Electricity: motive power systems – Switched reluctance motor commutation control
Patent
1993-08-25
1994-03-22
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Electricity: motive power systems
Switched reluctance motor commutation control
318687, 280688, H02P 540
Patent
active
052967859
ABSTRACT:
The oscillatory spring movements of each wheel of a motor vehicle suspension system are damped by a switched reluctance machine which is actively controlled during standard suspension operation to define damping characteristics of the suspension or passively controlled to define a fail-safe damping rate in the event of failure within the system. The switched reluctance machines of a suspension system are selectively connected to standard control circuitry or fault control circuitry by relay contacts. Upon failure within the system, phases of the switched reluctance machines are charged via monopulsers which are controlled in response to rotational positions of the machines such that the machines operate as generators and withdraw energy from the suspension system and pass it to a parallel connected resistor and capacitor. Power for charging the phases of the switched reluctance machines is provided either from the capacitor or a power supply which is separately fused from the supply for the standard control circuitry. To ensure recognition of a failure and correction by an operator of a motor vehicle, preferably not all phases of a switched reluctance machine are operated in the fail-safe mode.
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Cabeca John W.
Coppiellie Raymond
Ford Motor Company
May Roger
Shoop Jr. William M.
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