Motor drive circuit, motor system, and electric device

    公开(公告)号:US12015363B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-18

    申请号:US17948468

    申请日:2022-09-20

    申请人: Rohm Co., Ltd.

    发明人: Yoshito Otaguro

    摘要: A motor drive circuit includes: a PWM signal generation part configured to generate a PWM signal based on a count value of a counter; a detection part configured to detect a zero crossing of a counter electromotive voltage generated in a coil of a motor; a prediction part configured to predict an arrival timing of the zero crossing of the counter electromotive voltage; a stop part configured to stop a counting operation of the counter after a first time point going back from the arrival timing predicted by the prediction part; and a reset part configured to reset the count value at a timing at which the detection part detects the zero crossing of the counter electromotive voltage.

    Bipolar staggered comb drive for bidirectional MEMS actuation

    公开(公告)号:US11909332B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US17395314

    申请日:2021-08-05

    摘要: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a comb drive, a comb drive system, and a method of operating the comb drive to rotate bi-directionally in a MEMS environment. An exemplary comb drive system may include a comb drive, at least one power source, and a controller. The comb drive may include a stator comb having a first electrically conductive layer spaced apart from a second electrically conductive layer. The comb drive may also include a rotor comb having a first electrically conductive layer spaced apart from a second electrically conductive layer. The controller may be configured to apply first and second voltage levels having opposite polarities to the first and second electrically conductive layers of the rotor comb, respectively. The controller may also be configured to apply an intermediate voltage level to one of the first or second electrically conductive layers of the stator comb.

    Method of controlling a multi-channel multi-phase electrical machine

    公开(公告)号:US11223308B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-11

    申请号:US16961745

    申请日:2019-01-11

    摘要: Provided is a method of controlling a multi-channel multi-phase electrical machine including a plurality of channels each with a set of phase windings connected to a converter, which method includes the steps of operating the converters to electrically phase-shift the channels; computing harmonic injection currents for a dominant harmonic on the basis of electrical quantities in a rotating reference frame; determining harmonic voltage references for the dominant harmonic on the basis of the harmonic injection currents; and regulating the AC output voltages of the channels according to the fundamental voltage references and the harmonic voltage references. Also provided is a control arrangement of a multi-channel multi-phase electrical machine; a wind turbine; and a computer program product.

    BIPOLAR STAGGERED COMB DRIVE FOR BIDIRECTIONAL MEMS ACTUATION

    公开(公告)号:US20210367536A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-25

    申请号:US17395314

    申请日:2021-08-05

    摘要: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a comb drive, a comb drive system, and a method of operating the comb drive to rotate bi-directionally in a MEMS environment. An exemplary comb drive system may include a comb drive, at least one power source, and a controller. The comb drive may include a stator comb having a first electrically conductive layer spaced apart from a second electrically conductive layer. The comb drive may also include a rotor comb having a first electrically conductive layer spaced apart from a second electrically conductive layer. The controller may be configured to apply first and second voltage levels having opposite polarities to the first and second electrically conductive layers of the rotor comb, respectively. The controller may also be configured to apply an intermediate voltage level to one of the first or second electrically conductive layers of the stator comb.

    Controller of electrically powered vehicle

    公开(公告)号:US10723233B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-28

    申请号:US16269835

    申请日:2019-02-07

    申请人: DENSO CORPORATION

    摘要: A controller of an electrically powered vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit performs a switching control by a square wave control in a first switching mode when a rotation speed of the motor is equal to or higher than a first predetermined rotation speed. The electronic control unit performs the switching control by the square wave control in a second switching mode when the rotation speed of the motor is lower than the first predetermined rotation speed. The first predetermined rotation speed is a rotation speed lower than a first resonance region. The first switching mode is a mode of a switching pattern that suppresses LC resonance in the first resonance region. The second switching mode is a mode of a switching pattern that suppresses LC resonance in a second resonance region lower than the first predetermined rotation speed.

    Drive device and electric power steering device including the drive device

    公开(公告)号:US10424994B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-24

    申请号:US16002239

    申请日:2018-06-07

    申请人: DENSO CORPORATION

    发明人: Hideki Kabune

    摘要: A drive device that includes a rotating electric machine having a stator with a winding wound on the stator, a rotor rotatably disposed relative to the stator, and a shaft rotating together with the rotor. The drive device also includes a frame member fixed on the rotating electric machine. The drive device further includes a circuit board fixed on the frame member, with a first surface of the circuit board on a frame member side serving as a heat generation element mount surface. The drive device also has a drive element located on the first surface of the circuit board in a heat dissipatable manner, and serving as a component of an inverter that switches on and off to supply an electric current to the winding.

    Motor driving apparatus
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10084368B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-25

    申请号:US15069958

    申请日:2016-03-14

    摘要: A motor driving apparatus includes an AC-DC conversion unit configured to rectify an AC power supplied from an external AC power source, a DC link unit configured to stabilize a voltage rectified by the AC-DC conversion unit, and a DC-AC conversion unit configured to supply the AC power to a motor using the DC voltage from the DC link unit. The DC link unit may include one pair of film capacitors configured to remove a ripple of the rectified voltage, and the DC-AC conversion unit may include a 3-level inverter receiving the DC voltage from the one pair of film capacitors to supply the AC power to the motor.