Phase Voltage Wave-shaping Circuit Or Method (e.g., Output From Inverter, Phase Energizing Signal, Trapezoidal Wave, Etc.) Patents (Class 318/400.2)
  • 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: 11843275
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes a determination unit that determines voltage to be supplied from a power supply apparatus to the image capture apparatus, based on a temperature of the image capture apparatus and power consumption of the image capture apparatus; a communication unit that sends the determined voltage to the power supply apparatus; and a power receiving unit that receives power supplied from the power supply apparatus to the image capture apparatus after the determined voltage is sent to the power supply apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11757394
    Abstract: The present application provides a motor control device capable of suppressing noise. A motor control device includes a control unit configured to generate a PWM signal corresponding to each phase (U, V, W) of a motor, an inverter circuit configured to drive the motor, based on the PWM signal, and a current detector connected to a direct-current line of the inverter circuit in series. The control unit includes a current detection unit, a duty cycle setting unit configured to set a duty cycle, based on a detection result of the current detection unit, and a PWM signal generation unit configured to generate the PWM signal. The PWM signal of each phase has a signal level changing at a timing according to the set duty cycle in a first period in one cycle of the PWM signal and has a signal level changing at a different fixed timing in the second period in one cycle of the PWM signal. The current detection unit detects a current (Sd) of the current detector in the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Oba, Reiji Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11644067
    Abstract: A disconnect apparatus including a first clutch member and a second clutch member in selective engagement with the first clutch member. The disconnect apparatus also includes a cam mechanism and a sensor assembly. The cam mechanism includes an axially movable first cam member and an axially fixed second cam member. Wherein the sensor assembly generates a pulse pattern which is utilized to determine a position of the first cam member, and thereby a state of the disconnect apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC
    Inventors: Korneel Bolle, Michael Z. Creech, Stijn Goossens, Gaurav Krishnaraj, Mitchell R. Lawson
  • Patent number: 11535221
    Abstract: A brake device for a vehicle including: a master cylinder unit configured to generate hydraulic pressure by pressing of a pedal; a reservoir connected to the master cylinder unit and configured to store oil; a driving unit operated by movement of the pedal and configured to receive electric energy through a plurality of batteries to supply rotation power; a hydraulic generation unit configured to rotate by receiving the rotation power of the driving unit and generate hydraulic pressure by rotation of a plurality of rotors; wheel cylinder units configured to receive the hydraulic pressure generated by the hydraulic generation unit and constrain rotation of wheels; and a control unit configured to detect whether the driving unit normally operates and control an operation of the driving unit to supply the hydraulic generation unit with the rotation power in an event of abnormal operation of the driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae Woo Jung
  • Patent number: 11177800
    Abstract: A power transmission device is provided that enables more accurate detection of an undesired switching state for a switching element and an appropriate supply of power. The power transmission device includes a power supply, a switching element, a ringing detection circuit, and a control circuit unit. The ringing detection circuit detects ringing that occurs in the switching element. The control circuit unit controls at least the power supply or the switching element in accordance with a detection result of the ringing detection circuit. The ringing detection circuit includes a diode and a resistor. The diode conducts when a negative polarity voltage is generated in the switching element. The resistor is connected in series with the diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masato Sasaki, Keiichi Sakuno
  • Patent number: 10865704
    Abstract: A method is described for operating an electric media-flow machine for a compressor and/or a turbine, especially for an exhaust-gas turbocharger of an internal combustion engine, having a shaft rotationally mounted in a housing that has an inlet and an outlet for a medium to be conveyed, a rotor being disposed in rotatably fixed manner on the shaft, having a stator that is fixed in the housing and has at least one polyphase drive winding as well as a plurality of stator teeth projecting radially to the inside, having a covering cap that covers the rotor upstream and to which an inner sleeve is joined surrounding the rotor circumferentially. An outer sleeve is disposed coaxially relative to the inner sleeve, the inner sleeve and the outer sleeve being fixed in the housing, and the stator teeth extending through the outer sleeve at least up to the inner sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Udo Sieber
  • Patent number: 10830245
    Abstract: A system for controlling a motor driven compressor (MDC) is provided. The system includes a sensing element and a controller coupled to the sensing element. The controller is configured to determine whether an actual speed of the MDC sensed by the sensing element is below a predicted minimum speed, shut down and then restart the MDC and detect if the restart of the MDC is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Darren Smith
  • Patent number: 10727770
    Abstract: A control device for a power conversion device according to an embodiment includes a drive control unit controlling a current that is caused to flow through a stator winding of a motor, a drive quantity adjustment unit calculating a drive quantity command value defining a drive quantity of the motor, a magnetic flux observer calculating calculates a first estimated value of a stator magnetic flux of the motor and a first estimated value of a rotor magnetic flux of the motor, a current observer calculating a first estimated value of the current flowing through the stator winding of the motor, and an average correction unit performing calculation on the first estimated values of the stator magnetic flux of the motor. The drive quantity adjustment unit calculates a control quantity defining the drive quantity of the motor on the basis of the first estimated values of the stator magnetic flux of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: TMEIC Corporation, TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yang Xu, Paul Bixel, Chikara Morito
  • Patent number: 10651777
    Abstract: A drive apparatus and a drive method for a brushless motor, capable of reducing noise occurring due to pulse shift processing, is provided. The drive apparatus for the brushless motor comprises one shunt resistor and a controller. The shunt resistor measures a phase current of the three-phase brushless motor. The controller measures the phase current of the brushless motor in a one-shunt system by using the shunt resistor, and controls driving of the brushless motor based on the measured phase current. The controller performs pulse shift when a voltage pulse width in a drive wire of the brushless motor is greater than a predetermined value, whereas the controller does not perform the pulse shift when the voltage pulse width is less than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki Hano
  • Patent number: 10637389
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit according to the present disclosure includes a driving voltage generation circuit, a duty detection circuit, a calibration circuit and a multiplier. The calibration circuit is coupled to the duty detection circuit and the multiplier is coupled to the driving voltage generation circuit and the calibration circuit. A motor driving method according to the present disclosure includes: detecting a duty cycle signal provided by a system terminal through the duty detection circuit; generating an adjustment signal according to the duty cycle signal through the calibration circuit; and multiplying the predetermined driving voltage by the adjustment signal through the multiplier to generate a driving voltage to a motor. The waveform of the coil current of the motor will be a sine wave. The adjustment signal represents a ratio at which the predetermined driving voltage needs to be adjusted under a specific duty of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ming-Jung Tsai
  • Patent number: 10381964
    Abstract: There is provided a motor driving control device and a motor driving control method capable of quickly activating a motor. The motor driving control device comprises a motor driving unit, a control circuit unit and a position detector. The motor driving unit selectively energizes coils Lu, Lv, Lw of a plurality of phases of the motor. The control circuit unit outputs a driving control signal C1 to the motor driving unit to switch, in a predetermined order, an energization phase of the coils Lu, Lv, Lw of the plurality of phases to be energized by the motor driving unit. The position detector outputs a position signal corresponding to a position of a rotor of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventor: Masato Aoki
  • Patent number: 10298157
    Abstract: On the basis of an energization phase signal being output from a rotational phase sensor and changing its output at every predetermined rotational phase corresponding to a stepwise change (increase or decrease) in rotational phase, a motor controller switches a phase current passing through the corresponding phase coil, and changes the magnitude of the phase current passing through the corresponding phase coil such that an actual motor torque detected by a torque sensor coincides with a target motor torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsuhiko Yoneda
  • Patent number: 10211772
    Abstract: A method for operating an electric machine with a power source, an electric motor, and an intermediary power converter, in which an input current of the power source is converted to a multi-phase output current for the electric motor by a pulse width modulated control of a number of semiconductor switches of the converter, wherein the or each pulse is generated at a first point in time and terminated after a pulse duration at a second point in time, in which for each alternating current component, which is generated in the course of the pulse-width-modulated driving of the semiconductor switches in an intermediate circuit of the power source, a frequency spectrum is determined, and in which the pulse durations of the pulses of the pulse width modulated control can be set such that the sum of the frequency spectra of the alternating current components is minimal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Wuerzburg
    Inventor: Johannes Schwarzkopf
  • Patent number: 10212838
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a power module that includes at least one power substrate, a housing arranged on the at least one power substrate, and a first terminal electrically connected to the at least one power substrate. The first terminal includes a contact surface located above the housing at a first elevation. The power module includes a second terminal including a contact surface located above the housing at a second elevation different from the first elevation, a third terminal electrically connected to the at least one power substrate, and a plurality of power devices electrically connected to the at least one power substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Cree Fayetteville, Inc.
    Inventors: Brice McPherson, Alexander Lostetter
  • Patent number: 10056851
    Abstract: A system and method for estimating operating characteristics of an induction motor is disclosed. The system includes a motor control device that is electrically connectable between a motor and a power source. The motor control device includes a plurality of switching devices comprising at least one thyristor corresponding to a respective phase of the motor. The motor control device also includes a controller programmed to disconnect the power source from the motor for a predetermined time period following a first plurality of cycles of a mains phase voltage of the power source. The controller is further programmed to measure a back-emf voltage during the predetermined time period, estimate an operating characteristic of the motor from the measured back-emf voltage, and trigger the plurality of switching devices to reconnect the power source to the motor following estimation of the operating characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Dongxiao Wu, Bruno Patrice-Bernard Lequesne, Yahan Hua, Vijay Bhavaraju, Kaijam M. Woodley, Steven Andrew Dimino
  • Patent number: 9991837
    Abstract: Systems and methods to manipulate the noise and vibration of a switched reluctance machine (SRM), capable of being implemented in a controller. By use of vibration sensors and a real-time optimizer, the noise and vibration profile of an SRM and associated load can be modified in order to meet multiple control objectives, such as torque ripple mitigation (TRM), harmonic spectrum shaping, and efficiency improvement. The systems and methods can be adapted to high power, high pole count, and high speed applications, and applications where electrical or mechanical imbalance exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Continuous Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Nir Vaks, Nyah Zarate, Xiaoqi Wang
  • Patent number: 9893667
    Abstract: A circuit includes phase windings, a direct current (DC) power supply, and a power switch circuit. The power switch circuit includes at least one power switch. The circuit also includes a control circuit to control the power switch circuit. The control circuit includes a logic control shut off circuit to shut off the control circuit when the motor is at synchronous speed. The circuit also includes at least one non-collapsing DC power supply component to prevent the DC power supply from collapsing when the at least one power switch is on and conducting during at least a portion of a cycle. One or more of the DC power supply and power switch circuit may be at a midpoint of the phase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: QM Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Flynn, Cooper N. Tracy
  • Patent number: 9878789
    Abstract: A power drive unit (PDU) for moving cargo relative to a cargo bay of an aircraft includes a cam shaft. The PDU also includes a lift cam coupled to the cam shaft and configured to cause the PDU to be in at least one of a raised position or a lowered position based on rotation of the cam shaft. The PDU also includes a permanent magnet motor configured to generate a cogging torque sufficient to resist rotation of the cam shaft such that the PDU remains in the raised position in response to power being removed from the permanent magnet motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aaron Roberts, Scott Harms, Wesley K. Stegmiller, Dustin P. Scheer
  • Patent number: 9863818
    Abstract: A temperature detecting apparatus detects a temperature of a detection target having a switch element. The temperature detecting apparatus includes a current detecting unit and a temperature estimating unit. The current detecting unit detects an output current from the detection target changing depending on an on/off operation of the switch element. The temperature estimating unit, on the basis of a current value detected by the current detecting unit, calculates a conduction loss of the switch element and a switching loss of the switch element to estimate the temperature of the detection target on the basis of the calculated conduction loss and the calculated switching loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Tanabe, Kazuya Okabe, Daisuke Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 9859816
    Abstract: A method for controlling modulation wave and a three-phase three-wire three-level circuit are provided. The method for controlling modulation wave is applied in the three-phase three-wire three-level circuit. Three bridge arms of the three-phase three-wire three-level circuit correspond to three modulation waves. The three-phase three-wire three-level circuit is controlled by comparing said three modulation waves and a carrier wave. The method for controlling modulation wave includes: obtaining a primary modulation wave from said modulation waves based on currents corresponding to each phase of the three-phase three-wire three-level circuit; and adding a shifting quantity to said three modulation waves such that the primary modulation wave is shifted to a peak value, a valley value, or a middle value between the peak value and the valley value of the carrier wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Feng Chen, Cheng Lu, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Hong-Yang Wu
  • Patent number: 9853532
    Abstract: An electromagnetic transmission assembly. The electromagnetic transmission assembly includes a stator having a central axis and a plurality of selectively-energized electromagnetic poles. A first rotor assembly is rotatably supported for rotation about the central axis. The first rotor assembly including a first rotor shaft and a castellated rotor including a plurality of radially arranged ferromagnetic pole portions disposed in a housing. A second rotor assembly is rotatably supported for rotation about the central axis. The second rotor assembly includes a second rotor shaft and a permanent-magnet rotor. The first rotor assembly is at least partially magnetically coupled to the second rotor assembly when the plurality of electromagnetic poles are energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan M. Ionel, Alan E. Lesak, Ian P. Brown
  • Patent number: 9806651
    Abstract: A direct current electrical machine, which includes a rotor that generates a rotor magnetic field, a first commutation cell that includes a winding component, a first switching device, and a second switching device. The first winding component includes a first portion electrically coupled between a first terminal and a second terminal of the first winding component and a second portion electrically coupled between a third terminal and the second terminal of the first winding component. The first switching device is electrically coupled to the first terminal and is closed when a first voltage induced across the first portion by rotation of the rotor magnetic field is positive; and the second switching device is electrically coupled to the third terminal and is closed when a second voltage induced across the second portion by the rotation of the rotor magnetic field is negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Pierluigi Tenca, Konrad Roman Weeber
  • Patent number: 9787239
    Abstract: A circuit includes phase windings, a direct current (DC) power supply, and a power switch circuit. The power switch circuit includes at least one power switch and a voltage regulator in parallel with the at least one power switch, wherein current flows through the voltage regulator when the at least one power switch is on and off. The circuit also includes at least one non-collapsing DC power supply component to prevent the DC power supply from collapsing when the at least one power switch is on and conducting during at least a portion of a cycle. One or more of the DC power supply and power switch circuit may be at a midpoint of the phase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: QM Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Flynn, Cooper N. Tracy
  • Patent number: 9768721
    Abstract: A mobile body of one embodiment moves along a magnetic pole path including a magnetic pole missing section, and includes a first linear motor, a drive information acquiring unit, a drive command unit, a monitor, and a determination unit. The drive information acquiring unit acquires, in real time, drive information of the first linear motor being driven toward a target position. The drive command unit repeatedly provides, to the first linear motor side, command information for moving the mobile body toward the target position based on the drive information acquired each time by the drive information acquiring unit. The monitor monitors the command information or the drive information. The determination unit determines whether or not the first linear motor is located in the magnetic pole missing section based on the command information or the drive information monitored by the monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasutake Yamada
  • Patent number: 9712097
    Abstract: A circuit includes phase windings, a power switch circuit comprising at least one power switch at a midpoint of the phase windings, a direct current (DC) supply circuit at the midpoint of the phase windings, and one or more non-collapsing DC power supply components to prevent the DC power supply from collapsing when the at least one power switch is on and conducting during one or more portions of a cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: QM Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Flynn, Cooper N. Tracy
  • Patent number: 9712099
    Abstract: A phase windings circuit for a motor includes at least two phase windings forming one half of motor phase windings of the circuit and at least two other phase windings forming another half of the motor phase windings of the circuit. A direct current (DC) power supply is located at least approximately at a midpoint of the motor phase windings to receive alternating current (AC) power transferred from one or more of the phase windings and convert the AC power to DC power. A first stage power switch circuit comprises at least one power switch outside of the DC power supply and is electrically connected at least approximately at a midpoint between phase windings on each half of the circuit. A second stage power switch circuit comprises at least one other power switch outside of the DC power supply and is electrically connected at least approximately at the midpoint of the divided phase windings to receive AC power from the motor divided phase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: QM Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Flynn, Cooper N. Tracy, W. Scott Hunter
  • Patent number: 9705441
    Abstract: A circuit includes phase windings to receive alternating current (AC) line voltage. The circuit has a direct current (DC) power supply, a power switch circuit comprising at least one power switch, and a control circuit to turn off the power switch circuit when a rotor associated with the circuit is in an identified rotor position, rotor magnet polarity, or speed relative to the AC line voltage. The circuit also has at least one non-collapsing DC power supply component to prevent the DC power supply from collapsing when the at least one power switch is on and conducting during at least a portion of a cycle. One or more of the DC power supply, power switch circuit, and control circuit may be at a midpoint of the phase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: QM POWER, INC.
    Inventors: Charles J. Flynn, Cooper N. Tracy
  • Patent number: 9634578
    Abstract: Power electronics unit, which comprises a controller and at least one half bridge with a first switching element and with a second switching element, and has a phase current output between the two switching elements, at which phase current output the first switching element and the second switching element can be switched in the push-pull mode for a switching time at a cycle frequency, and at which the controller sets the switching time and/or the cycle frequency as a control variable, in order to provide, at the phase current output, a specified amplitude, frequency and phase position of the phase current in a switching cycle, so that the amplitude, the frequency and the phase position at the phase current output can be predicted at the phase current output for the switching cycle, the polarity of the phase current is used as an observation variable, and the determined switching time for the switching cycle is a function of the direction of the predicted phase current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Matthias Gorka
  • Patent number: 9602037
    Abstract: A motor drive device and motor drive system according to the present invention comprise: a power source terminal; a charging and discharging unit connected in series with the power source terminal; connection terminals to be connected to each of primary and secondary excitation coils for an anti-symmetric two phase motor; and a drive control unit which has a plurality of switching elements and respectively forms first and second paths by turning these switching elements on and off. The first path is used for independently supplying power to the respective primary and secondary excitation coils from the power source terminal via the connection terminals, and the second path is used for independent regeneration of each residual energy remaining in the primary and secondary excitation coils from the respective primary and secondary excitation coils into the charging and discharging unit via the connection terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Hamaguchi, Toshihiro Nogi, Kenichi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9543867
    Abstract: The present invention relates to driving apparatus for a brushless direct current motor, comprising: at least three half-bridge circuits, each having two switches connected in series and being configured to supply a voltage to a terminal of a rotor coil; a zero crossing detection module configured to detect whether the rotor coils experience BEMF zero crossing and provide a control module with an indication signal that indicates whether the rotor coils experience BEMF zero crossing, based on a type of the brushless direct current motor; and a control module configured to transmit to the zero crossing detection module information regarding the type of the brushless direct current motor, and generate and output, based on the indication signal, pulse width modulation signals to control the switches of the half-bridge circuits. The driving apparatus may drive a plurality of types of brushless direct current motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Yi Sun, Kevin Zhang, Tina Shen, Chaoqun Xu
  • Patent number: 9503073
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device includes an output transistor, a control circuit connected with a gate of the output transistor, a first discharge route from a first node to a ground terminal, and a second discharge route from the first node to the ground terminal. In a usual turn-off, only the first discharge route is used. When a load abnormality occurs, both of the first and second discharge routes are used. The second discharge route contains a discharge transistor and a countercurrent prevention device. The discharge transistor is connected between the first node and the second node. The countercurrent prevention device prevents a flow of current from the third node to the second node. At least, in an OFF period, the control circuit sets the gate voltage of the discharge transistor to a high level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakahara, Sakae Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9312802
    Abstract: A method is described for controlling a multiphase machine which is connected to a battery, the multiphase machine having a DC link which is provided with a DC link capacitor, phase windings, and a high side switch and a low side switch for each phase. The switches associated with the individual phases are controlled by a control unit in such a way that sinusoidal phase currents are predefined, at least one phase current is connected at any point in time in each control cycle, and a fixed, pulsed control pattern is present for each control cycle. The control widths of the actuating signals associated with the phases are constant in the pulsed control pattern. The control pulses associated with the individual phases are predefined in such a way that the DC link current which arises is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Fabio Magini, Paul Mehringer, Julian Roesner
  • Patent number: 9300237
    Abstract: A divided phase windings circuit includes motor divided phase windings, a power switch circuit comprising at least one power switch and a direct current (DC) supply circuit all at a midpoint of the divided motor phase windings, and a non-collapsing DC power supply component to prevent the DC power supply from collapsing when the at least one power switch is on and conducting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: QM Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles J. Flynn, Cooper N. Tracy
  • Patent number: 9267224
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laundry processing apparatus (100), which includes: a laundry processing drum (22), used for holding laundry for processing; a driving system (30), used for driving the laundry processing drum (22) to process the held laundry; and a power control system (10), at least used for providing power of a grid for the driving system (30), where the power control system (10) includes an electrical storage device (11). Through the setting, when external grid power outage occur or the fluctuation of the voltage is excessively large, the power control system may switch a power storage device to supply power to the laundry processing apparatus, thereby eliminating the influence on the apparatus caused by unstable voltage of power transmitted by the grid or grid power outage, and avoiding the trouble brought to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: BSH HAUSGERÄTE GMBH
    Inventors: Shoufan Chen, Ting Dai, Lianhua Li, Xiaofeng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9046544
    Abstract: A system for determining motor speed of a brush DC motor, including a first filter for receiving a substantially low frequency portion of a sensed current of the motor and parameters corresponding thereto, for calculating a speed estimate of the motor; an adaptive bandpass filter having a center frequency corresponding to the speed estimate of the first filter, for receiving the sensed current and substantially isolating a first periodic current fluctuation thereof. A detected frequency of the first periodic current fluctuation corresponds to the speed of the brush DC motor. The system may include a tracking frequency selection block for selecting a frequency component of the sensed current and providing same to the first filter, wherein the speed estimate is based in part upon the selected frequency component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventor: Stefan Mark Atay
  • Patent number: 9030139
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system and a method for controlling a speed of a motor. The method for controlling a speed of a motor includes: receiving a signal from a hall sensor of the motor to measure a current speed of the motor; comparing the current speed of the motor measured with a reference speed to calculate errors; outputting a speed control value of the motor based on the calculated errors; limiting the output speed control value to values within a predetermined range; controlling a duty or a phase of current applied to the motor according to the limited values within the predetermined range; and generating a motor driving signal based on the duty control or the phase control and applying the generated motor driving signal to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Bon Young Gu
  • Publication number: 20150091481
    Abstract: In a power converting device, a controller determines a combination pattern of a first energization pattern for the first set of the at least one-phase winding and a second energization pattern for the second set of the at least one-phase winding. The first and second energization patterns respectively include at least a first energization duration for the first set of the at least one-phase winding and a second energization duration for the second set of the at least one-phase winding. The controller supplies a drive pulse signal, whose on duration is based on the determined combination pattern, to the switch to thereby control on-off operations of the switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Masakazu TAGO, Harumi Horihata, Hideaki Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20150069939
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes circuits and methods for driving resonant actuators. In one embodiment, a drive signal is applied to an actuator during a portion of a plurality of half cycles of a period of the drive signal. The actuator has a resonant frequency and may vibrate in response to the drive signal. An induced voltage is generated on terminals of the actuator in response to the vibration. A detection circuit may detect when the induced voltage on the actuator crosses a threshold after the drive signal is turned off. The drive signal may be triggered based on when the induced voltage crosses the threshold to align a frequency and phase of the drive signal with the resonant frequency and a phase of the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Qadeer A. Khan, Sandeep Chaman Dhar, Joshua A. Zazzera, Todd R. Sutton
  • Publication number: 20150061551
    Abstract: A signal-phase DC motor control circuit is disclosed. The signal-phase DC motor control circuit includes a logic circuit, a switching circuit and a driving circuit. The logic circuit transmits a first logic signal, a second logic signal, a third logic signal and a forth logic signal. The switching circuit transmits a first direction driving signal according to a PWM signal and the first logic signal, and transmits a second direction driving signal according to the PWM signal and the second logic signal. The driving circuit transmits a first output signal according to the first direction driving signal and the fourth logic signal, and transmits a second output signal according to the second direction driving signal and the third logic signal. The first output signal and the second output signal are positive half-wave sinusoidal wave, and the phase difference between the first output signal and the second output signal is 180 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: MING-JUNG TSAI, CHING-SHENG LI, CHIA-TAI YANG
  • Patent number: 8957615
    Abstract: There is provided a motor driving apparatus capable of optimizing driving efficiency by adjusting a phase difference between current applied to a motor and voltage detected from the motor and performing the adjustment of the phase difference when a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal has a set duty. The motor driving apparatus includes: a driving unit driving a motor according to driving control; a driving controlling unit controlling the driving of the motor by the driving unit, based on an adjusted phase correction signal; and a phase correcting unit correcting a phase difference between a motor detection signal having motor rotation speed information and a current detection signal having detection information regarding current flowing in the motor when a duty of a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal driving the motor satisfies a preset reference duty, and providing the phase correction signal to the driving controlling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joo Yul Ko
  • Publication number: 20150028781
    Abstract: A method for actuating a BLDC motor for reducing the current ripple in an intermediate circuit capacitor includes means for monitoring pulse width modulated signals (PWMU, PWMV, PWMW) for each motor phase (U, V, W), which add motor phase currents Iu, Iv, Iw) of two adjacent phases in a first step, and add the respective pulse width modulated signals (PWMU, PWMV, PWMW) if the added currents value is over zero, and shift the phase of at least one pulse width modulated signal (PWMU, PWMV, PWMW) in the time slot T if the added signals result is greater than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Volker Steigerwald, Mirko Kress, Rudolf Polzer
  • Publication number: 20150008851
    Abstract: A method for controlling a permanently excited synchronous motor, in particular a brushless direct-current motor, having a permanently magnetized rotor and a number of stationary Stator windings to which an alternating voltage of predetermined amplitude and frequency is applied, wherein the frequency of the alternating voltage is determined by the speed of the motor and a phase difference results between the alternating voltage and the alternating current for each Stator winding. Accordingly, current is applied to the Stator windings in such a way that between alternating voltage (UPhase) and alternating current (IPhase) arises a phase angle (?Target, ??Target), which is selected according to speed (?), motor inductance (L), and the power received by the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: Mikael Despres
  • Patent number: 8890453
    Abstract: In a power conversion apparatus, a main switching element in one main circuit is controlled to repeat an on-off state, and a diode in the other main circuit is used as a freewheeling diode. Multiple snubber circuits each having a resistor, a capacitor, and a second switching element which are serially coupled are coupled in parallel to the main circuit. The second switching elements are turned-on sequentially before the turn-on or turn-off of the main switching element that repeats the on-off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Kure
  • Publication number: 20140333243
    Abstract: Motor Drive Control Device configured to properly start up various types of motors under operating conditions where motor operations are performed in a wide range of temperature and power supply voltage, includes output drive controllers that supply PWM drive output signals to an output pre-driver in such a manner as to minimize the error between a current instruction signal and a current detection digital signal. In response to a detected induced voltage generated from a voltage detector upon startup of a motor, an initial acceleration controller supplies initial acceleration output signals specifying a conducting phase for initial acceleration of the motor to the output drive controllers. The initial acceleration controller, the output drive controllers, and an output driver make a conducting phase change and perform a PWM drive to provide the initial acceleration of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventor: Minoru KUROSAWA
  • Publication number: 20140333242
    Abstract: A system including memory to store a plurality of sets of values, where each set is used to control speed of a different type of motor. A pulse width modulation (PWM) module receives an input indicating a type of motor sensed in the system, selects a set corresponding to the type of the sensed motor, and generates, based on the selected set, a pulse width modulation signal to control speed of the sensed motor. A speed module receives a requested speed for the sensed motor and generates an output indicating a range of speed corresponding to the requested speed. The PWM module selects, based on the range of speed, a value from the selected set; shifts, based on the selected value, the pulse width modulation signal; and adjusts, based on the shifted pulse width modulation signal, the speed of the sensed motor by adjusting torque applied to the sensed motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Ravishanker Krishnamoorthy, Edy Susanto, Cheng Yong Teoh, Foo Leng Leong
  • Patent number: 8886433
    Abstract: An electric braking control apparatus for controlling an electric braking apparatus which includes a brake pad, a motor which generates a rotational torque, and a rotation/linear motion conversion mechanism which causes the brake pad to generate a pressing force based on the torque. The braking control apparatus includes an inverter which converts and outputs an electric current supplied from a power supply to the motor, and a microcomputer that receives power from the power supply, detects the value of a voltage applied from the power supply to the inverter, and controls the electric current output from the inverter depending on a result of the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Konishi, Toshiyuki Innami, Satoru Kuragaki, Takafumi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8884566
    Abstract: A position sensorless control methodology for electrical machines using high frequency flux vector signal injection in the estimated rotor flux rotational reference frame is provided. In one aspect, the estimated position error function is derived directly from the stator flux equation without any simplification. The method is applicable for electrical generator motoring mode operation from standstill and power generation mode operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Shu Yu Cao, Bing Li, Anshuman Tripathi, Lars Helle
  • Publication number: 20140312811
    Abstract: A power converter, control apparatus and methods are presented for driving a permanent magnet motor or other load through a sine wave filter and a transformer, in which inverter output current is controlled using a current-frequency relationship to convert a desired frequency or speed value to a current setpoint, and the inverter output current is regulated to the current setpoint using a control algorithm with a bandwidth below the resonant frequency of the sine wave filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jingbo Liu, Thomas Nondahl, Peter Schmidt, Semyon Royak
  • Publication number: 20140306626
    Abstract: A motor driving device of the present invention is a motor driving device that incorporates so-called vector control of controlling a current applied to a motor winding in accordance with the position of a rotor. The motor driving device receives the input of a duty command value from a host controller via a command input port, for example. The motor driving device obtains a current command or a speed command as a command value such that the input duty command value is equal to the duty of a drive pulse output from an inverter. Then, the motor driving device performs vector control based on the obtained command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke SONODA, Yasushi KATO, Yasuyuki YOKOUCHI, Mitsuhiro SAKAMOTO