H02P21/50

Motor driving apparatus

A motor driving apparatus of driving a motor including a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases is disclosed The motor driving apparatus includes a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the windings, a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and connected to a second end of each of the windings, and a controller connected to the first switching elements and the second switching elements and configured to determine an effective vector closest to a voltage vector corresponding to a preset voltage command of the motor as a duty of the plurality of second switching elements and to control pulse width modulation of the first switching elements using a value obtained by adding the effective vector corresponding to the duty of the second switching elements to the voltage command of the motor as a voltage command of the first inverter.

Power conversion device and electric power steering device

A power conversion device is configured to output on/off signals for switching on and off respective semiconductor switching elements of an inverter configured to invert a DC voltage output from a DC power supply into three-phase AC voltages so that, out of a plurality of voltage vectors defined so as to correspond to patterns of the on/off signals, the second closest voltage vector and the third closest voltage vector in phase to a current vector that is based on currents supplied as a result of output of the three-phase AC voltages from the inverter are formed.

ELECTRIC MACHINES WITH EFFICIENT TORQUE TRANSITIONS
20230283211 · 2023-09-07 ·

An electric machine is provided. A polyphase machine is provided. A power inverter is electrically connected to the polyphase machine. A controller is electrically connected to the power inverter, wherein the controller provides switching signals to the power inverter, wherein the controller comprises a trajectory calculator that provides an optimized trajectory for transitioning the polyphase machine from a first torque to a second torque.

Inverter switching frequency control systems and methods

A motor control system includes: a voltage command module configured to determine a target d-axis voltage for an electric motor and a target q-axis voltage for the electric motor; a target frequency module configured to: selectively set a target switching frequency to a first predetermined switching frequency; and selectively set the target switching frequency to a second predetermined switching frequency that is at least 2 kilohertz (kHz) greater than the first predetermined switching frequency; and a switching module configured to: based on the target d-axis voltage and the target q-axis voltage, determine target pulse width modulation (PWM) duty cycles for phases, respectively, of the electric motor; and switch switches of legs of an inverter module connected to the phases of the electric motor at the target PWM duty cycles, respectively, and the target switching frequency.

MOTOR AND ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICE THEREOF
20220294380 · 2022-09-15 ·

The disclosure provides a motor and an energy conversion device. The motor includes a motor coil having x sets of windings. A number of phases of the x sets of windings is m.sub.x. In each of the x sets of windings, each phase winding includes n.sub.x coil branches. A first end of each of the n.sub.x coil branches is connected with a first end of a coil branch separated from the coil branch by an electrical angle of 360 degrees, to form m.sub.x phase endpoints. A second end of each of the n.sub.x coil branches of each phase winding is connected with a second end of a coil branch separated from the coil branch by an electrical angle of P*(360*k.sub.1+360/m.sub.x) degrees to form n.sub.x neutral points, n.sub.x≥m.sub.x≥2, n.sub.x≥3, p=±1, 1≤k.sub.1≤(n.sub.x−1), and m.sub.x, n.sub.x, and k.sub.1 are integers.

Apparatus and method for detecting BLDC motor overload

The present disclosure provides a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor overload detection apparatus. The BLDC motor overload detection apparatus includes a measurer for measuring an electrical angle of the BLDC motor, a determiner for determining whether a difference between the electrical angle measured by the measurer and a mechanical angle of the BLDC motor, estimated through current supplied to the BLDC motor, is within a predetermined range, and a driving controller for control of driving of the BLDC motor according to whether the BLDC motor stalls, determined by the determiner.

Control method and apparatus, power system, and electric vehicle

The present application provides a control method, an apparatus, a power system, and an electric vehicle, relating to the field of electric vehicles. The method includes: obtaining a battery cell temperature of a power battery, and sending a first control signal to an inverter when the battery cell temperature meets a preset power battery heating condition, where the first control signal is configured to control the inverter to convert a current provided by the power battery into an alternating current with a randomly changing frequency, and the alternating current with a randomly changing frequency is configured to supply power to a permanent magnet motor. New frequency components may be introduced to evenly distribute originally concentrated radial electromagnetic forces to an entire stator, thereby reducing vibration noises during the heating process of the power battery.

METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HEATING OF MOTOR AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MULTI-MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM
20220294381 · 2022-09-15 ·

A method for controlling heating of a motor includes: obtaining a heating target temperature value; determining, based on the heating target temperature value, a heating motor that needs to generate heat from a plurality of motors of a multi-motor drive system and heat generation power of the heating motor; and sending a first control instruction to the heating motor. The first control instruction is used to respectively input harmonic currents to three phases of windings of the motor, so that the heating motor generates heat based on the heat generation power. In this way the heating target temperature value is obtained. Therefore, the quantity of heating motors can be flexibly controlled to generate sufficient heat generation power.

Device for protecting an electrical machine

An apparatus for protecting an electrical machine in the event of a fault, the electrical machine having six phase terminals includes a monitoring unit for detecting a fault of the electrical machine and a switchover unit for switching the electrical machine from a normal operating state into a short-circuit operating state if a fault of the electrical machine is detected. The switchover unit is designed to short-circuit the six phase terminals of the electrical machine asynchronously in accordance with a predefined pattern.

POWER DETECTING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF

A power detecting device includes a vehicle driving system, a battery detecting module and a controlling module. A first stator winding and a second stator winding are synchronized and connected in parallel with each other. A first end of a first current sensor is coupled to a first-phase winding end of the first stator winding for measuring a first-phase current. A first end of a second current sensor is coupled to a second-phase winding end of the first stator winding for measuring a second-phase current. The battery detecting module is coupled to a first power supply for measuring a current signal and a voltage signal. A controller generates a first power according to the current signal and the voltage signal and generates a second power according to a plurality of data from a database. The controller compares the first power with the second power to generate a detecting result.