Method and device for communication between an electric vehicle and a charging station

• US 8,692,513 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2011
• Issued: 04/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: innogy SE (E.ON SE)
• Original Assignee: RWE AG
• Inventors: Gaul, Armin, Diefenbach, Ingo, Heider, Markus
• Primary Examiner(s): DIAO, M BAYE
• Application Number:
  US13/325,904
• Publication Number:
  US 20120139489A1
• Time in Patent Office: 846 Days
• Field of Search: 320/109, 701/22, 180/65.21
• US Class Current: 320/109
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/30 AC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/04 operating on the propulsion system, e.g. engine or drive motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 5/02 Supplying fuel to vehicles; General disposition of plant in filling stations apparatus for transferring measured quantities of petrol, oil, or the like from storage space to vehicles B67D
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/22 The load being a portable electronic device
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/48 for electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00036 Charger exchanging data with battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00041 in response to measured battery parameters, e.g. voltage, current or temperature profile
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2209/84 Vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/0872 using geo-location information, e.g. location data, time, relative position or proximity to other entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/3226 using a predetermined code, e.g. password, passphrase or PIN network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using passwords in a packet data network H04L63/083
• 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 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: Y02T 90/167 : Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 : Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

A method is described for communication with an electric vehicle, comprising a generating of a first predetermined DC voltage level on a pilot conductor, a recognition of the existence of an electrical connection to an electric vehicle by means of the detection of a second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor, a sending out of a trigger signal on the pilot conductor, a detection of a vehicle identification signal on the pilot conductor and an approval of the electricity supply on a power conductor.

Claims

1. A method for communication with an electric vehicle, comprising:

generating of a first predetermined DC voltage level on a pilot conductor,

recognition of the existence of an electrical connection to an electric vehicle by means of the detection of a second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

sending out of a trigger signal on the pilot conductor,

wherein the trigger signal is laid over the second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

detection of a vehicle identification signal on the pilot conductor and

approval of the electricity supply on a power conductor.

2. A method for communication with a charging station for an electric vehicle, comprising:

generating of a first predetermined DC voltage level on a pilot conductor,

recognition of the existence of an electrical connection to the electric vehicle by means of the detection of a second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

sending out of a trigger signal on the pilot conductor,

wherein the trigger signal is laid over the second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

detection of a trigger signal on the pilot conductor,

sending out of a vehicle identification signal on the pilot conductor,

detection of the vehicle identification signal on the pilot conductor,

approval of the electricity supply on a power conductor and

receiving of a charging current on the power conductor.

3. A device for communication with an electric vehicle, comprising:

voltage generation means for the generating of a first predetermined DC voltage level on a pilot conductor,

detector means for the recognition of the existence of an electrical connection to an electric vehicle by means of the detection of a second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

signal generation means for the sending out of a trigger signal on the pilot conductor,

wherein the trigger signal is laid over the second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

sensor means for the detection of a vehicle identification signal on the pilot conductor and

switch means for the approval of the electricity supply on a power conductor.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the detector means are suitable for detecting a temporary predetermined DC voltage change on the pilot conductor, which DC voltage change is laid over the trigger signal at least to some extent.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein the signal generation means are suitable for the sending out on the pilot conductor of an information signal comprising information about a charging current.

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein the signal shapes of the information signal and of the trigger signal in each case have at least one parameter which in each case lies in different, non-overlapping value ranges.

7. The device according to claim 5, wherein the information signal and the trigger signal are in each case pulse-width modulated signals.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the pulse/pause ratios of the information signal and of the trigger signal in each case lie in value ranges which do not overlap.

9. A device for communication with an electric vehicle, comprising:

voltage generation means for the generating of a first predetermined DC voltage level on a pilot conductor,

detector means for the recognition of the existence of an electrical connection to an electric vehicle by means of the detection of a second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

signal generation means for the sending out of a trigger signal on the pilot conductor,

sensor means for the detection of a vehicle identification signal on the pilot conductor,

switch means for the approval of the electricity supply on a power conductor, wherein the vehicle identification signal is a bipolar signal which comprises;

information about a position in a cryptographic key,

a vehicle identifier which was encrypted in a manner at least partially determined by means of the position in the cryptographic key and at least partially determined by means of the cryptographic key, and

information about a cyclic redundancy check of the vehicle identification signal.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein the information about a position in a cryptographic key consists of one byte, wherein the vehicle identifier consists of a sequence of up to thirty two bytes, wherein the information about a cyclic redundancy check consists of two bytes and wherein the vehicle identification signal additionally comprises:

a start identifier, made up of one byte, with the value 0x01 and

information, made up of one byte, on the length of the vehicle identification signal.

11. The device according to claim 9, wherein the information about a position in a cryptographic key is obtained from a message previously transmitted by the charging station to the electric vehicle, particularly with the taking into account of a preferably encrypted count value transmitted by the charging station.

12. A device for communication with a charging station for an electric vehicle, comprising:

voltage divider means for the generating of a first predetermined DC voltage level on a pilot conductor during the applying of a second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

sensor means for the detection of a trigger signal on the pilot conductor,

wherein the trigger signal is laid over the second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

signal generation means for the sending out of a vehicle identification signal on the pilot conductor and

charge acceptance means for the acceptance of a charging current on a power conductor.

13. A system for communication between an electric vehicle and a charging station, comprising:

voltage generation means for the generating of a first predetermined DC voltage level on a pilot conductor,

voltage divider means for generating a second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor during the applying of the first predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

detector means for the recognition of the existence of an electrical connection between the charging station and the electric vehicle by means of the detection of the second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

first signal generation means for the sending out of a trigger signal on the pilot conductor,

sensor means for the detection of a trigger signal on the pilot conductor,

wherein the trigger signal is laid over the second predetermined DC voltage level on the pilot conductor,

second signal generation means for sending out a vehicle identification signal on the pilot conductor,

sensor means for detecting a vehicle identification signal on the pilot conductor,

switch means for the approval of the electricity supply on a power conductor and

charge acceptance means for accepting a charging current on the power conductor.

14. A vehicle identification signal for communication between an electric vehicle and a charging station, which vehicle identification signal is a pulse-width modulated bipolar signal and comprises:

information about a position in a cryptographic key,

a vehicle identifier which was encrypted in a manner at least partially determined by means of the position in the cryptographic key and at least partially determined by means of the cryptographic key, and

information about a cyclic redundancy check of the vehicle identification signal.

15. The vehicle identification signal according to claim 14, wherein the information about a position in a cryptographic key consists of one byte, wherein the vehicle identifier consists of a sequence of up to thirty two bytes, wherein the information about a cyclic redundancy check consists of two bytes and wherein the vehicle identification signal additionally comprises:

a start identifier, made up of one byte, with the value 0x01 and

information, made up of one byte, on the length of the vehicle identification signal.

16. The vehicle identification signal according to claim 14, wherein the information about a position in a cryptographic key is obtained from a message previously transmitted by the charging station to the electric vehicle.

17. The vehicle identification signal according to claim 16, wherein the information about a position in a cryptographic key is obtained with the taking into account of a particularly encrypted count value transmitted by the charging station.

18. The vehicle identification signal according to claim 16, which is composed of a byte for the start identifier, a byte for the specification of the length, a variable number of bytes for the vehicle identifier, two bytes for the cyclic redundancy check via the count value and the cryptographic key, as well as two further bytes for the cyclic redundancy check.

19. The vehicle identification signal according to claim 14, wherein the cryptographic key is a further internal key which is assigned to the user of the vehicle in the manner of a PIN.