EP2450221A3

Apparatus and method for charging an electric vehicle

Abstract

An energy management system (ESMS) (11) includes energy storage devices (32, 34, 36) coupled to a vehicle drivetrain (18, 26, 14, 24) and configured to store DC energy, a power electronic conversion system (42) having energy ports (102), the power electronic conversion system (42) comprising a DC electrical converters (104, 106, 108), each DC electrical converter (104, 106, 108) configured to step up and to step down a DC voltage, wherein each of the energy ports (102) is coupleable to each of the energy storage devices (32, 34, 36) and each of the energy ports (102) is coupleable to an electrical charging system (44). The ESMS (11) includes a controller (46) configured to determine a voltage of each energy port (102) having either an energy storage device (32, 34, 36) or a DC electrical charging system (44) coupled thereto, and electrically connect a first energy port to a second energy port such that at least one of the DC electrical converters (104, 106, 108) either steps up or steps down an input DC voltage based on the determined voltage of each energy port (102).

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US2008055940A1	Cites	United States of America	Search report
WO2010122648A1	Cites	World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)	Search report
EP2179882A2	Cites	European Patent Office (EPO)	Search report

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940085	United States of America	–	2010-11-05
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EP2450221A2	European Patent Office (EPO)	A2	2012-05-09
US2012112693A1	United States of America	A1	2012-05-10
CN102452325A	China	A	2012-05-16
JP2012105527A	Japan	A	2012-05-31
US8378623B2	United States of America	B2	2013-02-19
CN102452325B	China	B	2015-09-16
CN105034830A	China	A	2015-11-11
BRPI1104811A2	Brazil	A2	2015-12-22
JP2016054636A	Japan	A	2016-04-14
JP5908254B2	Japan	B2	2016-04-26
EP2450221A3This record	European Patent Office (EPO)	A3	2017-04-12
JP6188090B2	Japan	B2	2017-08-30
JP2017225343A	Japan	A	2017-12-21
CN105034830B	China	B	2018-04-06
JP6553133B2	Japan	B2	2019-07-31
JP2019202773A	Japan	A	2019-11-28
BRPI1104811B1	Brazil	B1	2021-08-03
EP2450221B1	European Patent Office (EPO)	B1	2021-08-18
ES2892249T3	Spain	T3	2022-02-02
JP7051758B2	Japan	B2	2022-04-11
EP3981638A2	European Patent Office (EPO)	A2	2022-04-13
EP3981638A3	European Patent Office (EPO)	A3	2022-07-06
EP3981638B1	European Patent Office (EPO)	B1	2023-12-27
ES2975094T3	Spain	T3	2024-07-03

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Apparatus and method for charging an electric vehicle

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