US 7,453,240 B2
Generating apparatus and motor control apparatus
Tatsumi Yamauchi, Hitachiota (Japan); Shinji Shirakawa, Hitachi (Japan); Masahiro Iwamura, Hitachi (Japan); Masamitsu Inaba, Hitachi (Japan); Keiichi Mashino, Hitachinaka (Japan); and Keiji Kunii, Hitachiota (Japan)
Assigned to Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/356,075.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-050058 (JP), filed on Feb. 25, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0192534 A1, Aug. 31, 2006
Int. Cl. H02P 3/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 322—12  [322/18; 322/19; 322/28; 322/29] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A generating apparatus comprising:
a generator having a field coil;
a field current controller for controlling field current flowing through said field coil; and
a quick field control circuit block for interrupting the field current flowing through said field coil and for allowing the field current remaining in said field coil to flow through a current path with a resistance element capable of quickly attenuating the field current.