MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS HAVING CURRENT SUPPLY PHASE CORRECTION

• US 20060006827A1
• Filed: 09/15/2005
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ibaraki Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Inoue, Yuji, Kamio, Shigeru, Nakai, Yasuhiro, Kawaguchi, Kazuo, Amamiya, Sumiko
• Granted Patent: US 7,005,814 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/701
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/326 Actuators for range selection, i.e. actuators for controlling the range selector or the manual range valve in the transmission
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 59/105 consisting of electrical switches or sensors
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/32 Electric motors actuators or related electrical control means therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 2209/01 Motors with neutral point connected to the power supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 25/0925 wherein the converter comprises only one switch per phase
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 5/74 controlling two or more ac dynamo-electric motors H02P5/46, H02P5/60 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/153 wherein the commutation is advanced from position signals phase in function of the speed
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/24 Arrangements for stopping

Abstract

In a motor-driven shift position switching device, when the difference between a target position and the rotation position of a rotor has become smaller than a prescribed value in a motor feedback control, a transition is made to a deceleration control. A phase lead correction amount for correcting the phase lead of the current supply phase with respect to the rotor rotation phase is set in accordance with the rotor rotation speed. Thus, proper braking force suitable for the rotor rotation speed is exerted on the rotor and the rotor can be decelerated smoothly as it approaches the target position. Further, in the period when the current supply to the motor is kept off, the shift position switching determination ranges are set wider than in the period when the current supply to the motor is on.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A motor control apparatus for switching a manipulated position of a position switching mechanism comprising:

a motor having a rotor for driving the position switching mechanism;

rotation angle detecting means for detecting a rotation angle of the rotor of the motor;

switching determining means for determining, on the basis of a detection value of the rotation angle detecting means, whether the manipulated position of the position switching mechanism is within a switching determination range for the target position; and

switching determination range setting means for making the switching determination range wider in a period when current supply to the motor is kept off than in a period when current supply to the motor is on.

13. The motor control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the position switching mechanism is a position switching mechanism for switching a gear shift position of an automatic transmission of a vehicle.

8. A motor control apparatus for switching a manipulated position of a position switching mechanism comprising:

a motor having a rotor for driving the position switching mechanism;

rotation angle detecting means for detecting a rotation angle of the rotor of the motor;

learning means for learning an operation reference position of the motor;

switching determining means for determining, on the basis of a learned value of the learning means and a detection value of the rotation angle detecting means, whether the manipulated position of the position switching mechanism is within a switching determination range for the target position; and

switching determination range setting means for making the switching determination range wider before completion of learning of the operation reference position than after completion of learning of the operation reference position.

9. The motor control apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the switching determination range setting means makes the switching determination range wider in a period when current supply to the motor is kept off than in a period when current supply to the motor is on.

14. The motor control apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the position switching mechanism is a position switching mechanism for switching a gear shift position of an automatic transmission of a vehicle.

10. A motor control apparatus for switching a manipulated position of a position switching mechanism comprising:

a motor having a rotor for driving the position switching mechanism;

rotation angle detecting means for detecting a rotation angle of the rotor of the motor;

ordinary control means for performing an ordinary control for controlling the motor on the basis of a detection value of the rotation angle detecting means;

fail-safe control means for performing a fail-safe control for driving the motor irrespective of the detection value of the rotation angle detecting means when an execution condition of the ordinary control is not satisfied;

switching determining means for determining whether the manipulated position of the position switching mechanism is within a switching determination range for the target position on the basis of the detection value of the rotation angle detecting means during execution of the ordinary control, and for doing so on the basis of a drive amount of the motor during execution of the fail-safe control; and

switching determination range setting means for setting the switching determination range to different ranges during execution of the ordinary control and during execution of the fail-safe control; and

the switching determination range setting means makes the switching determination range wider during execution of the fail-safe control than during execution of the feedback control.

11. The motor control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein:

the rotation angle detecting means includes an encoder for producing a pulse signal in synchronism with rotation of the rotor of the motor;

the ordinary control means performs a feedback control for rotating the rotor by sequentially switching a current supply phase of the motor on the basis of a count of the pulse signal counted as an encoder count by the encoder;

the fail-safe control means rotates the rotor by sequentially switching the current phase of the motor by supplying a drive signal to a drive circuit of the motor without feeding back information of the encoder count when the execution condition of the feedback control is not satisfied;

the switching determining means determines whether the manipulated position of the position switching mechanism is within the switching determination range for the target position on the basis of the encoder count during execution of the feedback control, and counts pulses of the drive signal supplied to the drive circuit of the motor and determines whether the manipulated position of the position switching mechanism is within the switching determination range of the target position on the basis of a resulting count during execution of the fail-safe control.

12. The motor control apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the position switching mechanism is a position switching mechanism for switching a gear shift position of an automatic transmission of a vehicle.