Abstract:
A motor control apparatus for a sewing machine includes an adjustable speed setter for generating a speed set signal. A first memory stores a plurality of reference values each defining a reference region into which the speed set signal can fall. A second memory stores speed setpoint values corresponding to the reference regions. A central processing unit selects one of the reference regions by comparing the speed set signal with the reference values and selects the corresponding speed setpoint value from the second memory. A motor is controlled to run at the selected speed setpoint value.
Abstract:
An induction motor drive including a current source inverter system having controlled turn on and turn off semiconductors in a load side inverter selectively places notches in the waveshape of the current supplied to the parallel combination of the motor and a capacitor bank for the minimization of harmonics.
Abstract:
A reactive power processing circuit for a current source GTO invertor in which a reactive current generated from a load of the GTO invertor is rectified by means of a fly wheel circuit and is sent to a capacitor so as to store a commutation surge voltage generated whenever a commutation of the invertor occurs, an excessive charge voltage across the capacitor is regenerated to a direct current output side of a power rectifier, and a pair of GTO (Gate Turn Off Thyristors) thyristors are connected between the capacitor and the direct current output side of the power rectifier in their forward directions so as to carry out a discharge operation for the excessive charge voltage across the capacitor. Consequently, with the number of circuit elements remarkably reduced, the reactive power processing at times of a high-frequency operation and acceleration/deceleration (variable speed) operation of the invertor can be achieved.
Abstract:
A drive motor for each loom is selectively connected to a given commercial frequency power source for high speed rotation at normal running of the loom and to a low frequency power unit for low speed rotation at inching operation, thereby assuring accurate inching operation with cheap cost on looms under mass drive condition.
Abstract:
Stabilized operation of an inverter and an a-c motor, driven by the inverter, is obtained in the presence of sudden undesired load changes by controlling the inverter so that both the amplitude and frequency of the inverter output a-c voltage will be functions of, and will vary directly with, the d-c bus voltage, with the result that anytime an abrupt abnormal load change causes the d-c bus voltage to vary, a frequency change occurs to compensate for the load change and to stabilize the bus voltage. By employing the d-c bus voltage to regulate the inverter frequency, if there is a sudden decrease, for example, in the mechanical load on the motor, the d-c bus voltage, which will tend to increase, causes the frequency of the inverter output voltage to increase, thereby increasing the motor speed so that the electrical load change across the d-c bus is reduced. As a result, the d-c bus voltage tends to remain relatively constant in spite of the abrupt mechanical load change. When there is a normal variation in load demand, necessitating a different steady state motor speed, a set point or reference voltage may be adjusted to change the amplitude and frequency of the inverter output voltage to the levels needed to drive the motor at the new required speed.
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 motor drive control apparatus (1) according to the present invention includes: a three-phase rectifier (10) to rectify an AC voltage supplied from a three-phase AC source (6); a booster circuit (20) including a reactor (21), a switching element (22), and a backflow preventing element (23), to boost a DC bus voltage supplied from the three-phase rectifier (10); a smoothing capacitor (30) to smooth an output of the booster circuit (20); and an inverter circuit (40) to convert the DC bus voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor (30) into an AC voltage and supplying the AC voltage to a motor. During a starting operation of a boosting operation of the booster circuit (20) or a stopping operation of the boosting operation thereof, a rotation speed of the motor is fixed.
Abstract:
An electric motor drive apparatus comprising a voltage converter component arranged to receive a supply voltage signal and output a bus voltage signal, and a motor driver component arranged to receive the bus voltage signal and generate at least one drive signal for an electric motor from the bus voltage signal. The motor driver component is arranged to output a bus voltage feedback signal to the voltage converter component. The voltage converter component is arranged to regulate a voltage level of the bus voltage signal based at least partly on the bus voltage feedback signal output by the motor driver component.