Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Company Limited

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yuta Inoguchi

Takeaki Sugimoto

Kazuhiko Ono

Katsuhiro Ouchi

Yutaka Sonoda

Provided is a control circuit capable of efficiently supplying electric power from an alternating-current generator to a load, and a power generation device having this control circuit. A control circuitfor controlling electric power to be supplied from a power generatorto a batteryis provided with: a rate-of-change obtaining unitconfigured to obtain a rate of change of a sensor cycle for a sensor signal synchronous with an operation of the power generator; an estimation unitconfigured to estimate a next sensor cycle using the rate of change of the sensor cycle obtained by the rate-of-change obtaining unit; and an output-supply control unitconfigured to perform PWM control of switching elements provided for a drive circuitusing the next sensor cycle estimated by the estimation unit

Control circuit, and power generation device having the same

A battery charging apparatus includes a plurality of input terminals which are connected to respective phases of a three-phase AC dynamo, and a rectifying circuit including a plurality of rectifying elements and a plurality of switching elements. A switching element control unit and pulse generation unit are provided, for controlling the turning on/off of the switching elements, and for generating a pulse signal, respectively. The switching element control unit is configured to control the plurality of switching elements, and includes a potential difference detection unit configured to detect potential differences between potentials of input terminals, and a specifying unit configured to determine a phase order of AC outputs which are input to the input terminals.

Battery charging apparatus

A control circuitfor determining a phase sequence of a power generator includes a frequency control unit, a cycle obtaining unit, a determination unit, and an output-supply control unit. The frequency control unit controls a frequency of a sensor signal synchronous with an operation of the power generator, and the cycle obtaining unit obtains a cycle of the sensor signal whose frequency is controlled by the frequency control unit. The determination unit determines the phase sequence of the power generator by detecting timing at which an output voltage outputted from each of the phases of the power generator has risen using the cycle of the sensor signal obtained by the cycle obtaining unit. The output-supply control unit controls a drive circuit according to the phase sequence of the power generator determined by the determination unit.

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Saitama, Japan

Yuta Inoguchi