Patent ID: 9490740
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H02K,H02P

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for controlling a motor/generator having a plurality of windings, comprising: a stator magnetically coupled to a rotor and having a plurality of slots and a plurality of windings, wherein: a controller comprising a system controller means, a modulation means, a pole number decision means, and a pole and phase mapping means coupled to the pole number decision means and the modulation means for dynamically mapping a winding of the motor/generator to a pole and a phase, wherein the controller is configured to control the currents of the windings such that the number of poles of the motor/generator and the number of phases in a pair of poles are dynamically adjusted through a phase relationship between the currents of the windings; and a power converter means controlled by the controller for controlling the winding currents of the motor/generator.