Rotation state detecting apparatus of a synchronous machine

• US 6,979,975 B1
• Filed: 03/27/2000
• Issued: 12/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Kinpara, Yoshihiko, Kaitani, Toshiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Fletcher, Marlon T.
• Application Number:
  US09/979,335
• Time in Patent Office: 2,101 Days
• Field of Search: 318700-724, 318798-811, 318/254
• US Class Current: 318/400.02
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/045 with speed indication
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/44 for measuring angular speed G01P3/56 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 25/024 controlled by supply frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/17 and for generating speed information
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/185 using inductance sensing, e.g. pulse excitation

Abstract

In a conventional rotation state detecting apparatus of a synchronous machine, since short-circuiting must be carried out twice or more when a rotation speed is detected, there have been problems in that it takes a time to detect a rotation state, and it takes a time to start up. A rotation state detecting apparatus for a synchronous machine according to the present invention has been made to solve the above problem, and includes a calculation unit for outputting a voltage vector command and a trigger signal and for outputting a rotation state of a synchronous machine having at least three windings in an idle state, a circuit unit for applying voltages to the respective phases of the synchronous machine on the basis of the voltage vector command, and a detection unit for detecting a current of the synchronous machine on the basis of the trigger signal and outputting a value of the detected current to the calculation unit. The calculation unit outputs a voltage vector for short-circuiting the respective phases of the synchronous machine, outputs trigger signals on at least one occurrence of the short-circuiting to produce current values from the detection unit multiple times, and calculates a rotation speed and a rotation position of the synchronous machine.

Claims

1. A rotation state detecting apparatus for a synchronous machine, comprising:

calculation means for outputting a voltage vector command and a trigger signal and for outputting a rotation state of a synchronous machine having at least three phase windings, in an idle state;

circuit means for applying voltages to respective phases of the synchronous machine based on the voltage vector command; and

detection means for detecting a current of the synchronous machine based on the trigger signal and for outputting a value indicating the current detected to the calculation means, wherein the calculation means;

outputs a voltage vector for short-circuiting the respective phases of the synchronous machine,

short-circuits the respective phases of the synchronous machine,

outputs a plurality of trigger signals on at least one occurrence of all-phase short-circuiting to obtain values indicating currents detected by the detection means a plurality of times, and

calculates the rotation state of the synchronous machine and sign of rotation speed of the synchronous machine, based on currents detected at least twice on one occurrence of the all-phase short-circuiting, so that when a salient pole ratio of winding inductance of the synchronous machine is larger than two, the sign is different from when the salient pole ratio is smaller than two.

2. The rotation state detecting apparatus for a synchronous machine according to claim 1, wherein the calculation means calculates a current amplitude value in regard to the value obtained from the detection means each time the trigger signal is output, and calculates magnitude of a rotation speed of the synchronous machine based on time until the current amplitude value reaches a predetermined value.

3. The rotation state detecting apparatus for a synchronous machine according to claim 2, wherein, after the current amplitude value reaches the predetermined value, the calculation means changes the voltage vector output to the circuit means from the voltage vector for short-circuiting the respective phases of the synchronous machine to a voltage vector for making the current amplitude value zero.

4. The rotation state detecting apparatus for a synchronous machine according to claim 2, wherein, if the current amplitude value does not reach the predetermined value after a maximum stand-by time elapses from start of the short-circuiting, the calculation means determines that the synchronous machine is not idle, and outputs the rotation speed as zero.

5. The rotation state detecting apparatus for a synchronous machine according to claim 1, wherein the calculation means converts the value obtained from the detection means into at least two kinds of calculation currents, calculates a current phase based on signs of the calculation currents, and adds a predetermined value to or subtracts a predetermined value from the current phase based on sign of rotation speed of the synchronous machine, to output rotation position of the synchronous machine.