CHARGING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CHARGING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE

• US 20160152153A1
• Filed: 06/30/2014
• Published: 06/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BYD Company Limited
• Original Assignee: BYD Company Limited
• Inventors: Yang, Guangming, Hu, Min
• Granted Patent: US 10,173,543 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 1/14 to electric lighting circuits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/007 Physical arrangements or structures of drive train converters specially adapted for the propulsion motors of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/025 using field orientation; Vector control; Direct Torque Control [DTC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/54 Windings for different functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/56 with switched windings
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/34 Cabin temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/16 by display
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/51 characterised by AC-motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/16 Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/20 characterised by converters located in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/24 Using the vehicle's propulsion converter for charging
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/60 Monitoring or controlling charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/66 Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/48 for electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 : Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 : Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 : for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 : Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• 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 90/12 : 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

A charging system for an electric vehicle and a method for controlling charging of an electric vehicle are provided. The charging system comprises: a power battery (10); a charge-discharge socket (20); an external power supply device (1002); a charging connection device (1001); and an energy control device (1003), comprising: a three-level bidirectional DC-AC module (30); a charge-discharge control module (50); and a control module (60) configured to control the charge-discharge control module (50) according to a current working mode of the electric vehicle. The energy control device (1003) and the external power supply device (1002) communicate by transmitting a modulated PWM signal to each other via the charging connection device (1001), and the control module (60) controls the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module (30) and the charge-discharge control module (50) to charge the power battery (10) by the external power supply device (1002).

Claims

1. A charging system for an electric vehicle, comprising:

a charge-discharge socket configured for connecting with an external power supply device through a charging connection device comprising a first plug configured to connect with the external power supply device and a second plug configured to connect with the charge-discharge socket; and

an energy control device configured to connect with a power battery, comprising;

a three-level bidirectional DC-AC module having a first DC terminal configured to connect with a first terminal of the power battery and a second DC terminal configured to connect with a second terminal of the power battery;

a charge-discharge control module having a first terminal connected with an AC terminal of the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module and a second terminal connected with the charge-discharge socket; and

a control module connected with a third terminal of the charge-discharge control module and a control terminal of the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module and configured to control the charge-discharge control module according to a current working mode of the electric vehicle;

wherein the energy control device is configured to communicate with the external power supply device communicate by transmitting a modulated PWM signal via the charging connection device, and the control module is configured to control the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module and the charge-discharge control module to charge the power battery by the external power supply device.

2. The charging system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a battery manager communicated with the control module via CAN and configured to control the power battery to provide a charging pathway when the control module is failure free via a self-test.

3. The charging system according to claim 1, wherein the control module is further configured to detect a current carrying capacity of the charging connection device and/or a load capacity of the external power supply device.

4. The charging system according to claim 1, wherein the charging connection device comprises:

a plurality of high-voltage terminals, a first detection terminal, a second detection terminal and a communication terminal;

wherein the external power supply device and the energy control device determine a connection state of the first plug and the second plug according to the first detection terminal and the second detection terminal, and the external power supply device and the energy control device communicate with each other via the communication terminal.

5. The charging system according to claim 4, wherein the energy control device detects the current carrying capacity of the charging connection device via the second detection terminal and obtains the load capacity of the external power supply device via the communication terminal.

6. The charging system according to claim 1, wherein the energy control device further comprises a motor control switch having a first terminal connected with the AC terminal of the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module and a second terminal configured to connect with a motor for the electric vehicle,

wherein the control module is connected with a third terminal of the motor control switch and is configured to control the motor control switch to turn off, and to control the charge-discharge control module to turn on so as to start the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module, when the current working mode of the electric vehicle is a charge-discharge mode.

7. The charging system according to claim 1, wherein the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module comprises:

a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected in series and connected between the first DC terminal and the second DC terminal of the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module in which a first node is defined between the first capacitor and the second capacitor;

a first IGBT and a second IGBT connected in series and connected between the first DC terminal and the second DC terminal of the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module, in which a second node is defined between the first IGBT and the second IGBT;

a third IGBT and a fourth IGBT connected in series and connected between the first node and the second node;

a fifth IGBT and a sixth IGBT connected in series and connected between the first DC terminal and the second DC terminal of the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module, in which a third node is defined between the fifth IGBT and the sixth IGBT;

a seventh IGBT and an eighth IGBT connected in series and connected between the first node and the third node;

a ninth IGBT and a tenth IGBT connected in series and connected between the first DC terminal and the second DC terminal of the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module, in which a fourth node is defined between the ninth IGBT and the tenth IGBT;

an eleventh IGBT and a twelfth IGBT connected in series and connected between the first node and the fourth node;

wherein the second node, the third node and the fourth node are configured as the AC terminal of the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module.

8. The charging system according to claim 1, wherein the energy control device further comprises:

a first common-mode capacitor and a second common-mode capacitor connected in series and connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the power battery, in which a node between the first common-mode capacitor and the second common-mode capacitor is grounded.

9. The charging system according to claim 1, wherein the energy control device further comprises:

a filtering module connected between the AC terminal of the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module and the charge-discharge control module.

10. The charging system according to claim 9, wherein the energy control device further comprises:

a filtering control module connected between the first node and the filtering module, in which the control module controls the filtering control module to turn off when the current working mode of the electric vehicle is a driving mode.

11. The charging system according to claim 1, wherein the energy control device further comprises:

an EMI-filter module connected between the charge-discharge socket and the charge-discharge control module.

12. The charging system according to claim 9, wherein the energy control device further comprises:

a precharging control module connected with the charge-discharge control module in parallel and configured to precharge a capacitor in the filtering module,

wherein when the current working mode of the first electric vehicle is the discharging mode, the control module controls the filtering control module to turn on and controls the precharging control module to precharge the capacitor in the filtering module until a voltage of the capacitor in the filtering module reaches a predetermined threshold, and then the control module controls the precharging control module to turn off and controls the charge-discharge control module to turn on.

13. The charging system according to claim 1, wherein the charge-discharge control module further comprises:

at least one of a three-phase switch and a single-phase switch configured to implement a three-phase charge-discharge or a single-phase charge-discharge.

14. A method for controlling charging of an electric vehicle, comprising:

detecting a modulated PWM signal transmitted between an energy control device and an external power supply device via a charging connection device;

establishing a communication between the energy control device and the external power supply device according to the modulated PWM signal; and

controlling a three-level bidirectional DC-AC module and a charge-discharge control module of the energy control device to charge the power battery by the external power supply device.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

determining whether there is a failure in the energy control device via a self-test;

if no, controlling the power battery to provide a charging pathway.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising:

detecting a current carrying capacity of the charging connection device and/or a load capacity of the external power supply device;

controlling the three-level bidirectional DC-AC module and the charge-discharge control module of the energy control device to charge the power battery by the external power supply device, when the current carrying capacity of the charging connection device and/or the load capacity of the external power supply device meet a predetermined requirement.