Abstract: A signal transmission device includes a signal transmission chip, and a first lead frame supporting the signal transmission chip. A first inductor spiral ring is on a surface of the signal transmission chip, a second inductor spiral ring is inside the signal transmission chip, a first bonding pad is electrically coupled between the first and second inductor spiral rings, a guard ring covers the first and second inductor spiral rings in a plan view, and bonding pads are outside of the guard ring. A direction of rotation between the first and second inductor spiral rings are different from each other. The signal transmission device further includes a semiconductor chip and a second lead frame supporting the semiconductor chip, wherein the signal transmission chip and the semiconductor chip face each other.

Abstract: An inverter system includes a converter, an inverter, a first switch SW1 that connects between the converter and an AC power source, a capacitor that smooths a DC power in a DC bus, a resistor Rr connected from a positive voltage side of the DC bus to ground, a second switch SW2 that connects between the resistor Rr and ground, and a controller that controls drive of the inverter system. The controller is configured to: after charging the capacitor, while the first switch SW1 is in an OFF state, turn on the second switch SW2 and obtain a first across voltage ER1 of the resistor Rx; turn on an element, among semiconductor elements of the inverter, that is connected to the negative voltage side of the DC bus, and then obtain a second across voltage ER2 of the resistor Rx; and inspect insulation resistance of a motor based on the across voltages ER1, ER2.

Abstract: An actuator assembly comprises: a rotatable shaft, a magnet mounted to the rotatable shaft, non-magnet material positioned between the magnet and the shaft, a rotary sensor configured to be responsive to rotation of the magnet for generating a signal, and a housing comprising a magnetic shield surrounding at least a part of the rotary sensor and at least a part of the magnet mounted to the shaft to shield the sensor and the magnet from an external magnetic field. The actuator assembly further comprises a magnet holder fixing the magnet to the shaft. The magnetic shield encompasses the magnetic flux from the magnet to the rotary sensor and also shields the rotary sensor from any external magnetic field such as stray field or magnetic field from the outside of the housing. The non-magnetic material may reduce leakage magnetic flux from the magnet to the shaft.

Abstract: A method for stabilizing a DC link voltage of an electrical converter, the method including: determining a DC link voltage signal for the DC link voltage of the electrical converter; determining a fluctuation signal of the DC link voltage by applying a high pass filter to the DC link voltage signal; determining a torque offset by multiplying the fluctuation signal with a gain value; and modifying a reference torque with the torque offset for controlling the electrical converter. The gain value is adjusted by: determining a DC link voltage ripple from the DC link voltage signal; and comparing the DC link voltage ripple with a threshold and, when the DC link voltage ripple is higher than the threshold, increasing the gain value.

Abstract: In a method for detecting a motor phase fault of a motor arrangement, the motor phases of which are connected to a drive circuit having a DC voltage intermediate circuit and an inverter. A motor phase voltage at at least one of the motor phases with respect to a reference potential is captured while the inverter is switched off; and a voltage profile of the captured motor phase voltage is used to determine whether there is a motor phase fault on one of the motor phases of the motor arrangement.

Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring rotational frequency in rotating machines use variable sliding windows of measurement. The systems and methods count and store the number of internal clock cycles between the start of a measurement interval and each pulse signal from a pulse generator. Rotational frequency is determined by taking a difference between the count for a most recent pulse signal and the count for some previous pulse signal within the measurement interval. The number of pulse signals that have occurred between the most-recent pulse signal and the previous pulse signal represents a window of measurement. This window of measurement, or the size thereof, may then be used along with the count difference to determine the rotational frequency. The window of measurement may then be slid to the counts for next most recent pulse signal and the next previous pulse signal to obtain a new count difference, and so on.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic control unit capable of performing a high-accurate failure diagnosis in a short time as an electronic control unit having a failure diagnosis function. A load drive circuit that drives a load, a control circuit that controls the load drive circuit, and a diagnosis circuit that diagnoses an output state of the load drive circuit and outputs a diagnostic result to the control circuit are provided. The diagnosis circuit outputs a diagnosis completion flag indicating whether or not there is a diagnosis opportunity to the control circuit.

Abstract: A power-conversion device and a ground-fault-location-diagnosis method for determining ground-fault locations on a motor and a cable are disclosed. The power-conversion device includes a ground-fault-current-measurement unit, an interphase short-circuit current-measurement unit, and a ground-fault-location-determination unit. The ground-fault-current-measurement unit turns on all switches of either upper arms or lower arms of three half-bridge circuits, and measures output current values of a plurality of phases generated during the ON period. The interphase short-circuit-current-measurement unit turns on a switch of an upper arm of one phase of the three half-bridge circuits and a switch of a lower arm of a phase different from the one phase, and measures output current values of a plurality of phases generated during a period of time both switches are ON.

Abstract: A control circuit for an electric power converter includes an abnormality determiner, a voltage determiner and an abnormality-handling controller. The abnormality determiner determines whether an abnormality has occurred in at least one of the electric power converter and a multi-phase rotating electric machine. The voltage determiner determines whether a line-to-line voltage between phase windings of the rotating electric machine is higher than a voltage of a DC power source. The abnormality-handling controller performs, when it is determined by the abnormality determiner that an abnormality has occurred and it is determined by the voltage determiner that the line-to-line voltage is higher than the voltage of the DC power source, an all-phase short circuit control of turning on all of switches of one of an upper-arm switch group and a lower-arm switch group and turning off all of switches of the other of the upper-arm switch group and the lower-arm switch group.

Abstract: A method for estimating a magnet temperature of a rotor magnet within a rotary electric machine includes, while a rotor of the electric machine is stationary, injecting a high-frequency voltage component onto a control voltage of the electric machine, via a controller, to generate an adjusted voltage command, and extracting a high-frequency component of a resulting current as an extracted high-frequency component. The method also includes calculating an inductance value of the electric machine using the extracted high-frequency component of the resulting current. The magnet temperature is estimated using the calculated inductance value and an angular position of the rotor. The method includes controlling an operation of the electric machine using the estimated magnet temperature. An electric powertrain uses the electric machine and controller noted above.

Abstract: The drive controller for the electric motor according to the present invention comprises two drive control systems for two winding sets of the electric motor, each drive control system includes a control circuit, an inverter, a power supply connector and a ground connector, the two control circuits are connected to an internal common ground, each rectifying element that passes a current from the common ground to each ground connector is provided in a line that connects the ground connector and the common ground, each current detection element is provided in a line that connects each positive power supply and a line between the rectifying element and the ground connector, and whether an open fault has occurred in the ground connector is diagnosed based on the voltage that is applied to the current detection element.

Abstract: To provide an observation apparatus, an observation method, and an observation program capable of presenting a point of interest for finding a wasteful waiting time of a machine. The observation apparatus includes an observation data acquisition unit configured to acquire observation data on an operation status of a machine along with time information, an extraction unit configured to extract, on the basis of a first condition relating to the observation data, a time range of the observation data corresponding to an operation of the machine, the operation having a possibility of generating a waiting time, and an output unit configured to output information on the extracted time range.

Abstract: A control device includes: a machine learning unit that machine-learns a control parameter that determines operating characteristics of a driving unit of a machine serving as a driving target of a motor and sets the control parameter to a motor control device; a health check operation instruction unit that outputs an instruction for a health check operation of driving the motor control device; an operation evaluation unit that acquires information indicating the operating characteristics of the driving unit, calculates an evaluation value on the basis of an evaluation function, and stores the evaluation value in a storage unit; and a deterioration estimation operation unit that estimates deterioration in the operating characteristics of the driving unit of the machine on the basis of the evaluation value stored in the storage unit and the evaluation value calculated by the operation evaluation unit when the health check operation was performed.

Abstract: An electric power tool includes a motor, an output shaft, a drive force transmission configured to reduce drive speed of the motor and transmit drive force of the motor to the output shaft; a trigger that can be pulled by a user; a rotation speed changing circuitry configured to change a rotation speed of the output shaft that corresponds to a maximum pulled amount of the trigger to a limited rotation speed that is lower than a maximum rotation speed of the output shaft in a non-limited rotation speed mode; and a rotation speed control circuitry configured to control a rotation speed of the motor in correspondence with a pulled amount of the trigger to obtain the rotation speed of the output shaft that is changed by the rotation speed changing circuitry.

Abstract: Methods and systems for noise detection and removal in a motor are disclosed. An example system for monitoring a plurality of components of a motor in an industrial environment may include a data acquisition circuit to interpret a plurality of detection values, each detection value corresponding to a plurality of input sensors operationally coupled to the motor; a data processing circuit to utilize at least one of the detection values to perform at least one noise processing operation on at least a portion of the detection values; a signal evaluation circuit to determine a motor performance parameter in response to the noise processed portion of the of detection values; and a response circuit structured to perform at least one operation in response to the motor performance parameter.

Abstract: A rotor diagnostic apparatus includes a parameter selection part that calculates evaluation values indicating how much sensor values of a rotor at a given time point deviate from a reference value at which the rotor is known to be in a normal state, the given time point being after the rotor is known to be in the normal state and before the rotor is to be diagnosed, and selects a plurality of parameters to be used for abnormality diagnosis of the rotor from the sensor values based on the calculated evaluation values. A diagnosis part outputs an abnormality value which is indicative of how abnormal the rotor is and which is obtained based on a distance, in a multidimensional space having the selected parameters as coordinate axes, between a figure represented by sensor values in the normal state and a figure represented by sensor values targeted for diagnosis.

Abstract: A motor control device that detects a motor current through ?? AD conversion includes a stop signal generator and a stop signal controller. When a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of three phase voltage command values to be applied to a motor is smaller than or equal to a predetermined threshold, a stop signal that causes the ?? AD conversion to stop is output with a delay by the time corresponding to a delay in current detection while a leakage current caused by on and off of a power conversion element is occurring.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for detecting, across a resistive sense circuit proximate to a venting system of an IHS, a first voltage at a first time, wherein the first voltage includes a state-steady voltage and a nominal voltage; comparing the first voltage to a voltage threshold, and determining that the first voltage is less than or equal to the voltage threshold and in response, maintaining a power state of the IHS; detecting, across the resistive sense circuit, a second voltage at a second time after the first time, wherein the second voltage includes the steady-state voltage and a low-voltage; comparing the second voltage to the voltage threshold, and determining that the second voltage is greater than the threshold voltage, and in response preparing a computer-implemented response to mitigate damage to the IHS from liquid contacting one or more computing components of the IHS.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: select, by referring to the memory that stores a plurality of correlations between a second mass concentration of particles in a gas and a second number concentration of the particles in the gas with respect to second humidity of the gas, two correlations from the plurality of correlations; and calculate a first mass concentration of particles in a gas based on the two correlations, a first number concentration of the particles in the gas measured by a first number concentration measuring instrument, and first humidity of the gas measured by a first hygrometer.

Abstract: An interpolated position of an incremental encoder is provided. A first signal and a second signal having a quadrature relationship are received from the incremental encoder. A coarse position of the incremental encoder at a first time is produced using the quadrature relationship between the first signal and the second signal. An arcsine or arccosine value based on the first signal at the first time is determined using a lookup table and a fine position of the incremental encoder is calculated using the determined value. The interpolated position of the incremental encoder, based on both the coarse position and the fine position, is then provided.

Abstract: A system and system for motor fault detection are provided. The system includes a data collection sensor electrically coupled to a motor, and a processor functioning as a Motor Current Signature analyzer (MCSA) detecting performance conditions of the motor based on a measured power draw current data captured by the sensor and providing condition information indicative of a fault in the motor based on the detected performance conditions. The method includes measuring, by a data collection sensor, power draw current data from the motor, detecting, by a processor functioning as a Motor Current Signature analyzer (MCSA), performance conditions of the motor based on the measured power draw current data, and providing condition information indicative of a fault in the motor based on the detected performance conditions to a user.

Abstract: A control system includes a current sensor and one or more processors. The current sensor is configured to be disposed onboard a vehicle and to monitor a measured current conducted into a resistor leg of the vehicle. The resistor leg has a braking chopper and one or more resistive elements, and is connected with a traction bus of the vehicle. The one or more processors are configured to receive the measured current from the current sensor and, in response to the measured current differing from an expected current through the resistor leg, the one or more processors are configured to generate a control signal configured to one or more of increase an engine speed of an engine of the vehicle, increase cooling to the one or more resistive elements of the resistor leg, restrict movement of the vehicle, or schedule maintenance for the resistor leg.

Abstract: A power converter to convert power from a power supply into power supplied to a motor including n-phase windings, where n is an integer of 3 or more, in which first ends thereof are Y-connected and includes an inverter connected to second ends of the n-phase windings, a phase separation relay circuit to switch connection and disconnection between the power supply and the n-phase windings for each phase, a neutral point leg connected to a neutral point node of the motor, in which the first ends of the n-phase windings are Y-connected, and a neutral point separation relay circuit to switch connection and disconnection between the power supply and the neutral point node.

Abstract: A motor control device includes a first control unit performing feedback control on a motor with a command value; one or plural second control units performing feedback control on the motor with a limit value; a control switching unit selecting, based on a deviation between the limit value and a measured value, one of the first and the one or plural of second control units as control unit. The first control unit has a first calculation unit calculating a control value, based on a deviation between the command value and a measured value of the motor related to the command value. Each second control unit has a second calculation unit calculating a control value, based on a deviation between the limit value and a measured value of the motor related to the limit value. The first and second calculation units share terms of a calculation expression of the control value.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an inverter having a supply bus including a contactor operable to conduct current through a resistive element connected to a capacitive element having a voltage supplied by a battery. The vehicle includes a controller configured to energize a first gate of the inverter. The energization is responsive to the voltage exceeding a threshold. The controller is configured to detect current flow between a first phase associated with the gate and the bus based on a voltage drop associated with the voltage.

Abstract: A synchronous motor drive device drives a plurality of synchronous motors, and includes a power converter that converts power to supply power to the plurality of synchronous motors, a first switch device that electrically connects or disconnects between the power converter and each of the plurality of synchronous motors, and a controller that, based on a higher order command, performs stability judgment processing of the plurality of synchronous motors, determines the number of synchronous motors to be driven and a drive speed from among the plurality of synchronous motors, selects a synchronous motor corresponding to the number of the synchronous motors from among the plurality of synchronous motors, controls the first switch device corresponding to the selected synchronous motor to electrically connect the power converter to the synchronous motor and to supply the power, and instructs, to the power converter, the drive speed of the synchronous motor to be driven.

Abstract: A motor driver system. Implementations may include: a motor driver configured to couple with a motor where the motor driver comprises a multipurpose pin. A controller may be included coupled with the motor driver through at least the multipurpose pin. The motor driver during an enable mode, may be configured to receive serial data from the controller and to send serial data to the controller using the multipurpose pin during a normal operation mode of the motor driver. The motor driver may be configured to output a frequency generator (FG) signal to the controller using the multipurpose pin during the normal operation mode of the motor driver.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for performing an autonomous procedure for monitoring and diagnostics of a machine using electrical signature analysis. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a method includes providing electrical data of an electrical rotating machine associated with at least one fault frequency. While in a learning mode, the method includes converting the electrical data from a time domain to a frequency domain to obtain baseline data. While in an operational mode, the method includes converting the electrical data from the time domain to the frequency domain to obtain monitoring data. The method further includes determining, based at least on the monitoring data, a ratio value at the fault frequency, determining a rate of change of the ratio value at the fault frequency, and, optionally, issuing, based on the rate of change, an alarm concerning at least one event of the electrical rotating machine.

Abstract: A motor driving control device has a motor driving unit that has a plurality of switching elements and supplies a drive current to three-phase coils of a motor, a control circuit unit for sequentially switching energization patterns of the three-phase coils by outputting a drive control signal for operating the plurality of switching elements to the motor driving unit, and a current detection circuit for detecting a voltage value corresponding to a magnitude of the drive current. the control circuit unit includes a voltage comparison unit for comparing the magnitude of the drive current with a predetermined current threshold value based on the voltage value each time switching of the energization patterns is performed, and a disconnection determination unit for determining whether any one phase of the motor is in a disconnection state, based on a comparison result of the voltage comparison unit for the plurality of energization patterns.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for measuring bandwidth of linear motor, including the following steps: step S1: setting a frequency distribution of an excitation signal; step S2: with reference to a target displacement level, measuring a steady state displacement peak of a motor vibrator at each frequency point of the excitation signal, and obtaining a frequency response curve with reference to the target displacement level; step S3: according to the frequency response curve obtained in step S2, determining an upper frequency limit and a lower frequency limit with reference to the target displacement level, and obtaining a bandwidth of the linear motor by calculating a difference between the upper frequency limit and the lower frequency limit.

Abstract: Provided is a detecting apparatus for detecting one or more anomalies of an operating body. The detecting apparatus includes a processor communicatively coupled to a dividing unit, a model learning unit, a difference calculating unit, and an anomaly detecting unit. The dividing unit divides a data sequence corresponding to an operation of the operating body into a plurality of divided data sequences in a time direction. The model learning unit learns each of the plurality of divided data sequences according to a regression model in the time direction, and calculates a model component modeling each of the divided data sequences. The difference calculating unit calculates a difference component indicating a difference between each of the plurality of divided data sequences and their corresponding model component. The anomaly detecting unit detects one or more anomalies of the operating body based on the calculated difference components.

Abstract: A rotation angle correction device corrects a rotation angle of a converter converting a signal from a resolver attached to a motor. An arrival time measurement unit measures an arrival time at which the rotation angle reaches a specified rotation angle from a reference angle in a current cycle. A reference time calculation unit calculates a reference time at which the rotation angle reaches the specified rotation angle from the reference angle assuming that the motor rotates in the current cycle at the same angular velocity as an angular velocity in a previous cycle. A difference calculation unit calculates a difference between the arrival time and the reference time. An error angle calculation unit multiplies the difference between the arrival time and the reference time and the angular velocity in the previous cycle to obtain an error angle. A correction unit corrects the rotation angle based on the error angle.

Abstract: A position control device includes a subtracter for subtracting a q-axis current detection value iq from a q-axis current command value iq* to output a q-axis current error ?iq, an adder for adding a q-axis current compensation amount iqc* for compensating for response timing of q-axis current to the q-axis current error ?iq, a q-axis current controller for amplifying an output of the adder by I-P control to calculate a q-axis voltage error ?vq and calculating a q-axis voltage command value vq* on the basis of the q-axis voltage error ?vq, and a second adder for adding a q-axis voltage feedforward amount vqf corresponding to a time derivative value s·iq of the q-axis current to the q-axis voltage command value vq* to calculate a final q-axis voltage command value.

Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein describes a method and system to monitor and identify vibrations in a rotational mechanical system. Various fault conditions in a rotating machine operating at variable speeds may be identified, at least in part, by identifying the multiple of the fundamental frequency, or order, at which the vibration occurs. The orders of vibration present in a measured vibration signal may be determined by finding an order spectrum of a measured vibration signal in the position domain. A fault vector is generated from the order spectrum that identifies the magnitude of each order of vibration present in the measured vibration signal. The fault vector may be plotted on a radar chart to provide a visual indication of the type of fault present in the mechanical system. Evaluation models for each fault determines a probability and magnitude for each fault condition being present in the sampled vibration signal.

Abstract: A variety of methods, controllers and electric machine systems are described that facilitate pulsed control of electric machines (e.g., electric motors and generators) to improve the machine's energy conversion efficiency. Under selected operating conditions, the electric machine is intermittently driven (pulsed). The pulsed operation causes the output of the electric machine to alternate between a first output level and a second output level that is lower than the first output level. The output levels are selected such that at least one of the electric machine and a system that includes the electric machine has a higher energy conversion efficiency during the pulsed operation than the electric machine would have when operated at a third output level that would be required to drive the electric machine in a continuous manner to deliver the desired output. In some embodiments, the second output level is zero torque.

Abstract: A system and method for measuring powerline temperature based on self-powered power sensors (SPPS), including: retrieving a powerline current reading and an SPPS temperature reading from an SPPS; determining a powerline temperature based on an isothermal curve of the powerline current reading and the SPPS temperature reading; and generating an alert when the powerline temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A controller of a multiphase rotating electric machine has two inverters outputting an alternating current to two sets of windings, and a control section driving a motor by switching between a “two-system driving mode” supplying power from the two inverters to the two sets of winding and a “one-system driving mode” supplying power from one of the two inverters to the corresponding set of windings, The control section in the one-system driving mode changes at least one of a maximum amplitude and a current phase of the alternating current used in the two-system driving mode to compensate for a reluctance torque generated by a mutual inductance of the two sets of winding in the two-system driving mode.

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

Abstract: An electric power tool includes a motor, an output shaft, a drive force transmission configured to reduce drive speed of the motor and transmit drive force of the motor to the output shaft; a trigger that can be pulled by a user; a rotation speed changing circuitry configured to change a rotation speed of the output shaft that corresponds to a maximum pulled amount of the trigger to a limited rotation speed that is lower than a maximum rotation speed of the output shaft in a non-limited rotation speed mode; and a rotation speed control circuitry configured to control a rotation speed of the motor in correspondence with a pulled, amount of the trigger to obtain the rotation speed of the output shaft that is changed by the rotation speed changing circuitry.

Abstract: The present invention can stabilize driving of a motor even if multiple control instructions of driving the motor are acquired through non-real-time communication. A servo driver (10) does not perform processing corresponding to other control commands when acquiring the other control commands from other interfaces through non-real-time communication in a process of performing processing corresponding to a control command acquired via one interface and through non-real-time communication.

Abstract: A protective arrangement for protecting an electrical device against an overload current includes: an input at which a current is supplied to the protective arrangement by a power supply; an output via which the current (I) is transferred in the form of an output current to the electrical device; a safety switch in a power line between the input and the output, which safety switch disconnects the power line when a set tripping current is exceeded; and a current sensor which measures the current (actual) in the power line when the electrical device is connected, the current sensor being able to set the tripping current, on the basis of the measured current (actual), to a value that is greater than the measured current (actual) by a specified difference (?).

Abstract: A actuator using a voice coil motor (VCM) method includes a coil configured to face a magnetic member disposed on a lateral surface of a lens carrier, and be spaced apart from the magnetic member, a driving circuit configured to supply a composite current including a driving current and a position detection current to the coil based on a composite voltage input to the driving circuit, and an impedance/digital conversion circuit configured to convert an alternating current (AC) voltage signal including a specific frequency component acquired at opposite ends of the coil via a demodulation scheme, extract a low-frequency signal having an inductance component of the coil, and detect a position signal based on the low-frequency signal.

Abstract: An apparatus to control a motor includes a detector that detects a driving current flowing through a motor winding, phase determiner that determines a motor rotor rotation phase based on the detected driving current, generator that generates an instructed phase, and controller. The controller includes a first mode where controlling the driving current flowing through the motor winding controls the motor based on a torque current component value such that a deviation between the generated instructed phase and the determined rotation phase is reduced, and a second mode in which a current of a predetermined magnitude controls the motor. The torque current component is expressed in a rotating coordinate system based on determined rotation phase. The generator generates, based on the rotation phase determined while executing second mode, the instructed phase in the first mode when a controlling driving current mode is switched from the second to the first mode.

Abstract: Seating and/or lounging furniture with a footrest coupled to a frame via a linkage mechanism designed as a scissor mechanism. A drive mechanism extends and retracts the footrest, and includes: at least one first linkage articulatedly fastened at one end to a first hinge point on the frame, and having a second end with a second hinge point, at least one second linkage articulatedly coupled at a first end to the first linkage at the second hinge point, and having a second end coupled to a third hinge point provided on the linkage mechanism, and the first and second hinge points defining a first straight line, and the second and third hinge points defining a second straight line, in an extended position of the footrest, the first and second straight lines enclosing an angle of 180°+/?5° relative to one another.

Abstract: To determine a driving parameter for driving a motor having an unknown circuit constant in a simple way and to shorten time required for the determination.

Abstract: A method and system for detecting a fault in a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), operably connected to a controller. The method includes receiving at a controller a stator voltages and currents for the PMSM, computing a negative sequence current and a negative sequence voltage for the PMSM; and determining if conditions are satisfied for monitoring for a fault of the PMSM. The method also includes ascertaining a change in the negative sequence current and a change in the negative sequence voltage for a selected time duration, calculating a ratio of the change in the negative sequence current and the negative sequence voltage corresponding to a negative sequence admittance for the PMSM, determining if the negative sequence admittance differs from a nominal value in excess of a threshold; and identifying the stator winding as faulted if the ratio exceeds the threshold.

Abstract: A motor device includes a motor, a motor driving control device and a position detector for outputting a position detection signal. The motor includes magnetic poles (n*6) and coils wound around teeth (n*4) where n is a positive integer. The coils are arranged in a peripheral direction such that the first-system coils and the second-system coils are alternately arranged. The motor driving control device includes a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit, each including an inverter circuit and a control circuit portion. The first drive circuit energizes the first-system coils and the second drive circuit energizes the second-system coils at an energization timing different from that of the first-system coils.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a fault in a power relay of an inverter is disclosed. The apparatus for detecting a fault in a power relay includes: a voltage sensor configured to measure a voltage of a DC link; a current sensor configured to measure an output current applied to an inverter stage; a storage unit configured to store resistance of an initial charge resistor, a time constant of a capacitor, and a reference voltage measured when voltage drop of the DC link does not occur; and a controller configured to determine, when the voltage drop of the DC link occurs, the presence or absence of a fault in the power relay based on a difference between the reference voltage and a voltage measured after lapse of a period corresponding to the time constant.

Abstract: A system includes a proportional-integrated-derivative (PID) regulator. The system also includes a fault detection unit. The fault detection unit is for receiving at least two outputs from the PID regulator. The at least two outputs include at least two rotor reference frame (D-Q) currents. The fault detection unit is further for generating a detection signal based on the at least two rotor reference frame currents. The detection signal identifies a fault based on the fault detection signal amplitude value based on the magnitudes of the amplitudes for each of the at least two rotor reference frame D-Q currents. The fault detection unit is for identifying an existence of a permanent magnet motor fault based on a comparison between the fault detection signal amplitude value and an amplitude threshold value. Further the fault localization signature is utilized to locate the location of the fault.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for changing from the idle operating state of an electric motor (5) having three phase terminals (5-1, 5-2, 5-3) to a short-circuit operating state. Thereby significant voltage rises are avoided. For this purpose, after receiving (120) a request for changing of the operating state of the electric motor (5) to the short-circuit operating state, three switching elements (1-1, 1-2, 1-3) are closed. Thereby the switching elements (1-1, 1-2, 1-3) are at least partially closed successively and the times of closing the individual switching elements are predetermined as a function of control parameters of the electric motor.