Sumitomo Electric Industries, Limited

Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Limited

Autonetworks Technologies, Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryou Okada

Takeshi Hagihara

Yousuke Takata

Nobuyuki Nakagawa

Kazuhiko Nii

Yutaka Komatsu

Yukihiro Miyashita

Yuta Ochiai

Hiroya Andoh

Tatsuya Izumi

Ryuichi Kamaga

Atsushi Iwai

A power supply system and a connector, which can suppress occurrence of crosstalk between a power supply wire, and a control wire and an earth wire in a charging cable that includes the power supply wire, the control wire and the earth wire at the time of connecting a power supplying device with a vehicle having a power storage device to be supplied with power from the power supplying device via the power supply wire and the earth wire to be used for supplying power and the control wire for transmitting a control signal to be used for power supply control of the power storage device, are provided. The ratio of the winding number of a primary coil connected with at least one of the control wire and the earth wire to the winding number of a secondary coil connected with a communication unit that sends and receives a communication signal is set at 1/N (N&#x3e;1) in a system which satisfies VnC&#x3e;VnL or is set at N (N&#x3e;1) in a system which satisfies VnC&#x3c;VnL.

Power supply system and connector

The power receiving connector to be placed as a vehicle-mounted feeding port is formed by integrating connection terminals, internal wirings, wiring branch parts, a ground wire side branch line, a control wire side branch line, capacitors, a superposition separation element, and a low-pass filter with a housing as a replaceable unit.

Power receiving connector and communication system

An output circuit sends a control pilot signal generated in a voltage generator to an input circuit. A communication unit is connected between an earthed wire and a control pilot wire on the output side of the output circuit via a bandpass filter. A communication unit is connected between the earthed wire and the control pilot wire on the input side of the input circuit via a bandpass filter. A low-pass filter is interposed between the output circuit and the communication unit. A low-pass filter is interposed between the input circuit and the communication unit.

Communication system and communication device

An output circuit sends out, to an input circuit, a control pilot signal generated by a voltage source. A voltage transformer is provided to a control pilot line on the output side of the output circuit, and a communication unit transmits and receives communication signals via the voltage transformer. A voltage transformer is provided to the control pilot line on the input side of the input circuit, and a communication unit transmits and receives the communication signals via the voltage transformer. A low-pass filter is provided to the control pilot line between the input circuit and the voltage transformer.

Provided a power receiving connector and a charging system that, during a communication such as inband communication wherein a communication signal is superposed in a control wire incorporated in a charging cable connecting a vehicle and a feed device, can reduce the mutual effect resulting from electromagnetic waves caused by the communication signal transmitted within the vehicle and a device in the vehicle. A power receiving connector to be placed as a vehicle-mounted feeding port is formed by integrating connection terminals internal wirings, a superposition separation element, and a capacitor with a housing as a replaceable unit.

Power receiving connector, charging system and communication system

When a vehicle including a battery is charged from a power supply device, communication such as power line communication is performed in which a communication signal is superposed on wires contained in a charging cable. A communication device performs communication via a pair of communication lines connected to wires such as a pair of power supply lines used for power supply. A pair of induction elements whose one ends are connected to the pair of communication lines are provided, and the other ends of the pair of induction elements are connected to a ground potential via a capacitance element.

Communication device and communication system

A communication system, a communication device, a power supply device, and a vehicle are provided, which can suppress occurrence of communication abnormality while suppressing noise applied to a power supply line to be lower than a predetermined upper limit value of a standard, in communication such as inband communication in which a vehicle and a power supply device are connected to each other via a charging cable containing the power supply line and a control line, and a communication signal is transmitted and received using the control line as a medium. A power supply devicereads setting relating to an output for each frequency which is previously stored in a memory, and performs a mapping process of adjusting, based on the read setting, an output waveform relating to transmission of the communication signal to an amplitude previously set for each frequency. Then, the power supply deviceexecutes inverse fast Fourier transform on the mapped communication signal to convert the communication signal represented as digital data on a frequency domain into digital data on a time domain, and converts the digital signal into analog signal to be transmitted.

Communication system, communication device, power supply device, and vehicle

Provided are a communication system and a communication device capable of suppressing attenuation of a communication signal superimposed upon a control pilot line. This output circuit () sends a control pilot signal which has been generated at a voltage generation source () to an input circuit (). Between the control pilot line () and the ground line () of the output side of the output circuit (), a communication unit () is connected via a transformer (). Between the control pilot line () and the ground line () of the input side of the input circuit (), a communication unit () is connected via a transformer (). Between the output circuit () and the transformer (), a lowpass filter () is interposed. Between the input circuit () and the transformer (), a lowpass filter () is interposed.

Provided are a communication device and a communication system which are used for communication such as power line communication or inband communication in which a communication signal is superposed on lines contained in a charging cable, when a vehicle including a power storage device is charged from a power supply device, and which suppress a noise component such as harmonic distortion caused by occurrence of ringing without greatly affecting the communication signal, when transmitting the communication signal by switching from an idle state to an operating state. A transmission circuit included in a communication device of a vehicle includes line drivers, and the line drivers transmit a communication signal via two signal lines. In the two signal lines connected to the transmission circuit, inductance elements, resistance elements, and capacitance elements are interposed in series, respectively.

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Osaka, Japan

Ryou Okada