Abstract: A failure phase of an AC current sensor is determined without providing a DC current sensor. A control device that controls a motor via an inverter circuit that supplies power converted from direct current to three-phase alternating current to the motor, in which a current sensor that detects alternating current of each phase of three-phase alternating current is provided at an output of the inverter circuit, and the control device calculates estimated DC current values by using a duty value of a PWM signal for controlling switching of the inverter circuit and an AC current value of two phases among three phases detected by the current sensor, and determines a failure of the current sensor on the basis of a change in the estimated DC current values that have been calculated.

Abstract: The power conversion apparatus includes a converter circuit that converts an alternating-current voltage output from an alternating-current power supply into a direct-current voltage. The converter circuit includes unit converters. The power conversion apparatus includes current detectors that detect respective currents flowing through respective reactors. In first and second unit converters adjacent to each other among the unit converters, a phase difference between a first phase and a second phase is changed from a reference phase difference when a total current of currents detected by the respective current detectors is greater than a threshold. The first phase is a phase at a time when the switching element of the first unit converter is turned on. The second phase is a phase at a time when the switching element of the second unit converter is turned on.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an energy storage device, comprising power terminals for connecting to a voltage circuit of power electronics of a drive system, which drive system can be controlled by an external system controller as well as at least one electrical storage block; at least one power converter for connecting the voltage circuit of the power electronics of the drive system to an internal voltage circuit of the storage block; and a control device for controlling the at least one power converter. Said control device has a controller board having output and/or feed-in control means for controlling the power converter for the outputting of current from/feeding of current into the storage block, and/or voltage closed-loop and/or open-loop control means for the closed-loop and/or open-loop control of the output voltage of the energy storage device. According to the invention, said control device has an adaptation board, which is connected to the controller board.

Abstract: A direct current power supply device includes: a reactor; a converter connected to an alternating current power supply via the reactor; a smoothing capacitor connected between output terminals of the converter; an inrush current preventing circuit disposed on a charging path from the alternating current power supply to the smoothing capacitor; a current detection unit detecting direct current representing an operating state on an output side of the converter; a current detection unit detecting power supply current representing an operating state on an input side of the converter; and a control unit receiving the direct current and the power supply current and controlling an operation of the converter. The control unit receives a detected value of saturated current from at least one of the direct current and the power supply current when the power supply voltage recovers from a state in which the power supply voltage is reduced.

Abstract: A three-phase brushless motor control device uses one shunt resistor disposed on a bus of an inverter as a drive circuit driving a three-phase brushless motor and acquires a two-phase current of the three-phase brushless motor at a predetermined timing to vector-control the three-phase brushless motor. At this time, in accordance with a duration in which the two-phase current cannot be accurately acquired, the control device varies an acquisition timing of the two-phase current or varies a period during which the three-phase brushless motor is vector-controlled.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a variable magnetic flux motor, wherein the variable magnetic flux motor includes a rotor in which a permanent magnet and a conductor bar are arranged, includes an inverter configured to apply a stator current to a stator coil of the motor, and a control unit configured to control a torque of the conductor bar and magnetize or demagnetize the permanent magnet by controlling the stator current through the inverter.

Abstract: The present application provides a motor control device capable of suppressing noise. A motor control device includes a control unit configured to generate a PWM signal corresponding to each phase (U, V, W) of a motor, an inverter circuit configured to drive the motor, based on the PWM signal, and a current detector connected to a direct-current line of the inverter circuit in series. The control unit includes a current detection unit, a duty cycle setting unit configured to set a duty cycle, based on a detection result of the current detection unit, and a PWM signal generation unit configured to generate the PWM signal. The PWM signal of each phase has a signal level changing at a timing according to the set duty cycle in a first period in one cycle of the PWM signal and has a signal level changing at a different fixed timing in the second period in one cycle of the PWM signal. The current detection unit detects a current (Sd) of the current detector in the second period.

Abstract: An arrangement for determining a temperature of an electric machine includes a supply unit for operating the electric machine, with a first temperature of the electric machine computed with a first thermal model of the electric machine in the supply unit, and a computing facility connected to the supply unit by way of a data transmission channel, with a second temperature of the electric machine computed with a second thermal model of the electric machine in the computing facility. The supply unit and the computing facility communicate by way of the data transmission channel so as to enable the computing facility to determine the second temperature of the electric machine with the second thermal model even when no current is supplied to the supply unit.

Abstract: There is provided a control device for an electric motor. The control device includes an inverter circuit and a control circuit. In a control cycle of the electric motor, the control cycle includes first to third sections. The control circuit outputs a first modulated wave in accordance with an output of the electric motor and outputs a minimum value or maximum value of a carrier wave as second and third modulated waves in the first section with a peak of first alternate-current voltage, and outputs the second modulated wave in accordance with an output of the electric motor and outputs the minimum value or maximum value of the carrier wave as the first and third modulated waves in the second section with a peak of second alternate-current voltage. The same output is applied in the third section with a peak of third alternate-current voltage.

Abstract: A method determines a rotor position of an electric rotating machine which is fed by a PWM-controlled inverter. Specific injection voltages, which are composed of predefined voltages and high-frequency voltages, are converted into corresponding PWM duty factors by a controller and the inverter is correspondingly actuated with these PWM duty factors. Current profiles of phase currents are then determined by measuring at least one first phase current and at least one second phase current. The measurement is carried out within a PWM period, in each case in the chronologically last third of a passive switched state. The rotor position is then determined in accordance with the ascertained current profiles and the fed-in high-frequency voltages.

Abstract: A direct-current bus power supply as a power supply device supplies power to a load capable of switching a state between a driving state in which driving is performed by receiving power supply and a standby state in which driving is stopped while receiving power supply. The power supply device includes: a diode bridge circuit and capacitors as a rectifier circuit that enables an alternating-current voltage to be rectified by respective rectification systems of full-wave rectification and voltage doubler rectification; and a switching unit that perform switching between the full-wave rectification and the voltage doubler rectification on the basis of a voltage value of the alternating-current voltage and the state of the load.

Abstract: The present application makes it possible to measure a PWM signal in a wide frequency range. A PWM signal measurement device (20) includes: a first duty cycle measurement unit (24) of a capture type configured to measure a frequency (f) and a duty cycle of a PWM signal (Sc); a voltage measurement unit (23) configured to measure a smoothed voltage (Vad) obtained by smoothing the PWM signal using a smoothing circuit (13); a second duty cycle measurement unit (25) of a smoothing type configured to measure a duty cycle of the PWM signal on the basis of a measured voltage value (Vadm) of the smoothed voltage; and a measurement-type selecting unit (26) configured to select one of the capture type or the smoothing type on the basis of a measured value of the frequency and a measured value of the smoothed voltage.

Abstract: Disclosed are an inverter control device and method. The method according to an embodiment of the present includes estimating a rotation speed of a motor, determining a slip frequency reference using an energy of a direct current terminal capacitor of an inverter, which provides an output voltage to the motor, and a direct current terminal energy reference when a direct current terminal voltage of the inverter is a certain level or less, and providing a frequency reference determined by adding the rotation speed of the motor and the slip frequency reference to the inverter.

Abstract: There is obtained an electric-power conversion apparatus that prevents it that the temperature of a semiconductor switching device reaches a breakage temperature and hence the semiconductor switching device is broken and that realizes continuity of driving. The electric-power conversion apparatus includes a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of semiconductor switching device, and a temperature rising rate determination unit that compares a predetermined first threshold value with a temperature rising rate calculated based on a temperature detection value detected by the temperature sensor and determines that the temperature rising rate has exceeded the first threshold value; when the temperature rising rate determination unit determines that the temperature rising rate has exceeded the first threshold value, protective operation for suppressing an output of an electric-power conversion unit is performed.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a battery, an inverter, a permanent magnet electric machine, and a controller. The controller commands discharge of a storage element of the inverter through the permanent magnet electric machine via a current having a zero quadrature axis component and a positive direct axis component.

Abstract: An electric machine is provided. A polyphase machine is provided. A power inverter is electrically connected to the polyphase machine. A controller is electrically connected to the power inverter, wherein the controller provides switching signals to the power inverter, wherein the controller comprises a trajectory calculator that provides an optimized trajectory for transitioning the polyphase machine from a first torque to a second torque.

Abstract: A commutation control method, a device for a brushless direct current motor, and a storage medium are described. The method includes performing detection on a position of a rotor in a brushless direct current motor. The detection is further configured to be triggered by commutation of the brushless direct current motor. The method includes determining, for the brushless direct current motor, a first drive scheme corresponding to the detected position of the rotor, the first drive scheme indicates a manner in which a three-phase full-bridge circuit of the brushless direct current motor operates; updating a pulse width modulation (PWM) drive signal, the updating is performed on the basis of the first drive scheme; and using the updated PWM drive signal to control the brushless direct current motor to perform commutation.

Abstract: An electric powered work machine according to one aspect of to the present disclosure includes a motor. The electric powered work machine includes a first line connecting a positive electrode of a battery to the motor. The electric powered work machine includes a second line connecting a negative electrode of the battery to the motor. The electric powered work machine includes a third line connecting the first line to the second line. The electric powered work machine includes a first capacitor disposed on the third line. The electric powered work machine includes a rectifier disposed on the third line. The rectifier limits or inhibits an electric current flowing from the second line to the first line through the third line. The electric powered work machine includes a first circuit connected to the third line. The first circuit has impedance that is other than zero, and bypasses the rectifier.

Abstract: This application provides an electric motor control method and device, a system, and an electric vehicle. The method includes: obtaining an input power and an output power of an electric motor; calculating a loss power based on the input power and the output power; determining a target d-axis current of the electric motor, where the target d-axis current is calculated by a calculation module based on the loss power, the calculation module includes a tracking differentiator, and the calculation module operates in a controller; and determining a duty ratio based on the target d-axis current and a preset q-axis current, and inputting the duty ratio into an inverter so that the inverter drives, based on the duty ratio, the electric motor to operate.

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a multi-phase electric machine, wherein a stator of the electric machine includes a first sub-system and a second sub-system having the same number of phases and separate star points. The method includes controlling an inverter device by way of space vector modulation in order to generate output voltages for each of the phases, and outputting the output voltages as pulse sequences, wherein each of the pulse sequences in the second sub-system is output inverted with respect to respective pulse sequence in the first sub-system.