Battery controlling device
A battery controlling device includes: a voltage detecting unit configured to detect a closed-circuit voltage of a secondary battery; an open-circuit-voltage computing unit configured to compute an open-circuit voltage of the secondary battery; and an assembled-battery controlling unit configured to discriminate whether a computed value computed based on a voltage difference between the closed-circuit voltage and the open-circuit voltage of the secondary battery in a continuous predetermined period is exceeding a permissible value determined in advance or not. If the computed value is exceeding the permissible value determined in advance, the assembled-battery controlling unit outputs a signal that carries out charge/discharge restriction of the secondary battery.
1. A battery controlling device comprising:
a voltage detecting unit configured to detect a closed-circuit voltage of a secondary battery;
an open-circuit-voltage computing unit configured to compute an open-circuit voltage of the secondary battery; and
an assembled-battery controlling unit configured to discriminate whether a computed value computed based on a voltage difference between the closed-circuit voltage and the open-circuit voltage of the secondary battery in a continuous predetermined period is exceeding a permissible value determined in advance or not, wherein
if the computed value is exceeding the permissible value determined in advance, the assembled-battery controlling unit outputs a signal that carries out charge/discharge restriction of the secondary battery.
2. The battery controlling device according to claim 1 , wherein
the assembled-battery controlling unit obtains the computed value by carrying out computation based on the voltage difference between the closed-circuit voltage and the open-circuit voltage of the secondary battery in each of at least two types of the continuous predetermined periods, compares the permissible value determined in advance for each of the predetermined periods with each computed value, and, if the computed value is exceeding the permissible value, outputs a signal that carries out charge/discharge restriction of the secondary battery.
3. The battery controlling device according to claim 2 , wherein,
if a result of the computation is returned to equal to or less than the permissible value after the signal that carries out the charge/discharge restriction of the secondary battery is output, the assembled-battery controlling unit, immediately or after a certain period of time, outputs a signal that cancels the charge/discharge restriction.
4. The battery controlling device according to claim 1 , wherein the computation based on the voltage difference between the closed-circuit voltage and the open-circuit voltage of the secondary battery is an effective value, a mean square value, a mean value, or any of first-order lag processing of the effective value, the mean square value, and the mean value.
5. The battery controlling device according to claim 1 , wherein
the assembled-battery controlling unit carries out the computation based on the voltage difference between the closed-circuit voltage and the open-circuit voltage of each of a plurality of single batteries constituting the secondary battery and, if a largest computed value among the plurality of computed values of the plurality of single batteries subjected to the computation is exceeding the permissible value determined in advance, outputs a signal that carries out charge/discharge restriction of the secondary battery.
6. The battery controlling device according to claim 1 , further comprising
a storage unit storing, in advance, a relation between a charge level of the secondary battery and the open-circuit voltage as a table or a function, wherein
the assembled-battery controlling unit reads the open-circuit voltage corresponding to the detected charge level from the storage unit and obtains the open-circuit voltage based on the detected charge level.
7. The battery controlling device according to claim 4 , wherein
the assembled-battery controlling unit carries out the computation based on the voltage difference between the closed-circuit voltage and the open-circuit voltage of each of a plurality of single batteries constituting the secondary battery and, if a largest computed value among the plurality of computed values of the plurality of single batteries subjected to the computation is exceeding the permissible value determined in advance, outputs a signal that carries out charge/discharge restriction of the secondary battery.
8. The battery controlling device according to claim 4 , further comprising
a storage unit storing, in advance, a relation between a charge level of the secondary battery and the open-circuit voltage as a table or a function, wherein
the assembled-battery controlling unit reads the open-circuit voltage corresponding to the detected charge level from the storage unit and obtains the open-circuit voltage based on the detected charge level.