A diagnostic apparatus for an electric drive object that generates a drive force in response to receiving electric power, the diagnostic apparatus includes a circuitry configured to: acquire time series force data associated with the drive force; identify a force oscillation level associated with the drive force based on the force data; set an oscillation threshold at a first level when the drive object operates at a first speed and set the threshold at a second level higher than the first level when the drive object operates at a second speed higher than the first speed; and identify an irregularity of the drive object in response to determining that the force oscillation level exceeds the oscillation threshold.

In a two-phase modulation type three-phase inverter control method having a pause section in which a pulse signal obtained by comparing a modulated wave signal for driving a motor and a carrier signal is not output, a pulse signal generation unit switches a first carrier signal to a second carrier signal when an electric angle of the motor is within the pause section for each of three phases.

The present invention addresses the problem of properly performing motor control during overmodulation. In a motor control device 1, a carrier wave frequency adjusting unit 16 adjusts a carrier wave frequency fc so as to change a voltage phase error Δθv representing the phase difference between three-phase voltage commands Vu*, Vv*, Vw* and a triangular wave signal Tr. When a modulation factor H in accordance with the voltage amplitude ratio between the DC power supplied from a high voltage battery to an inverter and AC power output from the inverter to a motor exceeds a predetermined value, for example, 1.15, a current control unit 14 corrects the amplitudes and phases of a d-axis voltage command Vd* and a q-axis voltage command Vq* on the basis of a carrier wave phase difference Δθcarr representing the phase of the triangular wave signal Tr.

A control apparatus of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor; a stator including a multiphase stator winding provided with conductor portions arranged in a circumferential direction thereof. The rotary electric machine is configured of any one of a first configuration having a first inter-conductor member using a magnetic material; a second configuration having a second inter-conductor member using a non-magnetic material; and a third configuration having no inter-conductor member. The control apparatus includes: a drive circuit with switching elements provided for each phase, supplying power to the multiphase stator winding; and a control unit controlling the drive circuit such that a period where a conduction ratio of the switching elements for one phase in the drive circuit is maintained at a constant value is more than or equal to 120 degrees and less than 180 degrees in electrical angle.

A motor driver for driving a motor including three-phase windings includes: an inverter that applies a desired voltage to the motor; and an inverter controller that controls an operation of the inverter. The inverter includes: a current detector that detects a direct current in a first connecting line among three-phase connecting lines connecting the respective three-phase windings and the inverter; and a current detector that detects an alternating current in a second connecting line among the three-phase connecting lines, and a maximum direct current is caused to flow to the first connecting line in a first control mode for positioning a rotor of the motor.

A random value integration unit 175 outputs a random value output from a random value generation unit 174 in a diffusion width Rand output from a diffusion width generation unit 173 by a product of an output of the random value generation unit 174 and an output of the diffusion width generation unit 173. A triangular wave signal generation unit 176 generates a triangular wave signal corresponding to a second carrier frequency fc2 which is obtained by adding the random value output from the random value integration unit 175 to a first carrier frequency fc1 which is an output of a carrier frequency setting unit 171. That is, a frequency obtained by increasing the diffusion width of the first carrier frequency fc1 is used as the second carrier frequency fc2, and the second carrier frequency is used as the carrier frequency.

Provided is a noise remover of a PWM motor without a frequency control filter in a PWM control motor, and more particularly, includes a micom formed in the vehicle terminal and converting to and transmitting the frequency avoiding the radio frequency; a frequency filter for suppressing the noise converted by the micom; a motor part for transmitting the frequency that the frequency filter outputs to a vehicle motor, and operating the motor; and a pulse modulation/demodulation control part for controlling the rotation amount of the vehicle motor inside the motor part, which are divided roughly as four, and rotate a rotor of the motor part without noise by selectively applying the frequency which is not overlapped with radio frequency to a first FET, a second FET, a third FET, and a fourth FET.

An input voltage control method includes: a power supply, a first rectifier circuit and a second rectifier circuit connected between the positive terminal and the negative terminal of the power supply. The first rectifier circuit and the second rectifier circuit are connected in parallel with each other, an output end of the first rectifier circuit is connected to the motor via a driver circuit. An output end of the second rectifier circuit is connected to a controller through a voltage detection circuit. The controller collects a bus current value and collects a bus voltage value. The controller stores a target duty cycle value and a target voltage value. The controller determines a corresponding target voltage value based on the collected bus current value and obtains an output control duty cycle to drive the motor.

A method is provided for operating a multi-phase inverter connected to an electric machine using a control device, wherein the inverter comprises a plurality of switch devices and the control device controls the inverter to adjust a control variable by means of space vector modulation. The method includes providing a number of possible space vectors for representing the control variable according to a number of phases of the inverter. The method further includes assigning each possible space vector a disturbance variable in the electric machine occurring in a switching state of the switch devices of the inverter described by the respective space vector. The method further includes selecting one or more control space vectors according to the control variable from the number of possible space vectors for representing the control variable. The selected one or more control space vectors represent control variable and have the respective smallest associated disturbance variable of the possible space vectors.

A primary-side inverter is connected to three output terminals of six output terminals included in a motor with an open winding structure including windings of three independent phases and a secondary-side inverter is connected to the remaining three output terminals. Direct current power is supplied to the inverters, and a control device performs PWM control on the inverters by using a switching pattern in which the numbers of phases where each is turned on are equal, and in the switching pattern, ON of only an upper is continued in one phase from among the three phase outputs, OFF of only a lower is continued in another phase, and the upper and lower are alternately turned on and off such that mutual phases are opposite in the remaining one phase in one cycle of an electric angle of the motor over a plural carrier cycles in PWM control.