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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2012
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Iida, Saitama, JP;
Masahiko Asakura, Saitama, JP;
Satoru Sunada, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Endo, Saitama, JP;
Kojiro Tsutsumi, Saitama, JP;
Ryuko Komatsu, Saitama, JP;
Nobumasa Toyoshima, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electric power generation control system for a vehicle, which enables generation of electric power by a generator as much as possible while preventing an electrical component from being overheated by power generation by the generator. The electric power generation control system selectively switches a mode of the generator between first and second modes in which an instruction voltage is higher and not higher than an allowable voltage of a wire harness, respectively. A counter value is counted up in the first mode and down in the second mode. When the counter value has reached a higher limit value, the first mode is inhibited and the power generation mode is set to the second mode. This increase the proportion of an execution time period of the first, and accordingly, when a possibility of overheating the wire harness becomes high, the instruction voltage is lowered.