Abstract:
A power system is provided comprising an electric universal motor including an armature rotatable coupled to an armature shaft and a commutator disposed on an armature shaft, a pair of brushes engaging the commutator, and a field having at least two field windings electrically coupled in series with the pair of brushes. The power system includes a power line having two terminals arranged to provide alternating-current (AC) power from a power supply, and a power switch provided in series with the field windings on a power line to provide AC power from the terminals to the motor when the power switch is closed. An electronic brake module is provided in the power system and configured to generate a braking force to stop the motor when the switch is opened, the electronic brake module comprising: a solid-state semiconductor switch arranged across the motor armature and the pair of brushes, a first diode arranged between a first node of the power line and the semiconductor switch, and a second diode arranged between a second node of the power line and the semiconductor switch, wherein the first node is arranged between one of the terminals and the power switch, and the second node is arranged between the power switch and the armature. A controller is provided in the power system and configured to initiate a braking mode of operation to close the semiconductor switch when the power switch is opened.
Abstract:
A system and method in accordance with the present technique for protecting motor drives from damage due to misconfiguration while coupled to a common DC bus, comprises sensing electrical operating parameters of the motor drives, automatically determining whether each of the drives is actually installed as a common bus leader or a common bus follower, and comparing the actual installation of the motor drives to a respective stored configuration of each of the motor drives as either a common bus leader or a common bus follower.
Abstract:
A controller for properly controlling a rotating speed and a rotational phase of a DC servo motor. A velocity correction signal is obtained by comparing a rotation signal detected from the motor rotating at a predetermined rotating speed, and a phase error signal is detected from the rotation detected signal as well. Both the rotating velocity and phase of the motor are corrected by the controller supplying a signal which is a mix of the velocity error signal and the phase error signal. The invention includes: a velocity control circuit including a trigger pulse generation circuit for producing a trigger pulse, in synchronization with a reference clock signal, from a rotation signal detected in response to the rotation of a motor, a counter for counting the reference clock signal and for outputting a count termination signal when a counted value reaches a preset value, and an output circuit for outputting, in response to the trigger pulse and the count termination signal, either a fast signal representing that the motor rotates faster than a predetermined rotating speed or a slow signal representing that the motor rotates slower than the predetermined speed; the invention further includes a phase control circuit for outputting in resones to a phase difference between the reference signal representing that the motor rotates at the predetermined speed and the rotation detection signal, either an advance signal representing that a phase-angle of the motor is advanced with respect to a predetermined value or a delay signal representing that a phase-angle of the motor is retarded with respect to the predetermined value; and a mixer for mixng an output from the velocity control signal circuit and an output from the phase control circuit, whereby the velocity control of the motor is executed prior to the phase control thereof.
Abstract:
For controlling d-c motors which are supplied with an armature current obtained by phase gating, the bucking voltage induced in the motor is particularly well suited. This voltage is calculated indirectly by a measuring unit which calculates the instantaneous bucking voltage of the d-c machine as a function of the phase gating angle calculated in the preceding computing cycle, the measured current conduction angle, the measured magnitude of the line voltage, the mean armature current value and the armature circuit resistance specific to the machine and the armature circuit inductance specific to the machine.
Abstract:
A safety control device for a speed control circuit of a commutator motor having an ignition circuit includes a circuit for detecting an armature current and defining whether the commutator motor is energized with a supply current or with a free wheel current, a maintaining circuit for discriminating if the detected result is a continuously energized condition or an intermittent condition, and a bistable circuit. The maintaining circuit smoothes the detected voltage of the energized motor and maintains the voltage over at least one cycle of the power source and functions temporarily in an equivalent manner of continuous energization of the motor when power source is applied to the motor. The bistable circuit nullifies the ignition circuit of the motor control when the motor is in an intermittent energization and switches the ignition circuit into an effective condition as the maintaining circuit comes to accumulate the voltage above the predetermined level while no speed designation is made to the speed control circuit of the motor.
Abstract:
A dc motor drive includes a current limit circuit which produces a current limit signal that inhibits motor current to its commutation limit over a wide speed range. The current limit circuit includes an analog divider circuit which produces an output signal which decreases as an inversed function of motor speed.
Abstract:
A dc motor driving apparatus comprising a full-wave rectifier bridge circuit for supplying dc power to a dc motor and a dc motor driving control circuit for controlling the turning on and off of thyristors forming the full-wave rectifier bridge circuit, further comprises a protecting control circuit operatively associated with the dc motor driving control circuit for preventing the occurrence of a short-circuit mode in the full-wave rectifier bridge circuit caused by a malfunction of the thyristors and ensuring highly efficient, quick responsive and stable control of the reversing, braking, stopping and other speed changing operations of the dc motor.
Abstract:
A reversible electric drive with bidirectional back-current brakes fed by a rectifier supplied from a pair of A.C. power lines for a D.C. motor having two directions of rotation and two poles, comprises a control rectifier bridge for each direction of rotation, each bridge having two branches each containing a diode which is common to both bridges, a shunt resistor for each direction of rotation which is identical with a braking resistor for each other direction of rotation connected in series with the motor for each bridge, each bridge having two other branches each containing a rectifier thyristor with cathodes of each rectifier thyristor connected to a common point. The common point of each bridge is connected to one of the poles of the motor with a control thyristor connected to each common point in series with each respective shunt resistor of each bridge and connected to each other by a connecting point. The common diode is connected to the connecting point, and a braking thyristor is provided between a connecting point of each braking thyristor is provided between a connecting point of each shunt resistor and its respective control thyristor and the common points respectively.
Abstract:
An elevator system in which the movement of the elevator car is responsive to a comparator which provides an error signal responsive to the difference between the magnitude of a speed pattern signal provided by a speed pattern generator, and a signal responsive to actual car speed. An adjustable impedance device controls the affect of the speed pattern signal on the comparator, with the impedance of the adjustable impedance device being responsive to at least one predetermined parameter of the speed pattern signal.
Abstract:
A DC motor phase control system is provided in a system having a first controlled rectifier connected to an AC power supply and providing a positive rectified output and a second controlled rectifier providing a negative rectified output. A DC motor is controlled for forward and reverse rotation and is controlled in speed by the firing control of the rectifiers. The pulse indicating the zero point of the AC power supply voltage is delayed according to the actual speed of the motor and the delayed pulse is used as a reference pulse of the controlled firing pulses applied to the controlled rectifiers.