Rotating electric machine control system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9493076-B2
Application number	US-201514708352-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 11, 2015
Priority date	May 14, 2014
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

Abstract

A rotating electric machine control system having a power control unit equipped with a voltage converter and a controller. The controller is equipped with an operation unit having a time corrector for obtaining time from first and second timers with reference to an ignition signal and correcting a relative time difference between the timers. The operation unit obtains electric angles at a preset cycle after correcting time. A communicator obtains electric currents and voltages when obtaining the electric angles for generating a communication frame, and outputs the communication frame to the operation unit via the multiplex communication line. The operation unit simultaneously performs an operation for controlling an inverter and a booster converter based on the obtained electric currents, the voltages, and the electric angles, for reducing the number of communication lines between the power control unit and the controller without compromising controllability of the voltage converter.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A rotating electric machine control system disposed in a vehicle and controlling rotating electric machines, at least one rotating electric machine used as a power source for a travel of the vehicle, the system comprising:
a power control unit including
a voltage converter converting a direct current voltage from a direct current power source and outputting a converted three-phase alternating current to the at least one rotating electric machine,
a current detector detecting an electric current, as a detected current value, that is output from the voltage converter to the at least one rotating electric machine in each of three phases,
a voltage detector detecting the direct current voltage, as a detected voltage value,
a communicator generating and outputting a communication frame, and
a first timer and a second timer each measuring time;

a controller having an operation unit that performs a preset operation for a control of the voltage converter to output the converted three-phase alternating current to the at least one rotating electric machine which outputs a requested torque from the at least one rotating electric machine, and a time corrector correcting a relative time difference between time measured by the second timer and time measured by the first timer;
a multiplex communication line communicably connecting the power control unit and the controller, the communication frame being transmitted from the communicator to the controller; and
a rotation detector detecting a rotation position of the at least one rotating electric machine and outputting the rotation position to the controller via a line other than the multiplex communication line, wherein
(i) the time corrector performs a time correction which corrects the relative time difference between the first timer and the second timer by obtaining time measurements from the first and second timers at a preset timing, with reference to an input signal that is commonly input to both of the power control unit and the controller,
(ii) after the time correction by the time corrector, the operation unit obtains at a preset cycle the rotation position that is detected by the rotation detector, and, when the operation unit is obtaining the rotation position, the communicator obtains a plurality of detected current values from the current detector and a plurality of detected voltage values from the voltage detector to generate the communication frame, and outputs the communication frame to the operation unit via the multiplex communication line, and
(iii) the operation unit performs the preset operation based on the rotation position, the detected current value, and the detected voltage value, wherein
the rotation position, the detected current value, and the detected voltage value are detected substantially simultaneously.

2. The rotating electric machine control system of claim 1 , wherein
the time corrector obtains a first time measured by the second timer after a lapse of a preset time with reference to the input signal, and outputs a response request signal to the communicator via the multiplex communication line,
the communicator generates the communication frame including a second time measured by the first timer, and outputs the communication frame to the time corrector via the multiplex communication line upon receiving an input of the response request signal, and
the time corrector obtains a third time measured by the second timer upon receiving an input of the second time, and corrects the relative time difference between the time measured by the first timer and the time measured by the second timer based on the first time, the second time, and the third time.

3. The rotating electric machine control system of claim 2 , wherein
time measurement operation of each of the first timer and the second timer is started by the input signal that is commonly input to both the first and second timers.

4. The rotating electric machine control system of claim 1 , wherein
the first timer and the second timer receive a power supply regardless of inputting of the input signal,
after a lapse of a preset time with reference to the input signal,
the communicator generates the communication frame including a fourth time measured by the first timer, and outputs the communication frame to the time corrector via the multiplex communication line,
the time corrector obtains a fifth time measured by the second timer, and
the time corrector corrects the relative time difference between the time measured by the first timer and the time measured by the second timer based on the fourth time and the fifth time.

5. The rotating electric machine control system in claim 1 , wherein
the power source for the travel of the vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, and
an ignition signal of the vehicle that is inputted to both the power control unit and the controller serves as the input signal.

6. The rotating electric machine control system in claim 1 , wherein
a start signal for starting an electronic system of the vehicle that is inputted to the power control unit and the controller serves as the input signal.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Sakai Naoto

Classifications

• B60L11/00 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• H04L1/00

  Arrangements for detecting or preventing errors in the information received {(correcting synchronisation H04L7/00)} · CPC title

• H02P6/142

  Electricity · mapped topic

• B60L50/51 Primary

  characterised by AC-motors · CPC title

• Y02T10/72

  Electric energy management in electromobility · CPC title