Device for voltage supply with suppression of load response function during reduction of rpm

• US 6,218,814 B1
• Filed: 03/18/1999
• Issued: 04/17/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Mittag, Rainer, Suelzle, Helmut, Nasswetter, Guenter, Kohl, Walter
• Primary Examiner(s): Ponomarenko, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US09/269,053
• Time in Patent Office: 761 Days
• Field of Search: 322/17, 322/19, 322/25, 322/27, 322/28, 322/29
• US Class Current: 322/28
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/1446 in response to parameters of a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/163 with special means for initiating or limiting the excitation current
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 9/107 for limiting effects of overloads
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 9/305 controlling voltage H02P9/302 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/92 Energy efficient charging or discharging systems for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors specially adapted for vehicles

Abstract

A device for voltage regulation for a generator driven by an internal combustion engine is described in which the voltage regulator is equipped with a load response travel function (LRF), which prevents a rapid rise in the exciting current when a powerful electric consumer is turned on. By means of a suitable trigger circuit which evaluates the engine rpm and thus the generator rpm, the load response travel function is blocked during travel when rpm values are falling, so that in this case, the voltage incursions that occur during an active load-response function are maximally averted.

Claims

1. A device for regulating voltage in a generator driven by an internal combustion engine and having an exciter winding, the device comprising a voltage regulator which has a control part and a power part and regulates a current flowing through the exciter winding to keep an output voltage of the generator constant, means for additionally limiting an exciting current during occurrence of predeterminable rpm-dependent conditions, said means for additionally limiting the exciting current being operative for triggering said power part of said voltage regulator with a load response travel function formed by said control part of said voltage regulator, and said load response travel function is blocked when an evaluation of an rpm signal makes a conclusion about a dropping rmp.

2. A device as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising a circuit arrangement which blocks the load response travel function and is arranged so that a phase voltage of the generator is delivered; and

a differential amplifier, a series circuit of resistors, and parallel-connected capacitors arranged so that said phase voltage is converted into a square-wave voltage with uniform pulses which are delivered to said differential amplifier via said series circuit of resistors and said parallel-connected capacitors.

3. A device as defined in claim 2, wherein said differential amplifier has an inverting input and a non inverting input, said non inverting input of said differential amplifier being connected to a connection between two of said resistors and one of said capacitors, while said inverting input of said differential amplifier is connected to a connection between a remaining one of said resistors and another of said capacitors.

4. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said voltage regulator includes means for additionally limiting the exciting current;

and means for blocking an additional limitation of the exciting current.

5. A device as defined in claim 1, wherein said voltage regulator includes a power part with a power transistor and a control part for generating trigger signals for said power part.

6. A device as defined in claim 1;

and further comprising means for supplying to said voltage regulator further signals selected from the group consisting of rpm of an engine crankshaft signals, generator output voltage signals, and a temperature of a battery signals, so that said signals which represent corresponding variables can be taken into account in a regulator of the exciting current.