Electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor

• US 9,543,784 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2015
• Issued: 01/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: National Cheng KUNG University (Government of The Republic of China)
• Original Assignee: National Cheng KUNG University (Government of The Republic of China)
• Inventors: Chen, Ying-Rong, Huang, Shyh-Jier, Tsai, Mi-Ching
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): OMAR, AHMED H
• Application Number:
  US14/607,502
• Publication Number:
  US 20160118902A1
• Time in Patent Office: 713 Days
• Field of Search: 320/167
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/10 DC to DC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/545 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/547 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/549 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/40 using propulsion power supplied by capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/25 by controlling the electric load
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/48 for electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/34 Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other dc sources, e.g. providing buffering H02J7/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/342 The other DC source being a battery actively interacting with the first one, i.e. battery to battery charging with circuits for polarity protection H02J7/0034
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/345 using capacitors as storage or buffering devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 3/33584 Bidirectional converters
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

An electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor includes a power source module and a processing unit. The power source module includes an electric power transformer, a battery, and a super capacitor. The electric power transformer is electrically connected to the battery and the super capacitor. The processing unit is electrically connected to the electric power transformer for controlling the battery to charge the super capacitor, such that both the battery and the super capacitor supply electricity to the load, and such that electricity generated by the load can recharge the super capacitor. The electricity power supply system can avoid an increase of the working temperature of the battery.

Claims

1. An electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor, comprising:

a power source module including an electric power transformer, a battery, and a super capacitor, with the electric power transformer including a first positive terminal, a first negative terminal, a second positive terminal, a second negative terminal, a first control terminal, and a second control terminal, with the battery electrically connected between the first positive terminal and the first negative terminal, with the battery connected in parallel to a load, and with the super capacitor electrically connected between the second positive terminal and the second negative terminal; and

a processing unit including two transformation control terminals, a switch control terminal, and a plurality of signal detection terminals, with the two transformation control terminals electrically connected to the first control terminal and the second control terminal of the electric power transformer, with the plurality of signal detection terminals adapted for detecting electrical characteristics of the power source module and the load, with the processing unit controlling the battery to charge the super capacitor based on the electrical characteristics, such that both the battery and the super capacitor supply electricity to the load, and such that electricity generated by the load can recharge the super capacitor.

2. The electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein only the battery supplies electricity to the load when the electricity demanded by the load is smaller than an amount of electricity supplied by the battery.

3. The electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the battery charges the super capacitor, the processing unit detects a voltage of the battery and uses the voltage of the battery to calculate an amount of electricity of the battery, and the super capacitor is charged according to the amount of electricity of the battery.

4. The electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the electricity demanded by the load is larger than the amount of electricity supplied by the battery and the super capacitor, the battery and the super capacitor stop supplying electricity.

5. The electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the electricity generated by the load recharges the super capacitor, the processing unit estimates an amount of charged electricity of the super capacitor 13 by using the following equation:

Δ

Q=Δ

C×

Δ

V

wherein Δ

Q is a remaining power difference of the super capacitor, Δ

C is a capacitance difference of the super capacitor, and Δ

V is a voltage difference of the super capacitor.

6. The electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor as claimed in claim 1, with the electric power transformer including a transformer and first and second transistors, with the transformer including a primary side and a secondary side, with the primary side and the first transistor connected in series between the first positive terminal and the first negative terminal, with the secondary side and the second transistor connected in series between the second positive terminal and the second negative terminal, with each of the first and second transistors including a control terminal, and with the control terminals of the first and second transistors respectively connected to the first control terminal and the second control terminal.

7. The electric power supply system cooperated by a battery and a super capacitor as claimed in claim 1, wherein the battery is connected in series between the first positive terminal and the first negative terminal by an accumulator and a changeover switch.