Control apparatus for vehicle battery charging generator

Patent · Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:5927423

Komurasaki, K; Wada, H; Nishimura, S

A control apparatus is described for a vehicle generator means having an output voltage connected to a battery having a terminal voltage and an electric load connected across the generator means output voltage and the battery terminal voltage. The control apparatus consists of in combination: voltage regulating means for controlling the output voltage of the generator means to a predetermined regulated value in accordance with a reference voltage value; coupling means providing a signal representing an operating state; reference voltage generating means for producing a substantially uniform reference voltage value supplied to the voltage regulating means in the absence of the signal from the coupling means, and for producing a gradually decreasing reference voltage value in response to the signal from the coupling means for gradually decreasing the output voltage of the generator means upon the occurrence of the operating state from a higher regulated value to a value less than the battery terminal voltage value; and circuit means connecting the output voltage of the generator means across the electric load while the generator means output voltage value remains below the battery terminal voltage value and the battery terminal voltage remains across the electric load to provide power to the load.

• Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo
• Patent Number(s): US 4689545
• OSTI ID: 5927423
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
330300* -- Advanced Propulsion Systems-- Electric-Powered Systems
BATTERY CHARGING
CONDUCTOR DEVICES
CONNECTORS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
ELECTRIC BATTERIES
ELECTRIC CONTACTS
ELECTRIC GENERATORS
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
ELECTRODES
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
EQUIPMENT
SIGNALS
VEHICLES
VOLTAGE REGULATORS