Electric power controller for vehicle mounting

• US 7,746,027 B2
• Filed: 04/24/2007
• Issued: 06/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Omron Automotive Electronics Company Limited (Nidec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Imamura, Kimihiko, Okaniwa, Masakazu
• Primary Examiner(s): Tso; Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Muralidar; Richard V
• Application Number:
  US11/789,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20070252584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,162 Days
• Field of Search: 320/104, 361/86, 702/64
• US Class Current: 320/104
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0029 with safety or protection devices or circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0047 with monitoring or indicating devices or circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/1438 in combination with power supplies for loads other than batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries

Abstract

In an electric power controller for vehicle mounting, an input voltage supplied through a harness and a threshold value are compared, and the input voltage applied to load is interrupted when the input voltage is smaller than the threshold value. The electric power controller for vehicle mounting includes a voltage drop detector for detecting a voltage drop amount of the harness; and a threshold value setting device in which a voltage provided by subtracting the voltage drop amount of the harness from a predetermined protecting voltage is set as the threshold value.

Claims

1. An electric power controller for vehicle mounting in which an input voltage supplied through a harness and a threshold value are compared, and the input voltage applied to load is interrupted when said input voltage is smaller than the threshold value;

the electric power controller for vehicle mounting comprising;

voltage drop detecting means for detecting a voltage drop amount of said harness; and

threshold value setting means in which a voltage provided by subtracting the voltage drop amount of said harness from a predetermined protecting voltage is set as said threshold value.

3. The electric power controller for vehicle mounting according to claim 1, wherein said voltage drop detecting means sets the differential voltage between the input voltage supplied through said harness at an unapplying time of the input voltage to said load, and the input voltage supplied through said harness at an applying time of the input voltage to said load, to the voltage drop amount of said harness.

2. An electric power controller for vehicle mounting in which an input voltage supplied through a harness and a threshold value are compared, and the input voltage applied to load is interrupted when said input voltage is smaller than the threshold value;

the electric power controller for vehicle mounting comprising;

voltage drop detecting means for detecting a voltage drop amount of said harness;

electric current detecting means for detecting an electric current flowed to said load;

resistance value arithmetic means for arithmetically calculating a resistance value of said harness from the voltage drop amount of said harness and the electric current flowed to said load;

resistance value replacing means for outputting the resistance value as it is if no resistance value arithmetically calculated by said resistance value arithmetic means is greater than a predetermined upper limit resistance value, and replacing the resistance value with the upper limit resistance value and outputting this upper limit resistance value if the resistance value is greater than the predetermined upper limit resistance value;

correction voltage arithmetic means for calculating a product of the resistance value outputted from said resistance value replacing means and the electric current flowed to said load, and setting its result to a correction voltage; and

threshold value setting means in which a voltage provided by subtracting said correction voltage from a predetermined protecting voltage is set as said threshold value.

4. The electric power controller for vehicle mounting according to claim 2, wherein said voltage drop detecting means sets the differential voltage between the input voltage supplied through said harness at an unapplying time of the input voltage to said load, and the input voltage supplied through said harness at an applying time of the input voltage to said load, to the voltage drop amount of said harness.