Rotating electrical machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9531318-B2
Application number	US-201013879722-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 10, 2010
Priority date	Dec 10, 2010
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a rotating electrical machine capable of downsizing. The rotating electrical machine includes: a stator ( 2 ) including an armature winding ( 9 ); a rotor ( 3 ) provided inside the stator ( 2 ) in a rotatable manner; a power circuit unit ( 18 ) including a power circuit semiconductor switching element, for supplying a current to the armature winding ( 9 ); and a control board ( 6 ) in which an energization-allowed time corresponding to revolution speed of the rotor ( 3 ) is set, for controlling supply of the current by the power circuit unit ( 18 ), in which the control board ( 6 ) stops the supply of the current by the power circuit unit ( 18 ) when an integrated time of energization times to the armature winding ( 9 ) is longer than the energization-allowed time.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotating electrical machine, comprising:
a stator including an armature winding;
a rotor provided inside the stator in a rotatable manner;
a power circuit for supplying a current to the armature winding; and
a control device in which an energization-allowed time corresponding to revolution speed of the rotor is set, for controlling supply of the current by the power circuit,
wherein the energization-allowed time is weighted in accordance with the revolution speed of the rotor, the control device stops the supply of the current by the power circuit when an integrated time of energization times from the start of the energization is longer than the energization-allowed time, and the supply of current from the power circuit semiconductor switching element to the armature winding starts at the start of the energization.

2. A rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the power circuit is configured to detect a temperature within the power circuit,
wherein the control device controls the supply of the current by the power circuit in accordance with the temperature detected within the power circuit.

3. A rotating electrical machine according to claim 2 , wherein the energization-allowed time corresponding to the temperature of the power circuit is set in the control device.

4. A rotating electrical machine according to claim 2 , wherein, after the control device stops the supply of the current by the power circuit in response to a fact that the integrated time of the energization times has become longer than the energization-allowed time, the control device continues stopping the supply of the current by the power circuit unit until the temperature of the power circuit becomes lower than a predetermined temperature or until a predetermined time period has elapsed since the stop of the supply of the current by the power circuit.

5. A rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the energization-allowed time corresponding to a Battery-terminal voltage is set in the control device.

6. A rotating electrical machine according to claim 2 , wherein the energization-allowed time corresponding to a temperature of the power circuit before start of the supply of the current by the power circuit and the energization-allowed time corresponding to a Battery-terminal voltage are set in the control device.

7. A rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a heat sink provided to the power circuit,
wherein the control device controls the supply of the current by the power circuit in accordance with a detected temperature of the heat sink.

Assignees

• Shirakata Yuji
• Nakajima Dai
• Fujita Masahiko
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Shirakata Yuji
• Nakajima Dai
• Fujita Masahiko

Classifications

• H02P29/02

  Providing protection against overload without automatic interruption of supply (protection against faults of stepper motors H02P8/36) · CPC title

• H02P29/032

  Preventing damage to the motor, e.g. setting individual current limits for different drive conditions · CPC title

• H02P29/68 Primary

  based on the temperature of a drive component or a semiconductor component · CPC title

• H02P29/0088 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic