Provided is a motor drive device capable of adjusting a 0-axis current to a desired value. A motor drive device (inverter device 100) for an open winding type motor 200 in which a stator winding wire includes three-phase independent winding wires 210, 220, and 230 includes a plurality of single-phase inverters 160, 170, and 180 provided for each of the winding wires 210 to 230 to individually apply a voltage to a corresponding winding wire, and a controller 150 that controls each of the single-phase inverters 160 to 180. The controller 150 adjusts a 0-axis current to a predetermined value by alternately and repeatedly generating a first period in which a sum of voltages applied to the respective independent winding wires 210 to 230 is set to a value other than zero to offset the 0-axis current and a second period in which the sum of the voltages applied to the respective winding wires 210 to 230 is set to zero.

A control apparatus is provided for controlling energization of a multiple-winding rotating electric machine. The control apparatus includes inverters respectively corresponding to winding sets of the machine and a controller. The unit of a group of components provided for the energization of one winding set is defined as a system. The controller is configured to: (1) offset switching timings of switch elements of each of the inverters from those of switch elements of any other of the inverters; and (2) determine switching patterns of systems, based on an evaluation function of common-mode voltages of the systems, so as to minimize electro-magnetic interference due to the common-mode voltages. In each of the systems, the common-mode voltage of the system is defined as the difference in electric potential between a neutral point in voltage of a DC power source and a neutral point of the winding set corresponding to the system.

It is an object of the present invention to reduce detection error of zero-phase current.

A control device of a motor in which a winding is independently connected for each phase, the control device including: a control unit controlling a voltage applied to the motor on the basis of a torque command value, wherein the control unit provides a first period in which a zero-phase voltage pulse for outputting a zero-phase voltage for reducing a zero-phase current which is determined based on an alternating current of each phase is output, and a second period in which a current of each phase flowing in the motor is detected, and the first period and the second period are not overlapped.

A dynamically-reconfigurable power converter includes a controller circuit and switching circuitry. The switching circuitry includes a first set of nodes electrically connectable to terminals of an energy storage device, a second set of nodes electrically connectable to at least one winding of a rotational electric machine, and a third set of nodes electrically connectable to an external power source. Electrical measurement circuitry monitors electrical conditions at the first set of nodes and the third set of nodes. The switching circuitry is operative in a first mode to regulate power delivery from the first set of nodes to the second set of nodes, and in a second mode to regulate power delivery between the third set of nodes and the first set of nodes via the second set of nodes.

Provided is a motor drive device capable of adjusting a 0-axis current to a desired value.

A motor drive device (inverter device 100) for an open winding type motor 200 in which a stator winding wire includes three-phase independent winding wires 210, 220, and 230 includes a plurality of single-phase inverters 160, 170, and 180 provided for each of the winding wires 210 to 230 to individually apply a voltage to a corresponding winding wire, and a controller 150 that controls each of the single-phase inverters 160 to 180. The controller 150 adjusts a 0-axis current to a predetermined value by alternately and repeatedly generating a first period in which a sum of voltages applied to the respective independent winding wires 210 to 230 is set to a value other than zero to offset the 0-axis current and a second period in which the sum of the voltages applied to the respective winding wires 210 to 230 is set to zero.

This motor driving apparatus comprises a first inverter, a second inverter, a plurality of opening and closing connections, a plurality of semiconductor switch elements, and a controller. The controller, at the opening or closing of the opening and closing connections, executes a pseudo neutral point operation and turns on the semiconductor switch elements in advance. First wirings each have a first inductance, second wirings each have a second inductance, and third wirings each have a third inductance. The third inductance value is smaller than the total of the first inductance value and the second inductance value.

An apparatus for enabling a two-stage inverter to switch between modes includes: a first inverter unit, a second inverter unit, a load connected between the first inverter unit and the second inverter unit, a mode switching unit connected between the load and the second inverter unit, and a control unit configured to drive the load in an one-stage inverter mode or a two-stage inverter mode by performing a control that turns on or off the mode switching unit.