Vehicle power supply system

• US 8,860,361 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2013
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Fukuzawa, Yosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Waks, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US13/851,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20140117677A1
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 320/104
• US Class Current: 320/103
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/16 fed by the power supply line
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/441 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/445 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/10 by alarm
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/04 Cutting off the power supply under fault conditions protective devices and circuit arrangements in general H01H; H02H
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 55/00 Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/15 Preventing overcharging
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/26 for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/30 including control of auxiliary equipment, e.g. air-conditioning compressors or oil pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/13 in order to stay within battery power input or output limits; in order to prevent overcharging or battery depletion
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/04 Vehicle stop
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0644 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/248 Current for loading or unloading
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 2101/45 for motor vehicles, e.g. car alternators
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• 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 10/7072 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: Y02T 90/16 : Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/126 : the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]

Abstract

A vehicle power supply system includes a power monitor device that detects supply power from a battery and a generator to a home electrical appliance and a control unit that performs a supply power excess determination and a supply power variance determination using a detection value of the power monitor device when a driving of a vehicle is stopped to control a rotational speed of an engine according to determination results.

Claims

1. A vehicle power supply system that supplies power from a generator driven by an internal combustion engine to an external electrical device through power conversion, the system comprising:

a battery that is charged by the generator and supplies the external electrical device with power in response to an increase of power required by the external electrical device;

a stop state detection portion that detects a drive stop state of the vehicle;

a current detection unit that detects a supply current from the battery and the generator to the external electrical device;

a supply current excess determination unit that calculates a charge and discharge state of the battery on the basis of whether the supply current exceeds or falls short of a generation current of the generator using a detection result of the current detection unit;

a supply current variance determination unit that calculates a variation of the supply current using the detection result of the current detection unit; and

a control unit that controls a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine according to a calculation result of the supply current excess determination unit and a calculation result of the supply current variance determination unit when the stop state detection portion detects a drive stop state of the vehicle.

2. The vehicle power supply system according claim 1, wherein

the supply current excess determination unit integrates a difference between the supply current and the generation current and uses an integrated value as the calculation result.

3. The vehicle power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

the supply current excess determination unit determines whether the battery is a charge state or a discharge state when a difference between the supply current and the generation power is calculated on the basis of the difference and uses the difference as the calculation result.

4. The vehicle power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

the current detection unit detects a charge and discharge current of the battery instead of the supply current from the battery and the generator to the external electrical device.

5. The vehicle power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit controls the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine by controlling an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine.

6. The vehicle power supply system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of the internal combustion engine,

wherein the control unit performs one of a control to stop the internal combustion engine and a control to suppress the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine according to a detection result of the temperature detection unit.

7. The vehicle power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

while power is supplied to the external electrical device, a supply of power to an in-vehicle electrical component unnecessary for a supply of the power to the external electrical device is stopped.

8. The vehicle power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

the vehicle power supply system has a self-charge mode in which power is supplied to the battery by the generator without supplying the power to the external electrical device.

9. The vehicle power supply system according to claim 8, wherein

the control unit stops the internal combustion engine and stops a supply of the power to the control unit when charging of the battery is completed in the self-charge mode.

10. The vehicle power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

the vehicle power supply system is adopted for a motorcycle.