Switching power supply unit

• US 7,796,410 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2007
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Original Assignee: TDK Corporation
• Inventors: Takayanagi, Yoshinobu, Sato, Kunihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel; Rajnikant B
• Application Number:
  US11/976,887
• Publication Number:
  US 20080101096A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,051 Days
• Field of Search: 363 16- 20, 363 34- 39, 363/43, 363/67, 323/222, 323282-284, 323/269, 307 64- 66, 320/15, 320/103, 320/119
• US Class Current: 363/37
• 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 2210/10 DC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/527 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/529 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/547 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/22 Constructional details or arrangements of charging converters specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/20 having different nominal voltages
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 1/08 Three-wire systems; Systems having more than three wires
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 1/082 Plural DC voltage, e.g. DC supply voltage with at least two different DC voltage levels
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007182 in response to battery voltage
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33584 Bidirectional converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/3376 with automatic control of output voltage or current
• 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 10/92 : Energy efficient charging or discharging systems for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors specially adapted for vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 : Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 : Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

Provided is a switching power supply unit being able to perform voltage conversion between two DC power supplies, and perform appropriate charge operation based on an inputted AC voltage. When a main battery is preferentially charged, an SW control section performs control such that a duty ratio is fixed in switching operation of a switching circuit, and a duty ratio is variable in switching operation of a bidirectional switching circuit. On the other hand, when an accessory battery is preferentially charged, the SW control section performs control such that a duty ratio is variable in switching operation of each of the switching circuit and the bidirectional switching circuit. When the accessory battery is preferentially charged, the SW control section may perform control such that the duty ratio is fixed in switching operation of the switching circuit, and a duty ratio is variable in switching operation of a switching element.

Claims

1. A switching power supply unit, comprising:

a transformer including a first transformer coil, a second transformer coil, and a third transformer coil, the transformer coils being magnetically coupled with one another,

a first switching circuit disposed between the first transformer coil and a first DC power supply, and configured to include bidirectional switches,

a rectifier circuit disposed between the second transformer coil and a second DC power supply,

a second switching circuit disposed between the third transformer coil and AC voltage input terminals, and

a switching control section performing control such that when the first DC power supply is assigned higher priority in charging based on a AC input voltage inputted from the AC voltage input terminals, a switching duty ratio in the second switching circuit is set to be fixed, and a switching duty ratio in the first switching circuit is set to be variable, and when the second DC power supply is assigned higher priority in charging based on the AC input voltage, the switching duty ratio in the second switching circuit is set to be variable, and the first switching circuit performs switching operation.

2. The switching power supply unit according to claim 1:

wherein the switching control section performs control such that the first switching circuit performs switching operation with a switching duty ratio smaller than that of the second switching circuit.

3. The switching power supply unit according to claim 1:

wherein the switching power unit has first detection sections detecting amount of charge of at least one of the first and second DC power supplies, and

the switching control section performs control of preferential charge operation to one of the first and second DC power supplies based on a detection result given by the first detection sections.

4. The switching power supply unit according to claim 1:

wherein the switching power supply unit has a second detection section detecting presence of supply of an AC input voltage from the AC voltage input terminals, and

the switching control section performs control, based on a detection result given by the second detection section, such that when the AC input voltage is not supplied, a DC input voltage supplied from the first DC power supply is subjected to voltage conversion and then supplied to the second DC power supply, and

when the AC input voltage is supplied, at least one of the first and second DC power supplies is subjected to charge operation.

5. The switching power supply unit according to claims 1:

wherein a power factor correction circuit is further provided between the second switching circuit and the AC voltage input terminals.

6. A switching power supply unit, comprising:

a transformer including a first transformer coil, a second transformer coil, and a third transformer coil, the transformer coils being magnetically coupled with one another,

a first switching circuit disposed between the first transformer coil and a first DC power supply,

a rectifier circuit disposed between the second transformer coils and a second DC power supply,

a second switching circuit disposed between the third transformer coil and AC voltage input terminals,

a power factor correction circuit disposed between the second switching circuit and the AC voltage input terminals, and configured to include a switching element, and

a switching control section performing control such that when the first DC power supply is assigned higher priority in charging based on a AC input voltage inputted from the AC voltage input terminals, a switching duty ratio in the second switching circuit is set to be fixed, and a switching duty ratio in the first switching circuit is set to be variable, and when the second DC power supply is assigned higher priority in charging based on the AC input voltage, at least one of the switching duty ratio in the second switching circuit and a switching duty ratio in the switching element in the power factor correction circuit is set to be variable based on amount of charge of the second DC power supply, and the first switching circuit performs switching operation.

7. A switching power supply unit, comprising:

a transformer including a first transformer coil, a second transformer coil, and a third transformer coil, the transformer coils being magnetically coupled with one another,

a first switching circuit disposed between the first transformer coil and a first DC power supply, and configured to include bidirectional switches,

a rectifier circuit disposed between the second transformer coil and a second DC power supply,

a second switching circuit disposed between the third transformer coil and AC voltage input terminals, and

a switching control section performing control such that when the first DC power supply is assigned higher priority in charging based on a AC input voltage inputted from the AC voltage input terminals, a switching duty ratio in the second switching circuit which acts as an inverter circuit is set to be fixed, and a switching duty ratio in the first switching circuit which acts as a rectifier circuit is set to be variable, thereby charge operation is performed to the first DC power supply while a DC voltage outputted from the first switching circuit is changed and amount of charge of the first DC power supply is adjusted, and limited charge operation is performed to the second DC power supply compared with the first DC power supply while a DC voltage outputted from the rectifier circuit is fixed, and when the second DC power supply is assigned higher priority in charging based on the AC input voltage, the switching duty ratio in the second switching circuit which acts as an inverter circuit is set to be variable, and when the first switching circuit which acts as a rectifier circuit performs switching operation, thereby charge operation is performed to the second DC power supply while a DC voltage outputted from the rectifier circuit is changed and amount of charge of the second DC power supply is adjusted, and charge operation is performed to the first DC power supply based on the DC voltage outputted from the first switching circuit.

8. A switching power supply unit, comprising:

a transformer including a first transformer coil, a second transformer coil, and a third transformer coil, the transformer coils being magnetically coupled with one another,

a first switching circuit disposed between the first transformer coil and a first DC power supply,

a rectifier circuit disposed between the second transformer coils and a second DC power supply,

a second switching circuit disposed between the third transformer coil and AC voltage input terminals,

a power factor correction circuit disposed between the second switching circuit and the AC voltage input terminals, and configured to include a switching element, and

a switching control section performing control such that when the first DC power supply is assigned higher priority in charging based on a AC input voltage inputted from the AC voltage input terminals, a switching duty ratio in the second switching circuit which acts as an inverter circuit is set to be fixed, and a switching duty ratio in the first switching circuit which acts as a rectifier circuit is set to be variable, thereby charge operation is performed to the first DC power supply while a DC voltage outputted from the first switching circuit is changed and amount of charge of the first DC power supply is adjusted, and limited charge operation is performed to the second DC power supply compared with the first DC power supply while a DC voltage outputted from the rectifier circuit is fixed, and when the second DC power supply is assigned higher priority in charging based on the AC input voltage, at least one of the switching duty ratio in the second switching circuit which acts as an inverter circuit and a switching duty ratio in the switching element in the power factor correction circuit is set to be variable, and when the first switching circuit which acts as a rectifier circuit performs switching operations, thereby charge operation is performed to the second DC power supply while a DC voltage outputted from the rectifier circuit is changed and amount of charge of the second DC power supply is adjusted, and charge operation is performed to the first DC power supply based on the DC voltage outputted from the first switching circuit.