Charging system using wound rotor synchronous motor

• US 10,236,707 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2016
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.), Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul National University)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.), Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul National University)
• Inventors: Shin, Ho Joon, Kwak, Mu Shin, Kim, Sung Kyu, Lee, Young Kook, Ha, Jung Ik, Lee, Yong Jae, Han, Yong Su
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnie, Rexford
• Assistant Examiner(s): Willoughby, Terrence
• Application Number:
  US15/382,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20180115181A1
• Time in Patent Office: 823 Days
• Field of Search: 307 91
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/48 for electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/18 Arrangements for adjusting, eliminating or compensating reactive power in networks for adjustment of voltage H02J3/16
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/322 the battery being on-board an electric or hybrid vehicle, e.g. vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G], power aggregation, use of the battery for network load balancing, coordinated or cooperative battery charging
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0068 Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply H02J7/0013 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/14 Stator cores with salient poles
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 1/26 Rotor cores with slots for windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 19/12 characterised by the arrangement of exciting windings, e.g. for self-excitation, compounding or pole-changing
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 2101/45 for motor vehicles, e.g. car alternators
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 23/14 Estimation or adaptation of motor parameters, e.g. rotor time constant, flux, speed, current or voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/06 using dc to ac converters or inverters H02P27/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/32 Arrangements for controlling wound field motors, e.g. motors with exciter coils
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/12 Remote or cooperative charging

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor (WRSM), capable of reducing volume, weight, and cost of a vehicle increased due to an on-board charging circuit and increasing a battery charge capacity. The charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor (WRSM) includes an inverter converting power of a battery into alternating current (AC) powers having a plurality of different phases, a WRSM having a plurality of stator coils each receiving AC power of a different phase and a field coil forming mutual inductance with the plurality of stator coils and installed in a rotor to form a magnetic flux using power of the battery, and a controller controlling the battery side and the field coil side are insulated from each other in a charge mode in which grid power is applied to the field coil side of the WRSM.

Claims

1. A charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor (WRSM), the charging system comprising:

an inverter configured to convert power of a battery into alternating current (AC) powers having a plurality of different phases;

a WRSM having a plurality of stator coils each receiving AC power of a different phase and a field coil forming mutual inductance with the plurality of stator coils and installed in a rotor to form a magnetic flux using power of the battery; and

a controller configured to control the connection between the battery side and the field coil side to be disconnected from each other in a charge mode in which grid power is applied to the field coil side of the WRSM.

2. The charging system of claim 1, wherein, in the case of rotatably driving the WRSM, the controller is configured to control the battery and the field coil to he electrically connected.

3. The charging system of claim 1, wherein, in the charge mode, the controller is configured to control the battery side and the field coil side to be disconnected from each other so as to prevent charging power from being supplied to the battery through the field coil, and further configured to control the inverter to allow the grid power to be transferred from the field coil to the plurality of stator coils to charge the battery.

4. The charging system of claim 1, wherein,

in the charge mode,

the controller is configured to:

derive a charge power reference value for charging the battery with reference to a voltage of the battery,

derive an input power reference value on the basis of an error between supply power actually supplied to the battery and the power reference value,

derive a sine component of an input current reference value input to the field coil by applying a maximum grid voltage value to the input power reference value,

derive a sine component of a d-axis current reference value of the stator coil side on the basis of an error between the input current reference value and the sine component of the actually input current and derives a cosine component of the d-axis current reference value of the stator coil side on the basis of an error between 0 and a cosine component of a current input to the field coil,

derive a d-axis current reference value of the stator coil side on the basis of the sine component and the cosine component of the d-axis current reference value of the stator coil side and a phase angle of the grid power,

derive a d-axis voltage reference value and a q-axis voltage reference value of the stator cod side on the basis of the d-axis current reference value and a q-axis current reference value of the stator coil side having a value 0,

derive a 3-phase voltage reference value V*abcs by converting the d-axis voltage reference value and the q-axis voltage reference value, and

control an ON/OFF duty of a switching element of the inverter to output the 3-phase voltage reference value V*abcs.

5. The charging system of claim 1, wherein,

in the charge mode,

the controller is configured to:

derive a charge power reference value for charging the battery with reference to a voltage of the battery,

derive an input power reference value P*in on the basis of an error between supply power actually supplied to the battery and the power reference value,

calculate a sine component I*dss and a cosine component I*dsc of the d-axis current reference value of the stator coil side using a following equation,

6. The charging system of claim 1, further comprising:

a rectifying circuit unit configured to rectify the grid power and a switching circuit unit configured to convert an output from the rectifying circuit unit into an alternating current (AC) signal having a predetermined frequency and providing the converted AC signal to the field coil.

7. The charging system of claim 1, wherein the grid power is directly applied to both ends of the field coil.

8. The charging system of claim 1, further comprising:

a power factor compensation circuit unit configured to compensate for a power factor of the grid power; and

a switching circuit unit configured to convert an output from the power factor compensation circuit unit into an AC signal having a predetermined frequency and providing the convened AC signal to the field coil.

9. A charging system using a wound rotor synchronous motor (WRSM), the charging system comprising:

an inverter selectively operated to convert power of a battery to output a plurality of alternating current (AC) powers having different phases or to convert a plurality of AC powers to output power to the battery;

a WRSM having a plurality of stator coils configured to receive a plurality of phases of AC power from the inverter and a field coil installed in a rotor to form mutual inductance with the plurality of stator coils;

a switch unit configured to selectively electrically connect or disconnect the battery and the field coil; and

a controller configured to control ON/OFF state the switch unit,

wherein, in the case of driving the WRSI, the controller is configured to adjust the switch unit to an ON state to drive the WRSM using a magnetic flux generated in the field coil by power from the battery, and in the case of charging the battery by applying grid power to the field coil, the controller is configured to adjust the switch unit to an OFF state to allow the grid power to be transferred to the stator coil from the field coil.

10. The charging system of claim 9, wherein, in the case of charging the battery, the controller is configured to control a plurality of switching elements included in the inverter to provide power to the battery.