Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Hidetoshi Kato

Nobuo Mayumi

Hajime Matsuhashi

Hiroshi Shibata

Toshiyuki Kawai

Takeshi Sada

Fuyuki Maehara

Hirohide Sato

Daisuke Makino

Yoshio Akita

Tetsuya Kobayashi

Akira Shintai

Takashi Yamashita

Torahiko Sasaki

Mitsunobu Uchida

Junichi Iino

Masatoshi Togawa

Masayoshi Niimi

Fuyuky Maehara

Shin Kusase

Toshinori Maruyama

Keiichiro Banzai

Kazumasa Mori

Koshi Torii

Kenzo Mitani

Shigeru Tanaka

Masaya Itou

Tooru Aoyama

Kouji Tanaka

Kimihiro Sato

Masakazu Nakayama

Provided with a work electrodeposition coating method for immersing a work in a paint in an electrodeposition tank provided with a first positive electrode for supplying a low voltage and a second positive electrode for supplying a high voltage to carry out electrodeposition coating of a work surface. The work electrodeposition coating method is comprised of a first step in which a first robot moves the work to a first table provided with an current collecting bar corresponding to the first positive electrode; a second step of connecting the work with the current collecting bar and supplies the work with the low voltage to carry out the electrodeposition coating; a third step in which a second robot provided with a negative electrode switches a connecting condition of the negative electrode connected with the work from the current collecting bar to an current collecting bar corresponding to the second positive electrode when the second robot chucks the work, and then carries out the electrodeposition coating while moving the work to a second table provided with an current collecting bar; and a fourth step of connecting the work to the current collecting bar and supplies the work with the high voltage to carry out the electrodeposition coating.

Work electrodeposition coating method and electrodeposition coating device

A set battery which generates a high voltage comprises a number of battery modules connected to each other in series. A module voltage of each of the battery modules is detected by a corresponding differential voltage detecting circuit and is transmitted to an A/D convertor. Each of Several voltage detecting blocks is constituted by a plurality of the differential voltage detecting circuits for detecting module voltages of a plurality of the battery modules contiguous to each other. Each of the differential voltage detecting circuits belonging to the same voltage detecting block is applied with a common reference potential which is used to detect the module voltage. The reference potential is set to values which differ from each other for the respective voltage detecting blocks.

Voltage detecting device for set battery

A method and device for determining whether a battery for a hybrid vehicle is fully charged includes: detecting the battery current, providing a unit of stored battery energy, detecting Joule heat loss and battery temperature, calculating changes in the battery Joule heat loss and battery temperature while the battery is charged by the unit of stored energy and a ratio between the Joule heat loss and temperature changes, and comparing the ratio of the Joule heat loss and temperature changes with a predetermined level.

Method and device for checking battery charge

A device for detecting a voltage of an individual unit cell included in a combination battery consisting of a number of unit cells connected in series. The unit cells are divided into several groups, and a voltage divider circuit having a cell-side resistor and a reference-side resistor is connected to each unit cell. A divided potential of each unit cell is supplied to a cell voltage detector from each voltage divider circuit. Also, a reference potential that is common to a cell group is supplied to the detector from a junction connecting two neighboring cell groups. The cell voltage detector determines the voltage of each unit cell, group by group, based on a difference between the divided potential and the reference potential. Since the reference potential is common to all the voltage divider circuits in one cell group, the voltage divider circuits can be simplified. To further simplify the circuits, the reference-side resistors for the first cell group are commonly used as the reference-side resistors for other cell groups.

Cell voltage detecting device for combination battery

A battery condition detecting method is provided which includes the steps of setting a current required during standard discharge of a battery as a set current, detecting a discharge current and a voltage of the battery, determining a battery voltage when the battery discharges the set current based on the discharge current and the voltage of die battery, and projecting an actual voltage of the battery based on the battery voltage determined.

Battery condition detection method

A battery condition detecting method is provided which includes the steps of setting a current required during standard discharge of a battery as a set current, detecting a discharge current and a voltage of the battery, determining a battery voltage when the battery discharge the set current based on the discharge current and the voltage of the battery, and projecting an actual voltage of the battery based on the battery-voltage determined.

A battery condition detecting apparatus includes a current detecting apparatus, a voltage detector and a current accumulator of a battery. The battery condition detecting apparatus detects a first battery capacity when an engine is started based on the battery voltage and battery current when the starter is started; determines an initial capacity of the battery based on the first battery capacity; adds to this initial capacity, a battery current accumulated value which has been accumulated by the battery current accumulator after determining the first battery capacity, whereby a second battery capacity is detected after the engine has been started; and further comparing the presently detected first battery capacity with the second battery capacity just before this first battery capacity is detected, thereby setting the smaller capacity as the initial value. Then, a charge control apparatus for a vehicle sets a battery charging target value, depending on the initial capacity which has been set by the initial capacity setting apparatus of this battery condition detecting apparatus, and controls the alternator in such a manner that the battery is charged at this target value.

Battery condition detecting apparatus and charge control apparatus for

In a charging control apparatus for a vehicle for controlling generation of electric power from a vehicle's generator charging a battery, the rate of increase in the field current of the generator is increased when an electrical load is connected to the generator. A switch is connected in series with the field winding, and a mean conduction rate detector detects the mean conduction rate of the switch and generates an output signal having a value which is a function of the mean conduction rate of the switch. A maximum signal generator generates an output signal having a value larger by a predetermined value than that of the output signal of the mean conduction rate detector, and a comparator is enabled to operate while the maximum signal generator is generating the maximum signal. The comparator is preferably enabled again when the value of the mean output signal of the conduction rate detector exceeds a preset value. The predetermined value is preferably increased with the increase in the mean conduction rate of the switch. By enabling the comparator operate depending on the value of the maximum signal, the mean conduction rate of the switch can be gradually increased after it is increased by a predetermined value. The comparator is enabled when the value of the output signal of the mean conduction rate detector attains preset value, and the battery can be quickly charged when the mean conduction rate exceeds the preset value. Because the predetermined value is increased with an increase in the mean conduction rate, the battery can be quickly charged according to the mean conduction rate while decreasing the burden on the engine.

Charging control apparatus for vehicle

This invention provides a resin sealed IC regulator, which comprises a first connecting terminal electrically connected to a generator, a second connecting terminal electrically connected to a device other than the generator, a monolithic IC which controls an operation of the generator, mounted on a conductive member, and connected to both the first connecting terminal and the second connecting terminal and a resin molded portion of an electric insulating resin sealing the monolithic IC and at least a portion of the first and second connecting terminals are connected to the monolithic IC. Whereby an IC regulator which can be effectively used with an electrical load can be obtained, and further, an IC regulator having a more reliable control performance and able to be produced at low production cost can be obtained.

Resin sealed semiconductor device and a method for making the same

This invention provides a resin sealed IC regulator, which comprises a first connecting terminal electrically connected to a generator, a second connecting terminal electrically connected to a device other than the generator, a monolithic IC which controls an operation of the generator, mounted on a conductive member, and connected to both the first connecting terminal and the second connecting terminal and a resin molded portion of an electric insulating resin sealing the monolithic IC and at least a portion of the first and second connecting terminals are connected to the monlithic IC. Whereby an IC regulator which can be effectively used with an electrical load can be obtained, and further, an IC regulator having a more reliable control performance and able to be produced at low production cost can be obtained.

Resin sealed semiconductor device

In a battery charging system for an automobile, the conduction rate of a switching circuit which controls field current of the generator is detected, while engine speed is also detected. Since the conduction rate represents the actual amount of electricity generated by the generator, the conduction rate as well as engine speed is used to determine optimal engine idle speed. To this end desired conduction rate values for various engine speeds within idle speed range are prestored in a memory, and a desired conduction rate is read out using detected engine speed so that a detected conduction rate will be compared with the desired conduction rate. Using the result of comparisonn, idle speed is either increased or decreased so that the actual conduction rate approaches the desired conduction rate. In one embodiment, the generator is disabled when the actual conduction rate is greater than the desired conduction rate in order to prevent engine stall.

Apparatus and method for engine idle speed control

A voltage regulator maintains an output voltage of an alternator of a vehicle to a voltage in the vicinity of a preset voltage. The voltage regulator has a microcomputer for setting the OFF duty ratio, a switching circuit for switching on or off an electric current flowing through a rotor coil of the alternator and a load sensor for detecting the operation of the intermittent load. The microcomputer sets the OFF duty ratio to a value directly proportional to the difference between the output voltage and the preset voltage before the operation of the intermittent load is started. And the microcomputer gradually decreases the OFF duty ratio set by said duty ratio setting means at the initial operation time of the intermittent load, and memorizes the OFF duty ratio when the output voltage reaches its upper limit value exceeding the preset voltage. The microcomputer changes the OFF duty ratio to an average value of the OFF duty ratio set by the duty ratio setting means and the OFF duty ratio memorized by the memory means when the reoperation of the intermittent load is detected within a prescribed time after the initial operation of the intermittent load.

Voltage regulator for alternator of vehicle

A battery voltage regulator for a vehicle charging system includes a voltage control circuit for controlling a battery terminal voltage and an external terminal connected to the positive terminal of a battery through the series combination of a charge lamp and an ignition switch. The regulator is at least composed of a charge lamp drive circuit responsive to a generation output of an alternator in order to energize the charge lamp, a power supply circuit responsive to the potential at the above mentioned external terminal to supply operational power to the voltage control circuit, and a malfunction-preventing circuit connected between the above mentioned external terminal and ground. The malfunction-preventing circuit prevents the power supply circuit from operating by disturbances such as leakage current flowing into the regulator through the external terminal. The regulator may further include a backup circuit responsive to the generation output of the alternator to separately supply operational power to the regulator circuit irrespective of the operation of the power supply circuit when the generation output reaches a voltage value which is higher than the above mentioned potential value at the external terminal by which the power supply circuit is energized, whereby the battery terminal voltage may be continuously maintained constant to a desired level even when a break in the charge lamp conductor has occurred.

Battery voltage regulator for vehicles

The battery voltage regulating system for vehicle use of this invention controls the energization of an alternating-current generator by a generation control circuit responsive to a battery voltage in normal operation. However, if a fault condition such as the damage of a resistor of the generation control circuit or a break in the warning line occurs, and even if the resulting warning is ignored or over-looked by the driver, a warning control circuit provided a requisite control to regulate the generator's generation while giving a warning. In this manner, an average voltage of a battery is kept substantially equal to a predetermined constant value controlled by said generation control circuit even if such unexpected situation occurs. Thus, the battery voltage regulating system can prevent the battery from being excessively charged.

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Suzuka, Japan

Hidetoshi Kato