Motor control device, electric power steering device, and vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9694845-B2
Application number	US-201515118579-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 19, 2015
Priority date	Mar 20, 2014
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

A motor control device includes a motor, a control device, and a motor drive circuit. The motor includes a motor rotor, a motor stator, and a plurality of coil groups divided into a first coil group and a second coil group of at least two systems for each of three phases, and configured to excite a stator core by three-phase alternating currents. In the motor drive circuit, a first motor drive circuit supplies a three-phase AC first motor drive current to the first coil group based on a command value, and a second motor drive circuit supplies a three-phase AC second motor drive current having a phase difference from a phase of the first motor drive current, to the second coil group.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motor control device comprising:
a motor including:
a motor rotor;
a motor stator including a stator core that rotates the motor rotor; and
a plurality of coil groups divided into a first coil group and a second coil group of at least two systems for each of three phases, and configured to excite the stator core by three-phase alternating currents; and

a motor drive circuit including:
a control device that outputs a current value as a command value for rotating and driving the motor rotor;
a first motor drive circuit that supplies a three-phase AC first motor drive current to the first coil group, based on the command value; and
a second motor drive circuit that supplies a three-phase AC second motor drive current having a phase difference from a phase of the first motor drive current, to the second coil group, wherein

the phase difference does not exceed 45° in electrical angle,
the stator core includes an annular back yoke, and a plurality of teeth arranged side by side in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential surface of the back yoke,
when n is an integer, the 3n first coil groups are arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator core at regular intervals, each of the first coil groups being constituted of a plurality of first coils that are respectively wound, in a concentrated manner, around the teeth arranged adjacent to one another, and that are excited by a first inverter configured to generate three-phase alternating currents including a first U phase current, a first V phase current, and a first W phase current,
when n is an integer, the 3n second coil groups are arranged in the circumferential direction of the stator core at regular intervals, each of the second coil groups being constituted of a plurality of second coils that are respectively wound, in a concentrated manner, around the teeth adjacent to one another in positions different from positions of the teeth around which the first coils are wound in a concentrated manner, and that are excited by a second inverter configured to generate three-phase alternating currents including a second U phase current, a second V phase current, and a second W phase current,
the first coils include a plurality of first U-phase coils excited by the first U-phase current, a plurality of first V-phase coils excited by the first V-phase current, and a plurality of first W-phase coils excited by the first W-phase current,
the second coils include a plurality of second U-phase coils excited by the second U-phase current, a plurality of second V-phase coils excited by the second V-phase current, and a plurality of second W-phase coils excited by the second W-phase current,
the 3n first coil groups are constituted of a first UV coil group that is constituted of only the first U-phase coils and the first V-phase coils, a first VW coil group that is constituted of only the first V-phase coils and the first W-phase coils, and a first UW coil group that is constituted of only the first U-phase coils and the first W-phase coils, and
the 3n second coil groups are constituted of a second UV coil group that is constituted of only the second U-phase coils and the second V-phase coils, a second VW coil group that is constituted of only the second V-phase coils and the second W-phase coils, and a second UW coil group that is constituted of only the second U-phase coils and the second W-phase coils.

2. The motor control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the control device includes:
a control unit that calculates a pulse width modulation signal with a predetermined duty ratio as the command value; and
a phase difference adjusting unit that calculates a second pulse width modulation signal from a first pulse width modulation signal that is the pulse width modulation signal with the predetermined duty ratio, such that the second pulse width modulation signal has the same duty ratio as the first pulse width modulation signal, and has a phase difference from the first pulse width modulation signal.

3. The motor control device according to claim 2 , wherein
the first motor drive circuit supplies the first motor drive current to the first coil group by PWM control of the first pulse width modulation signal, and
the second motor drive circuit supplies the second motor drive current to the second coil group by PWM control of the second pulse width modulation signal.

4. An electric power steering device configured to obtain auxiliary steering torque by the motor of the motor control device according to claim 1 .

5. A vehicle on which the electric power steering device according to claim 4 is mounted.

Assignees

• Nsk Ltd

Inventors

• Kikuchi Yusuke
• Kimura Gen
• Tu Zhipeng

Classifications

• H02K1/146

  consisting of a generally annular yoke with salient poles · CPC title

• H02K16/04

  Machines with one rotor and two stators · CPC title

• H02K3/28

  Layout of windings or of connections between windings (windings for pole-changing H02K17/06, H02K17/14, H02K19/12, H02K19/32) · CPC title

• H02P27/08

  with pulse width modulation · CPC title

• B62D5/046

  Controlling the motor · CPC title