Electricity: motive power systems – Switched reluctance motor commutation control
Reexamination Certificate
2008-01-22
2008-01-22
Duda, Rina (Department: 2837)
Electricity: motive power systems
Switched reluctance motor commutation control
C318S132000, C318S434000, C318S599000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07321210
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a variable speed brushless direct current (BLDC) motor drive circuit. The circuit includes a plurality of high-side and low-side controlled switches coupled in a three-phase bridge configuration for commutating a BLDC motor, each phase of the bridge being connected to a corresponding phase of the motor, a controller for providing a drive signal to drive each of the high-side and low-side switches, and a speed control loop for controlling the motor by PWM of a DC bus voltage to achieve a constant motor speed. The speed control loop includes a pulse circuit receiving the drive signals provided from the controller for controlling the high-side switches and for providing a pulse signal that is related to a desired motor speed, a plurality of high-side drivers for driving the high-side switches, each high-side switch being coupled to a respective high-side driver, and a plurality of gating circuits each receiving the pulse signal from the pulse circuit and a drive signal for a respective high-side controller from the controller for generating a pulse width modulation (PWM) control signal having a pulse duration determined by said pulse signal from said pulse circuit to thereby drive each of the high-side drivers to modulate their corresponding high-side switches.
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Duda Rina
International Rectifier Corporation
Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen, LLP
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