Electricity: motive power systems – Induction motor systems – Primary circuit control
Patent
1989-11-13
1991-12-03
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Electricity: motive power systems
Induction motor systems
Primary circuit control
318599, 388811, 3889072, H02P 500
Patent
active
050702920
ABSTRACT:
A pulse-width modulated circuit applies a voltage across a load in accordance with a command signal. The command signal is converted into first and second trains of pulses, by electronically comparing the command signal, and its inverse, with a triangular dither signal. These two pulse trains, and two pulse trains obtained by taking the complements of the original pulse trains, are applied to a pair of bridge circuits. The load is connected to both bridge circuits. Both bridge circuits include electronic switching devices actuated by the pulses. The bridge circuits are configured such that when a pulse is present, from either the first or the second pulse train, no net voltage appears across the load. At all other times, substantially the entire power supply voltage is applied across the load. Compared to pulse-width modulated circuits of the prior art, having similar pulse frequencies and power supplies, the present circuit reduces the undesirable effects of current ripple through the load by a factor of four. This reduction is due to the use of two alternating pulse trains, which doubles the effective frequency of pulses, and to the fact that the maximum voltage excursion of the signal across the load is no greater than the absolute value of the maximum power supply voltage available. As a result, the present circuit has a much higher bandwidth than circuits of the prior art having comparable voltage and frequency parameters.
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Reprint: Motion, Jul./Aug. 1987, "Basic PWM Servo-Amplifier Theory".
Eilberg William H.
Martin David
Performance Controls, Inc.
Shoop Jr. William M.
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