Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Yoshimasa Nishijima

Keiichi Enoki

Shingo Harada

Masutaka Watanabe

Yasukazu Murata

Tomohisa Shoda

Shingo Yamaguchi

Kazuhiko Otsuka

Satoshi Wachi

Nozomu Kamioka

Kensuke Hayashi

Shinji Nishimura

Yasufumi Ogawa

Masahiro Iezawa

Yuji Zushi

Michitaka Fujiwara

Ryosuke Shigematsu

Daisuke Matsumuro

The control device of the alternative rotating electrical machine is configured as follows. a d-axis current command value and a q-axis current command value are kept at zero in dq vector control, in the state where the alternative rotating electrical machine is rotating. A time during which the output of the middle point level judging means is Hi is counted. A duty is calculated out from the ratio with a carrier wave cycle, and a conversion is conducted into a two-axis rotating coordinate system (three-phase to two-phase conversion) from the calculated out duty and the magnetic pole position, to calculate out a two-phase signal. The magnetic pole position origin point correction amount is calculated out based on a predetermined operation equation, from the two-phase signal. A magnetic pole position origin point correction is performed based on the calculated out magnetic pole position correction amount.

Control device of permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine

To provide a controller for AC rotary electric machine which can compensate error of the actual on-duty with respect to the command on-duty calculated from command voltage with good accuracy, with a simple circuit configuration. A controller for AC rotary electric machine detects an actual on-duty of the switching device based on the detection value of the midpoint potential which is the potential of the connection node of the series connection in the series circuit; calculates an on-duty error based on the difference between the command on-duty and the actual on-duty; and corrects the voltage command or the command on-duty based on the on-duty error.

Controller for AC rotary electric machine

A control device for an AC rotating electric machine includes: a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of a protection part; a maximum current adjustment unit configured to adjust a maximum current of an AC rotating electric machine so as to prevent the temperature of the protection part from exceeding a set temperature; an allowable torque calculation unit configured to calculate an allowable torque based on the maximum current adjusted; a torque command adjustment unit configured to adjust a torque command value directed to the AC rotating electric machine based on the allowable torque; an upper limit number-of-rotation calculation unit configured to calculate an upper-limit number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the maximum current adjusted; and a number-of-rotation adjustment unit configured to adjust the number of rotations of the AC rotating electric machine based on the upper-limit number of rotations.

AC rotating electric machine control device

MCU () determines whether at least one of double three-phase inverter () or battery () has a failure, or battery () is fully charged, and switches control to be performed in inverter () between all-phase shut off and three-phase short circuit based on a motor rotation speed of double three-phase motor () when MCU () determines that any one of inverter () and battery () has a failure, or battery () is fully charged. Battery () and inverter () can be protected when current is inhibited from flowing from motor () to battery () due to a failure of inverter () or battery ().

Motor drive device

A control device for an electric motor includes: a controller configured to apply switching control to an inverter configured to execute power conversion in accordance with a torque command, to thereby control AC power to be supplied to the electric motor; and a current sensor configured to detect a phase current, which flows through an AC cable configured to connect the electric motor and the inverter to each other, wherein the controller includes a disconnection detection unit configured to acquire the phase current detected by the current sensor as a phase current detection value, calculate based on the torque command a phase current command value directed to the electric motor, and determine presence or absence of a disconnection of the AC cable in each phase from a transition result of a difference value between the phase current command value and the phase current detection value in each phase.

Control device for electric motor and cable disconnection detection method

A rotation angle detection device for accurately detecting a rotation angle is obtained even when electromagnetic noise due to an electrical component(s) and the like of an electric automotive vehicle is superimposed on detection signals of the rotation angle detection device. The device includes a multi-phase/two-phase transformation unit for converting a plurality of detection signals, each being outputted from rotation detectors in accordance with a rotation angle of a rotating body so as to output transformed signals as two-phase signals; an addition-subtraction calculation unit for generating addition-subtraction signals by mutually performing addition to the two-phase signals and subtraction therefrom; an amplitude correction unit for modifying amplitudes of the addition-subtraction signals in accordance with an amplitude correction value, and for outputting post-correction addition-subtraction signals; and an angle calculation unit for calculating an angle based on the post-correction addition-subtraction signals, and for outputting an angular signal.

Rotation angle detection device having increased accuracy

In order to reduce deviation of correction amount when calculating a magnetic pole position correction amount of a permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine, and perform magnetic pole position correction with high accuracy, in state where the permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine is rotated, a d-axis current command value and a q-axis current command value in dg vector control are kept substantially zero, an actual d-axis voltage and an actual q-axis voltage are calculated from a midpoint potential detected from a midpoint potential detection unit, a magnetic pole position correction amount is calculated based on a predetermined arithmetic expression from the actual d-axis voltage and the actual q-axis voltage, and magnetic pole position origin correction is performed based on the magnetic pole position correction amount.

Control device for permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine

To provide a controller for an AC rotary machine capable of performing on/off control of the switching device of the set which does not fail, by considering the state of the AC rotary machine related to the windings of the failed set. A controller for an AC rotary machine, about a set in which the switching device failed, stops dq-axis current control, and turns on, in the case of the short circuit failure, and turns off, in the case of the open circuit failure, at least the respective phase switching devices of the positive electrode side or the negative electrode side which is the same side as the failed switching device; and about a set which does not fail, continues dq-axis current control and changes the current component of the d-axis according to the state of the AC rotary machine related to the windings of the failed set.

Controller for AC rotary machine

When the connection between a DC power source and a multigroup-multiphase electric-power conversion apparatus is cut off, a control apparatus controls switching devices so that the respective states of the two or more groups of electric-power conversion apparatuses included in the multigroup-multiphase electric-power conversion apparatus are each switched stepwise from all-phase short-circuiting state to an all-phase cutoff state at different timings.

Multigroup-multiphase rotating-electric-machine driving apparatus

A temperature detection condition of a temperature detection unit used in a motor system is determined by: obtaining a phase current value flowing through a motor device and obtaining a temperature detection value; calculating, as an integrated phase current value, at least one of a first integrated phase current value, which is obtained by integrating an amount by which the phase current value exceeds a first phase current threshold, and a second integrated phase current value, which is obtained by integrating an amount by which the phase current value is smaller than a second phase current threshold that is equal to or smaller than the first phase current threshold; and determining an amount of variation in the temperature detection value detected by the temperature detection unit following the start of determination of the temperature detection condition and an amount of variation in the calculated integrated phase current value.

Control device and temperature detection condition determination method for motor system

A control device of an AC rotating electrical machine includes: a midpoint potential detection unitthat detects, for respective phases, midpoint potentialsof upper switching elementsand lower switching elementsof an inverter circuit; a phase current detection unitthat detects a phase current of each phase of an AC rotating electrical machine; and a CPUthat calculates a current estimated value Idc of DC current that is input from a DC power supplyto the inverter circuit, on the basis of the detected midpoint potential of each phase and the phase current of each phase.

Control device of AC rotating electrical machine

A method and apparatus to reliably detect failure in a voltage sensor which detects battery voltage, without erroneous determination, is provided. A current sensor detects charge/discharge current of a battery. The method comprises calculating a charge/discharge current change amount based on the current detected by the current sensor. A voltage sensor detects voltage of the battery. The method also comprises calculating a voltage change amount based on the voltage detected by the voltage sensor. If the charge/discharge current change amount is equal to or greater than a predetermined value and the voltage change amount is smaller than a failure determination value, it is determined that the voltage sensor has failed.

Failure detection apparatus for voltage sensor

A motor control device having a motor temperature sensor for detecting a magnet temperature of the motor, a magnet magnetic flux calculation section that calculates a magnet magnetic flux of the motor corresponding to the magnet temperature of the motor, a current combination candidate calculating section that calculates a d-q axis current combination candidate that minimizes the input current of the inverter within a voltage limit ellipse determined by a value that can be output by a voltage of a power supply of the motor, and a d-q axis current search section that searches the d-q axis current that minimizes the input current of the inverter within the range of the combination candidate of the d-q axis currents when the d-q axis current of the motor moves on a voltage limiting ellipse by automatic weakening flux control.

Motor control device

An AC-rotating-electric-machine control apparatus includes two or more electric-power conversion circuits that control respective voltages to be applied to the two or more groups of multi-phase armature windings, for each of the two or more groups of multi-phase armature windings; each of the two or more electric-power conversion circuits has two or more switching devices for opening or closing the corresponding group of multi-phase armature windings, for each of the phases; the two or more switching devices are switching-controlled in such a way that opening operation or duty control can be applied to the corresponding group of multi-phase armature windings.

AC-rotating-electric-machine control apparatus

An inverter control device that controls a multiple of inverters configured to use the same positive and negative direct current voltage bus lines connected to a power supply and driving a corresponding multiple of motors, the inverter control device including smoothing control means that controls an inverter outflow current so that voltage of the power supply is smoothed by a smoothing capacitor connected to the positive and negative direct current voltage bus lines, and two-phase modulation operation means that fixes a predetermined one phase of a three-phase modulated wave at either a maximum voltage or minimum voltage the inverter can output determined by a voltage between the positive and negative direct current voltage bus lines, and calculates a modulated wave that causes the other two phases to switch.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshimasa Nishijima