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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2001
Yukio Kawabata, Hitachinaka, JP;
Yasuo Notohara, Hitachiota, JP;
Kazuo Tahara, Hitachi, JP;
Yuhachi Takakura, Oyama, JP;
Makoto Ishii, Utsunomiya, JP;
Hiroshi Shinozaki, Ohira, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention supplies a position detection circuit, and a motor controller, that can not only obtain rotor position detection signals properly over the entire PWM control region, but also obtain these signals properly during PAM control. In a brushless motor controller based on the present invention to detect the magnetic pole position of the stator in the motor in accordance with the stator coil terminal voltages of multiple phases and control the energization of the stator coils, the comparison result information signal, after being obtained through comparison between the detected voltage values corresponding to the foregoing terminal voltages, and a reference voltage value, is directly entered into control circuits, then the position of the rotor in the motor is properly detected immediately after power-on switching, without a rotor position detection inhibition time interval being provided, and the motor is controlled properly.