Motor controller

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10288171-B2
Application number	US-201715433207-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 15, 2017
Priority date	Feb 16, 2016
Publication date	May 14, 2019
Grant date	May 14, 2019

Abstract

When a butting control is performed at a low temperature at which an oil temperature of an automatic transmission is equal to or lower than a predetermined value, a driving condition changing process is performed. In the driving condition changing process, an execution period from a starting of the butting control to an ending of the butting control is divided into a plurality of sections on the basis of a rotation angle of a motor. By making a torque of the motor greater and a rotation speed higher in a starting-section than in an ending-section, the execution period of the butting control is made short. By making the torque of the motor smaller and the rotation speed lower in the ending-section than in the starting-section, an amount of deformation of a component is made smaller when a part of a component is butted against a limit position so that a reference position can be learned accurately.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor controller comprising:
a motor that functions as a driving source for a control target;
an encoder that outputs a pulse signal in synchronism with rotation of the motor;
a controlling unit that rotationally drives the motor to a target position while sequentially changing energization phases of the motor, based on a count value of the output signal of the encoder, the controlling unit learning a reference position by executing a butting control in which the motor is made to rotate until butting a limit position of a movable range of the control target;
a temperature information obtaining unit that obtains a temperature, as temperature information, of the control target or obtains a temperature in correlation with the temperature of the control target; and
a changing unit that performs a driving condition changing process when the butting control is performed at a low temperature at which the temperature information is not greater than a predetermined value,
wherein:
an execution period from a starting of the butting control to an ending of the butting control is divided into a plurality of sections on a basis of a rotation angle of the motor;
in the driving condition changing process, a torque of the motor is made greater and a rotation speed is made higher in a starting-section of the plurality of sections than in an ending-section of the plurality of sections, and the torque of the motor is made smaller and the rotation speed is made lower in the ending-section than in the starting-section;
also when the butting control is performed at a non-low temperature at which the temperature information is greater than the predetermined value, the changing unit performs the driving condition changing process; and
the changing unit makes the motor torque greater in a case of performing the driving condition changing process at the low temperature than in a case of performing the driving condition changing process at the non-low temperature.

2. The motor controller according to claim 1 , wherein
the control target is a range-changing mechanism that changes a shift range of a transmission mounted on a vehicle.

3. The motor controller according to claim 2 , wherein
the temperature information obtaining unit is an oil temperature sensor that detects as the temperature information an oil temperature of the transmission.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Yamamoto Daisuke

Classifications

• F16H2061/283

  Adjustment or calibration of actuator positions, e.g. neutral position · CPC title

• H02P29/60

  Controlling or determining the temperature of the motor or of the drive (H02P29/02 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F16H2061/326

  Actuators for range selection, i.e. actuators for controlling the range selector or the manual range valve in the transmission · CPC title

• F16H59/72

  dependent on oil characteristics, e.g. temperature, viscosity · CPC title

• H02P7/28

  using semiconductor devices · CPC title