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US 10,457,156 · App. 15/528,835 · Granted Oct 29, 2019

Vehicle power source system and cooling circuit

Inventors: Daijiro Takizawa (Wako, JP); Satoko Ito (Wako, JP)
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,457,156
App. No.
15/528,835
Granted
Oct 29, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle power source system includes: a high-voltage battery; a high-voltage system equipment having a DC-DC converter and a charger; and a cooling circuit having a high-voltage battery cooling unit for cooling the high-voltage battery, a DC-DC converter cooling unit for cooling the DC-DC converter, and charger cooling unit for cooling the charger. In the cooling circuit, the DC-DC converter cooling unit and the charger cooling unit are disposed in parallel on a downstream side of the high-voltage battery cooling unit.

Claims (36)

1. A vehicle power source system comprising:

a high-voltage battery;

a high-voltage system equipment having a DC-DC converter and a charger; and

a cooling circuit having a high-voltage battery cooling unit for cooling the high-voltage battery, a DC-DC converter cooling unit for cooling the DC-DC converter, and a charger cooling unit for cooling the charger, wherein

in the cooling circuit, the DC-DC converter cooling unit and the charger cooling unit are disposed in parallel on a downstream side of the high-voltage battery cooling unit,

the cooling circuit has a flow rate control device on an upstream side of the DC-DC converter cooling unit,

the flow rate control device is disposed between a branch portion where a flow to the DC-DC converter cooling unit and a flow to the charger cooling unit are branched off, and the DC-DC converter cooling unit, and

the flow rate control device is not disposed between the branch portion and the charger cooling unit.

2. The vehicle power source system according to claim 1 , wherein

the cooling circuit has:

a bypass flow path which connects an upstream side of the high-voltage battery cooling unit to a portion that is positioned on an upstream side of the DC-DC converter cooling unit and the charger cooling unit and that is positioned on a downstream side of the high-voltage battery cooling unit; and

a flow path selector which is provided on the upstream side of the high-voltage battery cooling unit.

3. The vehicle power source system according to claim 2 , wherein

the flow path selector is a solenoid valve.

4. The vehicle power source system according to claim 2 , wherein

the flow path selector is a three-way solenoid valve which is provided at a branch portion where the bypass flow path branches off from an upstream-side flow path of the high-voltage battery cooling unit.

5. A cooling circuit comprising:

a radiator;

a cooling pump;

a high-voltage battery cooling unit for cooling a high-voltage battery; and

a high-voltage system equipment cooling unit for a cooling high-voltage system equipment, wherein

the radiator, the cooling pump, the high-voltage battery cooling unit, and the high-voltage system equipment cooling unit being connected in series,

the high-voltage system equipment cooling unit has at least two cooling units,

the at least two cooling units are disposed in parallel on a downstream side of the high-voltage battery cooling unit,

the at least two high-voltage system equipment cooling units include a DC-DC converter cooling unit and a charger cooling unit,

a flow rate control device is provided on an upstream side of the DC-DC converter cooling unit,

the flow rate control device is disposed between a branch portion where a flow to the DC-DC converter cooling unit and a flow to the charger cooling unit are branched off, and the DC-DC converter cooling unit, and

the flow rate control device is not disposed between the branch portion and the charger cooling unit.

6. The cooling circuit according to claim 5 , wherein

the cooling circuit has:

a bypass flow path which connects an upstream side of the high-voltage battery cooling unit to a portion that is positioned on an upstream side of the DC-DC converter cooling unit and the charger cooling unit and that is positioned on a downstream side of the high-voltage battery cooling unit; and

a flow path selector which is provided on the upstream side of the high-voltage battery cooling unit.

7. The cooling circuit according to claim 6 , wherein

the flow path selector is a solenoid valve.

8. The cooling circuit according to claim 6 , wherein

the flow path selector is a three-way solenoid valve which is provided at a branch portion where the bypass flow path branches off from an upstream-side flow path of the high-voltage battery cooling unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 23, 2017
From: TAKIZAWA, DAIJIRO; ITO, SATOKO
To: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-245940 · Dec 4, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170305293A1 · Oct 26, 2017
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