Abstract:
In the control of a PWM inverter, there are various requirements such as decreasing a harmonic loss and acoustic noises, improving control response, optimizing switchings of the branches of the inverter in any condition, and simplification in circuit construction. In the present invention, the branches of the inverter are controlled in such that an evaluation function on the whole combination of the inverter and the load connected to the AC side of the inverter is made to be minimized.
Abstract:
In a current-type converter system in which a DC current is fed to a load through a pulsating current suppressing DC reactor from a current-type converter constituted by self-extinction elements connected in a bridge circuit, a converter protection apparatus is arranged such that when a fact that a terminal voltage of the DC reactor becomes an overvoltage is detected, the self-extinction elements are turned on so as to form a closed circuit including the DC reactor, the load, and the converter so that the overvoltage can be suppressed and continuous operation of the converter can be carried out.
Abstract:
An SCR firing circuit allows the firing point to be changed. The firing circuit includes a ROM which has an output for each gate of each SCR. The ROM is programmed to fire the SCRs in a desired sequence. The ROM is driven by a counter, which counts pulses from an oscillator, the frequency of which is variable. The difference between the zero cross of the waveform and the ROM output is compared and averaged. The comparator output is summed with a variable DC demand voltage. The sum is applied to an integrator, which provides an integrated output to the oscillator to change the frequency of the oscillator if the firing point is changed.
Abstract:
A single microcomputer controls the firing time determination for two independent current regulators for two six pulse AC/DC converters which are part of a twelve pulse parallel controlled current inverter (CCI) AC motor drive. A very short high priority interrupt occurs when a motor channel source converter thyristor fires. This interrupt calls a longer, low priority current regulator interrupt informing it that a master channel source converter thyristor has just been fired. The current regulator causes a count to be loaded into a master fire counter and also loads a firing mask into a hardware latch or buffer. When the master fire counter times out the next thyristor pair of the master channel source converter is fired directly out of hardware. Similarly, there is a separate slave channel fire counter loaded after the current regulator is called by a short high priority interrupt when a thyristor in the slave channel source converter fires.
Abstract:
A phase detecting apparatus comprises a first PLL and a second PLL having a response time shorter than the response time of the first PLL. An AC voltage signal produced by the first PLL which is in phase with the detected AC voltage except until the expiration of the response time of the first PLL after an abrupt change in the phase of the detected AC voltage is normally applied to the second PLL. Until expiration of the response time of the first PLL after rising of the detected AC voltage to a certain level, the detected AC voltage is applied, in place of the AC voltage signal produced by the first PLL, to the second PLL. The second PLL provides a digital signal indicative of the phase of the detected AC voltage.
Abstract:
A load DC motor is supplied with a DC current through a converter principally consisting of thyristors controlled by an ON-state control signal. The load current is detected both as to the mean value and the variation in time thereof. The mean value of the load current is calculated based on the load current values detected at the time of the present On-signal and the preceding ON-signal. The difference between the reference value and the mean value of the load current is calculated, and the difference between this differential signal and the variation of the load current is further calculated, so that the timing for providing the ON-signal is calculated based on the resultant differential signal.
Abstract:
A timing generator for use with multi-phase controlled rectifier systems is disclosed in which a ramp signal is produced in phase synchronization with the power source and compared with the value of a command signal. The command signal is indicative of the desired SCR ignition angle. A sequencing circuit, having a finite number of output states is cyclically stepped from one state to the next by a comparator. The sequencing circuit couples a source of SCR-gating pulses to the appropriate SCR in accordance with its state and with a predetermined pattern of SCR ignitions which characterize the multi-phase source.One aspect of the invention provides the multiplexing of the comparator output whereby the command signal is offset by 60.degree. (electrical) after each comparator transition to set up conditions for the next transition.A further aspect of the invention provides for the generation of an alternate ramp, 180.degree. (electrical) out of phase with the foregoing ramp, and selectively applied to the comparator during periods in which the first ramp is discontinuous. The interrelationship of the 60.degree. interval associated with the command signal offset, and the 180.degree. relationship between the two ramps is advantageously utilized in the repeated offsetting of the command signal.
Abstract:
A power supply circuit (20) having an inductive load (12), three power lines (A,B,C) for conducting current of a 3-phase AC source, an SCR network (24) of six SCRs (1-6) for coupling the current of the source between the power lines (A,B,C) and the load (12), a phase sensor (30) for generating a reference signal in response to one reference phase voltage (AB) of the source, and a trigger circuit (35) for triggering "on" the SCRs (1-6) at predetermined phase angles relative to the voltage (AB). The power supply circuit (20) overcomes constraints such as load inductance which limit the rate of current build-up or decay through the load (12) by gating "on" the SCRs (1-6) at the predetermined phase angles to maximize such current build-up or decay.
Abstract:
A reference generator, providing a plurality of precisely-phased output signals, utilizes a microprocessor having a table of values for the output waveforms stored in a read-only memory thereof. The table entries include a multiplicity of values for providing a stepwise representation of each of the desired waveforms, which may have constant angular increments therebetween. The incremental tabular values are consecutively read responsive to the count in a timer, integral in the microcomputer, which is sequentially advanced by the pulse output of a voltage-to-frequency converter receiving a rate signal. The tabular values are converted to analog polyphase reference signals by a like number, equal to the number of phases, of digital-to-analog converters and associated low-pass filters. The output waveform peak amplitude is established by a dual-polarity reference voltage generator, responsive to a variable level signal. Essentially instantaneous reversal of the polyphase waveforms is provided by "angle complement" control of the present point utilized within the tables. The timer circuit provides steps of increasing size through the lookup-table to provide a gradual degradation in the number of steps in the output waveform when the rate signal exceeds the microcomputer execution speed upper limit.
Abstract:
The proposed device comprises a master pulse generator and a control unit. The master pulse generator is connected to a clock pulse counter coupled to a thyristor-pulse converter. The control unit is connected to a bidirectional pulse counter. The proposed device also comprises a decoder whose inputs are connected to the clock pulse counter and to the bidirectional pulse counter; an individual AND gate whose input is connected to the clock pulse counter and whose output is connected to a second thyristor-pulse converter; and two groups of AND gates, each AND gate having an input connected to the decoder. The proposed device also has a NOT gate whose input is connected to the decoder; a sign flip-flop whose first output is connected to the AND gates of one of said groups and whose other output is connected to the first individual AND gate, to the AND gates of the other of said groups, and to the bidirectional pulse counter. Furthermore, the device is provided with a second individual AND gate whose inputs are connected to the NOT gate and to the bidirectional pulse counter and whose output is connected to the sign flip-flop; a third individual AND gate whose inputs are connected to the control unit and to the bidirectional pulse counter and whose output is connected to the sign flip-flop; and a fourth individual AND gate whose inputs are connected to the control unit, to the bidirectional pulse counter and whose output is connected to the sign flip-flop. The proposed device also includes a circuit for passing time-shifted trains of control pulses fed from the decoder to the thyristor-pulse converters.