Vector Control (e.g., Dq-axis Control, 3-2 Phase Conversion, Etc.) Patents (Class 318/400.02)
  • Patent number: 9628012
    Abstract: In an ?? coordinate system, vectors of currents flowing in three-phase AC motor are set in directions fixed relative to a zero vector current according to a voltage applied in six non-zero vector switching modes of an inverter. A current vector closest to a command current value is specified from those current vectors. Then, only a non-zero vector current when operating the inverter in the non-zero vector switching mode corresponding to the specified current vector is calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Go Handa
  • Patent number: 9614473
    Abstract: A method for controlling a three phase AC motor includes generating an operating point error signal based upon a difference between a reference operating point and an actual operating point. A first control method is used to determine a first motor control vector, whereby magnitude and angle values of the first control vector are determined. A second control method is used to determine a second control vector from the operating point error signal, whereby the second control vector is a voltage vector with a constant magnitude. A pulse width modulated voltage is applied to the AC motor. The pulse width modulated voltage is dependent upon the first motor control vector when the AC motor is operating below voltage output saturation. The pulse width modulated voltage is dependent upon the second motor control vector when the AC motor is operating at voltage output saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Weizhe Qian
  • Patent number: 9595905
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems offering enhanced robustness, efficiency and rated voltage operability for refrigerant compressor drives are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment is a method of operating a variable frequency drive. The method includes operating the drive over a first operating range to provide at least a desired operating speed and minimize d-axis current, operating the drive over a second operating range including injecting d-axis current to provide at least the desired operating speed, operating the drive over a third operating range at a de-rated speed less than the desired operating speed. In the first operating range the drive input voltage is greater than a first value. In the second operating range the drive input voltage is lower than the first value and greater than a second value. In the third operating range the drive input voltage is lower than the second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Thomas West, Dennis Myron Beekman, David Marshall Foye
  • Patent number: 9595897
    Abstract: A motor control device for controlling a three-phase AC motor by using dq-three-phase coordinate conversion includes a phase correction amount calculation unit for calculating a phase correction amount by using a detected motor speed and a q-axis current command initial value, a rotor phase angle correction unit for adding or subtracting the phase correction amount to or from a detected rotor phase angle of the motor to calculate a corrected rotor phase angle, and a coordinate conversion unit for performing coordinate conversion between parameters on a dq coordinate system and parameters on a three-phase coordinate system on the basis of the corrected rotor phase angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Uematsu
  • Patent number: 9590551
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes an inverter for driving a three-phase AC motor when connected to a DC power source, a smoothing capacitor interposed between the DC power source and an input side of the inverter and connected in parallel to the DC power source, a current sensor for detecting a current of one phase of the motor, and a controller for controlling the motor through the inverter. The controller performs a discharge process to discharge the capacitor, when the DC power source is disconnected from the capacitor. The controller calculates a d-axis voltage command reference value based on d-axis and q-axis current command values. The controller sets a q-axis voltage command reference value to zero. The controller generates d-axis and q-axis voltage command values by correcting at least the d-axis voltage command reference value and outputs the d-axis and q-axis voltage command values to the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Omata, Takeshi Itoh, Hirofumi Kako
  • Patent number: 9586484
    Abstract: A control device for an electric vehicle which is able to accurately control a traction motor of the electric vehicle without any delay in control timing during rapid acceleration or rapid deceleration of the motor, is provided. The control device for the electric vehicle includes an ECU and an inverter device including a motor control module. A rotation angle sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of a motor is provided, and the motor control module is provided with a rotation angle correction section configured to correct a rotation angle of a rotor of the motor which is used for vector control, by using an angular speed of an electrical angle which is the rotation angle detected by the rotation angle sensor and a differential value of the angular speed of the electrical angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Guodong Li
  • Patent number: 9570902
    Abstract: A power supply current monitoring device is used for a load drive apparatus with two systems to drive a load. Each system includes a drive circuit connected in parallel with a battery, a capacitor connected between the battery and the drive circuit, and a relay connected between the drive circuit and a point at which power of the battery is divided between the systems. When overcurrent is detected once in one system, a repetitive monitoring process is performed. The monitoring process finally determines that the overcurrent actually occurs when a predetermined condition is satisfied after repeating a monitoring cycle in which an overcurrent time during which the overcurrent continues after the relay is turned ON is accumulated. The condition is satisfied when the monitoring cycle in which the overcurrent time reaches a predetermined threshold is repeated a predetermined consecutive number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiji Morino
  • Patent number: 9568896
    Abstract: A control device for controlling an electric machine with ks windings on a stator and kr windings on a rotor, where ks+kr=n and either ks or kr may be zero, includes an input for receiving commands, an output for outputting control commands to a driver, machine modeling means for modeling behavior of the machine, and decision means connected to the input, output, and machine modeling means for determining the driver control commands. The machine modeling means models behavior of the machine through functional mapping suited for correlating sets of values of electrical and mechanical quantities, sets of values of their total or partial derivatives and/or integral functions with one another. The functional mapping includes an algorithm and/or equation based on at least one state function associated with the electromagnetic field inside the machine and/or based on at least one partial derivative of the state function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Pierluigi Tenca, Rahul Kanchan
  • Patent number: 9553532
    Abstract: A control device for AC rotary machine includes a current vector detection section (3), a magnetic flux vector detection section (9), an adaptive observation section (8), a control section (4), a voltage application section (5), a deviation vector calculation section (6) for outputting a current deviation vector and a magnetic flux deviation vector, and a deviation amplification section (7). The adaptive observation section (8) calculates an estimated current vector, an estimated magnetic flux vector, and an estimated position, based on a voltage instruction vector and an amplified deviation vector. Further, the control section (4) superimposes a high-frequency voltage vector, and the magnetic flux vector detection section (9) calculates a detected magnetic flux vector, based on a magnitude of a high-frequency current vector having the same frequency component as the high-frequency voltage vector, included in a detected current vector, and on a magnitude of a rotor magnetic flux.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Ito, Yosuke Hachiya, Satoru Terashima
  • Patent number: 9548688
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus operates a power conversion circuit connected between a direct current power source and a motor, which performs mutual conversion between power at the direct current power source and power at the motor in response to a powering operation and a regenerative operation carried out by the motor. The motor control apparatus includes: a voltage command calculator that calculates a voltage command to the power conversion circuit; a suppression gain calculator that calculates a suppression gain such that an absolute value of an estimation value of a power source current or an absolute value of a detection value of the power source current is not more than a target value; and a voltage command suppressor that suppresses a voltage command by multiplying the suppression gain to the voltage command calculated by the voltage command calculator. Additionally, the suppression gain is within a range of 0 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takafumi Satou, Nobuyori Nakajima, Haruo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9531311
    Abstract: A current reference generator to control a brushless motor in a motor control system is provided. The current reference generator includes a locate peak torque module that determines a maximum possible torque and a direct axis current that corresponds to the maximum possible torque based on motor parameters, a maximum voltage, a motor velocity of the brushless motor, and a sign of a torque command. A limit torque command module limits the torque command to the maximum possible torque. A locate minimum current module determines a value of the direct axis current that results in a minimum motor current. A solve current reference module generates a reference vector that satisfies the torque command as limited by the direct axis current that corresponds to the maximum possible torque and the direct axis current that results in the minimum motor current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATION
    Inventor: Steven J. Collier-Hallman
  • Patent number: 9503008
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring a rapid de-excitation system for synchronous machines with indirect excitation, via an exciter machine and a rotating rectifier bridge includes means for measuring the current and voltage of the stator of a synchronous machine, means for measuring the excitation current of the exciter machine, estimation means for obtaining the estimated excitation current of the exciter machine from the current and voltage values measured in the stator of the synchronous machine, a module for comparing the measured excitation current Imed with the estimated excitation current Iest, in such a way that there is either incorrect operation if Imed >k*Iest+A, where k and A are real numbers determined on the basis of each machine, or else there is correct operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID
    Inventors: Carlos Antonio Platero Gaona, Ricardo Granizo Arrabe, Emilio Rebollo Lopez, Francisco Blanquez Delgado
  • Patent number: 9490734
    Abstract: A motor control device including a preprocessing portion calculating a counter electromotive force using an analog operation is provided. The motor control device may include an offset compensation portion and a counter electromotive force measuring portion. The offset compensation portion receives a three-phase current signal from the motor and compensates an offset of the three-phase current signal. The counter electromotive force measuring portion receives the compensated current signal and a three-phase voltage signal from the motor and calculates the received current signal and the received voltage signal using an analog operation to provide the calculated result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jaewon Nam, Young Kyun Cho, Hui Dong Lee, Yil Suk Yang, Jong-Kee Kwon, Jongdae Kim
  • Patent number: 9484851
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technique of correcting a resolver offset by measuring and correcting an offset of a resolver assembled to a motor of an eco-friendly vehicle in an accurate and simple way. The offset measurement process includes, after completing the assembly of a resolver a resolver to a motor, rotating the motor by using a rotation device able to transfer a rotation force to the motor, setting a voltage instruction and current-controlling the motor according to the voltage instruction, and obtaining a d-axis current and a q-axis current, which are feedback currents, during the current-control of the motor. Then when the system is in a steady state, a resolver offset ({tilde over (?)}) is calculated from the d-axis current and the q-axis current by using {tilde over (?)}=tan?1(d-axis current/q-axis current).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Jae Sung Bang, Yong Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 9473058
    Abstract: A motor control device for controlling a multiphase brushless motor in a vector control manner includes: a current command value generation unit that generates q-axis and d-axis current command values; a controller that calculates q-axis and d-axis voltage command values; a saturation guard unit that corrects the q-axis or d-axis voltage command value to set a magnitude of a voltage vector of the q-axis or d-axis voltage command value to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined voltage guard value; and a current command value limiting unit that limits the q-axis or d-axis current command value using a current limit gain and a current guard value, which are calculated based on a voltage saturation amount as the magnitude of the voltage vector of the q-axis or d-axis voltage command value corrected by the saturation guard unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Ogi, Daisuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9455655
    Abstract: A motor control system can suppress production costs, suppress the occurrence of unexpected excessive torque, and continue system operation as much as possible even when the diagnosis results of a monitoring device are abnormal. A computation device computes a voltage command value indicating the voltage to impose on a motor. Based on the voltage command value, the computation device generates a control signal that controls a drive device. When the diagnosis results of the monitoring device are normal, the computation device computes the voltage command value so that the absolute value of the detection value of current flowing to the motor is no greater than a second threshold, and when the diagnosis results of the monitoring device are abnormal, the computation device computes the voltage command value so that this absolute value is no greater than a third threshold that is smaller than the second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Myoen, Atsushi Komuro
  • Patent number: 9438157
    Abstract: In a method for operating a multiphase electrical machine, which includes a rotor and a rotary encoder operatively connected to the rotor, an actual rotational angle of the rotor is determined from a measured rotational angle determined by means of the rotary encoder and a rotational angle offset. To determine the rotational angle offset the rotor is brought to a specific rotational speed and then an active short circuit of the electrical machine is initiated, wherein an actual current vector is determined, using a dq-transformation, from the current intensities of the currents flowing in at least two of the phases of the electrical machine and the measured rotational angle determined by means of the rotary encoder, and wherein the rotational angle offset is calculated from the actual current vector and a reference current vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Martin Adam, Marcel Kuhn
  • Patent number: 9407177
    Abstract: In a rotating electric machine control device, a voltage command value calculation section calculates a voltage command value based on a current command value and a motor current. An inverter power estimation section estimates an inverter power based on the motor current. A power supply current estimation section estimates a power supply current based on the inverter power and a power supply voltage. A limit gain determination section determines a limit gain based on the power supply current and a target power supply current. A limited voltage command value calculation section calculates a limited voltage command value based on the voltage command value and the limit gain. A current limitation section is capable of limiting the power supply current by outputting a command value corresponding to the limited voltage command value to an inverter portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9407178
    Abstract: A voltage source inverter controller for controlling an inverter electrically connected to an electric machine includes a current command generator, a six-step flux controller and a current regulator. The six-step flux controller generates a flux modifier to regulate flux in a flux-weakening speed/load operating region of the electric machine when operating the electric machine in a six-step mode. The current command generator converts a desired torque to three-phase desired currents that are input to a dq0-dq transformer and combined with the flux modifier to determine a modified-flux direct-quadrature (dq) current request. The current regulator includes a proportional-integral feedback controller, anti-windup elements, a dq voltage limit element and a voltage magnitude limiter. The proportional-integral feedback controller and the anti-windup elements perform closed-loop current control on the modified-flux dq current request to determine commanded dq voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jung Sik Yim, Jihoon Jang, Bon Ho Bae, Milan A. Vadera
  • Patent number: 9397593
    Abstract: A ripple current that flows into a main-circuit capacitor is estimated based on a system impedance and output power to a motor, thereby making it possible to always perform ripple-current estimation and life estimation computation for the main-circuit capacitor online. Because data of the system impedance which largely affects the ripple-current estimation for the main-circuit capacitor is used, the capacitor ripple current can be estimated according to the magnitude of the system impedance. This enables highly-accurate life estimation computation of the main-circuit capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masanori Kato
  • Patent number: 9397549
    Abstract: A power conversion system for controlling harmonics, which uses the Fourier transform analysis to calculate the harmonics element of each current, and adds the harmonics compensation strategy into the control strategy of the DC-AC power converter so as to decrease the harmonics element generated from the actual current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kun-Feng Chen, Kuo-Kuang Jen, Jong-Chin Hwang, Po-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9372235
    Abstract: At least one example embodiment discloses a method of estimating a rotor magnet temperature of a motor. The method includes determining an applied voltage during operation of the motor at an operating point, obtaining a reference value associated with the operating point and associated with a reference temperature and determining an estimated rotor magnet temperature based on the applied voltage and the reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Anthony Weber, David Holmburg, Long Wu
  • Patent number: 9356542
    Abstract: A method of operating a laundry treatment apparatus, in particular a washing machine, a laundry dryer, a heat pump laundry dryer or a washing machine having a drying function, is provided. The apparatus includes a control unit controlling the operation of the treatment apparatus, a laundry treatment chamber for treating laundry, a detector unit for detecting at least one operation parameter (T_inv) of the treatment apparatus, and a first variable speed motor unit adapted at least to drive the treatment chamber, and/or a compressor having a second variable speed motor unit for circulating a refrigerant fluid through a refrigerant loop of the laundry treatment apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Electrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Roberto Ragogna, Christian Montebello
  • Patent number: 9356549
    Abstract: A control device of a three-phase AC motor includes: an inverter for driving the motor; a current sensor for sensing a current; and a control means for controlling the motor by switching on/off each switching element in the inverter with feeding back dq axis current calculated values to dq axis current command values, or with feeding back a torque estimated value to a torque command value. The control means includes one first order current operation part that: expands a phase current sensed value of one phase in Fourier series as a function of an electric angle; extracts a first order component of the Fourier series; operates a first order current operated value; and integrates a calculated value based on the phase current sensed value at an integral angle for k periods of the electric angle so that Fourier coefficients are calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Nakai
  • Patent number: 9350279
    Abstract: A method of compensating for a friction torque of a permanent magnet synchronous motor may include: receiving input of a motor current and a rotor speed of the permanent magnet synchronous motor; estimating a motor torque based on the input motor current; acquiring a first friction torque corresponding to the input rotor speed and the estimated motor torque by using a lookup table of friction torques; compensating for a second friction torque of the permanent magnet synchronous motor based on the first friction torque, wherein the compensating is in response to a first torque command input to control driving of the permanent magnet synchronous motor and outputs a second torque command that compensates for the second friction torque; and/or controlling the driving of the permanent magnet synchronous motor based on the second torque command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR CORPORATE COLLABORATION
    Inventors: Hyun-bae Kim, Jung-hyo Lee, Jei-hoon Baek, Kyu-bum Han
  • Patent number: 9331623
    Abstract: The present invention provides a brushless motor in which the voltage utilization ratio can be increased and the torque and output of the motor can thereby be increased, and also provides a drive method for a brushless motor. The brushless motor includes an armature constituted by an armature core having armature windings of a plurality of phases, and a field pole constituted by a field pole core having a plurality of permanent magnets. A voltage, in which at least a 5th order harmonic component is superimposed on a 1st order fundamental wave of a voltage under predetermined phase difference condition and amplitude condition in order to increase a 1st order fundamental wave peak of the applied voltage over an applied voltage peak, is applied to the armature windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Hirotani, Ryuichi Takiguchi, Yuji Takizawa, Tetsuya Kojima, Masatsugu Nakano, Satoru Akutsu
  • Patent number: 9318976
    Abstract: Methods, control apparatus and computer readable mediums are presented for controlling a switching inverter in which a controller selectively suspends PWM carrier signals to provide inverter switching control signals using zero vectors in response to a maximal pulse width value for a present PWM half cycle being greater than a threshold value, and accumulates a present output control value for individual output phases for use in a subsequent PWM half cycle for selective effective reduction in switching frequency for low-speed operation while maintaining high frequency control loop sampling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lixiang Wei, Jeffrey D. McGuire, Timothy M. Rowan
  • Patent number: 9294001
    Abstract: In a power converter, a feedback controller feedback controls a manipulated variable based on a first electrical parameter depending on input power and a feedback controlled variable determined for output power. A dead-time determiner determines a value of the dead time as a function of a boundary condition variable depending on at least one of the input power and the output power. The boundary condition represents a reference for determining whether the power converter is operating in a continuous conduction mode or a discontinuous conduction mode. The continuous conduction mode is designed for a current to be continuously flowing through an inductor included in the power converter or a load as an inductor current. The discontinuous conduction mode is designed for the inductor current to be discontinuously flowing through the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, NIPPON SOKEN, INC.
    Inventors: Norihito Kimura, Kimikazu Nakamura, Yuji Hayashi, Kenji Tomita
  • Patent number: 9281772
    Abstract: A controller for a power converter detects a current output from the power converter, estimates a flux vector of the motor, and calculates a torque line in a physical model resulting from mathematizing a circuit equivalent to the motor, based on the estimated flux vector. The torque line indicates a line for obtaining a desired torque in a subsequent control period. The controller calculates a stator flux command value in accordance with a loss, calculates a voltage command value based on the torque line and the stator flux command value, and controls an output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Yukai Wang, Takumi Ito, Robert D. Lorenz
  • Patent number: 9276517
    Abstract: A control device of a three phase AC motor includes: an inverter for driving the motor; a current sensor for sensing current in a sensor phase of the motor; and a controller for switching multiple switching elements in the inverter to control the current of the motor. The controller includes: a revolution number calculation device for calculating the revolution number of the motor; a three-phase voltage command operation device for operating three phase voltage commands to be applied to the motor based on a current command and an electric angle; and a current concentration determination device for determining whether a current concentration is caused based on the three phase voltage commands when the revolution number is not more than a predetermined revolution number. In the current concentration, current not less than a predetermined threshold value flows continuously for a predetermined period in one or more phases of the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Omata, Takeshi Itoh, Hirofumi Kako
  • Patent number: 9248852
    Abstract: There is provided a drive control method for a motor including multiple sets of coils and drive circuits in an electric power steering system. In order to reduce computational load when sensorless control is executed, an electrical angle estimator includes an ?-axis voltage component adder and a ?-axis voltage component adder that add together voltage vectors of a first coil and a second coil expressed in a two-phase fixed coordinate system, an ?-axis current component adder and a ?-axis current component adder that add together current vectors of the first coil and the second coil expressed in a two-phase fixed coordinate system, and an induced voltage computing unit that computes an induced voltage based on an added voltage vector and an added current vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Mikamo, Kenichiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 9242641
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically allocating engine torque and motor torque in a hybrid vehicle to meet operator torque demand. The allocation is adjusted by constraining the maximum engine torque allowable under selected conditions to provide a better trade-off between performance and fuel economy. A maximum engine torque that provides best fuel economy is learned during engine operation at different engine speed-load conditions based on a deviation in spark retard torque ratio from a threshold ratio as spark timing is moved to MBT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Raymond Martin, Ted Haladyna, Kenneth James Miller
  • Patent number: 9231502
    Abstract: A motor control system includes a voltage regulating module, an auxiliary activating module, and a drive module. The voltage regulating module is operable to receive a voltage and generate an electrical level regulated voltage by regulating the voltage. The auxiliary activating module is operable to generate a constant duty cycle signal and output the constant duty cycle signal for a period. The drive module is operable to receive the electrical level regulated voltage and the constant duty cycle signal, and control a motor based on the electrical level regulated voltage and the constant duty signal. Also, the present invention also discloses a fan which is applied to the above-mentioned motor control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ting Lee, Ming-Yen Lin, Yu-Liang Lin, Wen-Chih Wang
  • Patent number: 9225270
    Abstract: A current control device of a synchronous motor comprises a provisional d-phase current command calculation unit; a voltage amplitude calculation unit calculating a magnitude of a voltage command vector in a previous sampling period; a voltage ratio calculation unit determining a voltage ratio between the magnitude of the voltage command vector and a maximum output voltage of an amplifier; a target d-phase current calculation unit obtaining a d-phase current command in the previous sampling period, and calculating a target d-phase current command from the voltage ratio and the d-phase current command; a correction value calculation unit determining a correction value by passing a difference between the provisional d-phase current command and the target d-phase current command through a low-pass filter; and an adder adding the correction value to the d-phase current command in the present sampling period to calculate a new d-phase current command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9219439
    Abstract: An electric motor control device includes a current vector controller that follows a target command value for controlling an electric current of the motor by separating the current into a d-axis current and q-axis current orthogonal to each other. The motor control device further includes a driver for driving the motor, a phase-angle generator a phase-angle command generator for generating a phase-angle command ?* based on difference ?v* between an absolute value |v*| of a voltage command supplied from the current vector controller to the driver and a given reference value Vlmt, a d-axis current command generator for generating d-axis current command id* based on a sine value of the phase-angle command ?*, and a q-axis current limiter for setting a limit value of q-axis current command iq* based on a cosine value of the phase-angle command ?*.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuta Sasaki, Kenichi Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 9209723
    Abstract: A control device of a three-phase AC motor includes: an inverter; a current sensor for a sensor phase current; and a controller switching a switching element of each phase of the inverter and having a current estimation device, which calculates a sensor-phase-standard current phase according to ? and ? axis currents and a current estimated value of another phase. The current estimation device calculates the ? axis current at every switching and intermediate timings, calculates a first differential value of the ? axis current at every switch timing, calculates the ? axis current according to the first differential value, calculates a second differential value of the ? axis current at every intermediate timing, and calculates the ? axis current according to the second differential value. The intermediate timing is set to have an unequal interval between two adjacent switch timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Omata, Takahumi Oowada
  • Patent number: 9160268
    Abstract: A system for controlling a voltage inverter, or supplying power to a multiphase electric motor of an automobile vehicle, including: a mechanism generating values of power supply voltages for each phase of the electric motor, together with an amplitude value of the power supply voltages; a phase-splicing determination mechanism; and a controller controlling the phase splicing cooperating to control transmission to the voltage inverter of duty cycles generated by determining the duty cycles, as a function of values of power supply voltages for each phase of the electric motor, and also of the amplitude value of the power supply voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: RENAULT s.a.s
    Inventors: Samuel Cregut, Marco Marsilia
  • Patent number: 9112436
    Abstract: In a system for controlling a controlled variable of a rotary machine having plural-phase input terminals of the rotary machine in which plural-phase AC power is applied from an AC power applying module to the input terminals, a command-voltage setting module sets, based on a request value for the controlled variable, plural-phase AC command voltages for the plural-phase AC power as a feedforward manipulated variable. A current obtaining module obtains plural-phase AC currents flowing in the respective plural-phase input terminals of the rotary machine. An amplitude correcting module corrects the amplitude of at least one of the plural-phase AC command voltages based on the magnitudes of the plural-phase AC currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Fujii, Akimasa Osaki, Hideki Kabune, Koichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9077266
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a vehicle provided with a motor includes a current command generator that determines first and second axes currents according to driving conditions, and a current controller that generates first and second axes voltages by using the first and second axes currents and feedback currents. An axis converter converts the first and second axes voltages into 3-phase voltages, 3-phase feedback currents into first and second axes feedback currents, and transmits the same to the current controller. A pulse width modulation (PWM) generator receives the 3-phase voltages and generates corresponding 3-phase signals, and a PWM inverter generates 3-phase currents and transmits the same to the axis converter. A motor is driven by the 3-phase currents. A resolver detects a phase of the motor and transmits the same to the current command generator and the axis converter. A resolver offset determining unit calculates a resolver offset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Jooyoung Park, Byunghoon Yang
  • Patent number: 9077279
    Abstract: A load drive control system for a hybrid vehicle includes a zero current control execution device and an error compensating device. The zero current control execution device is configured to control a converter to output a substantially constant raised voltage that is higher than an inductive voltage generated in an electric motor. The error compensating device is configured to compensate for an attachment error of a first position detector based on a d-axis voltage command value for the electric motor calculated during zero current control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirohito Ide, Daisuke Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9071184
    Abstract: A motor driving system is disclosed having a control device 4A for controlling a synchronous motor 1, the control device 4A comprising a sensorless control algorithm device 20 that includes an abnormality determining device 25 for determining abnormality of the algorithm based on a magnetic pole position error estimated value of the motor 1. When the abnormality determining device 25 has determined abnormality of the algorithm, the control device 4A controls a power converter 2 using a magnetic pole position detected value detected by a magnetic pole position detector 30 attached to the motor, in place of using a magnetic pole position estimated value. This motor driving system can guarantee reliability of the sensorless control algorithm device 20 while assuring safety. Safety of electric vehicles is enhanced by installing the motor driving system that has been guaranteed reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kuroda, Akio Toba
  • Patent number: 9065365
    Abstract: A control device for controlling an AC motor with an inverter includes: a current acquisition device of a sensor phase current sensed value of the motor in a sensor phase current sensing cycle; a rotation angle acquisition device of a rotation angle sensed value of the motor; a current command value operation device for updating a current command value in a command update cycle; a current estimation device; a voltage command value operation device; a drive signal generation device; and a sudden change prevention device for preventing the voltage command value from a sudden change according to a sudden change in the current estimated value. The sudden change of the current estimated value is caused by a sudden change in the current command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuji Omata, Takeshi Itoh, Hirofumi Kako
  • Patent number: 9054623
    Abstract: A motor control device according to the present invention includes a motor driving unit for driving a motor, a current vector controller, a magnetic-flux weakening current command generator, and one of a target command limiter and a q-axis current command limiter. The current vector controller controls a current of the motor by separating the current into a d-axis current and a q-axis current orthogonal to each other, in accordance with a target command value from the outside. The magnetic-flux weakening current command generator generates a d-axis current command to control the amount of the d-axis current, based on one of differences, i.e. a difference between a first predetermined reference value and the absolute value of a voltage command from the current vector controller to the motor driving unit and a difference between a second predetermined reference value and a q-axis component of the voltage command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuta Sasaki, Kenichi Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 9054622
    Abstract: The present invention is a control device of a motor, for drawing out a capacity of the motor as much as possible so as to achieve a high-speed high-output performance thereof while securing a stability, including: a converter unit configured to rectify and smooth an AC voltage, and to output a DC main circuit voltage; an inverter unit configured to pass a current for driving the motor, with the use of the main circuit voltage; a current detector configured to detect an armature current passing through the motor; a position detector disposed on the motor, the position detector being configured to detect a motor speed; and a current control unit configured to control, upon reception of a q-axis current command (Iqr), the armature current passing through the motor, by outputting a signal for driving the inverter unit, with the use of data from the current detector and data from the position detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Narutoshi Yokokawa
  • Patent number: 9048771
    Abstract: An inverter includes a warm-up control section and a switching control section. In a state in which an electric motor is not operating, the warm-up control section controls switching elements of an inverter circuit to perform warm-up control, in which direct currents are supplied to the coils of the respective phases of the electric motor, when the temperature of the capacitor is lower than a prescribed temperature. When a warm-up control is switched to a normal operation control, the switching control section sets initial phases of alternating currents such that the relationship between the values of the alternating currents supplied to the coils of the electric motor in the normal operation control matches with the relationship between the values of the direct currents that have been supplied to the corresponding coils of the electric motor in the warm-up control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ohba, Toshiaki Nagase, Tomohiro Yamagami, Naohito Kanie
  • Publication number: 20150145445
    Abstract: A system for controlling a motor of a hybrid vehicle determines a current of a first axis and a current of a second axis according to a driving condition, converts the currents of the first and second axes into a 3-phase AC current, and drives the motor by applying the 3-phase AC current to the motor, and includes: a revised temperature calculation module that calculates a revised temperature in order to compensate a torque error according to counter electromotive force dispersion of the motor; and a current determination module that determines the currents of the first and second axes by substituting the corrected temperature to a current map for each temperature and by using a demand torque at a present driving condition, a present speed of the motor, and a maximum counter magnetic flux of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Sung Kyu Kim, Mu Shin Kwak, Hong Geuk Park, Suhyun Bae
  • Patent number: 9041325
    Abstract: A control device for an alternating current motor according to embodiments includes a current distributor and a phase estimator. The current distributor divides a torque command by using a control phase and outputs a component that contributes to a mechanical output of the motor as a ?-axis current command and a component that does not contribute to the mechanical output as a ?-axis current command. The phase estimator computes a phase at which a ?-axis component of an addition amount of the output of the current controller and a voltage drop amount of inductance of the motor becomes zero and outputs the computed phase as the control phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Akira Yamazaki, Kozo Ide
  • Patent number: 9041324
    Abstract: A control apparatus of an AC motor improves an electric current estimation accuracy of the AC motor. The control apparatus includes an electric current estimation unit that repeatedly performs an inverted dq conversion, a dq conversion, and a correction process. Based on a d/q axis electric current estimate values of a previous cycle, the inverted dq conversion calculates an electric current estimate value of a sensor phase. The dq conversion calculates a d/q axis electric current correction values based on an electric current estimation error of the sensor phase, which is derived from the electric current estimate value and the electric current detection value detected by an electric current detector. The correction process calculates the d/q axis electric current estimate values of a current cycle by correcting the d/q axis electric current estimate values of the previous cycle by using the d/q axis electric current correction values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Takeshi Itoh, Hirofumi Kako
  • Publication number: 20150137648
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor has at least one permanent magnet arranged in a d-axis magnetic path. The rotor includes a magnetic gap part located between the permanent magnet arranged in the d-axis magnetic path of one pole and an adjacent magnet with a different polarity, such that a d-axis magnetic flux forms a d-axis bypass passing through an area other than the permanent magnet. The d-axis bypass provides a magnetic resistance in a d-axis direction that is set below a magnetic resistance in a q-axis direction that is orthogonal to the d-axis resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicants: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kato, Robert Lorenz, Natee Limsuwan
  • Patent number: 9035581
    Abstract: A motor control device that can improve stability of sensorless control of a permanent magnetic synchronous motor. Rotor position detection (10) includes motor parameter correction (30) for correcting a parameter (winding resistance of a coil, a magnetic flux amount of a permanent magnet), which is a machine constant of a motor, in order to eliminate an induced voltage difference between a detected induced voltage peak value and a detected estimated induced voltage peak value. The rotor position is detected on the basis of the corrected parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SANDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Hirono