Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation

Goodrich Control Systems Limited

David Frederick Brookes

Nageswara Rao Kalluri

Sridhar Katakam

Pravinsharma Kaliyannan Eswaran

Surendra Somasekhar Valleru

Ashish Vijay

Anil Prasad Josyula

Vipul Kohli

Peter Shrimpling

A hoist application system is provided. The hoist application system includes a motor drive unit, which is receptive of a final duty command and which drives a motor in accordance with the final duty command, a closed-loop control unit configured to generate a closed-loop duty command, an open-loop control unit configured to generate an open-loop duty command and a switch logic unit. The switch logic unit is receptive of direct current (DC) system information, the closed-loop duty command and the open-loop duty command, and is configured to generate the final duty command from one of the closed-loop duty command and the open-loop duty command based on the DC system information.

Current limit strategy for hoist application

A motor drive system includes a direct current (DC) bus that provides a DC link voltage across a DC link capacitor, and a split DC link mid-point circuit connected in parallel with the DC link capacitor. The split DC link mid-point circuit establishes a mid-point reference based on the DC link voltage. A power inverter is in signal communication with the DC bus. The power inverter includes one or more gate driver units configured to drive one or more corresponding switches. Each gate driver unit includes a mid-point ground connection that is connected to the mid-point reference. The split DC link mid-point circuit can define a voltage divide that establishes the mid-point reference and can be used to monitor the DC link voltage.

Gate drive grounding scheme in motor drive systems for wide input DC link voltage

A voltage measurement system and method is provided. Aspects include a comparator having a positive and a negative input terminal, a processor configured to supply a reference voltage signal to the negative input terminal, wherein the positive input terminal receives an input voltage, setting the reference voltage signal to a zero voltage signal, determine a line frequency of the input voltage based on a timing signal from the comparator and determining a first pulse width of the input signal based on the timing signal, set the reference voltage to a PWM signal with a fixed duty cycle, receive the timing signal from the output of the comparator, determine a rising edge and a falling edge associated with the input voltage based on the timing signal, and determine a peak value of the input voltage based on a second pulse width between the rising and falling edge.

Alternative voltage measurement over extended operating conditions

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

David Frederick Brookes