Motor driving circuit

• US 10,164,557 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2016
• Issued: 12/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ROHM Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: ROHM Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Ishii, Hiroyuki, Shimizu, Tatsuro
• Primary Examiner(s): Dhakal, Bickey
• Application Number:
  US15/153,008
• Publication Number:
  US 20160261215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/17 and for generating speed information
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 7/29 using pulse modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 5/153 Arrangements in which a pulse is delivered at the instant when a predetermined characteristic of an input signal is present or at a fixed time interval after this instant switching at zero crossing H03K17/13

Abstract

A first calculation unit subtracts third digital data which indicates the minimum value of the duty ratio from first digital data which indicates the duty ratio of the PWM driving operation. A slope calculation unit generates slope data which is dependent on the temperature based upon second digital data which indicates the temperature. A second calculation unit multiplies the slope data by the output data of the first calculation unit. A third calculation unit sums the output data of the second calculation unit and the third digital data. A selector receives the output data of the third calculation unit and the third digital data, selects one data that corresponds to the sign of the output data of the first calculation unit, and outputs the data thus selected as a duty ratio control signal.

Claims

1. A semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) configured to receive a Hall signal, which comprises a first hall signal and a second hall signal that are complementary, from a Hall sensor, and to drive a fan motor, the semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) comprising:

a first terminal coupled to receive a first signal which is pulse width modulated and which instructs a duty ratio of a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signal, the first signal is supplied externally;

a second terminal coupled to receive a second signal indicative of temperature from a temperature sensor;

a control circuit that generates the PWM signal having the duty ratio according to the first signal and the second signal and supplies the fan motor with a driving signal according to the PWM signal; and

a rotational speed pulse output terminal structured to output an FG signal indicative of a rotational speed of the fan motor,

wherein the control circuit comprises a digital filter having a delay circuit, the digital filter receives the first signal and is structured to generate a data signal indicative of the duty ratio of the first signal,

wherein the PWM signal is generated according to the data signal, and

wherein the semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) further comprises;

a first A/D converter structured to convert the first hall signal which is an analog signal to a third signal which is a digital signal; and

a second A/D converter structured to convert the second hall signal which is an analog signal to a fourth signal which is a digital signal.

2. The semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) according to claim 1, further comprising:

a differential conversion circuit structured to generate a single ended fifth signal according to a difference between the third signal and the fourth signal.

3. The semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) according to claim 2, further comprising:

an offset correction circuit structured to shift the fifth signal by summing the fifth signal and a correction amount or by subtracting the correction amount from the fifth signal so as to generate a sixth signal.

4. The semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) according to claim 3, further comprising:

an amplitude control circuit structured to stabilize the amplitude of sixth signal and to generate a seventh signal indicative of an absolute value of the stabilized sixth signal.

5. The semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) according to claim 4, further comprising:

an FG signal generating circuit structured to generate the FG signal, wherein the FG signal changes its signal level every time the seventh signal straddles a threshold value.