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7622882 Position detection device for permanent magnetic machines  
The invention indicates a correct one of multiple rotor positions. For example, the invention can determine, in a PM machine, which of two possible positions a rotor is in when the position is...
7609012 Motor control apparatus  
In an automatic transmission position control by a motor, it is determined whether the present instant belongs to a starting period, that is, the present instant is immediately after resetting of a...
7573950 IBOC broadcasting receiver  
An IBOC broadcasting receiver that uses two different bit error rates as threshold values in receiving hybrid broadcasting in a simultaneous broadcasting format, and switches between digital...
7573227 Controller and control method of permanent magnet type rotary motor  
A controller of a permanent magnet type rotary motor of the present invention includes: a current difference calculator decomposing a primary voltage difference which is a difference between a...
7560894 Method and system in connection with permanent magnet synchronous machines  
A method and a system in connection with a speed and position sensorless permanent magnet synchronous machine equipped with an output filter and driven by an inverter, which method comprises the...
7541761 Electric motor with integral regulator inductance  
An apparatus and a method of manufacture of a DC electric motor operable over a range of voltage by virtue of a DC-DC regulator having an inductance provided by one or more windings on the stator...
7534395 Hysteresis compensation system  
A system and method for compensating for hysteresis in laboratory liquid handling apparatus. The system comprises a carriage holding a drive gear that meshes with and drives a gear rack. A...
7531982 Motor drive apparatus capable of accurately estimating demagnetization of permanent magnet motor  
A map holding unit holds, in the form of a map, a voltage control amount of the q axis in a case where no demagnetization of a permanent magnet motor occurs. Based on a motor revolution number,...
7511444 Motor control apparatus for controlling motor to drive output shaft with positioning accuracy unaffected by backlash in rotation transmission system  
A motor control apparatus controls a motor that drives an output shaft through a rotation transmission system. The difference between a newly established output shaft target rotation angle and a...
7508156 Electrical machine having a series chopper circuit  
A controller and a motor assembly having a controller. The controller includes a first switch assembly in a series configuration with the motor, where the first switch assembly has a first...
7492117 Electromagnetic variable degrees of freedom actuator systems and methods  
The present invention provides a variable reluctance actuator system and method that can be adapted for simultaneous rotation and translation of a moving element by applying a normal-direction...
7443125 Power conversion apparatus  
A power conversion apparatus for converting power from an alternating source to dc includes an input stage for receiving power from the alternating source, which includes an input filter, a...
7439702 Application of a switched reluctance motion control system in a chiller system  
A chiller system includes a switched reluctance motor for powering the compressor of the chiller system. A variable speed drive with a boost converter provides a boosted voltage to the switched...
7432677 Closed-loop rotational control of a brushless dc motor  
Method and apparatus for controlling a brushless dc motor, such as the type used in a data storage device to rotate data storage media. A sequence of drive pulses is applied to rotate the motor....
7429840 Control of an electrical reluctance machine  
An electrical machine having stator ( 30 ) and rotor ( 31 ) is disclosed. The motor has field windings (F) and armature windings (A) energized by a suitable power electronic controller ( 401 ). A...
7408318 Motor drive unit  
A motor drive unit is adapted to detect a motor lock-up condition (in which an electric motor is accidentally locked during driving) based on the fact that motor drive current increases in that...
7394229 Switched reluctance generator  
A Switched Reluctance (SR) generator having improved efficiency at low and high speed is disclosed. The SR generator includes a step-up converter for controlling an excitation voltage of an...
7391180 Pulse width modulation control circuit for a multimode electrical machine, and a multimode electrical machine equipped with such a control circuit  
A pulse width modulation (PWM) control circuit for a multimode electrical machine and a multimode electrical machine equipped with such a control circuit, including a configuration circuit that...
7388345 Rotor position detection in an electrical machine  
An electrical machine is controlled with a combination of a physical rotor position transducer and a software position detection algorithm. The physical transducer has a reduced number of sensors,...
7372232 Apparatus for drive control, power conversion, and start-up control in a PMBDCM or two-phase SRM drive system  
A power converter for a switched reluctance motor (SRM) or a permanent magnet brushless direct current (do) motor (PMBDCM) may include a front-end boost partial circuit for connecting with a first...
7365505 Image forming apparatus using noise-resistant motor control device  
An apparatus for controlling a rotational motion of a motor is disclosed which includes: a signal generator generating a rotational state signal indicative of a rotational state of the motor; and a...
7348754 Motion control using electromagnetic forces  
An apparatus has (a) a first component having one or more electromagnetic elements and (b) a second component having one or more electromagnetic elements and movably coupled to the first component....
7323839 Direct current motor controlling method  
A direct current motor controlling method includes a mean for transforming a duty signal to computed value by a microprocessor unit. The microprocessor unit computes the computed value and then...
7312595 Motor control apparatus  
Presence/absence of a failure in a feedback control system of a motor is monitored. When a failure is detected in the feedback control system, the motor is driven by switching to an open-loop...
7288915 Rotor position detection of an electrical machine  
An electrical machine is controlled without using a physical rotor position detector. When more than one phase is used simultaneously to produce sufficient torque for the application, the increased...
7282885 Device and method for controlling an electric motor, especially in motor vehicles  
In a device for controlling an electric motor, especially in motor vehicles, for setting a setting element, moved by the electric motor, as a function of the deviation of an actual setting from a...
7276830 Flux impulse motor  
A motor ( 1 ) has a stator ( 2 ) and a rotor ( 10 ) mounted for rotation in the stator. A commutating salient pole ( 11 ) of the stator as a winding ( 7 ), and a field-producing salient pole ( 12 )...
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...
7265513 Variable reluctance electric power system  
A variable reluctance electric power system which comprises an alternator and a motor having a rotor with longitudinal lobes and no windings, commutators, slip rings, magnets, or laminations. The...
7250738 Nonlinear hysteresis control system  
A nonlinear hysteresis control system for controlling an actuator with nonlinear hysteresis effect is disclosed. An improved extended hysteresis effect profile further stores the displacement when...
7235947 Synchronous motor control method and synchronous motor control system  
A desired q-axis current is determined based on a desired torque, and a desired d-axis current is determined based on the rotating speed of a synchronous motor when the terminal voltage of the...
7233124 Motor drive inverter control apparatus  
A motor drive inverter control apparatus includes a rectifier circuit for rectifying an AC power supply, an inverter circuit driven by an output from the rectifier circuit, a motor driven by an...
7221116 Motor control apparatus  
In an automatic transmission position control by a motor, it is determined whether the present instant belongs to a starting period, that is, the present instant is immediately after resetting of a...
7211985 Training device  
On a training device, in particular for developing human muscles, having a torque-generating unit which comprises an electric motor and a reduction gearing, and whose output interacts with at least...
7208895 Control systems and methods for permanent magnet rotating machines  
Systems and methods for controlling a rotating electromagnetic machine. The rotating machine, such as a permanent magnet motor or hybrid switched reluctance motor, includes a stator having a...
7202625 Multi-motor switched reluctance traction system  
A switched reluctance traction system is provided for work machines. The switched reluctance traction system may include a plurality of switched reluctance motors. Each switched reluctance motor...
7202619 Variable frequency drive for AC synchronous motors with application to pumps  
Two apparatuses are disclosed for controlling the speed of an AC synchronous motor-pump utilizing a series of stepped voltage pulses at the driving frequency. The first apparatus is an isolated...
7202618 Inverter device  
The control device records, in advance, a current data table which specifies relationships between currents in respective phases in a three-phase motor and rotation angles of a rotor of the...
7199548 Drive control apparatus and method of alternating current motor  
A drive control apparatus, which controls an AC motor subjected to rotational drive by applying a rectangular wave voltage thereto, comprising: an actual torque detection section for detecting an...
7180263 Synchronous motor control method and device  
Synchronous motor controlling apparatus and method controls power applied to minimize or eliminate speed variations of a synchronous motor due to variations in load imposed the motor. The...
7174262 Rotor position detection in an electrical machine  
An electrical machine has a rotor position transducer which provides output signals to a control system. The output signals contain errors due to component shortcomings and manufacturing...
7161325 Lead-angle control method and device for operating permanent magnet synchronous motor in flux weakening regions  
A lead-angle control device according to the present invention includes: a space voltage vector controller calculating effective vector application times necessary for obtaining output voltage...
7154245 Method to prevent midrange resonance during operation of a multi-phase step motor  
The frequency of the pulse width modulator within a step motor control circuit is increased above a base frequency under defined conditions to enable more accurate construction of the phase current...
7151359 Variable reluctance generator  
A variable reluctance generator has phase windings and a bias winding. By controlling the excitation produced by the bias winding, the speed of the machine or the DC link, a power converter using...
7148649 Hybrid-electric vehicle having a matched reactance machine  
A hybrid-electric vehicle including a matched reactance machine power generation system (MRMPGS). The MRMPGS comprises a permanent magnet rotor type machine having a selected back electromotive...
7138784 Position command and pulse timing command optimization for step motors, using a position sensor  
Optimized pulse commands are utilized for reducing vibration in a step motor, the optimized commands being created by correcting position, velocity, acceleration, deceleration, and movement...
7134396 System to generate and control levitation, propulsion and guidance of linear switched reluctance machines  
A translation system, applicable in trains, elevators, aircraft launchers, rail guns, conveyors, door openers, machine tools and servo drives, includes a first linear switch reluctance machine...
7119512 Switched reluctance machine control system and method  
A switched reluctance machine system includes a stator, a rotor situated to rotate relative to the stator and a plurality of phase windings situated in the stator. A power supply is connected to...
7109673 Apparatus and method of controlling motor in manner resistant to additive noise during start up of motor  
An apparatus for controlling a rotational motion of a motor is disclosed which includes: a signal generator generating a rotational state signal indicative of a rotational state of the motor; and a...
7102325 Method for determining rotor flux vector of AC electrical machine  
A method for determining the rotor flux vector of an electrical machine, the method comprising the steps of controlling the electrical machine with an inverter, forming an equation for the reactive...