CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF BOOST CONVERTER

• US 20090058337A1
• Filed: 09/03/2008
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Kato, Takayuki, Minamiura, Keiichi, Kondoh, Hajime
• Granted Patent: US 7,852,029 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/400.90
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/14 Boost converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/16 DC brushless machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/00 Arrangements or methods for the control of electric machines by vector control, e.g. by control of field orientation
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 29/662 the rotor having permanent magnets H02P29/67 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/182 using back-emf in windings
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

A control device of a boost converter which includes: an inverter circuit which controls switching to apply current to a stator winding of respective phases of a multi-phase brushless DC motor; and a boost circuit which is provided on an input side of the inverter circuit and has at least a reactor and a switching element, and controls ON and OFF states of the switching element of the boost circuit on the basis of a boost voltage command which is a command for boost voltage output from the boost circuit, the control device is provided with a boost voltage command setting unit which sets the boost voltage command on the basis of counter electromotive voltage of the brushless DC motor and a torque command for the brushless DC motor.

Claims

1. A control device of a boost converter which includes:

an inverter circuit which controls switching to apply current to a stator winding of respective phases of a multi-phase brushless DC motor; and

a boost circuit which is provided on an input side of the inverter circuit and has at least a reactor and a switching element, and controls ON and OFF states of the switching element of the boost circuit on the basis of a boost voltage command which is a command for boost voltage output from the boost circuit, the control device comprises

a boost voltage command setting unit which sets the boost voltage command on the basis of counter electromotive voltage of the brushless DC motor and a torque command for the brushless DC motor.

2. The control device of the boost converter according to claim 1, further comprising:

an angular speed detecting unit which detects an angular speed of the brushless DC motor; and

a counter electromotive voltage calculating unit which sets, as the counter electromotive voltage, a value obtained by multiplying the angular speed detected by the angular speed detecting unit by a counter electromotive voltage constant of the brushless DC motor.

3. The control device of the boost converter according to claim 2, further comprising

a temperature detecting unit which detects a temperature of the brushless DC motor, wherein

the counter electromotive voltage calculating unit sets the counter electromotive voltage constant so as to decrease with an increase in the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit.

4. The control device of the boost converter according to claim 1, wherein

the brushless DC motor includes:

a plurality of rotors capable of changing the relative phases one another; and

a phase changing unit capable of changing the counter electromotive voltage with the change in the relative phases, wherein

the control device of the boost converter further includes

an angular speed detecting unit which detects an angular speed of the brushless DC motor;

a counter electromotive voltage constant command calculating unit which calculates a counter electromotive voltage constant command, which is a command for the counter electromotive voltage constant, on the basis of the torque command for the brushless DC motor and the angular speed detected by the angular speed detecting unit; and

a phase control unit which calculates a phase command instructing the phase changing unit to change the relative phases on the basis of the counter electromotive voltage constant command, and wherein

the boost voltage command setting unit sets, as the counter electromotive voltage, a value obtained by multiplying the angular speed detected by the angular speed detecting unit by the counter electromotive voltage constant command, and sets the boost voltage command on the basis of the counter electromotive voltage and the toque command.

5. The control device of the boost converter according to claim 1, further comprising

a field control unit which supplies weak field current when input voltage of the inverter circuit exceeds the boost voltage during a boost control process on the basis of the boost voltage command.

6. A control method of a boost converter which includes:

an inverter circuit which controls switching to apply current to a stator winding of respective phases of a multi-phase brushless DC motor; and

a boost circuit which is provided on an input side of the inverter circuit and has at least a reactor and a switching element, and controls ON and OFF states of the switching element of the boost circuit on the basis of a boost voltage command which is a command for boost voltage output from the boost circuit, the control method comprising;

setting the boost voltage command on the basis of counter electromotive voltage of the brushless DC motor and a torque command for the brushless DC motor.

7. The control method of a boost converter according to claim 6, further comprising

supplying weak field current when voltage input by the inverter circuit exceeds the boost voltage during the boost control process on the basis of the boost voltage command.