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| 318400200 | Phase voltage wave-shaping circuit or method (e.g., output from inverter, phase energizing signal, trapezoidal wave, etc.) | 35 |
| 20080290827 | Motor control apparatus and motor control method - Size and weight reduction of a motor-driven vehicle, robot or the like is achieved. A current command Iref from a speed feedback gain is supplied to each of circuits with coefficients of sin(θm), sin(θm+2π/3) and sin(θm−2π/3) to generate three-phase signals. The three-phase signals are respectively supplied to current control gains through adder-subtracters. Further, signals from motor constants are added together by an adder to produce motor torque. Furthermore, coil voltages output from adders pass through diodes and are then added together by an adder, and the signal is supplied to a regenerative voltage determiner. When a regenerative voltage becomes excessive, in-phase current Idc is supplied through a regeneration control gain to adder-subtracters. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090009112 | Drive Device for an Adjusting Device for Adjusting a Vehicle Part and Method for Operating a Drive Device - A drive device for an adjusting device for adjusting a vehicle component of a vehicle is provided. The drive device comprising an electronically commutated motor and an electronic control device which actuates the electronically commutated motor by means of an actuating voltage. The electronic control device has means, by means of which the signal form of the actuating voltage can be adapted on the basis of at least one operating parameter in order to optimize the power output, the acoustics, the electromagnetic irradiation and/or the heating of the drive device. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090309524 | System and Method for Adding Voltages of Power Modules in Variable Frequency Drives - Systems and methods for providing electrical power and to downhole oil production equipment such as electrical submersible pumps, wherein the outputs of multiple power modules are individually filtered before being added together to obtain a high voltage output that is provided to the downhole equipment. In one embodiment, an electrical drive system includes multiple power modules and corresponding filters. Each of the power modules is configured to receive an input power signal and to provide a corresponding pulse width modulated or stepped intermediate signal. The signal output by each power module is individually filtered to remove at least a portion of high-frequency components in the signal. The power modules and filters are coupled together in a configuration in which the filtered signals of the power modules are added to produce an output drive signal that is used to drive equipment such as an electrical submersible pump. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100085000 | VARIABLE SPEED DRIVE FOR PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR - A drive system for a compressor of a chiller system includes a variable speed drive. The variable speed drive is arranged to receive an input AC voltage at a fixed AC input voltage and provide an output AC power at a variable voltage and variable frequency. The variable speed drive includes a converter connected to an AC power source providing the input AC voltage. The converter is arranged to convert the input AC voltage to a DC voltage. A DC link is connected to the converter. The DC link filters and stores the DC voltage from the converter. An inverter is connected to the DC link. A motor connectable to the compressor for powering the compressor. An active filter connected in parallel with the motor. The active filter is arranged to generate high frequency currents having a magnitude and opposite polarity, with respect to the output AC power of the variable speed drive. The high frequency currents generated by active filter substantially cancel out high frequency currents flowing into the motor. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100109582 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A LOAD WITH A PREDOMINANTLY INDUCTIVE CHARACTER AND A DEVICE APPLYING SUCH A METHOD - Method for controlling a load with a predominantly inductive character, whereby in order to feed a phase of the above-mentioned load ( | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100194317 | ALTERNATING-CURRENT MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS - A control apparatus for an alternating-current motor that is driven by an inverter includes a rectangular wave voltage control portion that generates a control command of the inverter such that rectangular wave voltage that has been phase-controlled to make the alternating-current motor operate according to a torque command value is applied to the alternating-current motor; and a phase change control portion that controls a change in the phase to maintain the center of a flux linkage vector locus indicative of a change in a flux linkage of the alternating-current motor before and after a change in the phase of the rectangular wave voltage. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110050135 | OUTPUT FILTER AND MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - An output filter includes a polyphase common-mode filter having a polyphase common-mode choke connected to an output of a power converter at one end, a first polyphase capacitor connected to the other end of the polyphase common-mode choke at one end, and a neutral-point detecting transformer connected to the other end of the first polyphase capacitor at one end; a capacitor/resistor series-connected body connected to a frame ground of the power converter at one end and connected to the other end of the neutral-point detecting transformer at the other end; and a polyphase normal-mode filter having a polyphase normal-mode choke connected to the other end of the polyphase common-mode choke at one end, and a second polyphase capacitor connected to the other end of the polyphase normal-mode choke at one end and having the other ends connected together and further connected to the one end of the capacitor/resistor series-connected body. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110156622 | DRIVING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR AND RELATED METHOD - A driving apparatus drives a brushless motor that includes a plurality of windings. The apparatus comprises a plurality of switch half-bridges connected to a power line and to the windings, a memory adapted to contain a plurality of signal profiles to be cyclically applied to the plurality of windings of the motor, a multiplier for multiplying the profile values of the signals from the memory by a scale factor, a control circuit adapted to generate PWM signals for the switches of the plurality of switch half-bridges according to values output by the multiplier, a polarity detector configured to detect the polarity of the current passing trough at least one winding of the motor and a scale factor controller configured to modify the scale factor according to the detected current polarity and so as to make each signal profile to be applied to each winding of the motor either higher than the back-electromotive force or equal to the back-electromotive force generated by the motor. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120235608 | MOTOR DRIVE APPARATUS FOR BRUSHLESS MOTOR - A motor drive apparatus that can be used to drive a wide range of brushless motors without any limit to a magnetic pole number of a rotor magnet. One rotational period T of the rotor magnet is obtained, and one period S of the sine wave drive signal according to a mathematical expression of S=T/(n/2). The one period S of the sine wave drive signal is updated at intervals of one period of the output signal from one magnetic pole detecting element among the three magnetic pole detecting elements. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20130271047 | MOTOR CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING APPARATUS USING THE SAME | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130278183 | LOAD FILTERS FOR MEDIUM VOLTAGE VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES IN ELECTRICAL SUBMERSIBLE PUMP SYSTEMS - A medium voltage drive for driving a motor of an electric submersible pump can include inverter circuitry that includes an output for output of power and a load filter connected to the output that includes inductors and capacitors that include inductance (L) and capacitance (C) values that determine a resonance frequency (f | 10-24-2013 |
| 20140055063 | ELECTRIC MOTOR AND MOTOR CONTROL - Various embodiments of an electric motor and electronic control for an electric motor are disclosed. An exemplary electric motor comprises a single-phase brushless permanent magnet electric motor. In exemplary embodiments, the electronic motor control is configured to commutate an electric motor at a frequency other than line frequency, perform pulse width modulation, and drive the electric motor with a drive waveform that approximates the counter-electromotive force of the motor. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140077733 | Electrically Driven Power Steering System And Control Apparatus For The Same - In an electrically driven power steering system and a control apparatus for the electrically driven power steering system which are capable of reducing a development of a noisy sound due to a magneto-strictive sound. A voltage V(Thys) corresponding to each of PWM pulses achieving time Thys (a third predetermined value) corresponding to a hysteresis is added to one of the voltage command values of a voltage large phase from among three phase first voltage command values (Vu1*, Vv1*, Vw1*) and this voltage V(Thys) is subtracted from one of the remaining voltage command values which is a voltage small phase to derive virtual voltage command values, and the virtual voltage command values (Vu*im, Vv*im, Vw*im) are mutually compared to carry out a voltage magnitude (large, middle, small) phase determination. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140097773 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONICALLY COMMUTATED ELECTRIC MACHINE - The invention relates to a method for operating a multi-phase electric machine ( | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140152203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SPEED OF MOTOR - Disclosed herein are a system and a method for controlling a speed of a motor. The method for controlling a speed of a motor includes: receiving a signal from a hall sensor of the motor to measure a current speed of the motor; comparing the current speed of the motor measured with a reference speed to calculate errors; outputting a speed control value of the motor based on the calculated errors; limiting the output speed control value to values within a predetermined range; controlling a duty or a phase of current applied to the motor according to the limited values within the predetermined range; and generating a motor driving signal based on the duty control or the phase control and applying the generated motor driving signal to the motor. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140176027 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THREE-PHASE ROTARY MACHINE - In a system, a triangular carrier wave is compared in magnitude with first and second two-phase modulated command signals. Based on a result of the comparison, on-off operations of the high- and low-side switching elements of two phases of a three-phase inverter corresponding to the first and second two-phase modulated command signals are performed while the high- and low-side switching elements of the remaining phase of the three-phase inverter is fixed to be on or off. A value of a current flowing through a first or second bus connected between a DC power source and the three-phase inverter is measured when a local peak of the triangular carrier signal occurs while none of the high-side switching elements of all the three-phases are on or none of the low-side switching elements of all the three-phases are on. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140197765 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROLLING OUTPUT VOLTAGES OF INVERTERS DRIVING OF ELECTRIC MOTORS - A method of controlling an output voltage of an inverter driving an electric motor may include removing harmonic components of an output current, which is output to the electric motor, by using a low pass filter and obtaining a fundamental component of the output current; calculating a current total harmonic distortion by using the fundamental component of the output current; comparing the current THD with a reference current THD; determining a pulse width modulation method to be changed from a first modulation method for reducing the harmonic components of the output current to a second modulation method for reducing a switching frequency of the inverter if the current THD is less than the reference current THD, the PWM method modulating a pulse width of a control pulse signal for controlling the output voltage of the inverter; and/or generating the control pulse signal based on the determined PWM method. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140210388 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - A motor control device stores correction wave information in a storing unit in advance, monitors a state amount (a torque command or motor speed) specifying a driving state for causing a pulsation in generated torque of a motor, selects, from a storing unit, correction wave information corresponding to positive or negative of the state amount, and generates a sine wave-like correction wave with respect to a periodical torque pulsation (a torque ripple or cogging torque) based on the selected correction wave information, and controls the motor based on a corrected torque command obtained by combining the torque command and the generated correction wave, instead of the torque command input from a host apparatus to control the motor. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140232305 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MULTIPHASE MACHINE - A method is described for controlling a multiphase machine which is connected to a battery, the multiphase machine having a DC link which is provided with a DC link capacitor, phase windings, and a high side switch and a low side switch for each phase. The switches associated with the individual phases are controlled by a control unit in such a way that sinusoidal phase currents are predefined, at least one phase current is connected at any point in time in each control cycle, and a fixed, pulsed control pattern is present for each control cycle. The control widths of the actuating signals associated with the phases are constant in the pulsed control pattern. The control pulses associated with the individual phases are predefined in such a way that the DC link current which arises is minimized. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140312811 | POSITION SENSORLESS OPEN LOOP CONTROL FOR MOTOR DRIVES WITH OUTPUT FILTER AND TRANSFORMER - A power converter, control apparatus and methods are presented for driving a permanent magnet motor or other load through a sine wave filter and a transformer, in which inverter output current is controlled using a current-frequency relationship to convert a desired frequency or speed value to a current setpoint, and the inverter output current is regulated to the current setpoint using a control algorithm with a bandwidth below the resonant frequency of the sine wave filter. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140333242 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE MOTOR SPEED CONTROL - A system including memory to store a plurality of sets of values, where each set is used to control speed of a different type of motor. A pulse width modulation (PWM) module receives an input indicating a type of motor sensed in the system, selects a set corresponding to the type of the sensed motor, and generates, based on the selected set, a pulse width modulation signal to control speed of the sensed motor. A speed module receives a requested speed for the sensed motor and generates an output indicating a range of speed corresponding to the requested speed. The PWM module selects, based on the range of speed, a value from the selected set; shifts, based on the selected value, the pulse width modulation signal; and adjusts, based on the shifted pulse width modulation signal, the speed of the sensed motor by adjusting torque applied to the sensed motor. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140333243 | MOTOR DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Motor Drive Control Device configured to properly start up various types of motors under operating conditions where motor operations are performed in a wide range of temperature and power supply voltage, includes output drive controllers that supply PWM drive output signals to an output pre-driver in such a manner as to minimize the error between a current instruction signal and a current detection digital signal. In response to a detected induced voltage generated from a voltage detector upon startup of a motor, an initial acceleration controller supplies initial acceleration output signals specifying a conducting phase for initial acceleration of the motor to the output drive controllers. The initial acceleration controller, the output drive controllers, and an output driver make a conducting phase change and perform a PWM drive to provide the initial acceleration of the motor. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20150008851 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PERMANENTLY EXCITED SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR - A method for controlling a permanently excited synchronous motor, in particular a brushless direct-current motor, having a permanently magnetized rotor and a number of stationary Stator windings to which an alternating voltage of predetermined amplitude and frequency is applied, wherein the frequency of the alternating voltage is determined by the speed of the motor and a phase difference results between the alternating voltage and the alternating current for each Stator winding. Accordingly, current is applied to the Stator windings in such a way that between alternating voltage (U | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150028781 | METHOD FOR ACTUATING A BLDC MOTOR - A method for actuating a BLDC motor for reducing the current ripple in an intermediate circuit capacitor includes means for monitoring pulse width modulated signals (PWM | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150061551 | FAN SYSTEM - SINGLE-PHASE DC MOTOR CONTROL CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A signal-phase DC motor control circuit is disclosed. The signal-phase DC motor control circuit includes a logic circuit, a switching circuit and a driving circuit. The logic circuit transmits a first logic signal, a second logic signal, a third logic signal and a forth logic signal. The switching circuit transmits a first direction driving signal according to a PWM signal and the first logic signal, and transmits a second direction driving signal according to the PWM signal and the second logic signal. The driving circuit transmits a first output signal according to the first direction driving signal and the fourth logic signal, and transmits a second output signal according to the second direction driving signal and the third logic signal. The first output signal and the second output signal are positive half-wave sinusoidal wave, and the phase difference between the first output signal and the second output signal is 180 degrees. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150069939 | CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR DRIVING RESONANT ACTUATORS - The present disclosure includes circuits and methods for driving resonant actuators. In one embodiment, a drive signal is applied to an actuator during a portion of a plurality of half cycles of a period of the drive signal. The actuator has a resonant frequency and may vibrate in response to the drive signal. An induced voltage is generated on terminals of the actuator in response to the vibration. A detection circuit may detect when the induced voltage on the actuator crosses a threshold after the drive signal is turned off. The drive signal may be triggered based on when the induced voltage crosses the threshold to align a frequency and phase of the drive signal with the resonant frequency and a phase of the actuator. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150091481 | POWER CONVERTING DEVICE AND POWER CONVERTING SYSTEM - In a power converting device, a controller determines a combination pattern of a first energization pattern for the first set of the at least one-phase winding and a second energization pattern for the second set of the at least one-phase winding. The first and second energization patterns respectively include at least a first energization duration for the first set of the at least one-phase winding and a second energization duration for the second set of the at least one-phase winding. The controller supplies a drive pulse signal, whose on duration is based on the determined combination pattern, to the switch to thereby control on-off operations of the switch. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150303840 | POSITION CORRECTED PULSE WIDTH MODULATION FOR BRUSHLESS DIRECT CURRENT MOTORS - A method of operating a brushless direct current motor is provided that generates a rotor position dependent pulse width modulation waveform. The waveform can improve motor efficiency and reduce torque variation. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150311852 | Motor Drive Voltage Control Device and Method for Controlling Motor Drive Voltage - To suppress a decline in the control accuracy of an applied voltage associated with an increase in quantum noise, and to increase the control accuracy of a motor speed. When generating a driving voltage signal supplied to a motor from a driving command signal, a motor-driving voltage control device reduces the gradation level and performs noise-shaping modulation before performing PWM modulation. Reducing the gradation level allows the degree of gradation of the driving voltage signal to be within the resolution range of the PWM modulation, and thus PWM modulation can be performed even when the driving voltage signal has a high frequency. Noise-shaping modulation reduces the level of quantum noise near the low frequency range by causing the quantum noise due to digitization, included in the driving voltage signal, to be biased toward the high frequency range side. Of modulation signals with the reduced-gradation level, the components near the high frequency band are cut, while the components near the low frequency range are used to suppress quantum noise and control the driving voltage applied to the motor with a high accuracy. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150326153 | Motor Driving Circuit, Cooling Apparatus and Electronic Device Using the Same - A driving circuit of an electric motor includes: a PWM input pin for externally receiving an input pulse modulation signal with an input duty cycle; a duty cycle to digital converter for receiving and converting the input pulse modulation signal into a first digital value; a slope setting pin for receiving information indicative of a slope of an output duty cycle corresponding to the input duty cycle; a slope acquisition unit for acquiring a second digital value corresponding to the information indicative of the slope; a duty cycle computation unit for generating a linearly increased duty cycle instruction value corresponding to the first digital value by referring to the slope; a digital pulse width modulator for generating a controlling pulse having the output duty cycle corresponding to the duty cycle instruction value; and an output circuit for driving the electric fan motor in accordance with the controlling pulse. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150333667 | ELECTRIC MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE - A decrease of inductance in a carrier frequency region being used is suppressed by connecting reactors capable of maintaining a fluctuation range of inductance within a predetermined range in the carrier frequency region in series to and between an inverter device converting electric power of an energy storage device and an electric motor. Consequently, the electric motor is controlled while an iron loss and an electromagnetic noise are reduced independently of characteristics of an iron material and a magnetic steel sheet material used as a core material of the electric motor. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150357945 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - The voltage amplification factor during rapid deceleration control of a motor is set to a value obtained by adding a first voltage amplification factor calculated with reference to the voltage of the DC circuit section of the inverter using a predetermined function and a low-pass filter and a second voltage amplification factor calculated with reference to the inverter current using a PI control. And both calculations are performed in parallel. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150365025 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR ROTATING MACHINE - A control apparatus, for a system including a rotating machine having a stator, around which a winding wire is wound, and a power conversion circuit, includes: a superimposition device that superimposes multiple harmonic currents, for converting a first electromagnetic force to a second electromagnetic force, on a fundamental wave current, the first electromagnetic force being a second or higher order electromagnetic force as a reduction object, the second electromagnetic force being a second or higher order electromagnetic force and different from the first electromagnetic force, an order of each harmonic current being between the first electromagnetic force and the second electromagnetic force; and a manipulation device that operates the power conversion circuit to flow the fundamental wave current, on which the harmonic currents are superimposed, in the winding wire. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20160094177 | POWER CONVERSION DEVICE AND MOTOR DRIVE DEVICE INCLUDING POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - A power conversion device includes a power-supply shunt resistance that is provided between an inverter and the negative-voltage side of a DC power supply, and respective-phase lower-arm shunt resistances that are provided between the power-supply shunt resistance and respective-phase lower-arm switching elements. Respective-phase lower-arm voltages, that are respective voltages between the negative-voltage side of the DC power supply and connection points between the respective-phase lower-arm switching elements and the respective-phase lower-arm shunt resistances, are detected to calculate respective-phase currents that flow through a load device in accordance with detection values of the respective-phase lower-arm voltages, and to control a carrier frequency of a carrier signal, which serves as a reference frequency of each drive signal, according to a change in a specific control parameter A. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160380561 | AC AND DC BRUSHLESS MOTOR FOR FAN - AC and DC brushless motor for the fan, comprising a brushless motor; and an active power adjustment mechanism, disposed within the brushless motor and comprising an EMI filtering and rectifying unit, a prior driving unit connected to the EMI filtering and rectifying unit, a motor driving unit connected to the brushless motor, a constant current unit connected to the EMI filtering and rectifying unit and the prior driving unit, a protective compensation unit connected to the prior driving unit and the constant current unit, a motor controlling unit connected to the motor driving unit, and a sensing unit connected to the motor controlling unit. | 12-29-2016 |
