Charge-discharge control system for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11221369-B2
Application number	US-201916367625-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2019
Priority date	Apr 3, 2018
Publication date	Jan 11, 2022
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022

Abstract

A charge-discharge control system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: calculate an excess or shortage of a state of charge of the battery to a target state of charge as a state-of-charge difference; increase an output voltage of an electric power supply device when the shortage of the state of charge is larger than a first prescribed value; decrease the output voltage of the electric power supply device when the excess of the state of charge is larger than a second prescribed value; calculate an amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time such that the amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time is smaller when the calculated full charge capacity is low than when the calculated full charge capacity is high.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A charge-discharge control system that is applied to a vehicle including a battery and an electric power supply device, the battery being configured to supply electric power to an electrically-powered device, the electric power supply device being configured to supply electric power to the battery and the electrically-powered device, the charge-discharge control system being configured to adjust an amount of electric power charged to or discharged from the battery, the charge-discharge control system comprising
an electronic control unit configured to:
calculate a full charge capacity of the battery;
calculate an excess or shortage of a state of charge of the battery to a target state of charge of the state of charge as a state-of-charge difference,
increase an output voltage of the electric power supply device when the shortage of the state of charge is larger than a first prescribed value based on the state-of-charge difference, and decrease the output voltage of the electric power supply device when the excess of the state of charge is larger than a second prescribed value based on the state-of-charge difference, and
calculate an amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time such that the amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time is smaller when the full charge capacity is low than when the full charge capacity is high.

2. The charge-discharge control system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the electronic control unit is configured to, when the shortage of the state of charge is smaller than or equal to the first prescribed value or when the excess of the state of charge is smaller than or equal to the second prescribed value, set the amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time to zero; and
the electronic control unit is configured to calculate at least one of the first prescribed value and the second prescribed value such that the at least one of the first prescribed value and the second prescribed value is larger when the full charge capacity is low than when the full charge capacity is high.

3. The charge-discharge control system according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to calculate the amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time such that the amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time is smaller when an input current to the electrically-powered device is low than when the input current to the electrically-powered device is high.

4. The charge-discharge control system according to claim 3 , wherein:
the electronic control unit is configured to, when the shortage of the state of charge is smaller than or equal to the first prescribed value or when the excess of the state of charge is smaller than or equal to the second prescribed value, set the amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time to zero; and
the electronic control unit is configured to calculate at least one of the first prescribed value and the second prescribed value such that the at least one of the first prescribed value and the second prescribed value is larger when the input current to the electrically-powered device is low than when the input current to the electrically-powered device is high.

5. The charge-discharge control system according to claim 1 , wherein a minimum value of each of the first prescribed value and the second prescribed value is zero.

6. A charge-discharge control system that is applied to a vehicle including a battery and an electric power supply device, the battery being configured to supply electric power to an electrically-powered device, the electric power supply device being configured to supply electric power to the battery and the electrically-powered device, the charge-discharge control system being configured to adjust an amount of electric power charged to or discharged from the battery, the charge-discharge control system comprising an electronic control unit configured to
calculate an excess or shortage of a state of charge of the battery to a target state of charge of the state of charge as a state-of-charge difference,
set a target input current of an input current to the battery based on the state-of-charge difference,
adjust an output voltage of the electric power supply device based on the input current to the battery and the target input current,
set the target input current to a positive value when the shortage of the state of charge is larger than a first prescribed value,
set the target input current to a negative value when the excess of the state of charge is larger than a second prescribed value, and
calculate an amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time such that the amount of change in the output voltage of the electric power supply device per unit time is smaller when a difference between the input current to the battery and the target input current is small than when the difference between the input current to the battery and the target input current is large.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gokyu Keiji
• Moriya Kouki

Classifications

• H02J7/585

  Sequential battery discharge in systems with a plurality of batteries · CPC title

• G01R31/3842 Primary

  combining voltage and current measurements · CPC title

• B60L1/003 Primary

  to auxiliary motors, e.g. for pumps, compressors · CPC title

• H01M10/441

  for several batteries or cells simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title