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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2002
Alexander Kurnia, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Ronan De Larminat, Northbrook, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus ( ) for measuring torque and flux current in an AC synchronous drive motor ( ), having a shaft ( ) magnetically coupled to an a-phase stator, a b-phase stator and a c-phase stator, includes a shaft position indicator ( ) that is coupled to the shaft ( ) and that generates a position signal indicative of a position of the shaft ( ). A current sensing circuit ( ) generates a current signal indicative of instantaneous direct link current of the motor ( ). A sample and hold amplifier ( ) samples the current signal when a trigger input is asserted. A processor ( ) asserts the trigger input from trigger generation ( ). The processor ( ) calculates torque generated by the motor ( ) and flux current in the motor ( ) based on the current signal value and decoding algorithm ( ).