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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2015
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Jaroslav Lepka, Frenstat Pod Radhostem, CZ;
Libor Prokop, Brno, CZ;
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for electric motor thermal management is provided. A thermal model allows estimation of temperatures of an electric motor and determination of a motor overload condition. The thermal model is based on electrical parameters that can be measured in a motor control circuit. An electric motor control method and circuit utilizes a back electromotive force (EMF) measurement circuit, a processor coupled to the back EMF measurement circuit for receiving a back EMF measurement and for calculating a thermal model of the electric motor, the thermal model based on a stator-to-ambient thermal resistance value accounting for a sum of a stator-to-case thermal resistance and a case-to-ambient thermal resistance, and an electric motor driver circuit coupled to the processor for providing drive signals for controlling delivery of power to the electric motor based on the thermal model of the electric motor.