Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080278102 | ROTARY ELECTRIC SYSTEM DESIGNED TO UTILIZE ZERO-PHASE CIRCUIT - In a rotary electric system, a rotary electric machine is provided with an armature core and star-connected multiphase windings with a neutral point wound in the armature core. Each of the star-connected multiphase windings has a predetermined winding configuration that prevents, when a zero-phase current is supplied from a direct current power source to the star-connected multiphase windings via the neutral point, a zero-phase magnetic flux created in the armature core based on the zero-phase current flowing in each phase winding of the star-connected multiphase windings from being cancelled out by a zero-phase magnetic flux created in the armature core based on the zero-phase current flowing in another one phase winding of the star-connected multiphase windings. | 11-13-2008 |
20090096394 | ROTARY ELECTRIC SYSTEM WITH STAR-CONNECTED MULTIPHASE STATOR WINDINGS - In a rotary electric system, a switch member includes at least one of a first switch and a second switch. The first switch is connected between a neutral point of multiphase stator windings and a high-side electrode of a direct current power source. The second switch is connected between the neutral point and a low-side electrode of the direct current power source. A controller works to turn the switch member off and on thereby switching control of the multiphase inverter between full-wave driving mode and half-wave driving mode. The full-wave driving mode allows the controller to drive all of the high-side and low-side switching elements per phase of the multiphase stator windings. The half-wave driving mode allows the controller to drive any one of the high-side switching element and the low-side switching element per phase of the multiphase stator windings. | 04-16-2009 |
20090128076 | ROTARY ELECTRIC SYSTEM WITH NEUTRAL-POINT POWERING SYSTEM - In a rotary electric system, a controller works to turn high-side and low-side switching elements of first and second multiphase inverters on and off to thereby cause:
| 05-21-2009 |
20090134700 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM WITH MULTIPHASE MOTOR AND MULTIPHASE INVERTER - In a power supply system, a controller is electrically connected with a plurality of switching elements of a multiphase inverter. The controller switches the plurality of switching elements on and off during a multiphase motor being activated. This converts a voltage of a first power storage device into a multiphase AC voltage so as to supply the multiphase AC voltage to the multiphase motor. This also boosts a voltage of a second power storage device to charge the first power storage device by the boosted voltage via multiphase windings of the motor. The controller switches the plurality of switching elements on and off during the multiphase motor being inactivated to thereby boost the voltage of the second power storage device to charge the first power storage device by the boosted voltage. | 05-28-2009 |
20090160044 | SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE MOUNTING STRUCTURE - The semiconductor module mounting structure includes a semiconductor module including therein a semiconductor device and electrodes exposed to both surfaces thereof, a wiring substrate having a mounting surface on which the semiconductor module is mounted, and a heat radiating body for dissipating heat from the semiconductor module. The wiring substrate is formed with a ground wiring such that at least a part of the ground wiring is exposed to a back surface thereof opposite to the mounting surface. The exposed surface of the ground wiring exposed to the back surface is in thermal contact with the heat radiating body. At least one of the electrodes exposed to one of the both surfaces opposed to the wiring substrate is in electrical contact with the ground wiring through a through hole formed in the wiring substrate. | 06-25-2009 |
20100181948 | Motor apparatus with voltage step-up function - The motor of the motor apparatus includes a rotor including a plurality of magnetic poles and a stator formed with tooth portions radially extending with a pitch equal to 5/6 times or 7/6 times a pole pitch of the rotor. Each tooth portion is formed with a brim portion circumferentially extending from both circumferential sides of the tooth portion. The phase ends of the stator winding are connected respectively to the AC ends. The DC power supply is connected between one of the DC ends and the neutral point of the stator winding. The control section controls the multi-phase inverter such that a multi-phase AC current containing a DC component flows through the stator winding. The circumferential width of the brim portion is smaller than or equal to 0.75 times a cross-sectional size of the electric wires constituting the stator winding. | 07-22-2010 |
20100289356 | MOTOR - The present invention provides, as one aspect, a motor including a rotor fixed to a rotating shaft, a stator provided around the outer periphery of the rotor via a gap, and a power converter which is connected to polyphase windings arranged in slots formed in the stator. The power converter performs control by which current from a DC power source is converted to polyphase alternating current which flows to the polyphase windings. The motor includes a housing which is fixed to the outer periphery of the stator via an insulating layer. The stator is connected to a positive electrode side bus, which is connected to a positive electrode of the DC power source, or a negative electrode side bus, which is connected to a negative electrode of the DC power source. | 11-18-2010 |
20100289372 | ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE HAVING IMPROVED STATOR COIL ARRANGEMENT FOR REDUCING MAGNETIC NOISE AND TORQUE RIPPLE - An electric rotating machine is disclosed which includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and first and second three-phase stator coils. The stator core has a plurality of stator core teeth formed at a predetermined pitch in a circumferential direction of the stator core. Each of the first and second three-phase stator coils is comprised of three phase windings. Each of the phase windings of the first and second three-phase stator coils is wound around each of a predetermined number of the stator core teeth by a predetermined number of turns. The rotor has a plurality of magnetic poles the polarities of which alternate between north and south in the circumferential direction of the stator core. Further, the first and second three-phase stator coils are offset in the circumferential direction of the stator core to have a phase difference of π/6 therebetween. | 11-18-2010 |
20100320945 | MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM USING POTENTIAL AT NEUTRAL POINT - According to input parameters, a controller carries out: generation of a voltage command value for each of d- and q-axes; conversion of the voltage command value for each of the d- and q-axes into a voltage command value for each of the multiphase windings; and control of a multiphase inverter based on the voltage command value for each of the multiphase windings. The controller adds, to the voltage command value for the q-axis, a first compensation voltage value for compensating torque ripples to thereby output a compensated voltage command value for the q-axis. The first compensation voltage value contains m-th harmonic components in the AC motor and varies depending on the rotational angle of the rotor, the m corresponding to the number of phase of the multiphase windings. The controller uses, as the voltage command value for the q-axis, the compensated voltage command value for the q-axis. | 12-23-2010 |
20110043069 | ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE DRIVABLE WITH A SINGLE THREE-PHASE INVERTER - In an electric rotating machine, a stator coil is comprised of first and second winding groups. The stator coil is wound around a stator core in a concentrated winding manner so that the phase difference in electrical angle between each corresponding pair of windings of the first and second winding groups is equal to π/6. Further, the windings of the first and second winding groups are connected to form Δ-Y connections. Consequently, the sixth harmonic components of the electromagnetic forces created by the windings of the first winding group can be offset by those of the electromagnetic forces created the windings of the second winding group. As a result, the total magnetic noise and torque ripple generated in the machine can be reduced. Moreover, the machine can be driven with only a single three-phase inverter to achieve the effects of reducing the total magnetic noise and torque ripple. | 02-24-2011 |
20120248924 | ELECTRIC ROTATING MACHINE DRIVABLE WITH A SINGLE THREE-PHASE INVERTER - In an electric rotating machine, a stator coil is comprised of first and second winding groups. The stator coil is wound around a stator core in a concentrated winding manner so that the phase difference in electrical angle between each corresponding pair of windings of the first and second winding groups is equal to π/6. Further, the windings of the first and second winding groups are connected to form Δ-Y connections. Consequently, the sixth harmonic components of the electromagnetic forces created by the windings of the first winding group can be offset by those of the electromagnetic forces created the windings of the second winding group. As a result, the total magnetic noise and torque ripple generated in the machine can be reduced. Moreover, the machine can be driven with only a single three-phase inverter to achieve the effects of reducing the total magnetic noise and torque ripple. | 10-04-2012 |