The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle (1) which has an electrical machine (7) with at least three phases, an electrical energy store (13) and a power electronics system (12) having a plurality of switching elements, wherein the switching elements of the power electronics system (12) are actuated for electrically connecting the phases to the energy store (13), in order to produce a generator deceleration moment. Provision is made for a driving situation of the motor vehicle (1) to be determined, wherein an actuation method is selected from amongst a group of at least two possible actuation methods according to the determined driving situation, and wherein the switching elements are actuated according to the selected actuation method.

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.

In an embodiment, an offset voltage generator includes a first limiter configured to compare a first phase-voltage signal with a maximum limit value and a minimum limit value to output a first limit-voltage signal; a second limiter configured to compare a second phase-voltage signal with the maximum limit value and the minimum limit value to output a second limit-voltage signal; a third limiter configured to compare a third phase-voltage signal with the maximum limit value and the minimum limit value to output a third limit-voltage signal; and a summer configured to add a difference between the first phase-voltage signal and the first limit-voltage signal, a difference between the second phase-voltage signal and the second limit-voltage signal, and a difference between the third phase-voltage signal and the third limit-voltage signal, to output an offset voltage.

A vehicle control apparatus includes a storage and a processor. The storage holds a first resonance map. The processor calculates a first torque command value and switches a control method of a first driving source. The first driving source includes an electric motor. The first torque command value indicates a value of torque to be outputted by the first driving source. The first resonance map includes, as one or more first resonance points, one or more operating points at which resonance occurs in an operating region of the first driving source under a square wave control. The processor switches the control method of the first driving source from the square wave control to a sine wave control on the condition that a predicted route of transition of an operating point of the first driving source meets the one or more first resonance points.

A method for assisting in operating a PWM driven motor comprising for at least one phase of the PWM driven motor: generating a pulse width modulated phase voltage scheme according to a desired phase profile with a base scaling factor, by time multiplexing a first pulse and at least a further pulse within a pulse width modulation period of the phase the first pulse having a pulse width according to a first profile, for that rotor position, multiplied with a first scaling factor, the first profile being in phase with the desired phase profile, and the at least a further pulse having a pulse width corresponds with a further profile, for that rotor position, multiplied with a further scaling factor, the further profile being not in phase with the desired phase profile, whereby the first pulse and the at least one further pulse are positioned within the pulse width modulation period of the phase in at least partially non-overlapping way.

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.

In a motor drive device 120, a phase compensation amount calculation unit 110 calculates a phase compensation amount Δθ for compensating a voltage phase θv* when a control mode is switched in a control selection unit 90. The control selection unit 90 outputs the three-phase voltage command Vuvw* according to any one of the plurality of control modes based on the modulation factor Kh*, the voltage phase θv*, and the phase compensation amount Δθ. A PWM control unit 100 outputs gate signals Gun, Gup, Gvn, Gvp, Gwn, and Gwv based on the three-phase voltage command Vuvw* and a rotor position θd. The inverter 20 has a plurality of switching elements, and controls the plurality of switching elements based on gate signals Gun, Gup, Gvn, Gyp, Gwn, and Gwv to drive the AC motor 10.

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.

The invention relates to an adjustment of a PWM frequency in a power converter in accordance with the input voltage of the power converter. By means of the adjustment of the PWM frequency in the power converter in accordance with the input voltage, a ripple on the input side of the power converter can be varied. In particular, it is possible, in the case of high input voltages, to minimize the ripple by adjusting the PWM frequency and thus to reduce the sum of the input voltage and the ripple.

A control apparatus controls an inverter which outputs electric power to an electric motor. The control apparatus determines which one of a one-pulse control and a pulse-width modulation control is employed as a control method of the inverter in accordance with a predetermined condition based on an electric motor drive torque of the electric motor, a rotation number of the electric motor, and a DC voltage of the electric motor.