Method for controlling power generation

• US 5,170,111 A
• Filed: 04/02/1991
• Issued: 12/08/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tamagawa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Tamagawa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Sugiura, Tsuneo
• Primary Examiner(s): Stephan, Steven L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): KINCAID, KRISTINE LYNN
• Application Number:
  US07/679,300
• Time in Patent Office: 616 Days
• Field of Search: 322/22, 322/29, 322/86, 322/87, 322/88, 320/64, 320/68
• US Class Current: 322/29
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 19/34 Generators with two or more outputs
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 21/48 Generators with two or more outputs
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 9/30 using semiconductor devices

Abstract

The present invention is concerned with a method for power generation which may be used in conjunction with a generator in which a permanent magnet rotor and a Randell rotor provided in a casing are rotated simultaneously and generate power in an armature coil. The method includes a first step of controlling a magnetic flux φ2 of a control field coil for the Randell rotor with a field controller during low speed rotation in an additive direction to add the magnetic flux φ2 to a magnetic flux φ1 produced by the permanent magnet rotor, and a second step of controlling the magnetic flux during high speed rotation in a subtractive direction to subtract the magnetic flux φ2 from the magnetic flux φ1, so that a stable output level is produced.

Claims

1. A method for controlling power generation with a generator in which a permanent magnet rotor (1) and a Randell rotor (1A) provided in a casing (20) are rotated simultaneously and generate power in an armature coil (5), said method comprising a first step of controlling a magnetic flux φ

2 of a control field coil (16a) for said Randell rotor (1A) with a field controller (48) during low speed rotation in an additive direction to add said magnetic flux φ

2 to a magnetic flux φ

1 produced by said permanent magnet rotor (1), and a second step of controlling said magnetic flux φ

2 during high speed rotation in a subtractive direction to subtract said magnetic flux φ

2 from said magnetic flux φ

1, such that a stable output level is produced.

2. The method for controlling power generation according to claim 1, wherein said generator includes a series field coil (16b) which is directly connected to a DC output (44) that is related to said generated power and disposed for cooperation with said control field coil (16a) in developing a magnetic field, the further step of supplying, when said generator is coupled to a load, a current to said series field coil (16b) during load fluctuations without going through said field controller (48) where the magnitude of said current is a function of the magnitude of the load.