Control circuit, and power generation device having the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9401618-B2
Application number	US-201214365665-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 25, 2012
Priority date	Mar 19, 2012
Publication date	Jul 26, 2016
Grant date	Jul 26, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a control circuit capable of efficiently supplying electric power from an alternating-current generator to a load, and a power generation device having this control circuit. A control circuit 1 for controlling electric power to be supplied from a power generator 5 to a battery 6 is provided with: a rate-of-change obtaining unit 11 configured to obtain a rate of change of a sensor cycle for a sensor signal synchronous with an operation of the power generator 5 ; an estimation unit 12 configured to estimate a next sensor cycle using the rate of change of the sensor cycle obtained by the rate-of-change obtaining unit; and an output-supply control unit 13 configured to perform PWM control of switching elements provided for a drive circuit 30 using the next sensor cycle estimated by the estimation unit 12.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A control circuit for controlling electric power supplied from an alternating-current generator driven by an internal-combustion engine to a load, wherein,
a single cycle of the internal-combustion engine includes a plurality of strokes, and a state of the alternating-current generator shifts as the stroke of the internal-combustion engine shifts, and
the circuit comprises:
a rate-of-change obtaining unit configured to obtain a rate of change of duration of a first state with respect to duration of a second state, when the state of the alternating-current generator shifts from the second state to the first state;

a estimation unit configured to estimate the duration of the first state when the state of the alternating-current generator shifts from the second state to the first state, based on the duration of the second state, and on the rate of change obtained by the rate-of-change obtaining unit in a previous cycle of the internal-combustion engine; and
an output-supply control unit configured to control supply of an output from the alternating-current generator to the load using a result of the estimation by the estimation unit.

2. The control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein
the output-supply control unit controls the supply of the output from the alternating-current generator to the load using the duration estimated by the estimation unit, a voltage supplied to the load in a third state that comes before the second state and a target voltage in the third state, and a voltage supplied to the load in the second state and a target voltage in the second state.

3. A power generation device, comprising:
the control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein
electric power outputted from the alternating-current generator is supplied to the load.

Assignees

• Shindengen Electric Mfg

Inventors

• Inoguchi Yuta
• Sugimoto Takeaki

Classifications

• H02P2101/45

  for motor vehicles, e.g. car alternators · CPC title

• H02J7/007 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02P9/48 Primary

  Arrangements for obtaining a constant output value at varying speed of the generator, e.g. on vehicle (H02P9/04 - H02P9/46 take precedence) · CPC title

• H02J7/1415

  with a generator driven by a prime mover other than the motor of a vehicle · CPC title

• H02P9/00 Primary

  Arrangements for controlling electric generators for the purpose of obtaining a desired output · CPC title