Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Kosuke Nakano

Isao Kezobo

Hiroyasu Iwabuki

Yoshihito Asao

Tetsuya Kojima

Hiroyuki Akita

Akira Furukawa

Masatsugu Nakano

Satoshi Azuma

Yu Hirotani

Keita Takahashi

Koji Nakajima

Koji Kise

Ryuichi Takiguchi

Takayoshi Miki

Shinichi Kinouchi

Masashi Sakai

Kazuki Sakata

Hiroshi Nakatake

Mamoru Takikita

Takuya Sakai

Takuto Yano

Kazutoshi Awane

Masayoshi Tamura

Takao Mitsui

Yoshiyuki Deguchi

Hiroyuki Waku

Keisuke Iwasawa

During regenerative control of an inverter circuit, when a path between a DC power supply and a smoothing capacitor is in a disconnection state, a control circuit of a power conversion device performs control while switching between first control in which upper switching elements within the inverter circuit are turned on and all lower switching elements are turned off and second control in which the lower switching elements are turned on and all the upper switching elements are turned off, every predetermined switching period.

Power converter for controlling switching elements during regenerative control of an inverter

A rotating electric machine with a built-in control device that can be downsized. The rotating electric machine with a built-in control device includes a rotor including a permanent magnet of sensor use provided on a rear side of a rotor shaft, a front side housing fixed with a first bearing supporting a front side of the rotor shaft, a motor frame including a rotor and a stator, a heat sink fixed with a second bearing supporting the rear side of the rotor shaft, a control substrate mounting a rotary sensor, a microcomputer, and a driving circuit. The microcomputer controls the driving circuit based on signals from the rotary sensor and drives a plurality of switching elements. At least one of a smoothing condenser and a noise reduction coil, connected to the switching elements, is arranged at a far rear side of the control substrate.

Rotating electric machine with a built-in control device and electric power assist steering system

A motor drive control device for electric power steering includes: a switching element for supplying current to a motor; a smoothing capacitor for reducing ripple current due to the switching element; a control board on which a drive circuit for controlling the switching element and a control circuit capacitor are mounted; a control signal line for supplying a control signal from the control board to the switching element; an electric connection member electrically connecting the switching element and the smoothing capacitor; and a heatsink portion in which the switching element is arranged in an embedded manner, wherein the electric connection member is arranged between the switching element and the control board, and the control circuit capacitor and the smoothing capacitor are arranged in a space between the electric connection member and the control board.

Motor drive control device for electric power steering

A power converter includes: a base conductor, an electrically heating member which is provided on the base conductor, a noise reduction capacitor of flat plate-shape in which via an insulator, a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes are alternately layered, on one surface, the first electrode in an outermost layer is exposed and on another surface, the second electrode in an outermost layer is exposed, a relay conductor which is electrically connected to other members from the electrically heating member via the noise reduction capacitor, and the second electrode in an outermost layer of the noise reduction capacitor is face-joined to a face of the base conductor at a side where the electrically heating member is provided and the first electrode in an outermost layer and the relay conductor are face-joined.

Power conversion device

A driving circuit including: a voltage detector that detects the sum voltage of a positive bias voltage and a negative bias voltage, the negative bias voltage or the positive bias voltage; and a switching element that is connected to the control terminal of a power element and the negative side of a negative-voltage power supply; wherein, when the value of the detection target voltage becomes lower than a voltage setting value or when a voltage between the control terminal and the reference terminal in the power element increases in a state where the value of the detection target voltage is lower than the voltage setting value, the voltage detector turns on the switching element to thereby supply, between the above terminals in the power element, a voltage of 0V or lower.

Power semiconductor element driving circuit

There is provided a motor control device for controlling a motor including plural sets of windings, which is configured so that, when a fault detection means detects a fault, inverters in the normal side other than in the fault side are continued to be controlled by normal-time current control means and further, inverters in the fault side are continued to be controlled by fault-time voltage commands generated by a fault-time current control means configured with a fault-time normal-side command generator and a fault-time fault-side command generator, so as to emphasis a torque ripple of the motor when a winding fault of the motor or an inverter fault occurs, to thereby cause a user to surely recognize the fault.

Motor control device and electric power steering device

In a power converting apparatus having a plurality of phases on an AC side and configured to perform conversion between DC power and AC power, a current detector detects currents flowing through a DC source line through which a plurality of phase currents commonly flow. A control unit sets a current detection period and a succeeding current control period in each successive control cycle. Using first gate signals based on reference gate signals for PWM control, the control unit calculates values of the individual phase currents from the first gate signals and the detected currents during the current detection period. Then, during the current control period, the control unit performs PWM control using phase voltage commands generated by correcting phase voltage target values so as to cancel out voltage errors that occur during the current detection period.

Power converting appartatus

The invention provides a drive control device that comprises: inverters that are connected to a motor; a variable resistive element that is connected between the motor and each of the inverters; a current/voltage detection device connected between the motor and each of the inverters; and a controller that, when detecting a fault of an inverter that drives the motor based on a detection signal from the current/voltage detection device, gradually increases a resistance value of a variable resistive element provided between the faulty inverter and the motor at a velocity of a resistance variation such that a surge voltage has a voltage value for which the variable resistive element and the motor are not damaged, and executes drive control of the motor by a normal inverter other than the faulty inverter.

Drive control device and drive control method

An electric motor driving apparatus having a failure detection circuit includes: a bridge circuit driving an electric motor; a PWM control circuit generating voltage instruction for driving the electric motor; a PWM signal generation circuit generating a PWM signal; a DC current detection circuit detecting DC current of the bridge circuit; a phase current calculation circuit calculating output phase current of the bridge circuit, based on the DC current and PWM signal; and a failure detection circuit detecting failure of the DC current detection circuit. The failure detection circuit determines failure of the DC current detection circuit from the DC current detected values in a zero voltage period in which the high-potential-side arms of the bridge circuit are all ON and in a zero voltage period in which the low-potential-side arms are all ON.

Electric motor driving apparatus having failure detection circuit, and failure detection method for the electric motor driving apparatus having failure detection circuit

Provided is a motor control device () for controlling a motor () provided with a plurality of sets of windings, in which, when a current control unit () detects a short-circuit failure as a primary failure, the current control unit () continues the control, and, further, when the current control unit () detects a secondary failure, the current control unit () provides control of opening a power supply relay (). Accordingly, in a case where a failure of a winding of a motor or an inverter occurs, a torque pulsation is restrained and a sufficient output torque is provided, and further, in a case where a secondary failure occurs, excessive heat generation and current consumption are prevented and the cost of the device is reduced.

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Kosuke Nakano