A rotating machine power conversion device is obtained which achieves operational continuation in a rotational speed range in which the operational continuation is enabled, even when a single phase of an electrical power conversion device made of switching devices causes a disconnection or turn-off failure. The rotating machine power conversion device comprises: a normality-case/abnormality-case current control device selection device for transferring between a normality-case current control device and an abnormality-case current control device in accordance with a determination result of an abnormality determination device; and an abnormality-case current control device/power conversion halt device selection device, using a rotational speed calculation device, for transferring between the abnormality-case current control device used when a rotational speed is lower than that being prespecified, and the power conversion halt device used when a rotational speed is higher than that being prespecified.

A method and a system for driving a hybrid vehicle are provided for determining whether the hybrid vehicle is driven in a sensorless control mode or not by estimating a rotor position value based on electric current and voltage of a drive motor. Such a hybrid vehicle is capable of controlling the drive motor to operate by using a transmission in an area in which precise torque control of the drive motor is possible, without using information detected by a stator position sensor provided in the drive motor of the hybrid vehicle. Accordingly, a drive motor control precision is improved when a rotor position sensor does not operate normally, thereby preventing a vehicle shutdown from occurring.

A rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator coil and a rotor provided rotatably around a specific rotation axis with respect to the stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, a plurality of magnetically-assisted salient pole members provided between poles of any adjacent two magnets from among the plurality of magnets, and a magnetoresistance variation unit provided in the magnetically-assisted salient pole member along an axial direction of the rotation axis at a position offset in a circumferential direction of the rotation axis from a q-axis passing through a salient pole center of the magnetically-assisted salient pole member. The amount of offset of the magnetoresistance variation unit from the q-axis varies depending on positions of the magnetically-assisted salient pole members so that torque fluctuations cancel each other when power is applied.

An electric work vehicle includes: an electric motor unit including a plurality of motors (21, 22, and 130); a motor control unit (50) that adjusts electric power from a battery (20) and supplies the adjusted electric power to the electric motor unit by controlling an inverter (4); a charge control section (53) that controls charging and discharging of the battery (20); a battery state detection device (9) that detects a state of the battery (20) including a rate of charge; and a regenerative electric power detection device (6) that detects a generation of regenerative electric power. When the rate of charge is in a margin region that is set between an overcharge region and a charge/discharge region, and when regenerative electric power is generated, the motor control unit (50) supplies the regenerative electric power to a motor that is not in operation, and provides a non-rotation current instruction to the inverter (4), the non-rotation current instruction being an instruction for generating a magnetic flux that does not cause the motor to rotate by using vector control.

There has been a drawback in that current command values need to be set for a current command unit of a power conversion device in accordance with efficiency, and thus the number of operation steps increases. In the power conversion device connected between a three-phase AC rotating machine and a DC power supply and configured to convert DC power into AC power, a DC voltage value, of the DC power supply, that is to be inputted to a current command unit of the power conversion device is corrected on the basis of an efficiency index, and a current command value to be outputted by the current command unit is changed on the basis of the corrected DC voltage value and a torque command value, whereby the efficiencies of the power conversion device and the three-phase AC rotating machine are controlled.

A method is provided for an energy transmission between at least two energy stores (914, 924) in a respective zero system of at least two n-phase electric machines (912, 922), in which one respective n-phase electric machine (912, 922) has a field winding that is brought together at a star point. The respective field winding is provided with n-windings corresponding to respective n-phases and has a neutral point (902), a respective energy store (914, 924) is assigned, and an electric connection is established in terms of circuitry between windings of corresponding phases, or between the neutral points (902) of the respective field windings of the at least two n-phase electric machines (912, 922) and a respective identical pole of the energy stores (914, 924). Thus, an energy transmission between the at least two energy stores (914, 924) that have a different charge state is carried out.

A system includes a bus, and a variable voltage converter (VVC) having a switch in series with a capacitor, and an inductor in parallel with the capacitor and switch, and configured such that operation of the switch in boost mode over a duty cycle range from 0 to less than 0.5 results in a corresponding voltage output to the bus from 0 to a maximum of the VVC.

A dual inverter drivetrain having an energy storing fuel cell integrated into an electric vehicle is disclosed. A method of operating the dual inverter drivetrain using a power sharing control approach is described, which allows the key requirements of a fuel cell to be achieved without compromising the dynamic performance of the electric vehicle drive system. In particular, the ability of this control approach to ensure unidirectional power transfer from the fuel cell even in the event of regenerative braking, and a slowly changing fuel cell power despite fast motor torque transients were exhibited.

A traveling vehicle includes a pair of left and right driving wheels, a pair of left and right motors capable of driving the pair of left and right driving wheels independently of each other, an operational amount reception section capable of receiving operational amounts respectively for the pair of left and right motors, a setting section capable of setting a period of a first control method having a predetermined first control parameter and a period of a second control method having a predetermined second control parameter, within a predetermined control cycle for controlling driving of the motors, in accordance with the operational amounts and a motor driving section capable of driving the respective motors based on result of setting made by the setting section.

The invention provides a device (10) and a method for controlling an electric machine (1). The method comprises the steps of: providing (S01) a desired torque value (54) for a torque to be exerted by the electric machine (1); determining (S02) a fault signal (51) which indicates a fault state of the electric machine (1); determining (S03) a current rotor angle value (56) of the electric machine (1); determining (S04) a fault state operating point (62; 62) on the basis of the desired torque value (54) provided, the determined fault signal (51) and the determined current rotor angle value (56); and shifting or moving (S05) an operating point, at which the electric machine (1) is operated, from a normal state operating point (61) to the determined fault state operating point (62; 62).