Power Supply Voltage Feature (e.g., Power Supply Voltage, Vcc Compensation, Rectifier Circuit, Power Regulator, Auxiliary Or Secondary Power Supply, Etc.) Patents (Class 318/400.3)
  • Patent number: 12244140
    Abstract: A power supply management circuit includes a first contact receiving a transmitted voltage, a second contact outputting the transmitted voltage, a relay coupled between the first contact and the second contact, a discharge unit coupled to the relay in parallel, and an activation unit coupled to the discharge unit. When the power supply management circuit receives a control signal, the discharge unit is turned on or off, and the relay enters into a switching procedure. When the control signal is an ON signal, the activation unit generates a driving voltage to turn on the discharge unit, the relay enters into a turn-on procedure, and the transmitted voltage is transmitted to the second contact through the discharge unit; after the switching procedure is completed, the activation unit stops generating the driving voltage to turn off the discharge unit, and the transmitted voltage is transmitted to the second contact through the relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Chicony Power Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Xian Zeng
  • Patent number: 12216166
    Abstract: There is provided a diagnostic apparatus including: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire target data relating to a current value between a power conversion apparatus and a motor; a detection unit configured to detect a peak value in a time series waveform of the target data; a counting operation unit configured to use a frequency counting method to calculate an amplitude of the peak value and a frequency of occurrence of the amplitude; and a diagnostic unit configured to diagnose an abnormality of the motor based on the amplitude and the frequency of occurrence. The diagnostic unit diagnoses that the motor is abnormal when a statistic which is calculated from the amplitude and the frequency of occurrence of the amplitude does not satisfy a predetermined reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ueta, Hiroyuki Kokubun
  • Patent number: 12176806
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power factor correction circuit, a control method, and an electrical appliance. The power factor correction circuit may include: a power regulation branch, including a first switching unit, a second switching unit and a branch sampling resistor connected in series sequentially; an inductive branch, connected between an AC power source and a power regulation branch; a rectifier branch, including a first rectifier unit and a second rectifier unit, the rectifier branch may include a main line sampling resistor; a capacitance branch; a control circuit sampling a branch current flowing through each of the branch sampling resistors and a main line current flowing through the main line sampling resistor respectively, and controlling the switching of each power regulation branch sequentially. With the branch sampling resistor and the main line sampling resistor, the overall cost of the power factor correction circuit may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGDONG MIDEA WHITE HOME APPLIANCE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTER CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Li Cai, Yi Liu, Kai Jiang, Hong Bin
  • Patent number: 12156303
    Abstract: A control circuit includes: a flip-flop having an output configured to be coupled to a control terminal of a transistor and for producing a first signal; a comparator having an output coupled to an input of the flip-flop, and first and second inputs for receiving first and second voltages, respectively; a transconductance amplifier having an input for receiving a sense voltage indicative of a current flowing through the transistor, and an output coupled to the first input of the comparator; a zero crossing detection (ZCD) circuit having an input configured to be coupled to a first current path terminal of the transistor and to an inductor, where the ZCD circuit is configured to detect a demagnetization time of the inductor and produce a third signal based on the detected demagnetization time; and a reference generator configured to generate the second voltage based on the first and third signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Claudio Adragna, Giovanni Gritti
  • Patent number: 12126297
    Abstract: A method for magnetizing a soft magnet in a rotor of a variable-flux memory motor (VFMM) includes: generating a first pulse of electric current that has a duration of equal to or more than 0.1 millisecond (ms) and equal to or less than 2 ms; and applying the first pulse to a stator winding of the VFMM to set a magnetization state of the soft magnet to a first magnetization state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Jacobi Motors LLC
    Inventors: Nicolaus Radford, Mohammadreza Barzegaranbaboli
  • Patent number: 12115967
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a power control device, which comprises a bleeder circuit forming a first discharging path and an aux low-voltage (LV) power supply unit forming a second discharging path. The bleeder circuit is connected with a voltage-regulating capacitor stably maintaining the high-voltage (HV) level from a HV battery. The aux LV power supply unit is connected with the bleeder circuit and the voltage-regulating capacitor in parallel. The aux LV power supply unit provides an aux LV level to the driver, when the power system operates abnormally, the HV level is discharged through the first and second discharging path and/or a third discharging path formed by a driver and a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chih-Chiang Wu, Uma Sankar Rout, Bang-Yuan Liu, Yun-Huan Li
  • Patent number: 12109699
    Abstract: A method for controlling a servomotor with a converter includes monitoring a circuit of a direct-voltage DC link that is connected to an input circuit for flow of an electric current; switching off a first switching device to end the supply of the direct-voltage DC link from an electrical grid if a stop signal occurs; braking the servomotor by control of power semiconductor switches of an inverter circuit in a regenerative braking operation, to reduce the rotation speed of the servomotor, if the monitoring detects that an electric current is not flowing after the first switching device has been switched off; and switching off a second switching device to prevent feeding electrical energy from the direct-voltage DC link into the servomotor if the monitoring detects a flow of electric current after the first switching device has been switched off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: KUKA Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Pfister, Michael Langhans, Andreas Fischer
  • Patent number: 12107574
    Abstract: A switch control module including a master switch, a clamping element and a diode is provided. The master switch is configured to receive a control signal having a conducting interval and a non-conducting interval. The diode couples the clamping element and the master switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: LITE-ON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Po-Lin Wu, Han-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 12095393
    Abstract: Examples include a method for controlling a variable speed drive of an electric motor. The variable speed drive is connected to a torque sensor for sensing a torque supplied by the electric motor. The method includes performing, by the electric motor, a predetermined torque sequence. The method also includes measuring, by the torque sensor, a measured torque sequence corresponding to the predetermined torque sequence, and comparing the predetermined torque sequence and the measured torque sequence. As a result of the comparison, one or more torque sensor transfer function parameters are determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Schneider Toshiba Inverter Europe SAS
    Inventors: Al Kassem Jebai, Thomas Devos
  • Patent number: 12081111
    Abstract: A bi-directional DC voltage converter includes a controller, controlled switches, inductors, and capacitors to accomplish DC voltage conversion with minimal input current ripple and high efficiency. The controller is operable in a boost mode in which the switches are independently controlled to convert low-voltage DC power to high-voltage DC power. The controller is operable in a buck mode in which the switches are independently controlled to convert high-voltage DC power to low-voltage DC power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Khalifa University of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Balanthi Mogru Abdul Rahiman Beig, Anish Ahmad, Jamal Alsawalhi, Khaled Ali Mohammed Ali Ai Jaafari
  • Patent number: 12065124
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a hybrid vehicle power train, including a thermal drive chain and an electric drive chain, the electric drive chain including a traction battery, a voltage modulator, an inverter, first and second electrical machines. The voltage modulator is designed to modulate a supply voltage of an electric current from the traction battery to the first and second electrical machines. The method includes: a step of analytically calculating an optimal supply voltage using a mathematical expression that corresponds to the resolution of an equation expressed as ? P b ? a ? t ? U e = 0 , where Ue is the supply voltage, Pbat is the electrical power supplied by the traction battery, and where the electrical power supplied by the traction battery is expressed as a quadratic function of the supply voltage; and a step of controlling the voltage modulator in such a way that it outputs the optimal supply voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignees: RENAULT S.A.S., UNIVERSITE D'ORLEANS
    Inventors: Guillaume Colin, Souad Hadj-Said, Ahmed Ketfi-Cherif
  • Patent number: 12046988
    Abstract: A power supply system 1 includes: a DC power supply 30; a variable voltage power supply 7 serving as an isolated bidirectional DC/DC converter that outputs power of a variable voltage E2 from a pair of secondary-side input/output terminals 72p and 72n; a positive electrode power line 21 and a negative electrode power line 22 that are connected to both electrodes of the DC power supply 30; a switching circuit 5 including a plurality of arm switching elements 51, 52, 53, and 54 that connect the power lines 21 and 22 and a load 4; a backflow prevention switching element 34 that is provided on the positive electrode power line 21 between the pair of secondary-side input/output terminals 72p and 72n; a power supply driver 6 that operates the variable voltage power supply 7 and the backflow prevention switching element 34; and a switching circuit driver 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinari Tsukada
  • Patent number: 12015354
    Abstract: A power converter includes an arm in which a plurality of converter cells are connected in series, each of the converter cells including at least two switching elements, a power storage element, and a pair of output terminals. A control device controls voltages of the plurality of converter cells by phase shift PWM control using a carrier signal for each converter cell. The converter cell includes a switch to have the converter cell bypassed. When the control device senses failure of the converter cell within the arm, it has a failed converter cell within the arm bypassed and rectifies uneven intervals among phases of carrier signals of a plurality of normal converter cells within the arm caused by failure of the converter cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Kajiyama, Toshiyuki Fujii, Shuhei Fujiwara, Ryosuke Uda, Kazuyori Tahata
  • Patent number: 12000869
    Abstract: A system includes a current sensor disposed proximate to a first conductor of a conductor assembly, the current sensor configured to measure a current through the first conductor and generate a first current measurement. The system also includes a correction module configured to perform a correction method. The correction method includes determining a frequency of the first current measurement, and applying a gain correction factor to the first current measurement, the gain correction factor based on pre-characterization data relating a gain of a reference current sensor to frequency. In addition, or alternatively, the correction method includes determining a first phase of the first current measurement, acquiring a second current measurement of a second conductor of the conductor assembly, determining a second phase of the second current measurement, and applying a current adjustment to the first current measurement based on a temporal relationship between the first phase and the second phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Muhammad Hussain Alvi, Suresh Gopalakrishnan
  • Patent number: 11890950
    Abstract: A system having electric consumers includes an electrical device including an operating device and wires supplying the consumer. A first wire is provided for conducting the first phase of a three-phase voltage during a normal operation, a second wire conducts a second phase of the three-phase voltage, and a third wire conducts a third phase of the three-phase voltage. The consumer is able to be supplied with the three-phase voltage from the wires during a normal operation. The operating device is configured so that: in a normal operation, the first wire is connected to the first phase of the three-phase voltage; and in a safety case, the first wire is separated from the first phase of the three-phase voltage and will be or is connected to the second phase of the three-phase voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rico Henkel, Martin Bund, Mario Epp, Stefan Hien
  • Patent number: 11863105
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electric motor, the method including determining a planned reference speed of the electric motor; determining a pulse-width modulation (PWM) switching frequency based on the planned reference speed; and controlling the electric motor with an alternating current produced by PWM switching with the determined PWM switching frequency. A control system for controlling an electric motor and an industrial robot including a control system, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Yang Gao
  • Patent number: 11811339
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a predictive control method of current increment for a permanent magnet synchronous motor includes: substituting a mathematical expression of a stator voltage during one control period into a continuous time domain current model to obtain a discrete current prediction model and a predicted current at the next time point; obtaining a predicted current increment from a current increment prediction model by subtracting a predictive current at a present time point from a predictive current at a next time point; establishing a cost function according to a preset reference current increment and the predicted current increment; obtaining an optimal voltage increment by minimizing the cost function; superposing the optimal voltage increment on a stator voltage of a present control period to obtain an optimal stator voltage of a next control period for controlling control the permanent magnet synchronous motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY ADVANCED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT INNOVATION CENTER, ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tingna Shi, Chen Li, Yan Yan, Changliang Xia
  • Patent number: 11768243
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining a gain error of at least one current measuring device (8, 9, 10) of a sensor unit (7) of an electric machine (1), wherein the machine (1) has a stator winding (2) having at least three phases (U, V, W) and a rotor (5) which is mounted so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Yuping Chen, Gunther Goetting, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 11750102
    Abstract: A first capacitor is connected between a first connection point and a second connection point. A second capacitor is connected between a third connection point and a fourth connection point. A current sensor is provided between the first connection point and the third connection point. A sum of the third wiring length which is a length of wiring from the first connection point to the third connection point and the fourth wiring length which is a length of wiring from the second connection point to the fourth connection point is smaller than a sum of the first wiring length which is a length of wiring from a first input terminal to the first connection point and the second wiring length which is a length of wiring from a second input terminal to the second connection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Kuramochi
  • Patent number: 11701971
    Abstract: This three-phase AC motor drive device is provided with: a load; an inverter device 1 for driving the load; an MCOK_A_4 connected between the inverter device 1 and the load and electrically connecting or disconnecting the inverter device 1 to or from the load; a voltage detector 21a having terminals respectively connected to the circuits of at least two phases to detect the voltages between the three phases; and a current detector 11 for detecting the currents of the three phases. In the connection from the inverter device 1 to the load, the inverter device 1, the MCOK_A_4, the voltage detector 21a, the current detector 11, and the load are aligned in this order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shinomiya, Naoki Kunihiro, Kazutoshi Ogawa, Katsumi Ishikawa, Kuniaki Otsuka, Hiroyuki Shirata, Tomomi Kanazawa, Takeo Takagi, Shuichi Terakado, Kiyoshi Nakata
  • Patent number: 11673478
    Abstract: An illustrative drive unit for an electric vehicle includes a first electrical motor, a first axle mechanically couplable to the first electrical motor, a second electrical motor, a second axle mechanically couplable to the second electrical motor, and a dual power inverter module electrically couplable to a source of high voltage DC electrical power. The dual power inverter module includes: a first inverter configured to convert the high voltage DC electrical power to three phase, high voltage AC electrical power and electrically couplable to provide the three phase, high voltage AC electrical power to the first electrical motor; a second inverter configured to convert the high voltage DC electrical power to three phase, high voltage AC electrical power and electrically couplable to provide the three phase, high voltage AC electrical power to the second electrical motor; and a common controller configured to control the first inverter and the second inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Young Doo, Steven E. Schulz, Silva Hiti, Henry Huang
  • Patent number: 11533009
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a current acquisition unit that acquires a limit current allowed to flow from a battery to a brushless motor, a voltage acquisition unit that acquires a power supply voltage applied from the battery to the brushless motor, and a command current determination unit that determines a d-axis command current and a q-axis command current. The command current determination unit determines the d-axis command current and the q-axis command current based on a power limit circle which is a current characteristic on a d-axis and a q-axis based on an inner product of a voltage vector and a current vector and a voltage limit circle which is a current characteristic on the d-axis and the q-axis based on the power supply voltage and an angular velocity of the brushless motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11525867
    Abstract: Arrangements and methods for identifying a phase-to-ground inverter short circuit in an IT (isolé-terre or isolated ground) network are provided. In the method, AC current values of all three phases and DC current values are measured and evaluated at a frequency that is higher than the clock frequency of the inverter. An AC short-circuit current is also identified by subtracting the fundamental wave from the AC current sensor values. An AC component of the DC current sensor value is also identified, and it is identified whether this component is higher than a value predefined for regular operation. The AC short-circuit current and the AC component of the DC current sensor value are also compared. A short circuit is identified for the phase if the two values of the AC short-circuit current and the AC component of the DC current sensor value are approximately equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Marco Bohlländer
  • Patent number: 11496074
    Abstract: A motor drive apparatus includes a converter; an inverter for drive; a power storage device configured to supply DC power to a direct current link or to store DC power from the direct current link; a power consumption estimation unit configured to acquire a power consumption estimation value which is an estimation value of a total power consumption at a time point later, by a predetermined time, than a value at a present time point, the total power consumption being obtained as a sum of an output of the servomotor for drive, a winding loss in the servomotor for drive, a loss in the converter and a loss in the inverter for drive; and a power storage device control unit configured to control power supply and power storage of the power storage device in accordance with the power consumption estimation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shougo Shinoda, Satoshi Ikai
  • Patent number: 11451149
    Abstract: A power converter is connected between a power supply source of a first direct current power and a power supply destination of a second direct current power obtained by performing power conversion on the first direct current power. The power converter includes: a switching element; a reactor; a first diode; a first capacitor; a second diode. The reactor is connected to a first end of the switching element. The first end of the switching element and a first end of the reactor are connected to a first connection point. A cathode of the first diode is connected to a second end of the reactor. The cathode of the first diode and the second end of the reactor are connected to a second connection point. The second diode includes an anode connected to the first connection point and a cathode connected to the power supply destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Iwazaki, Koichi Arisawa, Takashi Yamakawa, Takuya Shimomugi, Satoru Ichiki, Ikuro Suga
  • Patent number: 11431240
    Abstract: A frequency converter includes a rectifier on an input side and a support capacitor downstream of the rectifier. Input-side phases of the rectifier feed the backup capacitor via multiple half-bridges of the rectifier. The half-bridges have active switching elements and the rectifier is designed as a recovery rectifier. The input-side phases are connected to grid-side phases of a multiphase supply grid via an upstream circuit. Each grid-side phase is connected to one of the input-side phases within the upstream circuit via a respective phase capacitor. A control facility controls the active switching elements when a first charge state of the support capacitor is reached and input-side phase voltages are applied to the input-side phases via the active switching elements. Voltages running in the opposite direction to the grid-side phase voltages are applied to the grid-side phases to which the input-side phases are connected via the phase capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Hensler, Philipp Oschmann
  • Patent number: 11431241
    Abstract: A frequency converter with a rectifier on an input side and a backup capacitor arranged downstream of the rectifier. Input-side phases of the rectifier feed the backup capacitor via multiple half-bridges of the rectifier. The input-side phases are connected to grid-side phases of a multiphase supply grid via a pre-circuit. Each grid-side phase is connected to an input-side phase within the pre-circuit via a phase capacitor. Each grid-side phase is additionally directly connected to another input-side phase within the pre-circuit via a switch and the grid-side phases are short-circuited with the input-side phases when the switches are closed. Each phase capacitor connects two grid-side phases or two input-side phases together. The frequency converter has a control apparatus which keeps the switches open when pre-charging the backup capacitor and closes the switches when a specified charge state of the backup capacitor is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alexander Hensler, Hubert Schierling
  • Patent number: 11400817
    Abstract: A controller of an embodiment includes a limiter receiving an active current command initial value, limiting a maximum value of the active current command initial value with a predetermined value, and outputting a first value; a circuit to calculate a reactive current command initial value; a calculator to calculate a reactive current command adjustment value; a unit receiving the first value as an input, and calculating a reactive current upper limit value such that a composite value of the first value and the reactive current upper limit value is equal to or smaller than an input current maximum value; and a limiter to output the reactive current command adjustment value or the reactive current upper limit value, whichever is smaller. The predetermined value is a value to set the reactive current upper limit value to a value larger than zero and smaller than the input current maximum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kunomura, Toshimasa Shimizu, Kenji Sato, Hirokazu Kato, Kazuaki Yuuki, Toshiyuki Uchida, Masatsugu Morita, Hiroki Miyajima, Yukitaka Monden
  • Patent number: 11390316
    Abstract: A control device for an AC rotary machine includes: a DC power supply; an inverter; a magnetic flux generator; an angle detector; and a control arithmetic unit; wherein the control arithmetic unit is configured to: calculate, based on a positional relationship between a current path and the angle detector, a correction signal for correcting signal errors of a cosine signal and a sine signal, which are caused by a noise magnetic flux component due to at least one of a DC current flowing between the DC power supply and the inverter and multi-phase AC currents flowing between the inverter and armature windings; and control the inverter by using angle information obtained from values after the correction by the correction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Furukawa
  • Patent number: 11394325
    Abstract: A multistep finite control set model predictive control method for linear induction machines is provided, and the method belongs to a control technology field for linear induction machines. The method specifically includes the following steps: collecting a primary phase current of a linear induction machine in a three-phase coordinate system; solving a multistep reference voltage vector sequence by iteration according to a current value; keeping only two non-zero voltage vectors and one zero voltage vector that are closest to a reference voltage vector in each predictive step; and further eliminating a voltage vector sequence having a large cost function value through dynamic online comparison with a cost function value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Wei Xu, Jianqiao Zou, Dinghao Dong, Yi Liu, Yirong Tang
  • Patent number: 11346866
    Abstract: A fast-response direct-current current transformer based on multi-sensor fusion is provided and includes: a magnetic modulator, a current correction module, an excitation transformer, an alternating current detection and filtering circuit, a phase-sensitive demodulation and filtering system, a PI controller, and a power amplifier. The current correction module measures a primary current and obtain a feed-forward signal, outputs a false balance state configured to control a magnetic core to quickly exit or avoid entering magnetic saturation after amplifying the feed-forward signal and a PI control signal, and keeps output of the magnetic modulator stable. The magnetic modulator and Hall current sensors are fused in the disclosure, such that the possibility of failure due to a false balance problem caused by saturation of a magnetic core is reduced. After the false balance is generated, the magnetic core may be controlled to quickly exit a magnetic saturation state through a feed-forward output current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xiaotao Han, Shaozhe Zhang, Yilin Wang, Jianfeng Xie
  • Patent number: 11329597
    Abstract: Conduction band control schemes are presented for reducing noise and/or lower harmonics in power tools. A controller in the tool is interfaced with a plurality of motor switches and, for each phase, operates to output a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal to one or more of the motor switches to control power supplied to the electric motor. The controller is also configured to monitor a parameter indicative of the load on the motor. In response to detecting a load greater than a threshold, the controller controls power output of the motor by setting conduction band of the motor switches and the advance angle to baseline values predetermined values. In response to detecting a load less than the threshold, the controller reduces at least one of the conduction band and the advance angle to a value less than the baseline values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Vanko, Michael K. Forster, Tal Gottesman, John D. Cox
  • Patent number: 11260771
    Abstract: A vehicle power supply system is provided. The system includes a first power line connected by a first inverter and a first battery, a second power line connected by a second inverter and a second battery, a voltage converter, and a charging and discharging control device operating the inverters and the voltage converter. The control device charges the second battery with second regenerative electric power that is power supplied from the second inverter to the second power line in a case where a second SOC is equal to or less than the second regeneration permission upper limit during regenerative deceleration, and prohibits the second battery from being charged and supplies at least a portion of the second regenerative electric power to the first battery through the voltage converter and the first power line when the second SOC is larger than the second regeneration permission upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Oyama, Yuto Otsuki, Hirokazu Oguma
  • Patent number: 11255887
    Abstract: A current measurement circuit includes first, second, and third conductors, a first current sensor, a second current sensor, and current computation circuitry. The first conductor is configured to conduct a first phase current of a three-phase current. The second conductor is configured to conduct a second phase current of the three-phase current. The third conductor is configured to conduct a third phase current of the three-phase current. The first current sensor is coupled to the first, the second, and the third conductors. The second current sensor is coupled to the second conductor and the third conductor. The current computation circuitry is coupled to the first current sensor and the second current sensor, and is configured to determine the first current, the second current, and the third current by applying an inverse Clarke transform to the output of the first current sensor and the output of the second current sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Navaneeth Kumar Narayanasamy
  • Patent number: 11251738
    Abstract: A drive circuit comprises a two port LC inductive network with a source switch operable to switch the network between an ST state and an active state; an inverter and a controller for controlling the On-Off state of the switches of the inverter and the On-OFF state of the source switch, wherein the controller in use operates the switches to provide: a non-drive portion of the PWM period in which the source switch is held open and the top and bottom switches of at least one phase are held closed so that the drive circuit is operating in an ST mode, a drive portion of the PWM period which immediately follows or immediately precedes the non-drive portion in which the source switch is closed and the top and bottom switches are arranged, and in which the controller is configured to employ a PWM pattern in which all of the bottom switches or all of the top switches are moved from the closed state to an open state simultaneously, and further in which the source switch is moved from the open state to the closed state
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ZF Automotive UK Limited
    Inventor: Dawid Blady
  • Patent number: 11218143
    Abstract: A drive circuit Dr for a switch that reduces a surge voltage caused when a switch SW is switched to an off state. The drive circuit Dr detects, as an on voltage Von, a collector-emitter voltage of the switch SW while the switch SW is in an on state. When the detected on voltage Von is large, the drive circuit Dr sets a resistance value Rd of a discharging resistor 53 when the switch SW is switched to an off state to be larger than the resistance value Rd when the detected on voltage Von is small. More specifically, the drive circuit Dr sets the resistance value Rd to a larger value as the detected on voltage Von is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Dewa
  • Patent number: 11211875
    Abstract: A power converter that includes a rectifier rectifying a voltage supplied from a three-phase AC power supply, a voltage step-down circuit including a voltage step-down switching element, a reactor, a backflow prevention element, and a smoothing capacitor and stepping down a DC voltage supplied from the rectifier, and an inverter circuit converting the DC voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor into an AC voltage. The power converter includes an imbalance determining unit determining, based on states of the voltage step-down circuit and the smoothing capacitor, whether or not voltage imbalance has occurred in the three-phase AC power supply and a voltage step-down control unit performing switching of the voltage step-down switching element in a case where the imbalance determining unit determines that the voltage imbalance has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Tsumura, Shigeo Takata, Kazunori Sakanobe, Shinsaku Kusube
  • Patent number: 11177677
    Abstract: The system is directed to enhancing the energy efficiency of electrical charging systems. The system is utilized in circuits that include a power source such as a battery feeding electrical current into an energy storage device such as a capacitor to charge the capacitor with electrical power. The system of the invention extracts energy from such circuits that would otherwise be converted into heat and thereby wasted. The system includes an energy storage and release device such as a motor that is connected to the circuit and converts the electrical energy therein that would otherwise be converted into heat into mechanical energy or electrical energy by means of monitoring and controlling electrical current flow through the system to maintain it at low and constant levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: Jack Nachamkin
  • Patent number: 11125830
    Abstract: A motor driving device capable of reliably detecting a malfunction in the performance of a heatsink. The motor driving device includes a heat generating element, a heatsink, an electric power detecting part for detecting a consumed power of the heat generating element, a temperature detecting part for detecting a temperature of the motor driving device, a temperature change calculating part for calculating, as a detected valuation, an amount of change in the temperature within a predetermined time, a reference determination part for determining a reference amount of change in the temperature based on the temperature and the consumed power, and a temperature change judging part for comparing the reference amount of change with the detected amount of change, and judges whether the detected change is different from the reference change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Genzo Naito, Kazuhiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11128252
    Abstract: A motor drive device has an abnormality detection function for a power supply unit between its own device and a power supply, and includes: a forward converter that is inputted AC power from the power supply via the power supply input part, and converts the AC power into DC power; a reverse converter that converts the DC power from the forward converter into AC power; a DC link capacitor provided to a DC link between the forward converter and the reverse converter; a voltage detection part that detects voltage of the DC link capacitor; and an abnormality detection part that obtains a voltage change amount for a predetermined time of the DC link capacitor based on voltage values detected by the voltage detection part, and performs abnormality detection on the power supply input part based on the voltage change amount thus obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11119457
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electric drive system and the electric drive system. The method includes: measuring an external variable; estimating a control variable for a current sampling step with a mathematical model; predicting a control variable for a future sampling step for each of a plurality of candidate voltage vectors selected for the future sampling step; and calculating a cost function, and identifying a primary voltage vector giving a minimum, where the cost function is defined as a deviation between the predicted stator flux and the reference stator flux. The method further includes: predefining a lookup table giving a correlation between a nonzero voltage vector and a voltage vector group including four candidate voltage vectors, where the plurality of candidate voltage vectors is selected referring the lookup table. The electric drive system includes motor, power converter, and controller, and configured to perform the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Mohamed Mamdouh El Shormbably, Mohamed Ali Abido
  • Patent number: 10862386
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a novel electric motor, which comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator is a permanent magnet. The rotor comprises a rotor coil and a capacitor. The rotor coil and the capacitor are connected in series to form a resonant driving circuit. The resonant driving circuit is used to convert a natural electromagnetic field into a current to drive the rotor to rotate. The motor of the present invention can rotate without any external power, thereby solving the technical problem that the use of the external power makes a restriction to the further development and application of the motor, and solving the problem of motor energy consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Shiqiao Liu
  • Patent number: 10781088
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a controller of a hoist. The controller of the hoist includes a lift up button which is adjustable in a pressed degree; a lift down button which is adjustable in a pressed degree; a lift up switch disposed below the lift up button so as to be immediately operated when the lift up button is pressed; a lift down switch disposed below the lift down button so as to be immediately operated when the lift down button is pressed; a magnet body connected to both of the lift up button and the lift down button and disposed to descend during a pressing operation of the lift up button or the lift down button; and a Hall sensor disposed to correspond to the magnet body so as to detect a descending degree of the magnet body being pressed by the lift up button or the lift down button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: DAESAN INOTEC INC.
    Inventors: Young Ku Sunwoo, Si Kyung Kim
  • Patent number: 10778129
    Abstract: In a motor control device, a voltage phase detecting unit sets a voltage phase of applied voltage to be applied to a motor based on a deviation between a target d-axis current set by a target d-axis current setting unit and an actual d-axis current detected by a rotor position detecting unit and an actual rotational speed detected by a rotational speed detecting unit. Here, a correction amount calculating unit determines whether or not a rotor has rotated by one period of mechanical angle based on the rotor position detected by the rotor position detecting unit and calculates an average value of deviations between target d-axis current and actual d-axis current in each period of mechanical angle as a correction amount, and a second addition/subtraction unit corrects a target d-axis current by a correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: SANDEN AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Hotta, Daisuke Hirono
  • Patent number: 10742154
    Abstract: This motor driving device is provided with a direct-current power supply, an inverter, and a noise filter. The noise filter is provided with: a choke coil, wherein a first winding and a second winding are wound on a common core, and the first winding is inserted into a positive electrode bus; and two capacitors connected in series between the positive electrode bus and a negative electrode bus. One end of the second winding is connected to a neutral point of a three-phase motor, and another end of the second winding is connected to a wire between the two capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Masamichi Nawa
  • Patent number: 10625758
    Abstract: A voltage estimating device for a power supply line according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a voltage detector, a current detector, a voltage calculator. The voltage calculator calculates a magnitude of alternating primary voltage that a primary winding in a transformer receives from a power supply line based on a magnitude of tertiary voltage in the transformer detected by the voltage detector, a magnitude of output current in the transformer detected by the current detector, and correlation information. The correlation information indicates a correlation between a voltage ratio and the magnitude of the output current, and the voltage ratio represents a ratio of the magnitude of the primary voltage to the magnitude of the tertiary voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Takafumi Fukushima, Norihiro Suyama
  • Patent number: 10615733
    Abstract: A power tool is provided including a brushless motor. A power supply interface is arranged to receive at least one of AC power from an AC power supply having a first nominal voltage or DC power from a DC power supply having a second nominal voltage, where the first and second nominal voltages both fall approximately within the operating voltage range of the motor. A motor control circuit is provided including a rectifier circuit converting the AC power to a rectified voltage signal, a power switch circuit having power switches to supply electric power from at least one of the DC power or the rectified voltage signal to the motor, and a controller controlling a switching operation of the power switches to regulate the supply of electric power to the motor at a level corresponding to the operating voltage range of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: John D. Cox, Michael K. Forster, John C. Vanko, Daniel J. White, Bhanuprasad V. Gorti, Matthew J. Velderman, Andrew E. Seman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10605187
    Abstract: An LPV/MPC engine control system is disclosed that includes an engine control unit connected to multiple sensors. The engine control unit receives, from the sensors, signals indicative of desired engine torque and engine torque output, and determines, from these signals, optimal engine control commands using a piecewise LPV/MPC routine. This routine includes: determining a nonlinear and a linear system model for the engine assembly, minimizing a control cost function in a receding horizon for the linear system model, determining system responses for the nonlinear and linear system models, determining if a norm of an error function between the system responses is smaller than a calibrated threshold, and if the norm is smaller than the predetermined threshold, applying the linearized system model in a next sampling time for a next receding horizon to determine the optimal control command. Once determined, the optimal control command is output to the engine assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Yue-Yun Wang, Ruixing Long, Julian R. Verdejo, Jyh-shin Chen
  • Patent number: 10532666
    Abstract: A power generation system and a power generation method for a fuel cell vehicle, the power generation system comprising a main line that sequentially and electrically connects a fuel cell, a high voltage DC-DC converter, and a high voltage battery; an external power consumption device connecting unit; and a controller that controls the fuel cell or the high voltage DC-DC converter by selecting a mode for supplying power to an external power consumption device by using only power generated by the fuel cell, a mode for supplying power to the external power consumption device by using only the high voltage battery, or a mode for operating the fuel cell or the high voltage DC-DC converter in a high efficiency output interval, according to power consumption of the external power consumption device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR CORPORATION, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Gone Yoon, Jae Yeong Yoo
  • Patent number: 10536096
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling phase currents (iU_WR1, iv_WR1, iw_WR1) of a three-phase inverter (WR1), the phase currents (iU_WR1, iv_WR1, iw_WR1) of the inverter (WR1) being controlled by way of a direct hysteresis current control and a selected phase of the inverter (WR1) being additionally switched depending on a zero system current (i0_WR1) of the inverter (WR1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Norbert Benesch, Harald Wiessmann