Patents Examined by Zoheb Imtiaz
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Patent number: 9819295Abstract: A time control system for multiple motors is provided in the present disclosure. The time control system includes an event generating module for generating event information corresponding to an event, a control module for analyzing the event information, a signal selecting module for selecting vibrating information according to the event information, a motor module comprising multiple motors, and a driving module for driving the multiple motors in the motor module to vibrate. The control module is further configured for determining whether the vibrating information need to be delayed, and the time control system further includes a delay module for delaying the vibrating information for a time period before sending the vibrating information to the driving module to delay driving the motor module.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: AAC TECHNOLOGIES PTE. LTD.Inventors: Xiaofei Hu, Hongxing Wang, Yao Wang
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Patent number: 9802642Abstract: A method of controlling a motor of a power steering system is provided. The method generates a direct-axis voltage command and a quadrature-axis voltage command based on a current measurement signal received from the motor. The method transforms the direct-axis voltage command and the quadrature-axis voltage command into an alpha voltage command and a beta voltage command. The method determines an offset error in the phase current measurement based on the alpha and beta voltage commands.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATIONInventors: Siddharth Ballal, Timothy A. Klinesmith, Dennis B. Skellenger
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Patent number: 9787243Abstract: A controller for a brushless direct-current motor having an upstream converter, which has a half-bridge having a pair of switching means for each phase winding of the motor, includes a measuring device or has a signal connection to a measuring device. The measuring device is associated with a half-bridge and by means of the measuring device, the induced voltage, the counterelectromotive force of a phase winding, can be detected for rotor position detection in the current-free state, for which purpose the controller, in an operating mode that causes the braking and in which the switching means cause a short circuit of the phase windings, briefly opens the switching means associated with the measuring device in order to determine a rotor motion.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: MAGNA POWERTRAIN BAD HOMBURG GMBHInventor: Markus Schüssler
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Patent number: 9762059Abstract: A voltage stabilizing module for multi power source input is compatible with multiple input power sources including DC power source and/or AC power source and comprises a plurality of receiving ends, a power source selection unit and a voltage conversion unit. The receiving ends receive the input power sources. The power source selection unit is coupled with the receiving ends to receive the input power sources and sets at least one of the input power sources as a working power source. The voltage conversion unit receives the working power source and keeps the working power source at a working voltage level to act as a voltage signal outputted to a loading.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Wei-Shuo Tseng, Chao-Chin Chuang, Chih-Hsiang Kuo, Yi-Kuan Hsu
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Patent number: 9762158Abstract: A pulse motor driving circuit includes a first switch having a terminal connected with a positive terminal of a power source; a second switch having a terminal connected with a negative terminal of the power source; and a capacitor having another terminal connected with positive terminal of the power source and having another terminal of the first switch and another terminal of the second switch. The second switch is a transistor, and is capable of limiting a current flowing from the power source to the capacitor. The first switch is turned on and the second switch is turned off in a current application start period while the current starts to be applied to a pulse motor phase excitation part for exciting the pulse motor. The first switch is turned off and the second switch is turned on in a period other than the current application start period.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventor: Taichi Sakakura
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Patent number: 9762162Abstract: In a method of operating a drive device, a sound signal is generated as a function of at least one operational and/or state variable. An electric machine of the drive device is hereby as a sound generator to output the sound signal. The sound signal can be determined from a time gradient of the operational and/or state variable.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Roman Strasser
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Patent number: 9755256Abstract: A method of controlling a fuel cell system includes decelerating the air blower that stops power generation of a fuel cell stack or supplies air to the fuel cell stack. A connection state of pipes connected to a valve is controlled by adjusting the valve disposed between an exit side of the air blower and an entrance side of a cathode of the fuel cell stack. According to the present disclosure, the time of maintaining open circuit voltage (OCV) can be reduced, and the dry out of the fuel cell stack can be prevented to improve durability of the fuel cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Dong Hun Lee, Sang Uk Kwon
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Patent number: 9740192Abstract: A computer system may determine a target position of the electronic component. The computer system may also determine a current position of the electronic component. The computer system may compare the current position to the target to position to determine whether the electronic component is in the target position. If the electronic component is not in the target position, the computer system may use an electroactive polymer to adjust the position of the electronic component to move the electronic component into the target position.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tyler Jandt, Phillip V. Mann, Mark D. Plucinski, Sandra J. Shirk/Heath
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Patent number: 9729098Abstract: A system for controlling a motor of a hybrid vehicle determines a current of a first axis and a current of a second axis according to a driving condition, converts the currents of the first and second axes into a 3-phase AC current, and drives the motor by applying the 3-phase AC current to the motor, and includes: a revised temperature calculation module that calculates a revised temperature in order to compensate a torque error according to counter electromotive force dispersion of the motor; and a current determination module that determines the currents of the first and second axes by substituting the corrected temperature to a current map for each temperature and by using a demand torque at a present driving condition, a present speed of the motor, and a maximum counter magnetic flux of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Sung Kyu Kim, Mu Shin Kwak, Hong Geuk Park, Suhyun Bae
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Patent number: 9722521Abstract: A control circuit for a microelectromechanical element includes: a waveform generator, which is designed to generate a digital trigger signal for the microelectromechanical element, a modulator, which is designed to oversample the digital trigger signal, to subject the signal to a noise shaping, and to output the oversampled and noise-shaped digital trigger signal; and a digital driver device, which is designed to drive the microelectromechanical element using the oversampled and noise-shaped digital trigger signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2011Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Mohamad Iyad Al Dibs, Axel Wenzler, Oliver Krayl
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Patent number: 9707835Abstract: An improved gas-electric power delivery system is provided. The invention provides an array of internal combustion engine-powered electric generators and an array of electric drive motors wherein each electric drive motor connects to a common shaft. The common shaft of the electric drive motor array connects to a mechanical load of varying power demand. The electric drive motors draw power from a battery in response to demands on the motors by the varying power demands of the external load. The array of electric generators charges the battery and each such generator turns on and off, as needed, to maintain the battery charge in response to demands on the battery by the electric drive motor array. Each electric motor connected to a common shaft in the electric motor array also turns on and off, as needed, to meet the varying power demands of the external load.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: 3B TECHNOLOGIES IIInventors: Robert D. Washburn, Robert F. McClanahan, Arlene E. McClanahan
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Patent number: 9705433Abstract: A control system for a motor in a refrigeration system includes an angle determination module configured to generate an output rotor angle indicative of a desired angle of a rotor of the motor. The control system controls current supplied to the motor based on the output rotor angle. The control system determines an estimated rotor angle of the motor. The angle determination module, upon startup of the motor, generates the output rotor angle based on a first rotor angle. Upon generation of a transition signal, the angle determination module generates the output rotor angle based on both the first rotor angle and the estimated rotor angle. Subsequent to generation of the transition signal, the angle determination module reduces a contribution of the first rotor angle to the output rotor angle over time until the output rotor angle is based on the estimated rotor angle independent of the first rotor angle.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charles E. Green, Joseph G. Marcinkiewicz
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Patent number: 9685894Abstract: When a set duty Dt of a PWM signal is less than a minimum duty (Dmin) that allows for pulse induced voltage detection, the PWM signal in which a duty D1 during a predetermined period is limited to Dmin and in which a duty D2 during the other period is adjusted so as to satisfy Dt=(D1+D2)/2 is applied to the switching elements connected to one of the two phases. When the duty D2 during the other period takes a negative value, the pulse-voltage application target during the other period is changed to the switching elements connected to the other of the two phases, and the duty D1 during the predetermined period is corrected and increased so as to compensate for an actual drop in the duty D2 during the other period corresponding to a dead-time period in a complementary PWM method.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masaki Hano, Takeshi Umetsu
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Patent number: 9667169Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a power conversion element; a capacitor; a control circuit that outputs a control signal to control operation of the power conversion element at the time of driving a load; a discharge control unit that outputs a discharge control signal to control operation of the power conversion element at the time of discharging the capacitor; a power supply circuit that generates a power supply voltage, on the basis of a voltage between both ends of the capacitor; and a driver unit that outputs a driving signal to operate the power conversion element, on the basis of the control signal or the discharge control signal. The power conversion element is operated according to the discharge control signal, a current is flown from the capacitor to the load through the power conversion element, and the capacitor is discharged.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Masamichi Nawa, Takayuki Itsuji
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Patent number: 9667187Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a secondary-magnetic-flux-command calculating unit including a minimum-current-secondary-magnetic-flux-command calculating unit that calculates a secondary magnetic flux command for minimizing a current root-mean-square value due to a torque current and an excitation current and a PWM-signal generating unit that generates a torque current command for outputting a desired torque command and an excitation current command for outputting the secondary magnetic flux command, performs vector control such that a q-axis current, which is a detection value of the torque current, and a d-axis current, which is a detection value of the excitation current, respectively coincide with the torque current command and the excitation current command, and generates control signals for turning on and off a switching element in an inverter.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takuji Yoshimoto, Yoshinori Yamashita
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Patent number: 9656555Abstract: An electric motor vehicle main circuit system includes an AC-DC switching circuit switching a supply destination of electric power according to a type of supplied power from an overhead wire, a transformer, a tap changer switching tap positions of the transformer, a CNV converting an output of the tap changer into a direct-current voltage, an AC contactor opening and closing a power supply path between the tap changer and the CNV, an FC accumulating an output of the CNV or the overhead wire, a CH stepping up an output of the FC, an FC accumulating an output of the CH, an INV converting an output of the FC into a desired alternating-current voltage, a DC contactor opening and closing a power supply path between the AC-DC switching circuit and the CH, and a control section controlling the tap changer, the AC contactor, the DC contactor, the CNV, and the CH.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takeo Matsumoto, Yoshio Nagatsuka
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Patent number: 9660559Abstract: A brushless motor comprises: a stator 21 having armature coils 21a, 21b, and 21c; a rotor 22 which is rotated by a revolving magnetic field; and a switching element 30a, wherein the brushless motor has a rotation number control unit 33 which switches between low-speed and high-speed mode, wherein in the low-speed mode, the rotation number control unit 33 supplies current to the armature coils 21a, 21b, and 21c at predetermined energization timing and controls a duty ratio to control the rotation number of the rotor 22, and in the high-speed mode, the rotation number control unit 33 supplies current to the armature coils 21a, 21b, and 21c at energization timing advanced from the energization timing for the low-speed mode, thereby performing field weakening control of weakening the revolving magnetic field from that of the low-speed mode to control the rotation number of the rotor 22.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Mitsuba CorporationInventors: Masaaki Kimura, Hiroto Tanaka, Tamotsu Iwazaki, Tomohiko Annaka, Naoki Kojima, Junya Kitazawa
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Patent number: 9660564Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide optimized control of a three-phase AC motor. A field oriented control (FOC) arrangement uses optimization components and techniques to improve power efficiency of the motor, with fast control response over a full range of motor speeds.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Tao Zhao, Arno Rabenstein, Theng Kiong Gan, Choon Keat Kok, Sze Main Wong
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Patent number: 9654039Abstract: A pulse motor driving circuit for driving a pulse motor includes a first switch having a terminal that is connected with a positive terminal of a power source; a second switch having a terminal that is connected with a negative terminal of the power source; and a capacitor having a terminal connected with a limit element and having another terminal connected with another terminal of the first switch and another terminal of the second switch, wherein the limit element is provided between the positive terminal and the capacitor and limits a current, wherein the first switch is turned on and the second switch is turned off in a current application start period while the current starts to be applied, wherein the first switch is turned off and the second switch is turned on in a period other than the current application start period.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITEDInventor: Taichi Sakakura
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Patent number: 9654040Abstract: A drive circuit of a stepping motor includes a D/A converter, a current controller having a comparing unit, and an abnormality detecting unit. The DAC generates a target voltage indicating a target value for an excitation current determined based on a reference voltage indicating an upper limit value of the excitation current flowing into the stepping motor. The current controller controls the excitation current based on this target voltage. The comparing unit compares a voltage corresponding to the excitation current and the target voltage. The abnormality detecting unit detects an abnormality of the wire between the drive circuit and the stepping motor based on an output signal from the comparing unit and a control signal indicating a polarity of the excitation current.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Tsuchihashi, Hiroki Hashimoto