Patent ID: 9634498
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: B60L,G01R,H02J,Y02T

Claim:
1. An electrical storage system comprising: a plurality of electrical storage elements connected in series with each other and configured to be charged or discharged; a plurality of discharge circuits respectively connected in parallel with the electrical storage elements and configured to discharge the corresponding electrical storage elements; and a controller configured to control operations of the discharge circuits, the controller being configured to calculate a first SOC difference using a full charge capacity of each electrical storage element, the first SOC difference being a difference in SOC between the plurality of electrical storage elements and arising due to a difference in full charge capacity between the plurality of electrical storage elements, the controller being further configured to calculate a second SOC difference, the second SOC difference being a difference in SOC between the plurality of electrical storage elements at the moment the second SOC difference is calculated, the controller being further configured to bring the second SOC difference close to the first SOC difference by carrying out a discharge with the use of the discharge circuits when the second SOC difference is larger than the first SOC difference, and the controller being further configured to calculate the first SOC difference using a mathematical expression where ΔSOC_var_fcc[0,k] is the first SOC difference, FCC[0] is the full charge capacity of the electrical storage element that becomes a reference electrical storage element between the plurality of electrical storage elements, FCC[k] is the full charge capacity of the electrical storage element other than the reference electrical storage element between the plurality of electrical storage elements, SOC_base is an SOC at the time when the SOCs of the plurality of electrical storage elements are equal to each other, and SOC[0] is the SOC of the reference electrical storage element, wherein the SOC_base is an SOC that each electrical storage element takes when the plurality of electrical storage elements are not connected to a load, and the SOC_base varies on the basis of a usage frequency of a charging function for completing a charge of the plurality of electrical storage elements at predetermined time.