Hall sensor signal generating device

• US 9,175,982 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2012
• Issued: 11/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Suk, Jung Hee, Yang, Yil Suk, Roh, Tae Moon
• Primary Examiner(s): Santana, Eduardo Colon
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mustafa, Iftekhar
• Application Number:
  US13/586,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20130154527A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,175 Days
• Field of Search: 318/400.06, 318/400.38, 318/595, 318/690, 318/41, 318/85, 318/705
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/145 influenced by the relative movement between the Hall device and magnetic fields see G01R33/06
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/17 and for generating speed information

Abstract

Disclosed is a hall sensor signal generating device which includes a rotor which has a magnetic property and rotates on the basis of a rotary axis; a hall sensor unit which is disposed to be spaced apart from a stator disposed outside the rotor; and a clock synchronization unit which receives a driving clock, performs synchronization between the driving clock and a hall sensor signal output from the hall sensor unit, and outputs the synchronized driving clock and the synchronized hall sensor signal.

Claims

1. A Hall sensor signal generating device comprising:

a rotor which has a magnetic property and is configured to rotate on a rotary axis;

a Hall sensor unit which is disposed on a stator and outside the rotor and configured to output a Hall sensor signal;

a clock generating unit disposed within the Hall sensor signal generating device and configured to generate an internal driving clock signal;

a clock controlling unit configured to receive the internal driving clock signal, an external driving clock signal, and a control signal, the external driving clock signal and the control signal generated from an external device located outside the Hall sensor signal generating device, to select either the external driving clock signal or the internal driving clock signal as a selected driving clock signal according to the control signal, and to provide the selected driving clock signal to a clock synchronization unit;

and the clock synchronization unit configured to receive the selected driving clock signal and the Hall sensor signal, to perform synchronization between the selected driving clock signal and the Hall sensor signal, and to output a synchronized driving clock signal and a synchronized Hall sensor signal and,

wherein a rising edge of the synchronized driving clock signal corresponds to a rising edge of the synchronized Hall sensor signal or a falling edge of the synchronized Hall sensor signal.

2. The Hall sensor signal generating device of claim 1, wherein the Hall sensor signal generating device is included in a Brushless Direct Current (BLDC) motor.

3. The Hall sensor signal generating device of claim 1, wherein the Hall sensor signal generating device is included in a Synchronous Reluctance Motor (SynRM).

4. The Hall sensor signal generating device of claim 1, wherein the Hall sensor unit includes a plurality of Hall sensors that are disposed with the same interval.

5. The Hall sensor signal generating device of claim 4, wherein the plurality of Hall sensors includes three Hall sensors that are disposed with an interval of 120 degrees.

6. The Hall sensor signal generating device of claim 1, wherein a frequency of the internal driving clock signal is variable.

7. The Hall sensor signal generating device of claim 1, wherein the clock controlling unit further includes a multiplier configured to multiply a frequency of the selected driving clock signal to adjust the frequency of the selected driving clock signal.