Motor drive control device, motor unit, and motor drive control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11777430-B2
Application number	US-202217659355-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 15, 2022
Priority date	Apr 27, 2021
Publication date	Oct 3, 2023
Grant date	Oct 3, 2023

Abstract

A motor drive control device includes: a feedback control unit calculating an operation amount (Sad) of a motor such that a rotation speed S 3 of the motor matches a target rotation speed S 1 ; a drive control signal generation unit generating a drive control signal Sd based on the operation amount Sad; a current fluctuation detection unit detecting a fluctuation of a current flowing through the motor; a correction instruction unit instructing correction of the operation amount Sad when the fluctuation of the current flowing through the motor is detected by the current fluctuation detection unit; and a correction unit correcting the operation amount Sad and providing the corrected operation amount S 2 to the drive control signal generation unit when the correction of the operation amount Sad is instructed from the correction instruction unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motor drive control device, comprising:
a control circuit configured to generate a drive control signal for controlling drive of a motor; and
a drive circuit configured to drive the motor in accordance with the drive control signal, wherein
the control circuit includes:
a feedback control unit configured to calculate an operation amount of the motor such that a rotation speed of the motor matches a target rotation speed;

a drive control signal generation unit configured to generate the drive control signal based on the operation amount;
a current fluctuation detection unit configured to detect a fluctuation of a current flowing through the motor;
a correction instruction unit configured to instruct correction of the operation amount when the fluctuation of the current flowing through the motor is detected by the current fluctuation detection unit; and
a correction unit configured to correct the operation amount calculated by the feedback control unit in accordance with an instruction from the correction instruction unit, and
when the correction of the operation amount is not instructed from the correction instruction unit, the correction unit provides the operation amount calculated by the feedback control unit to the drive control signal generation unit without correcting the operation amount, and when the correction of the operation amount is instructed from the correction instruction unit, the correction unit corrects the operation amount calculated by the feedback control unit and provides the operation amount to the drive control signal generation unit.

2. The motor drive control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the correction instruction unit instructs the correction of the operation amount when a periodic fluctuation of the current flowing through the motor is detected by the current fluctuation detection unit.

3. The motor drive control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the correction instruction unit further includes a correction counter configured to count the number of times the fluctuation of the current flowing through the motor is detected by the current fluctuation detection unit, and
the correction unit increases an amount of the correction of the operation amount in a stepwise manner according to the count value of the correction counter.

4. The motor drive control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the correction unit performs, as the correction of the operation amount, at least one of reducing the operation amount to be provided to the drive control signal generation unit and lengthening a period for updating the operation amount to be provided to the drive control signal generation unit.

5. The motor drive control device according to claim 4 , wherein the drive control signal is a PWM signal,
the feedback control unit calculates a value specifying a duty ratio of the PWM signal as the operation amount, and the correction unit corrects the operation amount such that the value specifying the duty ratio calculated by the feedback control unit becomes smaller.

6. The motor drive control device according to claim 4 , wherein
the drive control signal is a PWM signal, and the feedback control unit calculates a value specifying a duty ratio of the PWM signal as the operation amount,

and
the correction unit corrects the operation amount such that a period for updating and outputting the value specifying the duty ratio calculated by the feedback control unit becomes longer.

7. A motor unit comprising:
the motor drive control device according to claim 1 ; and
the motor.

8. A motor drive control method by a motor drive control device, the motor drive control device including: a control circuit configured to generate a drive control signal for controlling drive of a motor; and a drive circuit configured to drive the motor in accordance with the drive control signal, the motor drive control method comprising:
a first step of calculating, by the control circuit, an operation amount of the motor such that a rotation speed of the motor matches a target rotation speed;
a second step of generating, by the control circuit, the drive control signal based on the operation amount;
a third step of correcting, by the control circuit, the operation amount calculated in the first step when a fluctuation of current flowing through the motor is detected; and
a fourth step of not correcting, by the control circuit, the operation amount calculated in the first step when the fluctuation of current flowing through the motor is not detected.

Assignees

• Minebea Mitsumi Inc

Inventors

• Suzuki Takahiro
• Aoki Masato
• Kaidu Hiroyuki

Classifications

• H02P23/14 Primary

  Estimation or adaptation of motor parameters, e.g. rotor time constant, flux, speed, current or voltage · CPC title

• H02P29/024

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

• H02P21/18 Primary

  Estimation of position or speed · CPC title

• H02P23/04 Primary

  specially adapted for damping motor oscillations, e.g. for reducing hunting · CPC title

• H02P21/14

  Estimation or adaptation of machine parameters, e.g. flux, current or voltage · CPC title