VEHICLE POWER SUPPLY

• Main Authors: YAMASHITA KOJI, IRITANI KUNIO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.03.2012
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTINGELECTRIC POWER; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL; GENERATION; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle power supply which maintains a battery at an appropriate temperature on a charging start time of the battery and completes charging the battery until running start of a vehicle.SOLUTION: A controller 3 of a vehicle power supply 1 decides the charging start time in accordance with a running start scheduled time set for the vehicle and a battery state, controls the operation of at least either of a heater 10 and a blower 30 for a temperature of a battery module 2 to satisfy a predetermined setting temperature condition at the charging start time, and completes charging the battery until the running start scheduled time for the vehicle.