Device for recharging an automobile battery and method for managing the device

• US 9,641,008 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2011
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ampere SAS
• Original Assignee: Renault Sas (Renault)
• Inventors: Gati, Mehdi, Ketfi-Cherif, Ahmed
• Primary Examiner(s): Rodas, Richard Isla
• Assistant Examiner(s): Henze-Gongola, David V
• Application Number:
  US13/821,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20130214729A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,099 Days
• Field of Search: 320137, 320163, 320164, 318503, 363127
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• 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 7/00712 the cycle being controlled or terminated in response to electric parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/06 using discharge tubes or semiconductor devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/217 using semiconductor devices only
• 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 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles

Abstract

A rapid charging device for a battery includes a filtering stage of resistive-inductive-capacitive type to be connected to a three-phase network, a buck stage, a boost stage to be connected to the battery, an induction winding interposed between the buck stage and the boost stage, and a regulating unit capable of imposing chopping duty cycles on the buck stage and on the boost stage. The regulating unit compensates the phase shift induced by the filtering stage between the currents and the voltages taken from each phase of the three-phase network and also maintains the value of the current amplitude passing through the winding above a non-zero predefined threshold.

Claims

1. A rapid charging device for a battery, comprising:

a filtering stage of resistive-inductive-capacitive type to be connected to a three-phase network;

a buck stage;

a boost stage to be connected to terminals of the battery;

an induction winding which forms part of an electric machine and is electrically coupled between the buck stage and the boost stage; and

a regulating unit configured to impose chopping duty cycles on the buck stage and on the boost stage, in which the regulating unit comprises a first control module configured to compensate for the phase shift induced by the filtering stage between the currents and the voltages taken from each phase of the three-phase network, and also configured to maintain the value of the current amplitude passing through the winding above a non-zero predefined threshold by adjusting current passing through the electrical machine Idref as a function of the following formula;

Idref=Max{Iedref,Ibattref}+A, where;

Iedref is the current setpoint at the input of the rapid charging device,

Ibattref is the battery setpoint current delivered by a charge monitoring module, and

A is an arbitrary current constant to be fixed in value.

2. The rapid charging device as claimed in claim 1, in which the regulating unit also comprises a second control module configured to slave the current entering into the battery to a setpoint battery current value.

3. The rapid charging device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a first current intensity measuring module which measures the intensities of currents entering into the device via the phases of the three-phase network; and

a second current intensity measuring module which measures the intensity of the current passing through the winding,

in which the first control module comprises at least two regulating loops using the measured intensity values to deliver three values used as buck stage chopping duty cycle setpoints.

4. The rapid charging device as claimed in claim 2, in which the second control module comprises a third regulating loop, delivering a value (a_s) used as boost stage chopping duty cycle setpoint.

5. The rapid charging device as claimed in claim 3, in which the first control module is further configured to determine three sinusoidal input voltages (Ve₁, Ve₂, Ve₃) at the points of connection (B₁, B₂, B₃) of the device to the three-phase network, and in which at least a first regulating loop involves the pulsing (ω

) of the input voltages (Ve₁, Ve₂, Ve₃).

6. The rapid charging device as claimed in claim 5, in which the first regulating loop is configured to slave to zero a component (Ie_q) obtained as a linear combination of the values (Ie₁, Ie₂, Ie₃) of the input current intensities, the coefficients of the linear combination being trigonometric functions of ω

t, in which t is a measurement of time.

7. The rapid charging device as claimed in claim 6, in which the regulating unit comprises an operator capable of performing three linear combinations of two values (Ie_q, Ie_a) derived from two of the regulating loops, the coefficients of each of the three linear combinations being trigonometric functions of cot.

8. A method for regulating a rapid charging device for a battery from a three-phase current, the battery coupled to an induction winding of an electrical machine, comprising:

controlling the chopping duty cycles (a1, a2, a3) of a buck stage, during which there is compensated, by combining the results of two regulating loops, a phase shift induced by a filtering stage of resistive-capacitive-inductive type, between the input current intensities (Ie1, Ie2, Ie3) of the rapid charging device and the input voltages (Ve1, Ve2, Ve3) of the rapid

charging device; and

adjusting current passing through the induction winding of the electrical machine Idref as a function of the following formula;

Idref=Max{Iedref,Ibattref}+A, where;

Iedef is the current setpoint at the input of the rapid charging device,

Ibattref is the battery setpoint current delivered by a charge monitoring module, and

A is an arbitrary current constant to be fixed in value.

9. The method for regulating a rapid charging device as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

filtering input voltages (VE_C, VE_b, VE_a) of the device such that they are modeled by the three components (Ve₁, Ve₂, Ve₃) of a vector ({right arrow over (V)}e) rotating in a plane with a pulsing ω

; and

then applying a regulating loop to cancel the component in this plane , at right angles to the modeled vector ({right arrow over (V)}e) of the input voltages, of the vector {right arrow over (I)}e having for the three components (Ve₁, Ve₂, Ve₃) three measured input intensities (Ie₁, Ie₂, Ie₃) of the device.

10. The method for regulating a rapid charging device as claimed in claim 8, in which a linear combination of three currents (Ie₁, Ie₂, Ie₃) measured at the input of the device are slaved to zero, the coefficients of the linear combination being trigonometric functions of ω

t, in which ω

is a pulsing frequency of the input voltages of the device, and t is a measurement of time.