DC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM AND OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD

• US 20120019210A1
• Filed: 04/14/2010
• Published: 01/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Hirano, Katsuya, Wakamatsu, Akira
• Application Number:
  US13/262,054
• Publication Number:
  US 20120019210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/134
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/425 Structural combination with electronic components, e.g. electronic circuits integrated to the outside of the casing printed circuits H05K1/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/46 Accumulators structurally combined with charging apparatus circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 1/14 Balancing the load in a network
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/34 Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other dc sources, e.g. providing buffering H02J7/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

Suppliable power per unit time from a secondary battery (4) to a DC communication device load (3) during an output suppression time zone (TS) is stored in a memory (2B) as a threshold (W1). A current power consumption (W2) of the DC communication device load (3) is measured. An output control unit (2D) is provided with a function of, during the output suppression time zone (TS), comparing the current power consumption (W2) of the DC communication device load (3) with the threshold (W1) in the memory (2B), if W2≦W1, stopping power supply from a rectifying unit (2-1) to the DC communication device load (3) and covering the power consumption (W2) only by power accumulated in the secondary battery (4), and if W2>W1, covering the power consumption up to the threshold (W1) by the power accumulated in the secondary battery (4) and covering the power consumption more than the threshold (W1) by power from the rectifying unit (2-1).

Claims

1. A DC power supply system comprising:

a DC load whose power consumption varies;

a rectifying unit that rectifies and converts AC power into DC power;

a secondary battery to be charged upon receiving the DC power supplied from said rectifying unit;

an output suppression time zone setting unit that sets an output suppression time zone defined as a desired time zone;

a threshold storage unit that stores, as a threshold, suppliable power per unit time from said secondary battery to said DC load during the output suppression time zone;

a power consumption measuring unit that measures a current power consumption of said DC load;

an output control unit that, during the output suppression time zone, compares the threshold with the current power consumption of said DC load measured by said power consumption measuring unit, if the current power consumption of said DC load is not more than the threshold, stops power supply from said rectifying unit to said DC load and covers the power consumption only by power accumulated in said secondary battery, and if the current power consumption of said DC load is more than the threshold, covers the power consumption up to the threshold by the power accumulated in said secondary battery and covers the power consumption more than the threshold by power from said rectifying unit.

2. A DC power supply system according to claim 1, further comprising a threshold calculation unit that obtains the threshold from a capacity of said secondary battery, a limit of a depth of discharge arbitrarily set for said secondary battery, and a time width of the output suppression time zone.

3. A DC power supply system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a total electric energy storage unit that stores a total electric energy suppliable from said secondary battery to said DC load;

a used electric energy integration unit that integrates the supply power from said secondary battery to said DC load during the output suppression time zone as a used electric energy of said secondary battery; and

a normal operation return unit that, when the used electric energy of said secondary battery integrated by said used electric energy integration unit is not less than the total electric energy, stops an output suppression operation by said output control unit in the output suppression time zone and returns to a normal control operation before a start of the output suppression time zone.

4. A DC power supply system according to claim 3, further comprising a total electric energy calculation unit that obtains the total electric energy from a capacity of said secondary battery and a limit of a depth of discharge arbitrarily set for said secondary battery.

5. A DC power supply system according to claim 1, wherein said output suppression time zone setting unit starts a timer to count a predetermined time width from a point of time a current time has reached a start time of an output suppression operation and sets a time zone until an end of count of the timer as the output suppression time zone.

6. An output control method applied to a DC power supply system including:

a DC load whose power consumption varies;

a rectifying unit that rectifies and converts AC power into DC power; and

a secondary battery to be charged upon receiving the DC power supplied from the rectifying unit, comprising;

the output control step of comparing a stored threshold with a power consumption of the DC load, if the power consumption of the DC load is not more than the threshold, stopping power supply from the rectifying unit to the DC load and covering the power consumption only by power accumulated in the secondary battery, and if the power consumption of the DC load is more than the threshold, covering the power consumption up to the threshold by the power accumulated in the secondary battery and covering the power consumption more than the threshold by power from the rectifying unit.

7. An output control method according to claim 6, further comprising the steps of:

setting an output suppression time zone defined as a desired time zone;

storing, as the threshold, suppliable power per unit time from the secondary battery to the DC load during the output suppression time zone; and

measuring a current power consumption of the DC load,

wherein in the output control step,

during the output suppression time zone, the measured current power consumption of the DC load is compared with the threshold, if the current power consumption of the DC load is not more than the threshold, power supply from the rectifying unit to the DC load is stopped, and the power consumption is covered only by power accumulated in the secondary battery, and if the current power consumption of the DC load is more than the threshold, the power consumption up to the threshold is covered by the power accumulated in the secondary battery, and the power consumption more than the threshold is covered by power from the rectifying unit.

8. A DC power supply system comprising:

a DC load whose power consumption varies;

a rectifying unit that rectifies and converts AC power into DC power;

a secondary battery to be charged upon receiving the DC power supplied from said rectifying unit;

output suppression time zone setting means for setting an output suppression time zone defined as a desired time zone;

threshold storage means for storing, as a threshold, suppliable power per unit time from said secondary battery to said DC load during the output suppression time zone;

power consumption measuring means for measuring a current power consumption of said DC load;

output control means for, during the output suppression time zone, comparing the threshold with the current power consumption of said DC load measured by said power consumption measuring means, if the current power consumption of said DC load is not more than the threshold, stopping power supply from said rectifying unit to said DC load and covering the power consumption only by power accumulated in said secondary battery, and if the current power consumption of said DC load is more than the threshold, covering the power consumption up to the threshold by the power accumulated in said secondary battery and covering the power consumption more than the threshold by power from said rectifying unit.