Fanuc Corporation

Hitoshi Ishida

Tsutomu Shikagawa

A brake control device for controlling a brake device of the non-excitation-actuated type includes: a power supply; a brake control unit outputting a brake control signal; an opening/closing unit opening and closing a circuit between the power supply and brake device according to the brake control signal; a state detection unit outputting a state detection signal indicating an electric potential state of a circuit between the opening/closing unit and the brake device; an abnormality detection unit detecting whether an abnormality is absent or present based on a content of the brake control signal and a content of the state detection signal; a brake lock switch connected between input terminals of the brake device to be connected in parallel with the brake device; and a brake lock switch control unit closing the brake lock switch when the abnormality is detected by the abnormality detection unit.

Brake control device and motor drive device

A motor drive apparatus includes a converter configured to convert AC power from an AC power supply into DC power and then output the DC power to a DC link, a capacitor provided in the DC link, an inverter configured to convert DC power in the DC link into AC power for motor drive, a discharge circuit which is provided in parallel with the capacitor in the DC link, and is selectively switched between a discharge operation of discharging DC power in the DC link by electrically connecting the discharge circuit and the capacitor to each other, and a non-discharge operation of cutting electric connection between the discharge circuit and the capacitor, and a discharge circuit drive unit configured to perform switch drive of the discharge operation and the non-discharge operation of the discharge circuit by using DC power of the DC link as drive power for the switch drive.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Hitoshi Ishida