EP3402692A1 - Surveillance d'équipement d'alimentation de véhicule électrique - Google Patents

Surveillance d'équipement d'alimentation de véhicule électrique

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EP3402692A1
EP3402692A1 EP17700243.3A EP17700243A EP3402692A1 EP 3402692 A1 EP3402692 A1 EP 3402692A1 EP 17700243 A EP17700243 A EP 17700243A EP 3402692 A1 EP3402692 A1 EP 3402692A1
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evse
vehicle supply
supply plug
voltage
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Per Hassel SØRENSEN
Brage W. JOHANSEN
Kjetil Naesje
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Zaptec IP AS
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L53/00—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
    • B60L53/30—Constructional details of charging stations
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L3/00—Electric devices on electrically-propelled vehicles for safety purposes; Monitoring operating variables, e.g. speed, deceleration or energy consumption
    • B60L3/04—Cutting off the power supply under fault conditions
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L53/00—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
    • B60L53/10—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles characterised by the energy transfer between the charging station and the vehicle
    • B60L53/14—Conductive energy transfer
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L53/00—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
    • B60L53/20—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles characterised by converters located in the vehicle
    • B60L53/22—Constructional details or arrangements of charging converters specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L53/00—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
    • B60L53/30—Constructional details of charging stations
    • B60L53/305—Communication interfaces
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60L—PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
    • B60L53/00—Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
    • B60L53/60—Monitoring or controlling charging stations
    • B60L53/66—Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
    • G08B13/02—Mechanical actuation
    • G08B13/14—Mechanical actuation by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles
    • G08B13/1409—Mechanical actuation by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles for removal detection of electrical appliances by detecting their physical disconnection from an electrical system, e.g. using a switch incorporated in the plug connector
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
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    • G08B13/1427—Mechanical actuation by lifting or attempted removal of hand-portable articles with transmitter-receiver for distance detection
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    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02T—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
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    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
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    • Y02T90/00—Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
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  • Embodiments herein relate to methods and arrangements monitoring Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, EVSE, for example through mobile networks.
  • EVSE Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment
  • the owners of plug-in electric and hybrid electric vehicles typically have a dedicated charging station at home or other location where the vehicle is normally garaged.
  • EVSEs are equipped with digital processing capabilities and communication arrangements, wireless and/or wired, whereby the EVSE is connected to the internet and provided with internet protocol, IP, addresses.
  • EVSEs are in most situations left unattended at a variety of different unpredicted and accidental places, and often in the public room.
  • the charging process by means of prior art EVSEs are therefore exposed to interruptions due to poor electrical conditions or theft of expensive equipment, including the EVSE itself.
  • it is essential to the propagation and safe use of electrical vehicles that charging always is possible and safe.
  • the prior art has so far been unable to provide satisfactory solutions that can overcome such potential drawbacks.
  • US 2012/0025842 A1 discloses a method for monitoring a power coupler for a plug-in electric vehicle.
  • a theft alert is performed when the power coupler is physically unplugged or disconnected in order to dissuade people from stealing the power coupler.
  • a power loss alert is performed when there is a loss of electrical power at the wall. The power loss alert is intended to notify the vehicle owner when there a condition that prevents the vehicle from being charged.
  • the method distinguishes between possible theft situations and simple power loss situations.
  • an object of the present disclosure is to overcome or at least mitigate at least some of the drawbacks related to prior art EVSE.
  • the EVSE comprises a power plug, a voltage measuring device configured to measure a voltage applied on the power plug, a vehicle supply plug and a vehicle supply plug monitoring device configured to monitor a vehicle supply plug state.
  • the vehicle supply plug state has the possible states of at least "unplugged”, “plugged and not supplying", “plugged and supplying", and "error”.
  • the method comprises:
  • monitoring of a vehicle supply plug state and a voltage applied on a power plug takes place.
  • a number of actions involving transmission of a notification takes place. This is advantageous in that, e.g., interruptions of charging due to poor electrical conditions or disconnections due to theft may be discovered.
  • the procedure of step I a) may further include i) transmitting information that charging has been interrupted or EVSE has been unplugged from vehicle.
  • the procedure of step II a) may further include i) transmitting information that charging is completed. In some embodiments, the procedure of step III a) may further include i) transmitting information that EVSE has been unplugged.
  • the voltage measuring device measures the voltage to drop below a first predefined voltage level, comprise:
  • the procedure of step IV a) may include (i) transmitting information that an error has occurred or the current is not interrupted but is unsatisfactory.
  • the monitoring of the vehicle supply plug state may comprise determining the vehicle supply plug state and the transitions of which by interpreting corresponding signals or messages of a power communication protocol being
  • the power communication protocol may be Power Line Communication, PLC, or Controller Area Network, CAN, bus or includes Pulse-Width Modulation, PWD.
  • the transmission of the at least one notification may include transmitting the at least one notification to a computer or a portable device.
  • an EVSE that comprises EVSE circuitry that comprises a power plug, a voltage measuring device configured to measure a voltage applied on the power plug, a vehicle supply plug and a vehicle supply plug monitoring device configured to monitor a vehicle supply plug state having the possible states of at least "unplugged", “plugged and not supplying", "plugged and supplying", and "error”, said EVSE further comprising radio frequency control circuitry, a processor and a memory, said memory containing instructions executable by said processor whereby said EVSE is operative to perform any embodiment of a method as summarized above.
  • a computer program and a carrier that correspond to any of the method embodiments summarized above.
  • Figure 1 schematically illustrates functional blocks of an EVSE in operation
  • FIGS 2-3 are flow charts of embodiments of methods performed by an EVSE, and figure 4 schematically illustrates an EVSE.
  • an EVSE 100 is provided with a mobile network communication capability enabling the EVSE 100 to communicate via a mobile or wireless communication network 122 for the purposes of notifying a user 128 of critical events like interruptions and pure charging conditions, and possibly initiating certain actions as a consequence of such critical events.
  • the EVSE 100 may in these embodiments be configured with a power plug 1 15 and a voltage measuring device 1 14 configured to measure a voltage applied on the power plug 1 15.
  • the EVSE 100 also comprises a vehicle supply plug 108 and a vehicle supply plug monitoring device 1 12 configured to monitor a vehicle supply plug state.
  • the vehicle supply state may have the possible states of at least "unplugged", “plugged and not supplying", "plugged and supplying", and "error".
  • the charging current is output from the EVSE 100 to a battery 104 of an electric vehicle 106 connected to the EVSE 100 via the power plug 1 15 and the vehicle supply plug 108.
  • the vehicle supply plug state and the voltage applied on the power plug 1 15 are monitored.
  • Various outcome of the monitoring will trigger a procedure that involves transmission of at least one notification, e.g. a notification is transmitted through the wireless network 122 to a wireless communication device 126 at the user 128 and/or an action is carried out, e.g. deactivation of the EVSE 100 or activation of a tracking function of the EVSE.
  • the EVSE may be equipped with a geographic tracking or positioning function 1 16.
  • a diagnosis of an interruption or dip in the charging current may be made, and information about a probable incident and possible actions that is made is transmitted during the notification procedure.
  • the wireless communication network capabilities may be provided by a wireless communication device 1 18 and an antenna 120 installed in the EVSE, where the wireless communication device 1 18 is configured with the necessary software and hardware required to communicate data according to a wireless standard of the mobile network, e.g. any third generation partnership project (3GPP) standard or any Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) 802.1 1 standard.
  • a wireless standard of the mobile network e.g. any third generation partnership project (3GPP) standard or any Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) 802.1 1 standard.
  • the voltage measuring device 1 14 may be provided in the form of a prior art voltage sensor, emitting digital information to a processor unit 1 10 in the EVSE 100.
  • the vehicle supply plug monitoring device 1 12 may also be provided by means of prior art detection circuitry that is able to emit digital information to the processor unit 1 10.
  • a deactivation of the EVSE 100 may be accomplished by internally signaling, from the processor unit 1 10, a shutdown request to switching circuitry within power provision circuitry 102 in the EVSE 100.
  • An activation of a geographic tracking function may be accomplished by internally signaling a tracking initiating request to the geographic tracking device 1 16 in the EVSE 100. This request may be initiated to diagnose the interruption. For example, an interruption in combination with a geographic relocation of the EVSE 100 may indicate theft, and an interruption without geographic relocation of the EVSE 100 may indicate an accidental interruption of the charging.
  • Tracing of the EVSE 100 in case it has been geographically relocated may be provided in several ways.
  • tracking may be realized by means of software installed in the wireless communication device 1 18 that is able to determine a location of the wireless communication device 1 18 (and thereby also the location of the EVSE).
  • Such geographic tracking determines the location of the wireless communication device 1 18 by means of, e.g., cell identification, signal strengths of the home and neighboring cells, which is continuously provided by network nodes in the wireless communication system 122.
  • the wireless communication device 1 18 may be equipped with or connected to the geographic positioning device 1 16 that may operate according to any a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) standard such as global positioning system (GPS).
  • GNSS global navigation satellite system
  • GPS global positioning system
  • significantly more precise geographic position/tracking/location information may be provided from the wireless communication device 1 18 to the wireless communication system 122 and to other communicating entities such as a wireless communication device 126 operated by a the user 128, who may be a user or an owner of the EVSE 100.
  • the user 128 of the EVSE may be receiving notifications on its wireless communication device 126 connected to the wireless communication network 122.
  • the wireless communication device 126 may have preinstalled a software application adjusted to receive and interpret the notifications transmitted from the EVSE 100 and present the information on a perceivable format to the user 128 through a user interface on the wireless communication device 126.
  • a user interface may also be adjusted to provide other functionalities like: ⁇ Report data from the charging process, grid quality / type, grounding situation (level of earth leakage before a residual current devices (RCD) located in the power provision circuitry 102 trips a fuse)
  • SMS short message service
  • FIG 1 it is assumed that the EVSE 100 is operating by charging the battery 104 in the electric vehicle 106 via the power plug 1 15 and the vehicle supply plug 108.
  • the method comprises a number of actions, as the boxes in the flowchart in figure 2 illustrate.
  • the actions comprise: Action 201
  • the EVSE monitors the vehicle supply plug 108 state and the voltage applied on the power plug 1 15.
  • the monitoring of the vehicle supply plug state may comprises determining the vehicle supply plug state and the transitions of which by interpreting corresponding signals or messages of a power communication protocol being
  • Such power communication protocol may be any of Power Line Communication, PLC, or Controller Area Network, CAN, bus or includes Pulse-Width Modulation, PWD.
  • PLC Power Line Communication
  • CAN Controller Area Network
  • PWD Pulse-Width Modulation
  • the vehicle supply plug state is "unplugged” and the voltage measuring device measures the voltage to drop below a first predefined voltage level
  • the transmission of the at least one notification may include transmitting the at least one notification to a computer or a portable device such as the wireless communication device 126.
  • condition I wherein condition I has been determined, then the procedure that comprises transmission of at least one notification further includes transmission of information that charging has been interrupted or EVSE 100 has been unplugged from the vehicle 106. In some embodiments, wherein condition II has been determined, then the procedure that comprises transmission of at least one notification further includes transmission of information that charging is completed.
  • condition III wherein condition III has been determined, then the procedure that comprises transmission of at least one notification further includes transmission of information that EVSE 100 has been unplugged.
  • condition IV wherein condition IV has been determined, then the procedure that comprises transmission of at least one notification further includes transmission of information that an error has occurred or the current is not interrupted but is
  • a geographic position of the EVSE is monitored. As exemplified above, this may comprise any suitable position tracking technique.
  • the EVSE 400 may be the EVSE 100 discussed above in connection with figures 1 to 3.
  • the EVSE 400 comprises RF control circuitry 406, a processor 402 and a memory 404.
  • the processor 402, the memory 404 and RF control circuitry 406 may implement all or part of the functionality of the processor unit 1 10, the voltage measuring device 1 14, the vehicle supply plug monitoring device 1 12, the wireless communication device 1 18 and the positioning device 1 16 of the EVSE 100 illustrated in figure 1 (noting that the vehicle supply plug state has the possible states of at least "unplugged", "plugged and not supplying", "plugged and supplying", and "error").
  • the EVSE 400 also comprises an EVSE power unit 408 corresponding to the power provision functions 102, the power plug 1 15 and the vehicle supply plug 108 in the EVSE 100 in figure 1.
  • the EVSE power unit 408 may comprise functionality that correspond to at least part of a voltage measuring device and a vehicle supply plug monitoring device such as those in figure 1 .
  • the memory 404 contains instructions executable by the processor 402 whereby the EVSE 400 is operative to:
  • the instructions that are executable by the processor 402 may be software in the form of a computer program 441 .
  • the computer program 441 may be contained in or by a carrier 442, which may provide the computer program 441 to the memory 404 and processor 402.
  • the carrier 442 may be in any suitable form including an electronic signal, an optical signal, a radio signal or a computer readable storage medium.
  • the EVSE 400 is operative such that the procedure of step I a) further includes i) transmitting information that charging has been interrupted or EVSE has been unplugged from vehicle.
  • the EVSE 400 is operative such that the procedure of step II a) further includes i) transmitting information that charging is completed.
  • the EVSE 400 is operative such that the procedure of step III a) further includes i) transmitting information that EVSE has been unplugged.
  • the EVSE 400 is operative to, when the vehicle supply plug state is "unplugged" and the voltage measuring device measures the voltage to drop below a first predefined voltage level, comprise: b) monitoring a geographic position of the EVSE, c) determining, during the monitoring of the geographic position of the EVSE, whether or not the geographical position of the EVSE changes, i) if it is determined that the geographic position of the EVSE changes, then transmitting information that the geographic position of the EVSE has changed, and ii) if it is determined that the geographic position of the EVSE does not change, then the transmitting information that EVSE has been unplugged.
  • the EVSE 400 is operative such that the procedure of step IV a) includes (i) transmitting information that an error has occurred or the current is not interrupted but is unsatisfactory.
  • the EVSE 400 is operative such that the monitoring of the vehicle supply plug state comprises determining the vehicle supply plug state and the transitions of which by interpreting corresponding signals or messages of a power communication protocol being implemented in the EVSE.
  • the power communication protocol may be Power Line Communication, PLC, or Controller Area Network, CAN, bus or includes Pulse-Width Modulation, PWD.
  • the EVSE 400 is operative such that the transmission of the at least one notification includes transmitting the at least one notification to a computer or a portable device.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un équipement d'alimentation de véhicule électrique (EVSE) (100). Selon l'invention, la surveillance d'un état d'une prise d'alimentation de véhicule (108) et d'une tension appliquée sur une prise électrique (115) est mise en œuvre et, en fonction de la tension et en fonction de différents états de la prise d'alimentation de véhicule (108), un certain nombre d'actions impliquant la transmission d'une notification se produisent. Cette technique est avantageuse en ce que, par exemple, des interruptions de charge provoquées par de mauvaises conditions électriques ou des déconnexions provoquées par un vol peuvent être découvertes.
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