Electric Power Supply System, Vehicle and Method of Operating a Vehicle

• US 20150165914A1
• Filed: 07/03/2013
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH (Bombardier Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH (Bombardier Incorporated)
• Inventors: Czainski, Robert, Mollers, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,744,869 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/18 Buses
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/30 Trolleys
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/12 Induction machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/14 Synchronous machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/50 using propulsion power supplied by batteries or fuel cells
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/122 Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/22 Constructional details or arrangements of charging converters specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49117 Conductor or circuit manufacturing

Abstract

Disclosed is an electric power supply system, vehicle and method of operating a vehicle, wherein an electrical power supply system, in particular a traction system, of a vehicle, includes an energy storage module, an inverter, an electric machine, a receiving device adapted to receive an alternating electromagnetic field and to produce an alternating electric current by electromagnetic induction, and a passive electric circuit arrangement adapted to connect the inverter, the electric machine, and the receiving device, wherein the passive electric circuit arrangement includes a first transmission circuit for transferring electric energy between the receiving device and the electric machine, a second transmission circuit for transferring electric energy between the receiving device and the inverter, and a third transmission circuit for transferring electric energy between the inverter and the electric machine, wherein the passive electric circuit arrangement is designed such that at a given charging frequency, an impedance provided by the first transmission circuit is higher than a predetermined first blocking impedance and an impedance provided by the second transmission circuit is lower than a predetermined second passing impedance.

Claims

1. An electrical power supply system of a vehicle, wherein the electrical power supply system comprises an inverter, an electric machine, a receiving device adapted to receive an alternating electromagnetic field and to produce an alternating electric current by electromagnetic induction, and a passive electric circuit arrangement adapted to connect the inverter, the electric machine, and the receiving device, wherein the passive electric circuit arrangement comprises a first transmission circuit for transferring electric energy between the receiving device and the electric machine, a second transmission circuit for transferring electric energy between the receiving device and the inverter, and a third transmission circuit for transferring electric energy between the inverter and the electric machine, wherein the passive electric circuit arrangement is designed such that at a given charging frequency, an impedance provided by the first transmission circuit is higher than a predetermined first blocking impedance and an impedance provided by the second transmission circuit is lower than a predetermined second passing impedance.

2. The power supply system according to claim 1, wherein the passive electric circuit arrangement is designed such that at a given operating frequency, an impedance provided by the third transmission circuit is lower than a predetermined third passing impedance.

3. The power supply according to claim 2, wherein the passive electric circuit arrangement is designed such that at the given operating frequency, an impedance provided by the second transmission circuit is higher than a predetermined second blocking impedance and/or an impedance provided by the first transmission circuit is higher than another predetermined first blocking impedance.

4. The power supply according to claim 1, wherein the second transmission circuit comprises a circuit inductive element (L4, L5, L6), wherein an inductance of the circuit inductive element (L4, L5, L6) is chosen such that at the charging frequency, the impedance provided by the second transmission circuit is lower than the predetermined second passing impedance and/or at an operating frequency, the impedance provided by the second transmission circuit is higher than a predetermined second blocking impedance.

5. The power supply according to claim 4, wherein the circuit inductive element (L4, L5, L6) of the second transmission circuit is also part of the third transmission circuit.

6. The power supply according to claim 1, wherein the first transmission circuit comprises a circuit capacitive element (C4, C5, C6), wherein a capacitance of the circuit capacitive element (C4, C5, C6) is chosen such that at the charging frequency, the impedance provided by the first transmission circuit is higher than the predetermined first blocking impedance and/or at an operating frequency, the impedance provided by the first transmission circuit is higher than another predetermined first blocking impedance.

7. The power supply according to claim 6, wherein the first transmission circuit comprises a parallel resonant circuit.

8. The power supply according to claim 7, wherein an inductive element of the parallel resonant circuit is a motor inductivity of the electrical machine.

9. The power supply according to claim 6, wherein the first transmission circuit comprises an inductive-capacitor parallel filter (RC1, RC2, RC3).

10. The power supply according to claim 6, wherein the circuit capacitive element (C4, C5, C6) is also part of the third transmission circuit.

11. The power supply according to claim 1, wherein the receiving device comprises at least one inductive element (L1, L2, L3) which is formed by an electrically conducting material for producing one phase of the alternating electric current by the electromagnetic induction.

12. The power supply according to claim 11, wherein the receiving device comprises at least one further electrical element, which is connected to the inductive element (L1, L2, L3) in order to produce one phase of the alternating electric current.

13. A vehicle comprising the electric power supply network of claim 1.

14. A method of operating a vehicle, using electric energy, comprising a charging mode wherein:

an alternating electromagnetic field is received by a receiving device and is used to produce an alternating electric current by electromagnetic induction,

electric energy is transferred from the receiving device to an inverter via a second transmission circuit, and

a transfer of electric energy from the receiving device to the electric machine via a first transmission circuit is blocked by an impedance of the first transmission circuit.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising an operating mode wherein:

electric energy is transferred from the inverter to the electric machine or from the electric machine to the inverter via a third transmission circuit,

a transfer of electric energy from the inverter to the receiving device via the second transmission circuit is blocked by an impedance of the second transmission circuit, and/or

a transfer of electric energy from the electric machine to the receiving device via the first transmission circuit is blocked by an impedance of the first transmission circuit.

16. A method of manufacturing a vehicle:

providing a receiving device adapted to receive an alternating electromagnetic field and to produce an alternating electric current by electromagnetic induction,

providing an inverter,

providing an electric machine,

providing a passive electric circuit arrangement such that at a given charging frequency, an impedance provided by a first transmission circuit of the passive electric circuit arrangement is higher than a predetermined first blocking impedance and an impedance provided by a second transmission circuit of the passive electric circuit arrangement is lower than a predetermined second passing impedance, and

electrically connecting the receiving device, the inverter, and the electric machine by the passive electric circuit arrangement, wherein the passive electric circuit arrangement comprises the first transmission circuit for transferring electric energy between the receiving device and the electric machine, the second transmission circuit for transferring electric energy between the receiving device and the inverter, and a third transmission circuit for transferring electric energy between the inverter and the electric machine.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

providing the passive electric circuit arrangement such that at a given operating frequency, an impedance provided by the third transmission circuit is lower than a predetermined third passing impedance.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

providing the passive electric circuit arrangement such that at the given operating frequency, an impedance provided by the second transmission circuit is higher than a predetermined second blocking impedance and/or an impedance provided by the first transmission circuit is higher than another predetermined first blocking impedance.