摘要:
An apparatus for controlling an on-vehicle generator is provided. The apparatus comprises a switching element, current detecting unit, setting unit and driving unit. The switching unit turns on/off an exciting current to an exciting winding of the generator, the switching element being driven responsively to a driving signal having an adjustable duty ratio. The setting unit sets the duty ratio based on (i) a difference between an output voltage of the generator and a target voltage value and (ii) a condition in which an electric load is disconnected from the generator, wherein the duty ratio is allowed to lower than a minimum value of the duty ratio depending on a generated state of the generator. The minimum value allows the exciting current to flow at a lower limit detectable by the current detecting unit, The driving unit drives the switching element based on the driving signal.
摘要:
A voltage regulator for an automotive alternator includes a switching transistor that controls an amount of field current supplied to a field coil of the alternator. The switching transistor is controlled in an ON-OFF fashion, and output voltage of the alternator is always monitored by a detector circuit that detects disconnection in a circuit for charging an on-board battery with the output voltage. It is determined that the disconnection occurred when a difference between the output voltage at a time when the switching transistor is turned off and the output voltage at a time when the switching transistor is turned on exceeds a predetermined value.
摘要:
A vehicle generating system includes a generator for a vehicle, a voltage regulator that supplies field current to the field coil at a variable duty ratio, a field current sensor that detects field current amount, a signal transmitting circuit that transmits a signal representing the detected field current amount and the duty ratio and an electronically controlling unit that receives the signal representing the detected field current amount and the duty ratio and controls the engine according to one of the detected field current amount and the duty ratio.
摘要:
A voltage regulator controls an output of an automotive alternator by controlling an amount of excitation current supplied to a field winding of the alternator. The amount of the excitation current is sensed by a sensing resistor as a sensed voltage appearing across the sensing resistor. The sensed voltage is amplified by an amplifier to obtain a detected voltage, an amplifying factor of which is adjusted based on an reference voltage precisely corresponding to the amount of the excitation current, and thereby the detected voltage is equalized to the reference voltage. In this manner, the excitation current is precisely detected without mechanically adjusting a resistance of the sensing resistor by function-trimming or the like.
摘要:
A charging control apparatus for a vehicle, which controls a power generation of an AC generator for charging a battery, comprises: a switching circuit connected in series to a field winding of the generator; a comparator for detecting a voltage of a battery and comparing the battery voltage with a sawtooth wave of a predetermined period; a memory device for storing a value regarding a duty factor of an output of the comparator at the same period as the predetermined period of the sawtooth; a control value increasing/decreasing circuit for increasing or decreasing a control value as an output, thereby making the stored value coincide with the control value; and an AND circuit to calculate AND of the control value and an output of the comparator. By controlling the switching circuit by an output of the AND circuit, when an electric load is applied the duty factor of a pulsed field current which is supplied to the field winding is gradually increased from the present value of the duty factor, thereby preventing a sudden increase of a load onto the engine.
摘要:
A power generation controlling device for vehicle includes a communication controlling circuit, a power generation voltage and excitation current controlling circuit, and a communication frame processing circuit. The communication controlling circuit communicates with an ECU using a communication frame. The power generation voltage and excitation current controlling circuit controls power generation based on power generation control information in the received communication frame. The communication frame processing circuit decodes contents of power generation control information (i.e., signal switching data) included in the communication frame based on a signal switching bit in the same communication frame. Two types of contents or more that are switched based on the signal switching bit are assigned to the power generation control information in the communication frame. The power generation voltage and excitation current controlling circuit controls power generation based on the power generation control information of which the contents are specified by the switching information.
摘要:
A device for controlling vehicle power generation that controls duty cycle of an excitation winding in a vehicle power generator and controls an output voltage from the vehicle power generator to a predetermined value includes a power generation controlling circuit that, when the output voltage from the vehicle power generator is less than the predetermined value, gradually increases the value of a gradual excitation duty and gradually increases the excitation current, the gradual excitation duty being a limit value for increasing and decreasing an excitation drive duty intermittently controlling the electrification of the excitation winding, and in an opposite situation, gradually decreases a value of the excitation drive duty and gradually decreases the excitation current. The power generation controlling circuit changes the rate at which the value of the gradual excitation duty is decreased.
摘要:
The vehicle-generator control device for controlling an output voltage of a vehicle generator by on/off-controlling an excitation current flowing into an excitation winding of the vehicle generator, includes an excitation current detecting circuit detecting an excitation current flowing into the excitation winding, and a computation circuit having a first function of correcting the excitation current detected by the excitation current detecting circuit on the basis of a current flowing into an electrical load applied with the output voltage of the vehicle generator, and a second function of calculating an output current of the vehicle generator on the basis of the excitation current.
摘要:
A control apparatus controls power generation of an electric generator and communicates with an external control apparatus. The control apparatus includes: a control circuit that controls the power generation of the electric generator according to a command signal transmitted from the external control apparatus; means for reseting the control circuit; and means for informing the external control apparatus of a power generation condition of the electric generator by transmitting a condition signal, the condition signal indicating both the power generation condition of the electric generator and information on whether a reset of the control circuit is made by the reseting means. With such a configuration, when the control circuit is reset due to, for example, noises, the control apparatus can reliably inform the external control apparatus of the reset of the control circuit.
摘要:
The vehicle-use power generation control apparatus regulates an output voltage of a vehicle generator driven by a vehicle engine at a set value by on/off controlling an excitation current flowing through an excitation winding of the vehicle generator The vehicle-use power generation control apparatus includes a rotation detecting circuit detecting a rotational speed of the vehicle generator, and an excitation current control circuit reducing, when the rotation detecting circuit detects decrease of the rotational speed, the excitation current at a rate depending on a rate of the decrease of the rotational speed detected by the rotation detecting circuit.