Electrical storage system for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9849793-B2
Application number	US-201415026110-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 1, 2014
Priority date	Oct 8, 2013
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

An electrical storage system includes a main battery, an auxiliary battery, a bidirectional DC-DC converter and a controller. The bidirectional DC-DC converter is provided between the auxiliary battery and a power supply path from the main battery to a driving motor. The bidirectional DC-DC converter steps down an output voltage from the power supply path to the auxiliary battery, and steps up an output voltage from the auxiliary battery to the power supply path. The controller controls charging and discharging of the auxiliary battery. The controller, when an allowable output power of the main battery decreases and an electric power becomes insufficient for a required vehicle output, supplies an electric power to the power supply path by discharging the auxiliary battery by using the bidirectional DC-DC converter. The controller, when an allowable input power of the main battery decreases and a regenerated electric power generated by the driving motor is not entirely charged into the main battery, charges part of the regenerated electric power into the auxiliary battery by using the bidirectional DC-DC converter.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrical storage system comprising:
a main battery configured to supply electric power to a driving motor of a vehicle;
an auxiliary battery configured to supply electric power to an auxiliary mounted on the vehicle;
a bidirectional DC-DC converter provided between the auxiliary battery and a power supply path from the main battery to the driving motor, the bidirectional DC-DC converter being configured to step down an output voltage from the power supply path to the auxiliary battery, the bidirectional DC-DC converter being configured to step up an output voltage from the auxiliary battery to the power supply path; and
a controller configured to:
control charging and discharging of the auxiliary battery;
when an allowable output power of the main battery decreases and an electric power becomes insufficient for a required vehicle output, supply an electric power to the power supply path by discharging the auxiliary battery by using the bidirectional DC-DC converter; and
when an allowable input power of the main battery decreases and a regenerated electric power generated by the driving motor is not entirely charged into the main battery, charge part of the regenerated electric power into the auxiliary battery by using the bidirectional DC-DC converter, wherein
the main battery is a non-aqueous secondary battery,
the controller is configured to control a discharge electric power so that the discharge electric power does not exceed the allowable output power,
the controller is configured to calculate an evaluation value,
the controller is configured to reduce the allowable output power when the evaluation value exceeds a target value,
the controller is configured to, when the evaluation value indicates a state where an ion concentration in an electrolyte of the main battery is biased to a discharge side before the evaluation value exceeds the target value, discharge the auxiliary battery by using the bidirectional DC-DC converter and charge an electric power from the auxiliary battery into the main battery, and
the evaluation value is a value for evaluating a degradation component that reduces output performance of the main battery as a result of a bias of the ion concentration due to discharging of the main battery on the basis of a current value during charging and discharging of the main battery.

2. The electrical storage system according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to discharge the auxiliary battery by using the bidirectional DC-DC converter continuously after the evaluation value exceeds the target value, and charge an electric power from the auxiliary battery into the main battery.

3. The electrical storage system according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to calculate a second evaluation value on the basis of the current value during charging and discharging of the main battery,
the controller is configured to reduce the allowable input power when the second evaluation value exceeds a second target value,
the controller is configured to, when the evaluation value indicates the state where the ion concentration is biased toward the discharge side, set a target SOC of an SOC of the auxiliary battery to a first SOC value higher than a predetermined SOC value,
the controller is configured to, when the second evaluation value indicates a state where the ion concentration is biased toward a charge side, set the target SOC of the SOC of the auxiliary battery to a second SOC value lower than the predetermined SOC value, and control charging and discharging of the auxiliary battery in accordance with the set target SOC, and
the second evaluation value is a value for evaluating a degradation component that reduces input performance of the main battery as a result of a bias of the ion concentration in the electrolyte due to charging of the main battery.

4. The electrical storage system according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to calculate a limited amount for reducing the allowable output power and a limited amount for reducing the allowable input power on the basis of each of first input/output limitations, second input/output limitations and third input/output limitations,
the controller is configured to supply an electric power to the power supply path by discharging the auxiliary battery and charge part of the regenerated electric power into the auxiliary battery on the basis of the calculated largest pair of limited amounts among the pairs of limited amounts,
the first input/output limitations, the second input/output limitations and the third input/output limitations are used for a non-aqueous secondary battery as the main battery,
the first input/output limitations are limitations for suppressing degradation that reduces input/output performance of the main battery as a result of a bias of an ion concentration in an electrolyte of the main battery due to charging and discharging of the main battery,
the second input/output limitations are limitations for suppressing a temperature of a current-carrying component electrically connected to the main battery, and
the third input/output limitations are limitations for suppressing an excess of an upper limit voltage or lower limit voltage of the main battery.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tashiro Hiroki
• Tanaka Hiromasa
• Nishi Yuji
• Tanabe Yukinari
• Kaiya Hiroyuki

Classifications

• B60L3/0046

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

• B60L58/26

  by cooling · CPC title

• H02J2105/37

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

• H02J7/65

  against overtemperature · CPC title

• H02J7/63

  against overdischarge · CPC title