CONTROL APPARATUS OF MOTOR

• US 20170133961A1
• Filed: 11/08/2016
• Published: 05/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: AKIMATSU, Ryunosuke, TONARI, Tatsuya, UCHIDA, Toshihiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,806,646 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 29/60 Controlling or determining the temperature of the motor or of the drive H02P29/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/10 Arrangements for controlling torque ripple, e.g. providing reduced torque ripple

Abstract

In a control apparatus, a fundamental voltage generator generates, based on a target rotational speed, a fundamental voltage command for a fundamental voltage. A property storage stores a natural vibration property of a rotor when the rotor is rotating as a rotating vibration property. A rotating state detector detects a rotating position and a rotational speed of the rotor as a rotating state of the rotor. A harmonic voltage generator generates, based on the rotating state of the rotor and the rotating vibration property, a harmonic voltage command to be superimposed on the fundamental voltage command generated by the fundamental voltage generator.

Claims

1. A control apparatus for a motor including a stator with a stator coil, and a rotor including a rotor magnetic field, in which an AC voltage based on a target rotational speed is input to the stator coil as a fundamental voltage, so that magnetic interactions between a stator magnetic field generated by the stator coil and the rotor magnetic field rotate the rotor, the control apparatus comprising:

a fundamental voltage generator configured to generate, based on the target rotational speed, a fundamental voltage command for the fundamental voltage;

a property storage configured to store a natural vibration property of the rotor when the rotor is rotating as a rotating vibration property;

a rotating state detector configured to detect a rotating position and a rotational speed of the rotor as a rotating state of the rotor; and

a harmonic voltage generator configured to generate, based on the rotating state of the rotor and the rotating vibration property, a harmonic voltage command to be superimposed on the fundamental voltage command generated by the fundamental voltage generator.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the property storage stores, as the rotating vibration property, information including;

a resting vibration property that represents a natural vibration property when the rotor is at rest; and

a correction functional formula that corrects the resting vibration property to the rotating vibration property.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the harmonic voltage generator comprises:

a resonance property calculator configured to;

multiply, by a predetermined rotation order, the rotational speed of the rotor to thereby calculate a product of the predetermined rotation order and the rotational speed of the rotor; and

calculate, based on the rotating vibration property and the calculated product, a value of the rotating vibration property corresponding to a resonance rotational speed at the predetermined rotation order as a resonance characteristic value; and

a harmonic voltage determiner configured to determine, based on the resonance characteristic value and the rotating state of the rotor, a frequency, an amplitude, and a phase of the harmonic voltage command.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the rotating vibration property is a first rotating vibration property based on a vibration frequency of the rotor; and

the harmonic voltage determiner comprises an amplitude determiner configured to determine the amplitude of the harmonic voltage command,

the amplitude determiner being configured to;

convert the first rotating vibration property into a second rotating vibration property based on the predetermined rotation order;

obtain, as the resonance characteristic value, a peak of the second rotating vibration property, the peak corresponding to the resonance rotational speed; and

reduce the amplitude of the harmonic voltage command when the rotational value of the rotor is in disagreement with the resonance rotational speed to be smaller than the amplitude of the harmonic voltage command when the rotational value of the rotor is in agreement with the resonance rotational speed.

5. The control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein:

the amplitude determiner is configured to reduce the amplitude of the harmonic voltage command as the rotational speed of the rotor deviates from the resonance rotational speed.

6. The control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein:

the amplitude deter miner is configured to reduce, based on change of the second rotating vibration property relative to the resonance rotational speed, the amplitude of the harmonic voltage command as the rotational speed of the rotor deviates from the resonance rotational speed.

7. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the rotor includes at least partially hollow portion therein.

8. The control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein:

the rotor has a hollow cylindrical shape; and

the stator is disposed in a hollow portion of the rotor.