Fanuc Corporation

Taku Sasaki

Kunio Tsuchida

Nobuo Hirayama

Kiichi Inaba

Masato Watanabe

Ryou Matsuda

Yasusuke Iwashita

Tsutomu Shikagawa

Sou Saito

Ryouta Yamaguchi

Kenichi Okuaki

Provided are a motor drive device that reduces the likelihood of mounting error during manufacture, and a method for manufacturing the same. The motor drive device is provided with: a substrate; a first mounting region for mounting first circuit component; a second mounting region for mounting a second circuit component; a first pair of connection points for connecting a first connecting wire member, constituting a first path for supplying electric current to the first circuit component, onto the substrate such that at least a part of the first connecting wire member overlaps the second mounting region; and a second pair of connection points for connecting second connecting wire member, constituting a second path for supplying electric current to the second circuit component, onto the substrate such that at least a part of the second connecting wire member overlaps the first mounting region.

Motor drive device and method for manufacturing same

A motor drive apparatus includes a smoothing capacitor unit including at least one smoothing capacitor provided between a converter circuit and an inverter circuit in a power conversion circuit that generates motor drive power, a snubber capacitor for suppressing a surge voltage of a power device forming a part of the power conversion circuit, and a support plate on which the smoothing capacitor unit is mounted, wherein an electrode terminal of the smoothing capacitor unit and an electrode terminal of the snubber capacitor are placed in proximity to each other with the support plate being sandwiched between them, and a positive electrode terminal of the smoothing capacitor unit and a positive electrode terminal of the snubber capacitor are electrically connected to each other, and a negative electrode terminal of the smoothing capacitor unit and a negative electrode terminal of the snubber capacitor are electrically connected to each other.

Motor drive apparatus including smoothing capacitor unit and snubber capacitor

A power conversion apparatus includes: an inverter unit; a first capacitor group, an positive electrode of the first capacitor group connected to an positive electrode on the DC input side of the inverter unit; a second capacitor group, a negative electrode of the second capacitor group connected to a negative electrode of the DC input side of the inverter unit; a first terminal portion connected to the positive electrode of the first capacitor group; a second terminal portion connected to a negative electrode of the first capacitor group; a third terminal portion connected to an positive electrode of the second capacitor group; and a fourth terminal portion connected to the negative electrode of the second capacitor group, wherein a distance between the first terminal portion and the third terminal portion is approximately equal to a distance between the second terminal portion and the fourth terminal portion.

Power conversion apparatus having two DC voltage modes and motor drive apparatus

An object is to provide a numerical controller and a device included in an industrial machine which manage a control program in the device included in the industrial machine and can reduce the operational burden during the updating of the control programs related to the device. A numerical controller which is connected to a motor drive device so as to be able to communicate therewith and which controls the motor drive device, includes: a program management storage unit which stores a control program that is written into the motor drive device and is executable; a program writing unit which writes the control program stored in the program management storage unit; a data acquisition portion which acquires from the motor drive device a control program that is already stored in the motor drive device; and a storage control unit which stores the acquired control program in the program management storage unit.

Numerical controller and device included in industrial machine

A connection structure includes: a support column member extending in one direction from one end to an opposite end, with the one end attached to an installation object and the opposite end having formed therein a screw hole, the support column member being configured to be non-insertable into the through hole; a surrounding member provided on a first surface of the printed board and configured to surround the opening of the through hole and to allow the opposite end of the support column member to be inserted into the surrounding member; and a fastener configured to fix the support column member to the printed board by being screw-engaged into the screw hole of the support column member inserted into the surrounding member, from a second surface side opposite to the first surface of the printed board.

Connection structure and assembly

A motor drive apparatus includes an inverter configured to convert an input DC voltage into an AC voltage for driving a motor, by ON/OFF driving of an internal power element, and outputs the AC voltage, a high-frequency current detection unit configured to detect a high-frequency current from a current flowing through a motor power line upon application of the AC voltage output from the inverter to the motor via the motor power line, and a stray capacitance estimation unit configured to estimate a stray capacitance occurring in the motor power line and the motor, based on the high-frequency current detected by the high-frequency current detection unit.

Motor drive apparatus for estimating stray capacitance

A motor drive device includes a power conversion unit configured to supply a drive current to a motor, a current detector configured to detect a current flowing from the power conversion unit into the motor, an A/D converter configured to convert the current detected by the current detector into digital data and outputs the digital data, a motor control unit configured to control the drive current supplied from the power conversion unit to the motor, using the digital data output from the A/D converter, and a sampling adjustment unit configured to adjust a sampling operation of the A/D converter performed for the current detected by the current detector, in accordance with the response time taken after the current detector detects the current until the A/D converter outputs the digital data of the current.

Motor drive device including current detector

A current detection circuit includes: a resistor in a current path; first and second signal transmission units that transmit signals of first and second terminal sides of the resistor; a first difference operation unit that executes a difference operation on the signals transmitted by the first and second signal transmission units; a noise-capturing transmission unit starting point; third and fourth signal transmission units connected with the noise-capturing transmission unit starting point; a second difference operation unit that executes a difference operation on the signals transmitted by the third and fourth signal transmission units; and a summing operation unit that executes a summing operation on the first and second difference signals, wherein the first signal transmission unit and the fourth signal transmission unit are disposed close to each other and the second signal transmission unit and the third signal transmission unit are disposed close to each other.

Current detection circuit not affected by noise

A motor driving apparatus includes an amplifier receiving, from a detector, a sine wave shaped signal detected in response to rotation of a motor, and amplifying the signal with a set amplification factor, an A/D converter for performing digital conversion by sampling the signal amplified by the amplifier at a sampling timing in a predetermined cycle, an amplification factor setting part for changing setting of the amplification factor of the amplifier, and an amplification factor set timing command part for issuing a command with respect to a timing for changing the setting of the amplification factor by the amplification factor setting part. The amplification factor set timing command part issues the command with respect to the timing so that a waveform stabilizing period until distortion in a waveform of the signal occurring when the amplification factor setting part changes the setting is stabilized does not overlap with the sampling timing.

Motor driving apparatus

A machine learning device includes a state observation unit for observing state variables that include at least one of the state of an assembly constituted of first and second components, an assembly time and information on a force, the result of a continuity test on the assembly, and at least one of position and posture command values for at least one of the first and second components and direction, speed and force command values for an assembly operation; and a learning unit for learning, in a related manner, at least one of the state of the assembly, the assembly time and the information on the force, the result of the continuity test on the assembly, and at least one of the position and posture command values for at least one of the first and second components and the direction, speed and force command values for the assembly operation.

Machine learning device for learning assembly operation and component assembly system

To provide a motor driving apparatus capable of obtaining high detection resolution irrespective of whether a frequency of a signal from a detector is high or low. A motor driving apparatus for driving a motor includes an amplifier circuit for receiving a signal from a detector for outputting information including a position and a speed of the motor as the signal, and amplifying the received signal with a set amplification factor, a frequency detecting part for detecting a frequency of the signal, and an amplification factor setting part for changing setting of the amplification factor of the amplifier circuit according to the frequency detected by the frequency detecting part.

A heat sink capable of dissipating heat concentrating on a chip portion of a power semiconductor device module efficiently is provided. A heat sink () includes a heat sink body () in which a power semiconductor device module () having a plurality of power semiconductor devices () is placed on a cooling surface Fand which radiates heat generated by the power semiconductor device (); and a heat dissipation structure portion () having a higher heat conductivity than the heat sink body () and capable of dissipating heat generated by the power semiconductor device (), wherein the heat dissipation structure portion () is provided at a position overlapping the power semiconductor device () disposed in the power semiconductor device module () in a direction (Z) orthogonal to the cooling surface (F) of the heat sink body ().

Heat sink and heat sink assembly

A machine learning apparatus includes: a state observation unit that observes a state variable including an error between a position command and an actual position of a rotor, temperature of a motor driving apparatus and the motor, and voltage of each part of the motor driving apparatus; and a learning unit that learns a current feedback offset correction value for correcting an offset in the current feedback value, an inter-current-feedback-phase unbalance correction value for correcting an unbalance between phases in the current feedback value, and a current command correction value for a dead zone for correcting a current command in order to compensate a decreased amount of current due to a dead zone by which switching elements of upper and lower arms in the same phase of an inverter for motor power supply are not simultaneously turned on, in accordance with a training data set defined by the state variable.

Machine learning apparatus and method for learning correction value in motor current control, correction value computation apparatus including machine learning apparatus and motor driving apparatus

A current detection circuit includes a first resistor and a second resistor identical in current path and equal in resistance value, a first and second signal transmission units which transmit respectively a signal representing the potential of the first resistor, a third and fourth signal transmission units which transmit respectively a signal representing the potential of the second resistor, a first difference operation unit which calculates the difference between the respective signals from the first and second signal transmission units, a second difference operation unit which calculates the difference between the respective signals from the third and fourth signal transmission units, and a summing unit which sums the signals output from the first and second difference operation units. The first signal transmission unit and the fourth signal transmission unit, and the second signal transmission unit and the third signal transmission unit are disposed in proximity to each other.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Taku Sasaki