Power-supply control device for secondary battery and load via reply, and movable body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11522371-B2
Application number	US-202117192130-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 4, 2021
Priority date	Mar 11, 2020
Publication date	Dec 6, 2022
Grant date	Dec 6, 2022

Abstract

A power-supply control device includes a processor that performs a battery abnormality recognizing process and a control process. In the control process, the processor performs a first power-supply control operation of enabling supply of electric power from a secondary battery to a first load by a first connection circuit and supply of electric power from a secondary battery to a second load by a second connection circuit and, when an abnormality of the secondary battery is recognized in the battery abnormality recognizing process, performs a second power-supply control operation of controlling the first relay into a disconnected state to stop the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the first load by the first connection circuit and maintain the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the second load by the second connection circuit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A power-supply control device that controls supply of electric power from a secondary battery to a first load and a second load, the power-supply control device comprising:
a first connection circuit connecting the first load and the secondary battery;
a second connection circuit connecting the second load and the secondary battery;
a first relay provided in a middle of the first connection circuit;
a conduction path provided between the secondary battery and the first relay, the conduction path being shared by the first connection circuit and the second connection circuit;
a second relay provided in a middle of the conduction path; and
a processor, wherein the processor is configured to
perform a battery abnormality recognizing process of recognizing an abnormality of the secondary battery,
perform a control process of performing a first power-supply control operation of controlling the first relay into a conductive state to enable supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the first load by the first connection circuit and supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the second load by the second connection circuit,
when an abnormality of the secondary battery is recognized in the battery abnormality recognizing process during the first power-supply control operation, perform a second power-supply control operation of controlling a contact of the first relay into a disconnected state to stop the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the first load by the first connection circuit and maintain the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the second load by the second connection circuit,
in the control process, perform a third power-supply control operation of controlling a contact of the second relay into a disconnected state when the second power-supply control operation of controlling the first relay into the disconnected state is performed and a state in which an abnormality of the secondary battery is recognized in the battery abnormality recognizing process is still not resolved.

2. The power-supply control device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a fuse provided in a middle of the first connection circuit, wherein the fuse is blown when passage of current at a level greater than or equal to a predetermined level occurs.

3. A movable body comprising:
a power-supply control device and an electric motor, wherein
the power-supply control device controls supply of electric power from a secondary battery to a first load and a second load, the power-supply control device comprising:
a first connection circuit connecting the first load and the secondary battery;
a second connection circuit connecting the second load and the secondary battery;
a first relay provided in a middle of the first connection circuit;
a conduction path provided between the secondary battery and the first relay, the conduction path being shared by the first connection circuit and the second connection circuit;
a second relay provided in a middle of the conduction path; and
a processor, wherein the processor is configured to
perform a battery abnormality recognizing process of recognizing an abnormality of the secondary battery,
perform a control process of performing a first power-supply control operation of controlling the first relay into a conductive state to enable supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the first load by the first connection circuit and supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the second load by the second connection circuit,
when an abnormality of the secondary battery is recognized in the battery abnormality recognizing process during the first power-supply control operation, perform a second power-supply control operation of controlling a contact of the first relay into a disconnected state to stop the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the first load by the first connection circuit and maintain the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the second load by the second connection circuit, and
in the control process, perform a third power-supply control operation of controlling a contact of the second relay into a disconnected state when the second power-supply control operation of controlling the first relay into the disconnected state is performed and a state in which an abnormality of the secondary battery is recognized in the battery abnormality recognizing process is still not resolved,

wherein
when an abnormality of the secondary battery is recognized in the battery abnormality recognizing process and the second power-supply control operation is performed in the control process,
the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the second load by the second connection circuit is maintained, the second load comprising one or more of a wiper, a headlight, a power steering, an ignition, an electric parking brake (EPB), an engine water pump, a fuel injector (FI), an anti-lock braking system (ABS), an all-wheel drive (AWD) system, or a drive-by-wire (DBW) system, and
the contact of the first relay in the first connection circuit is controlled into the disconnected state, and the supply of electric power from the secondary battery to the first load is disconnected, the secondary battery being located upstream from the first relay in the first connection circuit, the first load being located downstream from the first relay in the first connection circuit, the first load comprising at least a DC-DC converter and not comprising the second load.

4. The movable body according to claim 3 , wherein the first load disconnected from the secondary battery located upstream in the first connection circuit and located downstream in the first connection circuit comprises one or more of an audio device or an air-conditioner.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sekiguchi Satoshi
• Itagaki Takeshi
• Yoshimura Kazutaka
• Murata Kosuke
• Deno Hironori
• Fukusho Yuto

Classifications

• H02J7/575 Primary

  Parallel/serial switching of connection of batteries to charge or load circuit · CPC title

• H02J2105/37

  exchanging power with electric vehicles [EV] or with hybrid electric vehicles [HEV] · CPC title

• H02J7/663

  using battery or load disconnect circuits (H02J9/002 takes precedence) · CPC title

• Y02E60/10

  Energy storage using batteries · CPC title

• B60L3/0046

  relating to electric energy storage systems, e.g. batteries or capacitors · CPC title