Automatic voltage regulating system in brushless generator

• US 4,035,713 A
• Filed: 03/16/1976
• Issued: 07/12/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company), Sawafuji Electric Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company), Sawafuji Electric Company Limited
• Inventors: Tagami, Katsutoshi, Kawamoto, Takato, Katauchi, Tsutomu, Narumi, Eizi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hickey, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US05/667,393
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 322/17, 322/87, 322/46, 322/25, 322/59, 322/19, 322/28, 322/86, 310/181
• US Class Current: 322/28
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 9/36 using armature-reaction-excited machines

Abstract

An automatic voltage regulating system in a brushless generator comprising a permanent magnet provided on the stator side of a main generator and constituting a field system of an exciter generator portion, an exciter generating coil provided on the rotor side of the main generator, rectifier for rectifying a voltage induced in the exciter generating coil, a field coil of the main generator excited by the output of the rectifier and provided on the rotor side, and an armature coil of the main generator provided on the stator side, and characterized in that the permanent magnet and a control coil are provided on the exciter field system, and an automatic voltage regulating portion which detects the output voltage of the main generator and supplies the control coil with a controlling current is provided so that fluctuations of the output voltage of the main generator can be absorbed by the control coil.

Claims

1. An automatic voltage regulating system in a brushless generator comprising a permanent magnet provided on the stator side and constituting a field of an exciter generator portion, an exciter generating coil provided on the rotor side, a rectifier for rectifying a voltage induced in the exciter generating coil, a field coil of the main generator provided on the rotor side and excited by the rectifier output, and an armature coil of the main generator provided on the stator side, wherein a permanent magnet and a control coil are provided in the exciter field, and an automatic voltage regulator portion is is provided for detecting the output voltage of the main generator and supplying a controlling current to the control coil so that fluctuations of the output voltage of the main generator is absorbed through the control of the control coil, wherein an auxillary coil whose electrical angle is 90°

apart from that of the armature coil of the main generator is provided to supply a voltage induced in the auxillary coil to the automatic voltage regulator portion as a power source.

2. An automatic voltage regulating system in a brushless generator as set forth in claim 1 wherein the automatic voltage regulator portion has a drive transistor controlling switching based on the output voltage of the main generator, and a control transistor whose switching is controlled by the switching operation of the drive transistor and which controls the supply of the controlling current to the control coil.

3. An automatic voltage regulating system in a brushless generator as set forth in claim 2, wherein the control coil is so constructed that the field of the exciter generator portion is given by the sum of the field produced by the permanent magnet and the auxiliary field produced by the control coil.

4. An automatic voltage regulating system in a brushless generator as set forth in claim 2 wherein the control coil is so constructed that the field of the exciter generator portion is given by the difference between the field produced by the permanent magnet and the auxiliary field produced by the control coil.

5. An automatic voltage regulating system in a brushless generator as set forth in claim 1 wherein the automatic voltage regulator portion has a drive transistor whose operation is controlled within the linear region of its operating characteristic by the output voltage of the main generator, and a control transistor whose operation is controlled within the linear region of its operating characteristic by the drive transistor and which continuously increases or decreases the controlling current to the control coil.

6. An automatic voltage regulating system in a brushless generator as set forth in claim 5 wherein the control coil is so constructed that the field of the exciter generator portion is given by the sum of the field produced by the permanent magnet and the auxiliary field produced by the control coil.

7. An automatic voltage regulating system in a brushless generator as set forth in claim 5 wherein the control coil is so constructed that the field of the exciter generator portion is given by the difference between the field produced by the permanent magnet and the auxiliary field produced by the control coil.

8. An automatic voltage regulating system in a brushless generator as set forth in claim 1 wherein the permanent magnet is made of a magnetic material that has large coercive force.