摘要:
In a power output apparatus (20) of the present invention, a controller (80) controls a clutch motor (30) and an assist motor (40), thereby converting energy output from an engine (50) and expressed by the product of the revolving speed and the torque of a crankshaft (56) of the engine (50) to energy expressed by the product of the revolving speed and the torque of a drive shaft (22) and outputting the converted energy to the drive shaft (22). When the remaining charge of a battery (94) is less than a predetermined range, the battery (94) is charged with electric power, which is regenerated from part of the energy output from the engine (50) by either the clutch motor (30) and the assist motor (40). When the remaining charge of the battery (94) exceeds the predetermined range, on the other hand, part of electric power consumed by either the clutch motor (30) or the assist motor (40) is supplied by electric power released from the battery (94). These procedures enable the remaining charge of the battery (94) to be kept within the predetermined range.
摘要:
A control device for a salient pole type permanent magnet motor. A magnetic flux of a magnet is detected by an arithmetic operation or actual measurement, and a demagnetization rate is calculated in accordance with the thus detected magnetic flux. A target of controlling the phase is calculated with reference to a demagnetization rate obtained by the calculation. The phase of a motor current is controlled depending on the target of control obtained by the calculation. Thus, a torque is prevented from lowering due to demagnetization of the magnet.
摘要:
Molded coil pieces inserted into a slot are separately connected to molded coil pieces belonging to another slot of the same phase as the former coil pieces by a connecting member. The connecting member has conductive members laminated in a direction perpendicular to a rotating shaft of the rotor in the motor via insulating layers, and the molded coil pieces are separately connected to each other by these conductive members, whereby the protrusion of a coil end from each slot can be reduced, which permits the miniaturization and the weight reduction of the motor. Furthermore, the dimensional accuracy of the connecting members can be improved by a simple constitution and manufacturing process, whereby the characteristics of the electric motor can be remarkably improved.
摘要:
When there is a change in required torque, the prior art technique may cause the undesirably low accuracy in the sensor-free determination of the electrical angle. A motor controller of the present invention has the following configuration to control the operation of a synchronous motor, in which multi-phase alternating currents flow through coils to rotate a rotor. The motor controller includes an electrical angle determination unit, which applies a voltage for determination to the coils and determines the electrical angle of the rotor in a sensor-free manner, based on the electric currents flowing in response to the applied voltage for determination. The motor controller also has a torque control unit that applies a voltage for torque output to the coils, corresponding to the required torque. An adjustment unit included in the motor controller adjusts the execution timings of the electrical angle determination unit and the torque control unit, so as to prevent the variation in electric current by the torque control unit from affecting the execution of the electrical angle determination unit. One possible procedure schedules the execution timings of the electrical angle determination unit and the torque control unit. Another possible procedure causes the execution of the electrical angle determination unit to wait according to a variation in required torque. This arrangement enables the electrical angle to be determined with a high accuracy even in the case of a torque variation.
摘要:
When a required torque increases under the condition of high-speed rotation, the conventional technique can not detect an electrical angle or control a synchronous motor in a sensor-less manner. The direction that passes through the rotating axis of the motor and makes a magnetic flux run through a permanent magnet is defined as the d-axis, whereas the direction that is electrically perpendicular to the d-axis in the rotational plane of the motor is defined as the q-axis. The technique of the present invention applies voltages to the d-axis and the q-axis based on an estimated electrical angle and solves voltage equations with the observed electric currents. The technique then calculates a correction amount of the electrical angle according to errors of the arithmetic operations and controls the motor. The arithmetic operations are carried out by varying the inductance according to the required torque of the motor. One concrete procedure determines the inductance corresponding to a specific motor driving state by interpolation of the table that stores the inductances corresponding to a variety of motor driving states. Another concrete procedure substitutes the driving states at the respective time points into the function that represents the relationship between the inductance and the driving state, so as to determine the inductance.
摘要:
A clutch motor 30 that includes a rotatable outer rotor 32 and a rotatable inner rotor 34 and is driven to carry out power operation or regenerative operation is attached to an output shaft of an engine 50. The output of the clutch motor 30 is transmitted to front wheels 26 and 28 via a drive shaft 22A. An assist motor 40 is directly linked with a drive shaft 22B that transmits power to rear wheels 27 and 29. Slip rotation in the clutch motor 30 enables part of the energy of the engine 50 to be regenerated. The assist motor 40 is driven with at least part of the regenerated energy or energy stored in a battery 94. This structure allows torques to be output to the two different shafts and thereby realizes four-wheel-drive. In accordance with another possible structure, the assist motor 40 regenerates electric power, while the clutch motor 30 carries out over-drive operation. The structure of distributing power of the engine by the clutch motor may be replaced by another structure including a planetary gear 120 and two motors MG1 and MG2 to distribute the power by the planetary gear 120. This structure enables the power to be transmitted to one shaft by the output of the planetary gear 120 and to the other shaft by the output of the second motor MG2, thereby realizing four-wheel-drive.
摘要:
A power output apparatus of the invention includes a clutch motor (30) and an assist motor (40) that allow energy output from an engine (50) driven at a driving point of high efficiency to be converted to energy expressed as the product of a revolving speed and a torque of a drive shaft (22) and to be output to the drive shaft (22). In case that a large torque is required, for example, when the vehicle starts on a rising slope or runs at a low speed, the engine (50) is driven at a high-energy driving point having a large torque and a high efficiency. This structure causes large electric power to be generated by excess energy greater than the energy generally consumed and enables a battery (94) to be charged with the large electric power. The power output apparatus of the invention further has functions of predicting the process of charging the battery (94) with the large electric power based on a driving state of the vehicle and topographical information and lowering the remaining charge of the battery (94) in advance according to the requirements. This process effectively prevents the battery (94) from being damaged with excess charging.
摘要:
A power output apparatus (20) of the present invention includes an engine (50), a clutch motor (30) connecting with a crankshaft (56) of the engine (50), an assist motor (40) connecting with a drive shaft (22), and a controller (80) for controlling the clutch motor (30) and the assist motor (40). In order to attain stable driving of the engine (50) at a target engine torque and a target engine speed, the engine (50) is feedback controlled with the torque of the clutch motor (30). In the feedback control, a range of scatter of the revolving speed of the crankshaft (56) (that is, a variation in rotation or pulsating torque) due to the pulsating power output from the engine (50) is set as a dead zone. The torque of the clutch motor (30) is accordingly not varied with the variation in rotation of the crankshaft 56 (pulsating torque). This structure effectively prevents the variation in rotation (pulsating torque) from being transmitted to the drive shaft (22).
摘要:
A method and an apparatus for driving and controlling a synchronous motor using permanent magnets as its field system are herein disclosed. When a rotational speed of the synchronous motor using the permanent magnets as the field system is more than a base rotational speed, a current condition computing section computes a field weakening reference current in accordance with a battery voltage, a reference torque and a rotational speed. An inverter performs the field weakening control of the the synchronous motor using the permanent magnets as the field system in accordance with the field weakening reference current sent from the current condition computing section to prevent the deterioration of efficiency and the deficiency of output due to the excessive or insufficient field weakening current. The current condition computing section determines optimum reference current by the use of a converged battery voltage, when the battery voltage is converged to a constant value after initial control.
摘要:
A drive control apparatus and method drives an AC motor by applying a rectangular wave voltage thereto. The apparatus estimates the torque of a rotor of the AC motor, and detects a torque deviation which is the difference between the estimated torque and a required torque of the motor. A controller controls a state of the rectangular wave voltage applied to the AC motor, through torque feedback control based on the torque deviation, so that the torque approaches the torque command value. The controller detects a current rotation speed of the motor, and switches, in a predetermined order, a plurality of predetermined rectangular wave voltage states corresponding to different phase values of the rectangular wave voltage. The switching timing of the rectangular wave voltage states is set to a timing that deviates from a reference timing determined based on the current rotation speed, by a length of time corresponding to the torque deviation.