Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080278114 | Adjusting method of battery pack and adjusting method of battery pack with controller - The invention provides a method of adjusting a battery pack capable of reducing a difference in charge level between a plurality of secondary batteries constituting the battery pack and capable of restraining an increase in battery voltage difference between the secondary batteries of the battery pack in association with the adjustment of the charge level. A method of adjusting a battery pack includes a first adjusting process for discharging all secondary batteries of a first battery group so that charge levels of the secondary batteries of the first battery group fall within a charge level range determined based on a charge level of a secondary battery of a second battery group and further a second adjusting process for discharging all the secondary batteries of the first and second battery groups by the same electric quantity respectively. | 11-13-2008 |
20080315835 | Battery pack producing method and battery pack - Provided is a battery pack producing method and a battery pack capable of suppressing defects such as overcharging or overdischarging in one or more of the used secondary batteries constituting a battery pack, and sufficiently exhibiting the performance of the used secondary batteries of the battery pack. This method includes an obtaining process for obtaining each full charge capacity of the used secondary batteries, a selecting process for selecting one or more used secondary batteries having similar full charge capacities from the used secondary batteries whose full charge capacities have been obtained, and an assembling process for assembling the selected secondary batteries. | 12-25-2008 |
20090011327 | Battery pack and battery pack producing method - A battery pack capable of sufficiently exhibiting performance of each secondary battery constituting the battery pack and its producing method are provided. The battery pack producing method of the invention comprises an obtaining process for obtaining a charge amount | 01-08-2009 |
20090013521 | Reconstituted battery pack, reconstituted battery pack producing method, reconstituted battery pack using method, and reconstituted battery pack control system - A reconstituted battery pack producing method comprises an obtaining process for obtaining, by use of one of a first charged-state control device having ever controlled a charged state of a used battery pack when it was used before and a second charged-state control device arranged to control the charged state of the used battery pack as with the first charged-state control device, a reference-time charge amount charged in each used secondary battery constituting the used battery pack; a selecting process for selecting more than one of the used secondary batteries close to each other in the reference-time charge amount from a group of the used secondary batteries whose reference-time charge amounts have been obtained; and an assembling process for combining and assembling the selected used secondary batteries into a new reconstituted battery pack. | 01-15-2009 |
20100047684 | BATTERY PACK MANUFACTURING METHOD, AND BATTERY PACK - Provided are a battery pack manufacturing method, which can prevent a drawback that some of used secondary batteries constituting a battery pack prematurely come to the end and which can suppress the enlargement of the temporary voltage difference between the used secondary battery at a charging/discharging time (especially in a low-temperature circumstance), and a battery pack. The battery pack manufacturing method comprises an acquiring step (Step S | 02-25-2010 |
20100247988 | STATE JUDGING DEVICE AND CONTROL DEVICE OF SECONDARY BATTERY - A device which judges a change of a capacity balance between a cathode and an anode of a secondary battery in a non-destructive manner is provided. The secondary battery has one of the capacities of the cathode and the anode greater than the other capacity. A battery ECU calculates an internal resistance (DCIR) of the secondary battery based on a current and a voltage of the secondary battery. When the calculated internal resistance (DCIR) is higher than the initial state in a low SOC region or a high SOC region, the battery ECU judges that the capacity balance between the cathode and the anode of the secondary battery has changed. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250163 | CONTROL DEVICE OF SECONDARY BATTERY AND MAP CORRECTION METHOD - A two-dimensional map for calculating an SOC of a secondary battery is corrected. A battery ECU obtains a voltage index of a secondary battery. The voltage index is, for example, a no-load voltage of the secondary battery. When an amount of change of the calculated no-load voltage from an initial state falls outside a predefined range, the battery ECU corrects the two-dimensional map of initial state which is stored in advance in a storage unit using data obtained by statistically processing a plurality of two-dimensional maps obtained from a plurality of vehicles. | 09-30-2010 |
20130045414 | BATTERY, BATTERY ELEMENT, BATTERY CASE, BATTERY PRODUCTION METHOD, AND VEHICLE HAVING BATTERY MOUNTED THEREON - A battery includes a battery element having positive and negative electrode plates and separators for insulating these electrode plates, and a battery case provided with a plurality of storing cavities divided by partitions for accommodating battery elements, each of the storing cavities of the battery case accommodating a battery element. The battery element has a positive current collector plate connected to the positive electrode plates and a negative current collector plate connected to the negative electrode plates on side faces on opposite sides from each other. Part of the positive and negative current collector plates respectively form a protruded portion protruding from an area along the side face of the battery element in an opposite direction from a bottom side of the storing cavities of the battery case. The partitions of the battery case are formed with a respective hole within an area facing the protruded portions of the positive and negative current collector plates, with the current collector plates of adjacent battery elements being connected to each other through the hole. A projection maintaining a distance between the partition and the current collector plate is formed at a position within an area between the hole and a connecting portion between the current collector plate and the electrode plates, at least on one of the partition and the current collector plate. | 02-21-2013 |
20130342168 | ELECTRICAL STORAGE DEVICE - An electrical storage device includes a plurality of power-generating elements, a case, and a valve. The power-generating elements perform charge and discharge and are connected electrically in series. A plurality of housing sections each accommodate one of the plurality of power-generating elements and are disposed along a predetermined direction. A communication path switches from a closed state to an opened state depending on the internal pressure of the housing section. When the communication path is in the opened state, gas can be moved between two of the housing sections adjacent to each other in the predetermined direction. The valve is provided for a particular housing section and releases gas produced within the case to the outside of the case. The empty space other than the power-generating element is present in each of the housing sections, and the empty space in the particular housing section is the largest. | 12-26-2013 |
20140028032 | HYBRID VEHICLE AND OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD OF VEHICLE-MOUNTED POWER STORAGE DEVICE - When electric power exceeding output allowable power at an engine startup time is output from a power storage device, deviated from a predetermined period of time during which the output allowable power of the power storage device is switched, an ECU suppresses increase of the output allowable power for the next startup time of the engine. Specifically, the ECU modifies the output allowable power for the next startup time of the engine from a first value to a second value lower than the first value, based on a period of time before deviation is eliminated. | 01-30-2014 |
20140247018 | CHARGE CONTROL APPARATUS AND CHARGE CONTROL METHOD - ECU executes program including the steps of turning on an overcharge tentative determination flag and performing limitation on Win in a case where a rising rate ΔTB is higher than or equal to ΔTB(0), and a current average value IBs is a value on a side of charging, and the steps of turning off the overcharge tentative determination flag and cancelling the limitation on Win in a case where the rising rate ΔTB is lower than or equal to ΔTB(1), or the current average value IBs exhibits a value on a side of discharging, and the steps of determining that a battery is in the overcharging state and executing a fail safe process in a case where the integrated value IBs of current from a time point at which the overcharge tentative determination flag is switched from an off-state to an on-state becomes greater than or equal to IBs(0). | 09-04-2014 |
20140336964 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING REMAINING LIFETIME - A method includes discharging an assembled battery ( | 11-13-2014 |