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Document | Title | Date |
20080224641 | Driver for a Brushless Motor and Data Reading/Writing Device Comprising a Brushless Motor Controlled by Such a Driver - A driver for a brushless motor ( | 09-18-2008 |
20080315811 | System and Method for Collecting Characteristic Information of a Motor, Neural Network and Method for Estimating Regions of Motor Operation from Information Characterizing the Motor, and System and Method for Controlling Motor - A method for collecting operational parameters of a motor may include controlling the energization of a phase winding of the motor to establish an operating point, monitoring operational parameters of the motor that characterize a relationship between the energization control applied to the motor's phase winding and the motor's response to this control, and collecting information of the operational parameters for the operating point that characterizes the relationship between the applied energization control and the motor's response. The collected information characterizing the relationship between the applied energization control and the motor's response may be employed by a neural network to estimate the regions of operation of the motor. And a system for controlling the operation of motor may employ this information, the neural network, or both to regulate the energization of a motor's phase winding di-ring a phase cycle. | 12-25-2008 |
20090009115 | Brushless Dc-Motor - According to the invention, a DC-motor ( | 01-08-2009 |
20090009116 | Energization timing determination circuit and determination method for energization timing of motor - An energization timing determination circuit corrects a shift contained in a position signal outputted from a position detecting means and supplies energization timing appropriate to drive a motor. A correction amount computation unit computes detection intervals obtained based on position signals outputted from filters, comparators, and a position detection unit during one cycle of electrical angle. The correction amount computation unit thereby determines the duty shift length α and phase shift length β of the position signals. A control circuit corrects energization timing based on the position signals according to the detected shift lengths. | 01-08-2009 |
20090079374 | Self Starting Method and an Apparatus for Sensorless Commutation of Brushless Dc Motors - A method and an apparatus for determining rotor position information of a Brushless DC motor using the resultant voltage vector produced by addition of phase voltage vectors of the energised windings and the BEMF vector of the unenergised winding. This resultant voltage vector called the BEMF Space Vector rotates at same speed as the rotor and possesses rotor position information used to commutate phase windings. Phase voltage vectors for the computation of the BEMF Space Vector are obtained by referring scalar phase voltages in the electrical circuits to the magnetic axes of the magnetic circuits, since scalar and vector current magnitudes are equal. Angles that the BEMF Space Vector makes with the real axis are measured to commutate the phase windings. This technique is referred to as the De Four BEMF Space Vector Resolver, used to efficiently start the motor from rest and commutate phase windings during normal operation. | 03-26-2009 |
20090108784 | Motor Control Apparatus and Motor System - In a motor control apparatus, apparatus all switching devices of all phases of an inverter are kept fixed at OFF in accordance with a value of an all-OFF control pulse signal Poff outputted by a pulse generator. The pulse generator generates at least twice a pulse causing an induced voltage detection signal Pdet to change to an H level. A terminal voltage of a motor is inputted in accordance with the value of the induced voltage detection signal Pdet. Data of the sampling round in which amplitude of the induced voltage signal is great and the signal is not in saturation is selected from the data so inputted and a rotor position is estimated. | 04-30-2009 |
20090146598 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR - A brushless motor driven by a sensorless driving circuit includes a rotating body capable of being rotated about a center axis; a rotor magnet arranged coaxially with the rotating body; a stator disposed opposite the rotor magnet; and at least one coil wound around the stator. The brushless motor is driven according to a signal containing a third harmonic component relative to a fundamental wave component in an induced electromotive force. Further, an amplitude ratio of the third harmonic component to the fundamental wave component in the induced electromotive force generated in the coil preferably is about 1% or higher. | 06-11-2009 |
20090160383 | ELECTRIC MACHINE - A two-phase electric motor includes first and second coil groups and a magnet group. In the magnet group, N poles and S poles are disposed alternatively opposite the first and second coil groups. The first and second coil groups are disposed at positions that are out of phase with each other by an odd multiple of π/2 in electrical angles. The coils of the first and second coil groups have substantially no magnetic material cores, and the electric motor has substantially no magnetic material yoke for forming a magnetic circuit. | 06-25-2009 |
20090160384 | ELECTRICAL MACHINE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - An electrical machine having a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a core and a plurality of windings disposed on the core in a multiple-phase arrangement. The rotor is disposed adjacent to the stator to interact with the stator. A method of operating the motor includes applying a pulsed voltage differential to first and second terminals of the windings resulting in movement of the rotor; monitoring the back electromotive force (BEMF) of the windings to sense rotor movement; after the applying and monitoring steps, monitoring the BEMF of the windings to determine whether the rotor is rotating in a desired direction, and electrically commutating the motor when the rotor is rotating in the desired direction and zero or more other conditions exist. | 06-25-2009 |
20090167226 | Method for Controlling a Direct Current Brushless Motor, and Control Circuit - A method for controlling a direct current (DC) brushless motor, and a control circuit thereof are provided. The DC brushless motor is sensorless. In response to a digital output signal that is applied to drive the direct current brushless motor, detection of a back electromotive force (BEMF) is ceased in a predetermined time interval, so as to avoid detecting erroneous BEMF and keep normal operation of the direct current brushless motor. | 07-02-2009 |
20090179604 | Electric Motor - An electric motor ( | 07-16-2009 |
20090195201 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AC ELECTRONIC MOTOR AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD - The invention relates to electric engineering, in particular to methods for controlling an ac electronic motor. The inventive control method consists in starting and rotating a rotor upon EMF signals in current-free sections of an armature winding, in converting the EMF signals into discrete logical level signals by a normaliser, in detecting switching points by means of a microcontroller and in displacing said points according to a load current quantity, the rotor speed of rotation and the inductance of the armature winding sections, wherein the switching points are calculated and displaced with respect to bridging times of the free sections EMF whose voltage levels are different from zero. The inventive device is characterised in that it comprises a reference level displacing unit ( | 08-06-2009 |
20090243526 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING BACK ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE PHASE AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING EXCITATION - In a back electromotive force phase detecting device, a timing generating unit generates a timing signal indicating a start timing, an intermediate timing and an end timing of a 180-degree electrical angle period in a detection target phase, from an excitation pulse signal. A difference calculating unit receives the timing signal, and calculates a difference between a total PWM control period of the detection target phase during a first-half 90-degree period, and a total PWM control period of the detection target phase during a second-half 90-degree period. In an excitation control device, a control unit changes the capability of driving a motor based on an output of the back electromotive force phase detecting device. | 10-01-2009 |
20090315495 | SENSORLESS CONTROL APPARATUS OF SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR - A PWM modulation unit modulates a three-phase voltage instruction, which is input, on the basis of a PWM method, and outputs a gate signal to each phase switching element of an inverter. A high-frequency component arithmetic unit calculates, at each time of switching of the inverter, a high-frequency component of a current occurring due to a voltage which is determined by the PWM modulation unit and is output from the inverter. An index arithmetic unit calculates, as an index R proportional to a rotational phase angle estimation error, from the high-frequency component of the current. A rotational phase angle estimation unit executes an estimation arithmetic operation of the rotational phase angle by using the index R. The invention provides a synchronous motor sensorless control apparatus which enables stable driving with simple adjustment, and does not cause an extreme increase in amount of arithmetic calculations. | 12-24-2009 |
20090322269 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MOTOR IN ACCORDANCE WITH ROTATIONAL POSITION OF ROTOR THEREOF - The motor control apparatus includes a power supply function of supplying electric power from a power supply to a motor, a rotational position detecting function of performing detection of a rotational position of a rotor of the motor for respective phases of the motor, and outputting first rotational position data indicative of result of the detection, a control function of controlling a power supply operation of the power supply function in accordance with the first rotational position data, and an induced voltage detecting function of performing detection of induced voltages of the respective phases of the motor. The control function controls the power supply operation of the power supply function in accordance with result of the detection performed by the induced voltage detecting function when the first rotational position data are abnormal. | 12-31-2009 |
20100001673 | SENSORLESS TECHNOLOGY, ESTIMATION OF SAMPLED BACK EMF VOLTAGE VALUES AND/OR THE SAMPLED INDUCTANCE VALUES BASED ON THE PULSE WIDTH MODULATION PERIODS - The methods and devices provided herein include methods and devices for controlling a permanent magnet motor. In one implementation, a method is provided that allows for the determination of the values of the phase back EMF voltage and of the phase inductances while the phases are powered with a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) controlled current and/or voltage. | 01-07-2010 |
20100066287 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING POSITION FOR A BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR - A system for determining a commutation state for a brushless DC motor includes a controller configured to control current that is applied to drive each of a plurality of phases of the motor. A time delay system is configured to measure, for a given commutation state, a time delay from when a voltage associated with a driven phase of the plurality of phases crosses a predetermined threshold and a voltage associated with a floating phase of the plurality of motor phases crosses the predetermined threshold. Logic is configured to determine the commutation state for the motor based on the measured time delay. | 03-18-2010 |
20100072930 | NEGATIVE SEQUENCE CARRIER SIGNAL CONTROLLER - A negative sequence feedback circuit is connected to monitor and minimize unbalances in a high-frequency ac carrier signal provided to a motor/load for the purpose of detecting rotor position. The negative sequence feedback circuit detects unbalances in the high-frequency ac carrier signal and generates negative sequence feedback. The feedback is combined with command signals used to generate the high-frequency ac carrier signal, and the combination of the command signals with the negative sequence feedback is provided to an inverter for generation of the high-frequency ac carrier signal, wherein the negative sequence feedback reduces unbalances in the resulting high-frequency ac carrier signal such that a balanced high-frequency carrier signal is provided to the motor/load. | 03-25-2010 |
20100188033 | SENSORLESS OPTIMUM TORQUE CONTROL FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY IRONLESS PERMANENT MAGNET MACHINE - Embodiments of the present invention permit the optimization of torque control of a permanent magnet machine including obtaining instantaneous terminal voltages of the machine, transforming the instantaneous terminal voltages to a zero direct axis voltage and a non-zero quadrature axis voltage, using a mathematical transformation, regulating the electrical frequency of the permanent-magnet machine such that the zero direct-axis voltage is adjusted to have a value of zero, determining a non-final electrical angle of the permanent-magnet machine by applying an integrator to the regulated electrical frequency of the machine, determining a final electrical angle of the of the machine by integrating the non-final electrical angle and an electrical angle from a previous calculation cycle, and regulating the current vector of the machine such that the current vector is perpendicular to the final electrical angle of the machine, thereby optimizing the torque of the machine. | 07-29-2010 |
20100201297 | METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SYNCHRONOUS ELECTRICAL MOTORS - Method for control of synchronous electrical motors that enables determining continuously in time the motor load angle and speed of rotation without using additional rotor position sensors. The method is realized with solving the set of differential equations that govern the currents and the voltages in the stator windings of the motor for the time intervals between each two consecutive reachings of the currents in the windings to their set values and deriving relationships between the induced in the windings back-electromotive force voltages and the parameters of the Pulse Width Modulation. The parameters of the Pulse Width Modulation are measured and stored in memory and based on the derived relationships the values of the back-electromotive force voltages are calculated at every moment in time and from these values subsequently the values of the load angle and the angular rotor speed of the motor are calculated. | 08-12-2010 |
20100237817 | Method and Apparatus for Estimating Rotor Position in a Sensorless Synchronous Motor - The present invention provides a simple, robust, and universal position observer for use with sensorless synchronous machines. The observer may be implemented using an equivalent EMF model of a synchronous machine or, alternately, using a sliding mode controller based on the equivalent EMF model of the synchronous machine. The observer may be used on any type of synchronous machine, including salient or non-salient pole machines such as a permanent magnet, interior permanent magnet, wound rotor, or reluctance synchronous machine. The observer provides low sensitivity to parameter variations and disturbances or transient conditions in the machine. In addition, no knowledge of speed is required as an input to the observer and an estimated position may be calculated using a subset of the machine parameters. | 09-23-2010 |
20100270960 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR PRODUCING ROTOR POSITION SIGNALS AND FOR THE COMMUTATION OF BRUSHLESS DIRECT-CURRENT MOTORS, WITHOUT USING SENSORS - A method and a circuit are provided for the commutation of brushless direct-current motors (BLDC motors), without using sensors, and especially to a method and a circuit for producing rotor position signals, without using sensors, for the commutation of brushless direct-current motors. In the method and the circuit Hall sensor signals are emulated without sensors and rotor position signals free of disturbing pulses and with a correct phase position are generated from said signals. The rotor position signals can be used to carry out a reliable, sensor-free commutation. | 10-28-2010 |
20110012547 | System and Method for a High Efficiency Remote Three Phase Fan Commutation Integration Control in an Information Handling System - An information handling system includes a three phase brushless direct current motor and a motherboard which in turn includes a drive circuit. The three phase brushless direct current motor is configured to rotate a cooling fan in the information handling system based on a control signal. The drive circuit is connected to the three phase brushless direct current motor, and the drive circuit is configured to adjust the control signal sent to the three phase brushless direct current motor based on a back electromagnetic flux signal. | 01-20-2011 |
20110037422 | CONTROL OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES - This invention relates to the control of electrical machines and is concerned more particularly, though not exclusively, with the control of flux switching electrical machines without a mechanical shaft position sensor. An electrical machine for converting electrical energy into mechanical energy and/or mechanical energy into electrical energy, comprises a rotor having a plurality of rotor teeth; a stator having a plurality of stator teeth for rotatably receiving said rotor and having (i) at least one field magnet device for generating a first magnetomotive force between said rotor and said stator and including at least one first electrical winding, and (ii) at least one armature magnet device including at least one second electrical winding adapted to carry electrical current varying in synchronism with rotation of said rotor relative to said stator to generate a second magnetomotive force having a component transverse to said first magnetomotive force; at least one control device for controlling supply of electrical current to or from the or each said second electrical winding by applying a sequence of switching cycles wherein the electrical current in the br each said electrical winding has positive and negative conduction blocks, each of the said conduction blocks has at least two regions, including a first region and an end region; and at least one rotor position sensor device for detecting at least one electrical signal related to the rotational position of the rotor relative to the stator and induced in a respective said first or second electrical winding as a result of a current passing through a respective second or first electrical winding, wherein at least one said rotor position sensor device comprises the steps of measuring the said electrical signal during a switching cycle in the end region, and comparing the said measurement with at least one similar measurement in at least one previous switching cycle to determine if a known rotor position has been reached. | 02-17-2011 |
20110050139 | PHASE DETECTION METHOD, PHASE DETECTING APPARATUS, SYNCHRONOUS-MOTOR CONTROL METHOD, AND SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR CONTROLLER - It is determined which of six continuous sections having different magnitude correlation of signal amplitude of each phase of an input three-phase signal a section is. Predetermined subtraction is performed between respective phases in the section, to obtain a normalized amplitude value normalized in the section, using the subtraction result. The normalized amplitude value is converted to a vector phase for one cycle based on a predetermined phase and output corresponding to the determined section. | 03-03-2011 |
20110121770 | Method and Device for Driving a Two-Phase Brushless Motor - A method for driving a two-phase brushless motor is disclosed. The motor includes a rotator with permanent magnetism and a stator including a first coil and a second coil. The method includes activating the two-phase brushless motor, detecting an output voltage of a disabled coil of the first coil and the second coil to generate a detection result, comparing the detection result and a reference voltage to determine a commutation time point between the first coil and the second coil, generating a commutation signal according to the commutation time point, and driving the two-phase brushless motor according to the commutation time point. | 05-26-2011 |
20110187303 | SENSOR-TYPE BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR - Disclosed herein is a sensorless-type brushless DC motor, including: a magnet provided in a rotor; and a stator formed by winding a coil on a core stacked with sheets while facing the magnet, wherein the position of the rotor is detected by detecting back electromotive force induced to the coil, the back electromotive force includes a harmonic component 5 times higher than a fundamental wave, and an amplitude ratio of the 5-times harmonic wave to the fundamental wave is set to be 1% or more. Further, the sensorless-type brushless DC motor can prevent a failure in detecting an initial position of the rotor by controlling a waveform of the back electromotive force and minimize an increase of a starting time. | 08-04-2011 |
20110285337 | CONTROL DEVICE OF A SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR - A control device of a synchronous machine is disclosed. The control device includes an inverter configured to provide an output current to a synchronous machine. A controller configured to control the output current and to estimate a voltage command, at least in part, by using pulse width modulation to choose a non-zero vector at a time when the inverter is not driving the synchronous machine with the output current. The estimating the voltage command is performed without using a zero vector. A phase angle and angular velocity estimating section configured to estimate a phase angle and an angular velocity of a rotor of the synchronous machine based, at least in part, on an inductance value, an induction voltage value, the voltage command, and the output current. The controller is further configured to control the output current based, at least in part, on the phase angle and the angular velocity. | 11-24-2011 |
20110316463 | CURRENT SOURCE INVERTER DEVICE - Disclosed is a current source inverter device which controls the power factor in an arbitrarily configurable manner without a magnetic pole position detector. The device is provided with a current source inverter; a motor supplied with alternating current power from the current source inverter; and a control means which detects the terminal voltage of the motor, calculates the motor's internal induced voltage and the motor current that flows in the motor based on the detected terminal voltage, and controls the current source inverter. The control means calculates the phase difference (θc) between the terminal voltage and the motor current, the phase difference (θx) between the motor current and the internal induced voltage, and the phase difference (θv) between the terminal voltage and the internal induced voltage. An adjustment angle (θα), which is the error in the phase difference between the motor current and the internal induced voltage when the set value of the phase difference (θx) is θy, is obtained from the conditional equation θα=θv−θy−θc. | 12-29-2011 |
20120074887 | Back EMF Measuring Method for Multi-Phase BLDC Motor - A back EMF measuring method for multi-phase BLDC motor is proposed, which includes a driving process and a measuring process. The driving process energizes a plurality of phase windings of a detected motor by driving signals generated by a computing unit to rotate a rotor of the detected motor to a predetermined speed. The measuring process selects one of the phase windings as a target phase winding, continuously sends the driving signals to the phase windings other than the target phase winding but stops the driving signal sent to the target phase winding by the computing unit, and measures the back EMF of the target phase winding by a signal sensing unit. | 03-29-2012 |
20120086375 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - Problems to be Solved | 04-12-2012 |
20120139464 | Synchronous reluctance motor, operating machine comprising the motor and method for controlling the motor - A synchronous reluctance motor comprises a stator ( | 06-07-2012 |
20120200246 | MOTOR CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSOR THEREOF - A digital signal processor (DSP) is operable to receive a single-phase back electromotive force signal (back-EMF) fed back from a motor and control an inverter for driving the motor based on the single-phase back-EMF signal. The DSP includes an electrical angle building module, a rotation speed control module, and a pulse width modulation control module. | 08-09-2012 |
20120268050 | Method and Apparatus for Estimating Rotor Position in a Sensorless Synchronous Motor - The present invention provides a simple, robust, and universal position observer for use with sensorless synchronous machines. The observer may be implemented using an equivalent EMF model of a synchronous machine or, alternately, using a sliding mode controller based on the equivalent EMF model of the synchronous machine. The observer may be used on any type of synchronous machine, including salient or non-salient pole machines such as a permanent magnet, interior permanent magnet, wound rotor, or reluctance synchronous machine. The observer provides low sensitivity to parameter variations and disturbances or transient conditions in the machine. In addition, no knowledge of speed is required as an input to the observer and an estimated position may be calculated using a subset of the machine parameters. | 10-25-2012 |
20120286714 | ROTOR POSITION DETECTING APPARATUS - A rotor position detecting apparatus includes a PWM control portion controlling a switching element included in an inverter by a PWM signal having a predetermined frequency, a determination portion determining a magnitude correlation at least two times between a reference voltage specified beforehand and a terminal voltage of each terminal included in a three-phase motor in a state where the terminal voltage corresponds to one cycle of the PWM signal, and a detection portion detecting a position of a rotor of the three-phase motor based on a determination result of the determination portion. | 11-15-2012 |
20130026962 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING A MOTOR - A control system for a motor includes an inverter coupled to the motor. The control system further includes a microcontroller coupled to the inverter. The microcontroller includes a processor programmed to measure an input voltage and acquire a back EMF voltage of the motor. The processor is also programmed to control the inverter to regulate the motor voltage based on the input voltage and the back EMF voltage to facilitate controlling the motor. | 01-31-2013 |
20130043818 | SOFT-SWITCHING CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR DC MOTOR - A soft switching control circuit for a DC motor is provided. The soft switching control circuit has an absolute value generating circuit, a threshold voltage generating circuit, and a comparing circuit. The absolute value generating circuit outputs an absolute value signal according to a pair of Hall signals from the DC motor. The threshold voltage generating circuit receives a detected state signal and at least an end voltage of a coil of the DC motor for determining a current on the coil at an actual state change time defined by the detected state signal. According to the determination, the threshold voltage generating circuit outputs a threshold voltage with an adjusted voltage level. The comparing circuit compares the absolute value signal and the threshold voltage so as to generate a state change adjusting signal for modifying the actual state change time. | 02-21-2013 |
20130069575 | BRUSHLESS MOTOR DRIVING APPARATUS AND BRUSHLESS MOTOR DRIVING METHOD - A brushless motor driving apparatus that rotates and drives a brushless motor, which has a plurality of coils, by switching energization modes corresponding to phases of the brushless motor, sequentially switches the energization modes based on a non-energized phase voltage and a voltage threshold. Also, the brushless motor driving apparatus regulates an upper threshold for energization amount based on the voltage threshold and a change in the non-energized phase voltage at timing of switching the energization mode. | 03-21-2013 |
20130113403 | METHOD FOR CONTROL OF SYNCHRONOUS ELECTRICAL MOTORS - Method for control of synchronous electrical motors that enables determining the instantaneous motor load angle and rotor speed without using rotor position sensors. The method is realized with solving the set of differential equations that govern the currents in the stator windings of the motor for the time intervals between each two consecutive crossings of the currents in the windings of their set values and deriving relationships between the induced in the windings back-electromotive force voltages and the parameters of the Pulse Width Modulation. The parameters of the Pulse Width Modulation are measured and stored in a memory and based on the derived relationships the values of the back-electromotive force voltages are calculated continuously in time. From the values of the back-electromotive force voltages the motor load angle and rotor speed are calculated and used as feedback signals for the closed-loop control of the motor. | 05-09-2013 |
20130229135 | DRIVE SYSTEMS INCLUDING SLIDING MODE OBSERVERS AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - At least one example embodiment discloses a drive system including a motor including a rotor, the motor configured to receive a measured current, a controller configured to generate a voltage command for the motor, a sliding mode observer configured to determine an estimated current for the motor based on the voltage command, determine a difference between the measured current and the estimated current, and determine a switching control vector and an estimator configured to estimate a rotor position based on the switching control vector, the switching control vector being determined based on the difference and adaptive parameters of the sliding mode observer, the controller being further configured to control the motor based at least in part on the estimated rotor position. | 09-05-2013 |
20130300329 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING A BRUSHLESS ELECTRIC MOTOR - A system for monitoring and controlling a brushless motor associable to an electric power source by means of a rectifier. An actuator assembly is operatively associated to the motor and rectifier. The rectifier is arranged to provide a continuous busbar voltage (Vbar) and a continuous reference voltage (Vref) to the actuator assembly. The actuator assembly includes switches (SW | 11-14-2013 |
20130300330 | PUMP UNIT - A pumping set includes an electric motor, which exhibits a stator, a rotor and a can arranged between the stator and rotor, and at least one impeller linked with the rotor, wherein the electric motor has engine electronics designed for electronically commutating the electric motor, and the electric motor and commutation are configured in such a way that, in a state where the rotor chamber inside the can and/or the impeller is not filled with liquid, the rotor is shut down. | 11-14-2013 |
20130307454 | DRIVER CIRCUIT AND METHOD - An amount of a motor drive current is controlled to an appropriate value. Two coils are provided, and a rotor is rotated by the coils by setting different phases for the supplied currents to the two coils. During a phase where one of the coils is in a high-impedance state, an induced voltage generated in the coil is detected. According to the state of the induced voltage, an output control circuit controls the amounts of the motor drive currents supplied to the two coils. | 11-21-2013 |
20130320897 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a motor control device that can improve stability of sensorless control of a permanent magnetic synchronous motor. Rotor position detecting means ( | 12-05-2013 |
20140021897 | ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL APPARATUS AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An inverter circuit converts electric power supplied to a motor by on/off operations of FETs. A microcomputer controls driving of the motor by controlling the on/off operations of the FETs. The microcomputer operates as a current direction determination part. The microcomputer detects a first potential difference, which is a potential difference between both ends of each diode, and a second potential difference, which is a potential difference between both ends of each diode, when both FETs of each phase are in an off-state. The microcomputer can further determine a direction of current flowing in the motor based on the detected first potential difference and the detected second potential difference. | 01-23-2014 |
20140035500 | SENSORLESS MOTOR APPARATUS, BACK EMF DETECTOR AND DETECTION METHOD THEREOF - A back electromotive force (EMF) detector for a motor is disclosed. The back EMF detector includes an upper switch, a lower switch, a current sensing resistor and a first to third resistance providers. The upper and lower switches are controlled by a first and a second control signal respectively. The current sensing resistor coupled between the lower switch and a reference ground voltage. A first terminal of the first resistance provider coupled to the upper switch, and a back EMF detection result is generated at a second terminal of the first resistance provider. The second resistance provider coupled between the reference ground voltage and the first resistance provider. The third resistance provider is coupled between the coupled terminal of the first and second resistance provider and the lower switch. Wherein, the first to the third resistance providers are determined by at least one characteristic parameter of the motor. | 02-06-2014 |
20140042943 | SENSORLESS FIELD-ORIENTED CONTROL (FOC) WITHOUT CURRENT SAMPLING FOR MOTORS - An apparatus includes a sensorless field-oriented control (FOC) motor controller. The motor controller includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller configured to generate PWM signals and to provide the PWM signals to an inverter. The motor controller also includes an angle sampler configured to receive a commanded voltage angle signal and to provide the commanded voltage angle signal as an output signal in response to a triggering event. The triggering event is based on a voltage or a current associated with an input or an output of the inverter. The motor controller further includes a first combiner configured to combine (i) a feed-forward voltage angle signal and (ii) a second signal based on the output signal. The first combiner is configured to generate the commanded voltage angle signal. In addition, the motor controller includes a second combiner configured to combine a feed-forward voltage amplitude signal and the second signal. | 02-13-2014 |
20140042944 | METHOD OR SYSTEM FOR MINIMIZING THE IMPACT OF BACK EMF SAMPLING FOR MOTOR RESISTANCE PROFILING - A method of determining when to utilise a back EMF sampling method for motor resistance profiling in at least one DC motor, the method including the steps of analysing a parameter prior to initialising the back EMF sampling method, and upon a determination that the analysed parameter is within a defined range, initialising the back EMF sampling method. | 02-13-2014 |
20140055068 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING AN OFFSET ANGLE IN AN ELECTRIC MACHINE - The invention relates to a method and device for determining or checking the plausibility of an offset angle between an assumed orientation and an actual orientation of a rotor ( | 02-27-2014 |
20140062364 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING A SENSORLESS BLDC/PMSM MOTOR - A method for driving a BLDC motor comprising at least three stator windings, comprising: a) determining a time period, and energizing during the time period two of the windings and leaving a third winding un-energized, based on a first motor state; b) measuring a first voltage representative for the back-EMF generated in the un-energized winding shortly before expiry of the time period; c) applying a commutation at expiry of the current time period; d) measuring a second voltage shortly after the commutation, and calculating a subsequent time period; e) repeating steps b) and c). An electrical circuit and a controller are provided for performing these methods. | 03-06-2014 |
20140077737 | VEHICLE ELECTRIC MACHINE CONTROL STRATEGY - A vehicle having a traction battery and at least one electric machine for propelling the vehicle is provided. A high voltage DC bus electrically connects the traction battery to the electric machine. A controller monitors and commands power flow through the DC bus, the electric machine, and the battery. In response to a key-off event, the controller immediately discharges the DC bus by providing a current to the electric machines. This discharge continues until the voltage on the DC bus reaches a threshold. As the speed of the electric machine decreases towards a speed threshold, the voltage in the DC bus is maintained. Once the electric machine speed reduces past the threshold, the DC bus discharges the remaining voltage in the DC bus at a rate slower than the first immediate discharge. | 03-20-2014 |
20140117902 | Unknown - Sensorless brushless motor control device, comprising:
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20140117903 | BACK EMF MONITOR FOR MOTOR CONTROL - An integrated circuit includes a motor current input voltage-to-current (VI) converter that receives a motor current sensor voltage from a motor and a reference voltage to generate an output current related to a motor's current. A motor current calibration VI converter compensates for errors in the motor current input VI converter and generates a calibration output current based on the reference voltage, wherein the output current and the calibration output current are combined to form an estimate of the motor's current. | 05-01-2014 |
20140145661 | BACK EMF DETECTION IN A BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR USING A VIRTUAL CENTER TAP CIRCUIT - A first input of a differential circuit is coupled to a coil tap for a first phase of a multi-phase brushless DC motor. The first phase is associated with an electrically floating coil. A second input of the differential circuit is coupled to a virtual center tap. A divider circuit is coupled between coil taps for other phases of the multi-phase brushless DC motor to define a virtual center tap. The other phases are phases actuated for motor operation when the first phase is electrically floating. The coil tap for the first phase is electrically isolated from the virtual center tap. The differential circuit performs a comparison of the voltage at the coil tap for the first phase to the voltage at the virtual center tap to generate a back EMF signal. | 05-29-2014 |
20140152218 | CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ROTOR ANGLE OF A SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE - A method for determining the rotor angle of a synchronous machine. In one implementation, the method includes generating a multiplicity of pulse-width-modulated drive signals for the phases of an inverter feeding the synchronous machine depending on a voltage to be fed into the synchronous machine, changing the pulse width modulation frequency of at least one drive signal of the multiplicity of pulse-width-modulated drive signals, with the result that the duration of the switching states of the inverter in which an active voltage phasor is output is extended in order to generate a switching pattern for the phases of the inverter, driving the inverter with the generated switching pattern, determining one or more of neutral point potentials at the neutral point of the synchronous machine during driving of the inverter with the switching pattern, and calculating the rotor angle of the synchronous machine depending on the determined neutral point potentials. | 06-05-2014 |
20140152219 | CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE ROTOR ANGLE OF A SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE - Determining the rotor angle of a synchronous machine. In one aspect, the invention provides a method that includes generating a multiplicity of pulse-width-modulated drive signals for the phases of an inverter feeding the synchronous machine depending on a voltage to be fed into the synchronous machine, and applying a first phase shift to one or more of the multiplicity of pulse-width-modulated drive signals, so that the duration of the switching states of the inverter is extended in order to generate a first switching pattern for the phases of the inverter. The method also includes applying a second phase shift to one or more of the multiplicity of pulse-width-modulated drive signals for generating a second switching pattern, selecting one or more of the first and second switching patterns, determining one or more of neutral point potentials at the neutral point of the synchronous machine, and calculating the rotor angle of the synchronous machine. | 06-05-2014 |
20140159631 | MOTOR POSITION DETECTING UNIT AND BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR SYSTEM - Provided is a motor position detecting unit that includes a first computing element configured to output three-phase back-electromotive foreces (back-EMFs) based on a linear computation; a second computing element configured to output three-phase back-EMF based on a non-linear computation; and a computing controller configured to receive a control signal, three-phase voltage and current, and selecting any one of the first and second computing elements based on the received control signal, the received three-phase voltages and currents, wherein the control signal includes information on operation modes of an external motor. | 06-12-2014 |
20140159632 | MOTOR DRIVING MODULE AND BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR SYSTEM - A motor driving module is provided which includes a motor driving unit configured to control a PWM inverter on the basis of positional information and a control signal; a PWM inverter configured to output three-phase voltages on the basis of DC power according to control of the motor driving unit; a phase voltage estimating unit configured to output three-phase estimated voltages on the basis of the positional information, the DC power, and a voltage modulation index; and a position detecting unit configured to output the positional information on the basis of the three-phase estimated voltages, wherein the positional information is on an external motor that operates on the basis of the three-phase voltages. | 06-12-2014 |
20140217944 | PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR WITH SINUSOIDAL BACK-EMF WAVEFORM AND RELATED MOTOR CONTROLLER FOR POSITION SENSORLESS DRIVES - A system includes a permanent magnet motor having a rotor and a stator. The rotor and the stator have a configuration that causes the motor to generate a back-electromagnetic force (EMF) waveform that is substantially sinusoidal. The system also includes a motor controller having a sliding-mode observer configured to identify the back-EMF waveform and a position observer configured to estimate at least one characteristic of the motor using the identified back-EMF waveform. The stator may include multiple teeth projecting towards the rotor and multiple conductive windings, where each conductive winding is wound around a single tooth. The rotor may include multiple magnetic poles, where each magnetic pole has a span of about 60° or less. The sliding-mode observer may be configured to receive current measurements associated with three-phase signals and voltage commands generated by the motor controller. The position observer may include a proportional-integral (PI) regulator. | 08-07-2014 |
20140239863 | Position Estimation System and Method for an Electric Motor - Systems and methods of estimating a motor position of a motor are disclosed. One exemplary system and method involve observing motor currents of the motor at two different times. Average motor voltages of the motor are determined between the two different times. Average back electro motive force (BEMF) values of the motor are calculated between the two different times. The BEMF values are in conformity with the observed motor currents and the average motor voltages. Another exemplary system and method for estimating a rotor position of a motor involve a motor position estimator that receives information from the motor and estimates a rotor position for a future time. The future time corresponds approximately to a desired target current, | 08-28-2014 |
20140265969 | Detection of Back EMF in Two Terminal Actuator - Back-emf for a motor is measured by measuring a voltage across the input terminals for a two terminal input actuator or motor when a high frequency driver having a recirculation phase for the motor applies an instantaneous high frequency zero voltage during normal operation of the driver. By a further approach, current across the two terminal input is measured such that the measurement can be taken when the current crosses a given threshold near zero. | 09-18-2014 |
20140306632 | MOTOR DRIVING APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a motor driving apparatus including: an actuator for converting electric energy into rotary motion; a monitoring unit for monitoring a state of the actuator; a control unit for generating a control signal based on an output voltage of the monitoring unit; and a driving signal generation unit for generating a driving signal for the actuator based on the control signal. The control unit may determine whether the monitoring unit normally operates, based on an output voltage of the monitoring unit. | 10-16-2014 |
20140361719 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRIC MACHINE - The invention relates to a method for controlling an electrical machine ( | 12-11-2014 |
20150054442 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING A MOTOR - A control system for a motor includes an inverter coupled to the motor. The control system further includes a microcontroller coupled to the inverter. The microcontroller includes a processor programmed to measure an input voltage and acquire a back EMF voltage of the motor. The processor is also programmed to control the inverter to regulate the motor voltage based on the input voltage and the back EMF voltage to facilitate controlling the motor. | 02-26-2015 |
20150365029 | SENSORLESS CONTROL METHOD FOR MOTOR AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A sensorless control method for a motor performed by a sensorless controller including a back electromotive force (EMF) observer and a phase locked loop (PLL) controller, includes: estimating a back EMF of the motor using the back EMF observer; calculating an electrical angle error in accordance with iron loss of the motor based on the estimated back EMF; and compensating for the calculated electrical angle error, inputting the compensated electrical angle error into the PLL controller to estimate an actual angle, and controlling the motor based on the estimated actual angle. | 12-17-2015 |
20160087563 | ANGULAR POSITION ESTIMATION FOR PM MOTORS - A method of determining the angular position (θ) of a rotor of an N-phase permanent magnet motor (PMM) includes providing a processor having an associated memory, wherein the memory stores an angular position determination (APD) equation or hardware is included implementing the APD equation. The APD equation determines the angular position from N-phase measurements obtained from the stator windings associated with each of the N-phases. A voltage or a current is forced upon the stator terminals of the stator windings for each of the N-phases, a resulting stator current or stator voltage is sensed to provide the N-phase measurements responsive to the forcing of the voltage or current, and the APD equation is used to determine the angular position from the N-phase measurements. | 03-24-2016 |
20160087564 | CONTROL DEVICE OF MOTOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, ROBOT, AND CONTROL METHOD OF MOTOR - A control device of a motor includes detection section that detect counter-electromotive voltages induced in coils by rotation of a rotor, a counter-electromotive voltage normalizing section that normalizes a value of the counter-electromotive voltage using a normalization coefficient according to a speed of the rotation of the rotor, and a rotor position specifying section that specifies the position of the rotor based on values of the counter-electromotive voltage normalized by the counter-electromotive voltage normalizing section. | 03-24-2016 |
20160099667 | SENSORLESS CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOTOR - A sensorless control method and system for a motor are provided. The includes a back EMF observer that is configured to estimate a back EMF of the motor and an angle error calculator that is configured to calculate an electrical angle error considering iron loss of the motor based on the back EMF estimated by the back EMF observer. An angle error compensator is configured to compensate the electrical angle error calculated by the angle error calculator. An electrical angle for compensating the calculated electrical angle error is obtained through simulation or experiment for the motor. In addition, a PLL controller is configured to receive the compensated electrical angle to estimate an actual angle by reducing the electrical angle error due to the iron loss, and to operate the motor based on the estimated actual angle. | 04-07-2016 |
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