Patent ID: 8232756

Claim:
A motor control apparatus for providing drive control of a 3-phase AC motor, the motor control apparatus comprising: a sensor abnormality judgment unit that determines existence of an abnormality of three current sensors that detect individual phase currents of a 3-phase AC current supplied from an inverter to the 3-phase AC motor; wherein, the sensor abnormality judgment unit determines that one of the three current sensors is abnormal when the sum of the 3-phase AC current is greater than a predetermined value; the sensor abnormality judgment unit identifies an abnormal current sensor, which is one of the three current sensors, and calculates the phase current detected by the abnormal current sensor, based on an output from the remaining two normal current sensors, and outputs it; the motor control apparatus further comprises a torque command value switch unit that switches from a torque command value to a limited torque command value; and a torque abnormality judgment unit instructed to switch the torque command value to the torque command value switch unit, based on a comparison between an estimated torque, which is estimated from DC side power of the inverter, and an actual torque, which is determined from the currents detected by the two normal current sensors and the phase current calculated by the sensor abnormality judgment unit; the torque abnormality judgment unit is instructed to switch the torque command value to the torque command value switch unit when an abnormal current sensor is detected by the sensor abnormality judgment unit and the difference between the estimated torque and the actual torque is smaller than a predetermined value; and the motor control apparatus controls output torque of the 3-phase AC motor in accordance with the limited torque command value.