Electric vehicle control device

• US 4,388,573 A
• Filed: 04/15/1981
• Issued: 06/14/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Ibamoto, Masahiko, Horiuchi, Michimasa, Nemoto, Kiyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Truhe, J. V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Duncanson, Jr., W. E.
• Application Number:
  US06/254,295
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 318/139, 318/258, 318/269, 318/273, 318/341, 318/376
• US Class Current: 318/376
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 7/281 the DC motor being operated in four quadrants

Abstract

An electric vehicle control device is disclosed which includes a main circuit for supplying power from a d.c. power supply to a driving motor through a chopper, a phase shifter for controlling the conduction ratio of the chopper in such a manner that a current flowing through the driving motor is proportional to an instruction value determined by how much an accelerator pedal is trodden, a circuit for instructing a regenerative braking operation, and a changeover switch for changing over the main circuit between a power running state and a regenerative braking state. The changeover switch is changed over in the regenerative braking state when another power running state in the direction opposite to the current running direction is instructed in a predetermined time after the stop of a power running state where the chopper had a conduction ratio greater than a preset value.

Claims

1. An electric vehicle control device comprising:

a main circuit for supplying power from a d.c. power supply to a driving motor through a chopper;

a phase shifter for controlling the conduction ratio of said chopper in such a manner that a current flowing through said driving motor is proportional to an instruction value, said instruction value being determined by how much an accelerator pedal is trodden;

means for instructing a regenerative braking operation;

changeover means for changing over said main circuit between a power running state and a regenerative braking state;

conduction-ratio detecting means for detecting that the conduction ratio of said chopper in said power running state exceeds a preset value, to deliver an output while the conduction ratio exceeds the preset value;

holding means for holding and delivering said output of said conduction-ratio detecting means for a predetermined time; and

means for placing said changeover means on the regenerative braking side in response to the presence of both of the output of said holding means and the output of said means for instructing said regenerative braking operation.

2. An electric vehicle control device according to claim 1, wherein said means for instructing said regenerative braking operation includes a selector for selecting one of a forward power running state and a backward power running state, and means responsive to the reversal of the moving direction of an electric vehicle by said selector for delivering a regenerative braking instruction.

3. An electric vehicle control device according to claim 1, wherein said holding means outputs the contents held therein when a predetermined time has elapsed after the conduction ratio of said chopper in said power running state reached said preset value.

4. An electric vehicle control device according to claim 1, further comprises means for making said preset value in said conduction-ratio detecting means vary with said instruction value determined by how much said accelerator pedal is trodden.