BATTERY MANAGEMENT DEVICE

• Main Authors: KAMEDA KENTA, KIKUCHI TAKUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 05.10.2023
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

To provide a battery management device which can realize securement of a safety property.SOLUTION: A battery management device is mounted to a vehicle, and manages a plurality of battery packs connected in parallel. The battery management device comprises: a storage part for storing a first computer program to be used in the battery management device, and a second computer program to be used in the battery packs; a determination part for determining whether or not discordance exists between version information of the second computer program stored in the plurality of battery packs respectively, and version information of the first computer program and the second computer program respectively stored in the storage part; and a notification part for issuing a notification about the discordance of version information to a high-order computer of the battery management device, if discordance exists.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】安全性の確保を実現できるバッテリ管理装置を提供すること。【解決手段】バッテリ管理装置は、車両に搭載され、並列に接続された複数のバッテリパックの管理を行うバッテリ管理装置であって、前記バッテリ管理装置で用いられる第１コンピュータプログラム、および、前記バッテリパックで用いられる第２コンピュータプログラムを記憶する記憶部と、前記複数のバッテリパックのそれぞれに記憶された前記第２コンピュータプログラムのバージョン情報と、前記記憶部に記憶されている前記第１コンピュータプログラムおよび前記第２コンピュータプログラムそれぞれのバージョン情報との間に不一致があるか否かを判定する判定部と、不一致があった場合、前記バッテリ管理装置の上位コンピュータへバージョン情報の不一致を知らせる通知部と、を有する。【選択図】図２