Motor control device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12249935-B2
Application number	US-202218057893-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 22, 2022
Priority date	Feb 14, 2022
Publication date	Mar 11, 2025
Grant date	Mar 11, 2025

Abstract

A motor control device performs driving control of a motor via a drive circuit that converts a power supply voltage of a direct current power supply into a drive voltage of the motor. The motor control device includes a voltage measurement circuit that measures the power supply voltage. The motor control device acquires a detection signal correlated with a current value that is output from a current detection circuit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor control device, comprising
a controller configured to perform driving control of a motor via a drive circuit that converts a power supply voltage of a direct current (DC) power supply into a drive voltage of the motor, the controller including a voltage measurement circuit configured to measure the power supply voltage, wherein
the controller acquires a detection signal correlated with a current value that is output from a current detection circuit, the current value flows through a winding of the motor in response to the drive voltage being applied to the motor, and
the controller includes
a failure estimation unit configured to estimate a current detection failure in the current detection circuit by using the detection signal,
a driving determination unit configured to determine whether the driving control of the motor is possible by using a measured value of the power supply voltage measured by the voltage measurement circuit when the failure estimation unit estimates the current detection failure, and
a driving control unit configured to (i) stop the driving control when the driving determination unit determines that the driving control is impossible, and (ii) estimate the current value from the measured value, and continues the driving control by using the current value estimated when the driving determination unit determines that the driving control is possible.

2. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller controls the drive circuit to convert the power supply voltage into the drive voltage that repeats turning on and off to perform the driving control of the motor,
the voltage measurement circuit measures a voltage drop of the power supply voltage from the measured value when the drive voltage is on, and
the driving determination unit determines that the driving control of the motor is impossible when the voltage drop is absent, and determines that the driving control of the motor is possible when the voltage drop is present.

3. The motor control device according to claim 2 , wherein
in a case where the driving control unit performs the driving control when the driving determination unit determines that the driving control of the motor is possible, the driving control unit adjusts an on period of the power supply voltage such that the voltage drop is to be measured.

4. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller stores a correlation between the detection signal and the measured value on condition that the failure estimation unit does not estimate the current detection failure, and
the driving control unit estimates the current value from the measured value by using the correlation.

5. The motor control device according to claim 1 , further comprising
a filter that is provided in a power supply path between the DC power supply and the controller, and includes a coil, an input-side capacitor having one terminal connected between the DC power supply and the coil, and an output-side capacitor having one terminal connected between the controller and the coil, wherein
the voltage measurement circuit measures a post-filter voltage input via the filter as the power supply voltage.

6. The motor control device according to claim 5 , wherein
the controller simultaneously measures the post-filter voltage by the voltage measurement circuit and a power supply terminal voltage that is a voltage of a power supply terminal to which the DC power supply is connected, and uses, as the measured value, a value obtained by subtracting a voltage fluctuation amount of the DC power supply using the post-filter voltage and the power supply terminal voltage.

7. The motor control device according to claim 1 , further comprising
a noise removal device between the DC power supply and the voltage measurement circuit.

8. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller uses, as the measured value, a value obtained by removing noise by a software filter.

9. A motor control device, comprising:
a processor configured to perform driving control of a motor via a drive circuit that converts a power supply voltage of a direct current power supply into a drive voltage of the motor; and
a voltage measurement circuit configured to measure the power supply voltage, wherein
the processor is configured to acquire a detection signal correlated with a current value that is output from a current detection circuit, the current value flows through a winding of the motor in response to the drive voltage being applied to the motor,
the processor is further configured to
estimate a current detection failure in the current detection circuit by using the detection signal,
determine whether the driving control of the motor is possible by using a measured value of the power supply voltage measured by the voltage measurement circuit when estimating the current detection failure,
stop the driving control when determining that the driving control is impossible, and
estimate the current value from the measured value, and continue the driving control by using the current value estimated when determining that the driving control is possible.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Seo Yuichi

Classifications

• H02P3/18

  for stopping or slowing an AC motor · CPC title

• H02P27/08

  with pulse width modulation · CPC title

• H02P29/024

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

• H02P23/14 Primary

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

• H02P29/027 Primary

  the fault being an over-current · CPC title