Abstract:
There is provided an apparatus for generating a motor driving control signal, the apparatus including: an oscillating unit generating an oscillating signal having a preset duty ratio; a selecting unit including a first switch switching a first path connected between the oscillating unit and an output terminal and a second switch complementarily operated with respect to the first switch and switching a second path connected to the first path in parallel; and a duty adjusting unit installed on the second path between the second switch and the output terminal, adjusting a duty ratio of the oscillating signal according to a rotation speed signal of a motor, and outputting the signal having the adjusted duty ratio as a driving control signal through the output terminal.
Abstract:
A method and a circuit arrangement are provided in which a mechanical load applied to the motor shaft or a load angle of the motor can be detected without sensors in a stepper motor. This is achieved substantially based on the fact that the load or the load angle creates a mutually induced voltage (back EMF) in the motor coils and the load or the load angle is detected by determining the phase shift of the motor voltage at at least one of the motor coil relative to the coil current at said motor coil connection, the phase shift being caused by the mutually induced voltage. A method and a circuit arrangement are also provided wherein the motor current of a stepper motor can be controlled according to load angle in such a way that the current consumption of the motor is relatively low.
Abstract:
There are provided a back electromotive force detection circuit and a motor driving control apparatus using the same. The back electromotive force detection circuit includes a duty determining unit and a delay compensation unit. The duty determining unit outputs a differential level according to a duty of a driving control signal of a motor. The delay compensation unit performs delay compensation differently on each differential level to compensate for a delay in back electromotive force of the motor regardless of a variation in a duty of the driving control signal.
Abstract:
A method, which is efficient and cost-effective to implement, for controlling, at steady-state, a synchronous electric motor comprising a permanent magnet rotor and a stator provided with windings connected to an electrical grid by means of a switch controlled by a processing unit, said method comprising the following steps: periodically switching on said switch by means of a PWM output of said processing unit; continuously verifying the shift with respect to an ideal operating condition of the motor; and modifying the switched on period of the switch in feedback to approach said ideal operating condition of the motor.
Abstract:
A driving circuit for a single-phase-brushless motor, includes: a driving-signal-generating circuit to generate a driving signal for supplying, to a driving coil of the single-phase-brushless motor, first- and second-driving currents, alternately with a de-energized period therebetween during which neither of the first or the second driving current is supplied to the driving coil; an output circuit to supply the first or the second driving current to the driving coil in response to the driving signal; and a zero-cross detecting circuit to detect a zero cross of an induced voltage, generated across the driving coil, during the de-energized period, wherein the driving-signal-generating circuit determines a length of a subsequent energized period based on a driving cycle from a start of an energized period, during which the output circuit supplies the first or the second driving current to the driving coil, to a time when the zero-cross-detecting circuit detects the zero cross.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a generic method for determining the rotor position of an electronically-commutated multi-phase direct current motor, characterised in: (a) generating of a plurality of test voltage pulses in the winding system with a specified switch-on duration ΔT by means of the commuting device in different phase distributed over 360°; (b)—measurement of the current values of the current responses of the test voltage pulses on expiration of the switch-on period of the respective test voltage pulse; (c) approximation of the measured current values by means of a periodic approximation function from a superimposition of a preferably sinusoidal fundamental wave with an amplitude IEMK and the associated first harmonic with an amplitude Und as a factor of the phase of the test voltage pulse, wherein the sinusoidal fundamental wave follows the chronological progression of the counter EMF voltage of the stator and the first harmonic follows the chronological progression of the stator of the direct current motor; (d) determination of an amplitude ratio value IEMF/IInd of the fundamental wave and the first harmonic of the approximation function; (e) determination of the rotor position as the EMF angle from the argument of the first harmonic of the approximation function as a factor of the amplitude ratio IEMF/IInd, wherein the EMF angle indicates the phase offset of the sinusoidal progression of the counter EMF voltage of the stator relative to the approximation function and the inductivity angle indicates the phase offset of the sinusoidal progression of the inductivity of the stator relative to the approximation function.
Abstract:
A motor control apparatus includes: a supply unit configured to supply a current for excitation to a plurality of coils of a motor; a first detection unit configured to detect a physical quantity which varies depending on a change in inductance of at least one of the plurality of coils; a determination unit configured to determine a rotational position of a rotor of the motor based on the physical quantity detected by the first detection unit; and a control unit configured to control the rotational position of the rotor of the motor based on a determination result by the determination unit.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a device and a method for driving a motor that demonstrates low noise and/or low vibration. A pulse-modulated control pulse signal S2 is generated by a driving signal generation portion 310 at each phase. A driving voltage VU˜VW, with duty cycle corresponding to the control pulse signal S2 and being inserted with specific idle time is applied to coils LU˜LW at each phase. A current phase detection signal S3 indicating a phase of the current IL flowing through the coil LU is generated by the current phase detection portion 330 at a specific phase (the phase U) corresponding to the control pulse signal S2 according to a pulse width of a terminal voltage VU at one end of the coil LU of the phase U.
Abstract:
A motor driving control apparatus may include a zero cross point (ZCP) detecting unit detecting back electromotive force generated by a motor apparatus and detecting a plurality of zero cross points in the back electromotive force, a zero cross point correcting unit correcting the plurality of zero cross points when a time interval between the plurality of zero cross points is equal to a predetermined error period or longer, and a controlling unit controlling driving of the motor apparatus using the plurality of corrected zero cross points.
Abstract:
A first input of a differential circuit is coupled to a coil tap for a first phase of a multi-phase brushless DC motor. The first phase is associated with an electrically floating coil. A second input of the differential circuit is coupled to a virtual center tap. A divider circuit is coupled between coil taps for other phases of the multi-phase brushless DC motor to define a virtual center tap. The other phases are phases actuated for motor operation when the first phase is electrically floating. The coil tap for the first phase is electrically isolated from the virtual center tap. The differential circuit performs a comparison of the voltage at the coil tap for the first phase to the voltage at the virtual center tap to generate a back EMF signal.