Isuzu Motors Limited

Isuku Motors Limited

Yuichi Koyama

Toshifumi Koshizawa

Akihiro Shirata

Yoshinobu Tsuchiya

Ken Kurabayashi

A power supply device for use on a motor vehicle includes a charging power supply such as an alternator or a battery, a plurality of capacitors, chargeable by the charging power supply, for supplying stored electric energy to an electric load such as an engine starter, and a successive charging control circuit arrangement for successively charging the capacitors, one by one, with the charging power supply.

Power supply device

An engine preheating system preheats an engine such as a diesel engine efficiently and quickly with heating members such as self-temperature-controlling glow plugs. When the engine is to be preheated quickly, a voltage to be applied to the heating members is increased by electric energy stored in a capacitor capacitors, and a large current is supplied to the heating members to preheat the engine in a short period of time.

Engine preheating system

A motor vehicle power supply device includes an alternator drivable by an engine mounted on a motor vehicle, a battery chargeable by electric energy generated by the alternator, a capacitor connected to the alternator and the battery, and a charging speed varying circuit arrangement connected between the capacitor, and the alternator and the battery, for varying the speed at which the capacitor is charged. The charging speed varying circuit arrangement is controlled to vary the speed at which the capacitor is charged, depending on the operating condition of the motor vehicle.

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Machida, Japan

Yuichi Koyama