VOLTAGE CONTROL OF MULTI-BATTERY SYSTEMS
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240235216A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-11

    申请号:US18151054

    申请日:2023-01-06

    摘要: A system for controlling propulsion in a vehicle includes a switching system connected to a battery system connected to a drive unit and to one or more electrical loads by a propulsion bus. A controller is configured to control the switching system to vary a voltage applied to the drive unit. The controller is configured to receive a request to transition between operating modes, the transition including a change of a voltage applied to the drive unit from an initial voltage level to a target voltage level. The controller is configured to sequentially perform deactivating the one or more electrical loads, based on the target voltage being higher than the initial voltage, pre-charging the one or more electrical loads, based on the target voltage being lower than the initial voltage, performing a discharge procedure, and operating the switching system to apply the voltage at the target voltage level.

    Current observer for current regulator of vehicle electric traction motor

    公开(公告)号:US11987136B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-21

    申请号:US17490069

    申请日:2021-09-30

    IPC分类号: B60L15/20 B60W10/08

    摘要: A system in a vehicle includes a current regulator to obtain current commands from a controller based on a torque input and provide voltage commands and an inverter to use the voltage commands from the current regulator and direct current (DC) supplied by a battery to provide alternating current (AC). An electric traction motor provides drive power to a transmission of the vehicle based on injection of the AC from the inverter. A current observer obtains measured input current signals based on the AC for a current control cycle and provides predicted current signals for a next control cycle to the current regulator using a model. The current observer includes a controller to check output of the model against the measured input current signals. The current observer tunes parameters of the controller and the model used to generate the predicted current signals based on the measured input current signals.

    VOLTAGE CONTROL OF MULTI-DRIVE SYSTEMS
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240149746A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-09

    申请号:US17982775

    申请日:2022-11-08

    IPC分类号: B60L58/19 B60L50/60 B60L58/21

    CPC分类号: B60L58/19 B60L50/66 B60L58/21

    摘要: A system for controlling propulsion in a vehicle includes a switching system connected to a battery system and a propulsion system. The battery system includes a first battery assembly and a second battery assembly, the propulsion system includes a first drive unit and a second drive unit, and the switching system includes a first switching device configured to selectively connect the first drive unit to the battery system and a second switching device configured to selectively connect the second drive unit to the battery system. The first switching device and the second switching device are independently operable. The system also includes a controller configured to operate the switching system to vary a voltage applied to at least one of the first drive unit and the second drive unit during vehicle propulsion.

    Apparatus and method for coordinating contactor-fuse system

    公开(公告)号:US11916414B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US17562567

    申请日:2021-12-27

    IPC分类号: H02J7/00

    摘要: A protection system for a battery system includes a battery control module configured to selectively open at least one contactor to isolate the battery system from a load in response to a sensed current being greater than a first threshold and within a first current range, at least one fuse connected between first and second terminals of the battery system and configured to open to isolate the battery system from the load in response to the sensed current being greater than a second threshold and within a second current range that is greater than and offset from the first current range, and an auxiliary protection module configured to selectively form a short circuit between first and second terminals in response to the sensed current being greater than the first threshold, less than the second threshold, and within a coverage gap region between the first and second current ranges.