VEHICLE AND CHARGING AND DISCHARGING SYSTEM USING VEHICLE

• US 20160288649A1
• Filed: 11/07/2014
• Published: 10/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: KUSAFUKA, Hironobu, ONO, Tomoya
• Application Number:
  US15/035,339
• Publication Number:
  US 20160288649A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/006 to power outlets
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/549 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2270/20 Inrush current reduction, i.e. avoiding high currents when connecting the battery
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0046 relating to electric energy storage systems, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• 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 53/18 Cables specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/64 Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 55/00 Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/10 for monitoring or controlling batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• 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: Y04S 10/126 the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]

Abstract

A vehicle includes an electric storage device, an inlet, and a bidirectional thyristor. The bidirectional thyristor includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is connected to the inlet and the second electrode is connected to the electric storage device. The bidirectional thyristor is configured to cause a DC current to flow in a direction from the first electrode to the second electrode in a charging mode and to cause a DC current to flow in a direction from the second electrode to the first electrode in a discharging mode. The charging mode is a mode in which DC power supplied from the charging and discharging device is stored in the electric storage device and the discharging mode is a mode in which DC power of the electric storage device is supplied to the charging and discharging device.

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. A vehicle comprising:

an electric storage device configured to store DC power;

an inlet connected to an external charging and discharging device via a cable; and

a bidirectional thyristor including a first electrode connected to the inlet and a second electrode connected to the electric storage device, the bidirectional thyristor being configured to cause a DC current to flow in a direction from the first electrode to the second electrode in a charging mode, the bidirectional thyristor being configured to cause a DC current to flow in a direction from the second electrode to the first electrode in a discharging mode, the charging mode being a mode in which DC power supplied from the external charging and discharging device is stored in the electric storage device, the discharging mode being a mode in which DC power of the electric storage device is supplied to the external charging and discharging device, a relay having one terminal and the other terminal, the one terminal of the relay being connected to the second electrode of the bidirectional thyristor, the relay being turned on in the charging mode and the discharging mode, and

a first fuse connected between the other terminal of the relay and the electric storage device.

6. The vehicle according to claim 5, wherein the cable includes:

a connector connected to the inlet;

a second fuse having one terminal and the other terminal, the one terminal of the second fuse being connected to the connector; and

a power line connected between the other terminal of the second fuse and the external charging and discharging device.

7. A charging and discharging system comprising:

a cable;

an external charging and discharging device; and

a vehicle including;

an electric storage device configured to store DC power;

an inlet connected to the external charging and discharging device via a cable; and

a bidirectional thyristor including a first electrode connected to the inlet and a second electrode connected to the electric storage device, the bidirectional thyristor being configured to cause a DC current to flow in a direction from the first electrode to the second electrode in a charging mode, the bidirectional thyristor being configured to cause a DC current to flow in a direction from the second electrode to the first electrode in a discharging mode, the charging mode being a mode in which DC power supplied from the external charging and discharging device is stored in the electric storage device, the discharging mode being a mode in which DC power of the electric storage device is supplied to the external charging and discharging device, a relay having one terminal and the other terminal, the one terminal of the relay being connected to the second electrode of the bidirectional thyristor, the relay being turned on in the charging mode and the discharging mode, and

a first fuse connected between the other terminal of the relay and the electric storage device,

wherein the external charging and discharging device is configured to convert AC power supplied form a commercial AC power source into DC power and supply the DC power to the electric storage device via the cable in the charging mode, and

the external charging and discharging device is configured to convert DC power supplied via the cable from the electric storage device into AC power and supply the AC power to a load in the discharging mode.