A measurement arrangement, including a current line, a first measurement location provided on the current line, a second measurement location provided on the current line, and a coolant, wherein the second measurement location is provided at a distance from the first measurement location in order to make it possible to measure a voltage in a measurement section of the current line arising due to a current flowing through the current line, wherein the measurement section is defined between the first measurement location and the second measurement location, and wherein the coolant is of fluid form and at least in areas is in direct contact with the current line in an area between the first measurement location and the second measurement location.

An active discharge circuit for electric vehicle inverter, the active discharge circuit intended to be connected in parallel with a DC link capacitor connected between positive and negative lines of a DC power link, wherein the circuit comprises a dissipative current source, a switch connected in series with the current source between the DC lines, and a controller connected to the switch and arranged to apply an activation signal in dependence of a control signal, the activation signal placing the switch in a conducting state, wherein the current source is configured to draw a discharge current and dissipate any energy stored in the DC link capacitor when the switch is in the conducting state. As long as the switch is closed by the activation signal, the current source will draw a constant current and dissipate power, and the voltage across the DC link capacitor will decrease linearly.

A drive control system controls travel of an electric vehicle, the drive control system including a plurality of induction motors, one inverter that drives the plurality of induction motors, and a controller that controls the inverter. The controller includes a coupling disconnection detecting unit that calculates an estimated torque value on the basis of a total current and a voltage command value at the start of the induction motors, and detects disconnection of a coupling provided between the induction motors and a drive mechanism of the electric vehicle on the basis of the estimated torque value calculated and a torque command value.

To sufficiently exert charging and discharging performance of a cell while reliably protecting the cell, a battery controller determines ΔVlimit which is a limit value for a difference between a CCV and an OCV of a cell module, which is a secondary cell, and determines at least one of an upper limit voltage and a lower limit voltage of the cell module. An allowable current of the cell module is calculated based on the ΔVlimit and at least one of the upper limit voltage and the lower limit voltage determined in this manner.

A system for mitigating charging failure for an electric aircraft including a charging connector, a sensor, a charger, and a controller. The charging connector comprising at least a charging pin and configured to mate with a corresponding charging port on an electric aircraft. The sensor communicatively connected to the charging connector and configured to detect a charging datum. The charger electrically connected to the charging connector and comprising a power source electrically connected to the charging connector. The controller communicatively connected to the sensor and configured to receive a charging datum from the sensor, detect a charging failure as a function of the charging datum, and initiate a mitigating response in response to detecting a charging failure.

Systems include a prime mover that generates power for a mobile vehicle; a power converter that receives a portion of the generated power, and provides configured electrical power to an aftertreatment heater device configured to selectively heat an exhaust fluid of the prime mover; at least one aftertreatment component positioned downstream of the aftertreatment heater device, and configured to treat a constituent of the exhaust fluid; and a controller including an operating conditions circuit structured to interpret an operating parameter of one of the power converter, the aftertreatment heater device, the prime mover, or the exhaust fluid; a heater management circuit that determines a heating power value in response to the operating parameter; and a heater control circuit that provides a heating command in response to the heating power value; and wherein the power converter is responsive to the heating command to heat the exhaust fluid of the prime mover.

A system and method for the overcurrent protection in an electric vehicle is illustrated. The system comprises an AC pin, a DC pin, an electric vehicle charging connector, wherein the electric vehicle charging connector comprises a protection circuit, wherein the protection circuit is configured to control a transmission of power through the electric vehicle charging connector, a sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to detect an output current, and a controller communicatively connected to the sensor. The controller is configured to detect an overcurrent output as a function of the output current and trip the protection circuit as a function of the overcurrent output.

A method and device for controlling a DCDC converter, used for a hybrid electric vehicle and relating to the technical field of vehicle control. The method comprises: according to an output end current limit value and an actual voltage value, acquiring a first preset value corresponding to an input end power; according to the maximum discharge power of a high-voltage battery and the actual discharge power of an electric motor, acquiring a second preset value corresponding to the input end power; and determining the minimum value in the first preset value and the second preset value as an input end target power limit value. Multiple combination working conditions of sufficient or insufficient power sources at the input end are considered.

A battery management system includes a voltage sensor to generate a voltage signal indicating a voltage of a battery, a current sensor to generate a current signal indicating a current flowing through the battery, and a control unit to record a voltage history and a current history of the battery based on the voltage signal and the current signal at a predetermined time interval during constant current charging of the battery. The control unit determines a differential capacity curve indicating a correlation between the voltage of the battery and a differential capacity in a reference voltage range. The control unit performs a first protection operation for the battery by comparing a first characteristic voltage of a main feature point with a reference voltage when the main feature point is detected from the differential capacity curve.

Provided is a highly reliable electronic control unit capable of improving responsiveness of an output current of a switching power supply to load current variation and suppressing power supply voltage variation accompanying the load current variation at low cost and with high power efficiency. Provided are: a calculation unit that performs signal processing; a first power supply circuit that supplies a first power supply voltage to the calculation unit; and a second power supply circuit that supplies a second power supply voltage to the first power supply circuit. The calculation unit has a function of outputting a control signal when a change in a consumed current of the calculation unit exceeds a predetermined threshold, and changes any one or both of a control scheme of the first power supply circuit and the second power supply voltage according to the control signal.