IP Library Granted Patent US 11,512,977
Granted Patent B2
US 11,512,977 · App. 16/640,276 · Granted Nov 29, 2022

Redundant resolver and rotation angle detection device using same

Inventors: Hiroko Ikeda (Tokyo, JP); Yuji Takizawa (Tokyo, JP); Kazumasa Ito (Tokyo, JP); Shinichi Yamaguchi (Tokyo, JP); Toshihiro Matsunaga (Tokyo, JP); Yosuke Sugino (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Cornoration
G01D3/08G01B7/30G01D5/145G01D5/2046
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Patent No.
US 11,512,977
App. No.
16/640,276
Granted
Nov 29, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A redundant resolver is configured of a stator and a rotor that form a pair, wherein the rotor is a rotor with a shaft angle multiplier of Nx having Nx (Nx is a natural number) salient poles, the stator is such that n teeth T 1 to Tn, where n is a natural number, are disposed sequentially in a circumferential direction, configuring M systems by being divided into M in the circumferential direction, and having an angle of 360/M degrees when angles of the teeth configuring one system are totaled, a one-phase excitation winding and a two-phase output winding are wound around each of the teeth T 1 to Tn, excitation signals of the same frequency are applied by differing excitation circuits to the respective excitation windings, an output order per system is Nout (Nout is a natural number), and an abnormality is detected based on output signals of the M systems.

Claims (21)

1. A redundant resolver comprising a rotor and a stator that form a pair, wherein

the rotor is a rotor with a shaft angle multiplier of Nx having Nx (Nx is a natural number) salient poles,

the stator is such that n teeth, where n is a natural number, are disposed sequentially in a circumferential direction, configuring M systems by being divided into M in the circumferential direction, and having an angle of 360/M degrees when angles of the teeth configuring one system are totaled,

a one-phase excitation winding and a two-phase output winding are wound around each of the n teeth, excitation signals of the same frequency are applied by differing excitation circuits to the respective excitation windings, an output order per system is Nout (Nout is a natural number), and

an abnormality is detected based on output signals of the M systems.

2. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein, when a failure occurs in one portion of the M systems, the excitation signal of the system in which the failure has occurred is stopped.

3. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein an excitation order per system is Ne±0.5 (Ne is a natural number), and the shaft angle multiplier of the rotor is an odd number.

4. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein an excitation order per system is Ne±(Ne is a natural number), and the shaft angle multiplier of the rotor is an even number.

5. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein an offset of each output signal of the M systems is corrected.

6. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein a phase difference between the excitation signals is within 60°.

7. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein the excitation signals are synchronized.

8. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein M is two.

9. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein the output windings of a first system and a second system are wound in the same direction or in mutually opposing directions.

10. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein, when an angle detected by the first system is θ 1 and an angle detected by the second system is θ 2 , it is determined that there is an abnormality when |θ 1 −θ 2 |>α or |θ 1 +θ 2 |>β (note that α and β are real numbers).

11. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein two systems are disposed at intervals of 180° in the circumferential direction.

12. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein two systems are disposed at intervals of 90° in the circumferential direction.

13. A rotation angle detection device, comprising:

the redundant resolver according to claim 1 ; and

an angle computing unit, connected to an output terminal of the redundant resolver, that calculates and outputs a detected angle of the rotor based on an output voltage of output windings of the redundant resolver.

14. The redundant resolver according to claim 1 , wherein an auxiliary tooth around which no output winding is wound is disposed in an end portion of a tooth block that is a series of teeth configuring one system.

15. The redundant resolver according to claim 14 , wherein amplitudes of numbers of turns of the two-phase output winding wound around one system differ.

Assignments (2)
COMPANY SPLIT Recorded Sep 4, 2024
From: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC MOBILITY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 068834/0585 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 19, 2020
From: IKEDA, HIROKO; TAKIZAWA, YUJI; ITO, KAZUMASA; YAMAGUCHI, SHINICHI; MATSUNAGA, TOSHIHIRO; SUGINO, YOSUKE
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 051862/0834 →