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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090071734 | Method and Apparatus for Generating Electrical Power with Compressed Air and Vehicle Incorporating the Same An apparatus for generating electrical power using compressed gas is described. The apparatus includes a source of compressed gas, such as one or more tanks. A compressed gas powered turbine and an operatively coupled electrical generator are also provided. The compress... | 03/19/2009 |
| 20080211432 | All Wheel Drive Vehicle The present invention relates to the field of electric-motor-driven vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, scooters, electric-motor trains, etc. Embodiments of the invention seek to provide an economic all-wheel-drive (AWD) vehicle possessing high dynamic characteristics a... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080111421 | Modular and scalable power conversion system for aircraft A method and apparatuses are used for power conversion. The apparatus according to one embodiment comprises a plurality of power conversion modules (130—1, . . . 130—n), the plurality of power conversion modules (130... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20070296359 | Hybrid vehicle A hybrid vehicle includes: first and second rotary electric machines; a matrix converter connecting the first and second rotary electric machines to each other to provide AC to AC power conversion between both the rotary electric machines; a battery connected to an elec... | 12/27/2007 |
| 20070205741 | Controller for an electric vehicle and driving apparatus for the electric vehicle The present invention provides a controller and driving apparatus for an electric vehicle, which enables a motor to steadily output torque even when there is an increase in the rotation speed of an internal combustion engine that drives a generator. A motor control unit... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070159121 | Electric power converter, electric power converter controlling method and electric power converting system An electric power converter, electric power converter controlling method and electric power converting system for converting multi-phase alternating-current inputted from a generator and outputting multi-phase alternating current for controlling a drive of a motor. An i... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070138982 | Device for the feeding of auxiliary operating facilities for a fuel-electrically driven vehicle A device for the feeding of auxiliary operating facilities for a fuel-electrically driven vehicle with a combustion engine is stated, which device comprises a generator driven by the combustion engine and a rectifier connected with a generator on the AC voltage side, wh... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070103101 | Rotating electric machine with built-in control device The invention is intended to obtain a rotating electric machine with a built-in control device in which the control device is kept from receiving heat from a main body of the rotating electric machine and the control device can be cooled in a desirable fashion. A heat s... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20060138980 | Electrical rotating machine control unit and power generation system Because of the necessity of resolver for detecting a rotating position, which is very expensive, and noise suppression of the rotating position signal line on a doubly-fed machine, cost increase of the generator and reduced reliability due to possible failures are inevi... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060066271 | Control device for three phase ac generator-motor For a control circuit of a three-phase alternating current motor-generator, which serves as a three-phase rectifier circuit for charging a battery with power generated by driving the motor-generator as a generator and which also serves as a three-phase inverter circuit ... | 03/30/2006 |
| 20060066272 | Control device for three phase ac generator-motor A control device of a three-phase alternating current motor-generator, which works as an inverter circuit for driving the motor-generator as a motor by using a battery and also functions as a three-phase rectifier circuit for driving the motor-generator as a generator f... | 03/30/2006 |
