A dual power supply apparatus includes a main power grid that supplies power by a first battery to an autonomous vehicle and a redundant power grid that supplies power to a dual power load based on a second battery, in an emergency driving mode due to a failure in the main power grid.

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling an LLC resonance converter. The apparatus includes a converter connected to an input terminal, including a plurality of switching elements constituting a bridge circuit, and enabling a topology change in the form of a full bridge and a half bridge; and a controller detecting a charge measurement value of a battery being charged with a power transferred by the converter, and changing a topology of the converter based on the charge measurement value. Since battery charging is performed by changing the topology of the converter in accordance with the charge measurement value of the battery, the LLC resonance converter can be controlled at an optimized frequency, the efficiency is increased, and cost savings can be achieved.

A low voltage DC-DC converter of an environmentally friendly vehicle includes a first DC-DC converter configured to drop a second voltage lower than a first voltage supplied to a drive motor of the environmentally friendly vehicle to a third voltage, a voltage regulator configured to regulate the third voltage to output a fourth voltage lower than the third voltage, a controller configured to operate in response to the fourth voltage, and a second DC-DC converter configured to convert and output the first voltage into the third voltage in response to an output signal of the controller, in which an output voltage of the second DC-DC converter is supplied to the voltage regulator.

The present disclosure relates to a charging system and a charging method for charging a main battery of a vehicle. The main battery can be charged with a voltage of a swappable battery using a DC-DC converter of an on-board computer (OBC) without installing additional converters for a plurality of swappable batteries through connection of the plurality of swappable batteries to input terminals of a plurality of DC-DC converters of the OBC charging the main battery, so that a driving distance of the vehicle is increased, and the efficiency of a motor and the inverters is increased.

Disclosed is a system configured to deliver power to a load in a transport vehicle, the system having: (a) a battery; (b) a super capacitor bank; (c) a bidirectional DC/DC converter configured to transfer power to/from the super capacitors in order to absorb/supply power from/to the load, and configured to transfer power between the super capacitors and the battery and/or the load in order to charge the super capacitor from the battery or load or charge the battery/load from the super capacitors in a controlled way (d) a hybrid controller, the hybrid controller configured to identify when pulsed power is required to/from the load and instructing the DC/DC converter to supply/absorb power to/from the load from/to the super capacitor bank and to identify when power needs to be transferred between the super capacitor and the battery/load to charge or discharge the battery/load and/or super capacitor.

An embodiment apparatus for an electric vehicle includes an indoor power outlet configured to receive power through one of a plurality of lines except for a single-phase alternating current (AC) charging line among three-phase AC input lines, a sensor configured to measure a required current of an electronic device connected to the indoor power outlet, and a controller configured to control a bidirectional on board charger of the electric vehicle based on the required current.

A method for charging control of a hybrid electric vehicle, includes: receiving a charging instruction; acquiring a first voltage of a power battery and a second voltage of a storage battery in response to receiving the charging instruction; in response to determining that the first voltage is less than the first voltage threshold and the second voltage is less than the second voltage threshold, disconnecting the OBC from the power battery and charging the storage battery through the OBC and the DC for a charging duration; and in response to that the charging duration of the storage battery reaches a duration threshold, connecting the OBC to the power battery and charging the power battery through the OBC.

An electric power conversion system and a vehicle, to improve vehicle availability. The electric power conversion system may receive electric energy provided by a first power supply, and supply power to at least one load module. The system may include a first direct current to direct current conversion module and a second direct current to direct current conversion module. The first direct current to direct current conversion module is configured to perform voltage conversion processing on the electric energy and provide the electric energy to the at least one load module. The second direct current to direct current conversion module is configured to perform voltage conversion processing on the electric energy and provide the electric energy to the at least one load module.

A system for an AC to DC PFC converter includes a first phase switch group connected to a first node to receive power from a first phase of a voltage source; a second phase switch group connected to a second node to receive power from a second phase of the voltage source; a third phase switch group connected to a third node to receive power from a third phase of the voltage source; a neutral phase switch group connected to a fourth node to be connected to a ground terminal of the voltage source; a first switch connected to the first node and the second node; and a second switch connected to the second node and the third node.

A power control system includes a power inverter comprising a first side, a second side, and a plurality of power switches. The second side is configured to connect to an electric machine. A solid state fuse includes a power switch including a first terminal in communication with the first terminal of a rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) of the electric vehicle and a second terminal in communication with the first side of the power inverter. A DC-DC converter is configured to convert a first voltage output by the RESS of the electric vehicle to a second voltage. One or more sensors configured to sense one or more operating parameters of the RESS. A fuse controller is configured to receive power from the DC-DC converter, to communicate with the one or more sensors and to cause the power switch to selectively change state in response to changes in the one or more operating parameters.