WO1992014631A1 - Chargeur de batterie pour vehicule - Google Patents

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WO1992014631A1
WO1992014631A1 PCT/SE1992/000084 SE9200084W WO9214631A1 WO 1992014631 A1 WO1992014631 A1 WO 1992014631A1 SE 9200084 W SE9200084 W SE 9200084W WO 9214631 A1 WO9214631 A1 WO 9214631A1
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accumulator
generator
supply system
electrical supply
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Urban Kristiansson
Bertil Kry
Zvonko Mlakar
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Ab Volvo
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01N9/00—Electrical control of exhaust gas treating apparatus
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01N—GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01N3/00—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust
    • F01N3/08—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous
    • F01N3/10—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust
    • F01N3/18—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control
    • F01N3/20—Exhaust or silencing apparatus having means for purifying, rendering innocuous, or otherwise treating exhaust for rendering innocuous by thermal or catalytic conversion of noxious components of exhaust characterised by methods of operation; Control specially adapted for catalytic conversion ; Methods of operation or control of catalytic converters
    • F01N3/2006—Periodically heating or cooling catalytic reactors, e.g. at cold starting or overheating
    • F01N3/2013—Periodically heating or cooling catalytic reactors, e.g. at cold starting or overheating using electric or magnetic heating means
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J7/00—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
    • H02J7/14—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries for charging batteries from dynamo-electric generators driven at varying speed, e.g. on vehicle
    • H02J7/1423—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries for charging batteries from dynamo-electric generators driven at varying speed, e.g. on vehicle with multiple batteries
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J7/00—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
    • H02J7/14—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries for charging batteries from dynamo-electric generators driven at varying speed, e.g. on vehicle
    • H02J7/1438—Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries for charging batteries from dynamo-electric generators driven at varying speed, e.g. on vehicle in combination with power supplies for loads other than batteries
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60R—VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B60R16/00—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for
    • B60R16/02—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric constitutive elements
    • B60R16/03—Electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for; Arrangement of elements of electric or fluid circuits specially adapted for vehicles and not otherwise provided for electric constitutive elements for supply of electrical power to vehicle subsystems or for
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02J—CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY
    • H02J2310/00—The network for supplying or distributing electric power characterised by its spatial reach or by the load
    • H02J2310/40—The network being an on-board power network, i.e. within a vehicle
    • H02J2310/46—The network being an on-board power network, i.e. within a vehicle for ICE-powered road vehicles
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02A50/00—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE in human health protection, e.g. against extreme weather
    • Y02A50/20—Air quality improvement or preservation, e.g. vehicle emission control or emission reduction by using catalytic converters
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
    • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
    • Y02T10/10—Internal combustion engine [ICE] based vehicles
    • Y02T10/12—Improving ICE efficiencies
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
    • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
    • Y02T10/10—Internal combustion engine [ICE] based vehicles
    • Y02T10/40—Engine management systems
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
    • Y02T10/00—Road transport of goods or passengers
    • Y02T10/60—Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect
    • Y02T10/70—Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries

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  • the invention concerns an electrical supply system for a vehicle equipped with a combustion engine, comprising a generator and a battery accumulator for respectively generating and storing of electricity together with at least one intermittently-working major load for the electricity.
  • catalytic converters are used for purification of the engine's exhaust gases.
  • the catalytic converter functions optimally it is necessary that it has reached its working temperature (200- 400°C) . If the temperature of the surroundings is low it can take several minutes of driving before the catalytic converter has been warmed up to working temperature by the engine's exhaust gas flow. Fuel consumption is notably increased during cold-starting, before the engine attains its normal working temperature. It is therefore important that the catalytic converter's purifying capacity is utilised during as large a part of the cold-starting process as possible.
  • the warming up time can be reduced to circa 0.5-2.0 minutes, depending on the temperature of the surroundings, by employing electrical heating of the catalytic converter.
  • electrical heating of the catalytic converter a very large amount of electrical power (3-7 k ) is required during the heating process.
  • This additional heating element produces a hefty increase in the load on the electrical system, often combined with the defroster and lighting which means that the car's battery accumulator, which is adversely affected by the cold, has difficulty in accomplishing repeated cold starts. Since modern cars have more and more electronics for the monitoring of different functions, e.g. ABS-brakes, higher requirements are put on the reliability of the power supply system.
  • the intermittent power requirement which is created by the heating of the catalytic converter can be compensated by an upgrading of the vehicle's generator and/or battery accumulator.
  • a sufficiently large generator will however load the vehicle's engine severely during idling, which can lead to the engine stalling.
  • the amount of environmentally harmful emissions from the engine increase precisely during warming up of the engine, exactly contrary to the purpose of using the catalytic converter's heating arrangement.
  • With an upgraded battery the risk of functional disorder is still present, since an abnormally low battery power can arise due to the use of parking lights and other electrically-loading members while the engine is not running.
  • An object of the invention is therefore to provide an electrical supply system for vehicles, which system can cope with being intermittently subjected to a large load.
  • the electrical supply system comprises a second battery accumulator placed next to the major load and a switching arrangement which allows the connection of the major load to said second battery accumulator.
  • both batteries can be placed in different positions in the vehicle, as close as possible to respective loads.
  • the figure shows the invention very schematically with a conventional starting battery 10, the positive and negative terminals of which are connected via conductive parts 11, 12 and 13, 14 respectively to conventional loads 15.
  • loads 15 include for example the vehicle's starter motor, the ignition system, the lighting system, the air conditioning system etc.
  • the starting battery's terminals are additionally connected to a battery charging generator 16 via conductive parts 11, 17 - 19 along with 13, 20 and 21.
  • a diode 22 is inserted on the positive side between the conductive parts 17 and 18.
  • the generator is foreseen with a combined rectifying and charging regulator 23.
  • the hitherto described charging system is essentially conventional. However, in the left part of the figure a heating arrangement 24 for the vehicle's catalytic converter has been connected.
  • the heating arrangement 24 is connected to the negative terminal of said second battery via conductive parts 26, 27 and to said battery's positive terminal via conductive parts 28, 30 along with a switching device 29 placed between these.
  • the junctions 20, 21 and 26, 27 are joined to each other via a conductive part 31.
  • the switching arrangement 29 is connected with the generator's positive outlet via conductive parts 32, 33 which connect to the junction 18, 19 via a diode 34.
  • the diodes 22 and 34 are inserted in order to separate the battery 25 from the ordinary electrical system.
  • a diode 35 is inserted between the generator 16 and the rectifying/charging regulator 23. The diode 35 is arranged to compensate for the voltage drop in the diodes 22, 34, so that the charging voltage across the batteries is increased.
  • the switching device 29 In the normal operating position the switching device 29 is set up so that the battery 25 is connected with and receives charging current from the generator 16.
  • the battery 10 On cold starting, the battery 10 is used to start the engine.
  • a sensor not shown, which senses the catalytic converter's temperature is connected to the switching arrangement 29 and causes this to switch to a second operating position, which results in the conductors 28 and 30 being connected to each other.
  • Energy from the battery 25 is consumed now by the heating arrangement 24 for warming up the catalytic converter.
  • the battery 25, which is placed close to the catalytic converter, can receive charge from the generator 16, without the battery 10 being loaded.
  • the temperature sensing means adjusts the switching device 29 back when the catalytic converter's working temperature is attained.
  • the switching arrangement 29 is additionally foreseen with an under-charge protector, which prevents connection of the heating arrangement when the voltage in the battery 25 is less than a particular value, for example about 10 volts.
  • the diodes 22, 34 and 35 can be placed together, either inside or outside the generator housing.
  • the switching arrangement 29 can be formed as a direct current converter, so that the battery 25 is charged with a higher voltage and consequently quicker than the battery 10.
  • the switching device 29 can also be foreseen with a means for measuring the charge output of the battery 25, when the heater arrangement 24 is used. Accordingly the voltage for recharging can be chosen in such a way that recharging occurs in the fastest possible way, without the remaining electrical system's voltage dropping.

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Abstract

Système d'alimentation électrique destiné à un véhicule équipé d'un moteur à combustion interne. Le système comprend un générateur (16) et un accumulateur de batterie (10) permettant respectivement de produire et de stocker de l'électricité, ainsi qu'au moins une charge principale à fonctionnement intermittent (24) pour l'électricité. Le système comprend également un deuxième accumulateur de batterie (25) positionné à côté de la charge principale (24) et un dispositif de commutation (29) qui permet de connecter la charge principale (24) sur le deuxième accumulateur de batterie.
PCT/SE1992/000084 1991-02-14 1992-02-12 Chargeur de batterie pour vehicule WO1992014631A1 (fr)

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EP0660488A1 (fr) * 1993-12-20 1995-06-28 Motorola, Inc. Système et méthode de charge de batteries auxiliaires
DE4422256A1 (de) * 1994-06-24 1996-01-04 Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag Bordnetz für ein Kraftfahrzeug
WO1996000343A1 (fr) * 1994-06-24 1996-01-04 Audi Ag Procede de commande du chauffage electrique d'un catalyseur
EP0753925A2 (fr) * 1995-07-13 1997-01-15 Société Anonyme dite: REGIE NATIONALE DES USINES RENAULT Dispositif d'alimentation électrique d'un véhicule automobile et procédés de commande d'un tel dispositif
FR2736768A1 (fr) * 1995-07-13 1997-01-17 Renault Dispositif d'alimentation des charges electriques dans un vehicule automobile et procede de commande d'un tel dispositif
FR2824514A1 (fr) * 2000-12-28 2002-11-15 Denso Corp Dispositif d'alimentation electrique pour vehicule et dispositif d'assistance a la reglementation du fonctionnement des vehicules a moteur
EP1376812A3 (fr) * 2002-06-25 2006-10-25 Robert Bosch Gmbh Réseau d'énergie pour l'alimentation de consommeurs de haute puissance
WO2017183437A1 (fr) * 2016-04-18 2017-10-26 株式会社オートネットワーク技術研究所 Dispositif et système d'alimentation électrique automobile

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EP0660488A1 (fr) * 1993-12-20 1995-06-28 Motorola, Inc. Système et méthode de charge de batteries auxiliaires
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DE4422256A1 (de) * 1994-06-24 1996-01-04 Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag Bordnetz für ein Kraftfahrzeug
WO1996000343A1 (fr) * 1994-06-24 1996-01-04 Audi Ag Procede de commande du chauffage electrique d'un catalyseur
US5822978A (en) * 1994-06-24 1998-10-20 Audi Ag Method of controlling the electric heating of a catalytic converter
EP0753925A2 (fr) * 1995-07-13 1997-01-15 Société Anonyme dite: REGIE NATIONALE DES USINES RENAULT Dispositif d'alimentation électrique d'un véhicule automobile et procédés de commande d'un tel dispositif
FR2736768A1 (fr) * 1995-07-13 1997-01-17 Renault Dispositif d'alimentation des charges electriques dans un vehicule automobile et procede de commande d'un tel dispositif
EP0753925A3 (fr) * 1995-07-13 1997-07-02 Renault Dispositif d'alimentation électrique d'un véhicule automobile et procédés de commande d'un tel dispositif
FR2824514A1 (fr) * 2000-12-28 2002-11-15 Denso Corp Dispositif d'alimentation electrique pour vehicule et dispositif d'assistance a la reglementation du fonctionnement des vehicules a moteur
US6986398B2 (en) 2000-12-28 2006-01-17 Denso Corporation Vehicular power supply apparatus and engine-drive-regulation supporting apparatus
EP1376812A3 (fr) * 2002-06-25 2006-10-25 Robert Bosch Gmbh Réseau d'énergie pour l'alimentation de consommeurs de haute puissance
WO2017183437A1 (fr) * 2016-04-18 2017-10-26 株式会社オートネットワーク技術研究所 Dispositif et système d'alimentation électrique automobile

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