WO2007117428A2 - A circuit for using the sign transitions of a motor phase and a motor phase back emf currents to control pwm - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to controlling PWM, and more particularly to using the sign transitions of a motor phase and a motor phase back EMF currents to control PWM.
- a circuit for optimizing power transferred from an inverter circuit to a motor the circuit using an open loop method to start-up the motor and have it reach a minimum speed, each phase of the motor receiving voltage from the inverter circuit.
- the circuit including at least one phase detector circuit for sensing the sign of one or more currents, the sign of the current being used to detect a zero crossing of the current; an interpolator for receiving a voltage reference and outputting a frequency reference and a phase shift reference, the phase shift reference being a difference between an imposed voltage modulation and the one or more currents; and a regulator circuit for using an error between the phase shift reference and the sign of the one or more currents to calculate a phase shift compensation, wherein the sign of the one or more currents is determined to be positive at first sign transition instances when a sinusoidal wave of the current crosses to a positive area and to be negative at second sign transition instances when a sinusoidal wave of the current crosses to a negative area, the first and second sign transition instances being used to detect a phase shift of the current
- Figure 1 is a diagram of a circuit of an embodiment of the present invention that optimizing a power transferred from an inverter circuit to a motor using the sign of the current of the motor's phases;
- Figure 2 is a graph of a sinusoidal wave of a phase current, the sign of the current relative to the sinusoidal wave, the sign transition of the current relative to the sinusoidal wave, and the sign transition of the current relative to the imposed voltage modulation;
- Figure 3 is a diagram showing operation of an interpolator of Figure 1;
- Figure 4 is a diagram of a circuit of an embodiment of the present invention that optimizing a power transferred from an inverter circuit to a motor using the sign of the back EMF of the motor's phase;
- Figure 5 is a diagram of a circuit of an embodiment of the present invention that optimizing a power transferred from an inverter circuit to a motor using the frequency of the back EMF extracted from the sign of the back EMF of the motor's phase;
- Figure 6 is an illustration of a progression of the use of the zero crossing of the back EMF in extracting the frequency of the back EMF.
- Figure 1 illustrates a circuit 10 for optimizing a power transferred from an inverter circuit 11 to a motor 16 having a load 15.
- the inverter circuit 11 includes a phase detector circuit 12 for sensing the sign of a current of each motor phase for controlling the motor 16, which is a Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor receiving voltage V A , V B , and Vc from the inverter circuit for each of the phases.
- a voltage reference command 14 is provided to the inverter circuit 11 from outside of the circuit 10 to start the motor 16.
- An open loop method is used to start-up the motor 16 and have it reach a minimum speed.
- the sign of the current of the motor's phases I PHASE can be detected by the phase detector circuit 12.
- the sign of the phase currents is used to detect a zero crossing of the current for each phase of the motor 16.
- the phase current in graph A is analyzed over a time period t to detect the crossing of the sinusoidal wave from the positive to the negative positions and vice-versa.
- the sign is thus determined, in graph B, to be positive or High when the phase current is in a positive territory and negative or Low when the phase current is in a negative territory.
- the sign transition instances or zero crossing of the phase current, in graph C are then used to detect the phase shift of the current versus the imposed voltage modulation, as in graph D.
- the phase shift is defined as a difference between the imposed phase voltage modulation and detected phase of each phase current.
- FIG. 3 Reference back to Figure 1, the loop is closed using an interpolator 18 whose operation is illustrated in Figure 3.
- the interpolator 18 receives voltage V and outputs or provides references of frequency or speed ⁇ and a phase shift ⁇ between the imposed voltage modulation and the detected phase currents for regime condition at every speed value.
- the speed reference ⁇ is provided to a switch 19 that is controlled by the voltage reference command 14, through a rate limiter 21 to a PWM modulator 20.
- the phase shift reference ⁇ is provided through a switch 17 to a multiplier 15a and then to a regulator circuit 22.
- the regulator circuit 22 uses the error between a desired phase shift, provided by the inte ⁇ olator 18, and a measured phase shift provided by the phase detector circuit 12 through a multiplier 15b to change frequency of the modulator 20.
- FIG. 4 illustrates a control circuit 30 that optimizes the power transferred from an inverter circuit 31 to the motor 16 having the load 15.
- the inverter circuit 31 includes a first phase detector circuit 12 for sensing the sign of a motor phase current and a second phase detector circuit 24 for sensing the sign of the back EMF of the motor phase. Both circuits 12 and 24 are used to control the Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor 16.
- a variable DC voltage or reference command 14 is provided from outside of the circuit 30 to start the motor 16.
- An open loop method is used to start-up the motor 16 and have it reach a minimum speed.
- the sign of the current of the motor's phases I PHASE and the sign of the back EMF can be detected by the first and second phase detector circuits 12 and 24.
- the sign of the phase currents is used to detect the zero crossing of the current per each phase.
- the sign of the phase back EMF is used to detect the zero crossing of the back EMF per each phase.
- the sign of the phase back EMF is determined using the same principle as in Figure 2.
- phase shift is defined as a difference between detected phase of each current and detected phase of each phase back EMF.
- An initial frequency reference for closed loop operation is obtained with the same method as in startup mode.
- the regulator circuit 22 uses the error between a desired phase shift, i.e., coming from a phase shift offset internal reference, and a measured phase shift, i.e., coming from a phase detector circuits 12 and 24, to change the frequency reference of the modulator 20 to adjust it for every working condition in the closed loop.
- FIG. 5 illustrates a control circuit 40 that optimizes the power transferred from an inverter circuit 41 to the motor 16 having the load 15.
- the inverter circuit 41 includes a first phase detector circuit 12 for sensing the sign of a motor phase current and a second phase detector circuit 42 for sensing the sign of the back EMF of the motor phase and for extracting the frequency of the back EMF from the sign of the back EMF.
- the circuits 12 and 42 are used to control the Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor 16.
- a variable DC voltage or reference command 14 is provided from outside of the circuit 40 to start the motor 16.
- An open loop method is used to start-up the motor 16 and have it reach a minimum speed.
- the sign of the current of the motor's phases I PHASE , the sign of the back EMF, and the frequency of the back EMF extracted from the sign of the back EMF can be detected by the first and second phase detector circuits 12 and 42.
- the extracted frequency of the back EMF is provided to the modulator 20 through the switch 19 and the rate limiter 21.
- the sign of the phase currents is used to detect the zero crossing of the current per each phase.
- the sign of the phase back EMF is used to detect the zero crossing of the back EMF per each phase.
- the zero crossing of the phase currents and the zero crossing of the phase back EMF are used to obtain the phase shift between phase current and back EMF.
- the phase shift is defined as a difference between a detected phase of each current and detected phase of each phase back EMF.
- the zero crossing of the back EMF is used to extract the frequency of the back EMF.
- the frequency of the back EMF is the frequency of the rotor.
- the frequency reference is obtained from the phase detector circuit 42 measuring the frequency of the detected zero crossings back EMF transitions.
- An error between a desired phase shift, i.e., coming from phase shift offset internal reference, and a measured phase shift, i.e., coming from a phase detector circuit, is used to change the modulator frequency reference with a regulator circuit 22 and to adjust it for every dynamic change during working condition in the closed loop.
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