US 12,140,078 B2
Control device for power unit system
Takeshi Matsumoto, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 24, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/173,992.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-028778 (JP), filed on Feb. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0272748 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. F02C 7/22 (2006.01); F01D 15/10 (2006.01); F02C 6/14 (2006.01)
CPC F02C 7/22 (2013.01) [F01D 15/10 (2013.01); F02C 6/14 (2013.01); F05D 2220/76 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control device for a power unit system, the control device comprising:
a gas turbine that includes a compressor and a turbine rotating together with the compressor;
a generator that is driven by the gas turbine;
a battery that stores electric power generated by the generator;
a required power setting unit that sets required power for the generator;
a fuel injection amount setting unit that controls an injection amount of fuel to be injected into a combustion chamber of the gas turbine;
a target rotational frequency setting unit that sets a target rotational frequency of the gas turbine with respect to target output power of the gas turbine; and
a condition determination unit that determines whether a relationship between the target output power and a rotational frequency of the gas turbine satisfies predetermined conditions,
wherein
when an output power of the gas turbine is going to be reduced and when the relationship between the target output power and the rotational frequency of the gas turbine satisfies the predetermined conditions, the required power setting unit reduces the required power and the fuel injection amount setting unit reduces the injection amount of fuel, whereby the output power of the gas turbine is reduced to the target output power, and thereafter the required power setting unit maintains the required power and the fuel injection amount setting unit reduces the injection amount of fuel, whereby the rotational frequency of the gas turbine is reduced to the target rotational frequency, and
when the output power of the gas turbine is going to be reduced and when the relationship between the target output power and the rotational frequency of the gas turbine does not satisfy the predetermined conditions, the required power setting unit maintains the required power and the fuel injection amount setting unit reduces the injection amount of fuel, whereby the rotational frequency of the gas turbine is reduced to the target rotational frequency, and thereafter the required power setting unit reduces the required power and the fuel injection amount setting unit reduces the injection amount of fuel, whereby the output power of the gas turbine is reduced to the target output power.