Battery charging control system and method for vehicle

• US 10,131,233 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2017
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Choi, Kum Lim, Lee, Jae Wang
• Primary Examiner(s): Ngo, Brian
• Application Number:
  US15/839,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20180099572A1
• Time in Patent Office: 343 Days
• Field of Search: 320104, 320109, 320162, 320163
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/40 DC to AC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/20 characterised by converters located in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/20 having different nominal voltages
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

A battery charging control method for a vehicle may include: a failure determining step of determining, by a controller, whether a first voltage converter and a second voltage converter equipped in the vehicle are broken; a charging requiring determining step of determining, by the controller, whether an auxiliary battery needs to be charged when the first voltage converter and the second voltage converter are not broken; and a charging step of charging, by the controller, the auxiliary battery by connecting an input terminal of the auxiliary battery to an output terminal of the first voltage converter outputting a voltage higher than a voltage of an output terminal of the second voltage converter and operating an electric load by connecting an input terminal of the electric load of the vehicle to the output terminal of the second voltage converter, when the auxiliary battery needs to be charged.

Claims

1. A battery charging control method for a vehicle, comprising:

a failure determining step of determining, by a controller, whether a first voltage converter and a second voltage converter equipped in the vehicle are broken, wherein the first voltage converter connects a high voltage battery to an auxiliary battery and the second voltage converter connects the high voltage battery to an electric load;

a charging requiring determining step of determining, by the controller, whether the auxiliary battery needs to be charged when the first voltage converter and the second voltage converter are not broken;

after the charging requiring determining step, a power supplying step of stopping, by the controller, an operation of the first voltage converter and turning on the switch to connect the auxiliary battery and an input terminal of the vehicle load with an output terminal of the second voltage converter in parallel when the auxiliary battery does not need to be charged; and

a charging step of charging, by the controller, the auxiliary battery by turning on the first voltage converter and the second voltage converter to operate the electric load, and turning off a switch which has a first end connected between the first voltage converter and the auxiliary battery and a second end connected between the second voltage converter and the electric load, when the auxiliary battery needs to be charged.

2. The battery charging control method of claim 1, further comprising:

after the failure determining step, turning on the switch when the first voltage converter or the second voltage converter is broken.

3. The battery charging control method of claim 1, wherein an output terminal voltage of the first voltage converter is higher than an output terminal voltage of the second voltage converter.