Motor control device and seat control device for vehicle

• US 9,018,869 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2010
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Yuasa, Daisuke, Aikawa, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Ip, Paul
• Assistant Examiner(s): JOSEPH, DEVON A
• Application Number:
  US12/858,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20110043157A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,714 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 318/274
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/02246 Electric motors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0252 with relations between different adjustments, e.g. height of headrest following longitudinal position of seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0272 using sensors or detectors for detecting the position of seat parts
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/0277 characterised by the calculation method or calculation flow chart of sensor data for adjusting the seat
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/3031 in a longitudinal-vertical plane
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/3065 in a longitudinal-vertical plane
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/36 into a loading platform B60N2/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2/856 movable to an inoperative or stowed position
• CPC Class Codes: B60N 2220/20 using a deterministic algorithm

Abstract

A motor control device includes an acceleration portion for increasing a target number of rotations of a motor every predetermined calculation cycle until the target number of rotations of the motor reaches an upper limit number of rotations, which is set on the basis of a reached position of a driven object from a reference position, the driven object is driven by the motor so that a position of the driven object is changed, a deceleration portion for decreasing the target number of rotations of the motor every calculation cycle after the target number of rotations reaches the upper limit number of rotations, and a main control portion for controlling a drive of the motor on the basis of the target number of rotations.

Claims

1. A motor control device comprising:

an acceleration portion for increasing a target number of rotations of a motor every predetermined calculation cycle until the target number of rotations of the motor reaches an upper limit number of rotations, the upper limit number of rotations varying according to a reached position of a driven object from a reference position of the driven object, the driven object being driven by the motor so that a position of the driven object is changed;

a deceleration portion for decreasing the target number of rotations of the motor every calculation cycle after the target number of rotations reaches the upper limit number of rotations;

a main control portion for controlling a drive of the motor on the basis of the target number of rotations using pulse width modulation; and

wherein the main control portion executes feedforward control until the driven object is displaced by a predetermined initial displacement amount and executes feedback control after the driven object is displaced more than the initial displacement amount, the main control portion increasing a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation by a predetermined amount every calculation cycle in the feedforward control when a number of rotations of the motor is lower than the target number of rotations.

2. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein the upper limit number of rotations is set as a value, which decreases as a displacement amount of the driven object from the reference position increases, and the deceleration portion decreases the target number of rotations on the basis of the upper limit number of rotations.

3. The motor control device according to claim 2, wherein the upper limit number of rotations is decreased by a decreasing ratio, which is set so as to continuously or stepwisely increase as the displacement amount of the driven object from the reference position increases.

4. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein the upper limit number of rotations is set as a value, which decreases as a displacement amount of the driven object from the reference position increases and includes a final steady number of rotations as a minimum value, by which the motor is rotated in a constant speed, and the deceleration portion decreases the target number of rotations on the basis of the upper limit number of rotations.

5. The motor control device according to claim 1 further comprising a restriction portion for restricting a rotation of the motor in response to an allowable output of the motor, wherein the restriction portion restricts an Increase of the target number of rotations by the acceleration portion and sets the target number of rotations to a number of rotations of the motor in a case where an output of the motor reaches the allowable output.

6. The motor control device according to claim 5, wherein the main control portion executes a pulse width modulation in order to control the motor, and the restriction portion determines that the output of the motor reaches the allowable output in a case where a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation becomes equal to or greater than an upper limit duty ratio and sets the duty ratio of the pulse width modulation to the upper limit duty ratio.

7. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein the main control portion increases the duty ratio of the pulse width modulation in a case where a difference between the target number of rotations and the number of rotations of the motor becomes equal to or greater than an allowable difference.

8. The motor control device according to claim 1 further comprising a stop determination portion for determining whether or not the motor is in a stopped state on the basis of the number of rotations of the motor, wherein the predetermined amount added to the duty ratio of the pulse width modulation is set as an increasing amount, by which the duty radio to be obtained when the motor is started reaches 100 percent during a period of time from when the main control portion determines that the number of rotations is lower than the target number of rotations by a predetermined amount to when the stop determination portion determines that the motor is in the stopped state.

9. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein the main control portion executes a pulse width modulation in order to control the motor, the main control portion executes a feedforward control until the driven object is displaced by a predetermined initial amount from a position of the driven object located when the motor is started and executes a feedback control after the driven object is displaced more than the initial displacement amount, the main control portion updates the target number of rotations to a value, which is obtained by adding a predetermined offset value to a number of rotations of the motor generated at a point of time when a control is shifted from the feedforward control to the feedback control, when the control is shifted from the feedforward control to the feedback control.

10. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein the acceleration portion increases the target number of rotations by different increasing ratios in the case where the main control portion executes the feedforward control and in the case where the main control portion executes the feedback control.

11. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein the acceleration portion increases the target number of rotations by an increasing ratio, which is set to continuously or stepwisely increase as a displacement amount of the driven object from the reference position increases.

12. The motor control device according to claim 1, wherein the motor control device is adapted as a seat control device for a vehicle and the driven object includes a vehicle seat.

13. A motor control device comprising:

an acceleration portion for increasing a target number of rotations of a motor every predetermined calculation cycle until the target number of rotations of the motor reaches an upper limit number of rotations, which is set on the basis of a reached position of a driven object from a reference position, the driven object being driven by the motor so that a position of the driven object is changed;

a deceleration portion for decreasing the target number of rotations of the motor every calculation cycle after the target number of rotations reaches the upper limit number of rotations;

a main control portion for driving and controlling the motor on the basis of the target number of rotations using pulse width modulation, wherein the upper limit number of rotations is set as a value, which decreases as a displacement amount of the driven object from the reference position increases and includes a final steady number of rotations as a minimum value, by which the motor is rotated in a constant speed, and the deceleration portion decreases the target number of rotations on the basis of the upper limit number of rotations; and

wherein the main control portion executes feedforward control until the driven object is displaced by a predetermined initial displacement amount and executes feedforward control after the driven object is displaced more than the initial displacement amount, the main control portion increasing a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation by a predetermined amount every calculation cycle in the feedforward control when a number of rotations of the motor is lower than the target number of rotations.

14. A motor control device in combination with a motor that drives a driven object to change a position of the driven object, the motor control device being operatively connected to the motor and comprising:

an acceleration portion which increases a target number of rotations of the motor every predetermined calculation cycle until the target number of rotations of the motor reaches an upper limit number of rotations, the upper limit number of rotations varying based on a displacement of the driven object from a reference position;

a deceleration portion which decreases the target number of rotations of the motor every calculation cycle after the target number of rotations reaches the upper limit number of rotations;

a main control portion which controls the motor based on the target number of rotations using pulse width modulation, the main control portion executing feedforward control until the driven object is displaced by a predetermined initial displacement amount and executing feedback control after the driven object is displaced more than the initial displacement amount, the main control portion increasing a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation by a predetermined amount every calculation cycle in the feedforward control when a number of rotations of the motor is lower than the target number of rotations; and

wherein the driven object is one of an electric seat of a vehicle, a slide door of the vehicle, and a power window of the vehicle.