Abstract: An abnormality diagnostic unit of a motor drive device has an inverter that supplies AC power to an electric motor, and a current measuring means for measuring a DC bus current of the inverter, calculates an estimated upper q-axis current limit and an estimated lower q-axis current limit based on a diagnostic q-axis voltage command value obtained by subjecting a q-axis voltage command value to an absolute value process. The abnormality diagnostic unit calculates a diagnostic q-axis current measurement based on: a q-axis current measurement calculated based on an output of the current measuring means; and sign information of the q-axis voltage command value. Then, the abnormality diagnostic unit determines whether the current measuring means is abnormal based on duration of deviation of the diagnostic q-axis current measurement from a normal range defined by the estimated upper q-axis current limit and the estimated lower q-axis current limit.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a first circuit that determines a d-axis 0th-order current and a q-axis 0th-order current, a second circuit that determines a d-axis 6th-order harmonic current and a q-axis 6th-order harmonic current according to a position of the rotor, and a third circuit that determines, respectively, a value obtained by superposing the d-axis 6th-order harmonic current on the d-axis 0th-order current and a value obtained by superposing the q-axis 6th-order harmonic current on the q-axis 0th-order current as a d-axis current command value and a q-axis current command value.

Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a motor control system includes a first controller computing a first torque command using a first closed loop. The motor control system further includes a second controller computing a second torque command using a second closed loop. Both, the first controller and the second controller, compute the respective first torque command and the second torque command using a uniform calculation in which a pseudo/leaky integrator Ki s + ? in s domain (s is Laplace variable) is used and integrator state is calculated as Ki*?0te(?)exp(????t)d?, in time domain, which is implemented by discretization methods in electric control unit (ECU), where e is a tracking error, Ki is a predetermined integral parameter, and ? is a configurable parameter. The motor control system further includes a motor that receives a torque command for generating corresponding amount of torque based on the first torque command and the second torque command.

Abstract: An electronic module is provided for a power tool having an electric motor. The electronic module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) being substantially disc-shaped; power switches mounted on the PCB forming an inverter bridge circuit for driving the electric motor; a controller mounted on the PCB and configured to control a switching operation of the power switches; positional sensors mounted on the PCB substantially equidistantly from a center of the PCB within the control portion and in communication with the controller to provide positional signals related to a rotational position of the electric motor to the controller; and a module housing arranged to receive the PCB therein. The module housing includes a planar portion in parallel to the PCB and openings disposed in the planar portion angularly around a center of the module housing to receive the positional sensors therein.

Abstract: Actuators for carrying and actuating a lens having a first optical axis, the lens receiving light folded from a second optical axis substantially perpendicular to the first optical axis, comprising first and second VCM engines coupled to the lens and first and second linear ball-guided rails operative to create movement of the lens in two substantially orthogonal directions upon actuation by respective VCM engines.

Abstract: A motor control system is provided for controlling a speed of a motor system used in a musical instrument. The motor control system includes at least one sensing device attached to the musical instrument, and configured for detecting movement of an object and providing a sensor signal based on the movement of the object. Also included in the motor control system is a control unit having a processor connected to the motor system and the at least one sensing device. The control unit is configured for selectively modulating the speed of the motor system based on the sensor signal.

Abstract: A device for controlling a motor having a stator and a rotor, the stator being provided with at least one winding, the motor being controlled by a control module, the control device including: at least one transformation module for transforming a source signal taken from at least one of the terminals of the winding into a floating image signal representative of a counter-electromotive force induced in the winding. The transformation module has: a time constant determined from characteristics of the motor and/or characteristics of the control module; at least one first terminal connected to at least one of the terminals of the winding, and a second terminal, the first and second terminals being likely to have floating potential relative to the fixed reference terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for controlling an output current provided from an inverter to a plant according to a current command. The apparatus includes a calculation unit to decide a current error between the current command and the output current, output an output voltage by applying a gain including a control frequency of the current command to the current error, and output an output current from the output voltage.

Abstract: A permanent magnet brushless motor has a stator, an armature winding, a rotor, and a permanent magnet. The stator is provided with an armature groove. The armature winding is placed in the armature groove. The stator and the rotor are spaced apart by an air gap; the permanent magnet is attached to the surface of the rotor, and is magnetized by a Halbach array structure. The motor is an eight-phase motor, and phases are evenly distributed at a phase belt angle of 45°. The motor and the proposed control algorithm have good fault-tolerant effects, and the average torque after fault tolerance is basically consistent with that in normal operation.

Abstract: A power seat system includes: a motor that changes a position of a power seat by performing a rotational operation; a Hall sensor that senses a change in Hall voltage according to the rotation of the motor and outputs a pulse signal; and a motor reverse rotation detection unit that monitors outputs from the motor and the Hall sensor, and detects an occurrence of a reverse pulse according to a motor reverse rotation when a motor current overshooting section and a change in pulse signal value are simultaneously detected in accordance with stop of the motor.

Abstract: A method of controlling an electric oil pump driven by a motor, may include changing, by a controller, a frequency of a current applied to the motor with a predetermined control cycle to control RPM of the motor to instantaneously change into a different value according to a frequency change.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor driving device and a method for measuring a phase current in a motor driving device, and specifically relates to a technique of measuring three phase currents of a three-phase brushless motor using a current sensor for measuring the DC bus current in the inverter. The control unit according to the present invention shifts a pulse phase of a PWM pulse such that pulse phases of the three phase PWM pulses in a first PWM cycle of the PWM control differ from those in a second PWM cycle of the PWM control, and measures the three phase currents from the output of the current sensor in these two first and second PWM cycles. The control unit calculates an offset error of the current sensor from these three phase current measurements and learns a correction value used for performing offset correction on the electric-current measurement.

Abstract: In an electrified vehicle having a synchronous traction motor, an inverter is connected to stator windings by three power cables. If these cables are accidentally connected to the wrong windings, the resulting torque will not match the desired torque, and may even be in the wrong direction. To avoid this problem, a test is performed any time that the cables may have been unplugged and re-connected. The inverter is commanded to generate a rotating magnetic field while the rotor is held stationary, resulting in a positive and a negative response current. A relationship between a phase angle of the negative response current and the rotor position indicates which cables are connected to which windings. If the cables are incorrectly connected, the controller disables the motor and informs an operator which cables to swap to achieve correct connection.

Abstract: An electric propulsion system for a gas turbine engine may comprise an electric motor disposed within a nacelle of the gas turbine engine, wherein the electric motor is configured to receive a bypass air from a fan bypass duct for cooling the electric motor and the electric motor is configured to drive a low speed shaft of the gas turbine engine.

Abstract: An electronic control system for vehicle seatbacks is provided. The electronic control system can detect an obstruction or a motor stall by comparing the energy consumed by a seatback motor with an obstruction threshold and a stall threshold, the threshold being selected based upon the position of the seatback. The electronic control system can additionally control the synchronous folding of two or more adjacent powered seatbacks. The electronic control system causes the motor for the lagging seatback to receive a maximum driving voltage and causes the motor for the leading seatback to receive a partial driving voltage. Once the seatbacks are in alignment, a normal driving voltage is provided to both motors.

Abstract: A control unit calculates necessary power necessary to drive a motor in accordance with a torque designation value and a rotational speed of a motor, sets a voltage value to a predetermined voltage value, changes a current value in accordance with the necessary power, and drive the motor in a case in which the calculated necessary power is less than a predetermined threshold value, and sets the current value to a predetermined current value, changes the voltage value in accordance with the necessary power, and drives the motor in a case in which the calculated necessary power is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A motor control device includes a rectifier which converts AC power into DC power and outputs it to a DC link, an inverter which converts the DC power of the DC link into AC power for each motor and outputs it, an AC voltage detection unit which detects an AC voltage value on the AC input side of the rectifier, a state determination unit which determines that a voltage dropped state has been set when the AC voltage value is smaller than a certain specified voltage and that a normal state has been set when the AC voltage value is equal to or larger than the specified voltage, and an output control unit which controls each motor in accordance with the amount of voltage drop with respect to the specified voltage of the AC voltage value when the state determination unit determines that the voltage dropped state has been set.

Abstract: A motor, a driving circuit thereof and a driving method thereof are provided. The motor driving method includes: during a motor starting stage, when a detected rotor magnetic field is a first polarity and a polarity of an AC power source is positive, or the detected rotor magnetic field is a second polarity and the polarity of the AC power source is negative after a zero voltage crossing point of the AC power source, instantly sending a trigger pulse to a controllable bidirectional AC switch connected in series with a motor winding at both ends of the AC power source; during a motor operating stage, after the zero voltage crossing point of the AC power source, sending a trigger pulse to the controllable bidirectional AC switch after a delay time after the zero voltage crossing point. This method can provide a large torque during the motor starting stage.

Abstract: A permanent magnet motor is provided, which includes a rotor including a rotation axle and a plurality of magnetized rotor magnets on a periphery, which rotor magnets are magnetized to form alternately N-poles and S-poles; first and second ring-shaped-claw-pole units, whose inner circumferences face the rotor magnets, including a plurality of first and second claw-poles along the inner circumference, the first and the second claw-poles being closely adjacent to each other extending alternately in upward and downward axis directions of the rotation axle, bottom sides of the first and the second claw-poles forming a ring shape. A first opening portion is formed in a first joint surface of the first ring-shaped-claw-pole unit, to be joined to the second ring-shaped-claw-pole unit, and the second opening portion is formed in a second joint surface of the second ring-shaped-claw-pole unit, to be joined to the first ring-shaped-claw-pole unit.

Abstract: A motor control device is provided. In this motor control device, a first switching circuit group and a second switching circuit respectively provided between first and second microcomputers and first and second power converters receive drive signals generated by the microcomputers included in the own system and other drive signals generated by a microcomputer other than the microcomputers of the own system, select the own drive signal or the other drive signal according to selection signal from the microcomputers of the own system, and output the selected drive signal to the power converter of the own system. The first and second microcomputers output the selection signals to the switching circuit groups of the own system so as to select the own drive signal when the microcomputers are operating normally, and output the selection signal so as to select the other drive signal when a monitoring circuit of the system detects an faulty in the microcomputers.