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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2013
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yutaka Sonoda, Wako, JP;
Katsuhiro Ouchi, Wako, JP;
Kazuhiko Ono, Wako, JP;
Takeaki Sugimoto, Hanno, JP;
Yuta Inoguchi, Hanno, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.