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METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CELL CURRENT LIMITING VALUE FOR A BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A method for controlling a cell current limiting value for a battery management system. In some examples, the method includes determining quadratic reference currents of a battery cell; calculating a corresponding reference time constant for each reference current using a model for the calculation of a RMS value of a cell current by reference to a continuous current; constituting a diagram for the relationship between the reference time constant and the quadratic reference current; determining a predictive time constant by the comparison of a quadratic measured value of a cell current with the quadratic reference currents; calculating a predictive RMS limiting value of the cell current; calculating a first predictive limiting value for a short predictive time, a second predictive limiting value for a long predictive time, and a third predictive limiting value for a continuous predictive time; and calculating additional RMS limiting value for the cell current.

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A CELL CURRENT LIMITING VALUE FOR A BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A method for controlling a cell current limiting value for a battery management system. In some examples, the method includes determining quadratic reference currents of a battery cell; calculating a corresponding reference time constant for each reference current using a model for the calculation of a RMS value of a cell current by reference to a continuous current; constituting a diagram for the relationship between the reference time constant and the quadratic reference current; determining a predictive time constant by the comparison of a quadratic measured value of a cell current with the quadratic reference currents; calculating a predictive RMS limiting value of the cell current; calculating a first predictive limiting value for a short predictive time, a second predictive limiting value for a long predictive time, and a third predictive limiting value for a continuous predictive time; and calculating additional RMS limiting value for the cell current.

Control device for fuel cell vehicle and fuel cell vehicle
11577627 · 2023-02-14 · ·

A control device for a fuel cell vehicle includes a power limiter limiting power of a fuel cell when a temperature correlation value correlated to a temperature of the fuel cell indicates that the temperature is equal to or higher than a temperature threshold, a calculation unit calculating a weight of a towed vehicle, a gradient acquirer acquiring upward gradients at respective points on a planned traveling route, a predictor predicting whether the power of the fuel cell is limited when the fuel cell vehicle is traveling along the planned traveling route in a towing travel state, and a controller issuing, when the predictor predicts that the power of the fuel cell is limited, an alert that a vehicle speed of the fuel cell vehicle is expected to decrease when the fuel cell vehicle is traveling along the planned traveling route in the towing travel state.

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HEATING OF BATTERY PACK, COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

A method for controlling heating of a battery pack is provided, in which, the method includes: acquiring a temperature of the battery pack; and controlling a motor controller to output a current to a motor, if the temperature of the battery pack is lower than a preset temperature threshold, so as to generate a magnetic field in the motor having a magnetic pole direction consistent with or opposite to a magnetic pole direction of a motor rotor and to enable the motor to maintain a stationary state.

VEHICLE, ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
20230038790 · 2023-02-09 ·

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of vehicles, and provides a vehicle and an energy conversion device and a control method therefor. The energy conversion device includes a motor controller, a bus capacitor, a first switch module, a motor, and a second switch module. By controlling the first switch module and the second switch module to be turned on/off, a motor driving circuit can be formed by a battery pack, the first switch module, the bus capacitor, the motor controller, and the motor, and a charging and discharging circuit can be formed by the battery pack, the second switch module, the motor, the motor controller, and the bus capacitor.

POWER BATTERY HEATING SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL CIRCUIT THEREOF

The present application provide a control method of a power battery heating system. The method includes: controlling all upper bridge arms of a first bridge arm group and all lower bridge arms of a second bridge arm group to be turned on, and controlling all lower bridge arms of the first bridge arm group and all upper bridge arms of the second bridge arm group to be turned off, so as to form a first loop; controlling all the lower bridge arms of the first bridge arm group and all the upper bridge arms of the second bridge arm group to be turned on, and controlling all the upper bridge arms of the first bridge arm group and all the lower bridge arms of the second bridge arm group to be turned off, so as to form a second loop. The method is used to heat the power battery.

In-vehicle DC-DC converter

Provided is a configuration in which, in an in-vehicle DC-DC converter, a limitation value of input power or output power can be determined according to the temperature of a power storage unit. In an in-vehicle DC-DC converter (1), a determination unit uses a scheme for determining whether or not input power of an input-side conductive path has reached an input power limitation value that is determined according to an input voltage of the input-side conductive path and a temperature range to which the temperature of an input-side power storage unit belongs, or a scheme for determining whether or not output power of an output-side conductive path has reached an output power limitation value that is determined according to an output voltage of the output-side conductive path and a temperature range to which the temperature of an output-side power storage unit belongs.

Thermistor-based thermal run-away detection for battery packs
11569535 · 2023-01-31 · ·

Systems and methods for identifying thermal run-away events in a battery pack can include using sensing circuits made up of series- or parallel-linked thermistors to measure subsets of the individual battery cells in a battery pack. Using multiple sensing circuits, a monitoring system can positively identify when a threshold temperature of any single battery cell has been reached even though individual temperatures are not monitored, and can generate a signal indicative of a thermal run-away event based on the detected temperature.

COORDINATED CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND TRAILER ELECTRIC MACHINES

A controller commands an electric machine of a vehicle to produce propulsive torque with energy from a traction battery of the vehicle and, at a same time, commands an electric machine of a trailer coupled with the vehicle to produce regenerative torque such that a speed of the vehicle does not change.

COORDINATED CONTROL OF VEHICLE AND TRAILER ELECTRIC MACHINES

A controller commands an electric machine of a vehicle to produce propulsive torque with energy from a traction battery of the vehicle and, at a same time, commands an electric machine of a trailer coupled with the vehicle to produce regenerative torque such that a speed of the vehicle does not change.