Vehicle-side power circuit for supplying power in an electrically driven vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10953751-B2
Application number	US-201815933876-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2018
Priority date	Sep 24, 2015
Publication date	Mar 23, 2021
Grant date	Mar 23, 2021

Abstract

A vehicle-side circuit for supplying power in an electrically driven vehicle is provided. The power circuit includes an external AC voltage terminal; at least one DC/AC converter having an AC voltage side; and an electrical machine having a plurality of windings, each of which has a first tapping. The electrical machine is connected to the AC voltage side of the DC/AC converter. A switching device is connected to the plurality of windings and to a signal shaping filter having a plurality of first capacitors. The signal shaping filter is connected between the DC/AC converter and an external AC terminal. The switching device may interconnect the windings within the electrical machine or may connect the first tappings of the plurality of windings within the signal shaping filter to the plurality of first capacitors to form an at least third-order low-pass filter.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle-side power circuit for supplying power in an electrically driven vehicle, the vehicle-side power circuit comprises:
an external AC voltage terminal;
at least one DC/AC converter having an AC voltage side;
an electrical machine having a plurality of windings, each of which has a first tapping, the electrical machine is connected to the AC voltage side of the DC/AC converter;
a switching device connected to the plurality of windings; and
a signal shaping filter having a plurality of first capacitors, the signal shaping filter is connected between the DC/AC converter and an external AC terminal, the switching device configured to separately perform each of:
interconnect the windings within the electrical machine; and
connect the first tappings of the plurality of windings within the signal shaping filter to the plurality of first capacitors to form an at least third-order low-pass filter,

wherein each first capacitor has a capacitor disconnecting switch of the switching device, via which the first capacitor is connected to the relevant first tapping.

2. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 1 , furthermore comprising second or further capacitors connected to second or further tappings of the windings in a switchable manner.

3. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 1 , wherein the first tappings subdivide the windings into sections having different inductances.

4. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 1 , wherein the signal shaping filter filters a signal having a fundamental power proportion of at least 75%, 85%, 95% or 98% of the total power from a rectangular wave having a fundamental frequency of 40 Hz-400 Hz and a duty ratio of 50%.

5. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 1 , wherein the DC/AC converter is bidirectional.

6. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 1 , wherein the power circuit includes a star-point disconnecting device having star-point switching devices, wherein via the star-point disconnecting device ends of the windings of the electrical machine are connected to one another in a switchable manner to form a star point.

7. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 6 , furthermore comprising a control unit configured to put the switching device and star-point disconnecting device into a filter state and a machine state, wherein:
in the filter state, the control unit drives the star-point disconnecting device in accordance with an open switching state and drives the switching device in accordance with a closed switching state, such that the windings are connected to the capacitors to form the at least third-order low-pass filter; and
in the machine state the control unit drives the star-point disconnecting device in accordance with a closed switching state and drives the switching device in accordance with an open switching state, such that the windings are connected to form a three-phase stator winding.

8. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 1 , further comprising an EMC filter connected upstream of the external AC voltage terminal a cutoff-frequency of said EMC filter lying above a cut-off frequency of the signal shaping filter.

9. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 1 , wherein the external AC terminal is designed according to the IEC 62196 standard.

10. A vehicle-side power circuit for supplying power in an electrically driven vehicle, the vehicle-side power circuit comprises:
an external AC voltage terminal;
at least one DC/AC converter having an AC voltage side;
an electrical machine having a plurality of windings, each of which has a first tapping, the electrical machine is connected to the AC voltage side of the DC/AC converter;
a switching device connected to the plurality of windings;
a signal shaping filter having a plurality of first capacitors, the signal shaping filter is connected between the DC/AC converter and an external AC terminal, the switching device configured to separately perform each of:
interconnect the windings within the electrical machine; and

connect the first tappings of the plurality of windings within the signal shaping filter to the plurality of first capacitors to form an at least third-order low-pass filter,
second or further capacitors connected to second or further tappings of the windings in a switchable manner,
wherein the second or further tappings are located on the same windings as the windings on which the first tappings are located and spaced therefrom.

11. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 1 , wherein when the switching device is configured to connect the first tappings to the plurality of first capacitors, the first capacitors are connected in a delta configuration to the windings.

12. The vehicle-side power circuit of claim 1 , wherein the electrical machine comprises a motor.

13. A vehicle-side power circuit for supplying power in an electrically driven vehicle, the vehicle-side power circuit comprises:
an external AC voltage terminal;
at least one DC/AC converter having an AC voltage side;
an electrical machine having a plurality of windings, each of which has a first tapping, the electrical machine is connected to the AC voltage side of the DC/AC converter;
a switching device connected to the plurality of windings;
a signal shaping filter having a plurality of first capacitors, the signal shaping filter is connected between the DC/AC converter and an external AC terminal, the switching device configured to separately perform each of:
interconnect the windings within the electrical machine; and

connect the first tappings of the plurality of windings within the signal shaping filter to the plurality of first capacitors to form an at least third-order low-pass filter, and
one or more second capacitors connected to second tappings of the windings via the switching device, the second tappings being spaced apart from the first tappings on the windings.

Assignees

• Continental Automotive Gmbh
• Vitesco Tech Gmbh

Inventors

• Pfeilschifter Franz
• Brüll Martin
• Hackmann Wilhelm
• Mühlbauer Klaus
• Spornraft Martin
• Töns Matthias

Classifications

• H02M1/126

  using passive filters · CPC title

• B60L50/40

  using propulsion power supplied by capacitors · CPC title

• B60L53/24 Primary

  Using the vehicle's propulsion converter for charging · CPC title

• B60L2210/42

  Voltage source inverters · CPC title

• Y02T10/7072

  Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors · CPC title