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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To avoid unexpected regenerative breaking of an electric motor and surely suppress the overcharging of a secondary battery, even if angle shift occurs in a sensor for detecting the rotation angle of the rotary shaft of the electric motor.SOLUTION: When controlling the motor by setting current instructions Id*, Iq* so that a current Id in the minus direction is flown in a d-axis and the current is not flown in a q-axis, the rotation angle θ is corrected in a direction from regeneration to powering by correcting the rotation angle θ from a rotation angle sensor used for controlling to a reverse rotation direction during the normal rotation of the motor and correcting it to a normal rotation direction during the reverse rotation of the motor. As a result, even if offset error is included in the rotation angle sensor, a current in the reverse direction of the rotation direction of the motor MG2 is not flown in q-axis, namely a regenerative torque can be made not to be output by controlling the motor MG2 based on the corrected rotation angle θ. As a result, unexpected regeneration of the motor can be prevented and the overcharging of the secondary battery can be suppressed.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately detect abnormality in shut-down operation of a switching element, in a boost-less power unit.SOLUTION: During a regenerating operation of a rotating machine M, a power supply line LINE is temporarily brought into a cut-off state by a shut-down operation of a switching element Q. On the basis of whether or not a voltage VH at a side of an inverter 14 is increased to a voltage VB of an accumulation device 12 or higher while the power supply line LINE is brought into the cut-off state, it is determined whether a connecting/disconnecting operation of the power supply line LINE by the switching element Q is normal or abnormal. Therefore, although abnormality in shut-down operation of the switching element Q during normal operation can not be detected in a power unit 10, an abnormal state which may disable the shut-down operation such as a circuit failure of a driver circuit 16 or an ON failure of the switching element Q can be detected.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power supply system which can prevent an excessive large current from flowing between converters due to recovery from the shutdown of a plurality of converters, and to provide an electric vehicle equipped with the system. SOLUTION: An ECU 40 controls the master converter (first converter 12-1) so that a system voltage VH agrees with a prescribed target voltage, and controls the slave converter so that an amount of energization of the slave converter (second converter 12-2) agrees with a prescribed target amount. The ECU 40 limits a change rate of the target voltage, and limits the change rate of the target voltage more than that at a normal time, when the system voltage is boosted VH by the master converter, after the shutdown of the master converter and shutdown of the slave converter are simultaneously recovered. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnet temperature estimating device for a rotating electric machine, capable of estimating the magnet temperature more easily. SOLUTION: A torque measuring part 120 measures an actual torque of a motor generator. A torque estimating part 122 estimates the torque of the motor generator, when the magneto temperature of the motor generator is a reference temperature, by using a current-torque map created beforehand. A magnet temperature estimating part 126 estimates the magnet temperature of the motor generator based on the difference of a measuring torque Ta and an estimating torque Te, by using a magnet temperature estimating map created beforehand based on a temperature characteristics of a permanent magnet. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control the occurrence of a torque change in an electrical rotating machine when an inverter is stopped.SOLUTION: A control device executes programs including a step (S108) for executing boosting target increase control if an inverter is stopped by abnormality of an electric circuit including the inverter (S100:YES) and a counter-electromotive voltage Vr generated in a second MG is higher than a system voltage VH (S102:YES), a torque estimation value is substantially zero (S104:YES) or a vehicle is in an acceleration and deceleration state (S106:YES), and a step (S110) for executing normal boosting control if the counter-electromotive voltage Vr is lower than the system voltage (S102:NO), the torque estimation value is not zero (S104:NO) or the vehicle is not in the acceleration and deceleration state (S106:NO).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrical power system capable of preventing an excessive current from flowing between a plurality of converters due to removal of shutdowns of the plurality of converters, and further to provide an electric vehicle provided therewith.SOLUTION: An ECU 40 controls a master converter, first converter 12-1, so that a system voltage VH coincides with a predetermined target voltage and controls a slave converter, second converter 12-2, so that an amount of a current flowing through the slave converter coincides with a predetermined target amount. The ECU 40 limits a change rate of the target voltage and limits the change rate of the target voltage to be smaller than that at the normal time when the system voltage VH is increased by the master converter after simultaneous removal of shutdowns of the master converter and the slave converter.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle drive device capable of generating audible sound of adequate sound pressure level in a simple configuration.SOLUTION: An electric vehicle drive device employs a motor generator MG as a motor for driving a vehicle. When the motor generator MG performs a control action, an electric current containing ripple component flows across the motor generator MG. The electric vehicle drive device generates an approach alarm sound that notifies a pedestrian that a vehicle is approaching by resonating a mechanical vibration generated on the motor generator MG by the electromagnetic force derived from the ripple component, with the component member or the peripheral member of the motor generator MG. The electric vehicle drive device sets a carrier frequency of an inverter 12 in accordance with the vehicle running state, and causes a member, among a plurality of motor generator component members and a plurality of peripheral members, whose eigen frequency meets the frequency of the ripple component to generate an approach notification sound.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly detect an on-state fault of any one of relays out of a plurality of relays when it is turned off, in a power device equipped with a plurality of batteries connected to buck-boost converters via respective relays and connected in parallel to each other. SOLUTION: When electric charges accumulated in a second low voltage-side capacitor 45 are not discharged by first discharge control for controlling a slave-side buck-boost converter 42 so that the electric charges accumulated in the second low voltage-side capacitor 45 may be discharged, step-up control of a master-side buck-boost converter 32 and step-down boost control of a slave-side buck boost converter 44 are performed, and after each control is performed, a change in voltage VH across the terminal of a high voltage-side capacitor 36 and a change in voltage VL2 across the terminal of the second low voltage-side capacitor 45 are monitored (steps S100 to S230). COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To assure output torque controllability at switching of a control system of a motor drive system having such control structure that the system switches between a pulse width modulation (PWM) control method and square wave voltage control method. SOLUTION: At square wave voltage control, a torque feedback is performed for adjusting voltage phase ϕv of a square wave voltage according to a deviation from a torque command value Trqcom of a torque estimation value Trq. A torque estimating part 420 calculates the torque estimation value Trq using motor currents Id and Iq acquired from detection values of a current sensor 24 and a rotational angle sensor 25, like a PWM control method. In short, a status value (sensor detection value) of an AC motor M1 used for motor control is identical for both the square wave voltage control method and PWM control method. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT