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Controller for electric vehicles

US6274998A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 17, 2000
Grant dateAug 14, 2001
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Expiry dateMar 17, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02T10/64
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A controller for electric vehicles comprising a vector control inverter for controlling motors, which drive wheels of the electric vehicles, by dividing the primary current of the motors into an exciting current component and a torque current component, and controlling respective of the current components based on a respectively designated command, characterized in further comprising a dectector for detecting a wheel velocity (including a rotor frequency of the motor proportional to the wheel velocity), a detector for detecting slipping and skidding of the wheel based on a differential value (a changing rate with time) of the detected wheel velocity, a dectector for detecting re-adhesion of the wheel based on the differential value and a twice differential value of the detected wheel velocity, and an adjuster for adjusting the designated command for the torque current component in response to the detectors.

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