Integrated string control unit systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US10148102B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-04

    申请号:US15253463

    申请日:2016-08-31

    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure describes a battery system that includes a battery string with a first and second battery module connected in series; and a battery control system that includes a cell control unit electrically coupled to the first battery module, in which the first cell control unit determines first module level operational parameters related to operation of the first battery module; an integrated string control unit electrically coupled to the second battery module, in which the integrated string control unit determines second module level operational parameters related to operation of the second battery module; determines string level operational parameters related to operation of the battery string based at least in part on the first module level operational parameters and the second module level operational parameters; and controls operation of the battery string based at least in part on the string level operational parameters.

    ISOLATION BARRIER FAULT DETECTION CIRCUIT
    2.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180074107A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-15

    申请号:US15265556

    申请日:2016-09-14

    Abstract: An energy storage system may include one or more battery packs, wherein one terminal of the one or more battery packs is electrically coupled to a resistor representative of an isolation resistance of the energy storage system, a semiconductor relay switch, a plurality of resistors configured to electrically couple to the one or more battery packs via the semiconductor relay switch, a gain field-effect transistor (FET) configured to electrically short at least one resistor of the plurality of resistors, one or more capacitors electrically couples to a system ground of a vehicle and the one or more battery packs, and a control system configured to control the semiconductor switch and the gain FET.

    MANIFOLD VENT CHANNEL FOR A BATTERY MODULE
    3.
    发明申请
    MANIFOLD VENT CHANNEL FOR A BATTERY MODULE 有权
    电池模块的通风通道

    公开(公告)号:US20160036023A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-02-04

    申请号:US14791000

    申请日:2015-07-02

    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a battery module having a housing that includes a lid and a battery cell with a battery cell terminal and a battery cell vent on an end of the battery cell. The battery cell vent is configured to exhaust battery cell effluent. The battery module includes a printed circuit board positioned in an immediate vent direction of the battery cell, a vent shield channel positioned between the battery cell vent and the printed circuit board along the immediate vent direction of battery cell effluent, where the vent shield plate is immediately adjacent to the printed circuit board and configured to block the effluent from contacting the printed circuit board and to redirect the battery cell effluent along a desired vent path, and a module vent fluidly coupled to the desired vent path and configured to direct the battery cell effluent out of the battery module.

    Abstract translation: 本公开内容包括具有壳体的电池模块,该壳体包括盖和在电池单元的端部上具有电池单元端子和电池单元排气孔的电池单元。 电池单元排气口被配置为排出电池单元流出物。 电池模块包括沿着电池单元的立即排出方向定位的印刷电路板,沿着电池单元流出物的直接排出方向定位在电池单元排气孔和印刷电路板之间的通气屏蔽通道,其中通风屏蔽板是 紧邻印刷电路板并被配置为阻止流出物接触印刷电路板,并且沿着期望的通气路径重新定向电池单体流出物,以及模块通气,其流体耦合到期望的通气路径并且被配置为引导电池单元 流出的电池模块。

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEASURING ISOLATION RESISTANCE

    公开(公告)号:US20180074108A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-15

    申请号:US15265580

    申请日:2016-09-14

    Abstract: An energy storage system may include battery packs, such that one terminal of the battery packs is electrically coupled to a resistor representative of an isolation resistance of the battery system. The system may include a semiconductor relay switch, a plurality of resistors configured to electrically couple to the battery packs via the semiconductor relay switch, a gain field-effect transistor (FET) configured to electrically short at least one resistor of the plurality of resistors, and a control system. The control system may send a first command to the semiconductor switch to close, acquire a first voltage waveform, send a second command to the semiconductor switch to open, send a third command to the gain FET to close, send a fourth command to the semiconductor switch to close, acquire a second voltage waveform, and determine the isolation resistance based on the first voltage waveform and the second voltage waveform.

    Manifold vent channel for a battery module

    公开(公告)号:US09660237B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-23

    申请号:US14791000

    申请日:2015-07-02

    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a battery module having a housing that includes a lid and a battery cell with a battery cell terminal and a battery cell vent on an end of the battery cell. The battery cell vent is configured to exhaust battery cell effluent. The battery module includes a printed circuit board positioned in an immediate vent direction of the battery cell, a vent shield channel positioned between the battery cell vent and the printed circuit board along the immediate vent direction of battery cell effluent, where the vent shield plate is immediately adjacent to the printed circuit board and configured to block the effluent from contacting the printed circuit board and to redirect the battery cell effluent along a desired vent path, and a module vent fluidly coupled to the desired vent path and configured to direct the battery cell effluent out of the battery module.

    CELL CONTROL UNIT FAULT DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20170126035A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-04

    申请号:US15253484

    申请日:2016-08-31

    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure describes a battery system including a battery module with a first and second cell group connected in series; and a cell control unit communicatively coupled to a plurality of sensors, in which the cell control unit includes a first analog-to-digital converter that outputs a first cell group voltage; a second analog-to-digital converter that output a second cell group voltage; outputs a measured battery module voltage; and logic circuitry that determines a calculated battery module voltage based at least in part on the first cell group voltage and the second cell group voltage; and determines whether a fault is expected to be present in the cell control unit, the battery module, or both based at least in part on the measured battery module voltage and the calculated battery module voltage.

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