltage and a current of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section;
A memory unit configured to store the accumulated current value for each SOH obtained from the current counting experiment of the battery having the voltage measurement value and the current measurement value measured by the sensing unit and the actual degree of degeneration; And
The integrated current value is calculated by integrating the current measurement value stored in the memory unit in the charging voltage section, and the SOH value corresponding to the integrated current value is mapped from the integrated current value for each state of health stored in the memory unit. And a control unit for estimating an SOH value. Sensing unit for measuring the voltage, current and temperature of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section;
A memory unit configured to store the voltage measurement value, the current measurement value, and the temperature measurement value measured by the sensing unit, and the SOH-specific integrated current value according to the temperature obtained from the current integration experiment according to the temperature of the battery which knows the actual degree of degeneration; And
The integrated current value is calculated by integrating the current measurement value stored in the memory unit in the charging voltage section, and the SOH value corresponding to the integrated current value and the temperature of the battery is calculated from the integrated current value for each SOH according to the temperature stored in the memory unit. And a controller which maps and estimates the SOH value. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
And storing the calculated SOH value in a memory unit and estimating the SOH value by averaging the calculated SOH value and a previous SOH value stored in the memory unit. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
Storing the calculated SOH value in the memory unit and estimating the SOH value by weighted average of the calculated SOH value and the previous SOH value stored in the memory unit (the larger the SOH value at which the measurement point is earlier). A battery capacity deterioration estimation apparatus characterized by the above-mentioned. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The charging voltage section is a battery capacity deterioration estimation apparatus comprising a voltage section of 3.7V to 4V. 3. The apparatus according to claim 1 or 2,
And storing the estimated SOH value in the memory unit. 7. The apparatus of claim 6,
And outputting the estimated SOH value stored in the memory unit to the display device. 3. The apparatus of claim 2,
Computing an average temperature of the temperature measured value measured in the charging voltage section to estimate the SOH value by mapping the SOH value corresponding to the integrated current value and the average temperature from the SOH integrated current value according to the temperature stored in the memory unit Battery capacity deterioration estimation apparatus, characterized in that. (a) storing the accumulated current value for each SOH obtained from the ampere counting experiment of the battery which knows the actual degree of degeneration;
(b) measuring the voltage and current of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section and storing the voltage measurement value and the current measurement value;
(c) calculating an integrated current value by integrating the stored current measurement value in the charging voltage section; And
(d) estimating an SOH value by mapping the integrated current value from the stored SOH-specific integrated current values. (a) storing the integrated current value for each SOH according to the temperature obtained from the current integration experiment of the battery according to the temperature at which the actual degree of degradation is known;
(b) measuring voltage, current, and temperature of the battery in a predetermined charging voltage section and storing the voltage measurement value, the current measurement value, and the temperature measurement value;
(c) calculating an integrated current value by integrating the stored current measurement value in the charging voltage section; And
(d) estimating the SOH value by mapping the integrated current value and the battery temperature from the integrated current value for each SOH according to the stored temperature. The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein the step (d),
Storing the estimated SOH value; And
Estimating the SOH value by averaging the calculated SOH value and the previous SOH value. The method of claim 9 or 10, wherein the step (d),
Storing the calculated SOH value; And
And estimating the SOH value by weighted average of the calculated SOH value and the previous SOH value (the higher the SOH value is, the faster the measurement time point is). 11. The method according to claim 9 or 10,
The charging voltage section is a battery capacity degradation estimation method comprising a voltage section of 3.7V to 4V. 11. The method according to claim 9 or 10,
And storing the estimated SOH value. 15. The method of claim 14,
And outputting the stored SOH value to a display device. The method of claim 10, wherein step (d)
Calculating an average temperature of the temperature measurement value in the charging voltage section; And
And estimating an SOH value by mapping the average temperature and the accumulated current value from the accumulated current value for each SOH according to a temperature. A battery pack comprising the battery capacity deterioration estimating apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 8. A battery driving apparatus comprising the battery capacity deterioration estimating apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 8.

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