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US 11,970,077 · App. 17/599,526 · Granted Apr 30, 2024

Method for determining an electrical cell voltage of a battery cell of a traction battery of a vehicle, and device

Inventor: Andreas Maier (Uhingen, DE)
Assignee: Daimler AG
B60L58/12G01R31/3835G01R31/396
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,970,077
App. No.
17/599,526
Granted
Apr 30, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for determining a cell voltage of a battery cell of a traction battery of a vehicle includes filtering the cell voltage of the battery cell by a filtering device, sampling the filtered cell voltage by an analogue to digital converter, transferring the filtered and sampled cell voltage as a cell voltage signal to a computing device, evaluating the cell voltage signal by the computing device, determining a ripple value which describes a ripple of the cell voltage, and evaluating the cell voltage signal depending on the ripple value.

Claims (19)

1. A method for determining a cell voltage of a battery cell of a traction battery of a vehicle, comprising the steps of:

detecting the cell voltage of the battery cell by a first sensor;

filtering the detected cell voltage of the battery cell by a filtering device;

sampling the filtered cell voltage by an analogue to digital converter;

transferring the filtered and sampled cell voltage as a cell voltage signal to a computing device;

evaluating the cell voltage signal by the computing device;

determining a total voltage of the traction battery by a second sensor; and

evaluating the cell voltage signal depending on the ripple value;

wherein a voltage ripple of the total voltage is determined and wherein the voltage ripple of the total voltage is scaled for the battery cell by dividing the voltage ripple of the total voltage by a number of battery cells switched in series to obtain a result and then adding the result to a detected maximum cell voltage of the battery cell.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the voltage ripple of the total voltage is determined in a frequency range of between 50 Hz and 2 kHz.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the cell voltage is filtered by a deep-pass filter with a corner frequency of between 500 Hz and 1.5 kHz and wherein the filtered cell voltage is sampled with a sampling rate of between 50 Hz and 200 Hz.

4. A device for determining a cell voltage of a battery cell of a traction battery of a vehicle, comprising:

a first sensor, wherein the first sensor detects the cell voltage;

a filtering device, wherein the filtering device filters the detected cell voltage;

an analogue to digital converter, wherein the analogue to digital converter samples the filtered cell voltage and transfers the filtered and sampled cell voltage as a cell voltage signal to a computing device;

wherein the computing device evaluates the cell voltage signal; and

a second sensor, wherein the second sensor determines a total voltage of the traction battery;

wherein the computing device evaluates the cell voltage signal depending on the ripple value;

wherein a voltage ripple of the total voltage is determined and wherein the voltage ripple of the total voltage is scaled for the battery cell by dividing the voltage ripple of the total voltage by a number of battery cells switched in series to obtain a result and then adding the result to a detected maximum cell voltage of the battery cell.