Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Kia Corporation

Fci, Inc.

Joo Young Park

Yong Jae Lee

Su Hyun Bae

Jae Ho Hwang

Sung Kyu Kim

Mu Shin Kwak

Ho Joon Shin

Jung Mo Yu

Jun Mo An

Jae Hyeon Park

Jung Hwi Kim

Byung Hoon Yang

Jae Sang Lim

Hyung Bin Ihm

Young Un Kim

Young Kwan Ko

Tae Il Yoo

Han Hee Park

Gu Bae Kang

Tae Young Chung

Tae Young Ha

Hyun Jae Lim

Ju Won Seo

Chin Wook Paek

Tae Won Ha

An inverter driving device includes an inverter including a plurality of legs corresponding to a plurality of phases, and a controller that generates a plurality of pole voltage commands from a plurality of space vector modulation signals corresponding to the plurality of phases and modulates the pole voltage commands through pulse width modulation to control a turn-on state of switches included in the legs, wherein the controller is configured to generate a plurality of discontinuous modulation signals by applying an offset voltage for discontinuous modulation to the plurality of space vector modulation signals if at least one of a maximum voltage and a minimum voltage of the space vector modulation signals is not included in a predetermined linearity range, adjusts at least one of a maximum voltage and a minimum voltage of the discontinuous modulation signals, and outputs the adjusted discontinuous modulation signals as the pole voltage commands.

Inverter driving device and method of controlling same

A motor driving apparatus which drives a motor having a plurality of windings corresponding to a plurality of phases includes: a first inverter having a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each winding; a second inverter having a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each winding; and a controller configured to control pulse width modulation, by distributing a preset voltage command of the motor into a voltage command of the first inverter and a voltage command of the second inverter at the same rate and by generating duties of the first switching elements, wherein the controller determines the duties of the second switching elements and determines the duties of the first switching elements on and the duties of the first switching elements.

Motor driving apparatus

A charging system and method using a motor driving system which can charge a vehicle battery using charging equipment providing various voltages using a motor driving system provided in a vehicle and improve charging efficiency by selectively determining a charging mode in response to an actual voltage state of the vehicle battery.

Charging system and method using motor driving system

A battery heating system and method using a motor driving system are provided. A temperature of a battery is increased by injecting an alternating current into the battery so that charging and discharging of the battery is repeated using the motor driving system including an inverter and a motor provided in a vehicle.

Battery heating system and method using motor driving system

A battery-heating system and method using a motor-driving system is provided. The battery-heating system includes an inverter having legs respectively including a pair of switching elements connected in series between the ends of a battery and corresponding to a plurality of phases. A motor of the system includes coils each having one end connected to a connection end between a pair of switching elements of the legs, other ends of the plurality of coils being connected together. A controller determines one of the plurality of phases as a reference phase, and alternately controls the on-off states of the switching elements so that the on-off state of the switching element included in the leg corresponding to the reference phase and the switching element included in the other leg are mutually complementary, thereby generating AC current to be injected into the battery.

System and method for heating battery using motor driving system

A DC-to-DC converter includes a first capacitor, first to fourth switches connected in series between first and second electrodes of the first capacitor, a second capacitor connected to a connection node of the first switch and the second switch and a connection node of the third switch and the fourth switch, an inductor connected to a connection node of the second switch and the third switch, and a controller that performs PWM control. In a case where a failure occurs in the second capacitor, the DC-to-DC converter performs PWM control such that the first switch and the second switch enter the same state and the third switch and the fourth switch enter the same state on the basis of a result of comparison between a first detection voltage that is a measured output voltage and a target output voltage of the DC-to-DC converter.

DC-to-DC converter capable of operating despite capacitor failure

A DC-to-DC converter includes a first capacitor, first, second, third, and fourth switches connected in series between first and second electrodes of the first capacitor, a second capacitor connected to a connection node of the first switch and the second switch and a connection node of the third switch and the fourth switch, an inductor connected to a connection node of the second switch and the third switch, and a controller that controls an on/off state of each of the first to fourth switches on the basis of a value obtained by applying a reciprocal of a detection current that is a measured current flowing through the inductor to a difference between a first detection voltage and a first voltage instruction value and a difference between a second detection voltage and a second voltage instruction value.

DC-to-DC converter including flying capacitor

A charging power supplying system using a motor driving system includes an inverter that is connected to a battery, includes at least one switching device, and is configured to change an on/off state of the switching device and to convert power stored in the battery to output the converted power to an output terminal of the inverter, a motor including a plurality of coils that each receive power provided from the output terminal of the inverter, a charging power output terminal that is connected to a neutral point to which the plurality of coils of the motor is commonly connected and outputs current output from the neutral point to an external charging target, and a controller configured to control the switching device in the inverter based on current of the output terminal of the inverter.

Charging power supplying system using motor driving system

A system for increasing a temperature of a battery includes an inverter including a plurality of legs each including one pair of switching devices connected in series to each other between opposite ends of the battery and corresponding to a plurality of phases, respectively, a motor including a plurality of coils corresponding to the plurality of phases, respectively, where one end of each of the plurality of coils is connected to a connection node between one pair of switching devices included in a corresponding leg and other ends of the coils are connected to each other, and a controller configured to select two phases of the plurality of phases, and to alternately control an on/off state of switching devices included in two legs in the inverter, corresponding to the two selected phases, at a preset switching frequency to generate alternating current (AC) supplied to the battery.

System and method for increasing temperature of battery using motor driving system

An apparatus for controlling a charging system using a motor-driving system is configured to suppress the occurrence of torque in a motor when a battery is charged by receiving the supply of external charging current to a neutral point of the motor.

Apparatus for controlling charging system using motor-driving system

A flying DC-to-DC converter has a capacitor protection function of preventing a flying capacitor from overheating. The flying DC-to-DC converter estimates the temperature of a capacitor on the basis of a switching duty and an inductor current determined according to a result of comparison between an output voltage and a voltage instruction value, and determines whether to perform de-rating.

DC-to-DC converter

A charging system using a motor driving system, the motor driving system including: a battery and an inverter, the inverter configured to receive and convert a direct current (DC) power stored in the battery into a three-phase alternating current (AC) power and to output the three-phase AC power to a motor when the motor is driven and the motor configured to generate a rotation force using the three-phase AC power output from the inverter, the charging system includes a controller configured to control the inverter to boost a voltage at a neutral point of the motor and to output the boosted voltage to the battery by determining duty values of switching elements in the inverter when an external charging current is provided to the neutral point of the motor.

Charging system using motor driving system

A charging system and a charging method using a motor driving system are disclosed which may enable charging between vehicles each having a battery for providing power to a vehicle driving motor, such as electric vehicles or plug-in hybrid vehicles.

An apparatus for controlling an inverter to drive a motor includes: a current control processor generating a voltage command for generating d/q axis current detection values, which are obtained by measuring current supplied to the motor, to follow a d/q axis current command for driving the motor, the current control processor converting the voltage command, which is sampled according to a sampling frequency generated based on a voltage vector phase of the voltage command, into a voltage vector corresponding to a point on each vertex and each side of a hexagon in a voltage vector diagram to apply a resulting value to the inverter driving the motor; and a sample frequency computing processor computing the sampling frequency based on the voltage vector phase of the voltage command and a reference number of sampling times during one rotation period of the motor.

Apparatus for controlling inverter to drive motor

An apparatus for diagnosing failure of a motor driving system using a resolver signal includes a resolver sensing a rotor position and a rotational frequency of a motor, a fast Fourier transform operation unit configured to perform fast Fourier transform on an output signal of the resolver to convert the output signal into frequency signals, a specific frequency band extraction unit configured to extract, from among the frequency signals, a specific frequency band including one or more frequencies selected from among a PWM switching frequency applied to an inverter, a motor's rotational frequency, and a preset resolver excitation signal frequency, and a failure diagnosing unit configured to diagnose failure by comparing a sum or a highest voltage among voltages corresponding to the frequencies included in the specific frequency band with a predetermined reference value.

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Joo Young Park