Ground fault protection for charging system and electrically powered vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKoichi Kojima
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Abstract
An ECU performs a program including: during charging, when abnormality information has been received, bringing each of an SMR and a CHR into an OFF state; when a charging connector is disconnected and when a vehicle is in a Ready-On state, starting a ground fault detection process; when it is determined that a ground fault has occurred on the vehicle side, performing a display process (1); and in the state where it is not determined that a ground fault has occurred on the vehicle side, when a prescribed detection time period has elapsed, performing a display process (2).
Claims6
A charging system comprising:
- an electrically powered vehicle provided with a power storage device configured to supply electric power to a driving motor;
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- a charging facility provided external to the electrically powered vehicle and configured to charge the power storage device,
- the charging facility including
- a power supply,
- a charging connector that is connectable to the electrically powered vehicle,
- a charger configured to charge the power storage device using electric power of the power supply when the charging connector is connected to the electrically powered vehicle, and
- a first detector for detecting, during charging of the power storage device, a ground fault in a charging path extending from the power supply to the power storage device,
- the charging facility being configured to, when the ground fault is detected by the first detector during charging, stop charging of the power storage device and transmit abnormality information indicating occurrence of the ground fault to the electrically powered vehicle,
- the charging path including
- (i) a first path for connecting the power supply and the charging connector, and
- (ii) a second path for connecting the first path and the power storage device when the charging connector is connected to the electrically powered vehicle, and
- the electrically powered vehicle including
- a second detector for detecting a ground fault in the second path, and
- a second controller configured to, when the abnormality information is received from the charging facility, perform ground fault detection using the second detector after the charging connector is disconnected.
An electrically powered vehicle comprising:
- a driving motor for driving the electrically powered vehicle;
- a power storage device configured to supply electric power to the driving motor;
- a detector for detecting a ground fault in the electrically powered vehicle;
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- a controller configured to perform ground fault detection using the detector, when abnormality information indicating a ground fault is received from a charging facility during charging of the power storage device using the charging facility, the ground fault detection being performed after the electrically powered vehicle and the charging facility are disconnected from each other, the charging facility being provided external to the electrically powered vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.