# US 2014/0152213 A1 · Apparatus and method for controlling motor > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0152213 A1 - Document ID: US20140152213A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/830,067 - Filed: 2013-03-14 - Published: 2014-06-05 - Earliest claimed: 2012-12-03 - Assignees: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Bon Young GU - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140152213A1 ## CPC - H02P 6/16: Circuit arrangements for detecting position - H02P: CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS ## Abstract There are provided an apparatus and a method for controlling a motor. The apparatus for controlling a motor includes a signal generation unit generating a first signal indicating position information of a rotor, a counter unit sampling the first signal with a second signal different from the first signal for one period to count a sampling frequency, a memory unit storing a section counter value and an error value obtained by sampling a period immediately prior to the first signal with the second signal, and a comparison unit increasing and reducing an output signal when the sampling frequency counted by the counter unit coincides with the section counter value, wherein the comparison unit sums the sampling frequencies corresponding to error values with the sampling frequency of the first signal before the counter unit ends the sampling of one period of the first signal. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An apparatus for controlling a motor, comprising: a signal generation unit generating a first signal indicating position information of a rotor; a counter unit sampling the first signal with a second signal different from the first signal for one period to count a sampling frequency; a memory unit storing a section counter value and an error value obtained by sampling a period immediately prior to the first signal with the second signal; and a comparison unit increasing and reducing an output signal when the sampling frequency counted by the counter unit coincides with the section counter value, wherein the comparison unit sums the sampling frequencies corresponding to error values with the sampling frequency of the first signal before the counter unit ends the sampling of one period of the first signal. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the comparison unit sums the sampling frequency corresponding to the error value with the sampling frequency of the first signal when the output signal is included in the section in which the error value is compensated. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the comparison unit sums all sampling frequencies corresponding to the error value with the sampling frequency of the first signal simultaneously in the section in which the error value is compensated. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the comparison unit divides the sampling frequency corresponding to the error value in the section in which the error values are compensated and sums the divided sampling frequency with the sampling frequency of the first signal multiple times. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the comparison unit maintains the value of the output signal as it is when the sampling frequency corresponding to the error value is summed with the sampling frequency of the first signal in the section in which the error value is compensated. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an arithmetic operation unit generating the section counter value and the error value according to a precision of detecting the position information of the rotor. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the comparison unit increases the output signal by a predetermined value whenever a frequency of sampling one period of the first signal by the counter unit coincides with the section counter value. ### Claim 8 A method of controlling a motor, comprising: counting a sampling frequency by sampling one period of a first signal indicating position information of a rotor with a second signal; comparing a section count value of a period immediately prior to the first signal with the sampling frequency; and controlling an output signal value when the sampling frequency coincides with the section counter value, wherein the sampling frequency corresponding to an error value of the period immediately prior to the first signal is summed with the sampling frequency of one period of the first signal, before the sampling of one period of the first signal ends. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein all sampling frequencies corresponding to the error value are summed with the sampling frequency of the first signal simultaneously when the output signal is included in the section in which the error value is compensated. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the sampling frequency corresponding to the error value is divided and summed with the sampling frequency of the first signal multiple times when the output signal is included in the section in which the error value is compensated. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the value of the output signal is maintained as it is when the sampling frequency corresponding to the error value of the period immediately prior to the first signal is summed with the sampling frequency of one period of the first signal. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein in the controlling of the output signal, the output signal is increased by a predetermined value whenever a frequency of sampling one period of the first signal coincides with the section counter value. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, further comprising: generating the sampling frequency, the section counter value, and the error value over the one period when the sampling of one period of the first signal ends; and updating the section counter value and the error value of the period immediately prior to the first signal with the section counter value and the error value over the one period.