System and method for controlling emergency driving for fuel cell vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9725011-B2
Application number	US-201514887628-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 20, 2015
Priority date	Mar 30, 2015
Publication date	Aug 8, 2017
Grant date	Aug 8, 2017

Abstract

A system and a method are provided for controlling emergency driving of a fuel cell vehicle. The system includes a cutoff relay that connects or cuts off a current flow between a chopper and a supercapacitor. A connecting relay connects or cuts off a current flow between a power line to which a fuel cell and a driving motor are connected and the supercapacitor. An emergency driving relay includes a first terminal connected to a line branched from a ground line to which the fuel cell and the driving motor are connected and a second terminal connected between a braking resistor and the chopper. A power system controller is driven in an emergency driving mode to cutoff relay to be turned off and the connecting relay to be turned on during a short circuit of the chopper and turns the emergency driving relay on or off.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for controlling emergency driving of a fuel cell vehicle including a supercapacitor configured to be charged with a voltage generated from a fuel cell and a voltage generated by regenerative braking of a driving motor, a chopper configured to adjust a current amount supplied to the supercapacitor to prevent an overvoltage due to the regenerative braking, and a braking resistor configured to consume a regenerative braking current, the system comprising:
a cutoff relay configured to connect or cutoff a flow of current between the chopper and the supercapacitor;
a connecting relay configured to connect or cutoff a flow of current between a power line to which the fuel cell and the driving motor are connected and the supercapacitor;
an emergency driving relay including a first terminal connected to a line branched from a ground line to which the fuel cell and the driving motor are connected and a second terminal connected between the braking resistor and the chopper; and
a power system controller configured to be driven in an emergency driving mode to operate the cutoff relay to be turned off and the connecting relay to be turned on during an occurrence of a short circuit of the chopper and turn on or off the emergency driving relay.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the power system controller is configured to monitor a voltage of the supercapacitor using a capacitor voltage monitoring device in the emergency driving mode and when the voltage of the supercapacitor is equal to or greater than a preset threshold voltage, turn on the emergency driving relay.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the power system controller is configured to turn off the emergency driving relay when the voltage of the supercapacitor is less than the preset threshold voltage in the emergency driving mode.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the power system controller is configured to store a chopper failure code when the chopper is short-circuited while the fuel cell vehicle is driven.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the power system controller is configured to shift the fuel cell vehicle to the emergency driving mode when the chopper failure code is confirmed in the memory while restarting the fuel cell vehicle and store an accumulated frequency of starting of the emergency driving and an accumulated distance of the emergency driving mode.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the power system controller is configured to turn off the fuel cell vehicle when the accumulated frequency of starting of the emergency driving mode exceeds a predetermined allowable frequency or the accumulated distance of the emergency driving mode exceeds a predetermined allowable distance.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the power system controller is configured to display a failure state of the chopper via a display of a cluster or an audio video navigation (AVN) to allow a driver to recognize the failure state.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the power system controller is configured to determine that the chopper is short-circuited when a current value of the braking resistor measured by a braking resistor current sensor continuously exceeds a preset current value for a predetermined time, when the chopper is maintained in an off-state.

9. A method for controlling emergency driving of a fuel cell vehicle of an emergency driving system including a supercapacitor configured to be charged with a voltage generated from a fuel cell and a voltage generated by regenerative braking of a driving motor, a chopper configured to adjust a current amount supplied to the supercapacitor to prevent an overvoltage due to the regenerative braking, and a braking resistor configured to consume a regenerative braking current, the method comprising:
determining, by a controller, whether a chopper is short-circuited by referring to a chopper failure code when the fuel cell vehicle is started;
entering, by the controller, an emergency driving mode when the chopper is short-circuited, turn off a cutoff relay, which connects a flow of current between the chopper and the supercapacitor, and maintain a connecting relay, which connects a flow of current between a power line to which the fuel cell and a driving motor are connected and the supercapacitor, in an on-state; and
turning an emergency driving relay on or off, by the controller, wherein the emergency driving relay includes a first terminal connected to a line branched from a ground line to which the fuel cell and the driving motor are connected and a second terminal connected between the braking resistor and the chopper, in the emergency driving mode.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
monitoring, by the controller, a voltage of the supercapacitor using a capacitor voltage monitoring; and
turning on, by the controller, the emergency driving relay when the voltage of the supercapacitor is equal to or greater than a preset threshold voltage.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
turning off, by the controller, the emergency driving relay when the voltage of the supercapacitor is less than the preset threshold voltage.

12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
storing, by the controller, the chopper failure code in a memory when the chopper is short-circuited.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
determining, by the controller, that the chopper is short-circuited when a current value of the braking resistor measured by a braking resistor current sensor continuously exceeds a preset current value for a predetermined time, when the chopper is maintained in an off-state.

14. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
turning off, by the controller, the fuel cell vehicle when an accumulated frequency of starting of the emergency driving mode exceeds a predetermined allowable frequency.

15. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
turning off, by the controller, the fuel cell vehicle when an accumulated distance of the emergency driving mode exceeds a predetermined allowable distance.

16. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
determining, by the controller, an accumulated frequency and distance of the emergency driving mode;
determining, by the controller, a total number of allowable frequency and distance of the emergency driving mode to determine a remaining allowable frequency and a remaining distance of the emergency driving mode;
displaying, by the controller, the remaining allowable frequency of emergency driving mode or the remaining distance of emergency driving mode via a cluster or an audio video navigation (AVN) in the emergency driving mode; and
searching, by the controller, for a service station closest from a position of the fuel cell vehicle and guiding the fuel cell vehicle to the service station.

17. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
maintaining, by the controller, the emergency driving relay in an off-state when the chopper is not short-circuited.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions executed by a controller and for controlling emergency driving of a fuel cell vehicle of an emergency driving system including a supercapacitor configured to be charged with a voltage generated from a fuel cell and a voltage generated by regenerative braking of a driving motor, a chopper configured to adjust a current amount supplied to the supercapacitor to prevent an overvoltage due to the regenerative braking, and a braking resistor configured to consume a regenerative braking current, the computer readable medium comprising:
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Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Sungdo
• Kang Minsu
• Ryu Chang Seok
• Lee Dong Hun

Classifications

• B60L11/1883 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60L2240/547

  Voltage · CPC title

• B60L3/12

  Recording operating variables {; Monitoring of operating variables} · CPC title

• B60L3/0092

  with use of redundant elements for safety purposes · CPC title

• B60L11/1887

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic