Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a line card and backplane combination for reducing EMI emissions includes a backplane, a printed circuit board and a printed circuit board carrier attached to the printed circuit board. The bracket has a first leg and a second leg. The first leg electrically contacts the backplane. The combination also includes a clip electrically engaged with the second leg, the carrier and the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A magnetic bearing system allows a movable body to be positioned to a point of substantial equilibrium in an axial direction after a system shutdown. A sensor measures the axial position of the movable body to produce an displacement output. That output is then adjusted to account for a sensor offset. The adjustment is stored and can be used to position the movable body during regular operation of the system or when the system reboots or restarts. The adjusted displacement output is converted into a force for positioning the movable body. The movable body may be a rotor in a heart pump apparatus.

Abstract: A method for steering a motor vehicle with a steer-by-wire steering system. A setpoint is for the position of the steered wheels is generated from the steering wheel angle. A controlled difference is then generated between the setpoint and the actual value of the position of the steered wheel and the position of the steered wheel is then adjusted in accordance with the controlled difference. The steering wheel torque is then adjusted based on the torque's and/or forces prevailing between the steered wheels and a steering controller or based on a performance graph.

Abstract: In servomechanisms, like for example used in disk drives, disturbances, for example, friction, shock and vibration, prevent the system positioning accuracy from further improvement. These disturbances occur in a relatively low-frequency range compared to the electrical dynamics. In the present invention, an acceleration feedback control loop using a frequency-separated acceleration soft sensor (350) replaces the conventionally used current control loop in the low frequency range, where the disturbances occur, so as to attenuate the influence of the disturbances enclosed in the loop. The current feedback continues to manage the electrical dynamics in the high-frequency range. Estimating the required acceleration signal by a soft sensor (350) eliminates the need for physical accelerometers, which reduce system reliability and increase system cost.

Abstract: A one-piece speaker assembly has a speaker having a case, a gasket made of elastomer and secured to an upper portion of the case, and a connector made of elastomer and secured to an underside of the case.

Abstract: Method for providing current regulation and a current controller (10) for an electric machine (30) are provided. The method includes receiving a state vector time signal (36) indicative of a time interval when a switching state vector is activated and comparing the received state vector time signal to a commanded state vector time signal (38). The method further includes using the result of the comparison to regulate a direct axis current signal (42, 44) input to an electric machine controller. The current controller (10) includes a state vector error comparator for comparing a received state vector time signal to a commanded state vector time signal and generating a state vector time error. This error is processed by a PI controller, coupled to the state vector error comparator, for providing a direct axis current signal output responsive to the state vector time error to an electric machine.

Abstract: An operational check of the safety unit or the safety circuit takes place within the delay time of the relay, assigned to each motor, caused by the pick-up delay or the release delay. Also, the control unit can be equipped such with at least one safety component and/or safety circuit for controlling the control unit that an operational check of the control unit takes place between the operation of an operating element of the hand switch and the starting of the motor or motors. The operating time and the release time of the relay may be delayed by a suitable component so that sufficient time is available for the operational check.

Abstract: A honeycomb acoustic unit is provided, the unit comprising first and second honeycomb layers, the layers being made of honeycomb core, each being formed by metallurgical bonds, and a deformable septum having two opposing sides, the first and second honeycomb layers being metallurgically bonded to the two opposing sides of the deformable septum.

Abstract: A motor driving apparatus includes a pulse-width modulator and a PWM frequency switch for switching a carrier frequency of the modulator. The PWM frequency switch changes a carrier frequency in a start-up period of the motor to another frequency when the motor enters into a regular rotation. The carrier frequency in the start-up period is set at a lower level than that in the regular rotation period, so that the driving apparatus can reduce power-loss generated in the start-up period by switching actions of respective driving elements forming a first and a second drivers. In the regular rotation period, the driving apparatus performs PWM-driving with a high enough carrier frequency, so that the motor driven by this driving apparatus can realize accurate rotation.

Abstract: A movable barrier operator having a motor controller (10) and motor (11) that control selective movement of a movable barrier (12) also has an obstacle detector (14) that utilizes an automatically determined excess force threshold value to permit reliable detection of an obstacle under a wide variety of operational circumstances, including changing physical circumstances, aging components, temperature variations, and motor runtime. In a preferred embodiment, a characteristic force value for the system is frequently updated as a function of actual measured force requirements (and further compensated, pursuant to various embodiments, with respect to other conditions such as temperature and motor runtime). This characteristic force value is then utilized to determine the excess force threshold value.

Abstract: An induction machine includes a rotor having rotor flux and a rotor resistance. The induction machine outputs first and second reference current values. A control system includes a first controller that outputs first and second reference voltage values to the induction machine and that generates an estimated rotor flux magnitude value based on a rotor resistance parameter. A computation circuit receives the first and second reference current values from the induction machine and the first and second voltage reference values from the first controller and calculates an actual rotor flux magnitude. A rotor resistance adjustor that updates the rotor resistance parameter based on the actual and estimated rotor flux magnitudes.

Abstract: An electronic module having a configuration for promoting efficient heat dissipation and a circuit board assembly are provided such that when the electronic module is inserted within the circuit board assembly a portion of the electronic module overlaps an EMI shield, with the portion of the electronic module having a configuration for promoting efficient heat dissipation and being external of the EMI shield.

Abstract: This invention describes a reconfigured form of the PID compensator such that the rate of change of the position error is inherently limited without affecting the performance of the servo loop when the position error is small. The technique described here maintains the performance of the conventional PID compensator when the position error is close to zero, which is the operating point of primary interest.

Abstract: The invention relates to a simple, economical and reliable method for providing anti-jamming protection. According to said method, the excess force—the difference between the driving force and the friction force—is compared with a trigger threshold. To this end, the curve of the friction force of the current actuation process, which is dependent on the actuation path of the electrical drive unit, is compared to the curve of the friction force of at least one previous actuation process and the trigger threshold value is modified according to how the friction force curves correspond. The invention also relates to a method for providing anti-jamming protection for an electrical drive unit for window lifting drives.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for taking up play in a drive system when a change in load occurs. The drive system comprises a drive engine, preferably an internal combustion engine, coupled to a drive line in a vehicle, an electric motor which acts on the drive engine and/or the drive line with a driving or braking torque, and which motor is coupled to the drive engine or constitutes a part of the drive line, and a control system for controlling the electric motor. The control system sends a pulse to the electric motor when a change in load occurs, a torque pulse taking up play in the drive line before a torque stage from the drive engine begins. The size of the pulse is selected from a matrix stored in a memory, depending on the current operating conditions. The invention also relates to an arrangement for implementing the method.

Abstract: A drive unit for vehicles prevents the rise of temperature of a high-pressure battery or condenser and assists the vehicle engine using a motor activated by an electric current supplied from the battery. The drive unit includes a battery temperature sensor and battery ammeter sensor, and defines the permissible current value of input-and-output current, which is limit of a current value to be inputted-and-outputted with respect to the battery, based on the difference between the battery temperature and the upper limit. When the battery temperature exceeds the threshold temperature, the permissible current value is set. Moreover, when the exchanged current value of the output-and-input current exceeds the permissible current value, the motor gradually decreases the output command value.

Abstract: Asynchronous motors are controlled by way of two- or three-phase controllers that include at least two pair of thyristors connected in antiparallel and fired at certain intervals. According to the inventive method, a fundamental wave with the desired frequency is defined for the first phase and in the other phase a respective fundamental wave is defined that has the same frequency as that in the first phase, but phase-shifted by corresponding values. For every phase, firing intervals are marked that have the same polarity as the respective fundamental wave. Those intervals of the potential firing intervals are used for every phase at which there is a potential firing interval in one of the two other phases. These intervals are used as the actual firing intervals.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine having a plurality of rotors is driven by a compound current. A voltage to be applied to a stator of the rotary electric machine is in the form of a compound rectangular or stepwise voltage composed of a plurality of superposed components each of which is a rectangular or stepwise wave having a frequency corresponding to the revolution speed of a unique one of the rotors.

Abstract: The sense signal, which is used to indicate that the motor phase current in a stepper motor is at the set point, is marked both before and after each pulse width modulator edge thereby reducing susceptibility to commutation noise from any phase. A mask time is created for a period before and after a PWM edge. The phase current is balanced during this mask time by removing and replacing the phase current.

Abstract: An electrical machine comprises a rotor without windings, a stator having an armature winding 24, 25 and a field winding 10 for generating a magnetomotive force in a direction extending transversely of the magnetomotive force generated by the armature winding. An electronic circuit 40 is provided for controlling the current in the armature winding 24, 25 such that periods in which a magnetomotive force in one direction is associated with a first current pulse alternate with periods in which a magnetomotive force in the opposite direction is associated with a second current pulse. A position sensor is provided for monitoring the rotational position of the rotor and for supplying output signals at a rate dependent on the speed of rotation of the rotor. Furthermore a control system supplies control signals to the circuit 40 to control the current in the armature winding 24, 25 in response to the output signals.