Electric motor, control device, and motor control system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10958133-B2
Application number	US-201515523269-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2015
Priority date	Nov 3, 2014
Publication date	Mar 23, 2021
Grant date	Mar 23, 2021

Abstract

In an electric motor, a magnetic bearing generates an electromagnetic force between multiple permanent magnets and a coil and rotatably supports an other side of a rotation shaft in an axis line direction. The rotation shaft is configured to be capable of being inclined with a rotation center line using a bearing side of the rotation shaft as a fulcrum. An electronic control device controls a current that flows to the coil such that an axis line of the rotation shaft approaches the rotation center line due to a supporting force which is the electromagnetic force between the multiple permanent magnets and the coil. Accordingly, the rotation shaft is rotatably supported to be freely rotatable by a magnetic bearing and the bearing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electric motor comprising:
a supporting member which rotatably supports one side of a rotation shaft in an axis line direction via a mechanical bearing;
a rotor which is attached to the rotation shaft and which includes a permanent magnet;
a first coil which is attached to the supporting member and generates a magnetic field that generates a rotating force that rotates the rotor together with the rotation shaft;
a second coil which is attached to the supporting member and generates an electromagnetic force as an attracting force between the permanent magnet and the second coil, the second coil forming a magnetic bearing that rotatably supports the other side of the rotation shaft in the axis line direction from the mechanical bearing; and
a stator core which allows the magnetic field generated from the first and second coils to pass therethrough,
wherein the rotation shaft, in which the mechanical bearing side is used as a fulcrum, is configured to be capable of being inclined with respect to a rotation center of the rotation shaft,
wherein a control device controls a current that flows to the second coil such that an axis line of the rotation shaft approaches the rotation center due to the electromagnetic force between the permanent magnet and the second coil,
wherein the first coil and the second coil are disposed in the radial direction centered on the rotation center line with respect to the permanent magnet,
wherein each of the first and second coils is wound around the stator core, and
wherein the first coil is disposed on a stator core side further toward the rotor with respect to the second coil.

2. The electric motor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the stator core includes
a ring portion formed in a ring shape centered on the rotation center line, and
a plurality of teeth which are projected toward the radially outer side centered on the rotation center line from the ring portion and are aligned at an equivalent interval in the circumferential direction centered on the rotation center line,

wherein the first and second coils are wound around each of the plurality of teeth, and
wherein, for each of the teeth, the first coil is disposed on the stator core side with respect to the second coil by being disposed on the teeth side with respect to the second coil.

3. The electric motor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first and second coils are wound in pair.

4. The electric motor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the permanent magnet generates the rotating force for rotating the rotor together with the rotation shaft by the magnetic field generated from the first coil.

5. A control device for an electric motor including a supporting member which rotatably supports one side of a rotation shaft in an axis line direction via a mechanical bearing, a rotor which is attached to the rotation shaft and which includes a permanent magnet, a first coil which is attached to the supporting member and generates a magnetic field that generates a rotating force for rotating the rotor together with the rotation shaft, and a second coil which is attached to the supporting member, the second coil generating an electromagnetic force between the permanent magnet and the second coil and forming a magnetic bearing that rotatably supports the other side of the rotation shaft in the axis line direction, in which the rotation shaft is configured to be capable of being inclined with respect to a rotation center line of the rotation shaft using the mechanical bearing side of the rotation shaft as a fulcrum, comprising:
a rotation shaft control unit which controls a current that flows to the second coil such that an axis line of the rotation shaft approaches the rotation center line due to the electromagnetic force between the permanent magnet and the second coil,
wherein the rotation shaft control unit increases the electromagnetic force by increasing the current that flows to the second coil as a tilt angle of the rotation shaft increases, based on a detection value of a tilt angle detection sensor which detects the tilt angle of the rotation shaft with respect to the rotation center line, and
wherein the rotation shaft control unit includes
a determination unit which determines whether or not a rotational speed of the rotation shaft is equal to or higher than a predetermined speed, in accordance with a detection value of a rotation sensor that detects rotation of the rotation shaft, and
a first current control unit which, when the determination unit determines that the rotational speed of the rotation shaft is equal to or higher than the predetermined speed, controls the current that flows to the second coil to decrease the electromagnetic force as compared to when the determination unit determines that the rotational speed of the rotation shaft is lower than the predetermined speed.

6. The control device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the rotation shaft control unit controls the current that flows to the second coil to generate
the electromagnetic force for causing the axis line of the rotation shaft to approach the rotation center line, and
the electromagnetic force for moving the rotation shaft in a rotation direction of the rotation shaft, and

wherein when the rotation sensor is for detecting each of a distance between the rotation center line of the rotation shaft and the other side of the rotation shaft in the axis line direction and the rotational speed of the rotation shaft, the distance detected by the rotation sensor is L, the rotational speed of the rotation shaft detected by the rotation sensor is V, and a coefficient is C, the electromagnetic force for moving the rotation shaft in the rotation direction is a force determined by L×V×C.

7. The control device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the rotation shaft control unit includes
a second current control unit which, when the determination unit determines that the rotational speed of the rotation shaft is equal to or higher than the predetermined speed, reduces the current that flows to the plurality of second coils by reducing the C as compared to when the determination unit determines that the rotational speed of the rotation shaft is lower than the predetermined speed.

8. The control device according to claim 5 ,
wherein, on one side in the axis line direction of the rotation shaft, the mechanical bearing rotatably supports a centroid side of a rotating body including the rotation shaft and the rotor including in the permanent magnet.

9. A motor control system comprising:
the electric motor and the control device according to claim 5 .

Assignees

• Denso Corp
• Soken Inc
• Univ Shizuoka Nat Univ Corp

Inventors

• Ito Koji
• Yasuda Masanori
• Makita Shinji
• Yamaoka Jun
• Tokunaga Masao
• Yoshino Etsuro
• Asama Junichi

Classifications

• F16C32/048

  with active support of two degrees of freedom, e.g. radial magnetic bearings · CPC title

• F16C39/06

  using magnetic means · CPC title

• F16C32/0457

  Details of the power supply to the electromagnets · CPC title

• F16C39/063

  Permanent magnets · CPC title

• F16C32/0402

  combined with other supporting means, e.g. hybrid bearings with both magnetic and fluid supporting means · CPC title