Resolver With 180-Degree Phase Shift Coils for Noise Cancellation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional resolvers face challenges in miniaturization while maintaining detection accuracy and reliability, particularly in micro-resolvers, due to reduced inductance and increased noise susceptibility from magnetic leakage flux and external disturbances.

Innovation Solution

The resolver design incorporates sheet coils with coil portions having the same multipolar pattern on both surfaces, with electrical phases differing by 180°, and uses modulation signals with inverted high-frequency polarity to enhance noise immunity and detection efficiency, along with a magnetic flux correction function to cancel harmonic components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Volume of moving object

If the resolver size is reduced for miniaturization, then the device becomes smaller and lighter, but the inductance decreases and noise susceptibility increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresolver sizeVSAvoiddetection accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Volume of moving objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The excitation winding is divided into multiple independent coil portions (first coil portion and second coil portion) with different electrical phases. Each coil portion processes signals independently and then combines results, allowing the system to maintain sufficient inductance in each segment while reducing overall resolver size. This segmentation enables micro-miniaturization without sacrificing detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from single-surface coil winding to multi-surface coil portions, utilizing both front and back surfaces of the resolver structure. By distributing coil portions across multiple dimensions and surfaces, the effective inductance is maintained while the physical footprint is reduced, enabling miniaturization without compromising reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Reliability

If the drive frequency is increased to compensate for reduced inductance, then the inductance effect is enhanced, but magnetic leakage flux increases causing noise

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinductance effectVSAvoidmagnetic leakage flux
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting the excitation winding into multiple coil portions with different electrical phases, the patent achieves the necessary inductance effect at lower drive frequencies. Each coil portion contributes to the overall magnetic field in a controlled manner, preventing excessive magnetic leakage flux that would occur with high-frequency single-coil designs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the electrical phase parameter of different coil portions to create constructive interference patterns that enhance the effective inductance without requiring high drive frequencies. This parameter modification allows the system to achieve sufficient magnetic coupling while minimizing magnetic leakage flux and associated noise.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Volume of moving object

If the resolver is miniaturized, then dead space is reduced, but the resolver becomes more susceptible to noise from disturbances

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresolver sizeVSAvoidnoise susceptibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Volume of moving objectVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the detection system into multiple coil portions with different electrical phases, creating redundant detection paths. This segmentation allows the system to process signals from multiple independent sources, enabling noise cancellation through differential processing and reducing susceptibility to external disturbances even in compact configurations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

By implementing multiple coil portions that provide feedback signals with different electrical phases, the system can detect and cancel noise components through signal processing. The feedback mechanism allows real-time compensation for disturbances, maintaining detection accuracy in miniaturized resolvers with reduced dead space.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This configuration enables miniaturization while ensuring sufficient detection accuracy and stability, reducing noise components and improving reliability by canceling excess magnetic flux and harmonic errors.

Implementation Method 1

The electrical phase of one coil portion Mf . . . is different from the electrical phase of the other coil portion Mr . . . by 180°, thereby coil portions Mf, Mr . . . having the same coil pattern Pc . . . , respectively constituted in a multipolar form are provided on the front and back surfaces of sheet coils Cx . . . constituting at least one winding 2x (2y and 2o) of excitation windings 2x and 2y and the detection winding 3

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMagnetic flux cancellation: Magnetic Field

Implementation Method 2

a modulation signal obtained by modulating a high-frequency signal by the excitation signal is input to the excitation winding, and a detection signal is obtained by demodulating the modulation signal output from the detection winding

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectModulation and demodulation: Phase Modulation

Implementation Method 3

when excitation signals V·sin cot and V·cos cot having phases different by 90° are respectively given to the excitation winding, the detection signal output from the detection winding becomes E=V·sin ωt·cos Φ+V·cos ωt·sin Φ=V·sin (ωt+Φ)

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic induction: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentUS11828626B2Resolver
Publication Date: 2023.11.28 FUTABA CORPORATION
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AI summary

Sheet coils formed in a ring shape to constitute excitation windings and detection winding, and magnetic cores attached to the sheet coils are provided with coil portions of the same coil pattern constituted by a multipole type on the front and back surfaces of sheet coils constituting at least one winding of the excitation windings and detection winding, and the electrical phase of one coil portion in each coil portion is made 180° different from the electrical phase of the other coil portion.