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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7948204 | Sensorless speed detection of a PM brushless motor with phase terminals shorted According to one disclosed embodiment, a gate driver circuit for sensorless speed detection and driving a switching stage includes high side and low side switches series connected across a DC bus and having a switching node between the series switches, the gate driv... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7911165 | Device for controlling an electromechanical actuator A device for controlling an electromechanical actuator includes an electric motor and an actuator operated by the electric motor. It also includes a digital signal processor (DSP) providing data of reference voltages (Ud—ffw, Uq—ffw) on the... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7906932 | Signal processing device, velocity detecting device and servo mechanism A driving velocity of a motor is detected by processing a position information signal output from a sensor in accordance with a driving position of a motor. The signal processing device includes a position information signal processor (410) that processes the... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7696714 | Method and apparatus for active noise reduction in fans The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing power to a fan motor. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a boost regulator configured to provide an output current to a fan motor using an input current provided at an input voltage by a power... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7692399 | DC motor control A method of controlling a DC motor is presented. In a determining action, a thermal power dissipation is determined from a motor input and a motor velocity. In another determining action, a motor temperature is determined based on a thermal model using the thermal p... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7592772 | Stator inter-turn fault detection of synchronous machines A fault detection system using field current and rotor search coil voltage harmonics is provided. The technology is capable of detecting an inter-turn fault unambiguously and rapidly in a synchronous machine. The internal asymmetry of the machine that has adversely ... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7459878 | Method and circuit for controlling sensorless single-phase BLDCM The method and circuit for controlling a sensorless single-phase BLDCM having a stator with a winding are proposed. The provided controlling circuit includes a power supply circuit, an inverter coupled to the winding and the power supply circuit, a BEMF detecting ci... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7439700 | Control system A control system which is capable of avoiding an overloaded state of an actuator without using sensors or the like. An ECU 2 of the control system 1 calculates a lift control input U_Liftin to a variable valve lift mechanism 50 with an algorithm... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7402977 | Apparatus and method for controlling operation of reciprocating motor compressor An apparatus for controlling an operation of a reciprocating motor compressor includes a current integrator for integrating an alternating current applied to a motor of the compressor during each one cycle thereof; and a controller for differently controlling a firi... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398864 | Elevator controller In an elevator control apparatus, a power supply voltage monitoring circuit monitors a power supply voltage supplied to a processing portion. A voltage monitoring soundness checking function circuit outputs a monitoring input voltage forcible change signal for forci... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394629 | Motor overload tripping system and method with multi-function circuit interrupter A technique is provided for controlling operation of motors of different sized or ratings. Components used to apply and interrupt current to the motors may be shared in control devices for the different motors. The components may include contactors or circuit interr... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391181 | Loss minimized PWM for voltage source inverters taking into account inverter non-linearity A dynamic pulse width modulation (PWM) selection device automatically switches between discontinuous PWM (DPWM) control methods. The PWM selection device comprises a PWM control module. The PWM control module determines a desired pulse width of a switching control s... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385368 | Apparatus for controlling operation of reciprocating compressor An apparatus for controlling an operation of a reciprocating compressor includes a inductance increasing device connected to a motor of the reciprocating compressor, so that a surge current generated when power is applied to the reciprocating compressor at an initia... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7372227 | Apparatus for braking a synchronous machine A method is proposed for braking a synchronous machine 1, with the armature windings (u, v, w) of the synchronous machine 1 being short-circuited, optionally by interposing at least one braking resistor. In order to keep the braking moment constant ove... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369385 | Overload limiting circuit An overload current limiting circuit includes an output control circuit responsive to a logic input signal for generating a control signal for driving an output device to produce at an output terminal a signal representative of the logic input signal; and a sense ci... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368889 | Motor control apparatus and control method thereof A motor control apparatus supplying AC power to a motor having a plurality of motor windings having an inverting part including a bridge circuit having a plurality of switching units, and supplying the AC power to the motor; brake relays short circuiting the motor w... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365507 | Power control apparatus for motor A power control apparatus for a motor is disclosed. The power control apparatus includes: a moisture sensor for detecting moisture soaking into a housing including the motor; and a switching unit which is switched by an output signal of the moisture sensor, and swit... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362071 | Rotation control device, rotation control method and construction machine In an electric rotary excavator (construction machine) 1, when earth pressure acts on a rotary body 4 in an opposite direction to an instructed direction of a lever, a control-system changing means 150 of a rotation control device 100 inc... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362069 | Voltage source inverter control method A simple and accurate dead time dispersion measurement method and a voltage source inverter control method that can prevent the occurrence of an unstable phenomenon are provided. The control method controls a voltage source inverter of a PWM system, which inc... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358694 | Apparatus and method for determining normal start up of sensorless motor An apparatus and method determine a start-up of a sensorless motor. The apparatus includes an elapsed time determination unit, a motor velocity determination unit and an abnormal start-up determination unit. The elapsed time determination unit determines whether a p... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7348756 | Advanced current control method and apparatus for a motor drive system An apparatus controls a power converter of an AC motor drive system, the power converter outputting multi-phase AC current to an AC motor. The apparatus comprises: a state selecting unit; and an advanced controller. The state selecting unit selects an operation mode... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340968 | Back EMF measurement to overcome the effects of motor temperature change A motor torque measurement system includes a motor in communication with a gyro, a centrifuge rotor connected to the gyro, a housing surrounding the rotor and motor, and a controller in communication with the motor. The controller is connected to a back EMF measurem... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336052 | Device for powering a variable speed drive Variable speed drive comprising a main rectifier module (10) including thyristors (K1, K2, K3) to power a main continuous bus (15) from an external power network (5), an inverter module (30) delivering a variable cont... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332888 | Driving apparatus for a motor A motor driving apparatus includes: a current instruction calculator, for calculating a current instruction value based on a deviation between a speed instruction value and an estimated speed value; a current controller, for controlling an output current based on th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327117 | PROCESS FOR MEASURING PHASE CURRENTS OF A DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRIC MOTORS MADE WITH IMS TECHNOLOGY OR THE LIKE EMBEDDING, FOR SUCH MEASURE, RESISTANCE AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL DEVICE FOR POWER TRANSISTORS The invention is applied to the field of industrial controls for electric motors and more precisely refers to a process for measuring phase currents of an inverter or a DC controller consisting in detecting the temperature of a copper path made with IMS (Insulated M... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327105 | Mesh connected electrical rotating machine with span changing An electrical rotating apparatus is provided that has variable impedance. This is achieved by connecting one of the polyphase components of the apparatus in a mesh connection. The spanning value, L, of such a mesh connection may be varied by changing the harmonic co... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327055 | Permanent magnet generator with an integral cooling system A cooling system for a sealed permanent magnet generator is disclosed that has a rotor shaft that is hollow. Permanent magnets mount on the exterior of the hollow rotor shaft. The rotor shaft has a pressed aluminum tube in various configuration on the inside bore wi... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321214 | Motor control system A controller is operable in one of a plurality of operational modes, which include an estimated temperature computation performing mode for performing computing of an estimated temperature of the motor and an estimated temperature computation non-performing mode for... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321213 | Motor controller A motor controller is provided with: an estimated temperature calculating means that calculates an estimated temperature of a motor; and a control unit that can perform a driving control of the motor only when the estimated temperature is not larger than a predeterm... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317292 | AC motor control method and control device It is possible to control the DC intermediate voltage to be constant without using a device for returning regenerative resistance or regenerative energy to a power source and to safely continue operation of an AC motor even if an instantaneous stop occurs. An AC mot... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312590 | Model railroad velocity controller Control over velocity of a model train may be determined based upon the speed of rotation of a control knob. A processor receives electronic pulses indicating rotation of the knob beyond a predetermined increment of angular distance. The processor calculates the amo... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309938 | Rotary power converter A rotary power converter apparatus for coupling power between a prime driver and plural generators. The apparatus includes a frame having a first and second bearing aligned along an axis of rotation and a rotor assembly supported thereby. The rotor assembly includes... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7289878 | Apparatus and method for modifying operation of an electric gun driver A method and apparatus for providing adjustment of current-related dispensing parameters in an electric dispensing gun. A control circuit receives user-selected inputs corresponding to dispensing parameters of the gun and converts those inputs into digital signals. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7282886 | Method and system for controlling permanent magnet motor drive systems Methods and system are provided for controlling permanent magnet motor drive systems. The method comprises the steps of adjusting a first current command in response to a first voltage error to produce a first adjusted current, adjusting a second current command in ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281903 | Device for varying the pressure of the fluid delivered by a jet washer Device for varying the delivery pressure of a jet washer comprising a positive-displacement pump operated by a single-phase electric motor powered by alternating current and having a delivery nozzle of predetermined cross-section, and electronic means for controllin... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7279865 | Method and apparatus for monitoring motor status using induced motor voltage A motor drive unit includes a controller, a voltage inverter, and a speed estimator. The controller is operable to generate at least one command signal for controlling a motor associated with the motor drive unit. The voltage inverter is operable to generate motor d... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276876 | Synchronous motor driving apparatus A synchronous motor driving apparatus having a power converter which applies AC variable voltages having variable frequency to a synchronous motor includes a pulsating current application unit for applying pulsating current to the synchronous motor and a magnetic po... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276877 | Sensorless control method and apparatus for a motor drive system A method and apparatus provide a state observer control system 600 for a motor 106 that uses an extended Kalman filter 330 to predict initial rotor position and afterwards accurately predict rotor position and/or speed under variable types of lo... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276871 | System and method for fault protection for permanent magnet machines A fault protection system and method of fault protection for permanent magnet machine (PMM)-based systems that utilize machine neutral decoupling (MND) to shut down a shorted winding and/or to isolate a short-circuit fault to prevent damage to a permanent magnet mac... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274163 | Methods and apparatus for commutating a brushless DC motor in a laser printer In a laser printer, methods and apparatus include commutating a brushless dc motor having three windings. A controller receives discrete motor position signals, such as from hall-effect or FG sensors, and extrapolates motor position between the signals. It commutate... | 09/25/2007 |
