MOTOR DRIVING DEVICE

• US 20090058336A1
• Filed: 08/20/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation (Renesas Electronics Corporation)
• Inventors: Murakami, Hiroshi, Suzuki, Toshiya, Narumi, Satoshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,902,775 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/400.60
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/182 using back-emf in windings

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a motor driving device capable of outputting an accurate rotation signal while preventing a false detection of B-EMF in a position detecting comparator. The motor driving device includes an output circuit, filter circuit, comparison circuit, current zero ampere detecting circuit, position detecting circuit, sensorless drive arithmetic operation circuit, noise reduction current waveform generating circuit, signal synthesizing circuit, and output transistor control circuit, the comparison circuit including a comparator, polarity switching portion connected to a +terminal and −terminal of the comparator and signal switching portion, the comparator being structured to be able to set and release an offset having a predetermined voltage value set preliminarily.

Claims

1. A motor driving device for driving a three-phase brushless motor without using a hall sensor, comprising:

a filter circuit which receives coil terminal voltages of each phase of the three phase coils of said three-phase brushless motor and a center tap voltage of said three-phase coil so as to remove a voltage component resulting from a current ripple included therein; and

a voltage comparing portion including a comparator which compares a coil terminal voltage of each phase after filtering the coil terminal voltage of said each phase with a center tap voltage after filtering of said center tap voltage, wherein

said comparator sets a comparison voltage with said coil terminal voltage of each phase after filtering based on an offset signal to a value supplied with a higher offset voltage than said ripple voltage after filtering.

2. The motor driving device according to claim 1, wherein said offset signal changes said comparison voltage to the value supplied with said offset voltage when a revolution number of said three-phase brushless motor exceeds a predetermined threshold value, and releases said offset voltage when the revolution number of said three-phase brushless motor is said threshold value or less.

3. The motor driving device according to claim 2, wherein said filter circuit is so switchably structured as to select which to output said coil terminal voltage of each phase after filtering and said center tap voltage after filtering or output said coil terminal voltage of each phase and said center tap voltage as they are, and

said voltage comparing portion includes:

a polarity switching portion which switches a polarity of said comparator by switching a signal to be provided to a plus terminal and a minus terminal of said comparator; and

a signal switching portion which switches said coil terminal voltage of each phase to be outputted from said filter circuit or said coil terminal voltage of each phase after filtering individually for each phase and provides the switched coil terminal voltage to said polarity switching portion.

4. The motor driving device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a position detecting portion which detects a zero cross point of voltage of position detection phase based on a comparison result by said voltage comparing portion and outputs a position detection signal; and

a drive signal generating circuit which generates a PWM signal for driving said three-phase brushless motor based on a detection result of said position detecting circuit and generates and outputs a pulse-like rotation signal based on said position detection signal, wherein

said drive signal generating circuit outputs a first control signal for switching the polarity of said comparator each time when an edge of said rotation signal is detected, and outputs a second control signal for controlling said signal switching portion so as to execute the switching operation at a timing after the edge of said rotation signal is detected.