1. A ship rudder control system including a multiplicity of components that are connected with a bus interface to a CAN bus and to each other comprising:
a further bus interface on each component of the control system that is coupled to a separate, second bus, the components being provided with unambiguous addresses, and further information being assigned to the components that mark the components as monitorable or non-monitorable,
at least one device for emitting telegrams to all components that transmit, in addition to the address of the components, also the monitorability or the non-monitorability and that are arranged for the reception of signals from other components on the CAN bus and for outputting control information on at least one of the CAN bus and the second bus, and
first comparison means on all monitorable components that start or switch off their own property as monitoring component using the addresses of other components in the received telegrams by comparison,
second comparison means on all monitorable components that use the number of received telegrams on a channel by comparison with the number of telegrams received on another channel to cause a change of the channel to that with the higher number of received telegrams,
a channel change command being only transmitted if the component has determined itself previously to be an active monitoring component by activating the second comparison means by activity of the first comparison means.
2. The ship rudder control system according to claim 1, wherein the second bus is identical to the CAN bus.
3. The ship rudder control system according to claim 1, wherein all of the components are monitorable.
4. The ship rudder control system according to claim 1, wherein only two of the components are monitorable.
5. The ship rudder control system according to claim 1, wherein the bus control and bus connecting telegrams are always transmitted on both channels.
6. The ship rudder control system according to claim 1, wherein the control telegrams for the ship rudder are sent only on the channel that has been recognized by the active monitoring component as the primary channel and reported by means of a telegram.
7. A ship rudder control system comprising:
multiple components each provided with a unique address and assigned information that individually establishes a monitoring status for each of the multiple components as either monitorable or non-monitorable ;
a first bus interface on each of the multiple components coupled to a first, CAN bus so as to establish a first control channel;
a second bus interface on each of the multiple components coupled to a second bus and establishing a second control channel;
at least one device for emitting telegrams to the multiple components on both the first and second channels, with the telegrams including at least the addresses and monitoring status of the multiple components;
a first comparator, provided for each of a first group of the multiple components having a monitorable monitoring status, for causing each of the monitorable components to either establish itself as an active monitoring component or switch off their own property as a monitoring component based on addresses of other ones of the components received in the telegrams; and
a second comparator, provided for the first group of the components, for comparing numbers of received telegrams on the first and second channels to cause issuance of a channel change command to establish a select one of the first and second channels with a higher number of received telegrams as a primary channel, wherein a channel change command is only transmitted if a given component of the multiple components has previously determined itself to be the active monitoring component.
8. The ship rudder control system according to claim 7, wherein the second bus is identical to the CAN bus.
9. The ship rudder control system according to claim 7, wherein all of the components are monitorable.
10. The ship rudder control system according to claim 7, wherein only two of the components are monitorable.
11. The ship rudder control system according to claim 7, wherein the telegrams include bus control and bus connecting telegrams transmitted on both of the first and second channels.
12. The ship rudder control system according to claim 7, wherein the device further emits control telegrams which are sent only on one of the first and second channels which has been recognized by the active monitoring component as the primary channel.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A charging control device, comprising:
a conversion unit configured to take electric power out of an electric power generation unit that generates electric power, and configured to convert the electric power to a voltage required for charging a storage battery; and
an adjustment unit configured to adjust an output voltage that is outputted from the conversion unit,
wherein
the conversion unit takes electric power out of the electric power generation unit at two operation points where the electric power can be taken out of the electric power generation unit with the output voltage, and charges the storage battery, and
the adjustment unit adjusts the output voltage in accordance with a voltage difference between input voltages respectively corresponding to the two operation points.
2. The charging control device according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment unit adjusts the output voltage in accordance with a predetermined function with the voltage difference between the input voltages regarded as a variable.
3. The charging control device according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment unit adjusts the output voltage so as to
decrease the output voltage in the case of the voltage difference between the input voltages being smaller than a predetermined first set value, and
increase the output voltage in the case of the voltage difference between the input voltages being larger than a predetermined second set value.
4. The charging control device according to claim 1, wherein the conversion unit changes in a broad range a voltage of the electric power that is taken out of the electric power generation unit, to detect the two operation points where the outputted voltage becomes the output voltage adjusted by the adjustment unit.
5. The charging control device according to claim 4, wherein, after detecting the two operation points, the conversion unit repeats processing of changing the voltage of the electric power that is taken out of the electric power generation unit in the vicinities of the input voltages corresponding to the two operation points and newly detecting two operation points to adjust the output voltage.
6. The charging control device according to claim 1, wherein only the conversion unit is disposed as a unit configured to convert electric power on wiring that connects the electric power generation unit and the storage battery at the time of charging the electric power generated by the electric power generation unit into the storage battery.
7. A solar power generation system, comprising:
a conversion unit configured to take electric power out of a solar panel that generates electric power in accordance with irradiation with sunlight, and configured to convert the electric power to a voltage required for charging a storage battery; and
an adjustment unit configured to adjust an output voltage outputted from the conversion unit,
wherein
the conversion unit takes electric power out of the solar panel at two operation points where the electric power can be taken out of the solar panel with the output voltage and charges the storage battery, and
the adjustment unit adjusts the output voltage in accordance with a voltage difference between input voltages respectively corresponding to the two operation points.
8. A charging control method for a charging control device which comprises:
a conversion unit configured to take electric power out of an electric power generation unit that generates electric power, and configured to convert the electric power to a voltage required for charging a storage battery; and
an adjustment unit configured to adjust an output voltage that is outputted from the conversion unit,
the method comprising steps where
the conversion unit takes electric power out of the electric power generation unit at two operation points where the electric power can be taken out of the electric power generation unit with the output voltage and charges the storage battery, and
the adjustment unit adjusts the output voltage in accordance with a voltage difference between input voltages respectively corresponding to the two operation points.