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US 7,063,641 B2Granted
Dynamo-electric drive unit controlled compound power system
OwnerTai-Her Yanginventor
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Abstract
A dynamo-electric drive unit controlled compound system includes one dynamo-electric unit, a primary and a secondary dynamo-electric unit, or more than two dynamo-electric units incorporated with an engine or other rotating device, and one or more control units including a centrifugal clutch, one-way transmission mechanism, output clutch, or related transmission mechanism, a manual control interface, a central controller, and a storage device to create a specific control pattern and to execute the operation of a specific compound power function by selection among the control units and control of drive control device operation.
Claims17
A speed-controlled dynamo-electric compound system, comprising:
- at least one primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) arranged to rotate a shaft (S104 and/or S105);
- at least one centrifugal clutch (FC101) having a driving side connected to the shaft (S104 and/or S105) and a driven side connected to an engine (ICE101);
- a load connected to said shaft (S104 and/or S105) through an output device;
- a secondary dynamo-electric unit (E102) coupled to said engine (ICE101);
- an electrical energy storage device (ESD101) connected between said secondary dynamo-electric unit (E102) and said primary dynamo-electric unit (E101);
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- a controller;
- wherein said primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) drives said shaft (S104) independently of said engine when a rotation speed of said engine is below a preset speed,
- wherein rotation of said engine (ICE101) at said preset speed causes said driven side of the clutch to engage said driving side and thereby connect said engine (ICE101) to drive said shaft (S104 and/or S105),
- wherein, when said engine (ICE101) is rotating at or above said preset speed and said centrifugal clutch (FC101) is engaged, said controller controls said primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) to selectively drive said shaft (S104 and/or S105) jointly with said engine or to operate as a generator that is driven by said engine together with said shaft, and
- wherein said controller includes a central control unit (CCU101), a drive control device (CD101) connected to said primary and secondary dynamo-electric units, and a manual control interface (M101), said drive control device (CD101) being arranged to control a speed of said primary dynamo-electric unit (E101), and further to control whether said primary and secondary dynamo-electric units function as motors, generators, or one of each.
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A speed-controlled dynamo-electric compound system, comprising:
- at least one primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) arranged to rotate a shaft (S104 and/or S105);
- at least one centrifugal clutch (FC101) having a driving side connected to the shaft (S104 and/or S105) and a driven side connected to an engine (ICE101);
- a load connected to said shaft (S104 and/or S105) through an output device;
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- a controller,
- wherein said primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) drives said shaft (S104) independently of said engine when a rotation speed of said engine is below a preset speed,
- wherein rotation of said engine (ICE101) at said preset speed causes said driven side of the clutch to engage said driving side and thereby connect said engine (ICE101) to drive said shaft (S104 and/or S105),
- wherein, when said engine (ICE101) is rotating at or above said preset speed and said centrifugal clutch (FC101) is engaged, said controller controls said primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) to selectively drive said shaft (S104 and/or S105) jointly with said engine or to operate as a generator that is driven by said engine together with said shaft, and
- wherein said output device comprises an output clutch (CL101).
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A speed-controlled dynamo-electric compound system, comprising:
- at least one primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) arranged to rotate a shaft (S104 and/or S105);
- at least one centrifugal clutch (FC101) having a driving side connected to the shaft (S104 and/or S105) and a driven side connected to an engine (ICE101);
- a transmission mechanism (T104) connected between said centrifugal clutch (FC101) and said engine (ICE101);
- a load connected to said shaft (S104 and/or S105) through an output device;
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- a controller,
- wherein said primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) drives said shaft (S104) independently of said engine when a rotation speed of said engine is below a preset speed,
- wherein rotation of said engine (ICE101) at said preset speed causes said driven side of the clutch to engage said driving side and thereby connect said engine (ICE101) to drive said shaft (S104 and/or S105), and
- wherein, when said engine (ICE101) is rotating at or above said preset speed and said centrifugal clutch (FC101) is engaged, said controller controls said primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) to selectively drive said shaft (S104 and/or S105) jointly with said engine or to operate as a generator that is driven by said engine together with said shaft.
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A speed-controlled dynamo-electric compound system, comprising:
- at least one primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) arranged to rotate a shaft (S104 and/or S105);
- at least one one-way transmission mechanism (SWC101) having a driven side connected to the shaft (S104 and/or S105) and a driving side connected to an engine (ICE101) via a shaft (S103), wherein said one-way transmission mechanism is arranged to transmit rotational energy from said shaft (S104 and/or S105) to said shaft (S103) when a rotational speed of said driving side is lower than a rotation speed of said driven side, and wherein said one-way transmission mechanism is arranged to idle when said rotation speed of said driving side is higher than a rotational speed of said driven side;
- at least one centrifugal clutch (FC102) having a driven side connected to the shaft (S104 and/or S105) and a driving side connected to said engine (ICE101), wherein said driving side of the clutch engages said driven side only when a speed of said driving side is higher than a preset speed that causes said driving side of the clutch to engage said driven side;
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- a load connected to said shaft (S104 and/or S105) through an output device.
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A speed-controlled dynamo-electric compound system as claimed in 7, further comprising at least one clutch (CL301) for selectively connecting said shaft (S104 and/or S105) and said transmission mechanism (T102), wherein said clutch is CL301 is controlled by manual, mechanical, electromagnetic, or hydraulic force.
A speed-controlled dynamo-electric compound system, comprising:
- at least one primary dynamo-electric unit (E101) arranged to rotate a shaft (S104 and/or S105);
- at least one one-way transmission mechanism (SWC101) having a driven side connected to the shaft (S104 and/or S105) and a driving side connected to an engine (ICE101) via a shaft (S103), wherein said one-way transmission mechanism is arranged to transmit rotational energy from said shaft (S104 and/or S105) to said shaft (S103) when a rotational speed of said driving side is higher than a rotation speed of said driven side, and wherein said one-way transmission mechanism is arranged to idle when said rotation speed of said driving side is less than a rotational speed of said driven side;
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- a load connected to said shaft (S104 and/or S105) through an output device,
- wherein said output device comprises an output clutch (CL101).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.