POWER SYSTEM

• US 20110156642A1
• Filed: 11/24/2010
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: HIRAKAWA, Mitsuaki, FUJINO, Takeshi, KOMAZAWA, Eisuke, NOGUCHI, Minoru
• Application Number:
  US12/954,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20110156642A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/109
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/16 Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• 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 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

Provided is a power system capable of assisting an appropriate connection to an external power and preventing inappropriate power charge from being carried out. The power system mounted in a vehicle (1) is provided with a secondary battery (110), an electric motor (120) connected to the secondary battery (110) for driving the vehicle (1), a plurality of external power connecting members (131, 132 and 133) connected respectively by plural types of power supplying connectors for supplying electric power from an external power to the secondary battery (110), and movable insulation plates (171, 172 and 173) configured to block a further connection of a power supplying connector to the other external power connecting members when either one of the external power connecting members (131, 132 and 133) is detected by the connection detecting member to have a connection to a corresponding power supplying connector.

Claims

1. A power system mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

a power storing member;

an electric motor connected to the power storing member for driving the vehicle;

a plurality of external power connecting members connected respectively by plural types of power supplying connectors for supplying electric power to the power storing member from an external power;

a connection detecting member configured to detect a connection of a power supplying connector to the external power connecting member; and

a connection blocking member configured to block a further connection of a power supplying connector to the other external power connecting members when either one of the external power connecting members is detected by the connection detecting member to have a connection to a corresponding power supplying connector.

2. The power system according to claim 1, wherein

the power supplying connector is a plug-type connector;

the external power connecting member is provided with an insertion slot to be plugged in by the power supplying connector; and

the connection blocking member is provided with a movable insulation plate for locking the insertion slot and an actuator for displacing the insulation plate.

3. The power system according to claim 1, wherein the connection detecting member detects the connection of the power supplying connector to the external power connecting member via a power line communication device.

4. The power system according to claim 1 is further provided with

a voltage regulation member which is disposed between the external power connecting member and the power storing member for regulating a voltage of the external power and supplies the electric power of the regulated voltage to the power storing member, and

a power charge controller configured to charge the power storing member by the external power,

wherein the power charge controller performs the charging by controlling a voltage regulation rate of the voltage regulation member in accordance with the external power connecting member connected by the power supplying connector so as to make the voltage applied to the power storing member equal to a target voltage.

5. The power system according to claim 1 is further provided with a display member configured to display a charge state of the power storing member charged by the external power.