TW201906271A - Multi-battery power management system and power control device thereof capable of effectively improving battery efficiency, and extending use time and service life of the battery - Google Patents

Abstract

A multi-battery power management system of the present invention includes N batteries and a power control device. N is a positive integer. The power control device is configured to form a charging/discharging circuit by N-1 batteries, and separately detect the individual storage capacities of the N batteries. The battery that is not allocated in the charging/discharging circuit is defined as an offline battery. When the result of comparing the respective storage capacities of the N-1 batteries with the storage capacity of the offline battery meets a switching condition, the power control device selects one of the N-1 batteries to be disconnected from the charging/discharging circuit, and adds the offline battery into the charging/discharging circuit. The disconnected battery becomes a new offline battery. In this way, the multi-battery power management system can effectively improve battery efficiency, and can also extend use time and service life of the battery.

Description

 Multi-cell battery power management system  

The present invention relates to a multi-cell battery device, and more particularly to a multi-cell battery power management system.

Batteries are widely used in a variety of electronic products, and usually use a multi-cell battery structure, that is, a plurality of batteries connected in series or in parallel to supply power required for the operation of electronic products.

Conventional multi-cell batteries are charged to all batteries at the same time, but because these batteries are connected to each other, if one of the batteries is abnormal, abnormalities such as overvoltage, low voltage or damage will cause multiple sections. The battery is not working properly, or the function of the multi-cell battery is invalid.

Furthermore, in order to balance the output voltage of a multi-cell battery, an additional balancing circuit is usually required to stabilize the output voltage. In addition, the estimation of the storage capacity of a general multi-cell battery is not performed when it is offline, and therefore, it is susceptible to the internal resistance of the battery, resulting in a low battery estimation accuracy.

In view of the above-mentioned deficiencies, the present invention aims to provide a power management system for a multi-cell battery, which can improve battery life and life, reduce the space and cost occupied by the conventional balance circuit, and balance the charging and discharging efficiency of the battery.

To achieve the above object, a power management system for a multi-cell battery of the present invention includes N batteries and a power control device. N is a positive integer. The power control device forms N-1 batteries into a charging/discharging circuit and separately detects the respective storage capacities of the N batteries. The battery that is not allocated in the charging/discharging circuit is defined as an offline battery. When the respective storage capacities of the N-1 batteries are respectively compared with the storage capacity of the offline battery, the power control device selects one of the N-1 batteries to be disconnected from the charging/discharging circuit, according to the switching condition. The offline battery is added to the charging/discharging circuit, and the disconnected battery becomes the new offline battery.

In this way, the power management system of the multi-cell battery of the present invention can effectively distribute power by one more battery, and can also achieve stable charging or discharging of each battery through the control of the power control device to reach each battery. The balance of storage capacity.

The detailed construction, features, assembly or use of the power management system for the multi-cell battery provided by the present invention will be described in the detailed description of the subsequent embodiments. However, it should be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention is not limited by the scope of the invention.

10‧‧‧Multi-cell battery power management system

11, 13‧‧‧

31-36‧‧‧Battery

50‧‧‧Power control unit

51-56‧‧‧Switching circuit

511-516‧‧‧Series switch

513-563‧‧‧ Bypass switch

57‧‧‧ Controller

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing the composition of a power management system for a multi-cell battery of the present invention.

Hereinafter, the components of the power management system of the multi-cell battery of the present invention and the achievement of the effects will be described with reference to the preferred embodiments of the drawings. However, the components, dimensions, and appearance of the power management system of the multi-cell battery in each of the drawings are only used to illustrate the technical features of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention.

The figure is a block diagram of the power management system of the multi-cell battery of the present invention. The power management system of the multi-cell battery of the present invention is applied to a power system, and the power system may be a portable computer, a mobile phone, an electric vehicle, an electric motor vehicle, a portable small household appliance, and the like, which are required to operate through a battery.

As shown in FIG. 1, the multi-cell battery power management system 10 is connected to the above-described power system by the both ends 11, 13 and includes six batteries 31-36 and a power control device 50. The power control device 50 selects five batteries 31-35 out of the six batteries 31-36 to form a charging/discharging circuit, and will respectively detect the respective storage capacities of the six batteries 31-36, among which are not allocated. The battery 36 in the charge/discharge circuit is defined as an offline battery.

It should be noted that the sum total voltage of the battery configuration of the conventional power system is equal to the voltage required by the power system, that is, there is no additional offline (idle) battery, but the present invention is configured in addition to the power required by the power system. In addition to the battery, an additional battery is added. Therefore, in this embodiment, N is 6, and N-1 (equal to 5) batteries form a charging/discharging circuit that is required by the power system, and the offline battery can rest and wait. distribution.

Although the number of offline batteries in this embodiment is one, in practice, the number of offline batteries may also be two or more. When the offline battery is designed to be two or more, those skilled in the art can still understand that the total number of batteries will increase through the description of the present invention, and the number of batteries in the charging/discharging circuit should be N-2 or NX, and X indicates that there are More than two offline batteries.

When the result of comparing the respective storage capacities of the five batteries 31-35 with the storage capacity of the offline battery respectively meets a switching condition, the power source control device 50 selects one of the five batteries 31-35 from the charging/discharging circuit. The middle is disconnected, and the offline battery 36 is added to the charging/discharging circuit, and the disconnected battery becomes a new offline battery.

Because the power control device includes charging and discharging applications, the switching conditions will vary depending on the charging application and the discharging application. Please refer to the differences for details.

The offline battery can effectively use the Le Chatelier's principle, which allows the battery voltage to be slightly boosted during breaks. Moreover, the battery is disconnected from the charging/discharging circuit (ie, the offline battery) for measurement, and the internal resistance of the battery can be avoided to cause a voltage measurement error, thereby improving the accuracy of estimating the storage capacity of the offline battery.

Furthermore, regardless of any of the six batteries during charging or discharging, such as an overvoltage or a low voltage, the state of the abnormal battery can be detected by the power source control device 50, and the battery becomes an offline battery. Can improve the safety of multi-cell batteries.

Referring to FIG. 1 again, the power control device 50 includes six switching circuits 51-56 and a controller 57. The number of switching circuits 51-56 is equal to the number of batteries, that is, N and M defined in the request are both representative values of 6. The six switching circuits 51-56 are connected to the six batteries 31-36 one to one. The controller 57 connects the six switching circuits 51-56 and controls the six switching circuits 51-56 to form a charging/discharging circuit. In other words, the controller 57 has a plurality of ports for connecting the six switching circuits 51-56, and the controller 57 has a plurality of ports. This is understood in the art and will not be described herein.

Each of the switching circuits 51-56 includes a series switch 511-561 and a bypass switch 513-563. The series switches 511-561 are connected in series to the batteries 31-36, the bypass switches 513-563 are connected to the series switches 511-561 and the batteries 31-36, and are connected in parallel with the series switches 511-561 and the batteries 31-36.

Wherein, N and M each represent a specific value, and therefore, those skilled in the art can easily understand that the numerical value is not changeable. The series switch and the bypass switch of the switching circuit may be a circuit composed of a transistor, a diode or the above active components.

The charging/discharging circuit is formed by controlling the switching circuits through a controller. For example, when the battery in the charging/discharging circuit is switched to a new offline battery, and the original offline battery is added to the charging/discharging circuit, the controller can disconnect the series switch of the switching circuit connecting the new offline battery, and The bypass switch is turned on, so that the new offline battery will not be charged or discharged, and the series switch of the switching circuit connected to the original offline battery is turned on, and the bypass switch is turned off, so that the original offline battery is added to the charging/discharging circuit. Charge or discharge.

The above description shows the composition of the power management system of the multi-cell battery of the present invention, and then details the discharge application and charging application, and the control operation of the controller. Wherein, the above charging/discharging circuit is subsequently described by a discharge circuit during discharge application, and by a charging circuit during charging application, in other words, the charging/discharging circuit means that it can be used as a charging application or a discharging application, not simultaneously Do charging applications and discharge applications.

In the discharge application, as shown in Table 1 below, the battery numbers 1-6 in the table represent a total of six batteries, that is, the power control device also has six switching circuits. The power storage error is a dynamic monitoring of the difference between the maximum storage capacity of the battery 1-6 and the minimum storage capacity in accordance with the power state of the battery. The representation of the offline battery is to indicate the storage capacity of the battery by bold black and bottom lines.

Initially, the storage capacity of the batteries 1-6 is significantly different, which is also the actual condition of the battery. The controller first detects the battery capacity of 1-6, that is, the battery voltage. In this embodiment, the controller controls the bypass switch of all the switching circuits to be turned off, and the series switch is turned on to measure the battery voltage of all the batteries. Then, five of the batteries 1-6 are selected as the power supply. In this embodiment, the battery 1-5 is selected as the discharge circuit at the initial time, and the battery 6 is used as the offline battery, which also indicates that the switching circuit for connecting the batteries 1-5 The series switch is turned on, the bypass switch is turned off, but the battery 6 is at rest, and the series switch of the switching circuit that connects the battery 6 is turned off, and the bypass switch is turned on.

Next, the controller detects the respective storage capacities of the batteries 1-5 in the discharge circuit and the storage capacity of the offline battery 6, and compares the storage capacity of the batteries 1-5 with the storage capacity of the offline batteries 6, respectively. Then, when the result of comparing the storage capacity of the battery 1-5 with the storage capacity of the offline battery 6 conforms to the switching condition, it can be found that the storage capacity (minimum storage capacity) of the battery 5 is smaller than the storage capacity of the offline battery 6, and the minimum storage capacity. The difference from the storage capacity of the offline battery 6 reaches 0.1 Ah (predetermined value), and therefore, the controller judges that the result meets the switching condition. Therefore, the controller controls the switching operation of the battery 5 to be connected, so that the battery 5 becomes a new offline battery to temporarily rest the battery 5, and at the same time, the battery 6 (the original offline battery) is added to the discharge circuit.

In the present embodiment, the predetermined value of the previous period is set to 0.1 Ah, and the predetermined value of the latter stage is set to 0.2 Ah. Therefore, it is easily understood in the art that the predetermined values may be the same or stepwise adjusted, and thus are not limited.

In this way, the controller continuously performs the above process to determine whether the storage capacity of each battery being discharged is lower than the offline battery, and whether the difference between the storage capacity of the offline battery and the minimum storage capacity meets a predetermined value, and if so, The battery with the minimum storage capacity is switched to the new offline battery. At the same time, the switching circuit connecting the original offline battery is controlled by the controller, so that the original offline battery is added into the discharge circuit to achieve stable power supply and substantially balance the discharge voltage of each battery. If it does not match, the controller does not switch.

Therefore, it can be seen from Table 1 that the batteries 1-6 have an opportunity to become an off-line battery (the storage capacity is a thick black body and have a bottom line), and each battery is fully discharged.

In addition, it can be seen from Table 1 that the storage battery error is varied. At the initial value, the storage capacity of the battery 1-6 varies greatly, but after a continuous discharge operation, the storage error value gradually decreases, which also indicates that the discharge is more balanced. . When the controller detects that two or more batteries in the discharge loop meet the switching conditions, the controller converts the battery to a new offline battery.

The operation and judgment logic of the charging application are almost the same as the discharge. The difference is that the charging application is to gradually increase the storage capacity of the battery. Therefore, the condition for selecting the new offline battery is that the maximum storage capacity of the N-1 charging circuits exceeds the offline battery. The storage capacity is the same, and the difference between the maximum storage capacity and the storage capacity of the offline battery corresponds to a predetermined value. Therefore, when used as a charging application, the charging voltages of the N batteries can also be stably increased to finally reach a substantially balanced state.

In this way, the power management system of the multi-cell battery of the present invention can be switched by the power control device to allow each battery to operate under stable conditions, thereby prolonging the battery usage time and achieving the balance of the charging and discharging capabilities of the battery. In particular, the offline battery can be restored to normal before continuing to be used as a charging and discharging application to improve battery safety.

In addition, although in the above embodiment, the switching conditions of the charging application or the discharging application are based on two conditions, in practice, the switching condition at the time of charging application may be switched when the maximum storage capacity is greater than the storage capacity of the offline battery. The switching condition of the discharge application can also be switched when the minimum storage capacity is less than the storage capacity of the offline battery, and therefore, it is not limited to the two conditions.

Finally, it is emphasized that the constituent elements disclosed in the foregoing embodiments are merely illustrative and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. The alternatives or variations of other equivalent elements are also covered by the scope of the patent application of the present application. .

Claims (7)

 A multi-cell battery power management system comprising: N batteries, N is a positive integer; and a power control device, forming the N-1 batteries into a charging/discharging circuit, and respectively detecting the respective N batteries The storage capacity, wherein the battery not allocated to the charging/discharging circuit is defined as an offline battery, and the respective storage capacities of the N-1 batteries are respectively compared with the storage capacity of the offline battery, and the result is consistent with a switching. In the condition, the power control device selects one of the N-1 batteries to be disconnected from the charging/discharging circuit, and adds the offline battery to the charging/discharging circuit, and the disconnected battery becomes a new offline battery. .    The power management system of the multi-cell battery according to claim 1, wherein the power control device comprises M switching circuits and a controller, M is a positive integer, and is equal to N, and the pair of M switching circuits The N batteries are connected, the controller is connected to the M switching circuits, and the M switching circuits are controlled to form the charging/discharging circuit.    The multi-cell battery power management system according to claim 2, wherein each of the switching circuits includes a series switch and a bypass switch, wherein the series connection relationship connects the battery in series, and the bypass connection relationship connects the series The switch and the battery are connected in parallel with the series switch and the battery.    The power management system for a multi-cell battery according to claim 1, wherein, in discharging, the switching condition is that the battery having a minimum storage capacity of the N-1 batteries is smaller than the storage capacity of the offline battery.    The power management system of the multi-cell battery according to claim 4, wherein the switching condition further comprises that the difference between the minimum storage capacity and the storage capacity of the offline battery conforms to a predetermined value.    The power management system for a multi-cell battery according to claim 1, wherein, in charging, the switching condition is that the battery having a maximum storage capacity of the N-1 batteries is larger than the storage capacity of the offline battery.    The power management system of the multi-cell battery according to claim 6, wherein the switching condition further comprises a difference between the maximum storage capacity and the storage capacity of the offline battery conforms to a predetermined value.