DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CHARGING A BATTERY FROM A THREE-PHASE NETWORK, HAVING A DEGRADED CHARGING MODE

• US 20170310206A1
• Filed: 10/12/2015
• Published: 10/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Original Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Inventors: KVIESKA, Pedro, MERIENNE, Ludovic
• Application Number:
  US15/517,178
• Publication Number:
  US 20170310206A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/32 Means for protecting converters other than automatic disconnection
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/325 with means for allowing continuous operation despite a fault, i.e. fault tolerant converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/327 against abnormal temperatures
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations

Abstract

A device and method for charging a battery from a three-phase network, having a degraded charging mode, for example a battery of an electric traction automotive vehicle. The device includes a first filtering stage configured to be connected to the three-phase network, a voltage step-down stage connected to the filtering stage, a voltage step-up stage configured to be connected to the battery and coupled to the voltage step-down stage via an inductive component, a regulating unit configured to impose cyclic switching ratios on the voltage step-down stage and on the voltage step-up stage, and a device for comparing operating temperature of the regulating unit with a threshold value and controlling the charging based on two phases of the three-phase network when the operating temperature of the regulating unit exceeds the threshold value.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A device for charging a battery, or a battery for an electric-drive automotive vehicle, from a three-phase power supply network, comprising:

a first filtering stage configured to be connected to the three-phase network;

a voltage buck stage connected to the filtering stage;

a voltage boost stage configured to be connected to the battery and coupled to the voltage buck stage via an inductive component;

at least one regulating unit configured to impose chopping duty cycles on the voltage buck stage; and

means for comparing an operating temperature of the regulating unit with a first threshold value and means for controlling the charging operation to take place via two phases only of the three-phase network when the operating temperature of the regulating unit exceeds the first threshold value.

12. The device as claimed in claim 11, further comprising means for controlling the charging operation to take place via the three phases of the three-phase network when the temperature of the regulating unit is below a second threshold value that is lower than the first threshold value.

13. The device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the regulating unit includes means for distributing current flowing through the buck stage between two branches of the voltage buck stage according to the chopping duty cycle imposed on this stage.

14. The device as claimed in claim 13, wherein the regulating unit includes means for implementing a regulation of the buck stage that uses a single switch controlled over one current flow branch.

15. The device as claimed in claim 11, wherein the regulating unit includes means for imposing chopping duty cycles on the voltage boost stage and means for compensating for increase in the output voltage of the voltage buck stage, resulting from charging from the two phases of the network.

16. A method for charging a battery, or a drive battery for an electric-drive automotive vehicle, from a three-phase power supply network, comprising:

filtering the input voltage delivered by the network;

transmitting electrical power from the network to the battery via a voltage buck stage and a voltage boost stage that are coupled via an inductive component;

comparing an operating temperature of a regulating unit for regulating the buck stage with a first threshold value; and

charging the battery from two phases only of the three-phase network when the temperature exceeds the first threshold value.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the battery-charging operation is controlled to take place via the three phases of the network when the measured temperature is below a second threshold value that is lower than the first threshold value.

18. The method as claimed in claim 16, further comprising:

calculating a chopping duty cycle for the voltage buck stage and for the voltage boost stage; and

distributing the current flowing through the voltage buck stage between two branches of the buck stage according to the chopping duty cycle imposed on the buck stage.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, wherein, if the voltage of the phase connected to a first branch of the two phases is higher than the voltage of the phase connected to a second branch of the two phases, a switch in series with a diode of the second branch is closed and the chopping duty cycle is applied to the first branch and, if such is not the case, a switch in series with a diode of the first branch is closed and the chopping duty cycle is applied to the second branch.

20. The method as claimed in claim 19, wherein a third branch of the voltage buck stage is kept open during an operation of charging from the two phases of the power supply network.