Abstract:
A circuit for dissipating the potential induced in each phase winding of a cycloconverter operated alternating current motor upon the termination of conduction therethrough. The anodecathode electrodes of each of two oppositely poled silicon controlled rectifiers are connected in series with a respective parallel combination of a resistor and a capacitor across each phase winding of the motor. When conduction through each phase winding in either direction is to be terminated, a gate signal is produced and applied across the gate-cathode electrodes of the one of the silicon controlled rectifiers connected across the phase winding through which conduction is to be terminated which is forward poled by the potential induced in the phase winding as the magnitude of phase current flow therethrough decreases.
Abstract:
A system for producing properly timed gate signals and gatecathode power for the silicon controlled rectifiers of a cycloconverter network, through which the phase windings of a three-phase alternating current motor are cyclically energized from an alternating current supply potential alternator, having two groups of three silicon controlled rectifiers for each motor phase winding. The properly timed gate signals are produced by a rotor position sensor including six circumferentially arranged phototransistors, each of which corresponds to a group of cycloconverter silicon controlled rectifiers, an axially aligned and spaced light-emitting diode corresponding to each phototransistor, a shutter disposed therebetween and rotated by the motor rotor of a configuration such that pairs of phototransistors are alternately exposed to and masked from the corresponding light-emitting diodes and three gate signal lightemitting diodes connected in series with each phototransistor across a direct current potential source. When any pair of phototransistors is exposed to the corresponding light-emitting diodes, a circuit is completed for the three gate signal lightemitting diodes in series with each. Each gate signal lightemitting diode produces a gate signal for a respective silicon controlled rectifier of the group to which the phototransistor with which it is connected in series corresponds. The gatecathode circuit of each cycloconverter silicon controlled rectifier of each group is transformer coupled to a different phase output winding of a gate power three-phase alternating current alternator, mechanically coupled to and operated by the alternating current supply potential alternator, which produces a gate-cathode power potential which leads the alternating current supply potential alternator potential by a selected electrical angle. Included in each cycloconverter silicon controlled rectifier gate-cathode circuit are a light actuated silicon controlled rectifier, optically coupled to a corresponding gate signal light-emitting diode, and a gate-cathode circuit silicon controlled rectifier which are triggered conductive, respectively, by the light emitted by the corresponding gate signal light-emitting diode and the output signal of a zero crossover switch in the same gate-cathode circuit to complete the gate-cathode circuit for the corresponding cycloconverter silicon controlled rectifier.
Abstract:
A cycloconverter silicon controlled rectifier gate signal delay circuit for delaying the application of cycloconverter silicon controlled rectifier gate signals to the cycloconverter silicon controlled rectifiers next to be gated conductive to energize, in the opposite direction, a phase winding of a cycloconverter operated motor through which conduction has just been terminated. The anode-cathode electrodes of each of two oppositely poled silicon controlled rectifiers are connected in series with a coil and the parallel combination of a resistor and a capacitor across each phase winding of the motor. When conduction is to be terminated through a phase winding, the silicon controlled rectifier connected thereacross which is forward poled by the potential induced in the phase winding as the magnitude of phase current flow therethrough decreases is gated conductive. Respective magnetically operated reed-type switches, magnetically coupled to the magnetic field produced by the flow of current through the coil connected in series with the conducting silicon controlled rectifier, operate to delay the application of the cycloconverter gate signal to each of the cycloconverter silicon controlled rectifiers next to be gated conductive to energize the same phase winding of the motor in the opposite direction until phase current has reduced to substantially zero.