Pluse Width Modulation Or Chopping Patents (Class 318/811)
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Publication number: 20080218118Abstract: A control method and a control system for single phase induction motors driven by two-power electronic switch inverter are disclosed. The system fulfills two main tasks i.e. precise motor speed control and maximum motor efficiency control over wide ranges of motor load and speed command without a motor speed feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventors: Sadegh Vaez-Zadeh, Bijan Zahedi
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Patent number: 7421301Abstract: A control system and a method of using the same for an electric machine having a random number generating module generating a random number ranging from a first value to a second value, a multiplying module multiplying the random number and a sample rate to generate an random delay value; and a delay limiter module limiting the random delay value as a function of speed of the electric machine and generating a limited delay value.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2004Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Steven E. Schulz, Daniel L. Kowalewski
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Publication number: 20080203964Abstract: A control unit controls a drive signal for determining a voltage to be supplied to the motor. A drive unit drives the motor by applying a current corresponding to the voltage determined based on the drive signal to the motor. The control unit includes a velocity detecting unit that detects a rotation velocity of the motor and an output unit that outputs the drive signal corresponding to a voltage with which a current lower than a predetermined current limit is applied to the motor, based on the rotation velocity of the motor detected by the velocity detecting unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Inventor: Takahisa Koike
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Patent number: 7417394Abstract: The invention concerns a device for controlling a final power-output stage, the latter comprising three half-bridges consisting respectively of a series circuit including an upper semiconductor switch and a lower semiconductor switch and subjected to a service voltage, the connection points of the semiconductor switches of the half-bridges forming outputs which are connected to the windings of a motor having at least three phases. The invention is characterized in that there is provided a control device for shifting on-state respectively one semiconductor switch or simultaneously several semiconductor switches according to a predetermined programme and for determining whether the respective voltages at the outputs are respectively within a predetermined tolerance range for the corresponding switching state.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2004Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Wolfgang Bay, Michael Henninger
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Patent number: 7417400Abstract: The present invention is a motor control device comprising a control system, the control system being capable of controlling the motor by PWM and having integration means being capable of outputting an integrated value obtained by integrating a deviation between a rotation speed and a target rotation speed of a motor, the motor control device being capable of starting control with the control system for causing the motor to rotate at the target rotation speed after rotation of the motor has been started. In this motor control device, an output value of the integration means at a time when control with the control system is to be started is set to have a value that corresponds to a counter electromotive force generated in the motor by its rotation.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2002Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tetsuji Takeishi, Hirotomo Tanaka, Sumito Anzai
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Publication number: 20080197799Abstract: The motor control device includes a current detecting portion for detecting a phase current that flows in an armature winding of a stator of a three-phase motor based on current that flows between an inverter for driving the motor and a DC power supply. The motor control device performs a position sensorless vector control for the motor based on a control current that is obtained by a three-phase to two-phase conversion of the phase current based on an estimated rotor position of the motor. The motor control device farther includes a superposing portion for superposing a superposed voltage having a predetermined frequency on a drive voltage for driving the motor and an estimating portion for deriving the estimated rotor position based on the superposed current that is extracted from the control current and flows in the motor in accordance with the superposed voltage. A voltage vector locus of the superposed voltage from the superposing portion presents an ellipse.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshio TOMIGASHI
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Publication number: 20080191660Abstract: An aspect of the invention is a method and a device for controlling a rotating field machine having several phase windings, which can be controlled by means of pulse width modulation, wherein a pulse width modulation controller is adapted in such a way that an individual winding of the phase windings of the rotating field machine is energized at a specifiable sampling time.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Uwe Krause, Uwe Nolte, Jan Spannberger
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Patent number: 7411368Abstract: An electric motor speed controller for use in a bicycle includes a motor to provide a propulsion force to move the bicycle. The actual motor speed and a target motor speed are compared, and if the actual motor speed is lower, more current is supplied to the motor, and if the actual motor speed is higher, less current is supplied to the motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2006Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Panasonic Semiconductor Asia Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Tien Yew Kang, Kian Teck Teo, Yubin Liu
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Publication number: 20080185987Abstract: A motor driving integrated circuit for controlling motor driving, comprising: a data signal input terminal; a data signal receiving circuit configured to receive a data signal inputted from the data signal input terminal; a control circuit configured to control the motor driving integrated circuit based on a first data received through the data signal receiving circuit; and a pulse generating circuit configured to generate a pulse signal for PWM (Pulse Width Modulation)—controlling a motor coil based on a second data signal received through the data signal receiving circuit, the pulse generating circuit including: a rectangular signal generating circuit configured to generate a plurality of rectangular signals different in pulse width; and a synthesizing circuit configured to synthesize the plurality of rectangular signals outputted from the rectangular signal generating circuit to generate the pulse signal with a duty ratio corresponding to the second data signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2008Publication date: August 7, 2008Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Kawakami, Takashi Someya, Tetsuya Yoshitomi
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Patent number: 7408323Abstract: A frequency converter for outputting a power to drive a motor, having: an inverter unit for inverting a d.c. power to an a.c. power; a control unit for controlling the inverter unit; and a housing for supporting at least the inverter unit and control unit, wherein a rise time change unit is provided in the housing, the rise time change unit changes a rise time of a waveform of a voltage output from the inverter unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2007Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadahiro Shimozono, Takeshi Obata, Koichiro Saito, Osamu Matsumoto, Kouji Obata
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Publication number: 20080179122Abstract: An electric motor control system including a generator, an AC motor, a power converter for driving the AC motor using a DC output voltage of the generator, and an electric motor controller for controlling the power converter. The electric motor controller controls the power converter by predicting a change in the DC voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2008Publication date: July 31, 2008Inventors: Naoshi SUGAWARA, Tetsuhiro Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Kiyofuji, Keizo Shimada, Akira Kikuchi, Kazuhiro Imaie
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Patent number: 7402975Abstract: A rise in the power supply voltage as a result of a sudden speed reducing command causing the motor current to flow to the power supply is prevented. The motor drive device has a drive signal generating unit for generating a drive signal by an energizing control unit, PWM control unit, and oscillation unit; a drive unit for producing drive power to drive the motor based on the drive signal; a torque control signal generating unit for generating a torque control signal specifying the motor torque; a speed detection unit for detecting the rotational speed of the motor and generating a rotational speed signal denoting motor speed information; and a decision unit for generating a speed difference detection signal denoting the difference between the torque control signal and the rotational speed signal. The drive signal generating unit is controlled based on the speed difference detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Go Takata, Hideaki Mori, Yasunori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20080150470Abstract: A controller for a synchronous machine includes: a power converter; a synchronous machine driven by the power converter; a PWM modulation section for controlling the synchronous machine; a current detection section which detects a current conducted to the synchronous machine; a voltage detection section which detects a voltage applied to the synchronous machine; a current variation operation section which operates a current variation during a time interval between timings synchronized with detection sampling in the current detection section; a voltage integration operation section which operates a voltage integration value during a time interval between the same timings as the timings in the current variation operation section; a current variation operation section for a time interval in which all sets are included, defining, as one set, the current variation and the voltage integration value, and operating a current variation during the time interval in which all the sets are included; a voltage integrationType: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Kazuya Yasui, Kazuaki Yuuki, Kentaro Suzuki
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Patent number: 7391181Abstract: A dynamic pulse width modulation (PWM) selection device automatically switches between discontinuous PWM (DPWM) control methods. The PWM selection device comprises a PWM control module. The PWM control module determines a desired pulse width of a switching control signal according to a desired output signal. The PWM control module controls an actual pulse width of the switching control signal according to the desired pulse width and a first PWM control method. A selection module determines whether the desired pulse width exceeds a pulse width threshold. The selection module selects a second PWM control method when the desired pulse width exceeds the pulse width threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Brian Welchko, Steven E. Schulz, Silva Hiti
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Patent number: 7385372Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system comprising an electric drive system for a machine. The system can comprise a rectifier adapted to convert AC power from an alternator to DC power. The system can comprise an inverter adapted to receive DC power from the rectifier and provide power to a traction motor and/or auxiliary devices. Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system and method for dissipating excess energy from a machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2005Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignees: Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., Siemens AtkiengesellschaftInventors: Raed H. Ahmad, Ekkehard Pittius
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Publication number: 20080116770Abstract: A drive circuit includes an ac network and first and second network rectifier/inverters (which can be active or passive) that are connected to the ac network in parallel. A first PWM rectifier/inverter is connected to the first network rectifier/inverter through a first dc link. A second PWM rectifier/inverter is connected to the second network rectifier/inverter through a second dc link. A first two-layer stator winding having a plurality of individual stator coils is connected to the first PWM rectifier/inverter and a second two-layer stator winding having a plurality of individual stator coils is connected to the second PWM rectifier/inverter. The stator coils of the first stator winding and the stator coils of the second stator winding are interconnected such that, in use, the vector sum of voltages across the stator coils in the first stator winding is substantially equal to the vector sum of voltages across the stator coils in the second stator winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Inventor: Eric Anthony Lewis
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Publication number: 20080116841Abstract: The semiconductor device according to the present invention generates pulse width modulation signals for controlling inverter circuits that drive a motor. The semiconductor device includes: a first register which holds values for determining a period in which each pulse width modulation signal becomes active; a correction buffer which holds a correction value; a first counter; a second counter which counts a value obtained by temporally advancing or delaying a count value of the first counter; a selector which selects the count value of the first counter or the count value of the second counter; and a pulse width modulation control unit which generates each pulse width modulation signal, logical values of which are switched in a timing when the selected count value matches the value held by the first register.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigehiro MASAMOTO, Masaru KOHARA
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Patent number: 7372227Abstract: A method is proposed for braking a synchronous machine 1, with the armature windings (u, v, w) of the synchronous machine 1 being short-circuited, optionally by interposing at least one braking resistor. In order to keep the braking moment constant over virtually the entire speed range it is proposed that the short-circuit current is regulated by a pulse-width modulation depending on the difference between the setpoint value of the short-circuit current corresponding to the setpoint value of the braking moment and the actual value of the short-circuit current.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik Gesellschaft m.b.H.Inventors: Josef Rainer, Erwin Bernecker
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Patent number: 7365506Abstract: A motor driving part has half bridge circuits in which a high potential side drive transistor and a low potential side drive transistor are connected in series to each other, and a connection point therebetween serves as a stator winding driving terminal of each phase of a motor. A rotor position detector detects a rotor position of the motor and outputs a rotor position signal. The current phase detector detects the phase of a phase current flowing in the stator winding driving terminal. A voltage signal generator controls and generates a voltage profile signal such that a first phase difference that is a difference between the phase of the phase current and the phase of the rotor position signal is kept to a predetermined electrical angle. A driving signal generator generates a PWM signal that drives the drive transistor of each phase depending on the voltage profile signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2005Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasunori Yamamoto, Hideaki Mori, Yoshiaki Igarashi
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Publication number: 20080094023Abstract: A method for controlling an alternating current (AC) motor includes choosing a pulse sequence based on a ripple current in the AC motor at a sampling instant; and providing a voltage to the AC motor based on the pulse sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2006Publication date: April 24, 2008Inventors: Stephen T. West, Brian Welchko, Steven E. Schulz, Silva Hiti
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Patent number: 7362069Abstract: A simple and accurate dead time dispersion measurement method and a voltage source inverter control method that can prevent the occurrence of an unstable phenomenon are provided. The control method controls a voltage source inverter of a PWM system, which includes a power semiconductor device controlling a level of a voltage, a frequency and a phase. According to the control method, before operation, voltage error information for each polarity of respective phase currents of the inverter is stored. And during the operation, the voltage error information is read to compensate for a voltage instruction value or a pulse width of a PWM instruction signal, so that a voltage error can be corrected.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Yoichi Yamamoto, Masashiro Tanaka, Shigekazu Nakamura, Hiroshi Suetake
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Patent number: 7362060Abstract: A feedback control logic system for commanding a particular air conditioning unit fan speed is driven by a pulse-width modulated signal from a control unit. The engine control unit decrements the pulse-width modulated signal to the air conditioning unit fan and allows the fan to run for a predetermined time. If a particular function, such as shutting off of an air conditioner pressure switch or other sensor, has not been achieved within the predetermined time, the engine control unit again decrements the pulse-width modulated signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Thomas M. Tembreull, Eric L. Charbonneau
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Patent number: 7362061Abstract: A gate driver for forcing a power transistor including a gate electrode insulated with oxide film into conduction or shut-off, the gate driver includes a first current source for outputting a first current value to raise an electric potential of the gate electrode for changing shut-off state of the power transistor to conductive state; and a second current source for outputting a second current value to lower the electric potential of the gate electrode for changing the conductive state of the power transistor to the shut-off state. The first current value and the second current value are assigned based on at least one kind of current-source control information. This structure allows preparing an appropriate speed of forcing the power transistor into conduction or shut-off with a small number of elements, and the gate driver can be used with ease for driving power transistors having different output sizes.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2003Date of Patent: April 22, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Yasohara, Koji Kameda, Kazuaki Sakurama
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Publication number: 20080088271Abstract: A device of pulse width modulation type for load drive according to the present invention includes a first output unit (3) that applies a first output signal (e) to a load (5) in response to a first drive timing signal (c), a second output unit (4) that applies a second output signal (f) to the load (5) in response to a second drive timing signal (d), a signal converter (1) that converts a drive input signal (a) into a parallel signal (b), the drive input signal indicating time information allowing a potential difference to be generated across the load (5), and a drive timing generator (2) that generates the first and second drive timing signals (c, d) in response to the parallel signal (b), the load (5) being driven by increasing and reducing pulse widths of the first and second output signals (e, f).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2007Publication date: April 17, 2008Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LtdInventors: Akihisa Ueno, Fumihisa Watanabe, Daijiro Arisawa
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Patent number: 7352150Abstract: A stepping motor driving apparatus includes a detector that detects a current supplied to a winding included in the stepping motor, a first offset adding section that adds an offset to the output of the detector, an amplifier that amplifies the output of the first offset adding section, a reference signal generator that generates a reference signal indicating a current limit, a second offset adding section that adds an offset to the output of the reference signal generator, a switching section that supplies a power to the winding when the switching section is turned on and cuts off a power to the winding when the switching section is turned off, and a PWM controller that turns on the switching section every predetermined period, and turns off the switching section when the output of the amplifier exceeds the output of the second offset adding section.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2006Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Fujinaka, Naoki Kawamoto
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Patent number: 7348755Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for frequency scaling the PWM signal output of a controller/driver for an electrical device such as a BLDC motor. The apparatus comprises a number of multiple half-bridge assemblies, with each multiple half-bridge assembly connected to a respective phase winding of the motor. Each individual half-bridge assembly is operated within the frequency limit of its internal switching elements, but the composite output frequency of each multiple half-bridge assembly can be the product of the switching element frequency and the number of individual half-bridge assemblies in the multiple half-bridge assembly. High-speed torque loop control is implemented by synchronizing multiple DSP's with overlapping interrupts, so that the output pulse width of the PWM signal can be adjusted on a pulse-to-pulse basis. Moreover, the frequency scaling and pulse-to-pulse control processes can be achieved with standard off-the-shelf devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2003Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Robert J. Atmur
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Patent number: 7348757Abstract: Apparatus for reconstructing the phase currents of a multiphase load driven by a multiphase inverter fed by a DC link and controlled by a PWM controller, the apparatus including a sensor in the DC link, first and second sampling arrangements for sampling the current in the DC link by obtaining an output from said sensor, the first sampling arrangement obtaining a first sample of the current in the DC link during a first time period corresponding to a first switching pattern of said multiphase inverter and storing said first sample; the second sampling arrangement obtaining a second sample of the current in the DC link during a second time period after said first time period and corresponding to a second switching pattern of said multiphase inverter and storing said second sample; an A/D converter for converting said first sample to a digital signal during a time period after said first time period and for converting said second sample to a digital signal during a following third time period.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2006Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: International Rectifier CorporationInventor: Toshio Takahashi
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Patent number: 7348758Abstract: A method and system for reducing audible motor noise in a system for reconstructing motor phase current from a DC bus current comprising current pulses on a DC bus in a PWM inverter motor drive system having a PWM cycle, and for controlling the motor, which forms a command voltage vector according to a space vector modulation arrangement for controlling the motor; measures the DC bus current on the DC bus supplying power to the inverter to reconstruct said motor phase current; and determines when the command voltage vector results in an inverter switching state that prevents the measuring of the DC bus current from accurately indicating motor phase current.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2006Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: International Rectifier CorporationInventor: Eddy Ying Yin Ho
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Patent number: 7348749Abstract: A control device is provided for a synchronous motor, which drives the synchronous motor through a voltage operated PWM inverter and controls a torque and a speed of the motor, including a unit for causing a PWM carrier signal to have an arbitrary phase difference between two phases such UV, VW, or WU in three phases of U, V, and W, a unit for extracting a high frequency voltage and a high frequency current, which are thus generated from a detecting voltage or a command voltage and a detecting current, and a unit for estimating a position of a magnetic flux or position of a magnetic pole by using the high frequency voltage and the high frequency current which are excited.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Kozo Ide, Mitsujiro Sawamura, Toshihiro Sawa, Jun Oyama
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Patent number: 7348743Abstract: An apparatus including a power source, a system board, coupled to the power source and disposed within the computer, on which an electrical component, which controls operations of the computer, is installed, a heat sink including heat transfer surfaces which are configured to contact the electrical component and to thereby remove heat therefrom, a fan reversing control card coupled to the system board and configured to generate normal and reverse cycle rotation signals in predetermined intervals, and a fan coupled to the fan reversing control card and configured to receive the rotation signals and to thereby operate in normal and reverse cycles in which the fan rotates in first and second directions, respectively. The fan is disposed proximate to the heat transfer surfaces such that the first and second directional rotations of the fan generate air flows in first and second directions with respect to the heat transfer surfaces, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jesse V. Corbett, David J. Steiner, Donald C. Johnson
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Patent number: 7342380Abstract: A system and method for controlling an inverter of a motor control unit includes a controller having a user interface configured to allow user selection of a waveform increment value or a waveform amplitude threshold. The controller also includes an integrator configured to receive the waveform increment value and generate a signal at least based on the waveform increment value. A logic circuit is configured to monitor the signal and reset the integrator when the signal reaches the waveform amplitude threshold to generate a waveform having a frequency-independent amplitude. A comparator compares the waveform to a modulating signal to trigger gating pulses delivered to an inverter to drive an associated motor.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Russel J. Kerkman, David Leggate, Richard H. Radosevich
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Control system of motors for rotating a disk and for positioning heads of a mass storage disk device
Patent number: 7332886Abstract: An integrated control and power driving system moves a read/write head carrying arm over the surface of a disk. The integrated control and power driving system is applicable to a spindle motor, a mass storage disk drive and a voice-coil motor, for example, and includes a first chip and a second chip. The first chip integrates the output power stages driving the motors, and has an interface for outputting feedback signals representing functioning conditions of the voice-coil motor and of the spindle motor, and for receiving digital control signals of the output power stages. The second chip integrates logic drive and control circuitries of the power stages and an interface for receiving the feedback signals output by the first chip, and for transmitting to the first chip the digital control signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2006Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.Inventors: Giuseppe Maiocchi, Michele Boscolo, Roberto Bardelli -
Patent number: 7330012Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system comprising an electric drive system for a machine. The system can comprise a rectifier adapted to convert AC power from an alternator to DC power. The system can comprise an inverter adapted to receive DC power from the rectifier and provide power to a traction motor and/or auxiliary devices. Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system and method for dissipating excess energy from a machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2005Date of Patent: February 12, 2008Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc.Inventors: Raed H. Ahmad, Ekkehard Pittius
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Patent number: 7327113Abstract: A bidirectional buck-boost power converter 13 including a pair of inverter modules 14, 15 disposed at an output of a machine, and an inductor Lo connected between the pair of inverter modules 14, 15. A method for controlling a voltage output of a machine starter generator having an inverter rectifier and bidirectional buck-boost converter, includes outputting a dc voltage controlled by bidirectional buck-boost pulse width modulation (PWM) switching control, when the starter generator is in a generator mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2004Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Robert Louis Steigerwald, Luis Jose Garces, Matthew Christopher Bringman
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Patent number: 7317304Abstract: An inductive load driving device includes two inductive loads (20A, 20B) connected to a power source (21), two switching elements (15A, 15B), which are connected in series to the two inductive loads, respectively, their on/off are controlled by a pulse width modulation signal, respectively, and a control device (30), which outputs the pulse width modulation signal to each of the two switching elements, and the pulse width modulation signal is configured such that a rising edge of one pulse of the pulse width modulation signal to be output to one switching element starts between an end point of a rising edge and a start point of a trailing edge of one pulse of the pulse width modulation signal to be output to the other switching element, and a time from a start point of a trailing edge to an end point of the trailing edge of the one pulse of the pulse modulation signal to be output to one switching element does not overlap with a time from the start point of the trailing edge to an end point of the trailing edType: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Calsonic Kansei CorporationInventors: Hideki Sunaga, Kaoru Tanaka, Masaharu Tomiyama
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Patent number: 7317292Abstract: It is possible to control the DC intermediate voltage to be constant without using a device for returning regenerative resistance or regenerative energy to a power source and to safely continue operation of an AC motor even if an instantaneous stop occurs.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2004Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Hideaki Iura, Tohru Kai
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Publication number: 20070296375Abstract: This invention provides a control method for a motor that calculates a voltage command value based on a difference between a current command value and a current detected value and controls a PWM based on the voltage command value. The control method includes steps of: detecting a failure or an undetectable state of a current detecting system; obtaining a current estimated value of a failure phase or an undetectable state phase by using the current detected value except the failure phase or the undetectable state phase when the failure or the undetectable state is detected; and continuously controlling the motor by using the current estimated value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Applicant: NSK LTD.Inventors: Toru SAKAGUCHI, Shuji ENDO, Lilit KOVUDHIKULRUNGSRI
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Patent number: 7313005Abstract: In the PWM circuit of the present invention, a PWM counter counts clock signals. A reference value setting register sets a comparative reference value for determining a duty ratio of a PWM signal. A comparator generates the PWM signals based on a comparative result of the comparative reference value and a count value of the PWM counter. A delay device delays the PWM signal. A switching device switchably outputs the output of the comparator and the output of the delay device in order of time sequence. Thereby, the pulse phase of the PWM signal can be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2005Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuji Azuma, Daishi Gouko
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Patent number: 7310475Abstract: A motor driving apparatus is provided which can minimize ripple current flowing through a DC link capacitor, and downsize the motor driving apparatus. It synchronizes the frequency of the inverter carrier signal for driving an inverter with the frequency of the DC/DC converter carrier signal for driving a DC/DC converter, and carries out control in such a manner that the center of a period during which the input current of the inverter is zero and the center of a period during which the output current of the DC/DC converter is zero are matched.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tatsuya Okuda, Takahiro Urakabe, Yuuji Kuramoto
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Patent number: 7307397Abstract: A driving unit of the present invention comprises a moving element, an elastic body configured to support the moving element, a permanent magnet fixed on said moving element, an electromagnet disposed to be opposed to said permanent magnet, and a controller. The moving element and the elastic body constitute a resonance system. The electromagnet includes a magnetic material and a coil wounded around the magnetic material. The controller magnetizes the magnetic material by feeding a current through the coil and gives a vibration force to the moving element by magnetic force acting between the magnetic material and the permanent magnet. The feature of the present invention resides in that the controller determines a current waveform necessary for an intended motion of the moving element, and applies a voltage to the coil intermittently so that a current in the form of the current waveform flows through said coil.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2005Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiro Izumi, Yasuo Ibuki, Mikihiro Yamashita, Hideaki Abe
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Patent number: 7308192Abstract: A drive system for a three phase brushless AC motor that is operative to optimize a transistor switching pattern to improve power output while allowing current measurement in all of the phases using a single sensor. This is achieved by defining a voltage demand vector where more than two states are required to meet a minimum state time requirement determined by the single sensor and calculating three or more state vectors that produce the demand vector while still allowing single current sensing.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2004Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignees: TRW Limited, TRW Automotive US, LLCInventors: Connel Brett Williams, Jeffrey Ronald Coles, Adrian Szabo, Christopher David Dixon, Jiang Li, Abbas Ahmad Fardoun
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Patent number: 7307401Abstract: PWM methods and apparatus are provided for loss minimized control of AC motors taking into consideration inverter non-linear limitations. The method comprises providing a voltage to the AC motor based on a switching cycle, adding a duty cycle of a zero vector to each phase leg of the switching cycle when a duty cycle of a first phase leg of the switching cycle is less than a minimum duty cycle, and subtracting the duty cycle of the zero vector from each phase leg of the switching cycle when a second duty cycle of a second phase leg is greater than a maximum duty cycle. The minimum duty cycle and maximum duty cycle indicate distortion regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.Inventors: Slobodan Gataric, Brian Welchko, Steven E. Schulz, Silva Hiti, Steve T. West
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Patent number: 7304451Abstract: A motor control apparatus capable of expanding a voltage output and a modulating wave signal generating method for a PWM inverter apparatus of the motor control apparatus, which is controlled by a pulse width modulating signal obtained by comparing a modulating wave signal of a voltage instruction with a carrier wave are provided. An upper limit value calculation unit 105 and a modulation wave limiter unit 4 are provided, and an upper limit value 14 of a modulating wave, which is equal to or smaller than the maximum value of the carrier wave and equal to or larger than the minimum value of the carrier wave is produced in the upper limit value calculation unit 105 and modulating wave instructions 13 for a plurality of phases are corrected by the modulating wave control unit 4 by using the upper limit value 14 of the modulating wave.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2005Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yasakawa DenkiInventors: Shinya Morimoto, Akira Sasaki
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Patent number: 7304452Abstract: A motor control device for controlling a permanent magnet motor includes a current detector detecting current flowing through three-phase windings, an induced voltage computing unit obtaining voltage induced at each phase from the detected three-phase winding current based on a phase voltage equation, a position detector detecting a rotational position of the rotor from the induced voltage of each phase computed by the induced current computing unit, the rotational position of the rotor having a 6n resolution where n is an integer equal to or larger than 1, an energization phase control unit determining a phase to be energized based on the rotational position of the rotor and a phase command, an energization signal forming unit forming a 6n-resolution three-phase energization signal, and an energizing unit carrying out PWM modulation for the three-phase energization signal, supplying voltage according to the modulated three-phase energization signal to each of the three-phase windings.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2006Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazunobu Nagai, Tsuyoshi Shinohara, Hiromi Oka, Toshikazu Sekihara
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Patent number: 7301301Abstract: In an electric car control apparatus for driving an induction motor, detection accuracy of a DC voltage is improved. A DC power supply device is provided which has a maximum potential terminal A, an intermediate potential terminal B, a minimum potential terminal C, an upstream side capacitor 6 between the maximum potential terminal A and the intermediate potential terminal B, and a downstream side capacitor 7 between the intermediate potential terminal B and the minimum potential terminal C. Also, an overvoltage suppression part is provided which includes a resistor 8 and a thyristor 9 between the maximum potential terminal A and the minimum potential terminal C.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2005Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshio Nagatsuka, Takeo Matsumoto, Shouichi Kawamoto
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Patent number: 7301298Abstract: A prior art direct back EMF detection method synchronously sampled motor back EMF during PWM “off” time without the need to sense or re-construct the motor neutral in a sensorless brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive system. Since this direct back EMF sensing scheme requires a minimum PWM “off” time to sample the back EMF signal, the duty cycle cannot reach 100%. Also in some applications, for example, high inductance motors, the long settling time of a parasitic resonant between the motor inductance and the parasitic capacitance of power devices can cause false zero crossing detection of back EMF. An improved direct back EMF detection scheme samples the motor back EMF synchronously during PWM “on” time at high speed. In the final system the motor back EMF can be detected during PWM “off” time at low speed, and it is detected during PWM “on” time at high speed.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: STMicroelectronics, Inc.Inventors: Jianwen Shao, Dennis Nolan
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Patent number: 7298112Abstract: This deadbeat control method of controlling an asynchronous rotary electrical machine consists of: a) a step of establishing a set point current that is adapted to achieve at the end of the interval T both the mechanical force set point and a set point magnetic flux and is established on the basis of a relationship between the set point current, the set point magnetic flux and initial current and magnetic flux values at the beginning of the interval T; and b) a step of calculating an average control vector to be applied continuously during the interval T to obtain at the end of the interval T a current equal to the set point current established during the step a).Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Alstom Transport SAInventor: Jean Alacoque
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Patent number: 7294989Abstract: A method of protecting a frequency converter against overvoltage by controlling an AC motor during braking or during light load and a frequency converter, wherein the frequency converter is a voltage-controlled PWM frequency converter operating in single quadrant (1Q) and comprising at least one uncontrolled rectifier bridge (10) to be connected to a AC supply line (UL1, UL2, UL3), a direct-voltage intermediate circuit and at least one controlled inverter bridge (11) for feeding an AC motor (12) with an alternating voltage (Uu, Uv, Uw) of varying magnitude and frequency, in which method: the angle (??) between the output voltage vector (Us) and current vector (Is), i.e. the power factor, is measured, the angle (??) between the output voltage vector (Us) and current vector (Is), i.e. the power factor, is controlled on the basis of the measurement, and the angle (??) between the output voltage vector (Us) and current vector (Is), i.e.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2005Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Vacon OyjInventor: Hannu Saren
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Patent number: 7292004Abstract: A motor driving apparatus for driving a motor includes a single-phase rectifier circuit having an input connected to a single-phase AC power supply, an inverter circuit that is connected to the single-phase rectifier circuit and applies a current and a voltage to the motor, and an inverter control unit for controlling the inverter circuit. The inverter control unit controls the current applied to the motor, i.e., the output of the inverter circuit, so that the inverter input voltage becomes equal to the absolute value of the voltage of the single-phase AC power supply.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2004Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Ueda, Hideki Nakata
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Patent number: 7288905Abstract: A method and device for control of a low-cost DC motor such as that suitable for portable or battery-powered applications are disclosed such that an intended behavior for the motor may be programmed without reliance on external equipment or specific expertise. The invention enables programming of a motor controlling device by means of physical manipulation of the motor. In other words, the invention allows for the training of a motor by demonstrating the intended behavior for the motor. The invention specifies a method of parsing an observation of the motor system into storable commands, while preserving information on motor response and conditions for execution. A motor controller device comprising an implementation of this method is also presented.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Inventor: Andrew Evert Carlson