Patents Assigned to MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORATION
  • Patent number: 11476697
    Abstract: Provided is a battery-charging device that uses a full-bridge rectifier circuit in which each arm is composed of MOSFET as a circuit that rectifies an output of a magnet-type AC generator. The charging device comprises: an ON/OFF state establishment means that, on the basis of a polarity of a potential of each input terminal of the rectifier circuit, establishes ON/OFF state to be assumed by each MOSFET of the rectifier circuit when a battery is charged; a during-charging FET control means that performs control which matches the state of each MOSFET of the rectifier circuit with the state established by the ON/OFF state establishment means when the battery is charged; a short-circuit control means that performs short-circuit control which causes short-circuiting between output terminals of the generator when battery charging is paused; and a FET OFF means that generates a FET OFF time period in which all of the MOSFETs of the rectifier circuit assume an OFF state in a fixed cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Yamaguchi, Yuki Wakazuki, Ryuichiro Takahashi, Kazuo Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11215135
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection control device that makes it possible to precisely estimate an amount of fuel remaining in an air intake passage at a start-up of an engine, and to precisely set an fuel injection amount during start-up operation. In the fuel injection control device of the present invention, in a process in which the engine is transferred from operation state to a stop state, engine stop information is acquired and stored in a nonvolatile memory, the engine stop information including, at least an information indicating whether the current engine stop is an intended stop accompanied by fuel cutting. During the start-up of the engine, judgement is made as to whether the last engine stop was the intended stop or not, based upon the engine stop information and a fuel injection amount during start-up operation is determined with reference to the result of the judgement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoaki Sekita
  • Patent number: 11088605
    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnet generator that can reduce a mass without lowering a desired inertia and can prevent an engine from being locked by vibration or impact in a high rotation speed region. In a magnet generator including a rotor including a bowl-like flywheel having a cylindrical section and a ceiling section, a plurality of permanent magnets arranged over the inner circumferential wall surface of the cylindrical section, and a boss arranged in the center of the ceiling section and attached to an output shaft of an engine, and a stator facing the permanent magnets, fixed to the engine side inside the flywheel and including laminated steel plates and coils, wherein at least a part of the ceiling section of the flywheel is formed of a synthetic resin and the remaining part is formed of a metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Kameyama
  • Patent number: 10895210
    Abstract: Disclosed is an engine drive system that uses an open-type regulator as a regulator that rectifies an output and adjusts a voltage of a magneto AC generator driven by an engine. A means is provided that performs a process of increasing an opening degree of an ISC valve for a limited amount of time when a load of the generator is applied, while the engine is idling. Temporarily increasing an output torque of the engine prevents a rotational speed of the engine from dramatically decreasing, or the engine from stalling, during idling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 10815914
    Abstract: The control device includes a microcomputer which controls operation of the internal combustion engine, a power regulator which outputs a direct current regulated voltage regulated from electric power of the AC generator, a 5V regulator which receives an output from the power regulator and supplies it to the microcomputer; a first capacitor with a small capacity connected to an output of the power regulator, plural second capacitors connected in parallel with the first capacitor; and plural opening and closing means connected in series to the plural second capacitors, respectively. The opening and closing means are controlled to be opened and closed by the microcomputer so that the second capacitors are charged when the output of the power regulator has reached an ON voltage below the regulated voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoaki Sekita
  • Patent number: 10263554
    Abstract: A power supply device for an internal combustion engine, using a generator driven by an internal combustion engine as a power source and supplying power to a first load that needs to be constantly driven to cause the internal combustion engine to operate and a second load that is permitted not to drive during startup of the engine, wherein a first generation coil for driving the first load and a second generation coil for driving the second load are provided to be magnetically-coupled tightly in the generator, and voltage supplied to a load is boosted to a higher voltage value than conventionally achieved by performing chopper control of an energizing current of the first generation coil and an energizing current of the second generation coil while preventing energization from the second generation coil to a load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masanori Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10240552
    Abstract: A battery-less fuel injection system, provided with an injector for injecting fuel supplied to an engine, a fuel pump for supplying fuel to the injector, and an ECU for controlling the injector, wherein a fuel pressure sensor for detecting the fuel pressure given to the injector is provided, and the ECU controls the fuel injection in the process of starting the engine, so that execution of fuel injection is suspended when the fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure sensor is a set pressure or less, until it is confirmed that the detected fuel pressure has exceeded the set pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoaki Sekita