Abstract:
The invention relates to an inverter circuit for operating an asynchronous motor having an adjustable speed. The inverter has its output frequency regulatable by a frequency regulator and the D.C. supply has its voltage regulatable by a voltage regulator. There is a desired value frequency regulator having a signal (f) and voltage and current measuring devices having output signals (E) and (I). A control circuit processes these signals (f, E, I) to form input values for the referred to voltage and frequency regulators. The control circuit includes a computer circuit which, from at least two output values and at least one constant, calculates a computed value of the third output value which, together with the first-mentioned output values, given by way of computation a substantially constant slip frequency for a given desired value, and this computed value is compared with a value substantially corresponding to the actual third output value. The three output values are interlinked in the computer circuit in such a way that a constant slip frequency is obtained for the desired frequency value that is fed in. The D.C. voltage supplied to the inverter is regulated so that this condition is maintained independently of the load. The result of this is that the nominal slip for a nominal load also occurs on partial load and this leads to the desired constant speed. This slip frequency can be kept constant even at low loads in that the air gap magnetization is made substantially proportional to the rotor current, i.e. there is under-magnetization.
Abstract:
An inverter with a variable output voltage and frequency, intended to supply an a.c. motor or a similar load, in which the variation of amplitude of the output voltage is provided by a chopper supplying the inverter with pulses of variable width or by switching of the inverter itself, is controlled by an electronic circuit in which the voltage supplied by the chopper or the rectified output voltage of the inverter is integrated to give an image of the instantaneous variation of the flux induced in the motor. The output voltage of the inverter is cancelled or reduced each time that the integrated signal reaches a maximum value corresponding to a desired variation of said flux, and the integrated signal is then set to zero. The chopper or the inverter is periodically reset to the minimal switching frequency of the inverter to obtain the desired output frequency or to a whole number multiple of said minimal frequency, means being provided for automatically modifying said multiple when the frequency of the chopper or of the inverter is too small or too large and for making the maximum value of the integrated signal correspond to a variation of flux equal to that obtained at said minimal frequency divided by the said chosen multiple.
Abstract:
An electrical three-phase generator and motor control circuit. The generator is made of three alike wave-generating units in cascade each generating a respective trapezoidal wave corresponding to a respective phase of the generator. Each unit comprises a small detector in series with a control circuit varying the amplitude of the wave proportionately to a control voltage representative of and corresponding to variations of voltage from voltage sources and applied to a motor and an integrating circuit consisting of an integrating amplifier and an integrating capacitor and a double limiter in parallel therewith. The control voltage is developed by a voltage divider across the motor control circuit.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes: a carrier including an electronic circuit; a plurality of semiconductor chip packages mounted on the carrier, each of the chip packages including an encapsulation encapsulating the semiconductor chip, a plurality of contact structures electrically connecting the semiconductor chip with the electronic circuit, and at least one cooling structure protruding from the encapsulation; and a cooling element thermally conductively connected to at least one cooling structure of each of at least two of the plurality of semiconductor chip packages.
Abstract:
Examples include a method for controlling a variable speed drive driving an electric motor. The variable speed drive is connected to an electric power source and comprises a passive DC-link and an inverter stage controlled by a first controller of the variable speed drive. The passive DC-link is connected to the inverter stage. The method comprises running the electric motor to reach a steady-state operating point, measuring a plurality of values of current or voltage of the passive DC-link, and computing, by a second controller, a frequency spectrum of the DC-link based on the plurality of values of current or voltage measured. The method further comprises detecting a specific resonance frequency by comparing amplitudes of the frequency spectrum to a predetermined pattern, and modifying filter parameters of a digital filter of the DC-link or control parameters of a control law of the electric motor based on the specific resonance frequency.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes: a carrier including an electronic circuit; a plurality of semiconductor chip packages mounted on the carrier, each of the chip packages including an encapsulation encapsulating the semiconductor chip, a plurality of contact structures electrically connecting the semiconductor chip with the electronic circuit, and at least one cooling structure protruding from the encapsulation; and a cooling element thermally conductively connected to at least one cooling structure of each of at least two of the plurality of semiconductor chip packages.
Abstract:
A discharge switch and a capacitor are connected in series between first and second DC power supply lines. A boost circuit boosts a rectified voltage to charge the capacitor. An inverter receives the rectified voltage as a DC voltage when the discharge switch is not conducting, receives a voltage across the capacitor as the DC voltage when the discharge switch is conducting, converts the DC voltage into an AC voltage, and outputs it to a motor. A switch control unit maintains the discharge switch not conducting over a first time period, and switches the discharge switch between conducting and not conducting in a second time period. A charge and discharge time period setting unit sets the first time period when a rotational speed of the motor is higher than a speed threshold shorter than the first time period when the rotational speed is lower than the speed threshold.
Abstract:
A motor drive control apparatus according to the present invention includes: a three-phase rectifier to rectify an AC voltage supplied from a three-phase AC source; a booster circuit including a reactor, a switching element, and a backflow preventing element, to boost a DC bus voltage supplied from the three-phase rectifier; a smoothing capacitor to smooth an output of the booster circuit; and an inverter circuit to convert the DC bus voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor into an AC voltage and supplying the AC voltage to a motor. During a starting operation of a boosting operation of the booster circuit or a stopping operation of the boosting operation thereof, a rotation speed of the motor is fixed.
Abstract:
A method of monitoring a split wind-turbine-converter system with at least one generator-side converter and at least one grid-side converter arranged at distant locations, and a DC-link in the form of an elongated conductor arrangement with at least one positive and at least one negative conductor. The impedance of the DC-link conductor arrangement is determined by means of DC-voltage sensors. The voltages between the positive and the negative conductors are determined at the generator-side converter and at the grid-side converter, and the difference between the voltages is determined. The impedance of the DC-link conductor arrangement is determined by putting the determined voltage difference in relation to the DC current flowing through the DC-link conductor arrangement. If the impedance exceeds a given impedance threshold a fault state is recognized.
Abstract:
Power conversion systems and methods are provided for ride through of abnormal grid conditions or disturbances, in which a system rectifier is operated in a first mode to regulate a DC voltage of an intermediate DC circuit, an inverter is operated in the first mode to convert DC power from the intermediate DC circuit to provide AC output power to drive a load. In response to detecting an abnormal grid condition, the system changes to a second mode in which the rectifier is turned off and the inverter regulates the DC voltage of the intermediate DC circuit using power from the load.