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Granted Patent B2
US 12,494,728 · App. 18/577,730 · Granted Dec 9, 2025

Control device for rotating machine

Inventors: Kota Teramoto (Tokyo, JP); Tetsuya Kojima (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
H02P21/18H02P6/183H02P21/06H02P21/141H02P21/22H02P2207/05
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Patent No.
US 12,494,728
App. No.
18/577,730
Granted
Dec 9, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A control device includes a current detector that detects a stator current flowing between a voltage application unit and a stator winding of a rotating machine; a control unit that computes a voltage command value that is a command value for a stator voltage to be applied to the stator winding on the basis of the stator current and a rotor position serving as position information of a rotor of the rotating machine; a PWM modulator that performs on-off control of switching elements of the voltage application unit so that a smoothed value of the stator voltage matches the voltage command value; and a position estimator that estimates, on the basis of the voltage command value and the stator current, the rotor position through a filter that removes a frequency component of a fundamental frequency of rotational speed of the rotating machine.

Claims (33)

1 . A control device for a rotating machine, the control device comprising:

a voltage applicator connected between a direct-current power supply and a rotating machine to apply a rectangular stator voltage to the rotating machine through on-off switching of a plurality of switching elements included for each of phases;

a current detector to detect a stator current flowing between the voltage applicator and a stator winding of the rotating machine;

processing circuitry

to compute a voltage command value on a basis of the stator current and a rotor position serving as position information of a rotor of the rotating machine, the voltage command value being a command value for a stator voltage to be applied to the stator winding;

to perform on-off control of the switching elements so that a smoothed value of the stator voltage matches the voltage command value; and

to estimate, on a basis of the voltage command value and the stator current, the rotor position through a filter that removes a frequency component of a fundamental frequency of rotational speed of the rotating machine.

2 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing circuitry synchronizes a switching frequency, with which the on-off switching of the switching elements is performed, with an integer multiple of a fundamental frequency of rotational speed of the rotating machine.

3 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein

an estimate of the rotor position is computed on a basis of a flux linkage of the rotating machine, and

the flux linkage is obtained by integrating at least the voltage command value.

4 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein

an estimate of the rotor position is computed on a basis of a flux linkage of the rotating machine, and

the flux linkage is obtained by integrating at least the voltage command value in a stationary frame.

5 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 3 , wherein

a computation period for computation of the flux linkage is not an integer multiple of half of a switching period, the switching period being a reciprocal of a switching frequency with which the on-off switching of the switching elements is performed.

6 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein

a computation period for estimation of the rotor position is not an integer multiple of half of a switching period, the switching period being a reciprocal of a switching frequency with which the on-off switching of the switching elements is performed.

7 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein

a lower limit is set for a frequency component to be removed by the filter.

8 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 7 , wherein

the lower limit is equal to or higher than a response frequency at which the rotor position estimation is performed.

9 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing circuitry includes a memory device that stores a filter coefficient for implementing the filter, for each of frequencies to be removed by the filter.

10 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the rotating machine has a variable inductance component with which inductance varies depending on a rotor position, and

the processing circuitry estimates the rotor position on a basis of a flux-linkage inductance variation component generated by a product of the variable inductance component and the stator current.

11 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 10 , wherein

inductance of the rotating machine includes a mean component that does not vary depending on the rotor position and a variable component that varies at a frequency twice an electrical angular frequency of the rotor position, and

the flux-linkage inductance variation component is generated by a product of the variable component and the stator current.

12 . The control device for a rotating machine according to claim 4 , wherein

a computation period for computation of the flux linkage is not an integer multiple of half of a switching period, the switching period being a reciprocal of a switching frequency with which the on-off switching of the switching elements is performed.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 9, 2024
From: TERAMOTO, KOTA; KOJIMA, TETSUYA
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 066060/0427 →
Continuity (1)
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