METHOD FOR CALCULATING THE EFFICIENCY OF AN ENERGY STORE, AND USE OF SAID EFFICIENCY

• US 20110035084A1
• Filed: 10/22/2008
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mesut Er, Notker Amann, Stefan Wallner
• Original Assignee: Mesut Er, Notker Amann, Stefan Wallner
• Inventors: ER, Mesut, Wallner, Stefan, Amann, Notker
• Application Number:
  US12/743,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20110035084A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/06 including control of combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/26 for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/00 Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/244 Charge state
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/246 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/1882 characterised by the working point of the engine, e.g. by using engine output chart
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/367 Software therefor, e.g. for battery testing using modelling or look-up tables
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/48 Accumulators combined with arrangements for measuring, testing or indicating the condition of cells, e.g. the level or density of the electrolyte constructional details of current conducting connections for detecting conditions inside cells or batteries, e.g. details of voltage sensing terminals, H01M50/569
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/84 Data processing systems or methods, management, administration

Abstract

Within the scope of the method for calculating the efficiency of the energy store in a parallel hybrid vehicle, said energy store being connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle and comprising an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine, the efficiency of the energy store is continuously calculated online or in real time in the energy storage module on the basis of an energy store model using known energy-store-specific parameters and energy-store-specific measured variables.

Claims

1. A method for calculating the efficiency of the energy store in a parallel hybrid vehicle, said energy store being connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle and comprising an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine, characterized in that the efficiency of the energy store is continuously calculated online or in real time in the energy storage module on the basis of an energy storage model using known energy-store-specific parameters and energy-store-specific measured variables.

2. The method for calculating the efficiency of the energy store in a parallel hybrid vehicle, said energy store being connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle, as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that, in order to calculate the efficiency of the energy store, the current energy-store-specific measured variables of current, voltage and/or temperature are continuously used, and the at least one internal resistance, the double-layer time constant and/or the charging time constant are used as energy storage parameters, wherein the voltage dropping across the resistors is summed as a power loss and is placed in relation with the entire voltage which is implemented by the energy store.

3. The method for calculating the efficiency of the energy store in a parallel hybrid vehicle, said energy store being connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle, as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that if an internal resistance is present, the efficiency Eta of the energy store is obtained as follows:

Eta=active power/energy store power

=(charging power−

power loss at the internal resistance)/charging power

=1-abs((present energy store current*energy store internal resistance)/present energy store voltage).

4. The method for calculating the efficiency of the energy store in a parallel hybrid vehicle, said energy store being connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle, as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that, in order to take into account the temperature dependence of the internal resistance, the present temperature measured value is used in order to adjust the internal resistance value.

5. The method for calculating the efficiency of the energy store in a parallel hybrid vehicle, said energy store being connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle, as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that the adjustment of the internal resistance value takes place as a function of the temperature by means of a characteristic curve.

6. The use of the efficiency, calculated as claimed in claim 1, of the energy store in a parallel hybrid vehicle, said energy store being connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle and comprising an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine, characterized in that the efficiency of the energy store is used in the calculation of the overall efficiency in the hybrid drive train.

7. The use of the efficiency, calculated as claimed in claim 1, of the energy store which is connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle, as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that the module efficiency is calculated in each module of the hybrid drive train and is transmitted to the function module of the hybrid drive train, wherein in the function module of the hybrid drive train the overall efficiency of the hybrid drive train for a required power path is calculated from the chain of efficiency values of the individual modules, and wherein on the basis of the overall efficiency it is calculated whether or not it is worth making a load point shift of the internal combustion engine from the energetic point of view.

8. The use of the efficiency, calculated as claimed in claim 1, of the energy store which is connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle, as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that on the basis of the calculation of the overall efficiency operating ranges with an unfavorable overall efficiency are marked in the hybrid operating mode as “

ranges to be avoided”

which are to be avoided as far as possible during the operation.

9. The use of the efficiency, calculated as claimed in claim 1, of the energy store which is connected to the electric machine of a parallel hybrid vehicle, as claimed in claim 6, wherein the calculated efficiency of the energy store at the interface between the energy storage module and the function module of the hybrid drive train is transmitted to the function module of the hybrid drive train, which ensures that energy-store-specific data are required only in the energy storage module, with the result that the function module of the hybrid drive train is independent of the currently used energy store.