HIGH-CURRENT BATTERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A HIGH-CURRENT BATTERY SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention relates to a high-current battery system (1) in which a high operating current flows, in particular for vehicle drives. The high-current battery system (1) has a battery system monitoring electronics unit (12) and a plurality of battery modules (4), each module including at least one rechargeable battery cell (10) and being electrically connected in series by means of an operating current line (5) such that an operating current flows through the operating current line (5) during operation. At least one of the battery modules (4) is designed as a bypass battery module (6) which comprises a bypass switch (7) and a bypass line (8), which are designed and disposed such that the battery module (6) is electrically bridged by the bypass line (8) after the bypass switch (7) is switched from a normal operating position into a bypass position, so that the operating current flows through the bypass line (8). For each bypass battery module (6), the battery system monitoring electronics unit (12) incorporates a module monitoring unit (11) which monitors the associated battery module (6) and detects a fault state of the module (6). Upon detection of a fault state of a battery module (6) by one of the module monitoring units (11), the battery system monitoring electronics unit (12) measures the current flow in the operating current line (5) and switches the bypass switch (7) of the battery module (6) in question from the normal operating position into the bypass position at a time at which the current flow in the operating current line (5) is less than a predetermined limit value.