ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE
First Claim
1. A electric power steering device which drives a synchronous motor based on a signal from a steering input detecting unit and which assists a steering, the electric power steering device comprising:
- a target-torque calculating unit that calculates a target torque output by the synchronous motor based on at least a steering input signal; and
a target-current calculating unit that calculates a target current to the synchronous motor based on a signal from the target-torque calculating unit, whereinthe target-current calculating unit calculates a motor-current effective value and a motor-current phase which are necessary for generating a target torque value and the synchronous motor is driven by calculating a d-axis current and a q-axis current based on the motor-current effective value and the motor-current phase.
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Abstract
There is provided a electric power steering device which can perform torque control through a simple arithmetic process using a synchronous reluctance motor having a nonlinear current/torque characteristic. A target torque is transmitted from an EPS control unit 41 to a motor control unit 51. The motor control unit 51 calculates a target-current effective value I and a target-current phase θ from the input target torque. Based on the calculated target-current effective value I and target-current phase θ, calculation is changed whether to perform calculation so that the maximum torque (the maximum torque obtainable at the minimum current effective value) can be obtained, or to perform calculation so that the maximum output (the maximum output obtainable at the minimum current effective value) can be obtained in accordance with a duty ratio of an output by a PWM converting unit 57 comprising a three-phase inverter. Next, a three-phase biaxial converting unit 53 calculates a target q-axis current Iq and a target d-axis current Id from the target-current effective value I and the target-current phase θ, and the PWM converting unit 57 performs duty control in order to control the torque of a motor 58.
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3 Claims
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1. A electric power steering device which drives a synchronous motor based on a signal from a steering input detecting unit and which assists a steering, the electric power steering device comprising:
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a target-torque calculating unit that calculates a target torque output by the synchronous motor based on at least a steering input signal; and a target-current calculating unit that calculates a target current to the synchronous motor based on a signal from the target-torque calculating unit, wherein the target-current calculating unit calculates a motor-current effective value and a motor-current phase which are necessary for generating a target torque value and the synchronous motor is driven by calculating a d-axis current and a q-axis current based on the motor-current effective value and the motor-current phase. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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