Patent ID: 11901781
Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. The brushless electrical machine as recited in claim 1, wherein the combinations predefined by the program include:
(i) a determination that the rotor did not move in response to the output of current corresponding to a first one of the target movements defined to occur first-in-time in the algorithmic sequence of steps, in response to which the control unit is programmed by the program to determine that the rotor is in a first of the segments;
(ii) a determination that the rotor moved according the first one of the target movements, followed by a further one of the outputs of current to move the rotor with a second one of the target movements, followed by a determination that the rotor moved in a direction opposite to the second one of the target movements, in response to which the control unit is programmed by the program to determine that the rotor is in a second of the segments;
(iii) a determination that the rotor moved according the first one of the target movements, followed by the further one of the outputs of current to move the rotor with the second one of the target movements, followed by a determination that the rotor did not move in the direction opposite to the second one of the target movements, in response to which the control unit is programmed by the program to determine that the rotor is in a third of the segments;
(iv) a determination that the rotor moved in a direction opposite to the first one of the target movements in response to the output of current corresponding to the first one of the target movements, followed by the further one of the outputs of current to move the rotor with the second one of the target movements, followed by a determination that the rotor did not move according to the second one of the target movements, in response to which the control unit is programmed by the program to determine that the rotor is in a fourth of the segments; and
(v) a determination that the rotor moved in the direction opposite to the first one of the target movements in response to the output of current corresponding to the first one of the target movements, followed by the further one of the outputs of current to move the rotor with the second one of the target movements, followed by a determination that the rotor moved according to the second one of the target movements in response to the output of current corresponding to the second one of the target movements, in response to which the control unit is programmed by the program to cause a third one of the outputs of current and determine that the rotor is in a fifth of the segments.