Patents Examined by Jorge L Carrasquillo
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Patent number: 11613444Abstract: A power management system comprises an AC-power-source controller configured to control power supply between the AC power source and a common DC bus, the AC-power-source controller further configured to limit AC power supplied from the AC power source to the common DC bus to a first AC-power-source power limit; a power inverter configured to invert the DC power on the common DC bus into AC output power for driving the electric motor; a DC power source configured to supply DC power to the common DC bus; and a DC-power-source controller configured to control power supply between the DC power source and the common DC bus, the DC-power-source controller further configured to start supplying DC power from the DC power source to the common DC bus in response to a detection of a voltage drop on the common DC bus from a AC-power-source reference voltage to a DC-power-source reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventors: Virgilio Valdivia Guerrero, Ismail Agirman, Daniel Diaz-Lopez, Mario Sanz Abia, Herbert Horbrugger, Stephan Glessner
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Patent number: 11611298Abstract: A motor device 100 includes an SPM motor 1 that includes a stator 2 including an iron core 21 and a plurality of windings 23 wound on the iron core 21, and a rotor 3 which is rotatable with respect to a rotation axis and in which a plurality of permanent magnets 33 are mounted along a circumferential direction to form a plurality of magnetic poles in the circumferential direction; and a power supply unit 5 that supplies a current to the plurality of windings 23 of the SPM motor 1. Each of the plurality of magnetic poles is oriented such that directions of axes of easy magnetization are concentrated toward a stator side, and the current supplied from the power supply unit is a trapezoidal wave.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Nobuyuki Shimbo, Koji Mitake
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Patent number: 11606058Abstract: Disclosed is a motor, a control method, a power system, and an electric vehicle. Each phase stator winding of the motor includes two sub-winding sets. When a traction battery needs to be heated, the two sub-winding sets of the motor store electrical energy and provide alternating currents to the traction battery through an inverter, so that the traction battery uses its internal resistance for heating. In addition, the two sub-winding sets generate opposite magnetic fields which cancel each other out, so that the strength of the magnetic field inside each phase stator winding and the air gap magnetic flux are reduced, thereby alleviating the heat generation and NVH problems of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITEDInventors: Xiaojian Huang, Zhimin Dan, Bao Li, Xiyang Zuo
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Patent number: 11591009Abstract: Technical solutions are described for controlling operation of an electric machine such as a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive or motor control system to protect against excessive machine current or voltage in a PMSM drive. Systems and methods employ a torque control algorithm for PMSMs that uses the constraints of both machine current and voltage capability in PMSM drives, and online torque command modification according to the maximum allowed torque under these machine current and voltage constraints.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding CorporationInventors: Haibo Li, Prerit Pramod, Krishna M P K Namburi, Zhe Zhang
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Patent number: 11594992Abstract: A motor control device includes a table in which a motor torque generated from a reluctance torque utilizing motor is stored with respect to a combination of an armature current command value and a current phase angle command value at which the motor torque is maximized for the armature current command value, a first setting portion that sets a motor torque command value that is a command value of a motor torque to be generated by the reluctance torque utilizing motor, and a second setting portion that sets, based on the table, an armature current command value and a current phase angle command value for making a motor torque that is in accordance with the motor torque command value set by the first setting portion be generated from the reluctance torque utilizing motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventor: Yuta Iwai
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Patent number: 11569792Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable drive filtering with reduced common mode and differential mode harmonics using a drive filter including, common-differential mode inductors connected to an alternating current (AC) power source, where each common-differential mode inductor has a common mode inductance and a differential mode inductance. A differential mode capacitor is connected to each common-differential mode inductors for filtering the differential mode inductances. A first common mode capacitor is connected to each common-differential mode inductor for filtering the common mode inductances, where each first common mode capacitor are commonly connected. A second common mode capacitor is connected to each common-differential mode inductor for filtering the common mode inductances, where each second common mode capacitor are commonly connected. Output contacts are connected to the common-differential mode inductors to connect a load to the AC power source.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: MTE CorporationInventors: Tin Luu, Todd Shudarek
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Patent number: 11558003Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for operating an electric machine (10) for outputting a predefined torque and a predefined rotational speed, comprising the following steps: providing (420) a first and a second operating mode for the operation of the electric machine (10); detecting (430) a temperature of the electric machine (10); and operating the electric machine (10) in the first operating mode (440) if the detected temperature falls below a threshold value, and operating the electric machine (10) in the second operating mode (450) if the detected temperature corresponds with the threshold value or exceeds same.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Alexander Rosen, Michael Bangerter
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Patent number: 11552586Abstract: The present disclosure provides a feedback control system and method for a bidirectional VCM. The system employs an analog core that is common to both the PWM and linear modes of operation. The analog core includes a feedback mechanism that determines the error in the current flowing through the motor. The feedback mechanism produces an error voltage that corresponds to the current error, and applies the voltage to a control driver. The control driver then controls the motor, based on the error voltage, in either a PWM or linear mode. By sharing a common core, the switching time between modes is improved. Furthermore, the output current error between modes is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited CompanyInventors: Jesus Javier Lopez, Alberto Marinas, Eduardo M. Martinez, Santiago Iriarte
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Patent number: 11552585Abstract: A method is for operating a three-phase cage motor on a multiphase electrical grid via a soft starter, with which one or more grid phases of the grid being respectively switchable by firing thyristors. Apart from a grid-related firing criterion, a rotor-flux-related firing criterion is taken into account.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Heiko Zatocil, Hauke Nannen
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Patent number: 11533007Abstract: A method and a system for detecting a logic level of a rotor of a motor, and a motor are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining an analog voltage output by a position sensor for a winding of the motor; setting a first commutation voltage and a second commutation voltage; generating a logic level according to the analog voltage, the first commutation voltage and the second commutation voltage; and performing angle correction on the logic level according to a first angle corresponding to the first commutation voltage and a second angle corresponding to the second commutation voltage. The first commutation voltage is a commutation voltage for triggering a rising edge, and the second commutation voltage is a commutation voltage for triggering a falling edge. This method may accurately identify the logic level corresponding to the motor rotor, improve uniformity of a commutation voltage and prevent fluctuations in motor speed.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES, INC. OF ZHUHAIInventors: Wenbin Ao, Bin Chen, Shengyu Xiao, Wenxian Wu, Yanzhang Wang, Xiaofei Zhang
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Patent number: 11527948Abstract: A signal processor is configured to perform a process equivalent to performing a series of fixed-to-rotating coordinate conversion, a predetermined process and then rotating-to-fixed coordinate conversion, while maintaining linearity and time-invariance. The signal processor performs a process given by the following matrix G: G = [ F ? ( s + j ? ? 0 ) + F ? ( s - j ? ? 0 ) 2 F ? ( s + j ? ? 0 ) - F ? ( s - j ? ? 0 ) 2 - F ? ( s + j ? ? 0 ) - F ? ( s - j ? ? 0 ) 2 ? j F ? ( s + j ? ? 0 ) + F ? ( s - j ? ? 0 ) 2 ] where F(s) is a transfer function representing the predetermined process, ?0 is a predetermined angular frequency and j is the imaginary unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: DAIHEN CorporationInventors: Akihiro Ohori, Nobuyuki Hattori
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Patent number: 11518208Abstract: A method of operating an adjustable roll stabilizer (1) of a motor vehicle. The adjustable roll stabilizer (1) has an actuator (2) which can be rotated through a system angle (?) relative to a rotational axis (3) in order to twist two stabilizer sections (6a, 6b), connected thereto, relative to one another. The stabilizer sections (6a, 6b) are each a radial spaced away from the rotational axis (3) and each is coupled to a wheel suspension (7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b). The method includes controlling the actuator with a field-orientated regulator (20) as a function of input signals which include at least a target motor torque (21), and checking the control of the actuator (2), brought about by the field-orientated regulator (20), for plausibility independently of the field-orientated regulator (20).Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Stefan Lekon, Holger Gohmert, Benjamin Hertrich
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Patent number: 11515822Abstract: An adaptive torque disturbance cancellation method and motor control system for rotating a load are described. The system has: (i) a speed controller for receiving a first input signal indicating a desired motor speed and, in response, for outputting a motor control signal; (ii) current sensing circuitry for sensing current through a motor that rotates in response to the speed controller; (iii) circuitry for storing, into a storage device, history data representative of the current through a motor when the motor operates to rotate the load; and (iv) circuitry for modifying the motor control signal in response to the history data.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: David L. Wilson, Jorge Zambada Tinoco, David Patrick Magee
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Patent number: 11509247Abstract: A safety device includes a safety module and a safety control module in order to reduce a speed of an unwanted clutch engagement when a malfunction of a motor for a clutch control actuator occurs, such as by the power supply for the motor being interrupted, so that a driver can have more time to react in such situation.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Balazs Trencseni, Tibor Kandar, Jozsef Zsolt Ferencz
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Patent number: 11505140Abstract: A method for controlling two serially disposed relays that switch a load with two different safety levels depending on the driving situation in a vehicle includes querying state information that includes movement state information and/or coasting operation information of the vehicle, determining a safety level of the two different safety levels depending on the driving situation, using the state information, detecting a relay of the two serially disposed relays using a balancing rule when the safety level determined in step b) represents a lower safety level of the two safety levels, switching the selected relay into a non-conductive state and keeping the further relay in a conductive state when a first request signal for switching off the load is received, and switching the selected relay into a conductive state when a second request signal for switching on the load is received.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Lisa Draexlmaier GmbHInventor: Anton Bachmeier
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Patent number: 11482366Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a power electronics device for an electrically-driven charging device for an engine, said power electronics device comprising one or more power electronics components which are designed to operate an electrically-driven charging device for an engine, first and second conductors for guiding current for the one or more power electronics components, and a choke for filtering electromagnetic interference. The choke has a magnetic core which forms a closed ring about the first and second conductors and comprises a tongue which extends, arising from the closed ring, between the first and second conductors.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: BORGWARNER, INC.Inventors: Thomas Glass, Johannes Hornbach, Ramona Grundmeier
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Patent number: 11482959Abstract: A motor driving method includes steps of: at an open loop phase and in response to a motor being operated under a steady-state, calculating an angle difference between an estimation coordinate axis of the motor and an actual coordinate axis by a controller, according to an estimation voltage value, an estimation current value and at least one electrical parameter feedback from the motor and in reference with the estimation coordinate axis of the motor; calculating an actual current value in reference with the actual coordinate axis according to the angle difference by the controller; calculating a load torque estimation value associated with the motor according to the actual current value by the controller; and, in response to the open loop phase being switched to a close loop phase, compensating an output torque of the motor according to the load torque estimation value by the controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Shao-Kai Tseng, Yu-Shian Lin, Yuan-Qi Hsu
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Patent number: 11476788Abstract: Circuitry for efficiently operating a three-phase AC motor having three coils, each of which implementing a corresponding phase, comprising four half-bridge inverters having a common bus voltage, for controlling the level and the phase of input voltages supplied to the coils and a control circuitry for operating the four half bridges.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: IRP NEXUS GROUP LTD.Inventors: Shmuel Ben Yaakov, Paul Price
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Patent number: 11456658Abstract: Disclosed is a driver IC circuit of an intelligent power module including an upper bridge control signal input end, a lower bridge control signal input end, a PFC control signal input end, a logic input buffer circuit, a first upper bridge driver circuit, a second upper bridge driver circuit, a first lower bridge driver circuit, a second lower bridge driver circuit and a PFC driver circuit. The logic input buffer circuit performs full-wave filtering on control signals. The first upper bridge driver circuit, the first lower bridge driver circuit, the second upper bridge driver circuit and the second lower bridge driver circuit each drives a switch transistor corresponding to a first or second external motor according to one of the control signals. The PFC driver circuit drives an external PFC switch transistor according to one of the control signals. An intelligent power module and an air conditioner are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignees: GD MIDEA AIR-CONDITIONING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Yesheng Li, Yuxiang Feng
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Patent number: 11453994Abstract: The present disclosure provides a work equipment system and a control method therefor. The work equipment system includes a work equipment, a temperature sensor and a controller. The work equipment includes a motor device, and the motor device is configured to provide a motive power to a load device. The temperature sensor is configured to measure a motor temperature. The controller is configured to: calculate a first current based on a required motive power command and electrical parameters; calculate a temperature difference between the motor temperature and a preset temperature; calculate a thermal power based on the temperature difference and a thermal resistance; calculate a second current based on the thermal power and the motor resistance; and compare the second current to an effective value of the first current for determining whether the second current is smaller than the first current.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INCInventor: Chi-Wen Chung