Abstract:
An electric motor controller controls the currents flowing through the phase windings of an electric motor. The electric motor controller includes driving stages for driving respective phase windings of the motor and a memory for storing samples of reference signals. The driving stages force currents corresponding to the reference signals through a respective phase winding of the motor. The electric motor controller includes circuitry to determine subdivision degree intervals of an electric rotation and circuitry for comparing one of the currents flowing through the respective phase windings of the motor with at least one of the samples of the respective reference signal in at least one portion of each one of the degree intervals.
Abstract:
An electric motor controller controls the currents flowing through the phase windings of an electric motor. The electric motor controller includes driving stages for driving respective phase windings of the motor and a memory for storing samples of reference signals. The driving stages force currents corresponding to the reference signals through a respective phase winding of the motor. The electric motor controller includes circuitry to determine subdivision degree intervals of an electric gyro and circuitry for comparing one of the currents flowing through the respective phase windings of the motor with at least one of the samples of the respective reference signal in at least one portion of each one of the degree intervals.
Abstract:
A method for reducing commutation-related acoustic noise in a fan system is provided. A constant frequency periodic signal is generated and a fan commutation event is synchronized with a zero level value of the constant frequency periodic signal. A system for controlling a direct current fan is provided. The system comprises a signal generator adapted to produce a periodic signal of a constant frequency and a phase-locked loop. A zero level value of the periodic signal is synchronized with a commutation event of the fan.
Abstract:
A process controller controls an integrating-type process based on a measured process variable and a set point. The process controller includes an error generating circuit, a non-integrating control circuit and an adaptive bias circuit. The error generating circuit generates an error signal based on a difference between the set point and the measured process variable. The control circuit generates a control signal as a function of the error signal. The adaptive bias circuit adds a bias value to the control signal, the measured process variable or the set point. The bias value is selectively updated as a function of the error signal to force the error signal toward zero.
Abstract:
A method for controlling the temperature of water to be fed into a water cooling tower in which when the driving power required to drive motors to be controlled is in excess of the power which can be derived from a frequency converter, some of the motors are driven by a constant-frequency power supply while the remaining motors are driven by the frequency converter. Therefore, the temperature of water to be fed into the water cooling tower can be continuously controlled without increasing the capacity of the frequency converter.
Abstract:
Apparatus for providing firing signals to a phase controlled rectifier circuit at a time at which valves in the rectifier circuit are forward biased without the need for providing continuous firing signals. The apparatus monitors the voltage applied across the rectifier valves and provides a signal when a valve is forward biased. This signal is applid to a gating circuit which determines whether a normal phase control firing command was initiated prior to the time the valve became forward biased. If such a command was initiated, the gating circuit passes the signal to a valve firing circuit which provides firing signals to the rectifier circuit. If the firing command was not previously initiated, the signal is inhibited and firing signals are subsequently applied to the rectifier circuit upon receipt of a firing command.
Abstract:
The duty cycle of the alternating current waveform applied to an electric motor is varied by varying the firing point of an SCR circuit. This firing point is varied by logic circuitry which responds to the largest (or smallest) output of several integrators each of which provides an increasing or decreasing control voltage in response to different error signals. The error signals are related to different control criteria such as motor speed, motor current, etc. Thus the error signal indicating the greatest deviation from a set point controls the firing point. Since the output level of the integrators is slow to vary, a high degree of noise immunity is attained.
Abstract:
An acceleration control circuit for a motor driven rotor which varies the voltage applied to the drive motor so as to achieve a desired rotor acceleration. The aforementioned control circuit includes a resistance means in circuit with the drive motor and means for short circuiting the resistance means under certain conditions of motor acceleration.
Abstract:
In a tape recorder/reproducer apparatus, particularly where a low-inertia highly responsive drive train is used, tape speed control means including a variable-speed motor for the drive train energized through a closed-loop servosystem in which the actual output speed of the motor is monitored by a sensor and compared to a reference, to closely control the motor speed in accordance with the reference. The reference is provided by a freely supported capstan which senses actual tape speed at the tape head and produces an output which is compared to a predetermined reference representative of the desired tape speed, such that the motor is servo controlled to satisfy a predetermined tape speed function.
Abstract:
A method for reducing commutation-related acoustic noise in a fan system is provided. A constant frequency periodic signal is generated and a fan commutation event is synchronized with a zero level value of the constant frequency periodic signal. A system for controlling a direct current fan is provided. The system comprises a signal generator adapted to produce a periodic signal of a constant frequency and a phase-locked loop. A zero level value of the periodic signal is synchronized with a commutation event of the fan.