Power supply system, vehicle with the same, temperature increase control method for power storage device and computer-readable recording medium bearing program for causing computer to execute temperature increase control of power storage device

• US 8,035,252 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2007
• Issued: 10/11/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Tetsuhiro, Ichikawa, Shinji
• Primary Examiner(s): Fureman; Jared
• Assistant Examiner(s): AMAYA, CARLOS DAVID
• Application Number:
  US12/310,240
• Publication Number:
  US 20090195067A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,541 Days
• Field of Search: 307/9.1, 307/45, 307/46, 307/82, 320/104, 320/150
• US Class Current: 307/82
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0046 relating to electric energy storage systems, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/61 by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/12 responding to state of charge [SoC]
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/27 by heating
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/441 for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/615 Heating or keeping warm
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/625 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/633 characterised by algorithms, flow charts, software details or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/637 characterised by the use of reversible temperature-sensitive devices, e.g. NTC, PTC or bimetal devices; characterised by control of the internal current flowing through the cells, e.g. by switching means for preventing undesired use or discharge H01M50/572
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0018 using separate charge circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/007192 in response to temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/1423 with multiple batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/143 with multiple generators
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• 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

Abstract

A power supply system includes power storage devices, converters and a converter ECU controlling the converters. In temperature increase control of power storage devices, converter ECU determines an electric power transferred between the power storage devices via a main positive bus line and a main negative bus line as well as a transfer direction of the electric power, based on an allowable discharge power and an allowable charge power of each power storage device, and controls the converters to transfer the determined electric power between the power storage devices.

Claims

1. A power supply system capable of supplying an electric power to a load device, comprising:

first and second chargeable power storage devices;

a power line configured to transfer electric power between the power supply system and said load device;

a first converter provided between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line, the first converter performs voltage conversion between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line;

a second converter provided between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line, the second converter performs voltage conversion between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line; and

a control device that controls said first and second converters, wherein

said control device determines (1) a maximum electric power transferable between said first and second chargeable power storage devices via said power line and (2) a transfer direction of the electric power based on an allowable discharge power and an allowable charge power of each of said first and second chargeable power storage devices, and

the control device controls said first and second converters to transfer the determined maximum electric power between said first and second chargeable power storage devices.

2. The power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

said control device determines the allowable discharge power and the allowable charge power of the first chargeable power storage device based on a state of charge and a temperature of said first chargeable power storage device, and

the control device determines the allowable discharge power and the allowable charge power of said second chargeable power storage device based on a state of charge and a temperature of said second chargeable power storage device.

3. The power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

when supply of the electric power to said load device is required, said control device determines (1) the maximum electric power transferable between said first and second chargeable power storage devices, (2) the transfer direction of the electric power based on said allowable discharge power and said allowable charge power and (3) the required electric power of said load device.

4. A vehicle comprising:

the power supply system according to claim 1; and

a drive power generating unit receiving the electric power from said power supply system and generating a drive power of the vehicle.

5. A power supply system capable of supplying an electric power to a load device, comprising:

first and second chargeable power storage devices;

a power line configured transfer an electric power between the power supply system and said load device;

a first converter provided between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line, the first converter performs voltage conversion between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line;

a second converter provided between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line, the second converter performs voltage conversion between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line; and

a control device controlling said first and second converters, wherein

said control device determines a transfer direction of the electric power transferred between said first and second chargeable power storage devices via said power line based on a heating value during discharging and a heating value during charging of each of said first and second chargeable power storage devices, and

the control device controls said first and second converters to transfer the electric power between said first and second chargeable power storage devices in the determined transfer direction.

6. The power supply system according to claim 5, wherein

said control device determines said transfer direction to maximize a sum of the heating values of said first and second chargeable power storage devices.

7. The power supply system according to claim 5, wherein

when a temperature of one of said first and second chargeable power storage devices is increased, said control device determines said transfer direction to maximize the heating value of the one of the first and second chargeable power storage devices having the increased temperature, based on the heating value during the discharging and the heating value during the charging of the one of the first and second chargeable power storage devices having the increased temperature.

8. A power supply system capable of supplying an electric power to a load device, comprising:

first and second chargeable power storage devices;

a power line configured to transfer an electric power between the power supply system and said load device;

a first converter provided between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line, the first converter performs voltage conversion between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line;

a second converter provided between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line, the second converter performs voltage conversion between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line; and

a control device that controls said first and second converters, wherein

said control device calculates a state of charge maximizing the electric power mutually transferred between said first and second chargeable power storage devices within a range of an achievable state of the charge of said first and second chargeable power storage devices determined based on a total quantity of the stored powers of said first and second chargeable power storage devices, and

the control device controls said first and second converters to transfer, between said first and second chargeable power storage devices, the electric power in the direction approaching the calculated state of the charge.

9. A temperature increase control method for a power storage device in a power supply system capable of supplying an electric power to a load device, said power supply system including

first and second chargeable power storage devices,

a power line configured to transfer an electric power between the power supply system and said load device,

a first converter provided between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line, the first converter performs voltage conversion between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line, and

a second converter provided between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line, the second converter performs voltage conversion between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line,

said temperature increase control method comprising:

determining a maximum electric power transferable between said first and second chargeable power storage devices via said power line and determining a transfer direction of the electric power based on an allowable discharge power and an allowable charge power of each of said first and second chargeable power storage devices; and

controlling said first and second converters to transfer the determined maximum electric power between said first and second chargeable power storage devices.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium bearing a program for causing a computer to execute the temperature increase control method according to claim 9.

11. A temperature increase control method for a power storage device in a power supply system capable of supplying an electric power to a load device, said power supply system including

first and second chargeable power storage devices,

a power line configured to transfer an electric power between the power supply system and said load device,

a first converter provided between said first power storage device and said power line, the first converter performs voltage conversion between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line, and

a second converter provided between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line, the second converter performs voltage conversion between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line,

said temperature increase control method comprising:

determining a transfer direction of the electric power transferred between said first and second chargeable power storage devices via said power line based on a heating value during discharging and a heating value during charging of each of said first and second chargeable power storage devices; and

controlling said first and second converters to transfer the electric power between said first and second chargeable power storage devices in the determined transfer direction.

12. A temperature increase control method for a power storage device in a power supply system capable of supplying an electric power to a load device, said power supply system including

first and second chargeable power storage devices,

a power line configured to transfer an electric power between the power supply system and said load device,

a first converter provided between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line, the first converter performs voltage conversion between said first chargeable power storage device and said power line, and

a second converter provided between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line, the second converter performs voltage conversion between said second chargeable power storage device and said power line,

said temperature increase control method comprising:

calculating a total quantity of the stored powers of said first and second chargeable power storage devices;

calculating a state of charge maximizing the electric power mutually transferred between said first and second chargeable power storage devices within a range of an achievable state of the charge of said first and second chargeable power storage devices determined based on the calculated total quantity of the stored powers of the first and second chargeable power storage devices; and

controlling said first and second converters to transfer, between said first and second chargeable power storage devices, the electric power in a direction approaching the calculated state of the charge.