Electricity: motive power systems – Induction motor systems – Primary circuit control
Patent
1989-08-11
1993-08-17
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Electricity: motive power systems
Induction motor systems
Primary circuit control
318751, 318280, 68 12R, H02P 540, D06F 3302
Patent
active
052372561
ABSTRACT:
A control for an automatic washing machine with a reversing permanent split capacitor (PSC) drive motor. Separate ferrite core sensors surround each of two PSC motor windings. A sense winding is threaded through both sensors. A brief output voltage is generated whenever the alternating current in either PSC motor winding passes through a zero-crossing and when the sense winding is wound with proper mutual polarity, an output voltage is generated in response to zero-crossings of a brief, residual alternating current which flows in both PSC motor windings and the capacitor when the rotating PSC motor is cycled OFF. The circuitry, in combination with the sensors, samples the leading or lagging phase angle of the PSC motor auxiliary or main winding, respectively, at a sample rate of two-times the line frequency when the PSC motor is ON. The raw PSC motor phase data is used in microcomputer programs to compute motor start time or load torque dither. This computed information and the PSC motor braking data, is used by other software programs to automatically control various functions of the washing machine such as the fill water level and agitator stroke angle; to control events in an operational sequence such as the duration of the agitation and spin operations; and to provide diagnostic information such as spin off-balance detection.
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Cabeca John W.
Shoop Jr. William M.
Whirlpool Corporation
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