Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Shohei Fujikura

Taiga Komatsu

Yuki Hidaka

Hiroko Ikeda

Tatsuya Mori

Kenji Ikeda

Hideaki Arita

Toshihiro Matsunaga

Hiroyuki Higashino

Kenta Kubo

Yasuhiro Suzuki

Tatsuro Hino

Koji Kawamura

Kenta Motoyoshi

Hidenori Sasaki

A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core includes a plurality of core portions. The rotor core includes an annular portion and a plurality of coupling portions. Each of the plurality of coupling portions couples the annular portion and a first core portion of each of the plurality of core portions to each other. Each of the plurality of coupling portions has at least one coupling path. A sum of a width of a portion having the smallest width in at least one coupling path is smaller than a length of a joining boundary between the annular portion and each of the plurality of coupling portions.

Rotating electric machine

A resolver body including a rotor having Nx (Nx is a natural number) salient poles, a stator facing the rotor and having Ns (Ns is an integer equal to or larger than 3) teeth arranged in a circumferential direction, and an excitation winding and two phases of output windings wound on each tooth; and an excitation circuit configured to apply voltage to the excitation winding. The excitation winding and the two phases of output windings wound on each of Nsm (Nsm is an integer equal to or larger than 2) teeth among the Ns teeth are set to be of a main system. The excitation winding and the two phases of output windings wound on each of Ns-Nsm teeth are set to be of a sub-system. The number Nsm of the teeth corresponding to the main system is larger than the number Ns-Nsm of the teeth corresponding to the sub-system.

Redundant resolver and electric power steering device equipped with redundant resolver

To solve a problem that the accuracy of angle detection deteriorates owing to noise voltage generated by eccentricity or variation in shape among rotors according to the number of magnetic poles of a rotor core of a multiple-system rotation sensor, the number S of magnetic poles of a stator core is, with the number R of the magnetic poles of the rotor core and the number N (N is a natural number equal to or larger than 2) of systems for stator windings, in a relationship of S=nRN (n is a natural number), system windings of each system are wound so as to be divided for every R magnetic poles among the S magnetic poles of the stator core, and a winding arrangement of the system windings of each system is made so as to achieve R-times rotational symmetry about a rotor rotation axis.

Multiple-system rotation sensor, and electric power steering device provided with multiple-system rotation sensor

A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core, an axial end part, and a rotor magnet inserted into an insertion hole formed so as to pass through the rotor core. The axial end part has a recessed portion. The rotor magnet includes a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface is fixed to a first inner wall surface of the insertion hole. In a cross section perpendicular to the axial direction, a width of the first inner wall surface is larger than a width of the first side surface. The second side surface is fixed to a second inner wall surface of the recessed portion. In the cross section perpendicular to the axial direction, a width of the second inner wall surface is larger than a width of the second side surface.

A control device that can prevent the deterioration of temperature estimation accuracy in a rotating electric machine due to its aging deterioration is provided. The control device () includes a correction unit () to correct at least one of thermal resistance, heat generation, and thermal capacity, which are physical quantities to build a thermal circuit model (-) covering a thermal circuit of a rotating electric machine (), wherein the correction unit () corrects at least one of the thermal resistance, the heat generation, and the thermal capacity at a measurement position by using measurement information including temperature (T) or thermal flow (U) measured by a sensing unit () at the measurement position in the rotating electric machine ().

Control device and control system

This motor device includes: a motor having components including a stator and a rotor; and a controlling circuitry to control the motor. The motor is provided with temperature sensors to detect a heat transfer amount and a transfer direction about the components. The controlling circuitry includes a temperature calculator to calculate a component temperature based on a thermal circuit network from thermal resistances and heat capacities given for the components. On the basis of actual measured values of the heat transfer amount and the transfer direction obtained by the temperature sensors, the temperature calculator corrects thermal resistances and heat capacities about the components obtained on the basis of the thermal circuit network, and estimates the temperature of each component during driving of the motor.

Motor device

Provided is a rotor for a rotating electric machine, which enables suppression of a reduction in output of a rotating electric machine. The rotor for a rotating electric machine includes: a rotor core having winding-portion insertion holes and magnet insertion holes; rotor winding portions inserted into the winding-portion insertion holes; and rotor permanent magnets inserted into the magnet insertion holes, wherein each of the rotor winding portions includes: a non-magnet portion; and a rotor winding provided to the non-magnet portion, wherein each of the non-magnet portions is fixed to the rotor core, and wherein the rotor windings are fixed to the rotor core through intermediation of the non-magnet portions.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shohei Fujikura