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7362061 Gate driver, motor driving device including the gate driver, and apparatus equipped with the motor driving device  
A gate driver for forcing a power transistor including a gate electrode insulated with oxide film into conduction or shut-off, the gate driver includes a first current source for outputting a first...
7358693 Motor drive control device  
Disclosed is a motor drive control device which uses mechanical switches configured in an H-bridge shape and can protect the mechanical switches from being damaged and minimize a voltage chattering...
7358692 Alignment method  
An apparatus includes a motor including a rotor and a coil system comprising a first set of coils, a second set of coils, and a third set of coils; and a switching mechanism that connects the first...
7352144 Motor driving device having MOSFET, MOSFET, and motor having MOSFET  
Each connection point of three series circuits formed by connecting two MOSFETs in series between positive and negative terminals of a direct-current power source is connected to a driving coil of...
7348740 Motor control circuit for forward/reverse rotation  
A motor control circuit for forward/reverse rotation comprises a driving circuit, a switching circuit and a motor coil winding. The driving circuit has a driving source, a Hall IC and a driving IC....
7348739 Motor driving apparatus  
A motor driving apparatus makes a carrier signal of an inverter be synchronized with a carrier signal of a DC/DC converter, and determines a phase difference between both the carrier signals based...
7339334 Real-time responsive motor control system  
The present invention discloses a real-time responsive motor control system comprising a central MCU (Microcontroller Unit) core logic and at least one PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) MCU core logic....
7271556 Method and apparatus for estimating rotor position of switched reluctance motor, and method and apparatus for sensorless control of switched reluctance motor  
A discrete rotor position estimation method for a synchronized reluctance motor is provided. A d.c.-link voltage V dc and a phase current I ph are sensed. A flux-linkage λ ph of an active phase...
7253574 Effective switching frequency multiplier inverter  
A switching frequency multiplier inverter for low inductance machines that uses parallel connection of switches and each switch is independently controlled according to a pulse width modulation...
6987375 Dual-stage drive for switched reluctance electric machines  
A dual stage drive for a switched reluctance motor (SRM) is disclosed, the SRM having a plurality of phase coils associated therewith. In an exemplary embodiment, the dual stage drive includes at...
6731083 Flux feedback control system  
An electrical machine includes a rotor, a stator operably coupled with the rotor, at least one phase winding operably coupled with the rotor and stator and arranged to establish flux in a magnetic...
6586897 Method of controlling alignment of a rotator of SRM and SRM driving circuit for realizing the same  
Disclosed is a method of controlling alignment of a rotor of an SRM with respect to a stator, the SRM including a stator having a plurality of diametrically opposed stator salient magnetic pole...
6577087 Multilevel DC link inverter  
A multilevel DC link inverter and method for improving torque response and current regulation in permanent magnet motors and switched reluctance motors having a low inductance includes a plurality...
6479959 Self-excited reluctance motor  
A self-excited reluctance motor capable of driving a motor with a commutator and without having to use a commutator logic for power electric circuit. The self-excited reluctance motor includes a...
6469468 SR motor controlling method and SR motor having low peak of current flowing therein  
An SR motor includes a stator having a plurality of salient poles and a rotor having another plurality of salient poles. Windings are wound around the plurality of salient poles and magnetic fields...
6465977 System and method for controlling torque in an electrical machine  
System and method for controlling the output torque of an electrical machine include a torque controller operable for receiving a motor input command, representative of a desired output torque, and...
6438321 Control of high speed DC motor vertical voltage vector component  
A motor controller utilizes sensors to detect the rotational speed and relative position of the motor rotor and generates a voltage vector to maintain the motor current in phase with the EMF before...
6246193 Encoderless rotor position detection method and apparatus  
A rotating flux vector is set up in a motor or generator's rotor by simultaneously energizing two phase windings while the rotor remains stationary, wherein each phase winding may be energized by...
6198239 Hysteresis control in switched reluctance motors  
A circuit and method for controlling a current level in a switched reluctance motor phase coil are provided. The circuit includes a current sensor for generating a current indicative signal...
6181092 Current control circuit for a reluctance machine  
A current controller for a switched reluctance machine is disclosed. The current controller controls the switching frequency of the power devices that control the energization of the phase windings...
6137256 Soft turn-off controller for switched reluctance machines  
A circuit for controlling the operation of switched reluctance machines (i.e., motor or generator) having a plurality of phase windings. The circuit slows down the initial "turn off" of the phase...
6137253 Method of PWM driving a brushless motor with digitally stored voltage profiles with reduced losses  
A method is for driving a multiphase brushless motor with N windings connected in a star or in a polygonal configuration. The windings are driven according to a certain periodic voltage profile....
6137248 Sensing load and/or speed changes in a switched reluctance motor through current chopping  
A method for detecting a change in motor load and/or motor speed is provided. The method includes the step of measuring the number of transitions (i.e., state changes) of a phase control signal in...
6133656 Brushless commutated torque motor for use with a rotary low frequency sound reproducing apparatus  
A brushless commutated torque motor suitable for use with a rotary low frequency sound reproducing apparatus, includes a shaft having a longitudinal axis, a position sensor, a rotor having a...
6130989 Motor drive circuit  
In a motor, drive transistors (7, 9) are turned off by drive signals I, J output from a control circuit (10) at a point adjacent to a phase changeover point of the energizing to drive coils (1, 2),...
6118245 Control device and control process for motors  
The invention relates to control device and control process for motors. In order to prevent phase distortion and the like in controlled systems, a sensor (250) for detecting the state of movement...
6114826 Stepping motor driving apparatus having small time constant regenerative current path  
In an apparatus for driving a stepping motor in a micro step manner by a PWM control signal generated based on a sense voltage, including a sense resistor for generating the sense voltage, a...
6111380 System for detecting abutment and blocking in a stepped motor  
A stop and jamming detection system in a stepping motor determines a parameter from the profile of an instantaneous motor variable and compares it to a reference value. A signal for the stop and...
6108488 Speed control system for repulsion motor  
A speed control system for a brushless repulsion motor of the type including a series of armature mounted switches for shorting circumferentially spaced armature coils, said system comprising: a...
6107776 Inverter control device  
The invention includes: a random number generating unit which outputs a random number in driving of an AC motor by a voltage source inverter, a maximum/minimum triangular wave frequency setting...
6107772 Sensorless switched reluctance motor control  
A method for controlling a motor and a circuit for implementing the method are provided. The method includes the steps of providing current to a first phase coil of a motor and measuring the time...
6107764 Drive control for a switched reluctance motor  
A control circuit and method for controlling a switched reluctance motor are provided. The control circuit includes a tone wheel and a Hall effect sensor for generating a position feedback signal...
6104113 Coil assembly for sensorless rotor angular position control of single phase permanent magnet motor  
A coil assembly for sensorless rotor angular position control of a single phase permanent magnet motor. The coil assembly is positioned axially adjacent one end of the motor's rotor core in...
6091221 Motor driving apparatus for perfoming high-speed rotation by phase detection control  
A motor driving apparatus including a stepping motor constituted by a stator having at least two poles. The driving apparatus includes a circuit for biasing one terminal of a driving coil of a...
6087799 Switching circuit for a reluctance machine  
A switching circuit for a reluctance machine includes one or more half-bridge converter modules including serially connected switches connected between power rails +V dc and -V dc . A pair of...
6087793 Circuit for controlling a motor with a device for recognizing an overload  
A circuit arrangement for cycled control of a motor, includes an overload detection device which has a signal sensing stage. Reliable detection of a motor overload is achieved, substantially...
6087654 Encoder apparatus and methods  
Apparatus and method for producing a resultant output signal from at least two output signals generated by an encoder. The apparatus and methods include: (a) generating a first output signal from...
6084378 Variable slew rate pulse width modulation system  
A method and a circuit for controlling a slew rate of a coil in a voice coil motor in a disk drive system. A slew rate control signal is generated by a microprocessor or by an analog circuit in...
6084376 Low cost resolver system  
A resolver (10) is excited with a high frequency signal from excitation circuit (16). Outputs of the resolver (10) are transmitted through receiver circuit (24) and input to a DSP signal processing...
6081103 Method for regulating the excitation current in a motor vehicle alternator by digital processing, and a regulating device for carrying out the method  
The excitation current in the rotor winding of a motor vehicle alternator is regulated by this method. The alternator produces a rectified output voltage to be regulated, this output voltage being...
6081091 Motor controller, integrated circuit, and method of controlling a motor  
A motor controller includes an input terminal (22), a frequency selective network, a first controller, and a second controller. The input terminal is adapted to be coupled to a drive phase of a...
6081086 Method and apparatus for electrically braking a motor  
Converter-powered electric motors are often braked by electrical means. For this purpose the electronic converter that powers the motor is so controlled that the motor, when in generational...
6081080 Method and apparatus for reducing voltage stresses in electric machines  
A method and apparatus for reducing winding failures in electric machines resulting from the application of high frequency or high dV/dt voltage pulses or voltage signals to the phase windings of...
6078161 Current control apparatus in a switched reluctance motor  
Disclosed is a current controlling apparatus of a switched reluctance motor (SRM) having an inverter unit for variably switching the excitation state of each phase of the polyphase stator:...
6078158 Disk drive motor spin-up control  
A motor control processor controls motor spin-up in a disk drive by detecting environmental temperature at the spindle motor of the disk drive, controlling commutation phase advance to generate...
6078152 Bidirectional E.C. motor and method of operating the motor  
In a method of starting a two-pulse electronically commutated dc motor, which is designed for operation in a preferred direction, for purposes of startup in a desired direction, the following steps...
6067960 Method and device for controlling the volume of intake air for an engine  
To improve the controllability of an energization current for a motor, when electricity is applied to each stator coil for a predetermined energization time in accordance with a plurality of...
6067202 Method and apparatus for controlling spindle motor commutation switching times in a disk drive  
A method and apparatus for controlling a spindle motor having at least one winding in a storage device are proposed, the storage device having at least one data storage medium rotatably supported...
6064191 Current transducer and current-monitoring method  
A current transducer includes a current transformer in which the conductor carrying the current to be monitored constitutes the primary. The transformer secondary is wound on a toroidal core. The...
6064175 Sensorless three-phase brushless DC motor drive circuit  
A drive circuit for a sensorless three-phase brushless DC motor provides improved drive characteristics by generating a pseudo back-electromotive signal in response to the voltages of the stator...
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