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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2017
Denso Corporation, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Ryo Kano, Kariya, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for controlling operation of a rotating electric machine including a plurality of winding sets. The apparatus includes a plurality of inverters for the respective winding sets and a control unit. The control unit includes a physical quantity comparator configured to compare physical quantities that are responsive to power supplied to the respective winding sets, a temperature estimator configured to estimate system temperatures that are temperatures of respective systems, each of which systems is a combination of a respective one of the plurality of winding sets and its associated components, and a parameter modifier configured to modify a parameter used to estimate a temperature of each system in response to a result of comparison between the physical quantities.