# US 11,305,668 B2 · Deterioration information output apparatus and deterioration information output method

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- Number: US 11,305,668 B2
- Document ID: US11305668B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/656,709
- Filed: 2019-10-18
- Published: 2020-04-23
- Granted: 2022-04-19
- Earliest claimed: 2018-10-19
- Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Inventors: Kazuki Kubo; Yoshihiro Uchida; Junta Izumi; Masaki Uchiyama
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11305668B2

## CPC

- B60L 58/16: responding to battery ageing, e.g. to the number of charging cycles or the state of health [SoH]
- G07C 5/085: {using electronic data carriers}
- B60L 50/51: characterised by AC-motors
- B60L 50/60: using power supplied by batteries (in combination with fuel cells B60L50/75)
- B60L 2210/40: DC to AC converters
- B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- G07C: TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE

## Abstract

A controller performs processing including estimating a current degree of deterioration based on battery use history data when it is determined that deterioration diagnosis timing has come, setting a deterioration curve, setting a deterioration straight line, obtaining an elapsed time, obtaining a capacity retention based on the elapsed time and the deterioration straight line, updating representation of the capacity retention on an output unit, and showing an initial value as the capacity retention when it is determined that the deterioration straight line has not been set.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A deterioration information output apparatus comprising:
a memory configured to accumulate use history data of a secondary battery mounted as a motive power source for an electrically powered vehicle;
an output unit configured to output deterioration information on a degree of deterioration of the secondary battery; and
a control unit configured to set the deterioration information and have the output unit output the deterioration information,
the control unit being configured to
estimate based on the use history data, a first degree of deterioration of the secondary battery at a first time point after lapse of a predetermined period since start of use of the electrically powered vehicle,
set a deterioration curve representing change over time in degree of deterioration of the secondary battery since the start of use based on the estimated first degree of deterioration,
estimate based on the deterioration curve, a second degree of deterioration of the secondary battery at a second time point later than the first time point,
set a deterioration straight line representing linear change over time in a degree of deterioration of the secondary battery from the first time point having an initial value until the second time point having the second degree of deterioration, the initial value being a degree of deterioration at the start of the use, and
obtain the degree of deterioration of the secondary battery corresponding to time elapsed since the first time point based on the deterioration straight line and set the deterioration information.

### Claim 2

A deterioration information output method comprising:
accumulating use history data of a secondary battery mounted as a motive power source for an electrically powered vehicle;
estimating based on the use history data, a first degree of deterioration of the secondary battery at a first time point after lapse of a predetermined period since start of use of the electrically powered vehicle;
setting a deterioration curve representing change over time in degree of deterioration of the secondary battery since the start of use based on the estimated first degree of deterioration;
estimating based on the deterioration curve, a second degree of deterioration of the secondary battery at a second time point later than the first time point;
setting a deterioration straight line representing linear change over time in a degree of deterioration of the secondary battery from the first time point having an initial value until the second time point having the second degree of deterioration, the initial value being a degree of deterioration at the start of the use;
obtaining the degree of deterioration of the secondary battery corresponding to time elapsed since the first time point based on the deterioration straight line and setting deterioration information on the degree of deterioration of the secondary battery; and
outputting the deterioration information.