Drive arrangement the motor-operated adjustment of an adjusting element in a motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9577553-B2
Application number	US-201313899345-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 21, 2013
Priority date	May 21, 2012
Publication date	Feb 21, 2017
Grant date	Feb 21, 2017

Abstract

The invention relates to a drive arrangement for the motor-operated adjustment of an adjusting element in a motor vehicle, wherein the drive arrangement comprises two electrical drives having in each case a drive motor and a control device, wherein in the assembled state the drives act in the same manner on the adjusting element and are embodied in an essentially identical manner apart from deviations that are a result of tolerances, wherein the control device influences the two drive motors by a pulse width modulation voltage (“PWM” voltage). It is proposed that the control device influences the two drive motors by PWM voltages having PWM switching frequencies that vary continuously during the adjustment process in such a manner that the PWM switching frequencies that are allocated to the two drive motors are different from each other at least for periods of time.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A drive arrangement for the motor-operated adjustment of an adjusting element in a motor vehicle, wherein the drive arrangement comprises a control device and two electrical drives having in each case a drive motor, wherein in the assembled state the drives act in the same manner on the adjusting element and are embodied in an essentially identical manner apart from deviations that are a result of tolerances, wherein the control device influences the two drive motors with pulse width modulation (“PWM”) voltages,
wherein the control device influences the two drive motors by PWM voltages having PWM switching frequencies that vary particularly continuously in such a manner that the PWM switching frequencies that are allocated to the two drive motors are different from each other at least for periods of time.

2. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the control device adjusts the PWM voltages of the two drive motors so that the level of electrical power consumed by each of the two drive motors is identical.

3. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the PWM switching frequencies that are allocated to the two drive motors are continuously different.

4. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the control device generates the PWM switching frequencies that are allocated to the two drive motors in such a manner that the two resulting PWM switching frequencies are independent of each other at least for periods of time.

5. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the control device generates the PWM switching frequencies that are allocated to the two drive motors in such a manner that the resulting frequency variations are correlated with each other at least for periods of time.

6. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the PWM switching frequencies that are allocated to the two drive motors are constant in the case of a time-related averaging.

7. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the control device for the two drive motors comprises in each case a PWM generator and in each case a pseudo-random generator, on which the respective frequency variation is based.

8. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency variation is performed in a cyclic manner at a predetermined shift frequency.

9. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency variation is performed on the basis of a jump between different PWM switching frequencies, or in that the frequency variation is performed on the basis of the PWM switching frequency continuously rising and falling.

10. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the PWM switching frequency lies in the kHz range, and/or in that the shift frequency lies in a range between 200 Hz and 5 kHz.

11. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the PWM switching frequency lies in a frequency band between 15 kHz and 25 kHz.

12. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency variation is performed on the basis of the high duration period or respectively the low duration period of the PWM pulses being shortened or lengthened respectively.

13. The drive arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the control device comprises a power controller that supplies electrical power in each case to the two drive motors and in that the frequency variation is performed in such a manner that the required power is supplied.

14. A control device for a drive arrangement for the motor-operated adjustment of an adjusting element in a motor vehicle, wherein the drive arrangement comprises two electrical drives having in each case a drive motor, wherein in the assembled state the drives act in the same manner on the adjusting element and are embodied in an essentially identical manner apart from deviations that are a result of tolerances, wherein the control device influences the two drive motors by pulse width modulation (“PWM”) voltages,
wherein the control device influences the two drive motors by PWM voltages having PWM switching frequencies that vary continuously during the adjustment process in such a manner that the PWM switching frequencies that are allocated to the two drive motors are different from each other at least for periods of time.

15. A method, comprising:
adjusting an adjustment element in a motor vehicle by means of a drive arrangement, wherein the drive arrangement comprises a control device and two electrical drives having in each case a drive motor, wherein in the assembled state the drives act in the same manner on the adjusting element and are embodied in an essentially identical manner apart from deviations that are a result of tolerances, wherein the two drive motors are influenced by pulse width modulation (“PWM”) voltages,
wherein the two drive motors are influenced by PWM voltages having PWM switching frequencies that vary continuously during the adjustment process in such a manner that the PWM switching frequencies that are allocated to the two drive motors are different from each other at least for periods of time.

Assignees

• Brose Fahrzeugteile

Inventors

• Eggeling Juergen
• Hellmich Dirk
• Duenne Klaus

Classifications

• H02P31/00

  Arrangements for regulating or controlling electric motors not provided for in groups H02P1/00 - H02P5/00, H02P7/00 or H02P21/00 - H02P29/00 · CPC title

• H02M1/44

  Circuits or arrangements for compensating for electromagnetic interference in converters or inverters · CPC title

• H02P5/68 Primary

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

• H02P7/29

  using pulse modulation · CPC title

• E05Y2400/41

  for multiple motors · CPC title