CN113665385A

CN113665385A - Battery compartment state detection method, battery charging and replacing cabinet, main control board and readable storage medium

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Publication number: CN113665385A
Application number: CN202110865595.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈玉
Original assignee: Shenzhen Topband Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen Topband Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-07-29
Filing date: 2021-07-29
Publication date: 2021-11-19
Anticipated expiration: 2041-07-29
Also published as: CN113665385B

Abstract

The invention relates to a battery compartment state detection method, a battery charging and replacing cabinet, a main control board and a readable storage medium, wherein the battery compartment state detection method comprises the following steps: acquiring a first state of a corresponding battery compartment from a compartment control board, wherein the first state is determined by the compartment control board according to a communication result between the compartment control board and a battery in the battery compartment; acquiring a second state of the battery compartment from the compartment control board, wherein the second state is determined by the compartment control board according to the first state and the compartment door state acquired from the corresponding electromagnetic lock; determining a final state of the battery compartment according to the first state and the second state. By implementing the technical scheme of the invention, the final state of the battery compartment can be accurately identified, a basis is provided for the correct execution of the battery replacement logic of the main control board, the stable and safe operation of the whole cabinet is ensured, and the equipment cost is reduced without depending on other hardware equipment.

Description

Battery compartment state detection method, battery charging and replacing cabinet, main control board and readable storage medium

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of charging management, in particular to a battery compartment state detection method, a battery charging and replacing cabinet, a main control board and a readable storage medium.

Background

The development of industries such as take-out, express delivery and the like enables the quantity of electric vehicles (electric bicycles, electric motorcycles and the like) on the market to be more and more, meanwhile, the situations of private battery charging and careless charging of riders are more, and the electric vehicles are very dangerous, and spontaneous combustion and explosion are caused in some cases, so that the shared charging and replacing mode is suitable for transportation as a new charging and replacing mode.

The battery charging and replacing cabinet is a product for rapidly replacing batteries, which is released by electric vehicle users, and can help the users to rapidly replace the batteries of the electric vehicle. From the product form, the shared battery charging and replacing cabinet comprises a plurality of battery bins for placing batteries, each battery bin is provided with a bin door, and the borrowing and returning of the batteries are completed by controlling the opening and closing of the bin doors. In addition, in the process of replacing and releasing the battery, the main control board can accurately execute the battery replacement logic control only after correctly identifying the in-place state of the battery, so that the whole cabinet can run more stably and safely, and therefore, the accurate detection of the in-place state of the battery is particularly important.

At present, the battery charging and replacing cabinet generally adopts an external detection sensor to detect the in-place state of the battery, but the mode possibly causes inaccurate detection due to the fact that the battery is shielded by foreign matters, and the cost of charging and replacing the battery cabinet is increased.

Disclosure of Invention

The present invention provides a battery compartment state detection method, a battery charging and replacing cabinet, a main control board and a readable storage medium, aiming at the defect of inaccurate in-place state detection of the battery in the prior art.

The technical scheme adopted by the invention for solving the technical problems is as follows: a battery compartment state detection method for a charging and converting cabinet is constructed, and comprises the following steps:

acquiring a first state of a corresponding battery compartment from a compartment control board, wherein the first state is determined by the compartment control board according to a communication result between the compartment control board and a battery in the battery compartment;

acquiring a second state of the battery compartment from the compartment control board, wherein the second state is determined by the compartment control board according to the first state and the compartment door state acquired from the corresponding electromagnetic lock;

determining a final state of the battery compartment according to the first state and the second state.

Preferably, the first state is determined according to the following:

when the current first state is the out-of-place state, if the bin control board judges that a response instruction of the battery is received, the current first state of the battery bin is switched to the in-place state;

and when the current first state is in-place, if the bin control board judges that the response instruction of the battery is not received within a first preset time period, switching the current first state of the battery bin to a non-in-place state.

Preferably, the second state is determined according to the following:

when the current second state is the out-of-position state, if the current door state is the door closing state and the current first state is the in-position state within a second preset time period, switching the current second state of the battery compartment to the in-position state;

when the current second state is in-place state, if any one of the following conditions is satisfied, switching the current second state of the battery compartment to out-of-place state:

the current bin gate state is a gate-open state;

if the current door state is a door closing state in the third time period, the current first state is an out-of-position state, and no communication interruption fault exists currently.

Preferably, determining the final state of the battery compartment from the first state and the second state comprises:

if the current first state and the current second state are both not-in-place states, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: emptying the bin;

if the current first state is in-place state and the current second state is not in-place state, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: the bin is internally provided with a battery and a bin door is not closed;

if the current first state is the out-of-position state and the current second state is the in-position state, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is as follows: a battery is arranged in the bin, and communication is interrupted;

if the current first state and the current second state are in-place states, determining that the final state of the battery bin is as follows: the battery is arranged in the bin, the communication is normal, and the bin door is closed.

Preferably, the method further comprises the following steps:

acquiring a third state of the battery compartment from a compartment control board, wherein the third state is determined by the compartment control board according to detection data of the compartment control board and a detection sensor in the battery compartment;

further, determining a final state of the battery compartment from the first state and the second state includes:

determining a final state of the battery compartment according to the first state, the second state, and the third state.

Preferably, determining the final state of the battery compartment from the first state, the second state and the third state comprises:

if the current first state, the current second state and the current third state are all out-of-position states, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is as follows: emptying the bin;

if the current first state is in-place state, and the current second state and the current third state are both out-of-place states, determining that the final state of the battery bin is: a battery is arranged in the bin, the bin door is not closed, and the detection sensor is abnormal;

if the current first state is an out-of-position state, the current second state is an in-position state, and the current third state is an out-of-position state, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: a battery is in the bin, communication is interrupted, and the detection sensor is abnormal, or the final state of the battery bin is determined as follows: the battery is lost;

if the current first state and the current second state are both out-of-place states and the current third state is in-place state, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: a battery is in the bin and not communicatively connected, or the final state of the battery bin is determined as: the detection sensor is shielded by foreign matters;

if the current first state and the current second state are both in-place states, and the current third state is an out-of-place state, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: the battery is arranged in the bin, the communication is normal, the bin door is closed, and the detection sensor is abnormal.

If the current first state is an out-of-position state, the current second state is an in-position state, and the current third state is an in-position state, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: there is a battery in the bin and communication is interrupted.

If the current first state is in-place, the current second state is not in-place, and the current third state is in-place, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: the battery is arranged in the bin, the communication is normal, and the bin door is not closed;

if the current first state, the current second state and the current third state are in-place states, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is as follows: the battery is arranged in the bin, the communication is normal, and the bin door is closed.

Preferably, the method further comprises the following steps:

judging whether the battery compartment is abnormal or not according to the final state of the battery compartment;

if the abnormal situation occurs, a bin door locking instruction is sent to the bin control board so as to lock the bin door and forbid the replacement of the battery, and/or alarm information is uploaded to a background server so as to prompt field maintenance.

Preferably, the processor implements the battery compartment status detection method described above when executing the computer program.

The present invention also constructs a readable storage medium storing a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the battery compartment state detection method described above.

The invention also constructs a charging and power-exchanging cabinet, which comprises a plurality of battery bins for accommodating batteries, bin control boards corresponding to the battery bins, and the main control board.

According to the technical scheme provided by the invention, the first state is determined according to the communication condition of the bin control board and the battery, the second state is determined according to the bin gate state and the first state of the battery bin, and finally the first state and the second state are comprehensively judged, so that the final state of the battery bin can be accurately identified, a basis is provided for the correct execution of the electricity changing logic of the main control board, the stable and safe operation of the whole cabinet is ensured, and other hardware equipment is not required to be relied on, so that the equipment cost is reduced.

Drawings

In order to illustrate the embodiments of the invention more clearly, the drawings that are needed in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below, it being apparent that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the invention, and that other drawings may be derived from those drawings by a person skilled in the art without inventive effort. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a flowchart of a first embodiment of a method for detecting a state of a battery compartment of a charging and transforming cabinet according to the present invention;

FIGS. 2A and 2B are flowcharts illustrating a first embodiment of step S10 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of step S20 in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a second embodiment of a method for detecting a state of a battery compartment of a charging and discharging cabinet according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of step S40 in FIG. 4;

fig. 6 is a logic structure diagram of a charging and replacing battery cabinet according to a first embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a first embodiment of a battery compartment state detection method of a charging and switching cabinet according to the present invention, where the battery compartment state detection method of the embodiment is applied to a main control board of the charging and switching cabinet, and in the charging and switching cabinet, the main control board is connected to a plurality of compartment control boards corresponding to battery compartments, and performs the following steps:

s10, acquiring a first state of a corresponding battery compartment from a compartment control board, wherein the first state is determined by the compartment control board according to a communication result between the compartment control board and a battery in the battery compartment;

in this step, after the battery is placed in the corresponding battery compartment, the compartment control board starts to send an instruction to the battery and determines whether the return information of the battery can be received, so that whether the battery exists in the battery compartment can be determined according to the communication data.

S20, acquiring a second state of the battery compartment from the compartment control board, wherein the second state is determined by the compartment control board according to the first state and a compartment door state acquired from a corresponding electromagnetic lock;

in this step, it is first explained that the door of each battery compartment is provided with an electromagnetic lock, and the electromagnetic lock is connected with the compartment control board, so that the compartment control board can not only control the opening or closing of the door, but also receive the status information of the door from the electromagnetic lock. The bin control board performs logic analysis on the bin gate state and the first state obtained in step S10, thereby determining the second state of the battery bin.

And S30, determining the final state of the battery bin according to the first state and the second state.

In the step, the main control board comprehensively judges the states of the battery bins determined in the two modes, so that the states of the battery bins are correctly identified, a basis is provided for the correct execution of the battery replacement logic of the main control board, the stable and safe operation of the whole cabinet is ensured, and the equipment cost is reduced without depending on other hardware equipment.

Further, in an optional embodiment, the first state in step S10 is determined according to the following:

In this embodiment, with reference to fig. 2A and 2B, it is first described that the identification process of the first state S1 (shown in fig. 2A) and the clearing process of the first state S1 (shown in fig. 2B) are executed in parallel. In executing the identification flow of the first state S1, in step S101, in the power-on initial state of the deck control board, the first state S1 is set to 0 (not in place); in step S102, a connection instruction is sent to the battery in real time, and it is determined whether a response instruction is received, and if not, step S102 is executed again; if yes, it indicates that the interaction between the bin control board and the battery is successful, and in step S103, the first state S1 is set to 1 (in place), and then step S102 is executed again. In executing the purge flow in the first state S1, in step S104, after sending a connection command to the battery, the cabin control board determines whether the following two conditions are satisfied simultaneously: 1. the response instruction is not received; 2. delaying for a first predetermined period of time (e.g., 3 seconds), if yes, setting the first state to 0 (not in place) in step S105, and re-executing step S104; if not, step S104 is executed again.

Further, in an alternative embodiment, the second state in step S20 is determined according to the following:

the current bin gate state is a gate-open state;

In this embodiment, referring to fig. 3, in step S201, in the power-on initial state of the cartridge control board, the second state S2 is set to 0 (not in place); in step S202, it is determined whether the following conditions are satisfied simultaneously: the door is closed currently; the current first state S1 is 1 (in place); delaying for a second preset time period (for example, 1 second), and if the time period is not met, re-executing the step S202 to wait for the judgment condition to be met; if so, the second state S2 is set to 1 (in place) in step S203. Then, in step S204, it is determined whether the door is in the open state, and if the door is in the open state, the process proceeds to step S201 to set the second state S2 to 0 (not in place); if the state is not the on-off state, judging whether the following conditions are met: the first state S1 is 0 (no bit), no communication interruption fault occurs, a third preset time period (60 seconds) is delayed, and if yes, the step S201 is skipped to, and the second state S2 is set to 0 (no bit); if not, step S204 is executed again to wait for the condition to be satisfied.

Further, in an optional embodiment, the determining the final state of the battery compartment according to the first state and the second state in step S30 specifically includes:

In this embodiment, referring to table 1, if S1 is 0 (absent), and S2 is 0 (absent), it indicates that no battery exists in the battery compartment at this time, and the battery compartment is empty; if S1 is 1 (in place) and S2 is 0 (not in place), it indicates that there is a battery in the bin but the bin door is not closed; if the value of S1 is 0 (not in place) and the value of S2 is 1 (in place), the battery is in the battery compartment at the moment but the communication is interrupted; if S1 is 1 (in place) and S2 is 1 (in place), it indicates that there is a battery in the bin, the communication is normal and the bin gate is closed.

Serial number	First state S1	Second state S2	Final state
				1	0	0	Empty, no battery
2	1	0	The bin is connected with a battery and the door is not closed
				3	0	1	With batteries in the compartments, communication is interrupted
4	1	1	The battery is connected in the bin, the communication is normal, and the door is closed

TABLE 1

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a second embodiment of the battery compartment state detection method of the charging and transforming cabinet of the present invention, and the difference of the battery compartment state detection method of the embodiment from the embodiment shown in fig. 1 is only that: before step S30, the method further includes:

s40, acquiring a third state of the battery compartment from a compartment control board, wherein the third state is determined by the compartment control board according to detection data of the compartment control board and detection sensors in the battery compartment, and the detection sensors comprise infrared sensors, travel switches and the like;

further, step S30 includes:

step S30'. determining a final state of the battery compartment from the first state, the second state, and the third state.

Compared with the embodiment shown in fig. 1, the embodiment has the advantages that an infrared detection mode is added, the detection logics of the three states are mutually complementary, when the power is changed due to artificial damage or illegal operation, the detection can be realized, and the condition that the infrared sensor is inaccurate in detection due to the fact that the infrared sensor is shielded by foreign matters is avoided.

Further, in an alternative embodiment, with reference to fig. 5, the determining the third state of the battery according to the detection result in step S40 includes: in step S401, in the power-on initial state of the bin control board, the third state S3 is set to 0 (not in place); in step S402, determining whether the infrared sensor is triggered, and if the infrared sensor is triggered and delayed for a fourth preset time period (500ms), setting the third state S3 to 1 (in place) in step S403; if it is determined that the infrared sensor is not triggered or the triggering time does not exceed the fourth preset time period, step S402 is executed again. After the third state S3 is set to 1 (in place), step S404 determines whether the infrared sensor is triggered, and if it is determined that the infrared sensor is not triggered or the triggering time does not exceed the fourth preset time period, the third state S3 is set to 0 (not in place) in step S405, otherwise step S404 is executed again.

Further, in an alternative embodiment, step S30 includes:

if the current first state is in-place state, and the current second state and the current third state are both out-of-place states, determining that the final state of the battery bin is: a battery is arranged in the bin, the bin door is not closed, and the abnormality of the sensor is detected;

if the current first state is an out-of-position state, the current second state is an in-position state, and the current third state is an out-of-position state, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: a battery is present in the bin, communication is interrupted and the sensor is detected to be abnormal, or it is determined that the final state of the battery bin is: battery loss (lock abnormal shut down);

if the current first state and the current second state are both in-place states, and the current third state is an out-of-place state, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: the battery is arranged in the bin, the communication is normal, the bin door is closed, and the sensor is detected to be abnormal.

If the current first state is in-place, the current second state is not in-place, and the current third state is in-place, determining that the final state of the battery compartment is: batteries are arranged in the bin, and the bin door is not closed;

In this embodiment, referring to table 2, if S1 is 0 (absent), S2 is 0 (absent), and S3 is 0, it indicates that no battery exists in the battery compartment at this time, which is an empty compartment; if S1 is 1 (in place), S2 is 0 (not in place), and S3 is 0 (not in place), it indicates that there is a battery in the bin but the bin door is not closed; if S1 is 0 (not in place), S2 is 1 (in place), and S3 is 0 (not in place), then it is indicated that the battery is connected in the bin, the door is not closed, and the external detection sensor is abnormal; if S1 is 0 (not in place), S2 is 0 (not in place), and S3 is 1 (in place), it indicates that there is a battery not connected in the bin or the infrared is blocked by foreign matters; if S1 is 1 (in place), S2 is 1 (in place), and S3 is 0 (not in place), then it is indicated that the battery is connected in the bin, the communication is normal, and the sensor is detected to be abnormal; if S1 is 0 (not in place), S2 is 1 (in place), and S3 is 1 (in place), it indicates that there is a battery connection in the bin and the communication is interrupted; if S1 is 1 (in place), S2 is 0 (not in place), and S3 is 1 (in place), then it indicates that there is a battery connection in the bin and the door is not closed; if S1 is 1 (in place), S2 is 1 (not in place), and S3 is 1 (in place), this indicates that the battery is connected in the compartment, the communication is normal, and the door is closed.

TABLE 2

Further, in an optional embodiment, the battery compartment state detection method of the present invention further comprises:

In this embodiment, the determining whether an abnormality occurs according to the determined final state of the battery compartment may include, for example: the battery is disconnected in midway communication; artificially damaging a battery bin or changing batteries illegally; and an infrared sensor is triggered by mistake, and the like, so that whether the battery replacement is allowed by opening the bin gate or the battery replacement is forbidden by locking the bin gate is determined, or an alarm is uploaded to a background to prompt field maintenance.

The invention also constructs a main control board of the charging and converting cabinet, the main control board comprises a processor and a memory which stores a computer program, and the processor realizes the battery compartment state detection method when executing the computer program.

The present invention also constructs a readable storage medium storing a computer program that, when executed by a processor, implements the battery compartment state detection method described above.

Fig. 6 is a logical structure diagram of a charging and swapping cabinet according to a first embodiment of the present invention, which includes a main control board 10, a plurality of battery compartments (not shown) for accommodating batteries 31, 32, …, 33, a compartment control board 21, 22, …, 23 corresponding to each battery compartment, and an electromagnetic lock 41, 42, …, 43 disposed on a compartment door of each battery compartment, wherein the main control board 10 is communicatively connected to the plurality of compartment control boards 21, 22, …, 23, and the logical structure of the main control board 10 may be as described above.

Further, the battery charging and replacing cabinet provided by the invention can further comprise detection sensors arranged in each battery compartment, the compartment control board can determine the third state of the battery compartment according to detection data of the corresponding detection sensors and send the third state to the main control board, and the main control board determines the final state of the battery compartment according to the states (the first state, the second state and the third state) of the battery compartment acquired by the three modes.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. A battery compartment state detection method of a charging and power-exchanging cabinet is characterized by comprising the following steps:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first state is determined according to the following:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second state is determined according to the following:

the current bin gate state is a gate-open state;

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the final state of the battery compartment according to the first state and the second state comprises:

5. The method for detecting the state of the battery chamber of the charging and converting cabinet according to claim 1, further comprising:

6. The method for detecting the state of the battery compartment of the charging and converting cabinet according to claim 5, wherein determining the final state of the battery compartment according to the first state, the second state and the third state comprises:

7. The battery compartment state detection method of a charging and exchange cabinet according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising:

8. A main control board of a charging and transforming cabinet, comprising a processor and a memory storing a computer program, wherein the processor implements the battery compartment status detecting method according to any one of claims 1 to 7 when executing the computer program.

9. A readable storage medium storing a computer program, wherein the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the battery compartment status detection method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

10. A charging and power-exchanging cabinet, comprising a plurality of battery compartments for accommodating batteries, a compartment control board corresponding to each battery compartment, and an electromagnetic lock arranged on a compartment door of the battery compartment, and further comprising the main control board of claim 8.