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Granted Patent B2
US 8,838,303 · App. 13/825,580 · Granted Sep 16, 2014

Vehicle system control device

Inventor: Keita Hatanaka (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,838,303
App. No.
13/825,580
Granted
Sep 16, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A diesel-hybrid control device according to the present invention generates an instruction signal for instructing about a driving force of a storage battery car constituting a vehicle system of a train and driven by a motor, and includes a driving-force instruction unit that generates an instruction signal for instructing about a driving force of a railcar constituting the vehicle system and driven by a diesel engine. The driving-force instruction unit generates an instruction signal for instructing to start driving the storage battery car and generates an instruction signal for instructing to be on standby for driving the railcar at a time of starting the train.

Claims (5)

1. A vehicle system control device that controls a vehicle system of a train in which a railcar that is configured to run by itself by driving a wheel using an output of a diesel engine and a storage battery car that is configured to run by itself by driving a wheel by a motor driven by electric power from a storage battery are coupled, wherein

the storage battery car includes a driving-force instruction unit that provides an instruction signal for instructing about a driving force to a railcar control device included in the railcar and a storage-battery-car control device included in the storage battery car,

the driving-force instruction unit generates an instruction signal for instructing to start driving the storage battery car and generates an instruction signal for instructing to be on standby for driving the railcar at a time of starting the train, allocates a driving force to the railcar and to the storage battery car at a time of accelerating after starting the train, and generates an instruction signal for instructing about a driving force of the railcar and an instruction signal for instructing about a driving force of the storage battery car based on an allocation result,

the railcar control device outputs a command to the diesel engine and controls the diesel engine based on the instruction signal generated by the driving-force instruction unit, and

when a running distance from the time of starting the train is equal to or longer than a threshold value, the driving-force instruction unit generates an instruction signal for instructing to start driving the railcar by a diesel engine, generates an instruction signal for instructing about a driving force of the railcar, and generates an instruction signal for instructing about a driving force, obtained by subtracting a driving force instructed as a driving force of the railcar from a desired driving force of the train, as a driving force of the storage battery car.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 22, 2013
From: HATANAKA, KEITA
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 030066/0418 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20130184905A1 · Jul 18, 2013