Motor control device and current detecting unit

• US 7,728,537 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2007
• Issued: 06/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tomigashi, Yoshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Duda, Rina I
• Application Number:
  US11/853,643
• Publication Number:
  US 20080061728A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 318/400.02, 318/801, 318/805, 318/812, 318/432
• US Class Current: 318/400.02
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/217 using semiconductor devices only
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/06 Rotor flux based control involving the use of rotor position or rotor speed sensors

Abstract

A current detecting unit detects three phase current of a three-phase inverter from current flowing between the inverter and a DC power supply. The current detecting unit includes a specified voltage vector generating portion that generates a specified voltage vector indicating a voltage vector that three-phase voltage of the inverter should follow, and a specified voltage vector correcting portion that corrects the generated specified voltage vector. The inverter is controlled in accordance with the specified voltage vector after the correction.

Claims

1. A motor control device comprising a current detecting portion that detects, as detection current, current flowing between a DC power supply outputting a DC voltage and an inverter to which the DC voltage is applied and that drives a three-phase motor, the motor control device detecting motor current flowing in the motor from the detection current and controlling the motor via the inverter based on the motor current, the motor control device further comprising:

a specified voltage vector generating portion that generates a specified voltage vector indicating a voltage vector that an applied voltage to the motor should follow based on the motor current; and

a specified voltage vector correcting portion that corrects the generated specified voltage vector, wherein

the motor control device controls the motor in accordance with the specified voltage vector after the correction, and

wherein the specified voltage vector correcting portion corrects the generated specified voltage vector so that the specified voltage vector after the correction becomes a vector outside a region where the motor current cannot be detected.

2. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein

the specified voltage vector is a specified voltage vector on rotating coordinates,

the specified voltage vector correcting portion corrects the specified voltage vector on the rotating coordinates in the process of converting the specified voltage vector on the rotating coordinates into specified three-phase voltage values on three-phase fixed coordinates, and

the motor control device controls the motor by supplying the specified three-phase voltage values corresponding to the specified voltage vector after the correction to the inverter.

3. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein the specified voltage vector is a two-phase specified voltage vector on ab coordinates rotating in a stepping manner every 60 degrees of electrical angle in accordance with a phase of the specified voltage vector with reference to a predetermined fixed axis.

4. The motor control device according to claim 3, wherein the specified voltage vector correcting portion decides whether the correction is necessary or not based on the amplitude of a coordinate axis component forming the two-phase specified voltage vector on the ab coordinates, and it corrects the specified voltage vector by correcting the coordinate axis component when the correction is necessary.

5. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein a phase of current flowing as the detection current is determined based on the generated specified voltage vector, and the motor current is detected in accordance with a result of the determination.

6. The motor control device according to claim 5, further comprising a specified three-phase voltage value generating portion that generates specified three-phase voltage values from the specified voltage vector after the correction, wherein

timing for detecting the detection current is decided based on the result of the determination and the specified three-phase voltage values, and the motor current is detected from the detection current that is detected at the timing;

and

the specified three-phase voltage values are supplied to the inverter so that the motor is controlled.

7. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein timing for detecting the detection current is decided based on a magnitude of the generated specified voltage vector, and the motor current is detected from the detection current that is detected at the timing.

8. The motor control device according to claim 3, wherein timing for detecting the detection current is decided based on a coordinate axis component of the specified voltage vector on the ab coordinates, and the motor current is detected from the detection current that is detected at the timing.

9. A motor driving system comprising:

a three-phase motor;

an inverter that drives the motor; and

a motor control device according to claim 1 that controls the motor by controlling the inverter.

10. A current detecting unit comprising a current detecting portion that detects, as detection current, current flowing between a DC power supply outputting a DC voltage and a three-phase inverter to which the DC voltage is applied, the current detecting unit detecting three phase current of the inverter from the detection current, the current detecting unit further comprising:

a specified voltage vector generating portion that generates a specified voltage vector indicating a voltage vector that three-phase voltages of the inverter should follow; and

a specified voltage vector correcting portion that corrects the generated specified voltage vector, so that the inverter is controlled in accordance with the specified voltage vector after the correction, wherein

the specified voltage vector correcting portion corrects the generated specified voltage vector so that the specified voltage vector after the correction becomes a vector outside a region where current values of two phases of the three phase current cannot be detected.

11. The current detecting unit according to claim 10, wherein the specified voltage vector is a specified voltage vector on rotating coordinates,

the specified voltage vector correcting portion corrects the specified voltage vector on the rotating coordinates in the process of converting the specified voltage vector on the rotating coordinates into specified three-phase voltage values on three-phase fixed coordinates, and

the inverter is controlled in accordance with the specified three-phase voltage values corresponding to the specified voltage vector after the correction.

12. The current detecting unit according to claim 10, wherein the specified voltage vector is a two-phase specified voltage vector on ab coordinates rotating in a stepping manner every 60 degrees of electrical angle in accordance with a phase of the specified voltage vector with reference to a predetermined fixed axis.

13. The current detecting unit according to claim 12, wherein the specified voltage vector correcting portion decides whether the correction is necessary or not based on the amplitude of a coordinate axis component forming the two-phase specified voltage vector on the ab coordinates, and it corrects the specified voltage vector by correcting the coordinate axis component when the correction is necessary.

14. An inverter controlling device, comprising:

a current detecting unit according to claim 10 so as to control the inverter based on the detected three phase current; and

the specified voltage vector generating portion that generates the specified voltage vector based on the three phase current.

15. The inverter controlling device according to claim 14, further comprising a current converting portion that converts the three phase current into active current and reactive current with reference to a phase of an output voltage of the inverter, wherein the specified voltage vector generating portion generates the specified voltage vector based on the active current and the reactive current.

16. A system interconnecting device comprising;

an inverter controlling device according to claim 14; and

an inverter that converts DC voltage from the DC power supply into three-phase AC voltage, so that AC power based on the AC voltage is supplied to a load by interconnection with an external three-phase AC power system.