Hitachi, Ltd.

East Japan Railway Company

Hitachi Mito Engineering Co., Ltd.

Eiichi Toyota

Masato Suzuki

Hideki Miyazaki

Akihiko Emori

Yutaka Sato

Osamu Suzuki

Kiyoshi Nakamura

Seiji Ishida

Kiyoshi Nakata

Takuya Kinoshita

Hiroshi Arita

Motomi Shimada

Tokunosuke Tanamachi

Yoshio Tsutsui

Mutsuhiro Terunuma

Tsutomu Miyauchi

Akira Horie

Takayuki Matsui

Syuuji Saitoo

Takeshi Ando

Kouji Yasuda

Syuuji Saitou

Makoto Nohmi

Masahiro Nagasu

Tetsuo Kojima

Korefumi Tashiro

Heikichi Kuwahara

Takashi Kaneko

Takashi Tsuboi

Masahiro Ueno

Kazumasa Fujioka

Yosuke Yasuda

Nobuyuki Fujikura

Yasuhiko Kohno

Tadashi Takaoka

Masaomi Konishide

Satoru Okabe

Toshihiko Sekizawa

Ken Itoh

Yasuhiko Kono

Mikiya Nohara

Daijiro Araki

Ryoichi Oishi

Toshio Takasaki

Chiaki Ueda

Takayuki Matui

Hiroshi Nomoto

Takayoshi Nishino

Akihiro Hishida

Toshio Sekine

Tadanori Sato

Masataka Ayata

Ryohei Shimamune

Ryosuke Furuta

Tetsuro Omura

A power control apparatus for controlling charging and discharging of a plurality of storage devices, including a voltage measuring device for measuring voltages of the storage devices, a current measuring device for measuring currents flowing through the storage devices, a status detecting device for detecting the operating status of each of the storage devices from values measured by the voltage measuring device and the current measuring device, and a charging/discharging controlling device for controlling currents, voltages, or power according to the operating status of each storage device detected by the status detecting device to charge or discharge the storage devices.

Power control unit

The invention provides a control apparatus of a power conversion system for driving an induction motor via a VVVF inverter, wherein the AC voltage generated by the inverter is increased so as to expand the high-speed side property of the induction motor, to thereby improve the performance during power running and regenerative braking. In the present system, a DC power supply source having a power storage system with a capacity capable of processing the current flowing into or out of the inverter is inserted in series to the ground side of the input of the inverter, and the output voltage thereof is controlled from zero in a continuous manner to be added to the trolley voltage, which is then applied to the inverter.

Control apparatus of power conversion system

The invention provides a battery module including an output breaker that ensures safe and prompt installation of batteries in a system. The battery module includes one or more batteries and a case housing the batteries and having output terminals, each output terminal being connected to a positive or negative electrode of the housed battery, the battery module further including means for turning on and off the connection between the output terminal and the positive or negative electrode of the battery. The means for turning on and off the connection may include a contact subjected to making and breaking operations and a screw for making and breaking the contact, the screw having an insulator at an interface with the contact.

Battery module

A tracked vehicle has a power control apparatus for controlling charging and discharging of a plurality of storage devices. A voltage measuring device measures voltages of the respective storage devices, and a current measuring device measures currents flowing through the respective storage devices. A status detecting device detects the operating status of each storage device based on values measured by the voltage and current measuring devices; and a charging/discharging controlling device controls currents, voltages, or power according to the operating status of each storage device detected by the status detecting device, to charge or discharge the storage devices.

A power control apparatus for controlling charging and discharging of a plurality of storage means devices has a voltage measuring arrangement for measuring voltages of each of the storage devices, a current measuring arrangement for measuring currents flowing through each of the storage devices, a status detector for detecting the operating status of each storage device from values measured by the voltage and current measuring arrangements, and a charging/discharging control device for controlling currents, voltages, or power according to the operating status of each storage devices detected by the status detector to charge or discharge the storage devices.

To determine the timing of the electrical brake for completely stopping in electrical braking control, and also to achieve both sure stopping and good riding comfort in an electric vehicle powered by the motor by decreasing the braking force at a prescribed rate of change, the torque of the electric motor is controlled by controlling the power converter which powers the motor using a power converter controller. The deceleration of the motor is computed based on the detected speed of the electric motor which is as an output of the speed detection means, the subsequent speed of the electric motor is estimated based on the detected speed and the deceleration rate of the electric motor at the time the detected rotational speed of the electric motor falls below a prescribed speed, and torque control is carried out using an electric power converter controller, based on the estimated speed.

Control apparatus of electric vehicle

Apparatus and method for controlling induction motor

A cooling apparatus for electronic device comprises an electronic element unit which comprises a base member, a thermal conductive electric insulating layer soldered to the base member and a plurality of electronic elements soldered to the thermal conductive electric insulating layer at least one cooling unit which is detachably kept in pressure contact with the base member of the electronic element unit and comprises a cooling block, at least one heat pipe having a refrigerant sealingly contained therein and inserted in the cooling block at one end thereof and a plurality of radiation fins provided at the other end of the at least one heat pipe; and a device which serves to detachably keep the electronic element unit and the cooling unit in pressure contact with each other. The other end of the heat pipe extends obliquely with a predetermined angle (.alpha.) with respect to the inserted portion thereof.

Cooling apparatus for electronic elements

An electric power converting apparatus equipped with a 3-level PWM control in which the output voltage can be continuously and smoothly controlled from zero to a maximum voltage. The electric power converting apparatus includes a multi-pulse generating unit arranged for a dipolar modulation, a unipolar modulation, and an overmodulation; a 1-pulse generating means; and a unit for controlling the transfer operation among these modulation regions.

Electric power converting apparatus

In order to reduce an induction problem, which might otherwise be caused by a higher-harmonic current leaking to the outside of an inverter device, with a simple construction, an inverter device casing and a heat receiving plate mounted thereon are insulated from each other, and the heat receiving plate and a filter capacitor in the power supply circuit are connected through a predetermined inductance. Since the higher harmonics current is bypassed to the filter capacitor through the resonance filter which is formed by of the electrostatic capacity in a switching element and the inductance, the induction problem can be reduced by simple construction.

Power converting device for reducing an induction problem

A power converter including a snubber circuit which is smaller and regenerates more energy than a conventional snubber circuit. A plurality of self-quenching semiconductor switching elements are connected in series across a power supply. A capacitive element is connected to the switching elements, and is charged to more than the voltage of the power supply by a snubber action due to operation of any of the switching elements. The charge stored in the capacitive element is then regenerated to the power supply. The capacitance of the capacitive element can be almost as small as a minimum required capacitance, and can be as small as one-tenth of the capacitance required in a conventional snubber circuit, thereby providing a power converter which is smaller and has a smaller snubber loss than a conventional power converter.

Power converter

Disclosed is an apparatus for realizing a small apparatus by making element currents uniform in the dipolar modulation mode. The zero voltage period in the dipolar modulation period is made shorter than other voltage output periods. Accordingly, currents of switching elements constituting the main circuit of an inverter can be made uniform.

Control apparatus of power converter and control apparatus of electric

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