Patents by Inventor Hayato Komatsu

Hayato Komatsu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20110118940
    Abstract: A motor is driven by the ?-axis current of a ?? coordinate system that is an imaginary rotating coordinate system. A command current value preparation unit sets the ?-axis command current value based on the command steering torque and the detected steering torque. The command current value preparation unit includes a command current increase/decrease amount calculation unit and an addition unit. The command current increase/decrease amount calculation unit calculates the current increase/decrease amount for the command current value based on the sign of the command steering torque and the deviation of the detected steering torque from the command steering torque. The current increase/decrease amount calculated by the command current increase/decrease amount calculation unit is added to the immediately preceding value of the command current value by the addition unit. Thus, the command current value in the present calculation cycle is calculated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji KARIATSUMARI, Hayato KOMATSU, Terutaka TAMAIZUMI, Yoshihiro ITATSU
  • Publication number: 20110001441
    Abstract: A motor control unit controls a motor including a rotor and a stator facing the rotor. A current drive unit drives the motor at an axis current value of a rotating coordinate system that rotates in accordance with a control angle that is a rotational angle used in a control. An addition angle calculation unit calculates an addition angle to be added to the control angle. A control angle calculation unit obtains, at every predetermined calculation cycle, a present value of the control angle by adding the addition angle that is calculated by the addition angle calculation unit to an immediately preceding value of the control angle. An angular speed calculation unit calculates an angular speed of the rotor. An addition angle correction unit corrects the addition angle based on the angular speed calculated by the angular speed calculation unit. A filtering unit filters the angular speed calculated by the angular speed calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji KARIATSUMARI, Hayato Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20100235051
    Abstract: A motor control unit controls a motor including a rotor and a stator facing the rotor. A current drive unit drives the motor at an axis current value of a rotating coordinate system that rotates in accordance with a control angle that is a rotational angle used in a control. An addition angle calculation unit calculates an addition angle to be added to the control angle. A control angle calculation unit obtains, at every predetermined calculation cycle, a present value of the control angle by adding the addition angle that is calculated by the addition angle calculation unit to an immediately preceding value of the control angle. A torque detection unit detects a torque that is other than a motor torque and that is applied to a drive target driven by the motor. A command torque setting unit sets a command torque to be applied to the drive target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji KARIATSUMARI, Satoshi SHINODA, Hayato KOMATSU, Terutaka TAMAIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20100235049
    Abstract: A motor control unit controls a motor including a rotor and a stator facing the rotor. A current drive unit drives the motor at an axis current value of a rotating coordinate system that rotates in accordance with a control angle that is a rotational angle used in a control. A control angle calculation unit obtains, at every predetermined calculation cycle, a present value of the control angle by adding an addition angle to an immediately preceding value of the control angle. A torque detection unit detects a torque other than a motor torque and applied to a drive target driven by the motor. A command torque setting unit sets a command torque to be applied to the drive target. An addition angle calculation unit calculates the addition angle to be added to the control angle through a proportional-integral control based on a torque deviation of the torque detected by the torque detection unit from the command torque set by the command torque setting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Kariatsumari, Hayato Komatsu, Shingo Maeda
  • Patent number: 7772789
    Abstract: The motor controller drives an electric motor including a rotor as a field magnet and stator coils of U-phase, V-phase and W-phase. The motor controller includes an exploration voltage application unit for applying an exploration voltage to the stator coils of U-phase, V-phase and W-phase such that a voltage vector expressed by the voltage applied to the stator coils rotates in a predetermined cycle with maintaining a constant magnitude, an electric current detection unit for detecting an electric current flowing through the electric motor during the period in which the exploration voltage is applied by the exploration voltage application unit, and a rotor rotation angle estimation unit for estimating a rotation angle of the rotor based on a phase of the voltage vector when a magnitude of the electric current detected by the electric current detection unit takes a local maximum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Kouya Yoshida, Hayato Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20100094505
    Abstract: A motor is driven based on an axis current value in a rotating coordinate system that rotates in accordance with a control angle that is a rotational angle used in a control. The control angle is calculated by adding an addition angle to an immediately preceding value of the control angle in each predetermined calculation cycle. A command steering torque is set based on a predetermined steering angle-torque characteristic. The addition angle is calculated based on the deviation of a detected steering torque from a command steering torque. The addition angle based on the deviation is changed when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Kariatsumari, Yoshinobu Shimizu, Hayato Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20090190903
    Abstract: A low speed region position estimating portion is designed to be suitable for when the motor is operating in a low speed region, and estimates a low speed estimated rotational position ??L. A high speed region position estimating portion is designed to be suitable for when the motor is operating in a high speed region, and estimates a high speed estimated rotational position ??H. A dividing portion obtains a divided estimated rotational position ??M by internally dividing the low speed estimated rotational position ??L and the high speed estimated rotational position ??H. A rotation speed calculating portion obtains a rotation speed ? of a rotor based on an output signal from a steering sensor. The rotational position of the rotor is then obtained by selecting one of i) the low speed estimated rotational position ??L, the high speed estimated rotational position ??H, or the divided estimated rotational position ??M, based on that rotation speed ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hayato KOMATSU, Akira Tanizawa, Masaya Segawa, Yuji Kariatsumari
  • Publication number: 20070229021
    Abstract: The motor controller drives an electric motor including a rotor as a field magnet and stator coils of U-phase, V-phase and W-phase. The motor controller includes an exploration voltage application unit for applying an exploration voltage to the stator coils of U-phase, V-phase and W-phase such that a voltage vector expressed by the voltage applied to the stator coils rotates in a predetermined cycle with maintaining a constant magnitude, an electric current detection unit for detecting an electric current flowing through the electric motor during the period in which the exploration voltage is applied by the exploration voltage application unit, and a rotor rotation angle estimation unit for estimating a rotation angle of the rotor based on a phase of the voltage vector when a magnitude of the electric current detected by the electric current detection unit takes a local maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Kouya Yoshida, Hayato Komatsu