STRUCTURE FOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT METHOD IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE

• US 20130158762A1
• Filed: 12/13/2012
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: AN, Yoon Young, PARK, Chang Min, CHO, Pyung Dong, PARK, Wung
• Application Number:
  US13/713,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20130158762A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/003 to auxiliary motors, e.g. for pumps, compressors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/02 to electric heating circuits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/34 Cabin temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/622 by satellite navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/72 Charging station selection relying on external data
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/64 Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• 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 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

Provided is an energy management system installed in an electric vehicle, including: a mobile communication interface module to perform communication between an electric vehicle charging station management center and the electric vehicle over a mobile communication network; a charging station information receiving module to receive information about a charging station providing charging of electric energy; a vehicle battery state information receiving module to receive information about a battery state of the electric vehicle from a battery management module; an energy control algorithm module to generate control information about a usage of the electric energy based on information about the battery state and information about the charging station; and an energy control module to individually generate a control command with respect to a power usage of an apparatus that is managed by each of a vehicle control system associated, a vehicle multimedia system, and a service management system.

Claims

1. An energy management system installed in an electric vehicle, the system comprising:

a mobile communication interface module to perform communication between an electric vehicle charging station management center and the electric vehicle over a mobile communication network;

a charging station information receiving module to receive information about a charging station that provides charging of electric energy;

a vehicle battery state information receiving module to receive information about a battery state of the electric vehicle from a battery management module;

an energy control algorithm module to generate control information about a usage of the electric energy based on information about the battery state and information about the charging station; and

an energy control module to individually generate a control command with respect to a power usage of an apparatus that is managed by each of a vehicle control system associated with a mechanical motion of the electric vehicle, a vehicle multimedia system associated with multimedia apparatuses installed within the electric vehicle, and a service management system associated with a service using the mobile communication network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein:

each of the vehicle control system, the vehicle multimedia system, and the service management system comprises an energy control module, and

each of the vehicle control system, the vehicle multimedia system, and the service management system individually controls a power usage using the energy control module in response to the control command.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein information about the battery state comprises information about a currently available battery amount.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein information about the charging station comprises at least one of a distance between the electric vehicle and the charging station, information regarding whether the charging station is present in a path between a current position of the electric vehicle and a destination, and information about a charging time at the charging station.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle control system manages at least one of an air conditioner, a heater, and an engine motor of the electric vehicle.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle multimedia system manages at least one of a radio, an audio player, and a video player.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the service management system manages an apparatus associated with a navigation service or a traffic information service.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the energy control module individually generates the control command to power on or off the apparatus that is managed by each of the vehicle control system, the vehicle multimedia system, and the service management system.

9. An electric vehicle, comprising:

a battery to store electric energy;

a battery management module to manage the battery; and

an energy management system to receive, from an electric vehicle charging station management center over a mobile communication network, information about a charging station that provides charging of the electric energy, to generate control information about a usage of the electric energy based on information about the charging station and information about a battery state of the electric vehicle that is received from the battery management module, and to individually generate a control command with respect to a power usage of an apparatus that is managed by each of a vehicle control system associated with a mechanical motion of the electric vehicle, a vehicle multimedia system associated with multimedia apparatuses installed within the electric vehicle, and a service management system associated with a service using the mobile communication network.

10. The electric vehicle of claim 9, wherein:

each of the vehicle control system, the vehicle multimedia system, and the service management system comprises an energy control module, and

each of the vehicle control system, the vehicle multimedia system, and the service management system individually controls a power usage using the energy control module in response to the control command.

11. The electric vehicle of claim 9, wherein the energy management system individually generates the control command to power on or off the apparatus that is managed by each of the vehicle control system, the vehicle multimedia system, and the service management system.

12. The electric vehicle of claim 9, wherein information about the charging station comprises at least one of a distance between the electric vehicle and the charging station, information regarding whether the charging station is present in a path between a current position of the electric vehicle and a destination, and information about a charging time at the charging station.

13. The electric vehicle of claim 9, wherein information about the battery state comprises information about a currently available battery amount.