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also.. we may actually have a name for this thingthanx to ~aecardenasalso.. we may actually have a name for this thing3 years ago in Personal More Like This
he suggested sunstone.. a sensible, logical name without any bondage puns to it but relevant to the story
so, my sincere thanx ...now to make a damn logo XD
Out Of This World ExhibitSo there's a travelling exhibit called the Out Of This World exhibit that goes from museum to museum displaying about 40ish artifacts from movies & tv in awesome lit-up tubes.Out Of This World Exhibit3 years ago in Personal More Like This
It's only Canadian stop happens to be in Halifax, Nova Scotia which is an hours drive from where I live so you better believe I was there opening weekend for this!
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ACTALast week we've stopped Sopa and now it's time for ACTA:ACTA4 years ago in Personal More Like This
Educate yourself, spread the message!
You can sign this petition as well: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK
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However, the most important thing to do is to vote all politicians who support these ridiculous laws out of office,
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We proved that this works by defeating SOPA. ACTA is next.
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How Malware Works Via Banner Ads by $HeidiHow Malware Works Via Banner Ads4 years ago in DeviantArt Announcements More Like This
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It's a pretty straightforward CSS, with one special feature, which is the Youtube video that's at the top of every journal. At the moment of writing this journal, it's still a Subscriber-only feature. But if you're still interested in downloading the CSS and using it, here's how you'd edit the video that's shown:
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Kim Jong-il is Kim Jong-deadHere are some of the things that The Supreme Leader, the Dear Leader, the General, Lodestar of the 21st Century and Eternal President, Kim Jong-il has been (no joke) credited with:Kim Jong-il is Kim Jong-dead4 years ago in Personal More Like This
* Even before his birth, the future leader of North Korea was triggering miracles. Official biographers say his birth in a cabin on the slopes of Baekdu Mountain in February 1942 was foretold by a swallow and heralded by a double rainbow. When he was born, a new star appeared in the night sky.
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* Kim has the ability to alter the weather simply through the power of thought.
* The fledgling leader was a genius as an infant, with official North Korean biographies stating that he had learned to walk at just 3 weeks and was talking at 8 weeks.
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Ruling that federal agents erred in attaching a satellite tracking device to a vehicle without a search warrant, a federal appeals court Friday reversed the life sentence of man accused of running a major Washington drug ring.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District found that the government's use of GPS technology to track the defendant Antoine Jones's Jeep violated the Fourth Amendment.
Civil liberties groups that aided in the appeal of Jones, whose case involved the largest cocaine seizure in city history, called the ruling an important legal victory for privacy rights.
The three-judge ruling called the GPS information key to the federal prosecution of Jones, who owned Club Levels in Northeast Washington across the street from the Metropolitan Police Department's Fifth District headquarters.
"The GPS data were essential to the government's case," the court ruled. "By combining them with Jones's cell-phone records the government was able to paint a picture of Jones's movements that made credible the allegation that he was involved in drug trafficking."
Stephen Leckar, one of the attorneys on the Jones appeal, said the ruling "recognizes the Fourth Amendment's continued significance in promoting privacy in a high-tech age."
"The decision simply tells law enforcement agents that they need a judge's decision before trespassing on a person's car and attaching a device that tracks and records him or her relentlessly over time and space."
The decision was also hailed by outside groups that aided in the appeal.
"Today's decision brings the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century," Arthur Spitzer, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area, said in a statement announcing the decision.
Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which also worked on the case, said she hoped other courts grappling with the same issue would follow the decision.
"The court correctly recognized the important differences between limited surveillance of public activities possible through visual surveillance … and the sort of extended, invasive, pervasive, always-on tracking that GPS devices allow," she said.
Government lawyers had argued Jones's movements were public anyway because police could have followed him everywhere he went on public roads, but the court rejected that argument.
Bill Miller, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, said prosecutors were "studying the ruling" Friday. He declined to comment further on whether they would appeal the decision.
The case was investigate by the Metropolitan Police Department and FBI joint Safe Streets Task Force.
Prosecutors said Jones ran a drug ring that involved at least nine other defendants that spanned from 2003 to 2005 involving hundreds of kilograms of cocaine shipped from Mexico. Executing search warrants in 2005, authorities said they seized 97 kilograms of cocaine from various locations in the District and Maryland — the largest cocaine seizure in area history, officials said.


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Clyde John Dupre, 74, a native and resident of Houma, died at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005.
Visitation will be from 8 a.m. to funeral time Saturday at Falgout Funeral Home Chapel. Religious service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the chapel, with interment in St. Louis Mausoleum in Bayou Blue.
He is survived by his companion, Vera A. Callais; one son, Curtis Dupre and wife, Juanita; one stepson, Danny Clostio; two daughters, Hedy and Wendy Dupre Guidry and husband, Larry; two brothers, Eugene and Lee Dupre; four sisters, Lois Pertuit, Miriam Degruise, Zoe Hebert and Evelyn Zeringue; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Francois and Corinne Thibodeaux Dupre; four brothers, Claude Sr., Mark, Curtis and Francis Dupre; and two sisters, Beulah Buquet and Orelia Boudreaux.
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Kevin Ng, the developer behind the label Pixels on Toast, has posted an interesting discussion of the challenges facing game developers should the next iPad launch with a 2048 x 1536 Retina display. Ng notes that such a high-resolution screen will require four times the video memory, and will also require much larger assets, which could make the current 20MB 3G download size cap that much of a hassle, if not downright untenable; he suggests the limit will be raised for iPad apps should the next iPad launch with a Retina display.
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Pollo CamperoAugust 12, 2014Latin American • Falls Church, United States
Juicy, crispy and savory chicken. Their yuca is always crispy and never fiborous like yuca from other places.
Juicy, crispy and savory chicken. Their yuca is always crispy and never fiborous like yuca from other places.
It's a much better Bolivian restaurant than it is an Italian place. Bolivian is only served on the weekends. Try the saltenas!
Yes my GF and I are enjoying a $100.00 lunch. It's been a stressful day at the office.
Get a serious deep tissue sport massage til midnight! They really work for their money here. This is some serious method.
Great customer service! Carries a great selection.
TSA is efficient
This place has turned for the worse. My meal was disappointing. It's way too pricey for subpar food. Never returning if the menu stays the same.
The hot pot is pricey but good. Ingredients are priced a la carte.
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The instant invention relates generally to turbine engine starter/generator systems, and more particularly to a starter/generator system for use with an aircraft auxiliary power unit (APU) providing starting capability from a low voltage power source, such as an aircraft battery, thus eliminating the need for a battery voltage boost inverter and isolation transformer.
Aircraft turbine engines typically employ starting systems which are separate from the electrical power generation system. Technology now exists which allows for the combination of these two functions into a single system comprising a generator which can be driven as a motor and an electronic power converter to perform the driving function. Auxiliary power units (APUs) are a subset of aircraft turbine engines which are also candidates for this combined starter/generator technology. In APU applications the turbine engine normally runs at a constant speed, driving the generator at a constant speed and, as such, does not require additional power conversion for the generate mode of operation. The start mode, however, requires a dedicated electronic converter to drive the generator as a motor to perform the start. The addition of this converter to the system is effectively offset in terms of cost, weight, and reliability by the elimination of the old dedicated starter motor and its associated gear train and mechanical disengagement device (clutch). Thus, there is a finite limit on the size and cost, as well as reliability, which the new converter must possess if it is to be a competitive candidate. A further requirement of this new APU starting system is that it must be capable of operating from the existing aircraft battery so that it will be compatible with existing systems and operational requirements.
Present APU starter generator system concepts are rather complex in order to satisfy all these requirements. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 1, a typical starter/generator system 100 requires three power converters (inverters), one for the motor torque generation/control function (main stator currents) 102, one for the exciter power generator control (main rotor current) 104, and an inverter 106 to boost the typical 28 Vdc battery voltage to a level compatible with the internal back EMF voltage produced by the starter/generator 108 during the starting process. Additionally, in APU applications, there is always a requirement to provide galvanic isolation between the input terminals of the starting system and its output terminals. This is because, in aircraft installations, the generator neutral and the battery negative terminal are permanently connected to ground (airframe) and isolation is necessary to prevent unwanted, non-torque producing, currents from flowing, thus providing maximum efficiency with minimal battery drain. Overall starter efficiency is of utmost importance in battery powered starting systems because of the limited amount of energy available from the battery.
It is not unusual for start systems with this type of architecture to be fiscally non-competitive with the existing DC motor starter systems, yet no one has come up with a suitable way to effectively improve upon this situation. The goal in the APU starter/generator concept is, therefore, to provide the best cost and efficiency by reducing the number of power converters and isolation transformers required. Achieving this goal will generally improve the size, weight, and efficiency of the system.
It is a principle objective of the instant invention, therefore, to provide a new and improved starter/generator system. More particularly, it is a principle objective of the instant invention to provide a new and improved starter/generator system capable of driving a prime mover, such as a turbine engine, from a low voltage source of dc voltage, such as an aircraft battery which will reduce overall system weight and cost, while increasing overall system efficiency.
In an embodiment of the instant invention, an electric power starter/generator system for a turbine engine capable of transforming mechanical power from the turbine engine to electric power during a generate mode of operation and of transforming electric power from a low voltage dc source to mechanical power to drive the turbine engine during a start mode of operation comprises a synchronous starter/generator having a poly-phase wound stator, and a rotor rotatably positioned therein, the rotor also being drivably coupled to the turbine engine. Further, the system establishes an electric field in the rotor and directly couples the dc source to an inverter for alternately energizing each of the poly-phase stator windings to drive the starter/generator as a motor. This inverter establishes a rotating electric field in the stator whereby a constant torque is produced by the rotor to drive the turbine engine.
In a preferred embodiment of the instant invention, the electric field is established in the rotor by a rotor excitation inverter having an input coupled to the dc source and an output electrically coupled to a rotor exciter field winding. The rotor excitation inverter produces an alternating current excitation waveform. Additionally, a voltage step-up transformer is interposed between the rotor excitation inverter output and the rotor exciter field winding to provide ac voltage sufficient in amplitude to drive the existing dc exciter winding which typically has high series inductance (reactance). Isolation between the dc source and the excitation circuit is optional to allow increased fault tolerance. This preferred embodiment further comprises rotor position sensing, through either a resolver or preferably via electronic position sensing, and a controller responsive to this rotor position for controlling the switches in the stator excitation (motor drive) inverter. This controller generates drive signals to produce the stator excitation waveform to maintain the resulting torque at a desired level. In this preferred embodiment, this inverter is a full wave inverter and the stator excitation waveform is a poly-phase sinusoidal waveform. For this full wave embodiment, the poly-phase stator windings are wound in a star configuration having a neutral connection coupled to ground. During the start mode of operation, however, the neutral connection is disconnected from ground by a ground isolation relay or other appropriate means.
In a highly preferred embodiment of the instant invention, the stator excitation inverter comprises a half wave inverter having a switch and a rectifier, such as a diode or preferably a controlled rectifier, per phase, coupled through a node in series opposition across the dc source. When a controlled rectifier is used, the controller generates rectifier control signals to disable each controlled rectifier, per phase, when a back emf waveform produced by the starter/generator becomes negative. In this way, counter torque producing currents are inhibited and the negative portion of the back emf waveform is undisturbed, and the controller can use this waveform to sense the position of the rotor. For this highly preferred embodiment, the controller provides a stator excitation waveform produced by the half wave inverter which departs from a normal half wave by a scale factor, varying from 1.5 to 3.0 during each cycle of the waveform, to maintain a constant ripple free torque. In this way, the stator excitation waveform is transformed from a half wave sinusoidal waveform to a pseudo-square current wave.
In a preferred embodiment of the instant invention, the method of driving the starter/generator as a motor comprises the steps of establishing field excitation, producing a poly-phase periodic half wave sinusoidal motor drive signal, scaling the motor drive signal by a scale factor, varying the scale factor during each period of the motor drive signal to produce a pseudo-square wave current waveform, and coupling the pseudo-square wave current waveform to the wound stator to drive the rotor to produce a constant torque. Further, this method monitors a back emf waveform produced by the motor, and calculates the rotor position from the back emf waveform during its negative cycle.
While the specification concludes with claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming that which is regarded as the present invention, the organization, the advantages, and further objects of the invention may be readily ascertained by one skilled in the art from the following detailed description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a prior art starter/generator system;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the starter/generator system of the instant invention;
FIG. 3 is a graphical illustration of the starting parameters of the embodiment of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a further graphical illustration of the starting parameters of the embodiment of FIG. 2;
FIG. 5 is a graphical illustration of the full wave current and torque produced by the embodiment of FIG. 2;
FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a further embodiment of the starter/generator system of the instant invention;
FIG. 7 is a graphical illustration of the half wave current and torque produced by a true half wave inverter;
FIG. 8 is a graphical illustration of the modified half wave current and torque produced by the embodiment of FIG. 6;
FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the starter/generator system of FIG. 6;
FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram of a further embodiment of the starter/generator system of FIG. 6; and
FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of the starter/generator system of the instant invention.
In a preferred embodiment of the instant invention, as illustrated in FIG. 2, a starter/generator 110 having a poly-phase wound stator 112 and a rotor 114 rotatably positioned therein. The rotor 114 is drivably coupled to a turbine engine or other load (not shown). The preferred embodiment further comprises means for establishing an electric field in the rotor, as illustrated by a rotor excitation inverter 116. The rotor excitation inverter 116 has an input coupled directly to a low voltage source of dc power, such as the 28 Vdc aircraft battery 118. This inverter 116 produces a sinusoidal excitation waveform which is coupled through the excitation voltage step-up transformer 120 to the exciter field 122 of the starter/generator 110. Other means known in the art may be used to establish the electric field in the rotor, such as through the use of permanent magnets, etc. A means for alternately energizing each of the poly-phase stator windings 112A, 112B, 112C is directly coupled to the battery 118 to establish a rotating electric field in the stator 112. This rotating electric field drives the rotor 114 with a constant torque to drive the turbine engine or other load (not shown). This energizing means comprises an inverter 124 having its input directly coupled to the battery 118, and its poly-phase output directly coupled to the poly-phase stator windings 112A, 112B, 112C.
A means for controlling the switches of the inverter 124 and the rotor excitation inverter 116, as illustrated by controller 126, senses the position of the rotor 114 by means such as resolver 128 or other appropriate means. This controller generates drive signals on lines 130 and 132 to control the inverters 116 and 124. Inverter 124 is a full wave inverter producing a poly-phase sinusoidal stator excitation waveform. The neutral connection 134 of the wye or star configured stator 112 is coupled through a means for disconnecting the neutral connection 134 from ground 136 during the start mode of operation. As illustrated in FIG. 2, this means is a neutral isolation relay 138 which is controlled by a signal from the controller 126.
This system is particularly well suited to APU power system applications which exhibit an inherently high ratio of starter/generator rating to mechanical cranking power needed to start the APU. Preferably, the ratios will be in the range of 15-20 to one. However, since aircraft battery requirements allow the battery voltage to be quite low, it is necessary to establish how low the dc voltage may droop, yet still be able to provide useful cranking torque. Of primary concern is the internal back emf generated by the starter/generator 110 because it is this back emf which determines the requirements for the minimum DC link voltage. It is assumed that the starter/generator's exciter 122 will be driven by AC in the manner described above to produce main field excitation during the start cycle.
Proceeding with the full wave operation of the starter/generator 110, it is assumed that the motor currents are provided by the inverter 124 relative to rotor position such that the maximum peak torque is produced at any given speed, i.e. the currents are in phase with the back emf of the starter/generator 110. There are several rules governing this type of synchronous starter system. The first is a machine law which states that the back emf of the starter/generator 110 is proportional to the product of speed and excitation level as follows:
Vemf =N*Ix (1)
where Vemf is the internal back emf of the starter/generator 110, N is the speed in rpm under consideration, and Ix is the main field excitation current. For simplicity of analysis, all of these variables will be expressed in per unit (PU) terms relative to the generate mode machine ratings. Since the back emf must be overcome by the inverter 124, Vemf can also represent the minimum inverter DC voltage required in PU value. Hence:
Vlink =N*Ix (2)
The second machine law relates to the relationships between torque, speed, and power at the starter/generator's mechanical output (shaft 140). This law states that a constant power curve intersects a constant torque line at a point which is defined as:
Pmax =Ncrit *Tmax (3)
where these variables are also expressed in PU terms, and Ncrit is the speed at which the torque and horsepower curves intersect.
A third relationship is important here and it is a machine law which states that the torque is proportional to the product of the stator current and the excitation current. Keeping in mind that the controller 126 controls the angle between the stator current and the rotor position for best torque, this relationship is stated as:
T=Istator *Ix (4)
This relationship can be applied to equation (3) which yields:
Pmax =Ncrit *Istatormax *Ix (5)
again in PU values relative to the starter/generator rating. Combining equation (3) or (5) with equation (1), to eliminate the speed term N, an important set of equations is obtained for the starter mode of operation as follows: ##EQU1##
For an exemplary system having a starter/generator rating of 60 kVA, a maximum shaft power of approximately 3.0 kW equates to 0.050 PU. Assuming a value of 1.0 for inverter 124 output (Istatormax) we see from equation (7) that: ##EQU2## Thus the minimum battery voltage for a 115 Vac line-to-neutral system, i.e. 270 Vdc rectified, is:
270*0.05=13.5 Vdc. (9)
This is within reach of the 28 Vdc battery 118, even operating at a minimum voltage of 20 Vdc, with margin to spare for AC feeder voltage drop.
For a typical system the peak cranking torque required to accelerate the engine is approximately 5 ft-lb at the engine, or 37.5 ft-lb at the starter/generator shaft 140. Since rated torque for a 6000 rpm, 60 kVA starter/generator is 70 ft-lb, the cranking torque is 37.5/70 or 0.53 PU torque (see FIG. 3). From equation (4) we see that the exciter must be driven at: ##EQU3##
As will be recognized by one skilled in the art, there is a certain degree of freedom in this particular example which can be used to optimize performance of the system. For example, the battery voltage Vlink could be changed to a higher level by lowering Istator (see equation (7)) and still get the desired torque by simply raising excitation accordingly (see equation (4)). For example, 0.53 PU torque can also be achieved for Istator of 0.53 PU and Ix of 1.0 PU. We will still be able to reach the same critical speed (Ncrit) if the extra link voltage is made available (see FIG. 4).
As illustrated by the above discussion of an embodiment of the instant invention, the starting of the APU can be accomplished directly from the aircraft battery 118 without the need for a boosting converter as required by the prior art. As the system of the instant invention accelerated the APU past the critical speed, de-excitation of the main rotor will be necessary to keep the back emf of the starter/generator compatible with the link voltage of 20 to 28 Vdc. Thus operation of the system requires control of both the stator current and the rotor excitation to maintain optimum efficiency. As shown in FIG. 5, the torque 142 produced by each phase current 144 of the poly-phase excitation waveform sums with the other torque components which are equal in magnitude but displaced by 120� for the three phase exemplary system. The total torque generated, therefore, is the sum of the three individual phase torque components, and is illustrated in FIG. 5 as line 146 at a value of 1.5 units of torque.
In a highly preferred embodiment as illustrated in FIG. 6, the stator excitation inverter 124 and the neutral isolation relay 138 are replaced with a half wave inverter 148. Operating the starter/generator 110 in a half wave fashion uses the machine 110 in a lower voltage, higher current mode than for the full wave embodiment as described hereinabove and illustrated in FIG. 2. An advantage of this highly preferred embodiment is that the effective back emf (internal voltage) generated by the starter/generator 110 will appear less to the driving inverter 148 because the applicable back emf will be the half wave line-to-neutral voltage, rather than the full wave line-to-line voltage seen by the full wave inverter 124 of FIG. 2. Thus, the inverter 148 of the highly preferred embodiment can operate from a battery 118 with less voltage than that needed for the full wave embodiment. The DC voltage for critical speed of the full wave embodiment described above will be reduced well below 13.5 Vdc and will insure compatibility with a 20 Vdc minimum battery voltage.
An analysis of a three phase starter/generator operating in a half wave, current mode from an inverter 148 with the optimum torque angle shows a reduced torque per amp of line current. This is due to the fact that at any instant of time the half wave driven starter/generator has fewer turns of the main stator windings 112A, 112B, 112C energized. As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, at any instant of time a full wave motor will have an effective torque to amp-turn coupling factor of 1.5 when the optimum torque angle is provided between stator current and rotor position as described hereinabove. The half wave starter/generator, on the other hand, will have a factor which varies between 0.5 and 1.0 as illustrated by FIG. 7. This figure shows a single phase half wave current waveform 150, its corresponding torque component 152, and a summed torque waveform 154 which is the resultant of all three phases.
In order to recover the torque to the desired 1.5 effective value, the half wave inverter 148 of the highly preferred embodiment will require that the current be increased above that of a sine wave at some points in the waveform by a factor of 1.5 (1.5/1.0), and at other points by a factor of three (1.5/0.5). The resultant current needed in the half wave embodiment of the instant invention to produce the equivalent torque of the full wave embodiment will be a pseudo-square wave current 156 with an RMS magnitude about 1.46 times that of the peak sine wave current in the full wave machine (see FIG. 8). The torque 158 produced by this current waveform 156 sums with the other phase components to form a constant ripple free torque 160.
A more detailed schematic of this embodiment is illustrated in FIG. 9. As can be seen from this illustration, the rotor excitation inverter 116 preferably comprises a single phase full wave inverter having switches 116S1, 116S2, 116S3, and 116S4, with their corresponding cross coupled diodes 116D1, 116D2, 116D3, and 116D4, directly coupled across the battery 118. The stator excitation half wave inverter 148 comprises a switch 148S1 and a diode 148D1, per phase, coupled through a node in series opposition across the battery 118. Each of these nodes forms the output of the inverter 148, and may be filtered by filter 162 prior to being coupled to the starter/generator's stator winding based on system requirements. As will be recognized by one skilled in the art, the switches in inverter 148 may be of any appropriate technology, such as insulated gate bi-polar transistors (IGBT), MOS-controlled thyristors (MCT), static induction transistors (SITs), et cetera.
A highly preferred embodiment of the half wave inverter 148 is shown in FIG. 10. In this embodiment the diodes 148D1, 148D2, and 148D3 are replaced by controlled rectifiers 148SCR1, 148SCR2, and 148SCR3 to provide a means to prevent reverse current flow to insure that the motor currents are half wave. Also, the resolver 128 (see FIG. 1) is no longer required as the rotor position sensing is accomplished by monitoring the negative emf generated by the starter/generator 110 via lines 164. The drivers 166 control conduction of the switches 148S1, 148S2, and 148S3, and the controlled rectifiers 148SCR1, 148SCR2, and 148SCR3 in such a manner that during the time the back EMF of a starter/generator phase voltage is negative, both the switch and controlled rectifier will be turned off. Thus, the associated "pole" of the half wave inverter 148 will be completely cutoff so that negative currents cannot flow, assuring that no counter torques or feeder copper losses are produced. Thus, maximum operating efficiency for the system is assured.
A further advantage of this embodiment, as mentioned above, is that during the negative half cycles, the associated phase voltages are relatively undisturbed electrically, and thus, may provide useful information regarding the rotor position. An electronic position sensor will provide the desired position decoding and this will, in turn, eliminate the need for a dedicated position sensor 128 (see FIG. 1) and the associated wiring between the controller 126 and the starter/generator 110.
An even more highly preferred embodiment of the instant invention is illustrated in FIG. 11. As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, the rotor excitation inverter 116 and the stator half wave inverter 148 are both coupled through the voltage step-up transformer 120 which now is also coupled directly to the battery. In this embodiment, the rotor excitation inverter 116 comprises a first controllable switch, such as transistor 168, and a second controllable switch, such as transistor 170 coupled to the step-up transformer 120 and to the return as shown. These switches 168, 170 are alternatively actuated to control the excitation level by varying the frequency of the AC excitation waveform generated thereby. An advantage of this embodiment is that with the addition of a first and a second rectifying diode 172, 174, the voltage level input to the inverter 148 can be increased to compensate for older type generators having high resistance stators, thus enabling the use of the instant invention in many more applications. The input voltage may be varied by coupling to the step-up transformer 120 at a different location, thus varying the turns coupling. Additionally, a commutation transformer 176 and a steering diode 178 are utilized in this embodiment, interposed between the controlled rectifiers 148SCR1, 148SCR2, 148SCR3, and the battery, to generate a negative voltage reference for the inverter 148. Commutation to a negative voltage, as opposed to ground, increases the negative di/dt and results in a faster decay of the stator current, which therefore results in a torque wave which more closely represents the desired pseudo-square wave (see FIG. 8, trace 158).
Numerous modifications and alternative embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art in view of the foregoing description. Accordingly, this description is to be construed as illustrative only and is for the purpose of teaching those skilled in the art the best mode of carrying out the invention. The details of the structure may be varied substantially without departing from the spirit of the invention, and the exclusive use of all modifications which come within the scope of the appended claims is reserved.
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Not all Linux books are created equal. Some are amazingly good, and definitely worth buying. Others are a waste of money. Three specimens identified in this article are of the latter variety.
Five benefits of command line tools
It was relatively common in the 1990s to hear that the command line's days were numbered. Both claims of its obsolescence and rumors of its impending demise were greatly exaggerated.
Open source software users voluntarily pay more
Who are the biggest cheapskates of the consumer software market? Hint: They are not the users of the least expensive operating systems.
NetworkManager, the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalinux
In pursuit of MS Windows parity, many in the Linux community are undermining what makes it better than its biggest competitor
How to fix configuration anarchy on the Linux desktop
Marco Fioretti brings up one of the perennially pesky issues of the Linux desktop -- multiple configuration files for very similar programs. See if you agree with his proposed solution to configuration anarchy.
Giving Audacity its due: An audio editor with serious functionality
Jack Wallen finds an open source program deserving of special praise. See what he has to say about Audacity, a robust audio editor and recorder.
Use xsel to copy text between CLI and GUI
The simple and versatile xsel utility bridges the gap between the Unix pipeline and the clipboard functionality of the X Window System.
Review: The best Linux book available
A thick, heavy book with the equally weighty title A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming may be the single most important Linux book you ever buy.
Ubuntu 11.04: Small issues, big win
Jack Wallen recants his original take on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu Unity. See what happened to make him so drastically change his mind about the upcoming release from Canonical.
How to remove duplicate files without wasting time
Marco Fioretti provides some code snippets to streamline the search and removal of duplicate files on your computer.
Why we should allow DRM on open source platforms
The problems with DRM are many, but that does not mean we should prevent people from using it. There are good reasons to let them suffer the consequences of their own bad choices.
Firefox 5 review: Tab perfection
The Firefox developers have been busy working on a couple of new features that are real game-changers for power users. Read on as Jack Wallen explains why he is on the cusp of jumping ship from Chrome to Firefox.