# US 8,541,982 B2 · Battery system

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- Number: US 8,541,982 B2
- Document ID: US8541982B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/018,907
- Filed: 2011-02-01
- Published: 2011-09-01
- Granted: 2013-09-24
- Earliest claimed: 2010-02-26
- Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Hajime Shimayama; Koichi Saruhashi
- Inventors: Hajime Shimayama; Koichi Saruhashi
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8541982B2

## CPC

- H02J 7/35: with light sensitive cells
- H02J 3/32: using batteries or super capacitors with converting means
- H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY

## Abstract

A battery system including an assembled battery, a charge mode for charging the assembled battery and a discharge mode for converting electric energy charged in the assembled battery to AC power having the same or substantially the same frequency as a grid and supplying the AC power to a power supply line through which the grid and a load are connected further including a current detector for detecting current supplied to the load, and a control device for calculating an average power usage of past several days based on current being detected by the current detector, and converting the amount of electric power corresponding to the difference between the average power usage and a power usage based on the current value from the current detector to the AC power from the assembled battery to the load in the discharge mode to supply the AC power to the power supply line.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A battery system that includes a assembled battery having a plurality of battery modules, a charge mode for charging the assembled battery and a discharge mode for converting electric energy charged in the assembled battery to AC power having the same or substantially the same frequency as a grid and supplying the AC power to a commercial power line through which the grid and a load are connected, comprising:
a current detector for detecting current supplied to the load; and
a control device for comparing an average power usage of past several days based on current detected by the current detector with a power usage based on current being detected by the current detector, and permitting or prohibiting discharge from the assembled battery to the load on the basis of a comparison result.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The battery system according to claim 1, wherein the control device controls the amount of electric power to be discharged from the assembled battery to the load in accordance with the power usage based on the current.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The battery system according to claim 2, wherein the control device calculates a difference between the average power usage and the power usage, discharges the electric energy from the assembled battery corresponding to the difference, and converts the electric energy to the load as AC power in the discharge mode when the power usage is larger than the average power usage.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The battery system according to claim 1, wherein the control device controls the assembled battery to discharge electric energy corresponding to (0.9×a lowest average power usage) when the power usage is larger than the average power usage.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The battery system according to claim 1, wherein the control device divides a period of a discharge mode into a plurality of sections, and compares the power usage of each section with the average power usage.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The battery system according to claim 5, wherein the control device supplies no electric power to the load when the power usage of the section is lower than the average power usage.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The battery system according to claim 6, wherein the average power usage is determined on the basis of power usages of some sequential sections out of the plural sections, and the average power usage is used to be compared with each of the power usages of the corresponding sequential sections.

### Claim 8 (depends on 6)

The battery system according to claim 6, wherein the average power usage comprises an average power usage of at least each of first and half periods to which the discharge mode period is divided, and is used for the comparison with the amount of electric power supplied to the load during the corresponding period of the first and second periods.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The battery system according to claim 1, wherein the control device stores a predetermined operating period of the load with the operating period being divided into plural sections, stores the average power usage of past several days of power supplied to the load during the operating period every section, and supplies the power corresponding to the average power usage stored in accordance with the predetermined operating period of the load from the assembled battery every section.