公开(公告)号：US20080018182A1

公开(公告)日：2008-01-24

申请号：US11827839

申请日：2007-07-13

申请人： Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Muller ,  Thomas Mehrer

发明人： Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Muller ,  Thomas Mehrer

IPC分类号： D06F37/30 ,  H02K11/00 ,  H02K11/02 ,  H02K11/04

CPC分类号： D06F37/304 ,  H02K9/06 ,  H02K11/33 ,  H02K2211/03 ,  Y02B40/52 ,  Y10S310/06

摘要： A drive apparatus for a washing machine includes an electric motor, a drive shaft connected to the electric motor for rotary drive, a fan for cooling the electric motor and electronics for controlling operation of the electric motor. In order to achieve a compact construction, the electric motor and the electronics are integrated in a common unit, such as a motor housing. In order to protect the electronics and at the same time ensure that the electronics are sufficiently cooled, the common unit has a dividing wall, with the electric motor and a printed circuit board of the electronics disposed on opposite sides of the dividing wall. The dividing wall has at least one aperture. The electronics include power components protruding at least partially through the aperture and being in contact with the dividing wall and/or with a cooling air stream generated by the fan.

摘要翻译： 用于洗衣机的驱动装置包括电动机，连接到用于旋转驱动的电动机的驱动轴，用于冷却电动机的风扇和用于控制电动机的操作的电子装置。 为了实现紧凑的结构，电动机和电子设备集成在公共单元中，例如电动机壳体。 为了保护电子设备，并同时确保电子设备充分冷却，公共单元具有分隔壁，电动机和电子设备的印刷电路板设置在分隔壁的相对两侧。 分隔壁具有至少一个孔。 电子设备包括至少部分地穿过孔并且与分隔壁接触和/或与由风扇产生的冷却空气流一起突出的功率部件。

公开(公告)号：US07741741B2

公开(公告)日：2010-06-22

申请号：US11827839

申请日：2007-07-13

申请人： Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Müller ,  Thomas Mehrer

发明人： Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Müller ,  Thomas Mehrer

IPC分类号： H02K11/00 ,  D06F37/30

CPC分类号： D06F37/304 ,  H02K9/06 ,  H02K11/33 ,  H02K2211/03 ,  Y02B40/52 ,  Y10S310/06

摘要： A drive apparatus for a washing machine includes an electric motor, a drive shaft connected to the electric motor for rotary drive, a fan for cooling the electric motor and electronics for controlling operation of the electric motor. In order to achieve a compact construction, the electric motor and the electronics are integrated in a common unit, such as a motor housing. In order to protect the electronics and at the same time ensure that the electronics are sufficiently cooled, the common unit has a dividing wall, with the electric motor and a printed circuit board of the electronics disposed on opposite sides of the dividing wall. The dividing wall has at least one aperture. The electronics include power components protruding at least partially through the aperture and being in contact with the dividing wall and/or with a cooling air stream generated by the fan.

摘要翻译： 用于洗衣机的驱动装置包括电动机，连接到用于旋转驱动的电动机的驱动轴，用于冷却电动机的风扇和用于控制电动机的操作的电子装置。 为了实现紧凑的结构，电动机和电子设备集成在公共单元中，例如电动机壳体。 为了保护电子设备，并同时确保电子设备充分冷却，公共单元具有分隔壁，电动机和电子设备的印刷电路板设置在分隔壁的相对两侧。 分隔壁具有至少一个孔。 电子设备包括至少部分地穿过孔并且与分隔壁接触和/或与由风扇产生的冷却空气流一起突出的功率部件。

公开(公告)号：US20090184674A1

公开(公告)日：2009-07-23

申请号：US12356989

申请日：2009-01-21

申请人： Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Muller

发明人： Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Muller

IPC分类号： H02H7/085 ,  H02K11/00 ,  H02K9/06

CPC分类号： D06F37/304 ,  H02K5/1732 ,  H02K11/25 ,  H02K11/33

摘要： A drive apparatus for a washing machine includes an electric motor, a drive shaft connected to the electric motor for rotary drive purposes and electronics for controlling operation of the electric motor. In order to achieve a compact construction, the electric motor and the electronics are integrated in a common unit. In order to increase operational reliability of the drive apparatus together with a simple construction, the common unit has a wall which is thermally coupled both to the electric motor and to the electronics and serves to dissipate heat. The electronics have a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the wall. Both the temperature of the electric motor and the temperature of the electronics can be monitored with this one temperature sensor.

摘要翻译： 用于洗衣机的驱动装置包括电动机，连接到用于旋转驱动目的的电动机的驱动轴和用于控制电动机的操作的电子装置。 为了实现紧凑的结构，电动机和电子装置集成在共同的单元中。 为了提高驱动装置的操作可靠性以及简单的结构，公共单元具有壁，其与电动机和电子设备热耦合并且用于散热。 电子设备具有用于检测墙体温度的温度传感器。 电动机的温度和电子设备的温度都可以用这一个温度传感器来监测。

公开(公告)号：US20060177204A1

公开(公告)日：2006-08-10

申请号：US11347950

申请日：2006-02-06

申请人： Stefan Zeh ,  Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Muller ,  Valeriu Olarescu

发明人： Stefan Zeh ,  Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Muller ,  Valeriu Olarescu

IPC分类号： H02P7/06

CPC分类号： H02P6/18 ,  H02M7/53875 ,  H02M2001/0009 ,  H02P6/14 ,  H02P6/34

摘要： A method is specified for controlling a polyphase brushless electric motor, wherein the motor phase currents which are associated with the phases are produced by clocked variation of the respectively applied electrical potential. In this case, the motor phase currents flow back from the electric motor via a common return line with the peak current value in the return line being detected and being included in a controlled variable. Furthermore, a circuit configuration is specified, which is provided in a corresponding manner in order to carry out the control method. The control method and the circuit configuration allow the motor phase currents to be taken into account in the control of the electric motor in a simple and cost-effective manner.

摘要翻译： 指定用于控制多相无刷电动机的方法，其中通过分别施加的电势的时钟变化产生与相位相关联的电动机相电流。 在这种情况下，电动机相电流通过公共返回线从电动机回流，检测回路中的峰值电流值，并将其包含在受控变量中。 此外，指定电路配置，其以相应的方式提供以便执行控制方法。 控制方法和电路结构允许在电动机的控制中以简单且成本有效的方式考虑电动机相电流。

公开(公告)号：US20060185097A1

公开(公告)日：2006-08-24

申请号：US11359918

申请日：2006-02-21

申请人： Martin Weinmann ,  Roman-Hartmut Wauer ,  Alexander Muller

发明人： Martin Weinmann ,  Roman-Hartmut Wauer ,  Alexander Muller

IPC分类号： D06F33/02

CPC分类号： D06F33/02 ,  D06F37/203

摘要： An internal unit of a washing machine or spin-dryer normally includes a washing container, which has a laundry drum mounted in the container such that it can rotate, and an electric motor for driving the laundry drum via a reduction gear, a transmission, or direct drive. The internal unit is suspended in a machine housing such that it can vibrate and constitutes an overall system which can vibrate in a damped manner and which is subject to unbalance-dependent resonance phenomena in specific regions of the rotational speed of the laundry drum. The causes of these resonance phenomena are vibratory movements due to momentary unbalances in the load in the laundry drum. To reduce these unbalance-dependent resonance phenomena, the internal unit is provided with a vibration sensor which is rigidly or substantially rigidly coupled to the internal unit.

摘要翻译： 洗衣机或旋转干燥器的内部单元通常包括洗涤容器，其具有安装在容器中的衣物滚筒以使其能够旋转;以及电动马达，用于经由减速齿轮，变速器或变速器驱动衣物滚筒 直接驱动。 内部单元悬挂在机壳中，使得其可以振动并构成可以以阻尼方式振动并且在衣物滚筒的旋转速度的特定区域中受到不平衡相关共振现象的整个系统。 这些共振现象的原因是由于衣物滚筒中的负载中的瞬间不平衡造成的振动。 为了减少这些不均衡依赖的共振现象，内部单元设置有刚性或基本刚性地联接到内部单元的振动传感器。

公开(公告)号：US20070194734A1

公开(公告)日：2007-08-23

申请号：US11359702

申请日：2006-02-22

申请人： Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Muller ,  Stefan Zeh

发明人： Martin Weinmann ,  Alexander Muller ,  Stefan Zeh

IPC分类号： H02P25/12

CPC分类号： H02P6/182 ,  H02M2001/0009 ,  H02P27/06 ,  H03K17/08142 ,  H03K17/18

摘要： A method is specified for controlling a multiphase motor that is commutated by an inverter-side bridge circuit, in the course of which a particularly precise and technically simple detection of a control-relevant variable of a considered motor phase, in particular of a motor phase current and/or a back EMF voltage and/or a variable derived therefrom, takes place. It is provided here to determine the control-relevant variable with the aid of the current state of a freewheeling diode that is disposed in a phase half bridge, assigned to the respective motor phase, of the bridge circuit, the current state being detected during an on time in which a power switch, connected in parallel with the freewheeling diode, of the phase half bridge exhibits a conducting state, and a power switch connected in series with the freewheeling diode exhibits a blocking state.

摘要翻译： 指定用于控制由逆变器侧桥式电路换向的多相电动机的方法，在该过程中，特别精确和技术上简单地检测所考虑的电动机相位的控制相关变量，特别是电动机相位 发生电流和/或反EMF电压和/或从其导出的变量。 这里提供了借助于配置在桥式电路的相应电动机相位的相位半桥中的续流二极管的当前状态来确定控制相关变量，在当前状态期间在 与半桥式并联连接的电源开关的相位半桥的导通状态为导通状态，与续流二极管串联连接的功率开关呈现阻塞状态。

公开(公告)号：US20100117583A1

公开(公告)日：2010-05-13

申请号：US12614542

申请日：2009-11-09

申请人： Martin Weinmann ,  Stefan Zeh ,  Rainer Frisch ,  Hartmut Wauer ,  Nicola-Valeriu Olarescu ,  Radu Liviu Florea ,  Martin Rieser

发明人： Martin Weinmann ,  Stefan Zeh ,  Rainer Frisch ,  Hartmut Wauer ,  Nicola-Valeriu Olarescu ,  Radu Liviu Florea ,  Martin Rieser

IPC分类号： H02P3/00

CPC分类号： H02P6/24 ,  H02P3/22

摘要： A method for operating an electric motor with at least two motor terminals that are driven by a control device contains the steps of short-circuiting of at least two of the motor terminals of the electric motor by the control device; measurement of the motor phase currents at the short-circuited motor terminals; and identification of a standstill of the electric motor if a magnitude and/or a frequency of the motor phase currents measured lies below a predefined limit value. In the case of such a reliable identification of the standstill of the electric motor, an enable signal can then advantageously be generated in order, by way of example, to enable access to an apparatus driven by the electric motor.

摘要翻译： 一种用于通过由控制装置驱动的至少两个电动机端子来操作电动机的方法包括通过控制装置使电动机的至少两个电动机端子短路的步骤; 短路电机端子电机相电流的测量; 以及如果测量的电动机相电流的幅度和/或频率低于预定极限值，则识别电动机的静止。 在对电动机的停止进行这种可靠的识别的情况下，可以通过示例方式有利地按顺序产生使能信号，以便能够访问由电动机驱动的装置。

公开(公告)号：US20050143940A1

公开(公告)日：2005-06-30

申请号：US11040805

申请日：2005-01-21

申请人： Stefan Zeh ,  Martin Weinmann

发明人： Stefan Zeh ,  Martin Weinmann

IPC分类号： D06F33/02 ,  D06F37/20 ,  G06F19/00

CPC分类号： D06F37/203 ,  D06F33/02 ,  D06F2202/12

摘要： Before a washing machine is switched over to a very high spin speed in the spin program of the washing machine, the existing imbalance due to irregular distribution of laundry in the drum should be checked. If the imbalance is too strong, the spin program should be interrupted if there is a threat of excessively high bearing forces to be expected. The fluctuation in rotary speed, which may have a high frequency due to the drum speed, and of the power consumption of the washing machine motor measured downstream of the direct current intermediate circuit prior to the feed thereof into the inverter for producing the rotary field in the motor. There, the vector product of the current and the voltage for imbalance measurement by determining power is blocked off from mains network interference effects by the high capacitance of the direct current intermediate circuit.

摘要翻译： 在洗衣机的旋转程序中洗衣机切换到非常高的旋转速度之前，应检查由于滚筒中衣物的不规则分布造成的现有不平衡。 如果不平衡太强，如果出现轴承力过高的威胁，应该中断旋转程序。 在将直流中间电路下游测量的洗衣机电动机在进给逆变器之前产生旋转磁场的旋转磁场的旋转磁场的旋转速度的波动可能具有高频率以及洗衣机电动机的功率消耗 电机。 在那里，通过确定功率的电流和电压不平衡测量的矢量积被直流电中间电路的高电容阻塞在电网干扰影响之外。

公开(公告)号：US09124195B2

公开(公告)日：2015-09-01

申请号：US13525527

申请日：2012-06-18

申请人： Martin Weinmann ,  Stefan Zeh ,  Nicola-Valeriu Olarescu

发明人： Martin Weinmann ,  Stefan Zeh ,  Nicola-Valeriu Olarescu

IPC分类号： H02M7/5387 ,  H02P27/08

CPC分类号： H02M7/53875 ,  H02M2007/53876 ,  H02P27/085

摘要： A method controls a three-phase converter with a voltage intermediate circuit by pulse-width modulation for supplying a polyphase system, in particular a three-phase machine. The converter is operated with at least two different modulation methods which are selected from among the group of modulation methods which includes single-phase switching, two-phase switching and three-phase switching, and for changeovers to be made between the at least two different modulation methods depending on the operating state of the polyphase system.

摘要翻译： 一种方法通过脉冲宽度调制来控制具有电压中间电路的三相转换器，用于提供多相系统，特别是三相电机。 转换器以至少两种不同的调制方式运行，这些调制方法是从包括单相切换，两相切换和三相切换的调制方式组中选出的，并且在至少两种不同的调制方式之间进行切换 调制方法取决于多相系统的运行状态。

公开(公告)号：US20060091840A1

公开(公告)日：2006-05-04

申请号：US11267101

申请日：2005-11-04

申请人： Martin Weinmann

发明人： Martin Weinmann

IPC分类号： H02P7/00

CPC分类号： H02P3/22 ,  H02P6/22 ,  H02P6/24 ,  H02P25/024 ,  H02P29/0241

摘要： A circuit configuration for driving an electric motor, in particular of a washing machine, includes power switches connected to connection terminals of the electric motor and to a voltage intermediate circuit. A driver circuit is connected to the voltage intermediate circuit and to the power switches. A control unit, in particular a micro controller, is connected to the driver circuit. The control unit generates control signals for controlling at least one rotation speed of the electric motor. The driver circuit generates short-circuit control signals for driving the power switches, which bring about a short circuit of the connection terminals connected to the power switches, independently of the control signals from the control unit. The driver circuit generates the short-circuit control signals as a function of a detection of an overvoltage of the voltage intermediate circuit over a desired voltage range. A method for controlling an electric motor is also provided.

摘要翻译： 用于驱动电机，特别是洗衣机的电路配置包括连接到电动机的连接端子和电压中间电路的电力开关。 驱动电路连接到电压中间电路和电源开关。 控制单元，特别是微控制器，连接到驱动器电路。 控制单元生成用于控制电动机的至少一个转速的控制信号。 驱动器电路产生用于驱动电源开关的短路控制信号，这与控制单元的控制信号无关地产生连接到电源开关的连接端子的短路。 驱动电路产生短路控制信号，作为在所需电压范围内检测电压中间电路的过电压的函数。 还提供了一种用于控制电动机的方法。