FUEL ENGINE SERVO LOADING DEVICE AND OPTIMAL EFFICIENCY OPERATING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100025130A1
• Filed: 09/21/2007
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Guilin Geely Stars Oil-Electric Hybrid Engine Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Guilin Geely Stars Oil-Electric Hybrid Engine Company
• Inventors: Lv, Hong
• Application Number:
  US12/529,035
• Publication Number:
  US 20100025130A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/65.260
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2006/262 the motor or generator are used as clutch, e.g. between engine and driveshaft
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/26 characterised by the motors or the generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/485 Motor-assist type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/421 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/04 including control of propulsion units
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/06 including control of combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/00 Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/081 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0666 Engine torque
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 29/06 peculiar to engines driving electric generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 51/00 Dynamo-electric gears, i.e. dynamo-electric means for transmitting mechanical power from a driving shaft to a driven shaft and comprising structurally interrelated motor and generator parts
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility

Abstract

A fuel engine servo loading device is disclosed, which comprises a permanent magnet machine having a first rotor and a second rotor, the first rotor of the machine is directly connected with the output shaft of the fuel engine, the second rotor of the machine is directly connected with a driving shaft, power is transmitted between the first rotor and the second rotor via electromagnetic coupling, characterized in that, the fuel engine servo loading device further comprises a servo driver, which controls the electromagnetic torque between the first rotor and the second rotor according to set conditions so as to control the torque load of the fuel engine and the output torque of the driving shaft; wherein, a speed/position sensor is provided on the first rotor shaft, and a position sensor is provided on the second rotor shaft for performing torque servo control; and a conductive slip ring is provided on the rotor shaft at which an armature winding is mounted, wherein the conductive slip ring connects the winding with the servo driver. Thereby the engine always operates in accordance with the optimal efficiency operating curve so as to output maximum mechanical energy at the same fuel consumption.

Claims

1. A fuel engine servo loading device, comprising a permanent magnet machine having a first rotor and a second rotor, the first rotor of the machine being directly connected with an output shaft of the fuel engine, the second rotor of the machine being directly connected with a driving shaft, power being transmitted between the first rotor and the second rotor via electromagnetic coupling, characterized in that:

the fuel engine servo loading device further comprises a servo driver, which controls the electromagnetic torque between the first rotor and the second rotor according to set conditions so as to control the torque load of the fuel engine and the output torque of the driving shaft;

wherein a speed/position sensor is provided on the first rotor shaft, and a position sensor is provided on the second rotor shaft, for performing torque servo control; and

a conductive slip ring which connects an armature winding with the servo driver is provided on the rotor shaft at which the winding is mounted.

2. The fuel engine servo loading device according to claim 1, further comprising a main control unit, in which a rotational speed-torque relation data table or functional relation formula of the engine optimal efficiency operating curve is stored, such that the servo driver controls the engine to operate according to the stored rotational speed-torque relation.

3. An optimal efficiency operating control method of a fuel engine servo loading device, wherein the fuel engine is provided with said fuel engine servo loading device according to claim 1 which matches with the maximum torque and the maximum rotational speed of the fuel engine, characterized in that, said method comprises the following steps:

a) real-time monitoring the rotational speed of the first rotor of the machine by a speed/position sensor when the engine is operating;

b) the main control unit deriving, based on a speed signal, the optimal torque matching with the speed according to the rotational speed-torque matching data or the rotational speed-torque matching relation formula of the optimal efficiency operating curve pre-stored in computer, and transmitting the derived torque to the torque servo driver as a torque setting value;

c) based on the relative position signal between the first rotor and the second rotor derived from the absolute position signals of the first rotor and the second rotor, the servo driver deriving the direction of the current vector outputting to the winding of the first rotor or the second rotor according to the principle that current has the same phase with counter-electromotive force;

d) the servo driver deriving the magnitude of the current vector outputting to the winding of the first rotor or the second rotor based on the torque setting value transmitted by the main control unit;

e) the servo driver determining the magnitude of the instantaneous current value of respective phase windings based on the derived direction and magnitude of the current vector, and enabling the machine to realize torque servo control by respective phase current close-loop control, realizing the optimal toque value load matching the current engine rotational speed, such that the engine operates in accordance with the optimal efficiency operating curve and at the same time the second rotor shaft outputting the torque to the load; and

f) the main control unit and the servo driver repeating the steps of

     1) to

     5), thus circularly and dynamically obtaining current engine rotational speed, and deriving new torque setting value based on new current rotational speed and the pre-stored optimal efficiency curve data, and the torque servo driver applying corresponding new torque value to the engine shaft and operating by following the torque required by the engine optimal efficiency operating curve according to the rotational speed.

11. An optimal efficiency operating control method of a fuel engine servo loading device, wherein the fuel engine is provided with said fuel engine servo loading device according to claim 2 which matches with the maximum torque and the maximum rotational speed of the fuel engine, characterized in that, said method comprises the following steps:

a) real-time monitoring the rotational speed of the first rotor of the machine by a speed/position sensor when the engine is operating;

b) the main control unit deriving, based on a speed signal, the optimal torque matching with the speed according to the rotational speed-torque matching data or the rotational speed-torque matching relation formula of the optimal efficiency operating curve pre-stored in computer, and transmitting the derived torque to the torque servo driver as a torque setting value;

c) based on the relative position signal between the first rotor and the second rotor derived from the absolute position signals of the first rotor and the second rotor, the servo driver deriving the direction of the current vector outputting to the winding of the first rotor or the second rotor according to the principle that current has the same phase with counter-electromotive force;

d) the servo driver deriving the magnitude of the current vector outputting to the winding of the first rotor or the second rotor based on the torque setting value transmitted by the main control unit;

e) the servo driver determining the magnitude of the instantaneous current value of respective phase windings based on the derived direction and magnitude of the current vector, and enabling the machine to realize torque servo control by respective phase current close-loop control, realizing the optimal toque value load matching the current engine rotational speed, such that the engine operates in accordance with the optimal efficiency operating curve and at the same time the second rotor shaft outputting the torque to the load; and

f) the main control unit and the servo driver repeating the steps of

     1) to

     5), thus circularly and dynamically obtaining current engine rotational speed, and deriving new torque setting value based on new current rotational speed and the pre-stored optimal efficiency curve data, and the torque servo driver applying corresponding new torque value to the engine shaft and operating by following the torque required by the engine optimal efficiency operating curve according to the rotational speed.

4. A power outputting device, comprising a fuel engine and a permanent magnet machine having a first rotor and a second rotor, the first rotor of the machine being directly connected with the output shaft of the fuel engine, the second rotor of the machine being directly connected with a driving shaft, power being transmitted between the first rotor and the second rotor via electromagnetic coupling, characterized in that:

the machine, driven by the servo driver, applies a torque load matching with the optimal efficiency operating curve at current rotational speed to the engine via the first rotor.

5. The power outputting device according to claim 4, wherein the magnitude of the machine output torque controlled by the servo driver is determined by a main control unit based on current engine rotational speed and the engine optimal efficiency operating curve stored therein.

6. The power outputting device according to claim 5, wherein the main control unit looks up the magnitude of the machine output torque from the rotational speed-torque relation of fuel engine optimal efficiency operating curve stored therein or computes it from the function relation formula thereof based on current operating parameters of the fuel engine.

7. The power outputting device according to claim 4, wherein when the machine applies matching load torque through the first rotor to the engine, the output shaft of the second rotor thereof outputs an equal torque to external load, the direction of which torque is the same as the rotational direction of the engine.

8. The power outputting device according to claim 4, wherein when the rotational speed of the engine is above the rotational speed of the output shaft of the second rotor, one portion of mechanical energy from the engine is transmitted directly by the electromagnetic transmission between the first rotor and the second rotor, and the other portion thereof is transformed into electric energy to be transmitted out by the machine servo system.

9. The power outputting device according to claim 4, wherein when the rotational speed of the engine is equal to the rotational speed of the output shaft of the second rotor, all mechanical energy from the engine is transmitted directly by the electromagnetic transmission between the first rotor and the second rotor.

10. The power outputting device according to claim 4, wherein when the rotational speed of the engine is below the rotational speed of the output shaft of the second rotor, all mechanical energy from the engine is transmitted directly by the electromagnetic transmission between the first rotor and the second rotor, and the servo driver further transforms additional electric energy into mechanical energy by controlling the machine and superposes the transformed mechanical energy to the output shaft so as to output it.