Method and device for controlling two-wire discharge circuit of battery

• US 10,523,031 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2016
• Issued: 12/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vertiv Corporation (Vertiv Holdings Co.)
• Original Assignee: Vertiv Corporation (Vertiv Holdings Co.)
• Inventors: Blair, Charles Frederick, Bing, Yang, Fu, Junfeng, Song, Yunqing, Yang, Guoshun
• Primary Examiner(s): Berhanu, Samuel
• Application Number:
  US15/563,488
• Publication Number:
  US 20180090965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,370 Days
• Field of Search: 320129
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00711 with introduction of pulses during the charging process
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0022 the disturbance parameters being input voltage fluctuations
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0077 Plural converter units whose outputs are connected in series
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/15 using active elements
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/158 including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/1584 with a plurality of power processing stages connected in parallel
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/1586 switched with a phase shift, i.e. interleaved

Abstract

A method and device for controlling a two-wire discharge circuit of a battery, introducing a whole-bus voltage outer loop and an inductive current average value or inductive current actual value closed loop as a main control loop of the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery so as to guarantee a stable voltage of the whole bus. On the basis of the main control loop, duty ratios of switch transistors in respective discharge branches are adjusted to control the respective discharge branches to independently charge and discharge corresponding half-buses so as to balance the bus voltage. The method and the device avoid accessing a central wire of the battery and any additional circuits, and satisfy a technical specification of a three-wire access of the battery, thereby improving a circuit performance of the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a two-wire discharge circuit of a battery, comprising:

determining a positive-bus voltage and a negative-bus voltage in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, and comparing the positive-bus voltage with the negative-bus voltage to obtain a first voltage difference signal;

regulating the first voltage difference signal by a proportional integral (PI) regulator, to obtain a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal;

for each of first discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, taking a sum of the first PWM signal and a determined initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the first discharge branch as an adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the first discharge branch, and performing drive control on a switch transistor for controlling a charge-discharge time period of a bus capacitor in the first discharge branch by the adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the first discharge branch, wherein a terminal of the first discharge branch is connected to a positive electrode of a power supply in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, and the other terminal of the first discharge branch is connected to a system neutral point; and

for each of second discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, taking a difference between a determined initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the second discharge branch and the first PWM signal as an adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the second discharge branch, and performing drive control on a switch transistor for controlling a charge-discharge time period of a bus capacitor in the second discharge branch by the adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the second discharge branch, wherein a terminal of the second discharge branch is connected to a negative electrode of the power supply in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, and the other terminal of the second discharge branch is connected to the system neutral point;

wherein for any one of the discharge branches, the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch is obtained by controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery in a dual-loop control manner comprising a full-bus voltage outer loop and a closed loop of an average value of inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, or by controlling the discharge branch in a dual-loop control manner comprising a full-bus voltage outer loop and a closed loop of an actual value of an inductor current in the discharge branch.

2. The method for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 1, wherein in a case that for any one of the discharge branches, the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch is obtained by controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery in the dual-loop control manner comprising the full-bus voltage outer loop and the closed loop of the average value of the inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch is determined by:

comparing a sum of the determined positive-bus voltage and the determined negative-bus voltage in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery with a given value of a preset bus voltage, to obtain a second voltage difference signal;

regulating the second voltage difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a given value of an inductor current;

comparing the given value of the inductor current with the average value of the inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, to obtain a first current difference signal; and

regulating the first current difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a second PWM signal, and taking a sum of the second PWM signal and a preset feedforward signal as the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch.

3. The method for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 1, wherein in a case that for any one of the discharge branches, the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch is obtained by controlling the discharge branch in the dual-loop control manner comprising the full-bus voltage outer loop and the closed loop of the actual value of the inductor current in the discharge branch, the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch is determined by:

comparing a sum of the determined positive-bus voltage and the determined negative-bus voltage in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery with a given value of a preset bus voltage, to obtain a second voltage difference signal;

regulating the second voltage difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a given value of the inductor current;

comparing the given value of the inductor current with the actual value of the inductor current in the discharge branch to obtain a second current difference signal; and

regulating the second current difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a third PWM signal, and taking a sum of the third PWM signal and a preset feedforward signal as the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch.

4. The method for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 1, wherein in a case that for any one of the discharge branches, the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch is obtained by controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery in the dual-loop control manner comprising the full-bus voltage outer loop and the closed loop of the average value of the inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, the method further comprises:

for each of the discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery,

comparing the average value of the inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery with an actual value of an inductor current in the discharge branch, to obtain a third current difference signal;

regulating the third current difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a fourth PWM signal; and

adding the fourth PWM signal and the adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch to obtain a readjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch, and performing drive control on the switch transistor for controlling the charge-discharge time period of the bus capacitor in the discharge branch by the readjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch.

5. The method for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 2, wherein the preset feedforward signal is denoted as 1−

U_batt/U_dc*, U_batt denotes a power supply voltage of a power supply in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, and U_dc* denotes a given value of a preset bus voltage.

11. The method for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 2, wherein in a case that for any one of the discharge branches, the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch is obtained by controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery in the dual-loop control manner comprising the full-bus voltage outer loop and the closed loop of the average value of the inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, the method further comprises:

for each of the discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery,

comparing the average value of the inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery with an actual value of an inductor current in the discharge branch, to obtain a third current difference signal;

regulating the third current difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a fourth PWM signal; and

adding the fourth PWM signal and the adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch to obtain a readjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch, and performing drive control on the switch transistor for controlling the charge-discharge time period of the bus capacitor in the discharge branch by the readjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch.

12. The method for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 3, wherein the preset feedforward signal is denoted as 1−

U_batt/U_dc*, U_batt denotes a power supply voltage of a power supply in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, and U_dc* denotes a given value of a preset bus voltage.

6. A device for controlling a two-wire discharge circuit of a battery, comprising:

an initial signal determining module configured to;

for each of discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, obtain an initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch by controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery in a dual-loop control manner comprising a full-bus voltage outer loop and a closed loop of an average value of inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery or by controlling the discharge branch in a dual-loop control manner comprising a full-bus voltage outer loop and a closed loop of an actual value of an inductor current in the discharge branch;

a fine-adjusted signal determining module configured to;

determine a positive-bus voltage and a negative-bus voltage in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, compare the positive-bus voltage with the negative-bus voltage to obtain a first voltage difference signal;

regulate the first voltage difference signal by a proportional integral (PI) regulator to obtain a first PWM signal;

for each of first discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, take a sum of the first PWM signal and the determined initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the first discharge branch as an adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the first discharge branch, wherein a terminal of the first discharge branch is connected to a positive electrode of a power supply in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, and the other terminal of the first discharge branch is connected to a system neutral point; and

for each of second discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, take a difference between the determined initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the second discharge branch and the first PWM signal as an adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the second discharge branch, wherein a terminal of the second discharge branch is connected to a negative electrode of the power supply in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, and the other terminal of the second discharge branch is connected to the system neutral point; and

a circuit drive control module configured to, for each of the discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, perform drive control on a switch transistor for controlling a charge-discharge time period of a bus capacitor in the discharge branch by the adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch.

7. The device for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 6, wherein the initial signal determining module is configured to:

compare a sum of the determined positive-bus voltage and the determined negative-bus voltage in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery with a given value of a preset bus voltage to obtain a second voltage difference signal;

regulate the second voltage difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a given value of an inductor current;

compare the given value of the inductor current with the average value of the inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, to obtain a first current difference signal; and

regulate the first current difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a second PWM signal, and take a sum of the second PWM signal and a preset feedforward signal as the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to each of the discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery.

8. The device for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 6, wherein the initial signal determining module is configured to:

compare a sum of the determined positive-bus voltage and the determined negative-bus voltage in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery with a given value of a preset bus voltage, to obtain a second voltage difference signal;

regulate the second voltage difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a given value of the inductor current; and

for each of the discharge branches, compare the given value of the inductor current with an actual value of an inductor current in the discharge branch to obtain a second current difference signal, regulate the second current difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a third PWM signal, and take a sum of the third PWM signal and a preset feedforward signal as the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch.

9. A device for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 6, wherein

the fine-adjusted signal determining module is configured to:

in a case that for any one of the discharge branches, the initial master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch is obtained by controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery in the dual-loop control manner comprising the full-bus voltage outer loop and the closed loop of the average value of the inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery,

compare the average value of the inductor currents in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery with an actual value of an inductor current in the discharge branch, to obtain a third current difference signal;

regulate the third current difference signal by a PI regulator to obtain a fourth PWM signal; and

add the fourth PWM signal and the adjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch to obtain a readjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch; and

the circuit drive control module is configured to, for each of the discharge branches in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, perform drive control on the switch transistor for controlling the charge-discharge time period of the bus capacitor in the discharge branch by the readjusted master control PWM signal corresponding to the discharge branch.

10. The device for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 7, wherein the preset feedforward signal is denoted as 1−

U_batt/U_dc*, U_batt denotes a power supply voltage of a power supply in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, and U_dc* denotes a given value of a preset bus voltage.

13. The device for controlling the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery according to claim 8, wherein the preset feedforward signal is denoted as 1−

U_batt/U_dc*, U_batt denotes a power supply voltage of a power supply in the two-wire discharge circuit of the battery, and U_dc* denotes a given value of a preset bus voltage.