Rotary electric machine control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11716048-B2
Application number	US-202217657068-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 29, 2022
Priority date	Oct 1, 2019
Publication date	Aug 1, 2023
Grant date	Aug 1, 2023

Abstract

A current detection unit includes current detection elements provided to phases on a high potential side of an upper arm element or on a low potential side of a lower arm element. A detection target element is the upper arm element or the lower arm element to which the current detection elements are provided. A target duty is a duty ratio of the detection target element. The control unit includes a current acquisition unit, an energization control unit, and an abnormality determination unit. The current acquisition unit acquires a current detection value from the current detection unit. The abnormality determination unit performs an abnormality determination based on the current detection value. The abnormality determination unit varies a determination threshold, which is used for the abnormality determination based on the current detection value, according to the target duty.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A rotary electric machine control device configured to control drive of a rotary electric machine including a multi-phase coil, the rotary electric machine control device comprising:
an inverter unit including
a plurality of upper arm elements corresponding to phases of the coil and connected to a high potential side and
a plurality of lower arm elements connected to a low potential side of the upper arm element and configured to be turned on and off complementarily with the upper arm elements;

a current detection unit including a plurality of current detection elements provided to the phases on the high potential side of the upper arm elements or on the low potential side of the lower arm elements; and
a control unit including
a current acquisition unit configured to acquire a current detection value from the current detection unit,
an energization control unit configured to control energization of the coil based on the current detection value, and
an abnormality determination unit configured to perform abnormality determination based on the current detection value, wherein

detection target elements are the upper arm elements or the lower arm elements to which the current detection elements are provided,
a target duty is a duty ratio of the detection target elements, and
the abnormality determination unit is configured to vary a determination threshold, which is used for the abnormality determination based on the current detection value, according to the target duty.

2. The rotary electric machine control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the abnormality determination unit is configured to perform the abnormality determination based on a summation of currents of all phases at an all-on appearance timing, at which the detection target elements of the all phases are turned on, and
the determination threshold when the target duty is equal to or larger than an all-on-threshold switching duty is a value corresponding to a smaller current as compared to the determination threshold when the target duty is smaller than the all-on-threshold switching duty.

3. The rotary electric machine control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the energization control unit is configured to, when an abnormality is detected by the abnormality determination based on the summation of currents of the all phases, set the target duty to be equal to or larger than the all-on-threshold switching duty, and limit energization of the coil by three-phase modulation.

4. The rotary electric machine control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the determination threshold when the target duty is equal to or larger than the all-on-threshold switching duty is larger than the determination threshold when the target duty is smaller than the all-on-threshold switching duty.

5. The rotary electric machine control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the abnormality determination unit is configured to perform the abnormality determination based on the current detection value of each of the phases at an all-off appearance timing at which the detection target elements of the all phases are turned off, and
the determination threshold when the target duty is equal to or smaller than an all-off-threshold switching duty is a value corresponding to a smaller current as compared to the determination threshold when the target duty is larger than the all-off-threshold switching duty.

6. The rotary electric machine control device according to claim 5 , wherein
the energization control unit is configured to, when an abnormality is detected by the abnormality determination based on the current detection value of each of the phases at the all-off appearance timing, set the target duty to be equal to or less than the all-off threshold switching duty, and limit energization of the coil by three-phase modulation.

7. The rotary electric machine control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the abnormality determination unit is configured to, when a reverse flow current from a ground side to a power supply side of the current detection elements is larger than a reverse flow determination threshold, cancel the abnormality determination based on the current detection value.

8. The rotary electric machine control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the current detection element is a shunt resistor,
the rotary electric machine control device further comprising:
an amplifier circuit unit including
a differential amplifier circuit, which is configured to amplify a voltage across the current detection elements, and
a sample hold circuit configured to perform sample-holding of an output of the differential amplifier circuit at every ½ cycle of an on/off cycle of the detection target element.

9. A rotary electric machine control device comprising:
an inverter connected to a multi-phase coil of a rotary electric machine and including
a plurality of upper arm elements connected to a high potential side in the inverter and
a plurality of lower arm elements connected to a low potential side of the upper arm element and configured to be turned on and off complementarily with the upper arm elements;

a current detector including a plurality of current detection elements provided respectively to the high potential side of the upper arm elements or to the low potential side of the lower arm elements; and
a processor configured to
acquire a current detection value from the current detector,
control energization of the coil based on the current detection value,
perform abnormality determination based on the current detection value, and
vary a determination threshold for the abnormality determination according to a target duty, which is a duty ratio of the upper arm elements or the lower arm elements to which the current detection elements are provided.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Nakamura Kouichi
• Nakazima Nobuyori
• Endoh Go

Classifications

• H02P29/027 Primary

  the fault being an over-current · CPC title

• B62D5/0487 Primary

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

• H02P29/024 Primary

  Detecting a fault condition, e.g. short circuit, locked rotor, open circuit or loss of load · CPC title

• H02P27/06

  using DC to AC converters or inverters (H02P27/05 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02P6/085

  in a bridge configuration · CPC title