Controller for driving a motor, and electric power assisted vehicle
AssigneeTaiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
InventorsYasuo Hosaka, Kazuo Asanuma, Kuniaki Kawagoe, Satoru Shimizu
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Abstract
In one aspect, a controller for driving a motor of the present invention includes a driving control unit that controls driving of a motor, and a regenerative control unit that instructs the driving control unit to start regeneration when a signal from a pedal rotation sensor that detects a rotation direction of a pedal indicates that the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the regenerative control unit controlling an amount of the regeneration in accordance with a rotation amount of the pedal while the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, the rotation amount being obtained by the pedal rotation sensor.
Claims8
A controller for driving a motor, comprising:
- a driving control unit that controls driving of a motor;
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- a regenerative control unit that instructs the driving control unit to start regeneration when a signal received from a pedal rotation sensor that detects a rotation direction of a pedal indicates that the rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, said regenerative control unit controlling an amount of the regeneration in accordance with a rotation amount of the pedal while said rotation direction of the pedal is backwards, said rotation amount being obtained by the pedal rotation sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.