Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
318716000 | Field winding circuits | 38 |
20080211448 | SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES - The present invention relates to electrically magnetized synchronous machine comprising an electrically magnetized rotor, and electrically supplied sator windings, whereby it further comprises non-linear means, optionally controllable, such as rectifying means in a series with three sator phase windings, whereby a rotor field winding is arranged to be fed from said non-linear means. | 09-04-2008 |
20100090641 | OPERATION CONTROL METHOD AND OPERATION CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VARIABLE SPEED GENERATOR-MOTOR - An excitation device supplies a three-phase AC excitation current to a variable speed generator-motor, and controls the variable speed generator-motor based on a three-phase AC excitation current command value obtained by vector-synthesizing, based on a slip phase from an exciting phase detector, a torque direction excitation current command value from a power adjustment computing device, and a magnetic flux direction excitation current command value from a voltage adjustment computing device by an excitation current adjustment computing device. The variable speed generator-motor includes a power fluctuation suppression circuit that causes the torque direction excitation current command value fixed to a value before switching to follow a torque direction excitation current command target value calculated from an effective power by a predetermined conversion circuit, filter circuit, and limiter circuit during a synchronous operation in an operation control method for operating to switch a variable speed operation method and a synchronous operation method. | 04-15-2010 |
20100219786 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A FIELD CURRENT IN BRUSHLESS ELECTRICAL MACHINES - A method and an apparatus are described for determining a field current through a field winding in an electrical machine with a stator and a rotor. The electrical machine includes a field-circuit transformer to produce, by induction of an electrical current on the rotor side, field current with which a field winding is energized in order to generate an excitation magnetic field. The method includes driving the primary side of the field-circuit transformer to produce a field current in the rotor, which is derived from the current induced on the secondary side in the field-circuit transformer; measuring one or more phase currents in one or more primary-side phases of the field-circuit transformer; determining a maximum value depending on the one or more measured phase currents; determining the field current through the field winding depending on the determined maximum value. | 09-02-2010 |
20110050150 | ELECTRIC MOTOR - The present invention relates to a device for controlling the speed of an electric motor, wherein the said motor is arranged to be connected to a voltage source, wherein the said motor comprises a stator winding and a rotor winding, wherein, in operation, a rotating stator field having a first rotational frequency is generated in the stator winding, wherein the said stator field, in operation, is arranged to induce a first rotor field having a second rotational frequency in the said rotor winding. The device comprises frequency converter means for generating a second rotor voltage having a third rotational frequency from a voltage in the rotor winding being induced from the said stator field, for being supplied to the said rotor winding, wherein the said second rotor voltage being generated by the said frequency converter, in operation, is arranged to generate a second rotating rotor field in the said rotor winding so that, in operation, the rotor rotates with a rotational frequency substantially being the difference between the rotational frequency of the stator field and the rotational frequency of the generated second rotor field. | 03-03-2011 |
20110121773 | Separately Excited Electrical Synchronous Machine, and Method for Operating a Synchronous Machine - In a separately excited electrical synchronous machine, and a method for operating a synchronous machine, coil windings, in particular in the form of excitation coils, are disposed on the rotor, the electrical supply of the coil windings being achieved with the aid of an inductive rotation transmitter, whose secondary winding is connected to the rotor and whose primary winding, which is inductively coupled to the secondary winding, is stationary, especially connected to the stator of the synchronous machine. | 05-26-2011 |
20110241598 | ELECTRIC MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE AND VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - An electric motor driving device that drives an electric motor including a field winding, a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor and the stator each foam a field pole by passing a field current through the field winding, includes: a power supply device; a converter including a reactor that at least partially serves as the field winding shared with the electric motor, and configured to receive a voltage from the power supply device to carry out voltage conversion between first and second power lines and to pass the field current through the field winding during voltage conversion operation; an inverter configured to convert a direct-current power received from the converter to an alternating-current power for driving the electric motor; and a controller controlling the converter so that a current flows through the field winding in the same direction both during power running and regeneration of the electric motor. | 10-06-2011 |
20120038308 | ROTATING TRANSFORMER FOR SUPPLYING THE FIELD WINDING IN A DYNAMOELECTRIC MACHINE - An apparatus for transmission of electrical power includes an AC voltage source configured to produce AC voltage. A stator includes a primary winding arrangement electrically fed from the AC voltage source, the primary winding arrangement having at least two primary windings. A rotor includes a secondary winding arrangement inductively coupled to the primary winding arrangement of the stator, the rotor being rotatable in a rotation direction about a rotation axis. The rotation axis does not pass through the at least two primary windings, and the at least two primary windings each extend over a predetermined sector with respect to the rotation direction and are disposed offset with respect to one another with in the rotation direction. | 02-16-2012 |
20120133320 | Electric Machine and Current Source Inverter Drive System - A drive system includes an electric machine and a current source inverter (CSI). This integration of an electric machine and an inverter uses the machine's field excitation coil for not only flux generation in the machine but also for the CSI inductor. This integration of the two technologies, namely the U machine motor and the CSI, opens a new chapter for the component function integration instead of the traditional integration by simply placing separate machine and inverter components in the same housing. Elimination of the CSI inductor adds to the CSI volumetric reduction of capacitors and the elimination of PMs for the motor further improve the drive system cost, weight, and volume. | 05-31-2012 |
20120181970 | VARIABLE-FLUX MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM - A variable-flux motor drive system including a permanent-magnet motor including a permanent magnet, an inverter to drive the permanent-magnet motor, and a magnetize device to pass a magnetizing current for controlling flux of the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is a variable magnet whose flux density is variable depending on a magnetizing current from the inverter. The magnetize device passes a magnetizing current that is over a magnetization saturation zone of magnetic material of the variable magnet. This system improves a flux repeatability of the variable magnet and a torque accuracy. | 07-19-2012 |
20120235621 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE SYSTEM - A rotary electric machine system includes: a stator that has multi-phase stator coils and that generates stator magnetomotive forces based on respective stator currents having different phases supplied to the multi-phase stator coils; a rotor on which rotor coils are wound such that magnetic poles are formed by rotor currents generated in response to the stator magnetomotive forces generated by the stator; a regulating unit that regulates a flow direction of each of the rotor currents to one direction to thereby regulate a polarity of each of the magnetic poles; and a control unit that controls currents supplied to the stator coils on the basis of a target torque. The control unit superimposes a pulse on the stator currents to adjust the ratio of each of the stator currents and each of the rotor currents so as to minimize a copper loss in the stator and the rotor. | 09-20-2012 |
20120293105 | ROTOR SLOT ASYMMETRY IN AN ELECTRIC MOTOR - An electric motor includes a stator configured to receive electrical energy and generate an electromagnetic field in accordance with the electrical energy received. A rotor is in electromagnetic communication with the stator and is configured to rotate in accordance with the electromagnetic field generated by the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of poles including a first set of poles and a second set of poles. The first set of poles defines a first slot and the second set of poles defines a second slot that has a different configuration than the first slot to reduce a torque ripple effect. The electric motor may be used in a system having a power source configured to output direct current energy and an inverter configured to convert direct current energy to alternating current energy. | 11-22-2012 |
20130193903 | SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE WITH SWITCHING ELEMENT IN THE EXCITATION CIRCUIT - A separately excited synchronous machine ( | 08-01-2013 |
20130293182 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRIC MACHINE HAVING EXTERNAL OR HYBRID EXCITATION - The invention relates to an electronically commutated electric machine ( | 11-07-2013 |
20130328518 | Switch Type DC Electric Machine Having Auxiliary Excitation Winding And Conduction Ring And Brush - The present invention provides an auxiliary excitation winding set to be installed at the rotary part of the electric machine ( | 12-12-2013 |
20130328519 | Switch Type DC Electric Machine Having Auxiliary Excitation Winding And Conduction Ring And Brush - The present invention provides an auxiliary excitation winding set to be installed at the rotary part of the electric machine ( | 12-12-2013 |
20150035470 | ELECTRIC POWER ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE - An electric power assembly for a vehicle is disclosed. An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor being rotatable about a pivot axis relative to the stator. An inverter is coupled to the electric motor and includes a power switching device that outputs an electrical signal from the inverter at a first frequency and having interference at a second frequency. The second frequency is a byproduct of the electrical signal creating the first frequency. The stator is electrically connected to the inverter to receive the first frequency such that the stator produces a first magnetic field. A frequency filter is attached to the rotor and directs the portion of the electrical signal having the second frequency to the rotor such that the rotor produces a second magnetic field that interacts with the first magnetic field to rotate the rotor about the pivot axis relative to the stator. | 02-05-2015 |
20150130390 | ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED UNIVERSAL MOTOR - An electric motor apparatus comprising: a stator component and a rotor component rotationally mounted coaxially with and within the stator component. The stator component and the rotor component each comprise windings configured to generate an electromagnetic field from an electric current. The electric motor further comprises an intermediate screening component rotationally mounted between the stator component and the rotor component and configured to provide at least some magnetic screening between the rotor component and the stator component. The intermediate screening component comprises at least some magnetically active sections configured such that changing magnetic fields generated by changing electric currents in the windings on either the rotor component or the stator component generate a force on the magnetically active sections causing the intermediate screening component to rotate; and control circuitry for independently controlling power supplied to the windings on the rotor component and the stator component in dependence upon a desired output rotational speed. | 05-14-2015 |
318717000 | Responsive to a motor condition | 21 |
20100207568 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - A rotating electrical machine including a first member ( | 08-19-2010 |
20110050151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-SINUSOIDAL CURRENT WAVEFORM EXCITATION OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES - A system and method for exciting an electrical machine with instantaneous non-sinusoidal current waveforms is disclosed. The system includes an inverter that controls current flow and terminal voltages in an electrical machine and a controller programmed to input an initial sinusoidal current demand to the inverter, thereby causing the inverter to output an initial sinusoidal input current. The controller is further programmed to receive feedback on an air gap magnetic field in the electrical machine generated by the initial sinusoidal current demand, determine an instantaneous fundamental component and instantaneous harmonic components of the air gap magnetic field, apply a correction to the instantaneous fundamental component of the air gap magnetic field to generate an ideal fundamental component, generate a non-sinusoidal current demand based on the ideal fundamental component, and input the non-sinusoidal current demand to the inverter, thereby causing the inverter to output a non-sinusoidal current. | 03-03-2011 |
20130181653 | BRUSHLESS STARTER-GENERATOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD TO CONTROL MAGNETIC FLUX EXCITATION - A brushless starter-generator assembly includes a stator assembly, a rotor including a magnetic hub, the rotor disposed at least partially within the stator assembly and configured to rotate about an axis, and a field coil located radially outward from the rotor with respect to the axis. | 07-18-2013 |
20130207589 | Method and Device for Regulating Separately Excited Synchronous Machines - A regulating method and device for loss-optimized operation of a separately excited synchronous machine having a stator and a rotor are provided. The method may include: providing reference values for stator and rotor currents, wherein the reference value for the stator current and/or the reference value for the rotor current or an auxiliary parameter representing the reference value of the stator current and/or an auxiliary parameter representing the reference value of the rotor current is dependent on a predefined reference torque; providing maximum values for stator and rotor currents; comparing reference values for the stator and/or rotor currents or an auxiliary parameter representing the reference value of the stator current and/or an auxiliary parameter representing a reference value of the rotor current to the corresponding maximum values and reducing of the reference torque by a torque value if at least one reference value reaches or exceeds the corresponding maximum value. | 08-15-2013 |
20140132196 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRIC MOTOR PROPULSION UNIT WITH DECOUPLED CONTROLS - A method of controlling an electric motor including a rotor and a stator, sensors for measuring currents flowing in the rotor and in the stator, a mechanism determining setpoints of current, and a mechanism processing the signals from the measurement sensors, the method including: determining intermediate signals by a transformation according to which stator voltages and rotor voltages of the electric motor are expressed in a decoupled reference system as a function of the signals received from the processing means, and determining signals for regulating voltage as a function of the currents flowing in the rotor and in the stator of the electric motor satisfying the setpoints of current as a function of the intermediate signals obtained by transformation. | 05-15-2014 |
20150015178 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING A SYNCHRONOUS ELECTRIC MACHINE - Controlling a synchronous electric machine includes determining a rotor field current of a wound rotor of the synchronous electric machine and determining a time-rate change in field flux linkage. A rotor field voltage is determined based upon the time-rate change in the field flux linkage, and a rotor field resistance is determined based upon the rotor field voltage and the rotor field current. A rotor temperature is determined based upon the rotor field resistance. Operation of the synchronous electric machine is controlled responsive to a torque command and the rotor temperature. | 01-15-2015 |
20150048773 | FIELD WINDING ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FIELD CURRENT OF A FIELD WINDING ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE - A field winding rotating electrical machine includes a field current detection section, a field current control section configured to calculate a duty ratio of a current supplied to the field winding based on a field current detection value, to thereby control current supply to the field winding by using a switching element, and a field current correction section configured to estimate a time point when the field current becomes 0 A based on a control state of the field current, to specify the field current detection value at the estimated time point to be a field current correction value, and to subtract the field current correction value from the field current detection value, to thereby calculate the corrected field current value. The field current control section controls the current supply based on the corrected field current value calculated by the field current correction section. | 02-19-2015 |
20150311846 | PRIMARY MAGNETIC FLUX CONTROL METHOD - A primary magnetic flux command value is changed in accordance with a torque of a rotary electric motor to control a current phase of an armature current with respect to a q axis that advances by π/2 with respect to a d axis in phase with a field flux to be a desired phase in accordance with the torque. | 10-29-2015 |
20150381082 | FIELD CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD OF FIELD CONTROL, AND SYNCHRONOUS ROTATING MACHINE - A field control device for a synchronous rotating machine includes: a target operating condition input unit; a first subtraction unit; a final-control-quantity control computation unit that accepts the final-control-quantity deviation and outputs a field-current correction demand value; an anticipatory computation unit that outputs a field-current anticipatory demand value based on the operating condition demand values input; an addition unit that adds the field-current correction demand value and the field-current anticipatory demand value; a second subtraction unit; and a field-current regulation device that adjusts the field current based on the field current deviation. The anticipatory computation unit includes: a dependence characteristic data storage unit that stores dependence characteristics predicted on the basis of the results of a no-load test; and a circuit calculation unit that performs a circuit calculation by using the dependence characteristics and outputs a field-current anticipatory demand value. | 12-31-2015 |
318718000 | Induced voltage in field winding | 10 |
20090072777 | FIELD WINDING TYPE OF SYNCHRONOUS ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE - A speed-variable field winding type of synchronous rotary electric machine is provided, where a rotor with plural-phase windings faces a rotor with a field winding. A field current is limited to flow through the field winding in one direction thereof. A fundamental component of armature current, which corresponds a synchronizing current for producing a rotating magnetic field rotating in sync with the rotation of the rotor, is supplied to the armature windings. The synchronizing current is adjusted in frequency to change a rotor rotation speed. A pulsed rotor exciting current is supplied to the armature windings. The exciting current causes the field winding to induce the field current only during a specified current-supply duration shorter than a one cycle of the synchronizing current. The number of current-supply times for the exciting current, per electrical angle 2π and per phase, has a positive correlation with the cycle of the synchronizing current. | 03-19-2009 |
20090315505 | SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR, MOTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A MOTOR SYSTEM - The invention relates to a synchronous motor ( | 12-24-2009 |
20100066299 | SUPERCONDUCTIVE ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEM AND SUPERCONDUCTIVE ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE DRIVE CONTROL METHOD - The present invention provides a superconductive rotating electric machine drive control system that has higher efficiency and is smaller size and lighter in weight than conventional systems, and also provides a superconductive rotating electric machine drive control method to be implemented in the superconductive rotating electric machine drive control system. By the superconductive rotating electric machine drive control system and the superconductive rotating electric machine drive control method in accordance with the present invention, a control operation is performed so that the field current I | 03-18-2010 |
20100237822 | Drive unit for rotating electrical machine - An inverter is capable of converting a direct current from a direct current power supply into an alternating current and supplying it to an armature winding. A rectifier circuit is capable of rectifying the current, that has been converted to an alternating current by the inverter, into a direct current and supplying it to the field winding. The amount of the alternating current supplied to the armature winding and the amount of the direct current supplied to the field winding are in a proportional relationship, and implementation of switching control of the inverter controls both the amount of the alternating current supplied to the armature winding and the amount of the direct current supplied to the field winding while this proportional relationship therebetween is maintained. | 09-23-2010 |
20120242272 | ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE SYSTEM - A rotating electrical machine system includes a stator that has stator windings of a plurality of phases, and that generates a stator magnetomotive force in accordance with stator current of different phases, which is supplied to the stator windings of the plurality of phases; a rotor on which rotor windings are wound such that rotor current is generated in accordance with the stator magnetomotive force generated by the stator and a magnetic pole is formed by the rotor current; and a control unit that controls an output torque from the rotor, by controlling the stator current. In a case where a predetermined torque is output from the rotor, the control unit applies a pulse to the stator current so as to increase the stator current and reduce the rotor current, when a temperature of the rotor is high as compared with when the temperature of the rotor is low. | 09-27-2012 |
20130314021 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE DRIVING SYSTEM - A stator has multi-phase stator coils that are wound around a stator core by concentrated winding. A rotor has rotor coils that are wound at multiple portions of a rotor core in the circumferential direction and diodes that serve as rectifier unit that is connected to the rotor coils and that varies the magnetic characteristics of the respective rotor coils alternately in the circumferential direction. A rotary electric machine driving system includes a decreasing/increasing pulse superimposing unit that superimposes decreasing pulse current for a pulse-shaped decrease on a q-axis current command for passing currents through the stator coils and that superimposes increasing pulse current for a pulse-shaped increase on a d-axis current command. | 11-28-2013 |
20140042953 | WINDING SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE HAVING A MOVING OBJECT INCLUDING AN INVERTER CIRCUIT, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME - The present invention relates to a winding synchronous machine having a moving object including an inverter circuit, wherein a winding synchronous machine, including a winding synchronous motor or generator having a moving object including an inverter circuit, is provided, the winding synchronous machine being characterized by comprising: a moving-object inverter circuit connected to the moving object of the winding synchronous machine; and a moving-object circuit control device connected to the moving-object inverter circuit so as to control the moving-object inverter circuit. According to the provided winding synchronous machine, the moving-object circuit control device is characterized by comprising: a stator inverter voltage estimator estimating a high-frequency voltage of a stator inverter circuit; a field current reference generator generating a field current reference of the moving object; and an energy storage device voltage controller generating a current reference tracking a DC-link energy storage device voltage of the moving object. According to the present invention, the winding synchronous machine can be implemented while overcoming the problems associated with using a rare-earth permanent magnet, an extra power source is not needed, and an excitation circuit, in which ripples almost never occur, is included. | 02-13-2014 |
20140184133 | VARIABLE-FLUX MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM - A variable-flux motor drive system including a permanent-magnet motor including a permanent magnet, an inverter to drive the permanent-magnet motor, and a magnetize device to pass a magnetizing current for controlling flux of the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is a variable magnet whose flux density is variable depending on a magnetizing current from the inverter. The magnetize device passes a magnetizing current that is over a magnetization saturation zone of magnetic material of the variable magnet. This system improves a flux repeatability of the variable magnet and a torque accuracy. | 07-03-2014 |
20140232317 | System And Method For Controlling A Synchronous Motor - A synchronous electrical motor includes a rotor with a DC field winding. An exciter is configured to energize the DC field winding by generating a DC current in a first direction across the DC field winding when activated. A control system is configured to control a current flow across the DC field winding, the control system including a field discharge resistor and a by-passing circuitry. The by-passing circuitry is configured to implement a first by-passing to electrically by-pass the field discharge resistor during a current flow in the first direction across the DC field winding, and to implement a second by-passing to electrically by-pass the field discharge resistor during a current flow in a second direction across the DC field winding. The control system is able to direct all the DC current generated by the exciter to flow across the DC field winding. | 08-21-2014 |
20150035471 | FIELD WINDING TYPE SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR - A field winding type synchronous motor comprises a stator, a rotor with field windings, a brushless exciter, and a rectification circuit rectifying an output of the brushless exciter. A first circuit in parallel with the field windings includes a discharge resistor and a first switching device with a backward diode. The discharge resistor and the first switching device are connected in series. A second switching device is provided in one of the DC lines connecting the first circuit and the rectification circuit. The first switching device is controlled by a potential obtained by resistor dividing of an induced voltage in the field windings and a connection from the potential via a diode to anode adjacent to the rectification circuit on the one of the DC lines with the second switching device thereon. The second switching device is closed in a synchronous speed. | 02-05-2015 |
318719000 | Speed responsive field power sources | 2 |
20110050152 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL OF AN AC ELECTRIC MOTOR WITH FIELD WEAKENING - A method and apparatus for control of an alternating current electric motor with field weakening, including setting a required operating point for a motor field voltage component as a function of a difference between actual and required motor field current components, and setting a required operating point for a motor torque voltage component as a function of a difference between actual and required motor torque current components. The method also includes setting a field weakening constituent for the required operating point for the motor field voltage component as a function of a difference between a required operating point and an available value of the motor torque voltage component and as a function of a difference between actual and required motor torque current components. | 03-03-2011 |
20150097509 | ELECTRIC MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - An electric motor control device includes a torque command generation portion that outputs a torque command τc generated on the basis of a rotation speed R and specifying an output torque, a minimum energization point number generation portion that generates a minimum number of energization points, Nmin, indicating the minimum number of points to be energized in windings of an armature and a field on the basis of the rotation speed R and the torque command τc, an energization signal generation portion that outputs an energization signal S on the basis of a state quantity M of an electric motor, the minimum number of energization points, Nmin, the torque command τc, a DC voltage value Vdc, a current value I, and a field position θ, and an energization portion that energizes an armature winding and a field winding according to the energization signal S. | 04-09-2015 |