B60L3/0061

ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE

In an electrified vehicle, a vibration damping control device performs vibration damping control for canceling or reducing, with the use of regenerative braking, a predetermined vibration component by monitoring the vibration component and controlling a generator control device depending on the vibration component. A system control device determines whether the vibration damping control is performable based on at least a charge status of a battery. An anti-lock braking system control device transmits a request signal to the system control device while performing anti-lock braking system control. The system control device transmits a command signal to the vibration damping control device when the vibration damping control is determined to be performable and the request signal is received from the anti-lock braking system control device. The vibration damping control device performs the vibration damping control when the command signal is received from the system control device.

Systems and methods for restricting power to a load to prevent engaging circuit protection device for an aircraft
11491878 · 2022-11-08 · ·

A system for restricting power to a load to prevent engaging a circuit protection device for an electric aircraft includes an energy source. The energy source is communicatively coupled to a load, wherein the load includes a portion of a propulsion system. The system includes sensors configured to sense an electrical parameter. The system includes an aircraft controller communicatively connected to the energy source, wherein the aircraft controller is configured to receive an electrical parameter, compare the electrical parameter to a current allocation threshold, detect that the electrical parameter has reached a current allocation threshold, generate a current allocation threshold notification as a function of the detection, wherein the current allocation threshold notification indicates that the electrical parameter has reached the current allocation threshold.

CONTROL CIRCUIT, CONTROL METHOD, METHOD FOR OPERATING A BRAKE SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND CONTROL UNIT
20230030062 · 2023-02-02 ·

A control circuit, is disclosed, which is developed and intended for use in a motor vehicle. The control circuit comprises a first circuit portion, which is developed and intended to detect an error state of a control module and/or supply source, such as a voltage supply, of a drive arrangement, for example a drive arrangement of a brake system of the motor vehicle, and/or an electric drive of the drive arrangement, and is developed and intended to cause a short-circuit of the electric drive of the drive arrangement if an error state has been detected. A control method is also disclosed, for operating a brake system of a motor vehicle, as well as a computer program and a control unit or system having multiple control units.

REDUNDANT BRUSHLESS DIRECT CURRENT MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS

Brushless direct current (BLDC) motors are becoming more common, such as in cars and other vehicles. Unreliable BLDC motors or control systems can lead to risk of people's safety. A redundant BLDC control system is provided to control two or more BLDC motors. A safety module controls an enabling switch in each of the motor drivers, so that in response to detecting a fault condition, a currently active BLDC motor is disabled and a redundant BLDC motor is enabled. A digital processor computes and transmits digital signals to all the motor drivers continuously and simultaneously, so that the transition from a currently active BLDC motor to a redundant BLDC motor is smooth and almost unnoticeable.

POWERTRAIN, COOLANT FLOW RATE ESTIMATION METHOD, AND ELECTRIC VEHICLE
20220352842 · 2022-11-03 ·

This application provides a powertrain, a coolant flow rate estimation method, and an electric vehicle. Coolant in a first cooling loop of the powertrain is configured to cool an inverter. An electronic pump drives the coolant to circulate in the first cooling loop. When a phase current of a motor is greater than or equal to a preset current value, a controller determines a rotation speed of the electronic pump at a first moment as a first rotation speed, and determines a coolant flow rate at the first moment based on a temperature at a first position in the first cooling loop, a temperature at a second position in the inverter, and a power loss of the inverter. In the solution of this application, data does not need to be separately calibrated for different thermal management systems. This reduces time consumed by data calibration and improves practicability.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIAGNOSING MOTOR PHASE CONNECTIONS
20230088195 · 2023-03-23 ·

Testing connections to phase windings of an electric motor upon startup includes, prior to entering a RUN state in which motor power commands are accepted from a user to perform work, applying to each respective phase of the electric motor a respective test voltage signal, measuring in each respective phase a respective current induced by the respective test voltage signal, and preventing entry into the RUN state when at least one values representative of a respective current is below the respective predetermined threshold.

ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE

An electrified vehicle disclosed in the present specification includes: a motor configured to rotate a drive wheel of the electrified vehicle; a sensor configured to detect a motor rotation number that is the number of rotations of the motor; and a control device configured to perform feedback control of the motor rotation number based on a value detected by the sensor. The control device is configured to perform during the feedback control a process of extracting a vibration component in a predetermined frequency band from the value detected by the sensor, a process of calculating an integrated value by integrating the extracted vibration component for a predetermined period, and a process of determining whether the calculated integrated value falls within a predetermined abnormal range.

CONTROL DEVICE FOR ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE
20220345065 · 2022-10-27 · ·

The control device includes a target-value calculation unit calculating a target-value of a controlled variable that is torque of a rotating electrical machine, drive force, or acceleration of a vehicle, based on redundant signal and non-redundant signals, an inverter operation unit operating the inverter to control the controlled variable to the target-value, and a monitoring-value calculation unit calculating a target-monitoring-value of the controlled variable based on the redundant signal. A difference calculation unit that, when the vehicle travels forward, calculates a difference between the target-value and the target-monitoring-value when the target-value is a first determination value or more, and does not calculate the difference when the target-value is less than the first determination value, and that, when the vehicle travels rearward, calculates the difference when the target-value is a second determination value or less, and does not calculate the difference when the target-value is more than the second determination value.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A TWO-MOTOR PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT

Aspects relate to an electric aircraft having a two-motor propulsion system and methods for use. An exemplary electric aircraft includes a flight component attached to the electric aircraft, where the flight component is configured to generate thrust, a first electric motor and a second electric motor, where each of the first electric motor and the second electric motor are mechanically connected to the flight component and configured to provide motive power to the flight component, and the second electric motor is able to provide motive power to the flight component if the first electric motor is inoperative.

Travel control apparatus

A travel control apparatus includes a processor programmed to detect a state of each of a plurality of power sources constituting a power source system, the power source system supplying power to the autonomous driving system, and set a fail operation mode corresponding to whether the detected state of each of the plurality of power source is a state configured to supply an amount of power necessary for a safety of autonomous driving.