Device for charging a battery of a motor vehicle on the basis of a single-phase power supply network, and method of controlling the device

• US 9,469,204 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2012
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Original Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Inventors: Gati, Mehdi, Kvieska, Pedro, Ketfi-Cherif, Ahmed
• Primary Examiner(s): Parihar, Suchin
• Application Number:
  US14/111,925
• Publication Number:
  US 20140197788A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,650 Days
• Field of Search: 320/109
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0092 with use of redundant elements for safety purposes
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive 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 53/24 Using the vehicle's propulsion converter for charging
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/02 for charging batteries from ac mains by converters
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/007 Plural converter units in cascade push-pull DC/DC converters with pre-regulator H02M3/3374; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC stage including a high frequency transformer H02M7/4807; DC-AC converters following a DC-DC conversion stage generating periodically varying voltages H02M7/4826
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/4208 Arrangements for improving power factor of AC input
• 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 10/92 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

A device for charging a battery, for example of an electric traction motor vehicle, based on a single-phase power supply network, the device including a filtering stage configured to be connected to the single-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 or an induction coil, and a regulating unit configured to impose chopping duty ratios on the voltage step-down stage and on the voltage step-up stage. The regulating unit compensates for phase shift between an input current of the voltage step-down stage and an input voltage of the voltage step-down stage.

Claims

1. A device for charging a battery, or charging a battery of an electric-traction motor vehicle, from a single-phase power supply network, the device comprising:

a filtering stage configured to be connected to the single-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 or an inductance coil; and

control circuitry configured to impose chopping duty cycles on the voltage step-down stage and the voltage step-up stage,

wherein the control circuitry is further configured to compensate for a phase shift between an input current of the voltage step-down stage and an input voltage of the voltage step-down stage,

wherein the control circuitry is further configured to determine a chopping duty cycle of the voltage step-down stage as a function of a voltage of the single-phase power supply network, a setpoint power, and an intensity of current flowing through the inductive component, to compensate for the phase shift between the input current of the voltage step-down stage and the input voltage of the voltage step-down stage, and to control power received by the battery as a function of the setpoint power, and

wherein the control circuitry is further configured to determine a chopping duty cycle of the voltage step-up stage as a function of a voltage at an output of the voltage step-down stage, a voltage of the battery, and a difference between the setpoint induction intensity and the intensity of the current flowing through the inductive component, providing closed-loop control of an intensity of a current flowing through the battery.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control circuitry further includes a map providing an amplitude of the input current of the voltage step-down stage as a function of an amplitude of the input voltage and of the setpoint power.

3. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the setpoint induction intensity is always greater than the intensity flowing through the battery and the intensity flowing through the inductive component.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control circuitry receives the difference between the intensity of the current flowing through the inductive component and the setpoint inductance intensity, and is further configured to deactivate the integral part of the controller if the chopping duty cycle determined by the second module is approximately equal to “

0”

or “

1”

.

5. A motor vehicle with at least partial electrical traction, comprising:

an electric machine coupled to drive wheels and an inverter stage configured to power the electric machine;

a device as claimed in claim 1;

electrical connections and a switch of the voltage step-up stage of the device being included in the inverter stage, and the inductive component of the device being windings of the electric machine.

6. The device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control circuitry is connected to the voltage step-down stage and to the voltage step-up stage.

7. A method for controlling charging of a battery, or a battery of a motor vehicle, from a single-phase network, in which an input voltage is filtered, electrical power is taken from a network to the battery via a voltage step-down stage and a voltage step-up stage coupled via an inductive component or an inductance coil, the method comprising:

compensating for a phase shift between an input current of the voltage step-down stage and an input voltage of the voltage step-down stage;

controlling the input current of the voltage step-down stage via an open-loop control of a chopping duty cycle of the voltage step-down stage as a function of a voltage of the single-phase power supply network, a setpoint power, and an intensity of the current flowing through the inductive component, compensating for the phase shift between the input current of the voltage step-down stage and the input voltage of the voltage step-down stage, and controlling power received by the battery as a function of the setpoint power; and

locking an intensity of a current flowing through the battery to a reference battery intensity via a closed-loop control of a chopping duty cycle of the voltage step-up stage as a function of a voltage at an output of the voltage step-down stage, a voltage of the battery, and a difference between a setpoint induction intensity and an intensity of the current flowing through the inductive component.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein an integral part of a proportional-integral controller is deactivated if the chopping duty cycle is approximately equal to 0 or 1.