Denso Corporation

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Tatsuru Morioka

Tsuneyuki Egami

Hiroya Tsuji

Junji Miyachi

Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Keiichiro Banzai

Takahiro Yamada

Takahumi Oowada

Hiroshi Inamura

Soichi Yoshinaga

Makoto Okamura

Yousuke Setaka

Kenichi Wakabayashi

Takatoshi Takai

Shinobu Yamakawa

A control apparatus for use with an electric power conversion system which is equipped with a dc/ac converter connected to an electric rotating machine and a capacitor joined to input terminals of the dc/ac converter. The control apparatus stores an angle of rotation (i.e., start angle &#x3b8;) of the electric rotating machine before start of control of energization of the electric rotating machine to discharge the capacitor and determines command currents idr and iqr which will result in zero (0) torque in the electric rotating machine. The control apparatus includes a command current correcting circuit which corrects the command currents idr and iqr by a difference between a current angle &#x3b8; of rotation of the electric rotating machine and the start angle &#x3b8;, thereby avoiding constant rotation of the electric rotating machine when the capacitor is discharged.

Control apparatus for electric rotating machine

A control device has a unit for determining a controlled phase of a controlled voltage outputted from an inverter to a generator according to a difference between a target torque and an estimated torque of the generator, a unit for calculating an instructed vector norm of the controlled voltage from the target torque, an electrical angular speed of the generator and parameters indicating characteristics of the generator, a unit for correcting the instructed norm to an adjusted vector norm such that a phase of current flowing through the generator in response to the controlled voltage set at the controlled phase and the adjusted norm is controlled to a phase of an instructed current determined from the target torque, and a unit for controlling the generator by controlling the inverter to output the controlled voltage set at the controlled phase and the adjusted norm to the generator.

Control device and control system for electric rotating machine

A control device has a unit for preparing a pattern having first and second periods by comparing a triangular wave and a sine wave having an amplitude ratio set at each value of a modulation factor, and selecting one pattern corresponding to an instructed modulation factor, and a unit for applying a controlled voltage, set at low and high levels in response to first and second periods of the selected pattern, to a generator. The triangular wave has a cycle duration obtained by dividing the cycle duration of the generator by product of 3 and odd number, a crest having a level higher than the sine wave at a timing of each first period, and a trough having a level lower than the sine wave at a timing of each second period.

Control device for electric rotating machine and method of controlling the machine

The invention provides techniques for reducing or altering the magnetic noise of an AC rotary electric machine. A magnetic noise reducing harmonic current of order n, whose frequency is n times the frequency of the fundamental frequency component of a polyphase AC current fed to an armature of a polyphase AC rotary electric machine, is superimposed on the polyphase AC current, thereby reducing or altering a harmonic component having a frequency (n&#x2212;1) times the frequency of the fundamental frequency component and occurring due to a radial magnetic excitation force acting radially on an iron core of the AC rotary electric machine. Magnetic noise is caused by a vibration whose energy is the sum of the circumferential and radial vibrations of the iron core occurring due to the magnetomotive force of the rotor, and altering the radial vibration is particularly effective in altering the magnetic noise; as the harmonic component of the radially acting magnetic excitation force, occurring due to harmonic components having frequencies 3, 5, 7, and 13 times the fundamental frequency, has a frequency 6 or 12 times the fundamental frequency, the magnetomotive force of the rotor can be effectively reduced or altered when a current having a frequency 7 or 13 times the fundamental frequency is superimposed on the stator current.

Magnetic noise reduction method for AC rotary electric machine, and motor control apparatus and AC rotary electric machine apparatus using the same

A power source control apparatus for parallel and series hybrid vehicles is provided. The power source control apparatus determines a required torque of a power source consisting of a generator-motor and an internal combustion engine based on a parameter indicating an operational mode of the vehicle and interrupts fuel supply to the internal combustion engine in a cycle based on the required torque of the power source so as to minimize a fuel consumption. The power source control apparatus further determines a required torque of the generator-motor based on the required torque of the power source and an output torque of the internal combustion engine to switch an operation mode of the generator-motor between a generator mode and a motor mode so as to compensate for a variation in output of the internal combustion engine during the cyclic fuel cut control.

Power source control apparatus for hybrid vehicles

In order to reduce distortion of a real-current wave form and to suppress substantial transient fluctuation of the current and torque during changeover from a regeneration running condition to the power running condition of a three-phase induction motor, changeover from the three-phase-modulation control to the two-phase-modulation control is carried at the same time the power running condition of the motor is changed to the regeneration running condition according to the motor-state-quantum such as a detected slip ratio, detected torque, detected current or the like. Thus, distortion of the motor-current wave form is reduced and significant fluctuation of the motor-current and torque during the changeover is reduced.

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Okazaki, Japan

Tatsuru Morioka