Nsk Corporation

Yuzuru Hoshi

Toru Sakaguchi

Sachio Nakayama

Kenji Mori

Takayoshi Sugawara

Takahiro Tsubaki

Masahiro Maeda

Keita Yoshida

Yousuke Imamura

Fumitoshi Nakamura

Shinichi Tanaka

Masanori Shingou

A motor control device including: a current command value calculation unit configured to calculate a current command value for driving a motor; a current value detection unit configured to detect current flowing through the motor; a current control unit configured to output a first voltage command value according to deviation between a current detected value, the current detected value being a detected value of current detected by the current value detection unit, and the current command value; a voltage disturbance control unit configured to calculate a second voltage command value by adding output from a delay element to the first voltage command value and also input the second voltage command value to the delay element; and a driving circuit configured to drive the motor, based on the second voltage command value.

Motor control device, electric actuator product, and electric power steering device

A tuning device of an electric power steering apparatus assisting steering based on the correspondence relationship between a steering torque and a steering auxiliary command value according to the steering torque. The tuning device receives a plurality of candidate points represented by a steering torque and a candidate value of the steering auxiliary command value according to the steering torque, calculates a high order polynomial approximating the plurality of candidate points, calculates a plurality of adjustment points, the number of which is larger than the plurality of candidate points and which are represented by the steering torque and the steering auxiliary command value according to the steering torque, based on the high order polynomial, calculates a plurality of linear functions connecting two adjacent points in the plurality of adjustment points, and outputs information on the plurality of linear functions in order to adjust the correspondence relationship.

Tuning device of electric power steering apparatus

An electric power steering apparatus that protects Zener diodes without impairing steering performances by time-integrating a loss power of the Zener diodes for protecting FETs and gradually limiting a duty ratio with an increase in an integrating loss. The apparatus includes a loss power calculating section that calculates a loss power when a difference between an ignition voltage and an inverter applying voltage is equal to or more than a predetermined voltage; an integrating loss calculating section to calculate an integrating loss of the loss power; a permissible loss calculating section to calculate a permissible loss based on a temperature; a minimum value selecting section to select a minimum value of a loss difference of the permissible loss and the integrating loss; and a limit value calculating section to calculate a limit value of the PWM-signal based on the minimum value of the loss difference and the permissible loss.

Electric power steering apparatus

[Problem] An object of the present invention is to provide a control apparatus for an electric power steering apparatus that improves ripple accuracy of a torque, a velocity and so on, does not generate abnormal noises and does not generate an uncomfortable feeling with respect to a steering by compensating each-phase characteristics of a motor and the control apparatus and converting into a desired characteristic, and at the same time conforming each-phase characteristics. [Means for Solving the Problem] The present invention is a control apparatus for an electric power steering apparatus that calculates a steering assist torque command value based on a steering torque generated in a steering shaft and a velocity, calculates each-phase current command values from the steering assist torque command value, and controls a motor that provides a steering mechanism with a steering assist torque based on current control values calculated from the each-phase current command values and each-phase current values of the motor, comprising: arranging filters having a characteristic that compensates each-phase characteristics of the motor and the control apparatus at each pathway, and conforming the each-phase characteristics of the motor and the control apparatus, and at the same time, making the each-phase characteristics of the motor and the control apparatus becoming a desired characteristic.

Control apparatus for electric power steering apparatus

A motor control apparatus that is capable of making the whole control system robust not only with respect to motor parameter variations such as the temperature variation and the manufacturing unevenness but also with respect to disturbances while using a cheap and compact one-shunt type current detecting circuit and simultaneously diagnosing an estimation error and an electric power steering apparatus provide with the motor control apparatus.

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Maebashi, Japan

Yuzuru Hoshi