Electric vehicle drive system

• US 9,694,688 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2013
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems Limited (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Hideki, Oyama, Kazuto, Hoshino, Katsuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Beaulieu, Yonel
• Application Number:
  US14/421,647
• Publication Number:
  US 20150202966A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,441 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2009 for braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/421 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/423 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/429 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0046 relating to electric energy storage systems, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0076 relating to braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/10 for monitoring or controlling batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/14 for vehicles propelled by ac motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/26 Controlling the braking effect
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/36 Arrangements for braking or slowing; Four quadrant control
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/08 with pulse width modulation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• 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

In order to provide an electric vehicle drive system capable of promoting improvement in stability of vehicle traveling when stopping a regeneration operation during operation of a regeneration cooperative brake, the electric vehicle drive system, a battery control unit 310, upon detecting that a battery state is an unchargeable state during control of the regeneration cooperative brake, diagnoses whether a battery 300 is chargeable, and upon deciding to be unchargeable from a result of diagnosis, outputs a Fail signal. Then, a rotating electrical machine control unit 210, upon receiving a Fail prediction signal while the regeneration cooperative brake is being controlled, executes loss increase control for increasing an internal loss of a rotating electrical machine 900 and reducing regenerative electric power by a regenerative brake while maintaining torque of the rotating electrical machine 900 at regenerative torque corresponding to regenerative brake force.

Claims

1. An electric vehicle drive system, comprising:

a battery monitoring unit that is loaded on an electrically driven vehicle provided with a regeneration cooperative brake control device and monitors the state of a battery loaded on the electrically driven vehicle; and

a rotating electrical machine control unit that controls a rotating electrical machine of the electrically driven vehicle,

wherein the battery monitoring unit, upon detecting that the battery state is an unchargeable state during control of a regeneration cooperative brake, diagnoses whether the battery is chargeable, and upon deciding to be unchargeable from a result of diagnosis, outputs an unchargeable signal,

the rotating electrical machine control unit, upon receiving the unchargeable signal during control of the regeneration cooperative brake, executes loss increase control for increasing an internal loss of the rotating electrical machine and reducing regenerative electric power by a regenerative brake, while maintaining torque of the rotating electrical machine at regenerative toque corresponding to force of the regenerative brake,

the battery monitoring unit outputs a prediction signal simultaneously with start of the diagnosis, and

the rotating electrical machine control unit, upon receiving the prediction signal during control of the regeneration cooperative brake, executes the loss increase control,

wherein the battery monitoring unit, upon deciding to be chargeable from the result of diagnosis, outputs a prediction release signal, and

the rotating electrical machine control unit, upon receiving the prediction release signal after reception of the prediction signal, suspends the loss increase control, and upon receiving the unchargeable signal after reception of the prediction signal, continues the loss increase control.

2. The electric vehicle drive system according to claim 1,

wherein the electrically driven vehicle is provided with a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a stator coil of the rotating electrical machine, and

the rotating electrical machine control unit adjusts an internal loss amount of the rotating electrical machine in the loss increase control in accordance with the detected temperature such that the internal loss amount becomes large in a case where a detected temperature by the temperature sensor is low and the internal loss amount becomes small in a case where the detected temperature is high.

3. The electric vehicle drive system according to claim 2,

wherein the rotating electrical machine control unit,

in a case where the temperature of the stator coil is not more than a temperature threshold value that has been set lower than a predetermined upper limit temperature, executes the loss increase control such that the internal loss amount of the rotating electrical machine amounts to a first internal loss amount, and

when the temperature of the stator coil exceeds the temperature threshold value, executes the loss increase control such that the internal loss amount of the rotating electrical machine amounts to a second internal loss amount that is smaller than the first internal loss amount.

4. The electric vehicle drive system according to claim 3,

wherein the rotating electrical machine control unit suspends the loss increase control in a case where the temperature of the stator coil has reached the predetermined upper limit temperature.

5. The electric vehicle drive system according to claim 1,

wherein the rotating electrical machine control unit adjusts the internal loss amount of the rotating electrical machine in the loss increase control in accordance with the rotating angle velocity such that the internal loss amount becomes small in a case where the rotating angle velocity of the rotating electrical machine is small and the internal loss amount becomes large in a case of where the rotating angle velocity is large.

6. An electric vehicle drive system, comprising:

a battery monitoring unit that is loaded on an electrically driven vehicle provided with a regeneration cooperative brake control device and monitors the state of a battery loaded on the electrically driven vehicle; and

a rotating electrical machine control unit that controls a rotating electrical machine of the electrically driven vehicle,

wherein the battery monitoring unit, upon detecting that the battery state is an unchargeable state during control of a regeneration cooperative brake, diagnoses whether the battery is chargeable, and upon deciding to be unchargeable from a result of diagnosis, outputs an unchargeable signal,

the rotating electrical machine control unit, upon receiving the unchargeable signal during control of the regeneration cooperative brake, executes loss increase control for increasing an internal loss of the rotating electrical machine and reducing regenerative electric power by a regenerative brake, while maintaining torque of the rotating electrical machine at regenerative toque corresponding to force of the regenerative brake,

the battery monitoring unit outputs a prediction signal simultaneously with start of the diagnosis, and

the rotating electrical machine control unit, upon receiving the prediction signal during control of the regeneration cooperative brake, executes the loss increase control,

wherein the rotating electrical machine control unit;

is provided with a plurality of current maps each indicating a relation between the torque and the rotating angle velocity of the rotating electrical machine and a supply current in accordance with the magnitude of the internal losses;

uses a minimum internal loss current map that is the smallest in internal loss in the plurality of current maps when not executing the loss increase control; and

uses any one of the other current maps except the minimum internal loss map when executing the loss increase control.