Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Changhui Yang

Takashi Iida

Shinya Nishikawa

Takashi Matsuda

Masaharu Amaike

Tohru Watanabe

Yusuke Itakura

Masaya Ugaji

Hitoshi Hongo

Jun Yamasaki

An information processing method, by a computer, includes: instructing a charger for charging a battery to: repeat a charge control including a set of charging having a first interval and charging suspension having a second interval; and finish the charge control when a charge amount reaches a predetermined amount; and acquiring operational data indicating a voltage and a charge capacity of the battery at an end time of each second interval of the charge control.

Information processing method, and charge control device

An information processing device acquires power consumption information indicating information corresponding to a power consumption amount per use unit of an electric apparatus driven by a battery; acquires initial capacity information indicating an initial capacity of the battery; calculates a first end of life of the battery on the basis of the power consumption information and the initial capacity information; acquires a second end of life of the battery set according to characteristics of the battery; and outputs a shorter one of the first end of life and the second end of life as a third end of life of the battery.

Information processing method and information processing system

An information processing device acquires charge/discharge information indicating a charge/discharge amount per unit period of a battery having a plurality of cells; acquires first relationship information indicating a relationship between the charge/discharge amount per the unit period and a deterioration degree of the battery; acquires second relationship information indicating a relationship between an elapsed time or the charge/discharge amount, and a voltage difference generated between the plurality of cells; acquires first cost information indicating a first cost generated by deterioration of the battery and second cost information indicating a second cost required for reducing the voltage difference; and determines, on the basis of the charge/discharge information, the first and second relationship information, and the first cost and second information, work timing at which the work in a charge/discharge plan is performed, the work timing being timing at which a sum of the first and second cost satisfies a predetermined requirement.

Information processing method, and information processing system

An information processing method includes: acquiring a weight of an electric mobile body; acquiring an amount of power consumption of the mobile body for each of numbers of one or more batteries mounted on the mobile body, the amount of power consumption being calculated based on the number of batteries; calculating a degradation cost of batteries for each of the numbers of the one or more batteries, the degradation cost being calculated based on the amount of power consumption and on the number of batteries; calculating a charging cost for each of the numbers of the one or more batteries, the charging cost being calculated based on the weight; and determining a number of batteries to be actually mounted on the mobile body, in accordance with the degradation cost and the charging cost, and outputting the number of batteries to be mounted.

Information processing method, information processing device, and information processing program

Based on gradient information included in road information on a path scheduled to be traveled by an electric vehicle, a section divider divides the path into multiple sections. A discharge-plan-candidate deriving unit derives multiple discharge plans defined by a combination of a target SOC of a secondary battery at the time of departure and a target SOC at the time of arrival at a destination, based on required capacity of the secondary battery. A section deterioration-amount calculator calculates a deterioration rate or an amount of deterioration of the secondary battery in each of the sections based on an SOC usage range and an output current of the secondary battery in the corresponding one of the sections with reference to a discharge deterioration map defining a relationship between a combination of the SOC usage range in the corresponding one of the sections and a discharge rate, and the deterioration rate of the secondary battery. A discharge plan selector selects a discharge plan minimizing a total deterioration rate or the amount of deterioration from among the multiple discharge plans.

Information processing system, control device, and vehicle power supply system

A charger information holding unit of a management system holds an identification information item and charging efficiencies of a plurality of chargers for charging an electric vehicle, the identification information item and the charging efficiencies being associated with each other. A communication unit of the management system receives an identification information item on a charger from an electric vehicle connected to the charger, via a network. A creating unit of the management system creates a charging plan for the electric vehicle, based on a required charging amount and a target charging termination time. The creating unit of the management system refers to the charger information holding unit and determines a charging efficiency of the charger connected to the electric vehicle, based on the received identification information item, and creates a charging plan with the charging efficiency of the charger. The communication unit of the management system transmits the created charging plan to the electric vehicle via the network.

Management system, management program, and electric vehicle

When a use range of an SOC (State Of Charge) of a secondary battery is expanded, the use range of the SOC is expanded by increasing an upper limit value or decreasing a lower limit value of the use range of the SOC. The increasing the upper limit value or decreasing the lower limit value of the use range of the SOC is determined to a side causing a smaller increase in a degradation rate of the secondary battery, based on at least one of a cycle degradation characteristic that defines a cycle degradation rate in accordance with the use range of the SOC and a current rate of the secondary battery and a storage degradation characteristic that defines a storage degradation rate in accordance with the SOC and a temperature of the secondary battery, and a typical use condition of the secondary battery based on a use history of the secondary battery.

Management device and power supply system for vehicles

An information processing method executed by a computer includes: acquiring an acceleration request for a mobile body that moves using a battery; calculating an output current in the battery based or the acceleration request; calculating a degradation degree of the battery based on the output current; generating an acceleration control instruction in response to the acceleration request in accordance with the degradation degree of the battery; and outputting the generated acceleration control instruction.

Information processing method, information processing device, and information processing system

Controller determines an output limit value that defines an upper limit of a current or power recommended for suppressing cell deterioration based on a voltage, a current, and a temperature of each cell, and notifies host controller in electric vehicle of the determined output limit value. When electric vehicle climbs a hill, controller calculates a current value or power value to be discharged from power storage unit, the current value or power value being required for electric vehicle to climb the hill at a speed not less than a set minimum speed, while suppressing an amount of deterioration of cells within an allowable range, and when the calculated current value or power value is larger than the output limit value, replaces the output limit value with the calculated current value or power value.

Power source system and management device

An acquisition unit of in-vehicle notification device mounted on electric vehicle acquires a discharge current value discharged from secondary battery in electric vehicle to motor for running in electric vehicle. According to the acquired discharge current value, a notification unit notifies the driver of information indicating an impact of a current driving condition by the driver of electric vehicle on degradation of secondary battery.

In-vehicle notification device, notification program, and calculation device

A controller executes an equalization process of equalizing capacities of a plurality of cells, and a cell abnormality determination process of, of detected voltages of the plurality of cells, calculating a voltage difference between a representative voltage based on the detected voltage of at least one cell to be compared and the detected voltage of one cell to be detected at a first time and a second time, and when a difference between the two voltage differences is greater than or equal to a threshold value, determining that the cell to be detected is abnormal. In the case of executing the cell abnormality determination process during the equalization process, the controller provides the detected voltage of a target cell to be subjected to the equalization process with a compensation value corresponding to a voltage change based on energy transfer in the target cell due to the equalization process between the first time and the second time, and calculates the voltage difference at the second time.

Management device and power supply system

Provided is a controller configured: to calculate, among voltages detected from a plurality of cells, a voltage difference between the voltage detected from one cell of the plurality of cells, the one cell to be detected, and a representative voltage at each of a first time and a second time, the representative voltage based on the voltage detected from at least one cell of the plurality of cells, the at least one cell to be compared; and when a discrepancy between the voltage difference at the first time and the voltage difference at the second time is equal to or more than a threshold, to determine that an abnormality has occurred in the one cell to be detected. The controller refers to a state-of-charge versus open-circuit-voltage (SOC-OCV) curve of the one cell to be detected in accordance with a state-of-health (SOH) of the one cell to be detected, so as to estimate an SOC as initial capacitance reference of the one cell to be detected in correspondence to the voltage detected from the one cell to be detected. The controller introduces a linear function using an SOC as initial capacitance reference as an input variable, using an OCV as an output variable, and having a predetermined inclination, and applies the SOC as initial capacitance reference of the one cell to be detected that the controller has estimated to the linear function, so as to derive an OCV. Then, in place of the voltage detected from the one cell to be detected, the controller uses the OCV that the controller has derived, so as to calculate the voltage difference at the first time and the voltage difference at the second time.

An input and output device of an inspection device is configured to instruct charging devices capable of charging respective cells to perform constant current charging or constant voltage charging, and acquire a voltage value and a current value of each of the cells from corresponding one of the charging devices. A controller of the inspection device is configured to instruct the charging devices to perform constant current charging of the respective cells, and perform constant voltage charging of the respective cells when a voltage value of each of the cells acquired from corresponding one of the charging devices reaches a preset value. The controller of the inspection device is configured to determine presence or absence of a micro-short circuit in each of the cells with reference to a peak current value of corresponding one of the cells generated in switching from the constant current charging to the constant voltage charging.

Inspection device, inspection method, inspection program, management device, and power storage system

A driving support system includes a rotation amount setting means and a bird's eye view image generating means. The rotation amount setting means sets a previously-set inclination angle of the image pickup device to a horizontal plane at a rotation angle during coordinate transformation for the image within a range where a distance from the vehicle is not more than a predetermined threshold in the taken image, while computing and setting the rotation angle during the coordinate transformation based on the previously-set inclination angle of the image pickup device to the horizontal plane and the distance from the vehicle for the image within a range where the distance from the vehicle is more than the predetermined threshold in the taken image. The bird's eye view image generating means generates an extension bird's eye view image by transforming a coordinate of the taken image into a coordinate of a bird's eye view using the rotation angle set by the rotation amount setting means for the image corresponding to the coordinate.

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Osaka, Japan

Changhui Yang