Method for operating an electrified motor vehicle

• US 10,040,357 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2016
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH, Seg Automotive Germany GMBH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH, Seg Automotive Germany GMBH
• Inventors: Reuter, Axel, Koller, Oliver Dieter
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Shelley
• Application Number:
  US15/069,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20160297302A1
• Time in Patent Office: 876 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/36 Temperature of vehicle components or parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/003 relating to inverters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0084 relating to control modules
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/12 Recording operating variables ; Monitoring of operating variables

Abstract

A method for operating a motor vehicle having a vehicle electrical system, which includes at least one electrical or electronic component, which experiences a load during an operation of the motor vehicle, an accumulated load of the at least one component being ascertained, at least one type of damage contributing to the load being ascertained, a service life of the at least one component to be expected as a result of the ascertained accumulated load being ascertained, and at least one variable damaging the at least one component during operation, which is selected as a function of the at least one type of damage, being changed in a load-reducing direction if the service life to be expected of the at least one component deviates from a setpoint service life.

Claims

1. A method for operating a motor vehicle having a vehicle electrical system, which includes at least one electrical or electronic component, which experiences a load during an operation of the motor vehicle, the method comprising:

ascertaining an accumulated load of the at least one component;

ascertaining at least one type of damage contributing to the load;

ascertaining a service life of the at least one component to be expected as a result of the ascertained accumulated load; and

changing at least one variable damaging the at least one component during operation, which is selected as a function of the at least one type of damage, in a load-reducing direction if the service life to be expected of the at least one component deviates from a setpoint service life.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one variable is changed only if the ascertained accumulated load deviates from an accumulated setpoint load corresponding to the setpoint service life by more than a threshold value.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the threshold value becomes smaller with increasing proportion to the setpoint service life at the point in time the service life to be expected is ascertained.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the accumulated load is ascertained by ascertaining a number and level of temperature lifts through which the component passes.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a severity of the at least one type of damage is ascertained and the at least one variable is changed as a function of the severity.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one variable includes a current amount, and/or includes a current gradient.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one variable includes at least one of a voltage amount and a voltage gradient.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one variable is changed in a load-reducing direction if the service life to be expected is less than the setpoint service life.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one variable is changed in a load-reducing direction, if the service life to be expected is greater than the setpoint service life.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one variable is changed at most up to a setpoint value for a regular operation.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein a dead time is provided for the at least one component for additional changes, if the at least one variable is changed.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the component is a component of an electric machine of the motor vehicle, the component being a converter of the electric machine.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one variable includes a current amount, in particular, if the at least one type of damage includes a degradation of a soldered joint, and/or includes a current gradient, in particular, if the at least one type of damage includes delamination.

13. A processor unit for operating a motor vehicle having a vehicle electrical system, which includes at least one electrical or electronic component, which experiences a load during an operation of the motor vehicle, comprising:

a processor arrangement configured to perform the following;

ascertaining an accumulated load of the at least one component;

ascertaining at least one type of damage contributing to the load;

ascertaining a service life of the at least one component to be expected as a result of the ascertained accumulated load; and

changing at least one variable damaging the at least one component during operation, which is selected as a function of the at least one type of damage, in a load-reducing direction if the service life to be expected of the at least one component deviates from a setpoint service life.

14. A computer readable medium having a computer program, which is executable by a processor, comprising:

a program code arrangement having program code for operating a motor vehicle having a vehicle electrical system, which includes at least one electrical or electronic component, which experiences a load during an operation of the motor vehicle, by performing the following;

ascertaining an accumulated load of the at least one component;

ascertaining at least one type of damage contributing to the load;

ascertaining a service life of the at least one component to be expected as a result of the ascertained accumulated load; and

changing at least one variable damaging the at least one component during operation, which is selected as a function of the at least one type of damage, in a load-reducing direction if the service life to be expected of the at least one component deviates from a setpoint service life.