Method for measuring bandwidth of linear motor

The present disclosure relates to microelectromechanical field, more particularly to a method for measuring a bandwidth of a linear motor.

Taking electronic devices such as smart phones, tablet computers as carriers, a touch feedback function thereof brings users' a multi-level and a multi-dimensional touch interactive experience. Typical examples include: vibration experiences related to notices of short messages and incoming calls; time reminding vibration experiences initiated by alarm clocks and calendars; vibration experiences of low battery reminding; and vibration experiences related to movies and game plots.

A linear motor is a core device which provides a touch feedback function. As the requirement for the touch effect design continuously increases, it is necessary to have a deeper and more accurate understanding of the performance of the linear motor itself. In many movies and games, according to needs of specific plots, the degree of richness and fidelity of touch experience are mainly determined by a vibration intensity and a vibration frequency, therefore, when selecting and comparing various kinds of linear motors, users should mainly focus on the broadband signal response capability of the linear motor.

In actual operation, it is difficult to measure the bandwidth of the linear motor. Firstly, the linear motor will heat under a long-time signal exciting, causing parameters of the linear motor to change and to deviate from a linear working area, so that a frequency response model of the linear motor is no longer a linear system. Secondly, a vibrator is packaged in an outer housing of the linear motor so that a dynamic displacement of the vibrator cannot be directly measured. Thirdly, a large amplitude non-resonant frequency signal excites the linear motor, and a displacement peak at an initial phase is likely to exceed an allowable ultimate displacement of the vibrator, and consequently, a steady state displacement peak of the corresponding frequency at a steady phase cannot be measured.

Therefore, it is necessary to provide a new method for measuring the bandwidth of the linear motor to solve the above problems.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for measuring a bandwidth of a linear motor according the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for measuring a steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator with reference to a target displacement level at each frequency point;

FIG. 3 shows a frequency response curve of the steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator measured with reference to the target displacement level according to present disclosure.

Hereafter, the present disclosure will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiment.

The method for measuring a bandwidth of a linear motor of the present embodiment is applied to linear motors equipped in the smart phones and the tablet computers, which can indirectly measure a dynamic displacement based on a calculation relationship between displacement and acceleration in a steady state vibration; and the method can measure the dynamic displacement corresponding to a large non-resonant frequency input signals by eliminating overshoot.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the method for measuring the bandwidth of the linear motor of the present disclosure comprises the following steps:

step S 1 : a frequency distribution of an excitation signal is set, a frequency starting point, a frequency ending point, and an interval between two adjacent frequency points are determined, and a detailed list of measuring frequencies is provided;

step S 2 : according to the list of measuring frequencies provided in step S 1 , with reference to a target displacement level, a steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator at each frequency point of the excitation signal corresponding to the list of measuring frequencies is measured; and a frequency response curve with reference to the target displacement level is obtained;

step S 3 : according to the frequency response curve obtained in step S 2 , an upper frequency limit and a lower frequency limit with reference to the target displacement level are determined, and the bandwidth of the linear motor is obtained by calculating a difference between the upper frequency limit and the lower frequency limit.

Specifically, in step S 1 , a preset frequency band to be measured is divided into N segments, and N is an integer greater than 1; and in each segment of the frequency band to be measured, the frequency starting point, the frequency ending point and the interval between adjacent frequency points of the excitation signal are set. Specifically, for example, the frequency band to be measured ranges from 100 Hz to 300 Hz, and the frequency band to be measured is firstly divided into 201 segments, each segment is 1 Hz and then measured in each 1 Hz band. The present invention adopts the method of segmentation measurement, which can prevent the linear motor from heating under a long-time vibration, which causes parameters of the linear motor to change and to deviate from the linear working area, so that the frequency response model of the linear motor is no longer a linear system, and thus the measurement of the bandwidth is affected.

As shown in FIG. 2 , it is a flowchart of a method for measuring a steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator at each frequency point with reference to the target displacement level in step S 2 . Specifically, measuring the steady state displacement peak comprises the following steps:

step S 21 : the excitation signal which can eliminate the overshoot of the linear motor is selected.

In the present embodiment, the excitation signal is composed of a starter signal and a constant envelope sinusoidal signal. The starter signal is configured to smoothly promote amplitude of the signal from zero value to the level of the constant envelope state, so that the excitation signal can effectively eliminate the overshoot phenomenon caused by the non-resonant frequency signal exciting the motor.

Step S 22 : a duration of the excitation signal is set to enable the vibration of the linear motor to enter a steady state. Since it takes a certain time for the linear motor from a vibration starting state to a steady state, the duration of the excitation signal is required to be an integer multiple of the excitation signal period. Preferably, the duration of the excitation signal is greater than or equal to 30 excitation signal periods, that is, the excitation signal lasts for 30 periods or more. Meanwhile, in order to avoid heating, the duration of the excitation signal should not be too long, or it will cause the motor to heat up, thereby deviating from the linear working area, and affecting the bandwidth test. Preferably, the duration of the excitation signal cannot exceed 1 s.

Step S 23 : a value of the envelope amplitude of the excitation signal is defined as an initial value, as a basis for later adjustment;

Step S 24 : a load is connected to the linear motor, wherein the load may be a mobile phone or a tool, the load moves with the movement of the linear motor, the aforementioned excitation signal is inputted to the linear motor, and a steady state acceleration peak of the load is measured by an accelerometer. Preferably, it is necessary to determine whether the acceleration value curve is in a steady state by means of data analysis during the measuring process.

Step S 25 : the steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator is estimated according to the steady state acceleration peak obtained in step S 24 . The specific calculation method is:

The mass of the motor vibrator of the resonant motor is m 1 , the mass of the load is m 2 , the acceleration of the motor vibrator is A 1 , the acceleration of the load is A 2 , and the relationship between the motor vibrator and the load is: A 1 /A 2 =m 2 /m 1 . According to the relational expression A 1 =ω 2 D 1 , the steady state displacement peak D 1 of the motor vibrator can be solved.

Step S 26 : whether the condition for ending the measurement has been reached or not is determined.

Specifically, the step S 26 comprises the following steps:

Step S 262 : whether the steady state displacement value has reached the reference target displacement level is determined, and if the steady state displacement value has reached the reference target displacement level, the measurement is ended; otherwise, entering the step S 263 ;

Step S 263 : whether the envelope amplitude of the excitation signal has exceeded the upper frequency limit is determined, and if the envelope amplitude of the excitation signal has exceeded the upper frequency limit, the measurement is ended; otherwise, entering the step 264 ;

Step S 264 : increase the signal amplitude based on a predetermined step size and repeat the steps S 24 and S 25 .

When measuring the steady state displacement peak of each frequency with reference to the target displacement level is ended, the frequency response curve of the steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator with reference to target displacement level as shown in FIG. 3 can be obtained. The motor bandwidth with reference to target displacement level can be solved in FIG. 3 .

As shown in FIG. 3 , in the step S 261 , the target displacement level is defined as 10%-80% of an ultimate displacement level of the motor vibrator.

According to the frequency response curve of the steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator shown in FIG. 3 , the method for determining the upper frequency limit and the lower frequency limit with reference to the target displacement level comprises:

In a certain frequency band, if the steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator satisfies the conditional expression: abs(D 1 −D 0 )/D 0 ≤5%, a maximum frequency of this frequency band is the upper frequency limit, and a minimum frequency is the lower frequency limit. Where, D 1 is the steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator, D 0 is the target displacement level. For example, in FIG. 3 , Point A is the lower frequency limit and point B is the upper frequency limit. The bandwidth between the frequency point A and the frequency point B is the bandwidth of the linear motor.

Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure provides a method for measuring the bandwidth of the linear motor, comprising the following steps: step S 1 : setting a frequency distribution of an excitation signal; step S 2 : measuring a steady state displacement peak of the motor vibrator at each frequency point of the excitation signal with reference to a target displacement level, and obtaining a frequency response curve with reference to the target displacement level; step S 3 : determining an upper frequency limit and a lower frequency limit according to the frequency response curve obtained in step S 2 with reference to the target displacement level, and obtaining a bandwidth of the linear motor by calculating the difference between the upper frequency limit and the lower frequency limit. The method for measuring the bandwidth of the linear motor provided by the disclosure can solve the common difficulties in the actual measurement operation, simplify the steps, facilitate the measurement and ensure the accuracy of the measurement.

The above is only the embodiment of the present disclosure, but not limit to the patent scope of the present disclosure, and equivalent structures or equivalent process transformations made by utilizing the present disclosure and the contents of the drawings, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are all included in the scope of the patent protection of the present disclosure.