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Drive control method for variable reluctance type motor

Assignee: Fanuc Corp
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Filing: 1990-11-21
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Granted: —
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Expires: 2010-11-21
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Abstract

Abstract A drive control method for a variable reluctance type motor enabling the prevention of the generation of a disturbance torque and the improvement of the efficiency of the motor. In function generators (8A-8C) of the control equipment where the method is adopted, the rotational direction and operation mode of the motor are determined, based on the order of the generations of A-phase and B-phase feedback pulses fed from a pulse coder (7) and the sign of a torque command (Tc) fed from a velocity loop compensating circuit (1) and one of four current application patterns is selected in accordance with the result of the determination. According to the selected pattern, function signal values corresponding to a real electrical angle (Θ) of the motor are sent from the function generators and current application to the respective phases of the motor (6) are controlled by power amplifiers (4A-4C) responding to the voltage commands derived from the function signal value. The current application stopping time is so set as to eliminate a winding current before a disturbance torque is generated by the current flowing through the stator winding which is caused owing to the inductance of the stator winding after the current application stopping. Thereby, the generation of the substantial disturbance torque is prevented.

Inventors

  • 👤 Hideaki Room 4-308 Fanuc Manshonharimomi Oku
  • 👤 Yo Room 4-301 Fanuc Manshonharimomi Ikebe
  • 👤 Hidetsugu Komiya
  • 👤 Shigeki Kawada
  • 👤 Takeshi Fanuc Dai-3 Vira-Karamatsu Nakamura

Bibliographic Details

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CPC Classifications
H; H02; H02P; H02P25/00; H02P25/02; H02P25/08; H02P25/092; H02P25/0925; Y; Y02; Y02P; Y02P80/00; Y02P80/10

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 6
Claim 1
Independent Claim 250 words
A drive control method for a variable reluctance type motor which includes a stator having a plurality of salient poles around which windings are wound and a rotor having a plurality of salient poles, the motor being driven in that motor driving mode which is determined in dependence on a difference between a command value of a motor driving parameter and an actual value thereof and which is one of an acceleration mode where a torque acting in a rotation direction of the rotor is generated and a deceleration mode where a torque acting in a direction opposite to the rotor rotation direction is generated, comprising the steps of: (a) starting excitation of the winding of a to-be-excited stator salient pole when a rotor salient pole near the to-be-excited stator salient pole has reached a first predetermined rotary position determined in dependence on the motor driving mode, so as to generate a desired torque acting in a rotation direction suited to the motor driving mode; and (b) interrupting the excitation started in said step (a) when the rotor salient pole has reached a third predetermined rotary position short of a second predetermined rotary position which cooperates with the first predetermined rotary position to define a predetermined rotary angle region where the desired torque is generated by an electric current flowing in the winding associated with said step (a), so as to prevent an electric current from flowing in the winding in a region other than the predetermined rotary angle region.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 89 words
A drive control method for a variable reluctance type motor according to claim 1, wherein a determination to the effect that the rotor salient pole has reached the first predetermined rotary position is made in the acceleration mode when the rotor salient pole starts to face the stator salient pole, and wherein a determination to the effect that the rotor salient pole has reached the first predetermined rotary position is made in the deceleration mode when the rotor salient pole is brought to completely face the stator salient pole.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 81 words
A drive control method for a variable reluctance type motor according to claim 2, wherein the second predetermined rotary position in the acceleration mode is set such that the rotor salient pole will completely face the stator salient pole at that rotary position, and wherein the second predetermined rotary position in the deceleration mode is set such that the rotor salient pole will start to be deviated at that rotary position from a state where it faces the stator salient pole.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 30 words
A drive control method for a variable reluctance type motor according to claim 1, wherein the third predetermined rotary position is set in dependence on an inductance of the winding.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 58 words
A drive control method for a variable reluctance type motor according to claim 1, wherein a motor rotation speed is used as the motor driving parameter, and either one of the acceleration mode and the deceleration mode is selected in accordance with a difference between an command value of the motor rotation speed and an actual value thereof.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 36 words
A drive control method for a variable reluctance type motor according to claim 1, wherein the excitation of the winding of a next stator salient pole is started before the third predetermined rotary position is reached.

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