Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Tetsutani

Hirokazu Tajima

Hidetoshi Umida

A variable-speed control apparatus computes the leakage inductance of an AC motor, correctly compensates the leakage inductance, and controls the variable speed of the AC motor. The variable-speed control apparatus has an AC signal generation circuit for generating an AC signal, and obtains a leakage inductance calculation value of the AC motor based on the AC signal and the measured actual current value. The differential value of the summation of a current command value and the AC signal is multiplied by the leakage inductance calculation value to generate a signal for use in compensating the voltage drop caused by the leakage inductance, and added to a voltage command value to cancel the deviation between the actual current value and the M-axis current command value and to obtain the second voltage command value. The second voltage command value is converted into a 3-phase voltage command value and used in controlling the AC motor, and the voltage drop caused by the leakage inductance can be compensated.

Variable-speed control method and apparatus for AC motor

To provide a trans-vector controller for an alternating current ('AC') motor that facilitates operating the secondary resistance of the AC motor without experimentally rotating the AC motor. In a preferred embodiment, the variable speed control circuit, including a secondary resistance value generating device, changes the direct current ('DC') exciting current and operates the secondary resistance of an induction motor by superimposing an AC signal with small amplitude outputted from a AC signal generator onto a reference current value immediately before the start of the induction motor in the state of DC excitation.

Variable speed controller for an AC motor

A variable speed controller for an induction motor that estimates the primary angular frequency and the speed without causing any error in the drive region where the induced voltage is low. The primary angular frequency and speed estimating device includes: a changeover signal generator that generates a changeover signal indicative of a first mode of operation when the induced voltage is greater than the changeover threshold, and a second mode of operation when the induced voltage is less than the changeover threshold; a differentiator, filter, etc., for estimating the load torque; a sample holder that holds the estimated load torque in the second mode of operation; an adder that generates the acceleration and deceleration torque; an integrator that integrates the acceleration and deceleration torque with the mechanical time constant of the induction motor to obtain the second generated speed; an adder that generates a second primary angular frequency; and an output device that in the first mode of operation outputs the first generated primary angular frequency as the reference primary angular frequency and the first generated speed as the estimated speed, and in the second mode of operation outputs the second generated primary angular frequency as the reference primary angular frequency and the second generated speed as the estimated speed.

Variable speed controller for an induction motor

A control apparatus for conducting a variable speed control of an AC motor by controlling an M-axis component and a T-axis component of a current flowing through the AC motor. The control apparatus comprises: M-axis current regulator for executing proportional plus integral computation on a difference between an actual value of the M-axis component and an M-axis current reference value to obtain an M-axis proportional value and an M-axis integration value, and for determining an M-axis voltage reference value by adding the M-axis proportional value to the M-axis integration value; T-axis current regulator for executing proportional plus integral computation on a difference between an actual value of the T-axis component and a T-axis current reference value to obtain a T-axis proportional value and a T-axis integration value, and for determining a T-axis voltage reference value by adding the T-axis proportional value to the T-axis integration value; and a renewal coefficient computing device for computing a vector sum of the M-axis voltage reference value and the T-axis voltage reference value, and determining a renewal coefficient for renewing the M-axis integration value and the T-axis integration value based on the relation between the vector sum and a predetermined output voltage limit value.

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Hyogo, Japan

Hiroshi Tetsutani