Motor control apparatus

• US 7,176,652 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2005
• Issued: 02/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/15/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Wakabayashi, Kenichi, Yoshinaga, Soichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Donovan; Lincoln
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCCLOUD, RENATA D
• Application Number:
  US11/257,310
• Publication Number:
  US 20060038531A1
• Time in Patent Office: 476 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 318/400.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 29/50 Reduction of harmonics

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a motor control apparatus having excellent harmonic current control performance, that can simplify circuit configuration and circuit processing while, at the same time, achieving improved control accuracy. To achieve this object, detected motor currents are converted by coordinate converters 19 and 20 into an nth-order dq-axis signal and an mth-order dq-axis signal, and their DC components are extracted by low-pass filters 22 and 23; then, the differences of the DC components relative to respective command values are converted back into three-phase AC signals to control the motor currents.

Claims

1. A motor control apparatus for feedback-controlling a polyphase AC current to be fed to an armature of a polyphase AC rotary electric machine, comprising a harmonic control circuit block, wherein

said harmonic control circuit block includes:

a high-order dq coordinate converter for converting said polyphase AC current as a signal in a polyphase AC current coordinate system, into a high-order dq signal which is a signal defined in a high-order dq coordinate system rotating at a frequency corresponding to the harmonic order of a harmonic current component to be controlled from among harmonic current components contained in said polyphase AC current;

a low-pass filter for extracting a DC signal component contained in said high-order dq signal;

a subtractor for obtaining a difference between said DC signal component and a command value for said harmonic current component to be controlled; and

a high-order polyphase coordinate converter for converting a signal into said polyphase AC current coordinate system, the signal for asymptotically reducing said difference to zero, wherein

said harmonic current component to be controlled is controlled by feeding the harmonic current component output from said harmonic control circuit block to said armature.

2. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said high-order dq coordinate converter performs a dq conversion on an nth harmonic current to be superimposed in reverse phase order on a fundamental frequency component, by using a-n th-order coordinate system which is a coordinate system rotating at n times the frequency of said fundamental frequency component in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of a dq rotating coordinate system rotating synchronously with said fundamental frequency component.

3. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 1 or 2, comprising a plurality of said harmonic control circuit blocks wherein the harmonic order of said harmonic current component to be controlled is different for each of said harmonic control circuit blocks.

4. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claims 1 or 2, wherein magnetic noise is modified by controlling said harmonic current component to be controlled and feeding said controlled harmonic current to said armature.

5. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 4, wherein

when said harmonic current component output from said harmonic control circuit block has the same phase order as the fundamental frequency component of said polyphase AC current, the harmonic order of said harmonic current component to be controlled is set higher by 1 than the harmonic order of said magnetic noise, and

when said harmonic current component output from said harmonic control circuit block has a reverse phase order from the fundamental frequency component of said polyphase AC current, the harmonic order of said harmonic current component to be controlled is set lower by 1 than the harmonic order of said magnetic noise.

6. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 4, wherein

said polyphase AC rotary electric machine is a three-phase AC rotary electric machine, and wherein

when said harmonic current component output from said harmonic control circuit block has the same phase order as the fundamental frequency component of said polyphase AC current, the harmonic order of said harmonic current component to be controlled is set to 6k+1, wherein k is a natural number, and

when said harmonic current component output from said harmonic control circuit block has a reverse phase order from the fundamental frequency component of said polyphase AC current, the harmonic order of said harmonic current component to be controlled is set to 6k−

1.

7. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 6, wherein said motor control apparatus comprises at least one harmonic current control circuit block for outputting said harmonic current component whose harmonic order is 6k−

1, and at least one harmonic current control circuit block for outputting said harmonic current component whose harmonic order is 6k+1.

8. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claims 1 or 2, wherein said harmonic current component of a prescribed order to be superimposed on said polyphase AC current by said harmonic control circuit block is chosen to have an amplitude and phase that reduces the magnetic noise of said polyphase AC rotary electric machine.

9. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein magnetic noise is modified by controlling said harmonic current component to be controlled and feeding said controlled harmonic current to said armature.

10. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 3, wherein said harmonic current component of a prescribed order to be superimposed on said polyphase AC current by said harmonic control circuit block is chosen to have an amplitude and phase that reduces the magnetic noise of said polyphase AC rotary electric machine.

11. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 4, wherein said harmonic current component of a prescribed order to be superimposed on said polyphase AC current by said harmonic control circuit block is chosen to have an amplitude and phase that reduces the magnetic noise of said polyphase AC rotary electric machine.

12. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 5, wherein said harmonic current component of a prescribed order to be superimposed on said polyphase AC current by said harmonic control circuit block is chosen to have an amplitude and phase that reduces the magnetic noise of said polyphase AC rotary electric machine.

13. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 6, wherein said harmonic current component of a prescribed order to be superimposed on said polyphase AC current by said harmonic control circuit block is chosen to have an amplitude and phase that reduces the magnetic noise of said polyphase AC rotary electric machine.

14. A motor control apparatus as set forth in claim 7, wherein said harmonic current component of a prescribed order to be superimposed on said polyphase AC current by said harmonic control circuit block is chosen to have an amplitude and phase that reduces the magnetic noise of said polyphase AC rotary electric machine.