Electricity: motive power systems – Induction motor systems – Primary circuit control
Reexamination Certificate
2001-12-07
2003-12-30
Masih, Karen (Department: 2837)
Electricity: motive power systems
Induction motor systems
Primary circuit control
C318S807000, C318S808000, C318S825000, C318S798000, C318S782000, C318S432000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06670786
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates in general to an apparatus for controlling the rotational speed (hereafter referred to as the speed) of an induction motor; and, the invention relates especially to a an apparatus using a vector control method which operates without a speed sensor, and is capable of achieving a highly accurate speed control without a speed sensor, and which can obtain high torque from a zero speed range.
In the vector control of an induction motor, the output frequency of a power-conversion unit for the induction motor usually corresponds to the sum of the speed and the calculated slip frequency. On the other hand, in the vector control method which operates without a speed sensor, the output frequency of the power-conversion unit is controlled with an estimated value of the speed in place of a detected value of the speed. However, since the estimated value of the speed includes an error, the actual slip frequency shifts from the target reference value. In this situation, the magnetic flux (hereafter referred to as the flux) in the induction motor varies according to the torque, and accordingly the torque generated by the induction motor is not proportional to the torque current, which in turn causes a shortage of torque in an extreme case.
Setting-errors in characteristic parameters of the induction motor, which are used for estimating the speed, and changes in the flux in the induction motor, which are caused by the errors, etc., are considered to be the causes of the errors in the estimated speed. A means to effectively correct those changes of the flux has not been devised, and a shortage of torque sometimes occurs in the range near zero speed. A report “Simplified Vector Control System without Speed and Voltage Sensors—Effects of Setting Errors in Control Parameters and their Compensation” by T. Okuyama et al., T. IEE Japan, Vol. 110-D, No. 5, '90, discloses the effects of the setting errors in the parameters and a means to compensate the effects due to the setting errors of the parameters of the induction motor.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide a an apparauts using method of accurately and efficiently controlling an induction motor without experiencing the effects of errors in an estimated speed due to changes in constants of the induction motor.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a speed-control apparatus for an induction motor for controlling the current output from a power-conversion unit so that it is larger than a current value in the ordinary no-load operation, or for controlling the frequency output from the power-conversion unit by calculating a frequency instruction value based on a speed instruction value in place of an estimated speed value if the speed instruction value is less than a predetermined value. By the above control, it is possible to prevent a shortage of torque in the low speed range near zero speed.
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Okuyama Toshiaki
Tobari Kazuaki
Antonelli Terry Stout & Kraus LLP
Hitachi , Ltd.
Masih Karen
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