Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Safety and protection of systems and devices – Motor protective condition responsive circuits
Patent
1995-07-21
1997-06-24
Gaffin, Jeffrey A.
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Safety and protection of systems and devices
Motor protective condition responsive circuits
361110, 363 56, 318434, H02H 504
Patent
active
056422474
ABSTRACT:
An automatic fault monitoring system prevents the detection of fault conditions during operating modes or conditions that can produce false fault conditions. A motor control system that utilizes an H-bridge circuit having active devices, preferably field effect transistors, in each arm of the bridge. The motor is connected in the leg of the bridge. Currents and voltages are sensed in each arm as different operating conditions represented by input control signals, which may be computer generated, drive the bridge and place the transistors in different states (on or off). Such operating conditions include rotation of the motor in opposite directions and reversal of direction. Fault detection logic is responsive to currents and voltages in the arms and leg of the bridge and provides outputs indicative of over-current fault conditions in the arm and open circuit fault conditions in the leg. Fault detection control logic analyzes the input control signals and also applies them to change the state of the transistors in the H-bridge. When the control signal inputs and the sequence in which they occur represents a command to the H-bridge to reverse the direction of rotation of the motor, the fault detection logic is inhibited thereby preventing false detection of over-current conditions that can occur in response to the back EMF generated by the motor as it stalls and stops briefly while reversing direction of rotation. The fault detection control logic also enables the detection of open load fault condition during states where the motor is being driven in either direction of rotation, but not when a reversal of rotation is occurring or the motor is started from a stopped position and the current in the motor must build exponentially.
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Gaffin Jeffrey A.
Harris Corporation
Sherry Michael J.
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