Exciter arrangement for generators

• US 4,015,187 A
• Filed: 10/04/1974
• Issued: 03/29/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kiwaki, Hisakatsu, Sasaki, Akio, Kuwabara, Kiyoteru
• Primary Examiner(s): Hickey, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US05/512,156
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: 322/15-19, 322/25, 322/27, 322/29, 322/31, 322/32, 322/59, 322/14, 320/30, 290/40 A, 290/40 C
• US Class Current: 322/14
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/11 using DC generators and DC motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/12 using AC generators and DC motors
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 9/14 by variation of field H02P9/08, H02P9/10 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors

Abstract

There is provided an exciter arrangement for generators comprising an internal combustion engine, a generator coupled with the internal combustion engine and driven thereby, an exciter for regulating excitation of the exciter, a detector for detecting a value responsive to a revolution number of the internal combustion engine, and a controller for controlling the exciter in response to an output of the detector.

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