Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Driving apparatus for electric motor and related method
- Patent Title (中): 电动机驱动装置及相关方法
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Application No.: US12969274Application Date: 2010-12-15
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Publication No.: US08415908B2Publication Date: 2013-04-09
- Inventor: Ezio Galbiati
- Applicant: Ezio Galbiati
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Seed IP Law Group PLLC
- Priority: ITMI2009A2309 20091228
- Main IPC: H02P6/08
- IPC: H02P6/08

Abstract:
A driving apparatus drives a brushless motor that includes a plurality of windings. The apparatus comprises a plurality of switch half-bridges connected to a power line and to the windings, a memory adapted to contain a plurality of signal profiles to be cyclically applied to the plurality of windings of the motor, a multiplier for multiplying the profile values of the signals from the memory by a scale factor, a control circuit adapted to generate PWM signals for the switches of the plurality of switch half-bridges according to values output by the multiplier, a polarity detector configured to detect the polarity of the current passing trough at least one winding of the motor and a scale factor controller configured to modify the scale factor according to the detected current polarity and so as to make each signal profile to be applied to each winding of the motor either higher than the back-electromotive force or equal to the back-electromotive force generated by the motor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110156622A1 DRIVING APPARATUS FOR ELECTRIC MOTOR AND RELATED METHOD Public/Granted day:2011-06-30
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