Motor Vehicle Having a Jump-Start Device

• US 20130314041A1
• Filed: 08/02/2013
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: PROEBSTLE, Hartmut
• Granted Patent: US 9,718,419 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/109
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/03 for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/0862 characterised by the electrical power supply means, e.g. battery
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/0866 comprising several power sources, e.g. battery and capacitor or two batteries
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/087 Details of the switching means in starting circuits, e.g. relays or electronic switches
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/14 Starting of engines by means of electric starters with external current supply F02N11/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 2200/06 said parameters being related to the power supply or driving circuits for the starter
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 2200/061 Battery state of charge [SOC]
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 2200/063 Battery voltage

Abstract

A motor vehicle having a jump-start device is equipped with an internal combustion engine with a starter motor, and at least two on-board electrical power subsystems which are coupled together via an electric coupling element. Each on-board electrical power subsystem has at least one rechargeable electrical energy storage device. The motor vehicle has a jump-start support terminal, wherein the jump-starting device has a multi-stage jump-start switch. The on-board electrical power subsystems and the jump-starting support terminal are galvanically isolated when a first switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected, and the on-board electrical power subsystems and the jump-starting support terminal are galvanically connected when a second switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle having a jump-starting device, wherein the motor vehicle has an internal combustion engine with a starter motor, the vehicle is equipped with at least two on-board electrical power subsystems which are coupled to each other via an electric coupling element, and is equipped with at least one rechargeable electric energy storage device per on-board electrical power subsystem, and the motor vehicle has a jump-starting support terminal, wherein:

the jump-starting device has a multi-stage jump-start switch,

the on-board electrical power subsystems and the jump-starting support terminal are galvanically isolated when a first switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected, and

the on-board electrical power subsystems and the jump-starting support terminal are galvanically connected when a second switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected.

2. A motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the electrical coupling element is configured as one of a DC converter, a relay, and a switch.

3. A motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the jump-starting support terminal is electrically contacted when the second switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected, in order to charge the rechargeable energy storage devices from an external voltage source via the jump-starting support terminal.

4. A motor vehicle according to claim 3, wherein, the jump-starting support terminal is electrically contacted when the second switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected, in order to supply the starter motor with electrical power from an external voltage source, for a jump-start of the internal combustion engine.

5. A motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein:

the jump-starting support terminal is substantially designed with a cylindrical shape,

the jump-start switch is substantially designed with a circular shape and encloses the jump-starting support terminal with a galvanic connection, and

the jump-starting support terminal and the jump-start switch have a shared pressure mechanism and/or a rotary mechanism by which the jump-start switch is fixable in one of at least two prespecified setting positions with respect to the jump-starting support terminal.

6. A motor vehicle according to claim 5, wherein:

when the first switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected, the jump-start switch is fixed in an upper setting position relative to the jump-starting support terminal,

when the second switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected, the jump-start switch is fixed in a lower setting position relative to the jump-starting support terminal,

when the jump-start switch is fixed in the upper setting position, the peripheral surface of the cylindrical basic shape of the jump-starting support terminal is geometrically shielded, and

when the jump-start switch is fixed in the lower setting position, the peripheral surface of the cylindrical basic shape of the jump-starting support terminal is geometrically at least partially freely accessible for an electrical contact therewith.

7. A motor vehicle according to claim 6, wherein:

the jump-starting support terminal is connected to a non-conductive holder, and

an elastic spring element functions to provide a return force between the holder and the jump-start switch in the axial direction of the jump-starting support terminal.

8. A motor vehicle according to one claim 7, wherein:

the jump-start switch has at least one attached locking pin on the side of the circular basic shape of the jump-start switch facing the jump-starting support terminal, and

the locking pin faces in the direction leading away from radial center of the circular basic shape of the jump-start switch and of the cylindrical basic shape of the jump-starting support terminal.

9. A motor vehicle according to claim 8, wherein:

the jump-starting support terminal has one recessed first groove for each locking pin,

the first groove guides the locking pin in the form of a tongue and groove connection in the axial direction of the jump-starting support terminal,

the locking pin can be fixed in the upper setting position on the end of the recessed first groove by means of the return force of the elastic spring element,

the jump-starting support terminal has one recessed groove for each locking pin, which is oriented perpendicular to the first groove, and which transitions in an L shape into the first groove on the end of the first groove which is facing the holder,

the second groove guides the locking pin in the form of a tongue and groove connection perpendicularly to the axial direction and perpendicularly to the direction leading away from radial center of the cylindrical basic shape of the jump-starting support terminal, meaning that it guides the jump-start switch around the jump-starting support terminal in a rotational manner, and

the locking pin can be fixed in the lower setting position in the second groove by means of the return force of the elastic spring element.

10. A motor vehicle according to claim 9, wherein:

at least one conducting element is stamped onto the non-conducting holder for each on-board electrical power subsystem, by means of which the respective on-board electrical power subsystem is galvanically connected,

the conductive elements are galvanically isolated from each other,

the jump-start switch is galvanically isolated from the conductive elements when the first switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected, and

the jump-start switch is galvanically connected to the conductive elements when the second switching stage of the jump-start switch is selected.