QC/T 1204.4-2024Compatibility of on-board battery swap system for battery electric passenger vehicles - Part 4: Battery swap pack (English PDF)
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Issued by
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China
Level / Type
National · Recommended
Issue date
May 9, 2025
Implementation date
November 1, 2002
Scope
QC/T 1204.4-2024 (Compatibility of on-board battery swap system for battery electric passenger vehicles - Part 4: Battery swap pack) is available as an English-translated PDF.
QC/T 1204.4-2024 is the Chinese standard "Compatibility of on-board battery swap system for battery electric passenger vehicles - Part 4: Battery swap pack". Its scope clause reads: This document specifies the type, technical requirements, and test methods for refuelling communication protocol of fuel cell electric vehicles.
This document applies to fuel cell electric vehicles that use compressed gaseous hydrogen. Its clauses include terms and definitions; abbreviations and symbols; physical layer; data link layer; presentation layer.
It was issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China on 2025-05-09 and took effect on 2002-11-01.
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National Standard of the People's Republic of China
- ICS
- 43.120
Issued by: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China
Contents
- Foreword...3
- 1 Scope...4
- 2 Normative references...4
- 3 Terms and definitions...4
- 4 Abbreviations and symbols...5
- 5 Physical layer...6
- 6 Data link layer...7
- 7 Presentation layer...8
- 8 Definition and requirements of communication data...9
- 9 Communication process...12
- 10 Performance requirements...13
- 11 Test methods...14
1 Scope
This document specifies the type, technical requirements, and test methods for refuelling communication protocol of fuel cell electric vehicles.
This document applies to fuel cell electric vehicles that use compressed gaseous hydrogen.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
GB/T 24548, Fuel cell electric vehicles - Terminology
GB/T 26779, Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle refuelling receptacle
GB/T 34425, Fuel cell electric vehicles hydrogen refuelling nozzle
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions defined in GB/T 24548,
GB/T 26779, GB/T 34425 as well as the followings apply.
3.1 refuelling communication protocol
During the hydrogen refuelling process, the communication specifications followed by the signal transmission between the fuel cell electric vehicle and the hydrogen refuelling machine via infrared devices.
NOTE. See Figure A.1 in Annex A for a schematic diagram of hydrogen refuelling communication.
3.2 infrared transmitter
A device used to convert serial data signals into infrared light signals for transmission.
3.3 infrared receiver
A device used to convert infrared light signals into serial data signals for reception.
3.4 bit error ratio
The ratio of the number of error bits in the data stream of a channel due to noise, interference, loss, or bit synchronization errors to the total number of bits transmitted over a period of time.
4 Abbreviations and symbols
4.1 Abbreviations
The following abbreviations apply to this document.
Application Data. data packet
BOF. frame start character
CE. escape control character
EOF. end of frame character
FC. filling command
FCS. frame check sequence
ID. protocol identifier
MP. measured pressure
MT. measured temperature
OD. optional data
RT. hydrogen filling port type
TV. total nominal volume of hydrogen cylinder
VN. data communication software version number
XBOF. additional frame start character
4.2 Symbols
dn. Reference distance from the end face of the infrared receiver to the Z-plane.
dv. Reference distance from the end face of the infrared transmitter to the Z-plane.
rn. Distance between the center of the infrared receiver and the axis of the hydrogen refuelling nozzle.
rv. Distance between the center of the infrared transmitter and the axis of the hydrogen refuelling port.
alpha. Effective half-angle of the infrared transmitter.
beta. Effective half-angle of the infrared receiver.
gamma. Adjacent angles of the infrared receivers inside the infrared receiver.
5 Physical layer
5.1 Modulation method
A reverse return-to-zero modulation scheme is used. An optical pulse represents "0".
No optical pulse represents "1". The maximum pulse duration is 3/16 of the bit time, plus a tolerance of 0.6 µs.
The working waveform is shown in Figure 1.
5.2 Byte frame
Each byte frame shall have one asynchronous start bit, eight data bits, and one stop bit.
Data bits are transmitted serially, starting with the least significant bit and ending with the most significant bit. The baud rate is 38400 b/s.
The byte frame format is shown in Figure 2.
6 Data link layer
6.1 Control characters
Control characters include XBOF, BOF, EOF, and CE.
6.2 Frame verification sequence
Data transmission is verified using a CRC-16 checksum. The frame check sequence field stores the CRC check value. The frame check sequence shall be transmitted with the least significant byte first, followed by the most significant byte.
6.3 Data link frame
Data packets are transmitted within data link frames. Each data link frame transmission shall contain 5 XBOF characters. A single BOF character shall be transmitted at the beginning of the data frame. Data packets shall begin transmission immediately after the BOF character. The frame check sequence field is sent immediately after the data packet, and the transmission ends with the EOF character.
The data link frame format is shown in Figure 3.
6.4 Escape characters
Before transmitting data link frames, the sending end shall escape any characters in the data bytes and frame check sequence field that are identical to control characters such as XBOF, BOF, EOF, and CE into non-control characters. If the receiving end receives the escaped control character CE (defined as 0x7D) in the data packet, it shall reverse the escape sequence.
The sending and receiving of control characters shall be escaped and unescaped in accordance with Annex C.
7 Presentation layer
7.1 Data types
All transmitted data shall be in ASCII format.
7.2 Separators
Use the "|" delimiter to separate data segments. All valid data shall be contained between the two delimiters.
See Table 1 for a data example.
7.3 Tags
The two characters following the separator shall be a defined data label. All labels shall be case-sensitive. The third character following the separator shall be "=".
7.4 Character data
All defined character data shall exactly match the defined values and be case-sensitive.
7.5 Digital data
All defined numerical data shall be sent in a fixed format. Empty spaces shall be filled with "0". Data containing extra spaces or characters, or exceeding the defined range, shall be considered invalid.
7.6 Data interval
During the refuelling process, the required data shall be updated in the correct data
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Related Standards
GB/T 24548-2009 — Fuel cell electric vehicles - Terminology
GB/T 26779-2021 — Fuel cell electric vehicles - Refuelling receptacle
GB/T 34425-2023 — Fuel cell electric vehicles hydrogen refueling nozzle
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