Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Kouichi Matsumoto

Nobuo Ohtuka

Satoshi Matsumoto

Manabu Ishihara

Tomonori Isobe

Hiroshi Yoshida

Eiji Kawabe

Yuki Takatsu

There is provided a controlling apparatus for an air conditioner, which comprises: an inverter circuit for feeding as an output a pseudo-sine wave from a switching signal obtained by comparison between a modulated wave and a carrier wave; a refrigeration cycle device which has a compressor driven by the pseudo-sine wave from the inverter circuit so that the modulated wave is adjusted according to a load of an air conditioner; and a correction device for correcting an amplitude of the modulated wave into a smaller one at a predetermined time when a rated voltage of the power source from the inverter circuit is larger than a rated voltage by a first predetermined value, and correcting the modulated wave into a larger one at a predetermined time when a rated voltage of the power source from the inverter circuit is smaller than the rated voltage by a second predetermined value. The predetermined time is elongated as the difference between the aforementioned power source voltage and the rated voltage becomes larger, so that shutdown of the compressor is restricted at the voltage variation of the power source.

Apparatus for controlling an air conditioner

An inverter circuit includes fast transistors for PWM and slow switching thyristors for a fundamental frequency. The inverter circuit further includes a rectifying circuit for rectifying an input AC power and a bridge circuit. The bridge circuit includes a plurality of bridge circuit arms, each of the bridge circuit arms constituted by connecting a collector terminal of a transistor to a cathode terminal of a thyristor. An emitter of the transistor is connected to a negative side of the rectified output of the rectifying circuit, and an anode of the thyristor is connected to a positive side of the rectified output of the rectifying circuit.

Hybrid circuit module having bridge circuit and rectifying circuit

An electric circuit for supplying electrical power having a controlled frequency to a load includes thyristors, each having an anode terminal, a cathode terminal, and a gate terminal for supplying an electric current from the anode terminal to the cathode terminal; transistors, each having a collector terminal, an emitter terminal and a base terminal for switching ON/OFF an electric current from the collector terminal to the emitter terminal; an arm device connected between the cathode terminal of the thyristor and the collector of the transistor; bridge circuit device, having a plurality of arms between one terminal and another terminal of an electrical power source, so that the positive terminal is coupled to the anode terminal of the thyristors and the negative terminal is coupled to the emitter terminal of the transistor, and controlling circuit, connected to the load, for supplying an electric signal to the base terminal of the transistor to apply an electric voltage intermittently to the load, and supplying an electric signal to the gate terminal of the thyristors to supply an electric current periodically in accordance with the desired frequency between the anode and cathode terminals of the thyristor.

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Kouichi Matsumoto