VEHICLE CHARGER AND VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME

• Main Authors: YAMASHITA YOSHIHARU, OUCHI TAKAYUKI, KISHIMOTO EIGO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 01.06.2017
• Subjects: 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; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a charger for suppressing charging loss of a storage battery and a control method of the same.SOLUTION: A control unit of a charger acquires a value of a storage battery voltage or the amount of charge and information on scheduled start time of the next traveling start and selects one of a current mode that is a first predetermined current value and a second mode that is a second predetermined current value that is a current smaller than the predetermined current value and performs charging.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】蓄電池の充電損失を抑制する充電器及びその制御手法を提供する。【解決手段】充電器の制御部は、蓄電池電圧又は充電量の値と、次回走行開始予定時刻の情報を取得し、充電開始時の電流において、第１所定電流値である電流モードと当該所定電流値より小さい電流である第２所定電流値である第２モードと、のいずれか一方を選択して充電を実行する【選択図】図３