Motor control device and steering control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10003286-B2
Application number	US-201715454422-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 9, 2017
Priority date	Mar 17, 2016
Publication date	Jun 19, 2018
Grant date	Jun 19, 2018

Abstract

A steering control device capable of suppressing a reduction in reliability even in the case where the redundancy of the power source is increased is provided. A steering ECU includes two control systems in which different external power sources are connected to two drive circuits. The low potential sides of the drive circuits and the low potential sides of the corresponding external power sources are independently connected to each other via power source ground lines for the two control systems. The low potential sides of the drive circuits are connected to each other via an internal ground. Two current detection circuits are provided between the power source ground lines and the internal ground to detect power source ground current values, respectively. The steering ECU includes microcomputers that detect a ground abnormality on the basis of the results of detection performed by the current detection circuits.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor control device comprising:
a plurality of drive circuits that operate to supply drive electric power to windings of a motor to be controlled using external power sources as electric power sources; and
a plurality of control systems constituted by respectively connecting different external power sources to the plurality of drive circuits, the plurality of control systems being configured such that:
low potential sides of the drive circuits and low potential sides of corresponding external power sources are connected to each other via a plurality of power source grounds which are independent grounds for the control systems, and the low potential sides of the drive circuits are connected to each other via an internal ground which is a common ground, and
a plurality of current detection circuits are provided between the plurality of power source grounds and the internal ground to detect respective ground currents which are currents of the plurality of power source grounds,

the plurality of control systems including an abnormality detection circuit that detects a ground abnormality which is an abnormality in each of the power source grounds in the plurality of control systems based on results of detection performed by the plurality of current detection circuits.

2. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the abnormality detection circuit computes power source currents of the corresponding external power sources for the plurality of control systems based on the drive electric power supplied to the motor by the drive circuits; and
the abnormality detection circuit detects the ground abnormality based on a difference between each of the power source currents for the plurality of control systems and results of detection performed by each of the current detection circuits corresponding to the plurality of control systems.

3. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein the abnormality detection circuit detects the ground abnormality based on a result of comparing, among the plurality of control systems, the results of detection performed by current detection circuits corresponding to the plurality of control systems.

4. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the drive circuits applies a d-axis current in a dq coordinate system to the motor at a timing when the abnormality detection circuit detects the ground abnormality.

5. The motor control device according to claim 4 , wherein the timing when the abnormality detection circuit detects the ground abnormality includes a situation in which torque generated by the motor is zero.

6. A steering control device comprising:
the motor control device according to claim 1 ,
wherein a motor that is included in a steering mechanism of a vehicle and that provides the steering mechanism with power for varying a steered angle of steered wheels is controlled based on an electric signal being input from outside, the electric signal including an external command value.

Assignees

• Jtekt Corp

Inventors

• Kawamura Hiroshi
• Takahashi Toshihiro
• Niwa Tomohiro
• Toyozumi Kenichi
• Hashimoto Takahito

Classifications

• B62D5/0481

  monitoring the steering system, e.g. failures · CPC title

• B62D5/0487

  detecting motor faults (B62D5/0496 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02P6/12 Primary

  Monitoring commutation; Providing indication of commutation failure · CPC title

• B60L3/0069

  relating to the isolation, e.g. ground fault or leak current · CPC title

• B62D15/025

  Active steering aids, e.g. helping the driver by actively influencing the steering system after environment evaluation (B62D1/28 takes precedence) · CPC title