Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device, motor driving system, and motor control program
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Application No.: US16175458Application Date: 2018-10-30
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Publication No.: US10693396B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Satoshi Narumi
- Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@77bf7931
- Main IPC: H02P6/14
- IPC: H02P6/14 ; H02P6/182 ; H02M7/5387 ; H02P6/28 ; H02P6/18

Abstract:
To surely detect a back electromotive force generated in a non-conduction phase at an extremely low duty ratio, a motor driving system includes a three-phase motor, an inverter circuit, and a semiconductor device. A controller included in the semiconductor device compares a voltage at an output node corresponding to a non-conduction phase of the inverter circuit and a reference voltage with each other, thereby estimating a position of a rotor of the three-phase motor and generating a pulse width modulation signal based on the estimated position of the rotor. The controller detects the voltage at the output node of the non-conduction phase in a regeneration period of the pulse width modulation signal when a duty ratio of the pulse width modulation signal is less than a threshold value, the regeneration period being a period in which current is made to flow to the three-phase motor on a regeneration path.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190181783A1 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, MOTOR DRIVING SYSTEM, AND MOTOR CONTROL PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2019-06-13
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