Electricity: measuring and testing – Electrical speed measuring – Including motor current or voltage sensor
Patent
1998-01-08
2000-10-03
Snow, Walter E.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Electrical speed measuring
Including motor current or voltage sensor
G01P 346
Patent
active
061278203
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns a process for determining the speed of a direct current motor and a circuit arrangement for carrying out this process.
It is known that direct current motors are used for many applications where particular importance is assigned to the actual speed or a speed regulation of the direct current motor. Thus, direct current motors are used, for example, as adjustment motors in motor vehicles, e.g. for a seat adjustment, for opening windows, for sliding roofs and sun roofs, for ventilators, fans, windshield wipers etc. In order to determine the speed of direct current motors, it is known to assign a speed sensor to these, by means of which the rotational movement of an armature shaft of the direct current motor is detected. A measuring signal that is proportional to the speed and is separated by the speed sensor can then be processed further. The DE-OS 42 16 040, for example, shows that it is known to use a measuring signal, detected in this way and proportional to the speed, for monitoring a direct current motor for thermal overload. However, it is a disadvantage in this case that the arrangement of the additional speed sensor complicates the design of the direct current motor.
In the electrical engineering field in general, it is known that the rotational speed of a direct current motor is proportional to the source voltage, which is induced in its armature during the operation of the direct current motor. An error occurs during the transition from induced source voltage/direct current motor speed as a result of a temperature dependence of the magnetic flow. Further momentary operating states of the direct current motor, which actually occur, such as a fluctuating supply voltage, a changing load moment, lead to a distortion of the determination of the induced source voltage. On the whole, this leads to an incorrect determination of the actual speed for the direct current motor.
The publication Elektronik 1, Jan. 13, 1994, pages 40 to 41, shows that it is known to regulate the speed of a direct current motor. The actual speed of the direct current motor, in this case, is measured by way of a generator voltage that is proportional to the speed, that is to say without a speed sensor.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the invention is to make it possible to obtain a correct determination of the actual speed. According to the invention, the dependence of the motor data or factors influencing the speed on an operating state of the direct current motor is compensated during the direct current motor operation for determining the speed. Accordingly, it is advantageously possible to take into account preferably a temperature dependence for specific motor data, in that the change in the motor data occurring as a result of the temperature dependence is taken into account when determining the actual direct current motor speed.
The circuit arrangement according to the invention has the advantage that a correct determination of the actual speed of the direct current motor is possible in a simple way by means of generally existing controls, preferably electronic control devices in motor vehicles. Owing to the fact that a correction circuit is provided, which corrects the measuring signals, determined by the measuring elements and proportional to the motor data, by a distortion of the measuring signals that occurred as a result of the actual operating state, an output signal is present at the circuit arrangement, which corresponds to the actual, momentary speed of the direct current motor. As a result of the signal, which is then present and corresponds to the actual speed, it is possible with the aid of adjustment drives to perform exact adjustment operations with the direct current motor. Deviations in the adjustment that occur as a result of an incorrect determination of the speed can thus be avoided.
Advantageous embodiments of the invention follow from the characteristics named in the dependent claims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
The invention is explained
REFERENCES:
patent: 4246536 (1981-01-01), Bradley et al.
Elektronik 1, Jan. 13, 1994, pp. 40-41.
Kessler Martin
Preis Karl-Heinrich
Kunitz Norman N.
Robert & Bosch GmbH
Snow Walter E.
Wood Allen
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