Charging apparatus and new energy vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12377741-B2
Application number	US-202217877519-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2022
Priority date	Jul 31, 2021
Publication date	Aug 5, 2025
Grant date	Aug 5, 2025

Abstract

A charging apparatus is applied to a new energy vehicle. The new energy vehicle includes a first battery and a second battery. The first battery provides driving power for the new energy vehicle, and the second battery supplies power to a vehicle-mounted load device. The apparatus includes a charging unit and a general-purpose unit. The charging unit includes a DC-DC circuit and a BMS. The general-purpose unit includes a control module, a communication module, and an auxiliary power supply module. The auxiliary power supply module supplies power to the charging unit and the control module. The control module is configured to control the charging unit to provide electric energy of the first battery to the second battery. According to the apparatus provided in this application, a volume and a weight of the charging apparatus can be reduced, a service life of a battery can be prolonged.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A charging apparatus, applied to a new energy vehicle, wherein the new energy vehicle comprises a first battery and a second battery, wherein the first battery is configured to provide driving power for the new energy vehicle, wherein the second battery is configured to supply power to a vehicle-mounted load device, and wherein the apparatus comprises a charging unit and a general-purpose unit;
wherein the charging unit comprises a direct current to direct current (DC-DC) circuit and a battery management system (BMS);
wherein the general-purpose unit comprises a control module, a communication module, and an auxiliary power supply module, wherein the auxiliary power supply module is configured to supply power to the charging unit and the control module, and wherein the communication module is configured to establish a communication connection for the control module and another circuit inside the new energy vehicle; and
wherein the control module is configured to control the charging unit to provide, to the second battery, electric energy output by the first battery, and wherein the control module is further configured to control the charging unit to connect the second battery to or disconnect the second battery from the first battery and the vehicle-mounted load device, and adjust charging and discharging power provided by the second battery for the vehicle-mounted load device.

2. The charging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control module is further configured to:
control the DC-DC circuit to provide, to the second battery, the electric energy output by the first battery; and
control the BMS to connect the second battery to or disconnect the second battery from the DC-DC circuit and the vehicle-mounted load device, and adjust the charging and discharging power provided by the second battery for the vehicle-mounted load device.

3. The charging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the charging unit further comprises an on-board charger (OBC) unit; and
wherein the control module is further configured to control the OBC unit to convert an alternating current input by an input alternating current source into a direct current, to provide the direct current to the first battery.

4. The charging apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the OBC unit further comprises a primary-side circuit, a first secondary-side circuit, and a second secondary-side circuit;
wherein the primary-side circuit is separately coupled to the first secondary-side circuit and the second secondary-side circuit;
wherein the primary-side circuit is connected to the input alternating current source, the first secondary-side circuit is connected to the first battery, the second secondary-side circuit is connected to the second battery;
wherein the first secondary-side circuit comprises a first secondary-side winding, the second secondary-side circuit comprises a second secondary-side winding, and a quantity of first secondary-side windings is not less than a quantity of second secondary-side windings; and
wherein the primary-side circuit is configured to receive an alternating current input by the alternating current input source, and separately output electric energy to the first secondary-side circuit and the second secondary-side circuit.

5. The charging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the charging unit further comprises a vehicle control unit (VCU), and wherein the VCU is configured to perform vehicle control on the new energy vehicle.

6. The charging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the general-purpose unit further comprises a voltage sampling module and a current sampling module;
wherein the voltage sampling module is configured to detect an operating voltage of the second battery; and
wherein the current sampling module is configured to detect an operating current of the second battery.

7. The charging apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the general-purpose unit further comprises a functional safety module, wherein the functional safety module is configured to:
obtain the operating voltage of the second battery and the operating current of the second battery; and
send, based on the operating voltage of the second battery being outside a specified voltage range, an alarm signal to the control module; and
send, based on the operating current of the second battery being outside a specified current range, an alarm signal to the control module; and
wherein the control module is further configured to control, based on receiving the alarm signal, the charging unit to disconnect the second battery from the first battery and the vehicle-mounted load device.

8. The charging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the general-purpose unit further comprises a temperature sampling module, and wherein the temperature sampling module is configured to detect an operating temperature of the second battery.

9. The charging apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the charging apparatus further comprises an integrated vehicle thermal management unit, wherein the integrated vehicle thermal management unit comprises a heating module and a cooling module, and wherein the control module is further configured to:
obtain the operating temperature of the second battery;
control, based on the operating temperature of the second battery being lower than a first threshold temperature, the heating module in the integrated vehicle thermal management unit to heat the second battery; and
control, based on the operating temperature of the second battery being higher than a second threshold temperature, the cooling module in the integrated vehicle thermal management unit to cool the second battery, wherein the first threshold temperature is lower than the second threshold temperature.

10. The charging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the general-purpose unit further comprises an electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) module; and
wherein the EMC module comprises at least one filter inductor, and the EMC module is configured to suppress differential mode noise and common mode noise in the charging unit by using the at least one filter inductor.

11. The charging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control module in the general-purpose unit is further configured to control the charging unit to provide, to the vehicle-mounted load device, the electric energy output by the first battery.

12. The charging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the charging apparatus comprises a gun insertion status detection circuit, and wherein the general-purpose unit further comprises a wake-up module;
wherein the gun insertion status detection circuit is configured to detect an access resistance of a charging gun, and send a wake-up signal to the wake-up module based on the access resistance; and
wherein the wake-up module is configured to start the control module after receiving the wake-up signal.

13. The charging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second battery and the charging unit are installed in a same housing.

14. A new energy vehicle, wherein the new energy vehicle comprises a first battery, a second battery, and a charging apparatus, wherein the first battery is configured to provide driving power for the new energy vehicle, wherein the second battery is configured to supply power to a vehicle-mounted load device, and wherein the apparatus comprises a charging unit and a general-purpose unit;
wherein the charging unit comprises a direct current to direct current (DC-DC) circuit and a battery management system (BMS);
wherein the general-purpose unit comprises a control module, a communication module,

Assignees

• Huawei Digital Power Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Hu Yanjun
• Wen Feng
• Wang Tianyu

Classifications

• B60L53/305

  Communication interfaces · CPC title

• B60L53/20

  characterised by converters located in the vehicle · CPC title

• B60L1/00

  Supplying electric power to auxiliary equipment of vehicles (circuit arrangements for charging batteries H02J7/00) · CPC title

• B60L2240/549

  Current · CPC title

• B60L2240/547

  Voltage · CPC title