Motor and drive control device therefor

Abstract

The invention provides a motor for a brushless DC motor, which has small torque ripple even if a trapezoidal wave current is supplied and has a small size and reduced motor noise. Respective phase current command values are calculated on the basis of vector control. Pseudo-vector control for controlling respective phases separately is used as current feedback control.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a divisional of and claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §120 from the U.S. Ser. No. 10 / 536,990, filed May 31, 2005, and claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 from Japanese Patent Application Nos. 2002-345135, 2002-354632 and 2003-376428 filed Nov. 28, 2002, Dec. 6, 2002 and Nov. 6, 2003 respectively, the entire contents of each which are incorporated herein by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD [0002] The present invention relates to improvement of a motor, which is most suitable for use in an electric power steering apparatus, and a drive control device for the motor as well as an electric power steering apparatus using the motor and the drive control device. BACKGROUND ART [0003] Conventionally, a motor used in an electric power steering apparatus is, in general, a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), which is driven by a three-phase sinusoidal current. As a control system for driving the moto...

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Benefits of technology

[0028] The current control circuit includes integral control, the motor is a brushless DC motor, a current of the motor is a rectangular wave or a pseudo-rectangular wave, or the motor drive control device is used in an electric power steering apparatus, whereby the object of the invention is attained more effectively.

[0030] The current command value Idref is calculated according to the torque command value Tref and a function of sin Φ and an advance angle Φ is derived from the base angular velocity ωb and the mechanical angular velocity ωm, the current command value Iqref is calculated by substituting the current command value Idref in a motor output equation, or a motor current of the brushless DC motor is a rectangular wave current or a pseudo-rectangular wave current, whereby the object of the invention is attained more effectively.

Problems solved by technology

However, when the motor 1 rotates at high speed, that is, the mechanical angular velocity ωm of the motor is higher than the motor base angular velocity ωb, an angular velocity higher than the base angular velocity ωb cannot be realized unless control taking into account the advance angle Φ is executed.

As a result, a motor terminal voltage is saturated at the time of high-speed rotation and a motor current cannot follow a current command value, whereby torque ripple increases and motor noise also increases.

Therefore, as the electric power steering apparatus, inconveniences are caused in that, for example, a driver feels abnormal vibration through a wheel at the time of rapid wheel steering and motor noise is cased to give unpleasant feeling to the driver.

Thus, there is a problem in that the entire control system is complicated because the two-phase / three-phase conversion and the three-phase / two-phase conversion are mixed.

As a factor causing nonlinearity of motor drive, for example, there is dead time of inverter control.

Although an FET is used as a switching element of an inverter, the FET is not an ideal switching element.

Therefore, according to the conventional motor control, there is a problem in that torque ripple is large and noise of the motor is also large.

When such motor control is applied to the electric power steering apparatus, the electric power steering apparatus cannot assist steering accurately and smoothly following wheel operation.

Thus, there is a problem in that a driver feels vibration at the time of steering and noise increases.

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