Hybrid type working machine

• US 7,292,009 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2004
• Issued: 11/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Kawakami, Toshiaki, Wakitani, Tsutomu, Inui, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): Gonzalez; Julio
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cuevas; Pedro J.
• Application Number:
  US10/935,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20050057226A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,154 Days
• Field of Search: 322/29, 290/6
• US Class Current: 322/29
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/40 Working vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/14 Synchronous machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/12 using AC generators and DC motors
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 7/295 of the kind having a thyristor or the like in series with the power supply and the motor
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 9/48 Arrangements for obtaining a constant output value at varying speed of the generator, e.g. on vehicle H02P9/04 - H02P9/46 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

Simplifying the controller of hybrid type drive unit. The output of a generator driven by engine is connected directly to a motor 7 through a converter or switching circuit 10 without being charged on any battery. The output of each phase of the generator is inputted to the converter 10. A timing controller 126 controls the conduction phase of a thyristor bridge 101 in the converter 10 so as to adjust the quantity of output power. A synchronous standard for phase control is formed based on output wave of an auxiliary winding 26 of the generator. A voltage detector 124 detects an applied voltage on the motor 7 as a motor rotation speed and the conduction angle is increased or decreased so as to maintain a detected voltage at a target value.

Claims

1. A hybrid type drive apparatus, comprising:

a magnet rotor type AC generator driven by an engine;

a motor driven by power supplied from the AC generator;

an output control unit for controlling the quantity of power supplied to said motor from said AC generator;

a switching circuit for switching each phase output of the generator;

wherein the output control unit includes;

a synchronous reference computing means for computing a synchronous standard, synchronous with each phase output of the generator based on the variation of the output frequency of the generator;

a speed detecting means for detecting the rotation speed of the motor; and

a speed target value computing means for determining a speed target value of the motor based on a difference between a predetermined target value and a rotation speed detected by the speed detecting means;

a conduction angle computing means for determining a conduction angle of switching elements formed of the switching circuit for controlling the rotation speed detected by the speed detecting means to the speed target value determined by the speed target value computing means; and

a means for switching an output of each phase of the generator by driving the switching elements of the switching circuit by the conduction angle according to the synchronous standard.

2. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the speed detecting means is a detecting means for an applied voltage representing the rotation speed of the motor and the output control unit decreases the conduction angle when the applied voltage is higher than a voltage instruction value corresponding to the speed target value and increases the conduction angle when lower than the voltage instruction value.

3. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 2 further comprising a load detecting means for detecting the load condition of the motor and a means for compensating the conduction angle corresponding to a detected load condition.

4. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the generator has a main winding for supplying power to the motor and an auxiliary winding provided separately from the main winding as output lines thereof and the synchronous reference computing means computes the synchronous standard based on an output from the auxiliary winding.

5. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 4 wherein the synchronous standard is used as a control standard for phase control to an output waveform of the main winding outputted from the switching in a cycle next after the computation of the synchronous standard.

6. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 1 which is applied to a working machine driven by the engine and the motor which uses the engine as a drive source.

7. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the generator has a main winding and an auxiliary winding placed separately from the main winding and the synchronous standard computing means is so constructed to determine a synchronous standard for each cycle of the output cycle of the auxiliary winding, and the switching control of the switching circuit is executed based on a conduction angle determined corresponding to the difference so as to eliminate a difference between the output voltage of the output control means and a predetermined target voltage.

8. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said synchronous standard is used for the standard of the switching control of the switching circuit of a corresponding AC output wave outputted from the switching circuit in a cycle just after the synchronous standard is determined.

9. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 7 further comprising a current detecting means for detecting an output load current of the switching circuit and a load control means for compensating the conduction angle corresponding to the magnitude of the load current.

10. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 7 further comprising a drive power source generating means for generating a control power for driving the switching circuit with an output of the auxiliary winding.

11. The hybrid type drive apparatus according to claim 7 constructed as a battery free hybrid type power source so that output of the generator which is switching controlled by the switching circuit is supplied directly to the motor.