POWER GENERATION CONTROL APPARATUS FOR GENERATOR AND POWER GENERATION CONTROL METHOD OF GENERATOR

摘要

A vehicle 10 stores in advance, in a memory 210, an allowable voltage V as a range in which a feeling of strangeness on the basis of an output variation is acceptable, with respect to each of electrical load devices E1 to EN including headlights 21 and a windshield wiper motor 31 mounted on the vehicle 10. The vehicle 10 identifies output requesting electrical devices, which a vehicle operator requires outputs, in response to the vehicle operator's switch operations, reads the allowable voltages V of the identified output requesting electrical load devices from the memory 210, and sets an overlap voltage range in which the read allowable voltages V are overlapped, to a power generation voltage range Vp for power generation control of a generator 60. The vehicle 10 then limits the power generation voltage of the generator 60 to the power generation voltage range Vp and performs power generation control of the generator 60.

主权项

1. A power generation control apparatus for a generator, comprising:
a plurality of electrical load devices to which a power generation voltage of the generator is applied, respectively; a storage unit configured to store an allowable voltage range set for each of the electrical load devices as a range in which voltage application to the electrical load device is allowed; a device identifier configured to identify each application object electrical load device as an object of voltage application, among the plurality of electrical load devices; an overlap range calculator configured to read the allowable voltage range of each identified application object electrical load device from the storage unit and calculate an overlap voltage range in which the read allowable voltage ranges of the application object electrical load devices are overlapped; and a power generation controller configured to limit the power generation voltage of the generator to the overlap voltage range and perform power generation control of the generator.