GENERATOR MOTOR FOR VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME

• US 20100001672A1
• Filed: 12/30/2008
• Published: 01/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: FUJITA, Masahiko, MAEDA, Naohide
• Granted Patent: US 8,212,512 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/400.22
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 3/14 by regenerative braking

Abstract

A vehicle generator motor has a generator motor that is connected to an internal combustion engine and plural sets of three-phase windings, plural sets of inverter portions connected to the respective sets of the three-phase windings, and a control circuit portion for controlling the inverter portions in accordance with the operation state of the generator motor. When the generator motor operates as a motor and a variation value of an output torque or power generation amount thereof exceeds a predetermined value, the control circuit portion controls the inverter portions so as to stop armature current flowing in at least one set in plural sets of three-phase windings.

Claims

1. A vehicle generator motor comprising:

a generator motor that is connected to an internal combustion engine and plural sets of three-phase windings;

plural sets of inverter portions connected to the respective sets of the three-phase windings; and

a control circuit portion for controlling the inverter portions in accordance with the operation state of the generator motor, wherein when the generator motor operates as a motor and a variation value of an output torque thereof exceeds a predetermined value, the control circuit portion controls the inverter portions so as to stop armature current flowing in at least one set in plural sets in three-phase windings.

2. The vehicle generator motor according to claim 1, wherein the control circuit portion controls the inverter portions so that the armature current of the at least one set in plural sets of three-phase windings is gradually reduced and stopped.

3. The vehicle generator motor according to claim 1, wherein the control circuit portion turns off all of switching elements constituting the inverter portion connected to the at least one set in plural sets of three-phase windings.

6. The vehicle generator motor according to claim 1, wherein current supply to the three-phase windings by the inverter portions is carried out by rectangular-wave current supply.

4. A vehicle generator motor comprising:

a generator motor that is connected to an internal combustion engine and has plural sets of three-phase windings;

plural sets of inverter portions connected to the three-phase windings of the respective sets of plural sets of three-phase windings; and

a control circuit portion for controlling the inverter portions in accordance with the operation state of the generator motor, wherein the control circuit portion controls the inverter portions so that armature current flowing in at least one set in plural sets of three-phase windings is stopped when the generator motor operates as a generator and a variation amount of power generation amount thereof exceeds a predetermined value.

5. The vehicle generator motor according to claim 4, wherein the control circuit portion controls the inverter portions so that the at least one set in plural sets of three-phase windings are short-circuited.

7. A method of controlling a vehicle generator motor having a generator motor that is connected to an internal combustion engine and has plural sets of three-phase windings, and plural sets of inverter portions connected to the respective sets of the three-phase windings, the inverter portions being controlled in accordance with the operation state of the generator motor, comprising a step of judging initial explosion of the internal combustion engine, and a step of judging whether a variation value of an output torque of the generator motor exceeds a predetermined value when the generator motor is operated as a motor to start up the internal combustion engine, wherein when the initial explosion of the internal combustion engine occurs and the variation value of the output torque exceeds the predetermined value, the inverter portions are controlled so that armature current flowing in at least one set in plural sets of three-phase windings is stopped.

8. A method of controlling a vehicle generator motor having a generator motor that is connected to an internal combustion engine and has plural sets of three-phase windings, and plural sets of inverter portions connected to the respective sets of the three-phase windings, the inverter portions being controlled in accordance with the operation state of the generator motor, comprising a step of instructing a power generation amount, and a step of judging whether a variation value of the power generation amount of the generator motor exceeds a predetermined value when the generator motor is operated as a generator, wherein when the variation value of the power generation amount is smaller than zero and exceeds the predetermined value, the inverter portions are controlled so that armature current flowing in at least one set in plural sets of three-phase windings is stopped.