MOTOR DRIVE ASSEMBLY
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240364243A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-31

    申请号:US18647293

    申请日:2024-04-26

    IPC分类号: H02P6/10 H02K7/116 H02K29/08

    CPC分类号: H02P6/10 H02K7/1166 H02K29/08

    摘要: A drive system comprises at least two electric motor subassemblies, each comprising a rotor and a stator. The rotors are connected to a mechanical load to fix a position between the two rotors. The system further comprises: first and second position sensing assemblies that provide first and second rotor position signals of first and second motor subassemblies, respectively. Each position signal is indicative of the position of the associated rotor relative to its associated stator including a periodic pattern of errors in the indicated position of the rotor. A motor controller controls the currents applied to each motor subassembly as a function of the position signal. The current causes each rotor to apply a force to the mechanical load which includes a force ripple due to periodic errors in position signals, in which: the orientation of the first and second rotor position sensing assemblies relative to the first and second motor subassemblies are fixed such that the periodic ripple in the forces applied by the two motors are seen by the mechanical load at least partially cancel out.

    Magnetic encoder
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11644344B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-09

    申请号:US17188000

    申请日:2021-03-01

    IPC分类号: G01D5/249 G01D5/14

    CPC分类号: G01D5/2497 G01D5/145

    摘要: A magnetic encoder includes one or more sensors and an encoder element having at least two tracks of encoder regions. Each region comprises a magnetic pole. Each sensor has one or more sensing elements associated with a respective track and generates an output that is indicative of the magnetic field associated with that track. At least one track has a differing number of poles to at least one of the other tracks. The properties of the poles of a first one of the tracks differ along the track such that there is a periodic variation along the first track of the magnetic field emitted by the first track that is detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track which at least partially cancels out a corresponding periodic variation in field from the other tracks that is also detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track.

    HANDWHEEL ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240270303A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18439824

    申请日:2024-02-13

    IPC分类号: B62D5/00 B62D6/02

    CPC分类号: B62D5/006 B62D6/02

    摘要: A handwheel actuator assembly for a steer-by-wire system of a vehicle comprises a housing, a shaft rotatably mounted to the housing, the shaft connectable to a handwheel, and one or more motors each having a stator and a rotor. The stator carries a plurality of phase windings and the rotor carries a plurality of magnet poles and is connected to the shaft. A control circuit is adapted to control the current flowing into or out of each motor to cause a net torque to be applied to the shaft during normal operation. The stator of at least one of the motors is configured such that in the event that the control circuit is powered down or disconnected and the handwheel is rotated at 180 degrees per second, the combination of motors overall provides a drag torque of at least 50 percent of the resistance to rotation of the shaft and a torque at the handwheel of at least 2 Nm.

    Magnetic encoder
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11536591B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-27

    申请号:US17187944

    申请日:2021-03-01

    IPC分类号: G01D5/249

    摘要: A magnetic encoder comprising an encoder element having at least two tracks of encoder regions, each region comprising a magnetic pole, the poles along each track being arranged as an alternating pattern of North and South poles, and one or more sensors, each sensor comprising one or more sensing elements associated with a respective track and generating an output that is indicative of the magnetic field associated with that track in the vicinity of the sensor, in which at least one track has a differing number of poles to at least one of the other tracks, and in which the properties of the poles of a first one of the tracks differ along the track such that there is a periodic variation along the first track of the magnetic field emitted by the first track that is detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track which at least partially cancels out a corresponding periodic variation in field from the other tracks that is also detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track.

    MAGNETIC ENCODER
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210278253A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-09

    申请号:US17188000

    申请日:2021-03-01

    IPC分类号: G01D5/249 G01D5/14

    摘要: A magnetic encoder comprising an encoder element having at least two tracks of encoder regions, each region comprising a magnetic pole, the poles along each track being arranged as an alternating pattern of North and South poles, and one or more sensors, each sensor comprising one or more sensing elements associated with a respective track and generating an output that is indicative of the magnetic field associated with that track in the vicinity of the sensor, in which at least one track has a differing number of poles to at least one of the other tracks, and in which the properties of the poles of a first one of the tracks differ along the track such that there is a periodic variation along the first track of the magnetic field emitted by the first track that is detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track which at least partially cancels out a corresponding periodic variation in field from the other tracks that is also detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track.

    MAGNETIC ENCODER
    6.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210278252A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-09

    申请号:US17187944

    申请日:2021-03-01

    IPC分类号: G01D5/249

    摘要: A magnetic encoder comprising an encoder element having at least two tracks of encoder regions, each region comprising a magnetic pole, the poles along each track being arranged as an alternating pattern of North and South poles, and one or more sensors, each sensor comprising one or more sensing elements associated with a respective track and generating an output that is indicative of the magnetic field associated with that track in the vicinity of the sensor, in which at least one track has a differing number of poles to at least one of the other tracks, and in which the properties of the poles of a first one of the tracks differ along the track such that there is a periodic variation along the first track of the magnetic field emitted by the first track that is detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track which at least partially cancels out a corresponding periodic variation in field from the other tracks that is also detected by the sensing elements associated with the first track.