Abstract:
The segment wipe control of this invention affords operation of an automotive windshield wiper system to wipe an area substantially less than the area of the normal wipe. To effect the segment wipe, the current supplied the armature of the windshield wiper system''s DC drive motor is periodically reversed to cause the motor to reverse the direction of its rotation. To accomplish this reversal of current, a double-pole, double-throw relay energized through two cam actuated switches is utilized to switch the motor feed connections and concurrently reverse the polarity of the current supplied to the motor. The cam actuated switches are alternately actuated by a cam driven by the motor''s output shaft, thus synchronizing the reversals of the DC motor with the sweep of the windshield wiper blades which are driven by linkage connected with the motor''s output shaft.
Abstract:
A control circuit for adjusting and regulating the speed of a brushless direct current motor having three ''''wye'''' connected armature coils, a permanent magnet field and a rotatable shaft. Each motor armature coil is connected in series with the collector-emitter electrodes of a respective switching transistor across a source of direct current supply potential, the baseemitter electrodes of each switching transistor being connected across the source of direct current supply potential through a respective photosensitive electrical switching device and the collector-emitter electrodes of a control transistor. A selectively variable magnitude of a direct current control potential is applied across the base-emitter electrodes of the control transistor and the photosensitive electrical switching devices are sequentially illuminated as the shaft rotates to sequentially establish the switching transistor base-emitter drive circuits. A direct current regulating potential generated in the motor armature coils as they are ''''cut'''' by the flux produced by the permanent magnet field is of a magnitude proportional to the speed of the motor and is applied in a reverse polarity relationship to the control potential for regulating the speed of the motor.
Abstract:
A circuit arrangement for establishing an energizing circuit for alternating current induction motors across a compatible alternating current supply potential source. Two silicon controlled rectifiers, each with a resistor connected across the gate-cathode electrodes thereof, are connected in parallel with each other in an opposite polarity relationship and in series with the motor to be energized and the alternating current input circuit terminals of a full wave diode bridge type rectifier circuit are connected across the silicon controlled rectifiers. Electrical trigger signals produced by an associated control circuit during each potential half cycle of the alternating current supply potential are applied across the negative output terminal of the bridge rectifier circuit and the alternating current input terminals thereof through the respective resistors, in parallel.