IP Library Granted Patent US 10,367,438
Granted Patent B2
US 10,367,438 · App. 15/575,909 · Granted Jul 30, 2019

Inverter control device

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Patent No.
US 10,367,438
App. No.
15/575,909
Granted
Jul 30, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object of the present invention is to reduce an overcurrent of an inverter and a motor. A control device for an electric motor in which windings of respective phases are independently connected, the control device for the electric motor uses a zero-phase current calculation means for calculating a zero-phase current based on detection values of currents of the respective phases flowing in the electric motor and a position of a rotor of the electric motor to control a current flowing in the electric motor such that a vector sum of a drive current and the zero-phase current is equal to or lower than a predetermined current.

Claims (12)

1. A control device for an electric motor in which windings of respective phases are independently connected, the control device for the electric motor comprising

a zero-phase current calculation means for calculating a zero-phase current based on detection values of currents of the respective phases flowing in the electric motor and a position of a rotor of the electric motor, wherein

a current flowing in the electric motor is controlled such that a vector sum of a drive current and the zero-phase current is equal to or lower than a predetermined current, and

when the drive current is higher than a first current which is a current obtained by subtracting a component of the zero-phase current, calculated by the zero-phase current calculation means, from the predetermined current, the drive current is controlled to be equal to or lower than the first current.

2. The control device for the electric motor according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a current command generation unit that generates a current command based on a torque command of the electric motor and the position of the rotor of the electric motor; and

a current command correction unit that corrects the current command, generated by the current command generation unit, based on the zero-phase current calculated by the zero-phase current calculation unit.

3. The control device for the electric motor according to claim 1 , further comprising

a torque command correction unit that corrects a torque command of the electric motor based on the zero-phase current calculated by the zero-phase current calculation unit.

4. The control device for the electric motor according to claim 1 , wherein

the drive current and the zero-phase current are controlled such that the vector sum of the drive current and the zero-phase current is equal to or lower than the predetermined current.

5. An electric vehicle comprising the control device for the electric motor according to claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 25, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 056299/0447 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2017
From: ARAKI, TAKAHIRO; MIYAZAKI, HIDEKI; MITSUI, TOSHISADA
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 044435/0051 →