CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICULAR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE

• US 20140346979A1
• Filed: 05/20/2014
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: OTA, Takashi, YAMADA, Youhei
• Granted Patent: US 9,252,699 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/51
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/08 Indirect field-oriented control; Rotor flux feed-forward control
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/08 with pulse width modulation

Abstract

When a command frequency to a rotating electric machine is included in an inverter lock frequency band, a frequency switching section switches the command frequency to a frequency outside the inverter lock frequency band by changing a slip frequency command value. In response to this, a torque command change section changes a torque command to a second rotating electric machine other than a first rotating electric machine of which the slip frequency is changed such that a torque fluctuation caused by the change of the slip frequency command value is canceled out.

Claims

1. A control device for at least a first rotating electric machine and a second rotating electric machine, the control device comprising:

an electronic control device configured to;

(a) distribute a torque command based on a drive request of a driver to at least the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine,

(b) determine a slip frequency in accordance with the distributed torque command, and

(c) determine a command frequency from the slip frequency and a rotational frequency of the first rotating electric machine; and

an inverter converting direct current power into alternating current power in accordance with the command frequency and supplying alternating current power obtained by converting direct current power into alternating current power to at least the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine,

the electronic control device being configured to;

(d) switch the command frequency to a frequency outside an inverter lock frequency band by changing the slip frequency when the command frequency is included in the inverter lock frequency band, and

(e) change the torque command to the second rotating electric machine other than the first rotating electric machine of which the slip frequency is changed such that a torque fluctuation caused by the change of the slip frequency is canceled out.

2. The control device according to claim 1, wherein

the first rotating electric machine is an induction rotating electric machine, and the second rotating electric machine is a synchronous rotating electric machine.

3. A control device for at least a first rotating electric machine and a second rotating electric machine, the control device comprising:

an electronic control device configured to;

(a) distribute a torque command based on a drive request of a driver to at least the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine,

(b) determine a slip frequency in accordance with the distributed torque command, and

(c) determine a command frequency from the slip frequency and a rotational frequency of the first rotating electric machines; and

an inverter converting direct current power into alternating current power in accordance with the command frequency and supplying alternating current power obtained by converting direct current power into alternating current power to at least the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine,

the electronic control device being configured to;

(d) fluctuate the slip frequency in a bandwidth wider than a bandwidth of an inverter lock frequency band when the command frequency is included in the inverter lock frequency band, and

(e) fluctuate the torque command to the second rotating electric machine other than the first rotating electric machine of which the slip frequency is fluctuated such that a torque fluctuation caused by the fluctuation of the slip frequency is canceled out.

4. The control device according to claim 3, wherein

the first rotating electric machine is an induction rotating electric machine, and the second rotating electric machine is a synchronous rotating electric machine.

5. A control method for at least a first rotating electric machine and a second rotating electric machine, the control method comprising:

(a) distributing, by an electronic control device, a torque command based on a drive request of a driver to at least the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine;

(b) determining, by the electronic control device, a slip frequency in accordance with the distributed torque command;

(c) determining, by the electronic control device, a command frequency from the slip frequency and a rotational frequency of the first rotating electric machine;

(d) converting direct current power into alternating current power in accordance with the command frequency and supplying alternating current power obtained converting direct current power into alternating current power to at least the first rotating electric machine and the second rotating electric machine by an inverter;

(e) switching, by the electronic control device, the command frequency to a frequency outside an inverter lock frequency band by changing the slip frequency when the command frequency is included in the inverter lock frequency band; and

(f) changing, by the electronic control device, the torque command to the second rotating electric machine other than the first rotating electric machine of which the slip frequency is changed such that a torque fluctuation caused by the change of the slip frequency is canceled out.