A three-phase regenerative drive employing multiple converter pulse width modulation (PWM) strategies. The drive includes a three-phase converter having inputs for connection to a three-phase AC source, the three-phase converter having three phase legs, a DC bus operably connected to the three-phase converter wherein the three phase converter is configured to direct current from the three-phase AC source to the DC bus, and a three-phase inverter operably connected to the DC bus and a motor, the three phase inverter configured to draw current from the DC bus and provide three phase command signals to the motor. The three-phase converter employs a first PWM strategy to supply current to the DC bus, and the converter employs a second PWM strategy to supply current to the DC bus if a total current in the three phase legs exceeds a selected threshold.

A method for driving an electric motor includes providing two controllers for driving the electric motor. The two controllers use different control methods to drive the electric motor. The method further includes selecting a first controller of the controllers as a primary controller to drive the electric motor and a second controller of the controllers as a secondary controller, monitoring a control of the electric motor, and switching the control of the electric motor from the primary controller to the secondary controller if an error condition is detected in the control of the electric motor.

A three-phase regenerative drive employing multiple converter pulse width modulation (PWM) strategies. The drive includes a three-phase converter having inputs for connection to a three-phase AC source, the three-phase converter having three phase legs, a DC bus operably connected to the three-phase converter wherein the three phase converter is configured to direct current from the three-phase AC source to the DC bus, and a three-phase inverter operably connected to the DC bus and a motor, the three phase inverter configured to draw current from the DC bus and provide three phase command signals to the motor. The three-phase converter employs a first PWM strategy to supply current to the DC bus, and the converter employs a second PWM strategy to supply current to the DC bus if a total current in the three phase legs exceeds a selected threshold.

A motor control device for controlling a brushless motor including a rotor and a three-phase armature coil includes: a position detection unit which detects the rotational position of the rotor; a control unit which outputs, in a first control mode or a second control mode, a first drive signal or a second drive signal to an inverter at a current-supply timing based on the rotational position of the rotor; and the inverter which outputs a first current-supply signal or a second current-supply signal to the three-phase armature coil when the first drive signal or the second drive signal is input. For any two of the three phases, a duty value when the duty of the applied voltages is the same is larger in the second control mode than in the first control mode.

A washing machine is provided. The washing machine includes an inner tub, a motor connected to the inner tub through a rotating shaft, an inverter circuit operatively connected to the motor and comprising three pairs of bridged switching elements, and at least one processor configured to provide a modulation signal to the inverter circuit to turn on or off the three pairs of bridged switching elements so as to convert DC power into AC power. The at least one processor is further configured to provide the modulation signal to two pairs of switching elements among the three pairs of bridged switching elements for a first time period in a first mode, provide the modulation signal to the three pairs of bridged switching elements for a second time period in a second mode, ad alternately perform the first mode and the second mode.

A system includes a three phase AC or brushless DC motor, an inverter and a controller. The inverter is electrically coupled to the motor. The controller is -electrically coupled to the inverter. The controller is configured to control the inverter to deliver a three phase pulse width modulated voltage to the AC motor, wherein the three phase pulse width modulation comprises a repeating two-cycle pattern.

An electrical motor device according to the present invention is provided with a control unit. The control unit is configured to adjust the ratio of transformation by adjusting the ratio between a first time period, in which all upper-arm-side switching elements are on and all lower-arm-side switching element are off, and a second time period, in which all upper-arm-side switching elements are off and all lower-arm-side switching elements are on, and to select one of a plurality of driving modes for each control cycle. The plurality of driving modes include: a dual-driving mode including the first time period and the second time period in one control cycle during electrical motor driving; and an electrical motor driving mode not including the first time period and the second time period in one control cycle during electrical motor driving.

The invention mainly relates to a method for controlling a rotating electrical machine (7) interacting with a motor vehicle gearbox (1), characterized in that, during a phase of synchronization between two speed ratios (R1-Rn) during which the rotating electrical machine (7) is controlled for speed and there is a change of the type of modulation with transition from modulation of the full-wave type (FW) to pulse-width modulation (PWM), said method comprises a control step with the aim of limiting the variations of an output current of an inverter during the phase of change of the type of modulation without compensation of torque variations.

A motor driver having a high success rate starting mechanism is provided. A multi-segment slope pattern circuit connects a plurality of values of waveforms of a starting waveform signal to form a curve. The multi-segment slope pattern circuit determines a plurality of slopes respectively of a plurality of curve segments included in the curve according to a plurality of parameters related to a motor. The multi-segment slope pattern circuit outputs a multi-segment slope pattern signal according to the plurality of slopes of the plurality of curve segments. A startup signal generating circuit outputs a first startup waveform signal according to the multi-segment slope pattern signal. A motor controller circuit controls a motor driving circuit to start up the motor according to the first startup waveform signal.

To provide an AC rotary machine controller which can improve setting accuracy of torque command correction value in a region where change of torque command correction value to change of rotational speed and torque becomes large and where nonlinearity is high, and can suppress increase in data amount of correction value setting map. In correction value setting map, one or both of a torque axis unequal interval setting that sets interval of the torque command map axis to unequal interval in each rotational speed; and a rotation axis unequal interval setting that sets interval of the rotational speed map axis to unequal interval were done.