Integrated brushless DC motor and controller
First Claim
1. An integrated brushless DC motor and controller comprising:
- (A) a brushless direct current motor having a rotating shaft;
(B) a single two pole permanent magnet affixed on the end of said shaft near the axis of rotation of said shaft for rotation by said shaft in a plane orthogonal to the axis of rotation of said shaft, said two pole permanent magnet being positioned on said shaft in an arbitrary fashion;
(C) an electronic controller attached to said motor and positioned over said rotating shaft, said electronic controller being matched to said motor at the time of assembly to compensate for said arbitrary positioning of said magnet, said electronic controller being usable only with the motor to which it has been matched;
(D) a single X-Y Hall Effect Sensor carried by said electronic controller and spaced approximately 0.125 plus or minus 0.25 inches from said two pole permanent magnet to maximize the output signal but to not saturate the sensor, said Hall Effect sensor producing the Sine and Cosine components of the magnetic field as said magnet is rotated by said shaft;
(E) said electronic controller including means for determining the motor angle and commutation logic from said Sine and Cosine components;
(F) said motor angle is determined by the inverse tangent of the Sine divided by the Cosine components;
(G) X-Y Hall Effect sensor errors created by said arbitrary positioning of said permanent magnet are determined by applying a rotating magnetic filed to said motor as a command signal to slowly rotate the motor rotor and decoding the relationship between X-Y Hall Effect position and the command position; and
(H) only three electrical wires interconnecting said electronic controller to said motor, said wires being secured in place to prevent easy removal of the controller from the motor to which it ahs been matched.
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Abstract
An integrated brushless DC motor and controller including a brushless DC motor having a rotating shaft with a 2 pole permanent magnet affixed to the shaft for rotation thereby in a plane orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the shaft. An X-Y Hall Effect Sensor is carried by a controller mounted on a circuit board attached to the motor and the Hall Effect Sensor is positioned proximate the magnet with the Hall Effect Sensor producing the Sine and Cosine components of the magnetic field as the magnet is rotated by the motor shaft. The electronic controller includes software for determining the motor angle and commutation logic from the Sine and Cosine components generated by the Hall Effect Sensor response to the rotating magnetic field. A controller on the board positioned over the rotating shaft contains the highly integrated functions of internal analog digital converters, pulse width modulation registers for driving the power amplifier, internal communication ports and all of the random excess memory and FLASH non-volatile memory that is typically required for motor control.
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4 Claims
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1. An integrated brushless DC motor and controller comprising:
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(A) a brushless direct current motor having a rotating shaft; (B) a single two pole permanent magnet affixed on the end of said shaft near the axis of rotation of said shaft for rotation by said shaft in a plane orthogonal to the axis of rotation of said shaft, said two pole permanent magnet being positioned on said shaft in an arbitrary fashion; (C) an electronic controller attached to said motor and positioned over said rotating shaft, said electronic controller being matched to said motor at the time of assembly to compensate for said arbitrary positioning of said magnet, said electronic controller being usable only with the motor to which it has been matched; (D) a single X-Y Hall Effect Sensor carried by said electronic controller and spaced approximately 0.125 plus or minus 0.25 inches from said two pole permanent magnet to maximize the output signal but to not saturate the sensor, said Hall Effect sensor producing the Sine and Cosine components of the magnetic field as said magnet is rotated by said shaft; (E) said electronic controller including means for determining the motor angle and commutation logic from said Sine and Cosine components; (F) said motor angle is determined by the inverse tangent of the Sine divided by the Cosine components; (G) X-Y Hall Effect sensor errors created by said arbitrary positioning of said permanent magnet are determined by applying a rotating magnetic filed to said motor as a command signal to slowly rotate the motor rotor and decoding the relationship between X-Y Hall Effect position and the command position; and (H) only three electrical wires interconnecting said electronic controller to said motor, said wires being secured in place to prevent easy removal of the controller from the motor to which it ahs been matched. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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