Angle detection apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12546629-B2
Application number	US-202017791993-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 6, 2020
Priority date	Feb 6, 2020
Publication date	Feb 10, 2026
Grant date	Feb 10, 2026

Abstract

To provide an angle detection apparatus which can reduce the error of the angle which is caused by the eccentricity, by performing the reduction processing about smallest possible number of frequency bands and the lowest possible order of frequency band. An angle detection apparatus performs a first-order component reduction processing which reduces a first-order component which is a component of one rotation period in a mechanical angle of the rotor, to each of the first system two output signals; and calculates a first angle of the rotor, based on the first system two output signals to which the first-order component reduction processing was performed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An angle detection apparatus comprising:
a resolver that is provided with a stator which is provided with a first system excitation winding and first system two output windings, and a rotor which is provided with a salient pole; a first system exciter that applies AC voltage of a first period to the first system excitation winding; a first system output signal detector that detects periodically first system two output signals which are output signals of the first system two output windings at a preliminarily set detection timing; a first system first-order component reduction processor that performs a first-order component reduction processing which reduces a first-order component which is a component of one rotation period in a mechanical angle of the rotor, to each of the first system two output signals; and a first system angle calculator that calculates a first angle of the rotor, based on the first system two output signals to which the first-order component reduction processing was performed, wherein in the first-order component reduction processing, the first system first-order component reduction processor calculates first system two first-order component extraction values by performing a first-order component extraction processing which extracts the first-order component, to each of the first system two output signals, and wherein, in the first-order component reduction processing, the first system first-order component reduction processor calculates first system two output signals after the first-order component reduction processing by subtracting the first system two first-order component extraction values from the first system two output signals, respectively.

2 . The angle detection apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first-order component extraction processing is a band pass filter processing which passes the first-order component.

3 . The angle detection apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a second system excitation winding and second system two output windings which are provided in the stator, a second system exciter that applies the AC voltage of a second period different from the first period, to the second system excitation winding; a second system output signal detector that detects periodically second system two output signals which are output signals of the second system two output windings at preliminarily set detection timing; a second system first-order component reduction processor that performs the first-order component reduction processing to the second system two output signals; and a second system angle calculator that calculates a second angle of the rotor, based on the second system two output signals to which the first-order component reduction processing was performed.

4 . The angle detection apparatus according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a first system second period reduction processor that performs a second period reduction processing which reduces a component of the second period, to the first system two output signals; and a second system first period reduction processor that performs a first period reduction processing which reduces a component of the first period, to the second system two output signals, wherein the first system angle calculator calculates the first angle, based on the first system two output signals to which the first-order component reduction processing and the second period reduction processing were performed, and wherein the second system angle calculator calculates the second angle, based on the second system two output signals to which the first-order component reduction processing and the first period reduction processing were performed.

5 . An angle detection apparatus comprising:
a resolver that is provided with a stator which is provided with a first system excitation winding and first system two output windings, and a rotor which is provided with a salient pole; a first system exciter that applies AC voltage of a first period to the first system excitation winding; a first system output signal detector that detects periodically first system two output signals which are output signals of the first system two output windings at a preliminarily set detection timing; a first system first-order component reduction processor that performs a first-order component reduction processing which reduces a first-order component which is a component of one rotation period in a mechanical angle of the rotor, to each of the first system two output signals; and a first system angle calculator that calculates a first angle of the rotor, based on the first system two output signals to which the first-order component reduction processing was performed, wherein in the first-order component reduction processing, the first system first-order component reduction processor calculates first system two first-order component extraction values by performing a first-order component extraction processing which extracts the first-order component, to each of the first system two output signals, wherein in the first-order component reduction processing, the first system first-order component reduction processor stores a plurality of the first system two first-order component extraction values calculated at each phase of the one rotation period, by correlating with the corresponding phase, and the first system first-order component reduction processor reads the first system two first-order component extraction values corresponding to the present phase of the one rotation period, by referring to the plurality of first system two first-order component extraction values stored by correlating with the phase; and calculates first system two output signals after the first-order component reduction processing by subtracting the read first system two first-order component extraction values from the present first system two output signals, respectively.

6 . The angle detection apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein when a preliminarily set storage condition is established, the first system first-order component reduction processor calculates the first system two first-order component extraction values; and stores a plurality of the calculated first system two first-order component extraction values, by correlating with the corresponding phase.

7 . The angle detection apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein when a preliminarily set storage condition is not established, the first system first-order component reduction processor reads the first system two first-order component extraction values corresponding to the present phase of the one rotation period, by referring to the plurality of first system two first-order component extraction values stored by correlating with the phase; and calculates first system two output signals after the first-order component reduction processing by subtracting the read first system two first-order component extraction values from the present first system two output signals, respectively, and when the preliminarily set storage condition is established, the first system first-order component reduction processor calculates first system two output signals after the first-order component reduction processing by subtracting the present first system two first-order component extraction values calculated by the first-order component extraction processing from the present first system two output signals, respectively.

8 . The angle detection apparatus according to claim 6 , further comprising a first system rotational speed calculator that calculates a first angular speed of the rotor based on the first angle,
wherein the first system first-order component reduction processor determines that the storage condit

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Mori Tatsuya
• Ikeda Hiroko
• Matsunaga Toshihiro
• Ikeda Kenji
• Kubo Kenta

Classifications

• G01D5/2046

  by a movable ferromagnetic element, e.g. a core · CPC title

• G01D5/24476 Primary

  Signal processing (G01D5/2448 - G01D5/24495 take precedence) · CPC title