Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power conversion device, motor module, and electric power steering device
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Application No.: US16636919Application Date: 2018-07-10
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Publication No.: US11063545B2Publication Date: 2021-07-13
- Inventor: Takashi Koikegami , Yuhi Nakada , Takahiro Kikuichi , Jun Katsumata , Hironori Takano
- Applicant: Nidec Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto
- Assignee: Nidec Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nidec Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto
- Agency: Keating & Bennett
- Priority: JPJP2017-176129 20170913
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/026001 WO 20180710
- International Announcement: WO2019/054026 WO 20190321
- Main IPC: H02P29/00
- IPC: H02P29/00 ; H02P27/08 ; H02P29/032 ; B62D5/04 ; H02M7/5387 ; H02P29/028

Abstract:
A power conversion device includes a first inverter and a control circuit that controls on/off operations of switches in the first inverter and diagnoses disconnection failures of n-phase windings where n is an integer of three or more. The control circuit generates a control signal to turn on one low-side switch of a first specific phase among n low-side switch in the first inverter, turn off the remaining n−1 low-side switches, and turn off all n high-side switches, supplies the control signal to the n low-side switches and the n high-side switches in a state where a neutral point of a motor is provided, measures n-phase voltages that change depending on patterns of disconnection failures of the n-phase windings, and diagnoses a disconnection failure based on the measured n-phase voltages by referring to a table associating the patterns of the disconnection failures with n-phase voltage levels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200186075A1 POWER CONVERSION DEVICE, MOTOR MODULE, AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-06-11
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