An electric motor control system, including an electric motor having a first winding set including first and second parallel windings, the first and second windings operable to each current based on the combined phase current, and a differential current sensor operably coupled to the first winding and the second winding. The differential current sensor measuring a differential current flowing through the first winding and the second winding and operable to transmit a signal indicative of the differential current based on the measuring. The system also includes a motor controller connected to the electric motor, the motor controller operable to direct the combined phase current through the phase lead, receive the differential current signal, determine if the differential current flowing through the winding set exceeds a selected threshold, and identify a health status of the motor winding set as degraded if the differential current exceeds the selected threshold.

A system and a method of isolating a fault in an electric motor system having a motor drive electronics (MDE) component that is configured to drive an electric motor with a plurality of phases, the MDE executing a method of isolating the fault that includes applying an excitation to a first phase and a second phase of the electric motor in a first direction and sensing a phase current value for each phase phases of the electric motor. The method also includes providing an excitation, for the first and second phase in an opposite direction of the first direction and measuring a phase current value for each phase. The applying, sensing, providing and measuring is repeated for every possible combination of phases of the electric motor. Finally, the method includes isolating the fault within the electric motor system based on the sensed and measured current values.

A power conversion device includes a first inverter and a control circuit that controls an on/off operations of switches in the first inverter and diagnoses disconnection failures of n-phase windings, where n is an integer of three or more. The control circuit generates a control signal to turn off all of n low-side switches and n high-side switches, supplies the control signal to the n low-side switches and the n high-side switches and measures the n-phase voltages that change depending on patterns of on failures of the switches, and executes a first failure diagnosis to diagnose the on failures of the n low-side switches and the n high-side switches based on the measured n-phase voltages by referring to a table associating the patterns of the on failures of the switches with n-phase voltage levels.

An electric motor control system, including an electric motor having a first winding set including first and second parallel windings, the first and second windings operable to each current based on the combined phase current, and a differential current sensor operably coupled to the first winding and the second winding. The differential current sensor measuring a differential current flowing through the first winding and the second winding and operable to transmit a signal indicative of the differential current based on the measuring. The system also includes a motor controller connected to the electric motor, the motor controller operable to direct the combined phase current through the phase lead, receive the differential current signal, determine if the differential current flowing through the winding set exceeds a selected threshold, and identify a health status of the motor winding set as degraded if the differential current exceeds the selected threshold.

A method for controlling a drive having at least one converter, at least one motor and an assigned drive control, wherein a failsafe CPU is operated separately from the drive control and only processes safety-relevant information, where a number of safety functions are implemented by the failsafe CPU such that the safety-relevant functions of the drive are implemented in a simple and reliable manner.

A window control device for a vehicle, and a method therefor, include a driving motor configured to drive a window glass, a first sensor configured to generate one pulse signal corresponding to a rotation of the driving motor, a second sensor configured to sense a voltage signal provided to the driving motor, and a controller configured to perform a safety function based on the one pulse signal generated by the first sensor and the voltage signal sensed by the second sensor. Although a fault occurs in one of two hall sensors, the window control device may normally perform the safety function.

Disclosed an electricity amount detection method and device, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes that: Identity (ID) information of each function device called by an application is acquired according to ID information of the application; a power consumption parameter generated when each function device is called is correspondingly acquired according to the ID information of each function device called by the application; a power consumption parameter generated when the application is running is determined according to the power consumption parameter generated by each function device; and the power consumption parameter generated when the application is running is output as a power consumption index when the application is running.

A motor drive device includes an inverter circuit, a switching circuit that switches between conduction and interruption between a power supply and the inverter circuit, and a switching driver that outputs, to the switching circuit, a command voltage which commands a switching operation. The switching circuit includes a first field-effect transistor (FET) and a second FET connected in series with sources of each other in order from a side of the power supply, and the switching driver includes an output circuit that outputs an interruption command voltage in a case in which a potential difference between drains of the FETs exceeds a threshold value, and a delay circuit that causes a timing at which the command voltage is input to a gate of the first FET to be later than a timing at which the command voltage is input to a gate of the second FET.

A drive circuit for driving an electronically commutated motor contains a DC voltage intermediate circuit, and an inverter which is connected to the latter and has a bridge circuit containing a plurality of circuit breakers, to which the motor phases of a motor configuration containing the motor can be connected. For detecting an insulation fault in the motor configuration, a positive or negative circuit breaker of the inverter is switched on, while all other circuit breakers of the inverter are switched off before all circuit breakers of the inverter are switched off. A motor phase voltage of a selected motor phase of the motor phases with respect to a reference potential is then captured, while all circuit breakers of the inverter remain switched off in order to determine whether there is an insulation fault on the motor phase on a basis of a voltage profile of the motor phase voltage.

A driver and protection circuit for driving a power switch is disclosed. The driver and protection circuit includes a fault detection block configured to detect a discrepancy between a reference drive signal and a measured voltage at a gate of the power switch. The driver and protection circuit also includes a short circuit detection block configured to detect a gate-to-source short circuit or a gate-to-drain short circuit of the power switch. The driver and protection circuit further includes a latch coupled to the fault detection block and the short circuit detection block to selectively turn off an output driver coupled to the gate of the power switch when a fault or a short circuit is detected, and wherein the latch is configured to send a diagnostic signal when the fault or the short circuit is detected.