ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE DRIVING SYSTEM

• US 20130314021A1
• Filed: 02/14/2012
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Eiji, Mizutani, Ryoji, Hiramoto, Kenji, Nakai, Hideo, Minoshima, Norimoto
• Granted Patent: US 9,083,276 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/718
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 19/12 characterised by the arrangement of exciting windings, e.g. for self-excitation, compounding or pole-changing
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 19/28 for self-excitation
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 21/042 with permanent magnets and field winding both rotating
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/0003 Control strategies in general, e.g. linear type, e.g. P, PI, PID, using robust control
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 25/026 thereby detecting the rotor position
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 25/03 with brushless excitation

Abstract

A stator has multi-phase stator coils that are wound around a stator core by concentrated winding. A rotor has rotor coils that are wound at multiple portions of a rotor core in the circumferential direction and diodes that serve as rectifier unit that is connected to the rotor coils and that varies the magnetic characteristics of the respective rotor coils alternately in the circumferential direction. A rotary electric machine driving system includes a decreasing/increasing pulse superimposing unit that superimposes decreasing pulse current for a pulse-shaped decrease on a q-axis current command for passing currents through the stator coils and that superimposes increasing pulse current for a pulse-shaped increase on a d-axis current command.

Claims

1. A rotary electric machine driving system comprising:

a rotary electric machine having a stator and a rotor that are arranged so as to face each other;

a driving unit that drives the rotary electric machine; and

a control unit that controls the driving unit, wherein

the stator has a stator core having a plurality of stator slots at intervals in a circumferential direction around a rotation axis of the rotor and multi-phase stator coils that are wound around the stator core via the stator slots by concentrated winding,

the rotor has a rotor core having a plurality of rotor slots at intervals in the circumferential direction around the rotation axis of the rotor, rotor coils that are wound at multiple portions of the rotor core in the circumferential direction so as to be at least partially arranged in the rotor slots and a rectifier unit that is connected to the rotor coils and that varies magnetic characteristics of the respective rotor coils alternately in the circumferential direction among the plurality of rotor coils,

the rotor varies magnetic characteristics of magnetic pole portions at multiple portions in the circumferential direction alternately in the circumferential direction, the magnetic characteristics being generated by currents flowing through the respective rotor coils, and

the control unit has a decreasing/increasing pulse superimposing unit that superimposes decreasing pulse current for a pulse-shaped decrease on a q-axis current command for passing currents through the stator coils so as to generate field magnetic fluxes in directions advanced by 90 degrees in electric angle with respect to magnetic pole directions that are winding central axis directions of the respective rotor coils, and superimposes increasing pulse current for a pulse-shaped increase on a d-axis current command for passing currents through the stator coils so as to generate field magnetic fluxes in the magnetic pole directions.

2. The rotary electric machine driving system according to claim 1, wherein

the decreasing/increasing pulse superimposing unit superimposes the increasing pulse current on the d-axis current command and does not superimpose the decreasing pulse current on the q-axis current command when an output torque of the rotary electric machine is lower than or equal to a threshold, and superimposes the increasing pulse current on the d-axis current command and superimposes the decreasing pulse current on the q-axis current command when the output torque exceeds the threshold.

3. The rotary electric machine driving system according to claim 1, wherein

the decreasing/increasing pulse superimposing unit superimposes the decreasing pulse current on the q-axis current command and superimposes the increasing pulse current on the d-axis current command such that a current vector after pulse current is superimposed on stator currents to be passed through the stator coils falls within a control circle drawn by a distal end of a current vector that is defined in dq coordinate system when the pulse current is not superimposed on the stator currents.

4. The rotary electric machine driving system according to claim 1, wherein

each of the rotor coils is connected to any one of rectifier elements that serve as the rectifier unit and of which forward directions are opposite between any adjacent two of the rotor coils in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and the rectifier elements rectify currents that are generated by induced electromotive forces to flow through the rotor coils to thereby vary phases of currents flowing through any adjacent two of the rotor coils in the circumferential direction alternately between an A phase and a B phase.

5. The rotary electric machine driving system according to claim 4, wherein

the rectifier elements are a first rectifier element and a second rectifier element that are respectively connected to the corresponding rotor coils, and

the first rectifier element and the second rectifier element independently rectify currents generated due to the generated induced electromotive forces so that the rectified currents flow through the corresponding rotor coils, and vary the magnetic characteristics of the magnetic pole portions at multiple portions in the circumferential direction alternately in the circumferential direction, the magnetic characteristics being generated by currents flowing through the respective rotor coils.

6. The rotary electric machine driving system according to claim 1, wherein

the rotor core includes salient poles that are the plurality of magnetic pole portions that are arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction of the rotor and that protrude toward the stator, and

the salient poles are magnetized as currents rectified by the rectifier unit flow through the rotor coils to thereby function as magnets having fixed magnetic poles.

7. The rotary electric machine driving system according to claim 5, wherein

the rotor core includes salient poles that are the plurality of magnetic pole portions that are arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction of the rotor and that protrude toward the stator,

the salient poles are magnetized as currents rectified by the rectifier elements flow through the rotor coils to thereby function as magnets having fixed magnetic poles,

the rotor further has auxiliary rotor coils that are wound at proximal portions of the respective salient poles,

any two of the auxiliary rotor coils wound around any adjacent two of the salient poles in the circumferential direction of the rotor are connected in series with each other to constitute an auxiliary coil set,

one ends of any adjacent two of the rotor coils, wound around any adjacent two of the salient poles in the circumferential direction of the rotor, are connected to each other at a connection point via the respectively corresponding rectifier elements such that the respectively corresponding rectifier elements face each other in opposite directions,

the other ends of the any adjacent two of the rotor coils, wound around any adjacent two of the salient poles in the circumferential direction of the rotor, each are connected to one end of the auxiliary coil set, and

the connection point is connected to the other end of the auxiliary coil set.

8. The rotary electric machine driving system according to claim 6, wherein

a width of each salient pole in the circumferential direction of the rotor is smaller than a width corresponding to 180°

in electric angle, and

each of the rotor coils is wound around a corresponding one of the salient poles by short pitch winding.

9. The rotary electric machine driving system according to claim 8, wherein

a width of each rotor coil in the circumferential direction of the rotor is equal to a width corresponding to 90°

in electric angle.