Lg Electronics Inc.

Min Kyu Hwang

Chel Woong Lee

Jae Chun Lee

Jae Yoo Yoo

Chul Woong Lee

Jae Cheon Lee

Yoo Jae Yoo

An apparatus and method for determining a washing pattern of a direct drive inverter-type washing machine. The apparatus comprises a voltage converter for inputting an external alternating current (AC) voltage and rectifying and smoothing the inputted AC voltage to convert it into a drive voltage necessary to a washing mode of a washing machine, a switch for performing a switching operation in response to a motor drive control signal to transfer the drive voltage from the voltage converter to a motor so as to rotate or stop a washing tub, a voltage variation sensing device for measuring a voltage variation when the motor rotates in response to the drive voltage transferred from the switch and outputting the measured result as a voltage variation sense signal, and a microcomputer for driving the motor in a laundry amount sensing pattern at the time that laundry is put into the washing tub, judging the amount of the laundry and the amount of water supply depending on the laundry amount, judging the type of a material of the laundry in response to the voltage variation sense signal at the time that wash water is supplied to the tub, producing an optimum washing pattern appropriate to the amount and material type of the laundry within the washing tub and generating the motor drive control signal to drive the motor in the produced optimum washing pattern.

Washing pattern determination method

In an operation control apparatus of a compressor, a current, a voltage an d a TDC, etc. applied to a compressor are detected, a speed and a TDC are constantly controlled so as to place an operation point of the compressor within a high efficiency operation region by using a phase difference between each detected values (for example, a phase difference between the current and the voltage), and an operation frequency is varied according to a load variation, accordingly an operation efficiency of the compressor can be improved.

Apparatus and method for controlling operation of reciprocating compressor

In an apparatus and a method for controlling a compressor, by setting a stroke reference value so as to be smaller than a maximum stroke value in a maximum load state and operating the reciprocating compressor stably, damage of a reciprocating compressor can be prevented, a cost in a motor design can be reduced, and a size of a motor can be decreased in designing of the motor.

Apparatus and method for controlling a compressor

Disclosed is a circuit for driving a linear compressor enabling to reduce a cost in detecting voltage and current applied to a linear compressor by decreasing the number of precision resistors. The present invention includes a linear compressor controlling a cooling capacity by varying a stroke through an up-and-down straight-line motion of a piston, an electric circuit part supplying the linear compressor with voltage and current in accordance with a switching signal of an AC switching device through a current detect resistor and the AC switching device wherein a ground terminal is connected between the current detect resistor and linear compressor, a voltage detection unit detecting the voltage applied to the linear compressor by taking the ground terminal as a reference and outputting the detected voltage, a stroke calculation unit receiving the detected current and voltage to calculate the stroke, a speed or an acceleration speed of the linear compressor, and a microcomputer inputting a switching signal for controlling the voltage applied to the linear compressor into the switching device to make a present stroke follow an initial stroke reference.

Circuit for driving linear compressor

An apparatus for detecting shaking of stroke of a linear compressor and a method are provided. A linear compressor mis-operates due to change in an external voltage or noise because the shaking of the stroke is detected by the amounts of change in the stroke or current. In order to solve the above problem, a control apparatus of a compressor includes a stroke/current phase difference calculator for calculating the phase differences of the stroke and current using the stroke and the current, which are determined by the increase and the reduction of the stroke due to the voltage generated by a linear compressor, a phase difference change amount calculator for calculating phase difference change amounts using the calculated phase differences of the stroke and the current, a shaking detector for comparing the calculated phase difference change amounts with a reference value for determining whether the shaking of the stroke is detected, to thus determine the shaking of the stroke, and a stroke controller for receiving a stroke shaking detection signal from the stroke shaking detector and changing the stroke voltage according to the magnitude of the request of cooling capacity, which is determined by the change in load, to thus control the driving of the linear compressor, during the operation of the linear compressor.

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Gwangmyung, South Korea

Min Kyu Hwang