Charging management system and method for charger of electric vehicle

• US 20160243956A1
• Filed: 05/03/2016
• Published: 08/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xi'An Tgood Intelligent Charging Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Xi'An Tgood Intelligent Charging Technology Company Limited
• Inventors: Yuan, Qingmin
• Granted Patent: US 10,000,130 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/30 AC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/545 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/547 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/549 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/70 Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/80 Time limits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/10 by alarm
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0046 relating to electric energy storage systems, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0092 with use of redundant elements for safety purposes
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/04 Cutting off the power supply under fault conditions protective devices and circuit arrangements in general H01H; H02H
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/12 Recording operating variables ; Monitoring of operating variables
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/11 DC charging controlled by the charging station, e.g. mode 4
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/10 for monitoring or controlling batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/16 responding to battery ageing, e.g. to the number of charging cycles or the state of health [SoH]
• 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

A charging management system (CMS) and a charging management method for a charger of an electric vehicle are provided. The CMS includes a charger grid micro-dispatching system (CGMS) module, a charger battery management system (CBMS) module, a charger vehicle-dispatching management system (CVMS) module, a charger network management system (CNMS) module, and a charger charging management system (CCMS) module. An intelligent safety redundant strategy and a fault recording strategy are introduced, and multiple related parameters of a battery management system (BMS) are built in the CBMS module, so as to realize an intelligent active protection during charging the electric vehicle. Meanwhile, through analyzing the BMS and characteristic data of a power battery, cooperating with the CCMS module, adopting a multi-dimension data analyzing and controlling strategy, and outputting an optimized flexible curve current based on battery charging, life time of the battery is lengthened.

Claims

1. A charging management system (CMS) for a charger of an electric vehicle, comprising:

a charger grid micro-dispatching system (CGMS) module, which is responsible for communicating with a power supply grid centralized controller, interpreting received parameter information data according to a certain strategy, outputting an interpretation result, and sending said interpretation result to a charger charging management system (CCMS) module;

a charger battery management system (CBMS) module, which is responsible for communicating with a battery management system (BMS) of the electric vehicle, receiving various communication and charging parameters sent by the BMS, interpreting the various communication and charging parameters according to a certain strategy, outputting charging requirement parameters and sending said charging requirement parameters to said CCMS module;

a charger vehicle-dispatching management system (CVMS) module, which is responsible for communicating with said CCMS module and collecting multiple built-in parameters of the charger, and meanwhile responsible for communicating with a user vehicle dispatching center and sending the multiple built-in parameters of the charger to the user vehicle dispatching center;

a charger network management system (CNMS) module, which is responsible for communicating with an intelligent network cloud platform, receiving and sending multiple parameter information, and meanwhile indirectly communicating with a user terminal device through the cloud platform; and

said CCMS module, which is a core of the CMS, responsible for communicating with said CGMS module, said CBMS module, said CVMS module, and said CNMS module, and meanwhile responsible for a control of a direct current (DC) module, a control of a vehicle power distribution unit (PDU), battery diagnosis and protection, charger self-diagnosis and self-protection, BMS diagnosis and protection, vehicle diagnosis and protection, and fault recording.

2. A charging management method for a charger of an electric vehicle, based on the CMS as recited in claim 1, comprising steps of:

before charging, the power supply grid centralized controller monitoring grid usage conditions of a controlled area and sending area electric quantity load information to the CMS;

the CGMS module receiving the area electric quantity load information, judging whether a current area electric quantity is over a preset area electric quantity upper limit, and sending the current area electric quantity and a judged result to the CCMS module;

the CCMS module receiving charging mode information and starting to charge the electric vehicle; and

after finishing charging, the CCMS module sending a charging electric quantity to the CGMS module;

the CGMS module collecting the charging electric quantity of the charger in a specific time period and sending to the power supply grid centralized controller.

3. The charging management method for the charger of the electric vehicle, as recited in claim 2, wherein:

during charging, the CVMS module sends current charger information, a condition whether an area electricity consumption is over load parameters, and estimated charging information to the user vehicle dispatching center; and

, according to the above information, the user vehicle dispatching center determines an affiliated unit of the electric vehicle to choose chargers at different locations for charging the electric vehicle.

4. The charging management method for the charger of the electric vehicle, as recited in claim 3, wherein:

when the electric vehicle of a user is connected with a charging gun, the user sends a charging request through the user terminal device;

a background of the cloud platform judges the charging request;

when charging is feasible, the cloud platform sends a charging starting instruction to the CNMS module;

after receiving the charging starting instruction, the CNMS module sends the charging starting instruction to the CCMS module, so as to finish the charging request;

the CCMS module sends the current charger information, the condition whether the area electricity consumption is over the load parameters, and the estimated charging information to the user terminal device through the CNMS module.

5. The charging management method for the charger of the electric vehicle, as recited in claim 3, wherein:

the current charger information comprises a charger location, a charger type, a charger idle condition, a charging power, and a charging waiting time;

the estimated charging information comprises an estimated charging time and an estimated charging expense.

6. The charging management method for the charger of the electric vehicle, as recited in claim 4, wherein:

the current charger information comprises a charger location, a charger type, a charger idle condition, a charging power, and a charging waiting time;

the estimated charging information comprises an estimated charging time and an estimated charging expense.

7. The charging management method for the charger of the electric vehicle, as recited in claim 2, wherein:

during charging, the BMS sends real-time parameters values, comprising a battery cell maximum voltage, a cell current, and a cell maximum temperature, to the CBMS module;

according to multiple built-in parameter thresholds, the CBMS module adjusts an algorithm and sends parameter values of an optimal strategy to the CCMS module;

the CCMS module judges the parameter values and appropriately adjusts an output power.

8. The charging management method for the charger of the electric vehicle, as recited in claim 2, wherein:

the power supply grid centralized controller monitors the grid usage conditions of the controlled area;

wherein;

(1) when the received area electric quantity is Mkw, larger than 120% of the preset upper limit of Nkw, the CGMS module determines not to charge the electric vehicle in a specific time period, and meanwhile sends the charging mode information to the CCMS module;

(2) when the received area electric quantity is Lkw, larger than the preset upper limit of Nkw, but smaller than 120% of the preset upper limit of Nkw, the CGMS module determines to continue charging the electric vehicle, but decreases a charging power required by the BMS to 90%, and meanwhile sends the charging mode information to the CCMS module; and

(3) when the received area electric quantity is Pkw, smaller than the preset upper limit of Nkw, the CGMS module determines to continue charging the electric vehicle with 100% of the charging power according to requirements of the BMS, and meanwhile sends the charging mode information to the CCMS module.

9. The charging management method for the charger of the electric vehicle, as recited in claim 2, wherein:

an intelligent charging strategy is adjusted according to following parameters;

area grid load parameters sent by the CGMS module, required charging voltage and current of the charger sent by the CBMS module, multiple parameters of the cloud platform and related parameters of user charging requirements sent by the CNMS module;

multiple parameter values, which are built in the charger, comprise a preset voltage-time flexible charging curve;

during charging, according to collected real-time voltage information, the CCMS module adjusts an output; and

meanwhile, according to the different charging requirements of the multiple users in the same charging station, the CCMS module appropriately adjusts output power.

10. The charging management method for the charger of the electric vehicle, as recited in claim 2, wherein:

an active protection strategy is adjusted according to following parameters;

a total voltage, a cell voltage, a cell maximum voltage, and a cell maximum temperature sent by the CBMS module during charging;

meanwhile, based on built-in warning parameter values in the charger, the above parameters is set not to over a specific value;

when the above parameters is over the specific value, the CCMS module warns, and even stops charging.