Motor control system

• US 20070002505A1
• Filed: 06/21/2006
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Watanabe, Mitsuhiko, Oyama, Katsuya, Sasaki, Shoji
• Granted Patent: US 7,423,403 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/23
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/0009 Devices or circuits for detecting current in a converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53873 with digital control

Abstract

A motor control system which can realize current detection with high accuracy by using an amplifier having an ordinary level of accuracy and can avoid deterioration of current detection accuracy even when emperature is changed. The motor control system comprises a switch circuit for supplying a driving current to a motor, a resistor for detecting the driving current, an amplification circuit for amplifying a potential difference across the resistor, an input section switch unit disposed in an input section of the amplification circuit and changing over the potential difference to be forward biased or reverse biased, an output section switch unit disposed in an output section of the amplification circuit and changing over an output voltage of the amplification circuit to be forward biased or reverse biased, and a CPU for averaging a voltage produced when the output voltage of the amplification circuit is forward biased, and a voltage produced when the output voltage of the amplification circuit is reverse biased.

Claims

1. A motor control system comprising:

a switch circuit for supplying a driving current to a motor;

a current sensing circuit for detecting the driving current and converting the detected current to a voltage; and

an amplification circuit for amplifying the voltage converted by said current sensing circuit,

wherein said motor control system further comprises means for compensating an input offset of said amplification circuit.

2. The motor control system according to claim 1, wherein said current sensing circuit is constituted by a current sensing resistor.

3. The motor control system according to claim 1, wherein said amplification circuit comprises input section switch means disposed in an input section of said amplification circuit and output section switch means disposed in an output section of said amplification circuit, and

said input section switch means and said output section switch means are each controlled to be changed over at a predetermined cycle.

4. The motor control system according to claim 3, wherein said motor control system comprises a processing unit for computing the driving current depending on an output of said amplification circuit and outputting a PWM control signal to perform PWM control of rotation of said motor;

and

switch changeover means for outputting a switch changeover signal for changing over each of said input section switch means and said output section switch means at the predetermined cycle, and

wherein said switch changeover means outputs the switch changeover signal in sync with the PWM control signal, thereby changing over each of said input section switch means and said output section switch means.

5. The motor control system according to claim 4, wherein said motor control system further comprises frequency division means for dividing frequency of the PWM control signal, and

said input section switch means and said output section switch means are each changed over in accordance with a frequency divided signal obtained through the frequency division made by said frequency division means.

6. The motor control system according to claim 5, wherein the frequency divided signal is inputted to said processing unit, and

said processing unit performs sampling of an output of said amplification circuit at timing in sync with the frequency divided signal.

7. The motor control system according to claim 4, wherein said input section switch means and said output section switch means are each changed over to selectively take a first state or a second state, and

said processing unit averages a first sampling value taken in when said input section switch means and said output section switch means are each in the first state, and a second sampling value taken in when said input section switch means and said output section switch means are each in the second state.

8. The motor control system according to claim 7, wherein said processing unit takes in the first sampling value and thereafter takes in the second sampling value when said input section switch means and said output section switch means are each changed over in an odd number.

9. The motor control system according to claim 3, wherein said switch circuit includes a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected to said high-side switch through a first contact,

said current sensing circuit is disposed between said motor and said first contact, and

said motor control system further comprises voltage smoothing means for smoothing an output voltage of said amplification circuit.

10. The motor control system according to claim 9, wherein said voltage smoothing means is a low-pass filter made up of a resistor and a capacitance.

11. The motor control system according to claim 7, wherein said motor control system further comprises voltage shift means for shifting an output voltage of said amplification circuit.

12. The motor control system according to claim 7, wherein said motor control system further comprises duty limit means for limiting a duty ratio of the PWM control signal, and

said duty limit means outputs the switch changeover signal for changing over each of said input section switch means and said output section switch means when the duty ratio of the PWM control signal is 0% or 100%.

13. A motor control system comprising:

a switch circuit including a high-side switch and a low-side switch and supplying a driving current to a three-phase motor;

a resistor for detecting the driving current;

an amplification circuit for amplifying a potential difference across said resistor;

input section switch means disposed in an input section of said amplification circuit and changing over the potential difference to be forward biased or reverse biased;

output section switch means disposed in an output section of said amplification circuit and changing over an output voltage of said amplification circuit to be forward biased or reverse biased; and

a processing unit for averaging a first output voltage produced when the output voltage of said amplification circuit is forward biased, and a second output voltage produced when the output voltage of said amplification circuit is reverse biased.

14. The motor control system according to claim 13, wherein said motor control system rotates said three-phase motor in accordance with PWM control, and

said input section switch means and said output section switch means are each changed in sync with a PWM control signal.

15. The motor control system according to claim 13, wherein said motor control system further comprises PWM frequency division means,

said PWM frequency division means divides frequency of the PWM control signal and produces a frequency divided signal, and

said input section switch means and said output section switch means are each changed over in accordance with the frequency divided signal.

16. The motor control system according to claim 15, wherein said motor control system further comprises voltage shift means for shifting the output voltage of said amplification circuit.

17. The motor control system according to claim 15, wherein said motor control system further comprises duty limit means for limiting a duty ratio of the PWM control signal, and

said duty limit means outputs a switch changeover signal for changing over each of said input section switch means and said output section switch means when the duty ratio of the PWM control signal is 0% or 100%.