Denso Corporation

Jtekt Corporation

Yoshihide Kuroda

Haruo Suzuki

Nobuhiko Uryu

Kouichi Nakamura

Takahiro Toko

Ryo Irie

Naoki Matsuda

Atsuo Sakai

Nobuyori Nakazima

Satoshi Sugiyama

A motor control device drives a motor based on a vehicle signal including drive assist information and performs vehicle control. The motor control device includes: a first controller and a second controller that perform a calculation operation concerning drive control over the motor. A first microcomputer corresponds to a calculation portion of the first controller. A second microcomputer corresponds to a calculation portion of the second controller. The first microcomputer and the second microcomputer mutually transmit and receive operation results by inter-microcomputer communication, or the first microcomputer unilaterally transmits an operation result from the first microcomputer by the inter-microcomputer communication. The first microcomputer and the second microcomputer synchronize timings to start and end control by performing at least one of three types of arbitration processes including: an AND-start arbitration process; an OR-start arbitration process; and a forced arbitration process.

Motor control device

An ECU includes a plurality of control circuits which is configured to control driving of a motor and communicate each other. The control circuits are configured to switch control modes including an ADS mode for controlling the driving of the motor based on a steering angle command &#x3b8;s* and a torque control mode for controlling the driving of the motor based on a torque command value. A first control circuit, which calculates an EPS current command value shared by the plurality of control circuits in an EPS mode, and a second control circuit, which calculates an ADS current command value shared by the plurality of control units in an ADS mode, are different. This makes it possible to reduce a calculation load as compared with a case where the same control circuit serves as an EPS master and an ADS master.

Rotary electric machine control device and method

A controller for a motor includes a first processing circuit and a second processing circuit. The first processing circuit is configured to execute a first operation amount calculation process, an operation process, and an output process. The first operation amount calculation process is a process of calculating a first operation amount. The operation process is a process of operating a first drive circuit. The second processing circuit is configured to execute a second operation amount calculation process, a first use operation process, a second use operation process, and an initial value setting process. The second operation amount calculation process is a process of calculating a second operation amount. The initial value setting process is a process of setting an initial value of an integral element depending on a value of an integral element of the first operation amount calculation process.

Controller for motor

In an electric power steering system, a motor outputs, based on an AC voltage controlled by switching elements using a power-supply voltage from a power source, assist torque for assisting a driver's turning effort of a steering member. A voltage monitor monitors the power-supply voltage, and a determiner determines whether the power-supply voltage is lower than an assistive voltage. The assistive voltage is defined as a voltage that enables the motor to output the assist torque. A temperature detector detects a temperature of each switching element. A motor control unit determines whether the temperature of each switching element is lower than a heat-resistant temperature of the corresponding switching element. The motor control unit controls a motor current when it is determined that the power-supply voltage is lower than the assistive voltage, and the temperature of at least one switching element is lower than the heat-resistant temperature.

Electric power steering system

A motor control device for a motor includes: an inverter circuit supplying power of a battery to the motor; an inverter input voltage detector detecting an inverter input voltage; and a controller including a drive controller for the motor and an abnormality determination unit for determining power feeding abnormality. The abnormality determination unit determines the power feeding abnormality when the inverter input voltage is lower than a voltage threshold and a current from the battery to the inverter circuit is in a determinable range. The abnormality determination unit determines, based on a motor current electrically conducted to the motor or a rotational speed of the motor, whether the current is in the determinable range. A determination threshold in accordance with the determinable range is set that the inverter input voltage is equal to or higher than the voltage threshold when the power feeding region is normal.

Motor control device and electric power steering device including the same

A microcomputer o n EPS performs failure diagnosis of a motor or a motor driving circuit after an ignition switch is turned on and before an ECU starts control of power supply to the motor. When an angular velocity of the motor rotatable with a steering wheel is greater than a predetermined value, the failure diagnosis is not made. Thus, a period from the turn-on of the ignition switch to the start of current supply control is shortened.

A motor control apparatus includes an A/D converter, which is a hardware part for converting an analog signal of a sensor to a digital signal, a microcomputer, which is a software part, and a drive circuit, which is a hardware part for driving an inverter to supply electric power to a motor. The microcomputer includes calculation blocks, each of which is a calculation block for individually calculating an output from an input. The microcomputer further executes, in parallel to control calculations, software monitor processing for each calculation block to monitor whether the control calculation is executed normally. The motor control apparatus thus can detect a software abnormality without using a monitoring hardware circuit separately.

Motor control apparatus and electric power steering apparatus using the same

In a motor driving device, a first relay portion is connected between a power source and an inverter portion, a second relay portion is connected between the first relay portion and the inverter portion, and a motor relay portion is connected between the inverter portion and a winding group of a motor. Inverter pre-driver circuits respectively drive switching elements of the inverter portion. A first pre-driver circuit drives the first relay portion. A second pre-driver circuit drives the second relay portion and the motor relay portion. A controller controls driving of the inverter portion, the first relay portion, the second relay portion, and the motor relay portion, and detects a failure of the first relay portion, the second relay portion, and the motor relay portion.

Motor driving device and electric power steering apparatus including motor driving device

A power relay is provided in a power line, which supplies power from a power source to a motor through an inverter circuit, to shut off power supply from the power source to the inverter circuit when an abnormality arises. A microcomputer diagnoses a short-circuit failure of the power relay when a steering wheel is not steered during a normal control operation of assisting the steering operation of the steering wheel. An EPS shuts off power supply by the power relay when the steering wheel is not steered, so that the short-circuit failure of the power relay is diagnosed without affecting the assist operation for the steering wheel.

A motor control device detecting short-circuit and disconnection faults of a power relay includes: a drive circuit of a motor; the power relay having first and second switching elements; a capacitor; a voltage detector detecting a voltage of the first switching element; a charger charging the capacitor; and a controller detects a short-circuit fault of the first and second switching elements according to the detection voltage when the first and second switching elements turn off after the charger charges the capacitor, detects a disconnection fault of the second switching element according to the detection voltage when the first switching element turns off, and the second switching element turns on and detects a disconnection fault of the first switching element according to the detected voltage when the first switching element turns on, and the second switching element turns off.

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Kariya, Japan

Yoshihide Kuroda