Drive control device for direct current motor

• US 20050140320A1
• Filed: 12/21/2004
• Published: 06/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Hidaka, Seiji
• Application Number:
  US11/016,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20050140320A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/379
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/085 in a bridge configuration

Abstract

A direct current motor has plural coils and is rotationally driven by selectively switching a phase of the coils in which electricity is flowing. The drive control device for the direct current motor controls an amount of electricity applied to the coil in the phase by connecting a first terminal of the coil in the phase to a first pole of a direct current source and by connecting a second terminal of the coil in the phase for a duration of a period corresponding to an on-duty cycle of a predetermined pulse width modulation period of the phase. The drive control device has a braking means for setting a brake condition to the motor by short-circuiting the coils by connecting another coil in a phase in which electricity is not flowing to the first pole of the direct current source.

Claims

1. A drive control device for a direct current motor having plural coils and rotationally driven by selectively switching a phase of the coils in which electricity is flowing, for controlling an amount of electricity applied to the coil in the phase by connecting a first terminal of the coil in the phase to a first pole of a direct current source and by connecting a second terminal of the coil in the phase for a duration of a period corresponding to an on-duty cycle of a predetermined pulse width modulation period of the phase, the drive control device comprising a braking means for setting a brake condition to the motor by short-circuiting the coils by connecting another coil in a phase in which electricity is not flowing to the first pole of the direct current source.

2. The drive control device for the direct current motor according to claim 1, wherein the braking means sets a dead time during which said another coil in the phase in which electricity is not flowing is disconnected from the first pole of the direct current source, either immediately after the start of or immediately before the end of, or at both times of a period corresponding to an off-duty cycle of the predetermined pulse width modulation period set for the phase of the coil in which electricity is flowing.

3. A drive control device for a direct current motor, comprising:

a detecting means for detecting a rotational position of a rotor,

a calculating means for calculating a duration of a period of an on-duty cycle of a predetermined pulse width modulation period so as to ensure that the detected rotational position matches a target rotational position,

a switching means for switching a connection between plural coils and a first pole and a second pole of a direct current source, and

a controlling means for outputting control signals to the switching means, for rotating the rotor by selectively switching a phase of the coils in which electricity is flowing, and by connecting a first terminal of the coil in the phase to a first pole of the direct current source and by connecting a second terminal of the coil in the phase to a second pole of the direct current source for a duration of the period corresponding to the calculated on-duty cycle of the predetermined pulse-width modulation period set for the phase of the coil, the control means outputting the control signals for setting brake condition of the motor by short-circuiting the coils by connecting the coil in a phase in which electricity is not flowing to the first pole of the direct current source.

4. A drive control device for a direct current motor having plural coils and rotationally driven by selectively switching a phase of the coils in which electricity is flowing in accordance with a drive condition of the motor, for connecting a first terminal of the coil in the phase to a first pole of a direct current source and for connecting a second terminal of the coil in the phase to a second pole of the direct current source by a switching means to control the connection between the coil in the phase and the first pole and the second pole of the direct current source.

5. The drive control device for the direct current motor according to claim 4, wherein the switching means includes a first switching element and a second switching element which is different from the first switching element.

6. The drive control device for the direct current motor according to claim 5, wherein the coil in the phase in which electricity is flowing is connected to a positive pole of the direct current source through the first switching element, and also to a negative pole of the direct current source through the second switching element.

7. The drive control means for the direct current motor according to claim 6, wherein the first switching element is a PNP transistor, and the second switching element is an NPN transistor.

8. The drive control device for the direct current motor according to claim 4, wherein the second pole of the direct current source supplies an amount of electricity controlled with a pulse width modulation to the coil in the phase in which electricity is flowing for a duration of a period corresponding to an on-duty cycle of a predetermined pulse width modulation period.

9. The drive control device for the direct current motor according to claim 4, wherein an actual rotational position is detected by a signal emitted from an angle sensor.

10. The drive control device for the direct current motor according to claim 9, wherein a pulse width modulation control is performed in order to match the actual rotational position of the motor with a target rotational position by means of feedback control based on a difference between the actual rotational position detected by the angle sensor and the target rotational position of the direct current motor.