Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hino Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kouzou Kawata

Hiroshi Uchino

Tetsuo Koike

Takayuki Suzuki

Atsuomi Obata

Masashi Shigemori

Kohji Sasaki

Sadayoshi Iketani

Ryoichi Kurosawa

This invention relates to an electric braking and auxiliary engine mechanism for a motor vehicle including a rotary machine coupled with the crank shaft of the internal combustion engine which drives the axle of the vehicle. This mechanism is characterized in that squirrel-cage polyphase induction machine is used as the rotary machine which is fixedly connected to the crank shaft, and the squirrel-cage polyphase induction mechanism is fed with a revolving magnetic field which is variable either positive or negative direction by an invertor, so that the squirrel-cage polyphase induction machine may be utilized either as a power generator or a motor.

Electric braking and auxiliary engine mechanism for a motor vehicle

To the primary winding of a synchronous electric machine, a polyphase a.c. excitation signal from an excitation circuit is applied. Thus, an induced voltage signal, the phase of which varies by an angle proportional to a rotational position of a rotary body, is produced on the secondary winding of the synchro. A phase difference produced between the a.c. excitation signal and the induced voltage signal is detected by a phase difference detecting circuit. This phase difference detecting circuit detects not only a phase difference itself, but also detects the time at which the phase difference has been detected. On the basis of the phase difference and the time thus detected, a predictive computation circuit predicts a rotational position of the rotary body at an arbitrary time. In addition, a rate multiplier circuit for setting a value corresponding to a change in a predicted rotational position and an up/down counter circuit for counting the output thereof are further added, thereby making it possible to provide the output of the up/down counter circuit as a rotational position.

Apparatus for detecting revolution using a synchro

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Kouzou Kawata