Control system for a vehicle-mounted battery

• US 5,965,991 A
• Filed: 02/12/1998
• Issued: 10/12/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: HINO Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: HINO Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Masuda, Atsushi, Koike, Tetsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEYKIN, RITA
• Application Number:
  US09/022,632
• Time in Patent Office: 607 Days
• Field of Search: 318/139, 318/801, 318/802, 318/35, 318/49, 320/149, 320/156, 320/138, 320/106, 320/136, 320/152, 180/65.6, 180/65.4, 324/427, 379/93.25, 355/219
• US Class Current: 318/139
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2001/0455 Removal or replacement of the energy storages
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/28 characterised by the electric energy storing means, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/485 Motor-assist type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/547 the transmission being a stepped gearing
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/30 AC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/40 DC to AC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/15 Preventing overcharging
• 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: B60L 7/14 for vehicles propelled by ac motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/20 Braking by supplying regenerated power to the prime mover of vehicles comprising engine-driven generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/26 Controlling the braking effect
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/26 for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/1415 with a generator driven by a prime mover other than the motor of a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• 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: Y10S 903/907 Electricity storage, e.g. battery, capacitor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/919 Stepped shift

Abstract

A control system for a vehicle-mounted battery which, in accordance with the state of a battery, can make a polyphase alternating current rotating machine in a hybrid car assist the driving gear (the internal combustion engine) or charge the battery. The current and voltage during discharge and charging of a battery mounted on a vehicle are measured, and on the basis of this measured current and voltage information, a program control circuit controls the discharge current when an auxiliary driving force is given to the driving gear. This control is performed via an inverter which performs AC-to-DC or DC-to-AC conversion between the battery and the polyphase alternating current rotating machine coupled to the driving gear of the vehicle. Because the charging and discharging currents are limited in accordance with the state of charging of the battery, it is possible to avoid charging and discharging uniformly irrespective of the amount of charging of the battery. In addition, charging efficiency can be increased and the working life of the battery lengthened.

Claims

1. A control system for a vehicle-mounted battery comprising:

a polyphase alternating current rotating machine coupled to the driving gear of a vehicle,

an inverter provided between said polyphase alternating current rotating machine and a battery mounted on the vehicle, said inverter performing AC-to-DC or DC-to-AC conversion,

a program control circuit for controlling said inverter; and

measuring means for measuring the current and voltage during at least one of discharging and charging of the battery;

wherein the program control circuit comprises means for controlling, via the inverter and on the basis of the voltage and current information measured by the aforesaid measuring means, at least one of the charging and discharging current of the battery, and

wherein the program control circuit comprises a memory in which at least one of charging and discharge volt-ampere characteristics has been stored in advance as a mapping in correspondence with the degree of battery deterioration, and

identifying means which identifies the degree of battery deterioration by comparing at least one of the discharge or charging volt-ampere characteristics measured by the measuring means with the mapping stored in the memory.

2. A control system for a vehicle-mounted battery according to claim 1, wherein the program control circuit comprises means which acquires the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal and adjusts the magnitude of the discharge current in accordance with the degree of deterioration identified by the aforesaid identifying means, said discharge current serving to generate a driving torque corresponding to the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal.

3. A control system for a vehicle-mounted battery according to claim 1, wherein the program control circuit comprises means which acquires the brake pressure and adjusts the magnitude of the charging current in accordance with the degree of deterioration identified by the aforesaid identifying means, said charging current serving to generate a regenerative braking torque corresponding to the brake pressure.