Patents Assigned to Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9941728
    Abstract: A battery charging device provided with: a bridge-type controlled rectifier circuit having three-phase thyristors for rectifying the output of a three-phase AC generator and supplying a charging current to a battery; and a controller for controlling the supplying of a trigger signal to the thyristors in accordance with the terminal voltage of the battery; the controller being configured so that the trigger signal is supplied to the thyristors simultaneously when it is detected that the terminal voltage of the battery is equal to or lower than a set voltage, and supplying of the trigger signal is stopped when a certain period has elapsed after the terminal voltage exceeds the set voltage, in order to prevent commutation failure of the thyristors when charging of the battery is stopped, and prevent overcharging of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: KOKUSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nozomu Katsumata, Shuichi Muramatsu, Masaki Asari, Tomoya Tamakawa, Akinari Ueki
  • Patent number: 9739250
    Abstract: The internal combustion engine ignition device has a core, a coil part that is wound over the core, and a secondary coil that is wound on the outer peripheral side of the coil part. A switching element switches an induced current, which is generated via the rotation of a permanent magnet, of a primary coil on and off. A resistor and a microcomputer are connected to the switching element, and a rotation detection circuit is connected to the microcomputer. The microcomputer drives the switching element so as to rapidly change the current flowing through the primary coil and generate a high voltage in the secondary coil, and generate a spark discharge in a spark plug connected to the secondary coil. In the coil part, one coil is divided by an intermediate tap, forming the primary coil and a charging coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KOKUSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma Ayusawa, Yushi Suzuki, Masayuki Sugiyama, Yuichi Kakehashi
  • Patent number: 9726174
    Abstract: An electric pump including a motor unit including an end cap attached to a motor cover, and a power supply bus bar having wiring inserted therein is integral with the end cap; a pump unit including a rotor having a vane groove for receiving a vane and connecting to the rotation shaft and also including a pump plate having a cam ring; and a cover covering the pump unit from a side opposite to the motor unit and provided with a connector box surrounding an insertion recessed portion into which the power supply bus bar is inserted. The cam ring has a penetration hole through which the power supply bus bar and wiring can be inserted, the wiring being electrically connected to a connection unit provided in the insertion recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignees: MIKUNI CORPORATION, KOKUSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Tabata, Daiki Ihara
  • Patent number: 9328712
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, employing a microprocessor to control a load other than an ignition device, the control device being provided to an internal combustion engine in which is installed a magnet generator that has a magneto coil for successively generating, in association with revolution of the internal combustion engine, a first half wave voltage, a second half wave voltage of different polarity than the first half wave voltage, and a third half wave voltage of identical polarity to the first half wave voltage; and the magnet generator employing the second half wave voltage to drive the ignition device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: KOKUSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Kawagoe, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Kei Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 9216685
    Abstract: There are provided a power supply unit control device for an internal combustion engine driven vehicle provided with a lamp driving switch for turning lamp-driving current supplied to a vehicle headlamp from a battery charged by the output of an AC generator driven by an internal combustion engine and with a conducting control unit for controlling the lamp driving switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KAUBHISKI KAISHA, KOKUSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hirade, Yuki Yamashita, Megumu Iwakiri, Kenji Kimura
  • Publication number: 20140318488
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, employing a microprocessor to control a load other than an ignition device, the control device being provided to an internal combustion engine in which is installed a magnet generator that has a magneto coil for successively generating, in association with revolution of the internal combustion engine, a first half wave voltage, a second half wave voltage of different polarity than the first half wave voltage, and a third half wave voltage of identical polarity to the first half wave voltage; and the magnet generator employing the second half wave voltage to drive the ignition device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: KOKUSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Kawagoe, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Kei Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 8810052
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a rotary electrical machine functioning as a motor and as a power generator, the device being provided with a power conversion circuit serving to function as an inverter for supplying a drive current from a battery to the rotary electrical machine and as a rectifier for rectifying the power generation output of the rotary electrical machine and supplying the output to the battery; and being provided with a controller for controlling the conversion circuit so that three-phase armature coils of the rotary electrical machine are short-circuited when the battery is disconnected from the conversion circuit and the DC output voltage of the conversion circuit becomes excessive, after which, when the DC output voltage of the conversion circuit decreases to a set low voltage, the short circuit of one phase of the armature coil is released and only two phases are short-circuited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kishibata, Masakatsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8779644
    Abstract: A group of coils used in a stator of a rotating electrical machine, wound continuously upon a divided core with a crossover wire, in which 2N coils (where N is a natural number) are arranged at approximately regular intervals, wherein a winding direction of N coils, which are first through Nth continuously wound coils, of a front half of the 2N coils, and a winding direction of rear half coils which are (N+1)-st through (2N)-th continuously wound coils, are opposite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Takashi Ishigami, Kota Sakuma, Toshihiko Mato
  • Patent number: 8779701
    Abstract: A sinusoidal signal is superimposed on a current command value of a q-axis (torque shaft) supplied from a host, and according to the resulting current command value, the output voltage of a power converter is controlled. For the calculation of the superimposed signal added to the current command value of the q-axis, with the use of the ripple component information of induced voltage coefficients of the d-axis and q-axis of the rotating coordinate system of a permanent magnet motor, the current command values of the d-axis and q-axis, an average value of induced voltage coefficients of the d-axis, and inductance values of the d-axis and q-axis, the sinusoidal superimposed signal is calculated and added to the above-described current command value of the q-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tobari, Rikio Yoshikawa, Katsuhiro Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8736233
    Abstract: A power source device for rectifying the output of an AC generator in which magneto coils are in a star-shaped connection in three phases. The device includes a control rectifier circuit configured from a first control rectifier circuit for performing full-wave rectification on three-phase AC voltages, and a second control rectifier circuit for performing full-wave rectification on AC voltages obtained between neutral and each of two-phase AC output terminals selected from the three-phase AC output terminals of the generator, as well as on AC voltage obtained between the selected two-phase AC output terminals; and a controller controlling the first and second circuits so that the output of the first circuit is supplied to the load when the rotational speed of the generator is equal/less than a set speed, and the output of the second circuit is supplied to the load when the rotational speed exceeds the set speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Muramatsu, Ryosuke Tonooka, Shinji Komatsu, Nozomu Katsumata, Masaki Asari, Hirofumi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20140142808
    Abstract: There are provided a power supply unit control device for an internal combustion engine driven vehicle provided with a lamp driving switch for turning lamp-driving current supplied to a vehicle headlamp from a battery charged by the output of an AC generator driven by an internal combustion engine and with a conducting control unit for controlling the lamp driving switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicants: KOKUSAN DENKI CO., LTD., KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hirade, Yuki Yamashita, Megumu Iwakiri, Kenji Kimura
  • Patent number: 8656882
    Abstract: An engine ignition control device comprising: a start-up ignition controller having a function for preventing the occurrence of kickback by either delaying an ignition position of an engine or stopping ignition; start-up rotation angle detection means for detecting a rotation angle of a crankshaft of the engine after initiation of a start-up operation of the engine; and switching means for switching control specifics of the start-up ignition controller in accordance with the detected start-up rotation angle so that when the detected start-up rotation angle is less than a set angle, there is created a kickback-preventive effect within a range at which engine startability is not compromised, and when the detected start-up rotation angle is equal to or greater than the set angle, there is created a kickback-preventive effect that is greater than the kickback-preventive effect for when the start-up rotation angle is equal to or less than the set angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Sato, Kiyoshi Uemura, Tomoaki Sekita
  • Publication number: 20130234446
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a rotary electrical machine functioning as a motor and as a power generator, the device being provided with a power conversion circuit serving to function as an inverter for supplying a drive current from a battery to the rotary electrical machine and as a rectifier for rectifying the power generation output of the rotary electrical machine and supplying the output to the battery; and being provided with a controller for controlling the conversion circuit so that three-phase armature coils of the rotary electrical machine are short-circuited when the battery is disconnected from the conversion circuit and the DC output voltage of the conversion circuit becomes excessive, after which, when the DC output voltage of the conversion circuit decreases to a set low voltage, the short circuit of one phase of the armature coil is released and only two phases are short-circuited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: KOKUSAN DENKI CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kishibata, Masakatsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8410735
    Abstract: A torque ripple suppression control device for a permanent magnet motor includes a current command conversion unit that outputs a current command value, a position detector that detects a rotational position of the permanent magnet motor, a current detection unit that detects a current at the permanent magnet motor, an induced voltage coefficient setting unit that outputs an information signal related to an induced voltage coefficient for an induced voltage at the permanent magnet motor, a torque ripple suppression operation unit that outputs a current correction command value for the permanent magnet motor, a current control operation unit that outputs a voltage command value based upon addition results obtained by adding together the current command value and the current correction command value and the current detection value, and a power converter that outputs a voltage with which the permanent magnet motor is to be driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tobari, Yoshitaka Iwaji, Junnosuke Nakatsugawa, Rikio Yoshikawa, Masamichi Yagai
  • Publication number: 20130051097
    Abstract: A power source device for rectifying the output of an AC generator in which magneto coils are in a star-shaped connection in three phases. The device includes a control rectifier circuit configured from a first control rectifier circuit for performing full-wave rectification on three-phase AC voltages, and a second control rectifier circuit for performing full-wave rectification on AC voltages obtained between neutral and each of two-phase AC output terminals selected from the three-phase AC output terminals of the generator, as well as on AC voltage obtained between the selected two-phase AC output terminals; and a controller controlling the first and second circuits so that the output of the first circuit is supplied to the load when the rotational speed of the generator is equal/less than a set speed, and the output of the second circuit is supplied to the load when the rotational speed exceeds the set speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nozomu Katsumata, Masaki Asari, Hirofumi Yamaguchi, Shuichi Muramatsu, Ryosuke Tonooka, Shinji Komatsu
  • Patent number: 8115289
    Abstract: An onboard electric power control device which comprises a power unit, a control unit and a power source unit, in which: an opening portion of a case containing components of the power unit and an opening portion of a case containing components of the control unit are abutted so as to be coupled; a case of the power supply unit is fitted to an opening portion being provided on a side surface of the case of the power unit so that the both cases are coupled; the power unit and the control unit is connected by a flexible connecting conductor; and the connecting conductor is folded and is contained between a resin molded portion formed inside of the case of the power unit and a resin molded portion formed inside of the case of the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kishibata
  • Patent number: 8056536
    Abstract: An ignition device for an internal combustion engine including: an exciter coil that generates an AC voltage having a positive half wave and first and second negative half waves generated before and after the positive half wave with rotation of the internal combustion engine; and an ignition control portion that controls an ignition position of the engine using a microprocessor to which a power supply voltage is supplied from a power supply circuit that converts the voltage having the negative half waves generated by the exciter coil to a DC voltage, wherein the ignition control portion is comprised so as to cause a timer to start a counting operation at the start of the operation of the microprocessor, regard a measurement value of the timer as time between generation of the first negative half wave and generation of the second negative half wave to arithmetically operate counting data for measuring the ignition position based on rotational speed information of the engine obtained from the time, and immediat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyotada Nakauchi, Akira Shimoyama, Yasukazu Hatano, Masayuki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20110241472
    Abstract: A group of coils used in a stator of a rotating electrical machine, wound continuously upon a divided core with a crossover wire, in which 2N coils (where N is a natural number) are arranged at approximately regular intervals, wherein a winding direction of N coils, which are first through Nth continuously wound coils, of a front half of the 2N coils, and a winding direction of rear half coils which are (N+1)-st through (2N)-th continuously wound coils, are opposite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro TANAKA, Takashi Ishigami, Kota Sakuma, Toshihiko Mato
  • Patent number: 8027180
    Abstract: A power generating apparatus including an AC generator that supplies electric power to a load including a voltage accumulating means, an inverter that applies AC control voltage to armature winding of the generator from the voltage accumulating means, and a controller that controls a phase of control voltage applied to the armature winding by the inverter to keep load voltage at a target value, wherein the phase of the control voltage is controlled so as to advance when the load voltage is higher than the target value, hold the present phase when the load voltage is equal to the target value, advance when the load voltage is lower than the target value and a phase of phase voltage of the generator is delayed behind a phase of a phase current of the same phase, and delay when the load voltage is lower than the target value and the phase of the phase voltage of the generator is advanced ahead of a phase of a phase current of the same phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masanori Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7891330
    Abstract: An engine starting method for starting an engine by causing first fuel injection when a crankshaft is reversely rotated by a predetermined angle at the start, and then rotating the crankshaft forward to perform first ignition, the method comprising the steps of immediately stopping driving of a starter motor when a starter switch is turned off before the first fuel injection at the start; and continuously driving the starter motor forward until a cylinder into which an air/fuel mixture is supplied by the first fuel injection performs at least one exhaust stroke and then stopping the driving of the starter motor when the starter switch is turned off after the first fuel injection at the start.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Kishibata, Tomohiro Kinoshita