Motor system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025132700-A1
Application number	US-202218724482-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 24, 2022
Priority date	Dec 27, 2021
Publication date	Apr 24, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

In a motor system, a switcher selectively switches a target motor, which is a target to be supplied with electric power output by a motor driver and a target to be detected for a current by a current sensor, among a plurality of motors. The switcher cyclically switches the target motor among the plurality of motors. When the current of the target motor is detected by the current sensor, the motor driver is controlled to output the electric power based on a PWM duty ratio computed based on the current, at a timing when the motor in which the current is detected is again the target motor, in a cycle after the cycle in which the current is detected.

First claim

1 . A motor system comprising:
a plurality of motors, a motor driver that outputs electric power to make the plurality of motors generate driving force; a current detector that detects a current of a motor; and a switcher that selectively switches a target motor, which is a target to be supplied with an electric power output by the motor driver and a target to be detected for the current by the current detector, among the plurality of motors, wherein a PWM duty ratio to drive the target motor is computed based on the current detected by the current detector, the motor driver is controlled to output the electric power based on the PWM duty ratio, the switcher cyclically switches the target motor among the plurality of motors, and when the current of the target motor is detected by the current detector, the motor driver is controlled to output the electric power based on the PWM duty ratio computed based on the current, at a timing when the motor in which the current is detected is again the target motor in a cycle after the cycle in which the current is detected.

2 . The motor system according to claim 1 , wherein when the current of the target motor is detected by the current detector, the motor driver is controlled to output the electric power based on the PWM duty ratio computed based on the current, at a timing when the motor in which the current is detected is again the target motor in a cycle immediately following the cycle in which the current is detected.

3 . The motor system according to claim 2 , wherein
when the current of the target motor is detected by the current detector, based on the current, a post-decay current is computed by a prediction of decay due to an electric power interruption period that occurs before the motor becomes the target motor again in the cycle immediately following the cycle in which the current is detected, and the motor driver is controlled to output the electric power based on the PWM duty ratio computed based on the post-decay current, at the timing when the motor in which the current is detected is again the target motor in the cycle immediately following the cycle in which the current is detected.

4 . The motor system according to claim 2 , wherein when the current of the target motor is detected by the current detector, the motor driver is uniformly controlled to output the electric power based on the PWM duty ratio computed based on the current, at the timing when the motor in which the current is detected is again the target motor in the cycle immediately following the cycle in which the current is detected.

5 . The motor system according to claim 2 , wherein
the motor driver is controlled according to a predetermined output control cycle, and in one cycle, time from a start to a stop of the electric power supply to one target motor includes: a first output control cycle in which the motor driver outputs the electric power based on the PWM duty ratio computed based on the current, in a same cycle in which the current of the target motor is detected by the current detector; and a second output control cycle in which the motor driver outputs the electric power based on the PWM duty ratio computed based on the current, in the cycle immediately following the cycle in which the current of the target motor is detected by the current detector.

6 . The motor system according to claim 1 , wherein
the motor driver is controlled according to a predetermined output control cycle, the switcher switches the target motor at each predetermined switching cycle in each cycle, and the output control cycle and the switching cycle are synchronized.

Assignees

• Murata Machinery Ltd

Inventors

• Azuma Yoshiyuki
• Fukushima Daisuke

Classifications

• H02P2209/00

  Indexing scheme relating to controlling arrangements characterised by the waveform of the supplied voltage or current · CPC title

• H02P5/74 Primary

  controlling two or more AC dynamo-electric motors (H02P5/46, H02P5/60 take precedence) · CPC title

• H02P27/08 Primary

  with pulse width modulation · CPC title