OUTPUT CIRCUIT FOR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

• US 20120169124A1
• Filed: 03/09/2012
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: NAKASHIMA, Takeshi, HAGIHARA, Ryuzo, UCHIHASHI, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US13/416,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20120169124A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 307/64
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/24 of photovoltaic origin
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/35 with light sensitive cells
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/06 with automatic change-over , e.g. UPS systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 10/70 Hybrid systems, e.g. uninterruptible or back-up power supplies integrating renewable energies
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/56 Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 70/30 Systems combining energy storage with energy generation of non-fossil origin

Abstract

A power supply system is provided with an output terminal unit including a common output terminal, which, when an amount of stored charge in lithium-ion secondary batteries capable of supplying discharge power as a first DC power to a DC load is greater than a predetermined first reference value, supplies to the DC load the first DC power from the lithium-ion secondary batteries and which, when the amount of stored charge is less than the first reference value, supplies to the DC load a second DC power obtained by converting AC power from a system power supply using an AC-DC converter circuit.

Claims

1. A power supply system output circuit, comprising:

a first power path for supplying discharge power being discharged from a plurality of secondary batteries as a first DC power;

a second power path for supplying a second DC power obtained by converting AC power from an AC power supply source using an AC-DC converter circuit; and

an output terminal unit which is connected to the first power path and the second power path and which includes a common output terminal for supplying the first DC power or the second DC power to a DC load via a DC-DC converter circuit, wherein

the first power path supplies the first DC power to the output terminal unit when an amount of stored charge in at least one of the plurality of secondary batteries is greater than a predetermined first reference value, and

the second power path supplies the second DC power to the output terminal unit when the amount of stored charge in at least one of the plurality of secondary batteries is less than the first reference value.

2. The power supply system output circuit according to claim 1, wherein the output terminal unit comprises:

a first diode having an anode terminal connected to an output terminal side of the plurality of secondary batteries, and a cathode terminal connected to the common output terminal; and

a second diode having an anode terminal connected to an output terminal side of the AC-DC converter circuit, and a cathode terminal connected to the common output terminal.

3. The power supply system output circuit according to claim 1, wherein the output unit comprises a connection switching unit that is switched so that:

when the amount of stored charge in at least one of the plurality of secondary batteries is greater than the first reference value, the common output terminal is connected to an output terminal side of the plurality of secondary batteries; and

when the amount of stored charge in at least one of the plurality of secondary batteries is less than the first reference value, the common output terminal is connected to an output terminal side of the AC-DC converter circuit.

4. The power supply system output circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the common output terminal of the output terminal unit is connected to both of an output terminal side of the plurality of secondary batteries and an output terminal side of the AC-DC converter circuit;

the power supply system output circuit further comprises a switch circuit for disconnecting or connecting a path for performing discharge from the plurality of secondary batteries to the DC load; and

when the amount of stored charge in at least one of the plurality of secondary batteries becomes less than the first reference value, the switch circuit is disconnected after operation of the AC-DC converter circuit is started.

5. The power supply system output circuit according to claim 4, wherein, subsequent to disconnecting the switch circuit after operation of the AC-DC converter circuit is started when the amount of stored charge in at least one of the plurality of secondary batteries becomes less than the first reference value,

when the amount of stored charge in at least one of the plurality of secondary batteries becomes greater than the first reference value, the operation of the AC-DC converter circuit is stopped after the switch circuit is connected.

6. The power supply system output circuit according to claim 1, wherein

elements other than the AC-DC converter circuit are operated by means of power supplied from a system operation power supply unit;

and

the AC-DC converter circuit is operated by means of power supplied from the AC power supply source via a path different from a power supply path from the system operation power supply unit to the elements other than the AC-DC converter circuit.

7. The power supply system output circuit according to claim 1, wherein

power supplied from the AC-DC converter circuit to the DC load is greater than power supplied from the plurality of secondary batteries to the DC load.