Patents Examined by Said Bouziane
  • Patent number: 12040729
    Abstract: A motor control device includes an inverter circuit to convert a DC power source voltage into a three-phase AC voltage and supply the three-phase AC voltage to the three-phase motor and a controller to generate three-phase PWM signals based on three-phase duty command values updated at a predetermined updating cycle and control the inverter circuit based on the three-phase PWM signals. The controller is configured or programmed to shift, when duty command values of at least two phases of the three-phase duty command values updated at a first update timing are the same, the duty command value of one phase of the duty command values of the two phases by a predetermined shift amount and shifts a duty command value of the one phase of the three-phase duty command values updated at a second update timing which is an update timing next to the first update timing by the shift amount in a direction opposite to a shift direction at the first update timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignees: NIDEC CORPORATION, NIDEC ELESYS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Koikegami, Isao Sanbonmatsu, Akihiro Okamura, Tomohiro Fukumura, Kotaro Kataoka
  • Patent number: 12028056
    Abstract: A driver system operable to supply a drive signal to a motor includes a system input adapted to be coupled to an input voltage and a system output adapted to be coupled to the motor. The driver system includes a high-side transistor which has a first terminal coupled to the system input, a second terminal coupled to the system output, and has a control terminal. The driver system includes a low-side transistor which has a first terminal coupled to the system output, a second terminal coupled to a reference potential terminal, and has a control terminal. The driver system includes a low-side gate control circuit which provides a first level current responsive to a low-side digital control signal transitioning from a low state to a high state and provides a second level current if the output voltage is less than an upper reference voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sachin Sethumadhavan, Ganapathi Shankar Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 12003203
    Abstract: A model predictive decomposition control method and device for an open-winding five-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor is provided. The method includes obtaining the voltage component in the stationary coordinate system under the orientation of the rotor magnetic field, synthesizing the virtual voltage vector that can eliminate the voltage vector in harmonic space according to the vector distribution of the five-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor under the voltage source inverter. The open winding permanent magnet synchronous motor topology is equivalent to the superposition of the independent actions of two inverters. The voltage vector generated by a single inverter is predicted through the mathematical model of the motor. The expected increment is a judgment condition to determine whether the open winding system uses one of the two inverters to maintain the normal operation of the open winding system, or the first inverter is clamped and the second inverter generates the remaining increment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jinghua Ji, Yuxuan Du, Wenxiang Zhao, Linsen Huang, Tao Tao
  • Patent number: 11993374
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, there is provided a drone control system in which the drone user may directly adjust the torque required in the flight environment, that is, the torque required by the drone motor, with the transmitter control when controlling the transmitter stick. According to an embodiment, a drone control system comprises a flight controller receiving a stick control value from a transmitter, converting the stick control value into a motor speed value, and outputting the motor speed value and an electronic speed controller receiving the motor speed value from the flight controller, converting the motor speed value into a motor torque value, converting the motor torque value into a power driving value, and outputting the power driving value to a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventor: Sang Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 11987332
    Abstract: A boat lift controller may include a digital switch, a power-isolation relay, and a motor-direction-select relay, together which control a motor. The digital switch may provide power to the power-isolation relay. The power-isolation relay may provide power to the motor-direction-select relay and to the motor. The motor-direction-select relay may control the direction in which the shaft of the motor turns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Premier Remotes and Products, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Brown, Dustin Smith, Paul Berkemeier, Mark Austin
  • Patent number: 11984839
    Abstract: A propulsive electric motor set for aircraft includes an electrical energy source and an electric motor provided with a drive shaft on which is mounted a propeller. The electric motor includes a first set of windings linked to the electrical energy source to provide a rotational drive function for the drive shaft. The electric motor further includes a second set of windings which, when the drive shaft is driven in rotation by an electric powering of the first set of windings, provides an electric generation function configured to supply non-propulsive loads of the aircraft. Thus, the non-propulsive loads of the aircraft can be electrically powered without any overload compromising the aerodynamics of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations SAS
    Inventors: Jean-François Allias, Olivier Raspati
  • Patent number: 11984751
    Abstract: A discharge circuit for a power supply circuit for a motor is configured to discharge a capacitor provided in the power supply circuit. The discharge circuit includes a first voltage detector detecting a voltage inputted to a primary side of the power supply circuit, a second voltage detector detecting a voltage on the secondary side, and a discharge resistance provided in parallel with the power supply circuit on the secondary side of the power supply circuit. A power supply control means performs discharge control when a voltage detected by the second voltage detector exceeds a regenerative determination value and, in a case that a voltage on the primary side detected by the first voltage detector becomes lower than a power failure determination value, the power supply control means performs the discharge control after a lapse of a time period required for a stop operation of the industrial robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Nagata
  • Patent number: 11984752
    Abstract: A motor driven actuator device includes an actuator motor; a controller; an input for receiving an external power supply; and a battery pack electrically connected to selectively drive the actuator motor, and electrically connectable to the external power supply for charging. During charging of the battery pack, the controller is configured to compare a measured charge level with a pre-determined charge level required to complete at least two battery shutdown events under battery power alone. During subsequent actuator device operation, the controller is configured to: determine if the external power supply is invalid, instruct a battery shutdown event causing the battery to be discharged, with enough charge in the battery to complete at least one further battery shutdown event; and, subsequently detect when the external power supply becomes valid, and resume actuator device operation under the external power supply, while simultaneously recharging the battery pack to at least the pre-determined charge level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: ROTORK CONTROLS LIMITED
    Inventors: Jonathan Wiggins, David Ware, Nian You Tan
  • Patent number: 11979102
    Abstract: Enhanced network power factor corrective designs are presented that can use corrective devices that achieve long-term, operationally stable mechanical work. Embodiments can utilize reverse-winding induction motor designs with engineerable parameters and configurations for the reverse winding (13) in systems and through methods where an inductive motor (1) can present a current that leads voltage and a leading power factor (16) to correct other existing induction motors (8) in an initial network (9) or be optimized for a particular application. Designs also present a power factor correction that can present a variable correction without altering the character or physical capacitive value of an electrical correction component. Individual induction motors that have leading current and a leading power factor (16) can be provided to improve reverse winding induction motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Adventech, LLC
    Inventor: Gerald Goche
  • Patent number: 11967917
    Abstract: Pairs of phases of an AC power source are connected to pairs of phases of a motor in a first sequence that repeats at a first frequency. The motor is braked by connecting pairs of phases of the AC power source to pairs of phases of the motor in a second sequence that is reversed with respect to the first sequence and that repeats at a second frequency less than the first frequency. In further aspects, pairs of phases of an AC power source are connected to pairs of phases of a motor in a first sequence. The motor is subsequently disconnected from the AC power source for a predetermined dwell interval having a duration greater than a time constant of the motor. The motor is braked using a second sequence that is reversed with respect to the first sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventor: Stan Rex Simms
  • Patent number: 11962219
    Abstract: A control system of a flexible permanent magnet brushless DC motor, comprising a DC power supply, a filter capacitor, a voltage source inverter, a permanent magnet brushless DC motor and a controller, wherein an output end of the DC power supply is connected with the filter capacitor in parallel; the voltage source inverter is provided with m bridge arms which are connected with both ends of the filter capacitor in parallel; upper and lower controllable switching devices are arranged on each bridge arm; the phase number of armature winding of the permanent magnet brushless DC motor is equal to the number of bridge arms; head ends of armature windings of each phase are correspondingly connected with intermediate contacts of the upper and lower controllable switching devices of one bridge arm, tail ends of armature windings of each phase are connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TIANGONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Lixiang Zhu, Tingna Shi, Changliang Xia
  • Patent number: 11961989
    Abstract: A control method for a fuel cell system, the fuel cell system including a hydrogen storage part and a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage part, the fuel cell system being mounted on a towed portion of a moving body that includes the towed portion and a towing portion, the fuel cell system being electrically connected to the towing portion, the towing portion including a battery and a drive device performing driving in response to supply of electric power, the towed portion being towed by the towing portion, the control method includes: acquiring remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the battery, and starting supply of electric power to the towing portion when it is determined that the remaining amount of the battery is equal to or less than a threshold based on the remaining amount information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Murakami, Shinji Matsunaga, Takashi Arai, Akiji Ando, Takashi Yanagiura, Kazunori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11955920
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electric motor including a mechanical commutator, includes determining points in time at which commutation takes place by a sensor or without a sensor. The method further includes controlling the electric motor by a supply voltage signal having a sequence of pulses. The method further includes modulating the supply voltage signal by a modulation signal to reduce the magnitude of the supply voltage signal at the commutation points in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Elmos Semiconductor SE
    Inventor: Jörg Hartzsch
  • Patent number: 11949361
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a variable speed drive for driving an electric motor and providing a safe torque off (STO) function. The drive includes two parallel signal buffers connected to a safety controller and at least one IGBT gate driver circuit, wherein the signal buffers share the same IGBT gate control signals as inputs and feed them to the same IGBT gate driver circuits and wherein each signal buffer has an own STO control signal for activation and deactivation of outputs. The invention is also directed at a method for diagnosing a corresponding drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Vacon OY
    Inventor: Antti Samuli Keskinarkaus
  • Patent number: 11949355
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vibrator driving method, including steps of: obtaining a preset vibration frequency and a resonant frequency of a target vibration motor; obtaining total harmonic distortion of the target vibration motor; obtaining at least one low distortion point of the target vibration motor according to the total harmonic distortion; obtaining a target vibration frequency according to a low distortion frequency of at least one low distortion point and the preset vibration frequency; driving the target vibration motor to vibrate according to the target vibration frequency. The present disclosure further provides a vibration driving system and a vibration driving equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai)Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheng Xiang, Xuan Guo
  • Patent number: 11945477
    Abstract: Provided is an electric dual-mode wiper system for a railway vehicle. The electric dual-mode wiper system for a railway vehicle includes a first wiper drive unit and a second wiper drive unit, and controls a synchronization operation of the first wiper drive unit and a second wiper drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: KOREA RAILROAD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yeon Su Kim, Sung Hyuk Park
  • Patent number: 11929651
    Abstract: An inverter integrated gas supply device includes a fluid machine configured to discharge air, an electric motor having a motor casing and configured to drive the fluid machine, an inverter having an inverter casing and configured to supply a drive current to the electric motor, a motor-side connection part attached to the motor casing and configured to receive the drive current, and an inverter-side connection part attached to the inverter casing, connected to the motor-side connection part. The motor-side connection part includes a motor-side connector housing, and a motor connector. The inverter-side connection part includes an inverter-side connector housing, and an inverter connector. A position of the motor connector relative to the motor-side connector housing is fixed; and a position of the inverter connector relative to the inverter-side connector housing is variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ikeya, Yuji Sasaki, Masaya Taniguchi, Gen Kuwata, Satoru Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11923795
    Abstract: A method for operating a voltage source inverter is provided, the method including inducing, via the voltage source inverter, a DC current at a load device to obtain a load voltage value; determining an ideal switching-averaged voltage based on a switching modulation scheme; determining a combined semiconductor voltage drop and deadtime effect; and adjusting the switching modulation scheme such that a resulting ideal switching-averaged voltage is based on the combined semiconductor voltage drop and deadtime effect and the load voltage value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Wilson Latham
  • Patent number: 11923759
    Abstract: In a power conversion device for performing conversion from DC to AC, a positive-side capacitor and a negative-side capacitor with their connection point serving as a neutral point are provided between the positive and negative sides of the inputted DC power, and a switching pattern for specifying switching phases which are timings of ON/OFF driving switching elements of an inverter which outputs AC voltage having at least a positive-side potential, a negative-side potential, and a neutral point potential, is calculated so as to satisfy conditions for ensuring a modulation factor, eliminating harmonic components for respective orders of output voltage, ensuring a predetermined value for a phase difference between adjacent switching phases, and balancing voltage of the positive-side capacitor and voltage of the negative-side capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiko Tada, Hiromitsu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11876472
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a control system for a multi-phase electric machine that includes an inverter configured to transfer electric energy from a rechargeable energy storage device (RESS), and phase current sensors. A controller includes an executable instruction set to monitor, via the phase current sensors, the phase currents, and detect that one of the phase currents is outside a linear measurement range of a respective one of the phase current sensors. An extrapolated current for the respective one of the phase current sensors is determined based upon the phase currents from others of the phase current sensors. A current extrapolation routine evaluates the respective one of the phase current sensors. A fault is detected in the respective one of the phase current sensors based upon the current extrapolation routine and the extrapolated current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Brent S. Gagas, Brian A. Welchko