Motor control apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10608576-B2
Application number	US-201815959903-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2018
Priority date	Nov 4, 2014
Publication date	Mar 31, 2020
Grant date	Mar 31, 2020

Abstract

A motor control apparatus that estimates a temperature of a temperature estimation target element at a time of energizing the motor and drives a motor by controlling an electric power is provided. The motor control apparatus includes a primary delay arithmetic unit that outputs a primary delay response as an amount of temperature change, a sensor value adder that adds a sensor value of a temperature sensor to the amount of temperature change, an offset adder that adds an offset temperature to an output of the sensor value adder, a response constant determination portion that determines the gain and the time constant, and an offset temperature determination portion. At least one of the response constant and the offset temperature is changed according to a supply voltage or an input voltage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor control apparatus that estimates a temperature of a predetermined temperature estimation target element at a time of energizing a motor and drives the motor having a plurality of phases by controlling an electric power supplied by an electric power converter, the motor control apparatus comprising:
a primary delay arithmetic unit that
receives a current square value of a current supplied to the motor or a time average of an integrated value of the current square value, and
outputs, as an amount of temperature change, a primary delay response calculated using a gain and a time constant;

a sensor value adder that adds a sensor value of a temperature sensor to the amount of temperature change; and
a response constant determination portion that determines the gain and the time constant of the primary delay arithmetic unit, the gain and the time constant being a response constant,
wherein:
the response constant determination portion receives an electric angle, a q-axis current, and a modulation mode; and
the response constant determination portion changes the response constant according to
a change of heat generation estimated for the temperature estimation target element, or
a difference of heat generation between phases estimated for temperature estimation target elements in the plurality of phases.

2. The motor control apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a motor lock determination portion that determines whether the motor is in a lock state in which a q-axis current generating a torque in the motor is input and a rotation of the motor stops,
wherein:
in response to the motor lock determination portion determining that the motor is in the lock state, the response constant determination portion changes the response constant according to a predetermined input information.

3. The motor control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the response constant determination portion classifies cases in which the q-axis current corresponds to positive or negative and the modulation mode corresponds to a three-phase modulation or a two-phase modulation; and
in response to a result of classification by the response constant determination portion, the gain and the time constant are determined according to the electric angle.

4. The motor control apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein:
the motor is a three-phase motor having a modulation mode that includes a three-phase modulation mode, a upper flatbed two-phase modulation mode, and a lower flatbed two-phase modulation mode;
the response constant determination portion sets the gain to a predetermined reference value irrespective of the electric angle in response to the modulation mode being in the three-phase modulation mode;
the response constant determination portion sets the gain by referring to a map for the upper flatbed two-phase modulation in response to that the modulation mode being in the upper flatbed two-phase modulation mode; and
the response constant determination portion sets the gain by referring to a map for the lower flatbed two-phase modulation in response to that the modulation mode being in the lower flatbed two-phase modulation mode.

5. The motor control apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein:
in a map for a upper flatbed two-phase modulation, in an electric angle range where an on-duty by a PWM control is fixed to an upper limit value, the gain increases up to an increased gain that is larger than the gain stepwise at a time of estimation of an upper arm element and decreases down to a decreased gain that is smaller than the gain stepwise at a time of estimation of an lower arm element; and
in a map for a lower flatbed two-phase modulation, in an electric angle range where the on-duty is fixed to a lower limit value, the gain decreases down to a decreased gain that is smaller than the gain stepwise at a time of estimation of the upper arm element, and increases up to an increased gain that is larger than the gain stepwise at a time of estimation of the lower arm element.

6. The motor control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the modulation mode includes a three-phase modulation mode and a two-phase modulation mode in which a duty of one of more phases are increased or decreased with respect to a PWM control of a three-phase motor.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Endoh Go

Classifications

• B62D5/0409

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• H02P21/22

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• H02P29/64 Primary

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