Power supply control system

• US 9,969,294 B2
• Filed: 07/21/2016
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyashita, Michihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Trivedi, Atul
• Application Number:
  US15/216,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20170028979A1
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 701 22
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 1/02 to electric heating circuits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2045 for optimising the use of energy
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/445 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/545 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/13 Maintaining the SoC within a determined range
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/25 by controlling the electric load
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/26 by cooling
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/03 for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2637 Vehicle, car, auto, wheelchair
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/44 Methods for charging or discharging circuits for charging H02J7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2220/20 Batteries in motive systems, e.g. vehicle, ship, plane
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/46 for ICE-powered road vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/16 Regulation of the charging current or voltage by variation of field
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/92 Energy efficient charging or discharging systems for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors specially adapted for vehicles

Abstract

A power supply control system includes a first controller that performs auxiliary-machine power reduction control for reducing electric power consumed by auxiliary machines, a second controller that performs high-voltage power generation control for making the generated voltage of the generator higher than the voltage set during the auxiliary-machine power reduction control, a frequency determining unit that determines whether the frequency of switching between the auxiliary-machine power reduction control and the high-voltage power generation control becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency, and a lower-limit voltage setting unit that sets a lower-limit voltage of the generator under the auxiliary-machine power reduction control to a higher value when the frequency of switching is equal to or higher than the predetermined frequency, than when the frequency of switching is lower than the predetermined frequency.

Claims

1. A power supply control system of a vehicle including a generator, a power storage unit that stores electric power generated by the generator, and one or more auxiliary machines that are driven by the electric power supplied from the power storage unit, the power supply control system comprising:

a first controller configured to perform auxiliary-machine power reduction control to reduce electric power consumed by the auxiliary machines, by setting a voltage of the generator so as to reduce an average value of voltages applied to the auxiliary machines;

a second controller configured to perform high-voltage power generation control to increase the voltage of the generator greater than the voltage of the generator that is set during the auxiliary-machine power reduction control, by inhibiting the auxiliary-machine power reduction control when the auxiliary machines perform a high-load operation;

a frequency determining unit configured to determine whether a frequency of switching, which indicates a number of times that switching between the auxiliary-machine power reduction control and the high-voltage power generation control occurs per time unit, becomes greater than or equal to or a predetermined frequency; and

a lower-limit voltage setting unit configured to set a lower-limit voltage of the generator under the auxiliary-machine power reduction control to a greater value when the frequency of switching is greater than or equal to the predetermined frequency, than when the frequency of switching is less than the predetermined frequency.

2. The power supply control system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle includes an internal combustion engine as a power source, and the frequency determining unit is further configured to determine that the frequency of switching becomes greater than or equal to the predetermined frequency when a water temperature of a coolant of the internal combustion engine is greater than or equal to a predetermined first temperature.

3. The power supply control system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle includes an electric motor as a power source, and a battery as an electric power supply source of the electric motor, and the frequency determining unit is further configured to determine that the frequency of switching becomes greater than or equal to the predetermined frequency when a temperature of the battery is greater than or equal to a predetermined second temperature.

4. The power supply control system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a setting unit configured to set a target charge amount as a target value of a charge amount of the power storage unit; and

a detecting unit configured to detect a current charge amount of the power storage unit,

wherein the lower-limit voltage setting unit is configured to;

set the lower-limit voltage to a lower value than an open voltage of the power storage unit when the current charge amount is greater than the target charge amount,

set the lower-limit voltage to a same value as the open voltage of the power storage unit when the current charge amount is equal to the target charge amount, and

set the lower-limit voltage to a higher value than the open voltage of the power storage unit when the current charge amount is less than the target charge amount.