Synchronous Motor Systems Patents (Class 318/700)
  • Patent number: 11955918
    Abstract: A motor driver having a startup adjusting mechanism is provided. A steady-state detector circuit detects data for driving a motor to stably rotate to output a steady-state detected signal. A startup waveform pattern circuit selects one of a plurality of startup waveform patterns to output a startup waveform pattern signal according to the steady-state detected signal. A startup waveform generator circuit outputs a startup waveform signal according to the startup waveform pattern signal. A motor controlling circuit controls a motor driving circuit to start up the motor according to the startup waveform signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ming-Jung Tsai
  • Patent number: 11955905
    Abstract: A three-phase/two-phase conversion unit 43 generates a composite vector i?? of three-phase AC currents based on AC currents iu, iv, and iw. An electrical angle calculation unit 44 outputs the electrical angle of the composite vector i?? with reference to the U-phase AC current iu. A quadrant calculation unit 45 obtains which quadrant of the first to sixth quadrants partitioned in advance the acquired electrical angle corresponds to, confirms whether the composite vector i?? passes through the set quadrant, and outputs quadrant information thereof. A failure detection unit 47 determines whether the composite vector i?? has rotated from the first quadrant to the sixth quadrant, and when there is a quadrant that has not been passed, considers that it is a failure state, specifies a failure part of the switching element from the relationship between the electrical angle and the failure part, and outputs failure information to a PWM signal generation unit 42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ishikawa, Ryohichi Inada
  • Patent number: 11934171
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a servo motor and an encoder calibration method. The encoder calibration method includes: calculating a gain error, an offset error and a phase error, by an error calculation block, according to a first signal and a second signal output by an encoder; calculating at least one gain calibration parameter, at least one offset calibration parameter and at least one phase calibration parameter, by the error calibration block, according to the gain error, the offset error and the phase error; and calibrating sequentially, by the encoder, the gain, the offset and the phase of the first signal and the second signal according to the at least one gain calibration parameter, the at least one offset calibration parameter and the at least one phase calibration parameter, wherein performing at least one gain calibration and offset calibration after the phase calibration is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chih-Kai Chiu, Bo-Ting Yeh, Tsan-Huang Chen
  • Patent number: 11799408
    Abstract: To provide a controller for AC rotary electric machine which can suppress that the control accuracy of current is deteriorated, when switching from the all phase short circuit state to the switching control. A controller for AC rotary electric machine calculates voltage command values based on current command values and current detection values; carries out switching between a switching control that turns on and off plural switching devices provided in the inverter based on the voltage command values, and all phase short circuit control that turns on and off the plural switching devices so that the plural-phase windings are short-circuited mutually; and when switching from the all the phase short circuit control to the switching control, sets the current command values to switching current values which are current values corresponding to currents which flow in executing the all phase short circuit control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shingo Harada
  • Patent number: 11749485
    Abstract: A modular switch apparatus for controlling at least one electric drive includes a mounting rail bus system having a control line and two power supply lines, a power supply device, and a safety relay module that is configured to obtain a first, high level control signal from a DC supply voltage applied to the two power supply lines and to feed the first control signal to the control line via the first bus interface if the emergency stop command device has not been actuated. Furthermore, at least one safety motor starter module is provided, which includes a processing device with an input that can be electrically connected to the control line via a bus interface. The processing device is adapted to evaluate a first, high level control signal as transferred via the control line and to provide control signals for controlling the at least two switch devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stephan Hansmeier, Bernd Schulz, Matthias Ragaller, Dirk Plewka
  • Patent number: 11750134
    Abstract: To provide an AC rotary machine apparatus which can determine the operation stop of the control circuit of the other system with good accuracy. An AC rotary machine apparatus, including: a resolver is provided with a first system excitation winding, first system two output windings, a second system excitation winding, and second system two output windings, in which a magnetic interference occurs between a first system and a second system; a first system control circuit that applies AC voltage with a first period to the first system excitation winding; and a second system control circuit that applies AC voltage with a second period to the second system excitation winding, wherein the first system control circuit determines whether the operation of the second system control circuit stops, based on the components of the second period extracted from the first system output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mori, Hiroko Ikeda, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Kenji Ikeda, Kenta Kubo
  • Patent number: 11728752
    Abstract: A method of driving a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) with Field Oriented Control (FOC) includes: generating, by a current controller, control signals for driving motor currents of the PMSM; measuring, by the current controller, current information of the PMSM, including a direct-axis motor current and a quadrature-axis motor current; generating, by a direct-axis current controller, a direct-axis error value based on a difference between a flux weakening reference current and the direct-axis motor current; regulating, by the direct-axis current controller, a direct-axis motor voltage, including generating the direct-axis motor voltage based on the direct-axis error value; and generating and dynamically adapting, by a flux weakening controller, the flux weakening reference current based on changes to the motor load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventor: Vedant Sadashiv Chendake
  • Patent number: 11705833
    Abstract: The present application discloses a motor controller, a motor control method and a computer program product for vehicle assist control. An assist torque command for a motor device to perform vehicle assist control is generated according to an execution command of a vehicle assist determination unit and a rotor position signal and a rotor speed signal of a motor device. An original position signal of the motor device and the rotor position signal are calculated, and a position ratio calculation is performed to generate a front-order torque command. A torque damping command is generated according to the speed ratio calculation based on the rotor speed signal, and is calculated with the front-order torque command to generate an assist torque command. Thus, position information of the rotor of the motor device can be directly used in the calculation and speed information is at the same time used for an assist calculation, thereby preventing an error and solving the issue of sliding during parking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: CHROMA ATE INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Ting Lin, Cheng-Tsung Lin
  • Patent number: 11689134
    Abstract: A voltage saturation prevention algorithm used as at least part of a method of controlling an electric vehicle, wherein the electric vehicle comprises an electric motor, a controller, and an inverter. The controller receives a control signal with an instruction to operate the electric motor, then sends a switching signal corresponding to the control signal to the inverter, wherein the inverter provides a plurality of output signals for operation of the electric motor. The method includes determining the expected amplitude of the plurality of output signals based on the instruction to operate the electric motor, calculating the amount of modification of the plurality of output signals required to prevent the expected amplitude from reaching a saturation value, and modifying, based on the calculation, the instruction to operate the electric motor to prevent the expected amplitude from reaching the saturation value. The method is implemented in software, without any additional hardware.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Karma Automotive LLC
    Inventors: Saleh Ziaieinejad, Geng Niu
  • Patent number: 11671041
    Abstract: A transient current planning method for an ultra-high-speed permanent magnet synchronous motor for improving speed regulation response capabilities is provided. A transient current planning module uses a voltage model considering transient current changes to calculate current instruction values of an ultra-high-speed permanent magnet synchronous motor under MTPA control, general flux-weakening control, and MTPV control; a mode switching condition judgment subsystem judges whether a control mode is MTPA control or general flux-weakening control, or MTPV control, and sends d- and q-axis current instruction values in the corresponding control mode to a voltage decoupling control module; and the voltage decoupling control module calculates d- and q-axis voltage instruction values for controlling the motor, so as to realize control over the ultra-high-speed permanent magnet synchronous motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Donghai Hu, Jing Wang, Hongwen He, Fengyan Yi, Zhongyan Li, Jiang Li, Zhong Li, Jiaming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11611302
    Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for controlling inducer motor speed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes changing stator voltage of an inducer motor (e.g., by changing a firing angle of a triac, using a transistor, a silicon controlled rectifier or semiconductor controlled rectifier (SCR), other switching device, etc.); determining actual inducer motor speed (e.g., by using a hall effect sensor or other speed sensor, etc.); and after determining the actual inducer motor speed, changing the motor stator voltage (e.g., by changing the firing angle of the triac, etc.) to a value at which the actual inducer motor speed is controllably regulated and/or maintained substantially at a set speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Harshal Manik Pawar, John Francis Broker
  • Patent number: 11606054
    Abstract: A motor control method includes the following steps: adjusting a voltage component of an estimated voltage command to a steady-state voltage value; performing a coordinate axis conversion on another voltage component of the estimated voltage command and the steady-state voltage value, and generating a three-phase excitation current to make a synchronous motor rotate to a rotating position and stop; calculating an estimated current signal; calculating an estimated value of the rotating position and adjusting the another voltage component of the estimated voltage command when determining that the current component is not maintained at a steady-state current value; calculating an effective inductance of the synchronous motor based on the steady-state voltage value, the another voltage component of the estimated voltage command, the steady-state current value, and another current component of the estimated current signal when determining that the current component is maintained at the steady-state current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Shao-Kai Tseng, Yu-Shian Lin, Chen-Yeh Lee
  • Patent number: 11606055
    Abstract: A rotary machine device configured to contact with an external object is provided. The rotary machine device includes a rotary motor, a first encoder, a fixed housing, a fixed shaft, an output shaft and a second encoder. The rotary motor includes a motor housing and an exerting shaft. As the rotor of the motor housing rotates for a rotation angle, the rotor drives the exerting shaft to rotate for an exerting angle. The first encoder detects the rotation angle of the rotor. The output shaft includes an elastomer and is inserted in an accommodation hole of the fixed shaft. The elastomer is penetrated through the output shaft and is connected to the exerting shaft. The second encoder includes a disk and a sensor disposed on the exerting shaft and the fixed shaft respectively. The sensor detects the exerting angle of the exerting shaft through the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Chi-Wen Chung, En-Yi Chu
  • Patent number: 11539318
    Abstract: A method determines a correction value for a control device for an electric machine, which describes an angular difference between a position of a d-axis of the electric machine and an actual position of the d-axis. The correction value is determined in a rotating state of a rotor of the electric machine as a function of a d voltage value describing a d component of a stator voltage specified by the control device in the initial configuration, of a q voltage value describing a q component of the stator voltage specified by the control device in the initial configuration, of a flux value describing a magnetic flux of the rotor, a speed value describing the speed of the rotor in the rotating state, and of a calibration value describing a speed-dependent voltage error of the d component of the stator voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Seilmeier, Andreas Held, Andreas Walter, Hans-Georg Köpken
  • Patent number: 11527978
    Abstract: A method of determining angular position (?) of a rotor of an N-phase permanent magnet motor (PMM). A processor having an associated stored angular position determination (APD) algorithm is programmed to implement the algorithm to cause an associated motor controller to execute steps including forcing one vector at a time a phase vector set of current or voltage vectors to stator terminals of windings for the N-phases a positive and negative magnitude vector, wherein the vector magnitude is sufficiently small to not move the rotor, and a time duration for the forcing current or voltage vectors is essentially constant. The resulting stator current or voltage levels are measured for each current or voltage vector. An N-dimension current vector or voltage vector is generated from superposition of the resulting stator current levels or resulting stator voltage levels. The N-dimension current vector or voltage vector is used to determine angular position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Eric James Thomas, David Patrick Magee
  • Patent number: 11511629
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle system includes an electric motor coupled to a drive wheel via a plurality of power transmission components and a control device. The control device is configured to act as: a feedforward control section configured based on a transfer function simulating vibration transmission characteristics of a power transmission system, receiving as an input a required torque of the electric motor from a driver, and outputting a base command torque of the electric motor; a timing estimation section estimating, based on information on the power transmission system, a timing at which a backlash between the plurality of power transmission components is eliminated; and a torque correction section applying, to the base command torque, a correction torque for reducing a vibration generated in the power transmission system due to elimination of the backlash, in response to an arrival of the timing estimated by the timing estimation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsaku Oide, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Fusahiro Tsukano, Yuya Takahashi, Shinya Asaura
  • Patent number: 11489473
    Abstract: The invention relates to field-oriented current regulation for a permanent magnet synchronous machine (30) in which setpoint values for the components Id and Iq of the current in the Park coordinate system are limited according to an operating point, wherein a manipulated variable Uqr or Udr of a respective current regulator (11, 12) is prioritized for the Iq or Id component, whose corresponding component of the induced voltage Uqind, Udind drives the current most strongly away from the short-circuit point. The sign of a rotational speed ? of a rotor in the synchronous machine (30) and the signs of Uqr and Udr in particular can be used for the decision regarding the prioritization of Uqr and Udr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Viktor Barinberg, Georg Drenkhahn, Arkady Pankevich
  • Patent number: 11489469
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method for measuring an initial position angle of a rotor of an electric machine, which solves the technical problem in the prior art that the requirement on the measurement conditions of the initial position angle of the rotor of the electric machine is high and the actual operation is not easy. The method comprises: Step 1, supplying an electric current i to an electric machine to be measured to cause the electric machine to run; Step 2, when the electric machine is running, reducing the electric current i to be zero; Step 3, measuring voltages of a d-axis and a q-axis of a stator of the electric machine at the moment, respectively as ud and uq; and Step 4, according to a trigonometric function relation between ud and uq, calculating to obtain an initial position angle deviation ?err of the rotor of the electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: JING-JIN ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Hao, Xiao Ye
  • Patent number: 11456687
    Abstract: A method and a device for assigning the inductance or admittance to the rotor position of a synchronous machine having a stator and a rotor with or without permanent magnets. In operation, the synchronous machine is activated by way of timed terminal voltages and the inductance or admittance is calculated from the terminal voltages and the measured current response. In this case, the variation of the inductance or admittance over the rotor rotation under the boundary condition of an at least two-dimensional current vector that is unchanged in stator coordinates, is used as key information for the positional assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KOSTAL DRIVES TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Landsmann, Dirk Paulus, Sascha Kuehl
  • Patent number: 11424707
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus controls a load apparatus by position sensorless vector control. The power conversion apparatus includes: a current detection unit configured to detect a current passing through the load apparatus; a current detection arithmetic unit configured to calculate a harmonic current component on a dc-axis as a control axis and a harmonic current component on a qc-axis, based on the detected current; a saliency ratio estimation unit configured to output a saliency ratio estimated value based on the harmonic current component on the dc-axis and the harmonic current component on the qc-axis; and a saliency ratio control unit configured to output a current component that increases or decreases a current command value on a d-axis of a rotor coordinate system, based on a deviation between the saliency ratio estimated value and a predetermined saliency ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Tobari, Yoshitaka Iwaji, Agnes Hadinata, Yusaku Onuma, Atsuhiko Nakamura, Takuya Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11404985
    Abstract: Provided are a motor control method, a motor control device and a variable frequency drive. The method includes: performing an amplitude limiting on a command torque to obtain a target torque; calculating a target current based on the target torque; determining whether an amplitude of the target current is greater than a current limiting amplitude; performing an amplitude limiting on current components of the target current, when the amplitude of the target current is greater than the current limiting amplitude; and controlling a motor based on the current components of the target current after being performed the amplitude limiting. Thus, an amplitude limiting on current of a motor is achieved by performing amplitude limiting on torque and current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Hangzhou Leaderway Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dekai Jiang
  • Patent number: 11394327
    Abstract: A method for determining rotor characteristic of an alternating current (AC) electrical machine includes obtaining a reference voltage signal, one or more phase currents, and rotor data. The method includes determining orthogonal components of an extended back electromotive force (BEMF) model of the AC electrical machine based on the reference voltage signal, the one or more phase current characteristics, and the rotor data. The method includes determining a product of the orthogonal components of the extended BEMF model. The method includes determining a squared-magnitude of the orthogonal components of the extended BEMF mode. The method includes determining the rotor characteristic of the AC electrical machine based on the product of the orthogonal components and the squared-magnitude of the orthogonal components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Shamsuddeen Nalakath, Dianxun Xiao, Jia Xiu Dong, Gaoliang Fang, Ali Emadi, Yingguang Sun, Jason Wiseman
  • Patent number: 11378070
    Abstract: A controller of a motor control device increases a voltage to be applied to a coil based on a control signal calculated from an estimated rotation speed, when the estimated rotation speed becomes equal to or lower than a predetermined rotation speed, increases the voltage to be applied to the coil based on a control signal calculated from an actual rotation speed, in a case where the actual rotation speed is lower than the predetermined rotation speed when the estimated rotation speed becomes higher than the predetermined rotation speed, and decreases the voltage to be applied to the coil based on a control signal calculated from the actual rotation speed, in a case where the actual rotation speed is higher than the predetermined rotation speed when the estimated rotation speed becomes higher than the predetermined rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kei Sato, Yuichi Hibi, Yasuhiro Shirai
  • Patent number: 11349430
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described for controlling operation of an inverter to manage voltage upon a direct current (DC) bus and regenerative power (current) provided to a battery. A control system and method are provided to control operation of an electric machine using a controller. More specifically, the controller is configured to calculate a current-based torque limit to satisfy a regenerative current limit, and a voltage-based torque limit to satisfy a voltage limit constraint of the DC bus. The controller is configured to calculate a torque limit to satisfy the regenerative current and voltage limits of the DC bus, and to command a plurality of switches within the inverter to generate a direct-axis current from the electric machine corresponding to a torque demand and according to the torque limit. The proposed system and method provide for motor current that exceed a demagnetizing current limit of the electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Prerit Pramod, Krishna Namburi, Zhe Zhang
  • Patent number: 11196308
    Abstract: A field coil type rotating electric machine includes a field coil having a serially-connected coil section pair consisting of first and second coil sections, a diode having its cathode and anode respectively connected to opposite ends of the serially-connected coil section pair, a rotating shaft, and a rotor having main pole portions radially protruding from a rotor core. In the rotating electric machine, there are formed both a series resonance circuit including the first coil section and at least one capacitor and a parallel resonance circuit including the second coil section and the at least one capacitor. Electronic components electrically connected with the field coil, which include the diode and the at least one capacitor, are arranged so that an overall center of gravity of all the electronic components is located closer than each of centers of gravity of the electronic components to a central axis of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Seguchi
  • Patent number: 11165381
    Abstract: A motor controller includes a current controller configured to generate control signals for driving a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), where the current controller is configured to measure voltage information and current information of the PMSM; a power constant controller configured to receive the voltage information and the current information, and generate a first target speed based on a target power of the PMSM and based on the voltage information and the current information; first signal generator configured to generate a second target speed; a speed constant controller coupled between the power constant controller and the current controller, wherein the speed constant controller is configured to switchably receive the first target speed and the second target speed, and regulate a motor speed of the PMSM based on the received first target speed or the received second target speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Long Fei Jian, Toshio Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11152870
    Abstract: A power conversion device that suppresses voltage pulsation of a capacitor of a power converter with respect to a control target whose effective power is to be controlled is provided. The power conversion device includes a plurality of power conversion cells that are connected to each other, and convert a primary-side system voltage into a secondary-side system voltage, a capacitor that is connected to each of the plurality of power conversion cells, and a power conversion cell driver that drives the power conversion cells to add a 3N order higher-harmonic-wave voltage of each of alternating voltages of the plurality of power conversion cells to the each of alternating voltages, and output a voltage made by adding the each of alternating voltages and the 3N order higher-harmonic-wave voltage, when N is a natural number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimihisa Furukawa, Akihiko Kanouda, Yuuichi Mabuchi, Hiroyuki Shoji, Takae Shimada, Mitsuhiro Kadota, Mizuki Nakahara
  • Patent number: 11146189
    Abstract: A control device for drives of a machine switches between normal operation and special operation depending on power demand from a power supply. In both operating modes, the control device cyclically determines preliminary current setpoint values. In normal operation, the current setpoint values match the preliminary setpoint values. In special operation, the control device dynamically determines a proportional factor for the drives depending on nominal and/or actual operating states of the drives. The control device determines current setpoint values by modifying the preliminary current setpoint values so that a respective drive draws no more power than the product of the respective proportional factor and the available total power. The current setpoint values and the current actual values are fed to drive controllers for the first drives, by means of which the preliminary first current setpoint values are determined. The control characteristics of the drive controllers include an integral part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: David Bitterolf, Stefan Rupprecht, Bernd Wedel
  • Patent number: 11059705
    Abstract: This electric hoisting machine comprises: a motor driven by single-phase current; a cylindrical motor housing; a starting capacitor; a operating capacitor; a starting capacitor disconnecting switch; a control unit which controls the operation of the motor and which is covered by a control housing; and a housing case in which small-diameter cylindrical portions for accommodating the starting capacitor, a large-diameter cylindrical portion for accommodating the operating capacitor, and a large-diameter cylindrical portion for accommodating the starting capacitor disconnecting switch are integrally provided in a state of continuing in a horizontal row, the housing case being mounted on the outer periphery of the motor housing in such a manner that the cylindrical portions are oriented parallel to a rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: KITO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenori Minamidate
  • Patent number: 11043912
    Abstract: A sensorless position estimation and control system and method for a permanent magnet electric motor of a powertrain system of a vehicle involve determining a reference torque to be achieved by the electric motor based on a set of vehicle operating parameters, determining a reference current magnitude to achieve the determined reference torque using a lookup table, determining current commands for the electric motor based on the determined reference current magnitude and a fixed reference current angle, injecting a high frequency voltage into a voltage control loop for the electric motor and estimating, by the controller, a position of a rotor of the electric motor thereafter, and controlling a current provided to the electric motor based on the determined current commands and the estimated rotor position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel R Luedtke, Nitinkumar Patel, Mustafa Mohamadian, Lakshmi Narayanan Srivatchan
  • Patent number: 10992245
    Abstract: Technical solutions are described herein for position estimation of permanent magnet synchronous machines through vibration induced saliency. An example permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) includes a motor control system to provide input command to the motor to cause a position of the motor to change. The PMSM further includes a motor position estimation module configured to estimate the position of the motor. The estimation includes measuring a current Iabc across the motor. The estimation further includes extracting a filtered current Iabc_inj at a predetermined frequency from the current Iabc. The estimation further includes estimating the position of the motor based on the filtered current Iabc_inj.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Zhe Zhang, Prerit Pramod
  • Patent number: 10972036
    Abstract: A control device for controlling a linear actuator having a linear motor and a brake device includes a magnetic pole position estimation means to estimate which of a plurality of sections obtained by dividing a magnetic pole position of 0° to 360°, the mover is located in on the basis of a direction of movement of the mover by pulse energization, a magnetic pole position setting means to perform direct current excitation at an estimated magnetic pole position estimated by the magnetic pole position estimation means and set the estimated magnetic pole position as a magnetic pole position of the mover, and a brake control means to turn on a brake device before pulse energization by the magnetic pole position estimation means is performed and turn off the brake device after the magnetic pole position estimation means estimates the section in which the mover is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Sakai, Shuhei Yamanaka, Hideo Saito, Yuki Nomura, Hideya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10944346
    Abstract: A device for estimating inductances of an electric machine having a salient-pole rotor is presented. The device comprises a processing system that controls stator voltages to constitute a balanced multi-phase alternating voltage when the rotor is stationary. The processing system estimates a position of the rotor based on a negative sequence component of stator currents. To estimate the quadrature-axis inductance, the processing system controls direct-axis current to be direct current and quadrature-axis voltage to be alternating voltage. The quadrature-axis inductance is estimated based on the quadrature-axis alternating voltage and on quadrature-axis alternating current. To estimate the direct-axis inductance, the processing system controls direct-axis voltage to be alternating voltage and the quadrature-axis voltage to be zero. The direct-axis inductance is estimated based on the direct-axis alternating voltage and on direct-axis alternating current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Vacon OY
    Inventor: Arto Sankala
  • Patent number: 10938297
    Abstract: An AC-DC conversion device that includes a major circuit portion and a control circuit. The major circuit portion includes a converter in which multiple switch portions in a bridge connection include separately-excited switching elements and snubber circuits connected in parallel with the switching elements; and the major circuit portion is connected to an alternating current power supply and a direct current circuit and applies, to the direct current circuit, an alternating current voltage applied from the alternating current power supply by an ON of the multiple switch portions. The control circuit controls the voltage applied to the direct current circuit by controlling the ON timing of the multiple switch portions by inputting a control pulse to each of the multiple switch portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keisuke Hattori, Teruo Yoshino, Tomohisa Okami
  • Patent number: 10928452
    Abstract: To simplify determination of drive parameters upon driving a motor for which circuit constants are unknown, and shorten the time required in determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouki Oikawa, Yuuki Morita, Tadashi Okita
  • Patent number: 10917028
    Abstract: A motor driving control device has a motor driving unit configured to selectively energize coils with a plurality of phases of a motor, a control circuit unit configured to control an operation of the motor driving unit by outputting a driving control signal to the motor driving unit, and a position detector configured to output a position signal which corresponds to any one phase of the plurality of phases and a phase of which changes depending on a position of a rotor of the motor. the control circuit unit detects a transition of values of a back electromotive force induced in the one phase in a detection period corresponding to a change timing of the position signal when beginning to start up the motor, and determines a rotational state of the motor including a rotational direction of the motor based on a detection result of the transition of the values of the back electromotive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Xiao Zhou, Hiroyuki Kaidu, Masato Aoki, Mitsunari Terada
  • Patent number: 10910974
    Abstract: A feedback control switching unit of an inverter control unit selects, based on a magnitude relationship between a predetermined switching determination amount and at least one switching threshold, at least one of feedback control units to thereby execute switching among feedback control modes, such as a current feedback control mode and a torque feedback control mode, of the respective feedback control units for driving of the AC motor. A switching command generating unit generates a switching command for an inverter based on a manipulated variable calculated by the selected feedback control unit. When a torque response request determining unit determines that a required torque responsiveness is high, the feedback control switching unit reduces the number of executions of switching among the feedback control modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Takahashi, Koji Irie
  • Patent number: 10910968
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motor drive device and a motor drive system for improving a control stability despite an imbalance in zero crossing points in a sensorless motor of which position of a rotor is estimated by a counter electromotive force. The motor drive device includes: a position detector configured to detect a rotational position of a rotor of a motor by detecting a plurality of zero crossing points of a counter electromotive force induced in the motor; and a controller configured to control the motor by estimating a phase change timing based on a time interval between a current zero crossing point and a previous zero crossing point of a same state as the current zero crossing point among the plurality of zero crossing points detected by the position detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Joonsung Park, Junhyuk Choi, Jinhong Kim, Byongjo Hyon, Yongsu Noh, Dongmyoung Joo
  • Patent number: 10879751
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine has a drive control part and a motor having a stator and a rotor. The drive control part has an external disturbance voltage instruction generation part, a switching signal generation part, first and second drive circuits, a current acquisition part detecting an external disturbance current flowing in three phase winding in each of a first coil and a second coil of the stator, and a phase angle estimation part detecting a phase angle of the rotor of the motor based on the detected external disturbance current. The drive control part adjusts turn-on/turn-off timings of switching signals so as to reduce a timing difference between corresponding line external disturbance voltages in the three phase windings more than the time difference without performing the timing adjustment while maintaining a duty ratio of these line external disturbance voltages to that when the timing adjustment is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoya Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10873273
    Abstract: An apparatus includes: an inverter converting generated power of renewable energy resources to predetermined alternating-current power for output to a power transmission network; a PWM control unit controlling the inverter; a first detecting unit detecting the input voltage and current to the inverter; a second detecting unit detecting the output voltage, current, and frequency of the inverter; a power change deciding unit calculating the input and output powers of the inverter and the difference therebetween from the voltage and current of each of the input and output detected by the detecting units, and calculating a correction output power command with reference to an output power command; and a virtual synchronous inertia control unit calculating a virtual inertia characteristic based on the voltage, current, and frequency of the output detected by the second detecting unit and the correction output power command, and outputting a reference command to a PWM control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia Tse Lee, Akira Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10818458
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are control modules and methods for controlling recreational vehicle power in auxiliary systems. The control modules may be installed and/or retrofitted to connect with power systems in recreational vehicles and thereby control operation of auxiliary components, such as slide-outs and awnings, for example. The disclosed control modules and systems may be remotely and/or automatically operated and programmed via wireless devices and/or software applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Command Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Charles A Leonard, Mark D Ehrnsberger
  • Patent number: 10812003
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is described in which a series of short-circuiting pulses is applied to a motor. A current in the motor is determined after one or more of the series of short circuit pulses has completed. The duration of the short-circuit pulses is adjusted depending on the determined current. The method and apparatus may be used within an arrangement for catching a spinning motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Danfoss Power Electronics A/S
    Inventors: Leandro Della Flora, Anton Smith
  • Patent number: 10704661
    Abstract: An actuator device having a motor driven cam, a follower coupled to an output member and driven by the cam, and a controller for controlling operation of the motor. The cam has a first cam surface, a second cam surface and a lift portion between the first and second cam surfaces. The controller is configured to identify a predetermined point on the lift portion as the follower is moved relative to the cam along the lift portion toward the second cam surface. The controller identifies the predetermined point based on a rate of change in the position of the output member along an output member axis as a function of the rotational position of the cam about a cam axis. The controller controls operation of the motor based on the predetermined point to position the follower on the second cam surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Curt D. Gilmore
  • Patent number: 10696141
    Abstract: A synchronous motor control device includes: a DC power supply; an inverter main circuit; a three-phase synchronous motor; and an inverter control unit that outputs a PWM signal used to control the inverter main circuit. The inverter control unit includes: a PWM signal generation unit; a start-up control unit that outputs a start-up voltage command value to the PWM signal generation unit at the time of start-up; a steady state control unit that calculates a steady state voltage command value in a steady state and outputs the value to the PWM signal generation unit; and a steady state control parameter initial value calculation unit that outputs an initial value of a control parameter to the steady state control unit such that an output voltage vector from the inverter main circuit to the three-phase synchronous motor is consistent before and after switching from the start-up to the steady state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuo Kashima, Tomohiro Kutsuki, Tomomi Higashikawa, Akiyoshi Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 10658958
    Abstract: A genset including at least one generator for generating electrical energy, which can be driven by a drive device is provided. Also provided is a detection device for detection of the presence of a grid fault in at least one phase of the power grid, a device for determining an operating state of the generator immediately before or upon detection of a grid fault, and a regulating device, to which the signals of the detection device and the device for determining an operating state of the generator can be fed. The regulating device is designed upon detection of a grid fault to reduce the power of the drive device in dependence of that operating state of the generator, which has been determined immediately before or upon detection of the grid fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Innio Jenbacher GMBH & CO OG
    Inventors: Nikolaus Spyra, Lukas Vogl, Francisco Lopez
  • Patent number: 10608562
    Abstract: In an example, a system is disclosed. The system includes a rotor position estimation module configured to generate an adjustment signal to adjust a desired torque signal for a motor. The rotor position estimation module includes a sensor offset estimation module configured to estimate an offset position of a sensor based on (1) a motor current signal indicative of a current to rotate a rotor within the motor, (2) a motor voltage signal indicative of a voltage applied to a power inverter that provides the current to the motor, and (3) a motor parameter. The sensor can be disposed on the rotor. The rotor position estimation module also includes a speed adjustment module configured to generate the adjustment signal based on the estimated offset position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Young Joo Lee, Kibok Lee, Brian J. Gallert
  • Patent number: 10574174
    Abstract: A method for operating an electrical machine having a stator and having a rotor with permanent magnets, includes: running the electrical machine; determining, while performing the running of the electrical machine, whether the permanent magnets have been demagnetized; finding, while running the electrical machine, the q-axis responsive to a determination that the permanent magnets have been demagnetized; firing a current pulse through the stator, while running the electrical machine, when the q-axis reaches a desired position relative to a selected stator phase, wherein the current pulse is constructed to remagnetize the permanent magnets; and continuing to run the electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Alessandro Castagnini, Darren Tremelling, Elio Alberto Perigo, Giulio Secondo, Liming Liu
  • Patent number: 10536104
    Abstract: In a variable speed generator-motor apparatus, a power converter includes six two-terminal arms each formed by serially connecting k unit converters that can output arbitrary voltage, an AC rotating electric machine includes an armature winding with 60-degree phase zone formed from a double layer coil, the armature winding being divided into first and second pole sides to form double star connection by binding neutral points and to be drawn out as two sets of three-phase terminals; three-phase terminals on the first pole side are connected to first terminals of three arms, and second terminals of the three arms are star-connected to a first terminal of a DC power supply; three-phase terminals on the second pole side are connected to second terminals of remaining three arms, and first terminals of the three arms are star-connected to a second terminal of the DC power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI MITSUBISHI HYDRO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Bando, Osamu Nagura
  • Patent number: 10511246
    Abstract: An initial rotor position detection device based on a permanent-magnet synchronous motor, including a host computer, a real-time simulation system, and a control system, where the real-time simulation system is connected to the control system, for determining an encoder pulse signal according to the model parameter of the permanent-magnet synchronous motor, the model parameter of the inverter, and a PWM pulse wave generated by the control system; and the control system is connected to the real-time simulation system, for using a binary search algorithm to determine an initial rotor angle of the permanent-magnet synchronous motor according to the encoder pulse signal sent by the real-time simulation system. A comprehensive closed-loop test circuit can be achieved by setting a host computer, a real-time simulation system, and a control system, and a used binary search algorithm can effectively and quickly detect an initial rotor position of a permanent-magnet synchronous motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Wenzhou University
    Inventors: Yuxing Dai, Xiukai Ruan, Qibo Cai, Kelu Wu
  • Patent number: 10468985
    Abstract: An AC-DC converter includes a main switch that is controlled according to an input AC line voltage. The main switch is allowed to be switched when a level of the input AC line voltage is within a regulation band, and is prevented from being switched when the level of the input AC line voltage is not within the regulation band. The regulation band can be dynamically adjusted based on load condition. The AC-DC converter can be a buck, boost, or buck-boost converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FAIRCHILD SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason Guo, Laszlo Balogh, Gwanbon Koo, Sangcheol Moon, Bonggeun Chung, Chenghao Jin