Electrical machine and method of controlling the same

Electricity: motive power systems – Synchronous motor systems – Brushless motor closed-loop control

Reexamination Certificate

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C318S400090, C318S400320, C318S400340, C318S362000, C318S366000, C388S928100, C388S925000

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Reexamination Certificate

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active

Patent number

08084970

Description

ABSTRACT:
An electrical machine having a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a core and a plurality of windings disposed on the core in a multiple-phase arrangement. The rotor is disposed adjacent to the stator to interact with the stator. A method of operating the motor includes applying a pulsed voltage differential to first and second terminals of the windings resulting in movement of the rotor; monitoring the back electromotive force (BEMF) of the windings to sense rotor movement; after the applying and monitoring steps, monitoring the BEMF of the windings to determine whether the rotor is rotating in a desired direction, and electrically commutating the motor when the rotor is rotating in the desired direction and zero or more other conditions exist.

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