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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 1986
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles W Edwards, Monroeville, PA (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
318811 ; 318798 ; 318806 ;
Abstract
A pulse-width-modulated motor drive includes means for the derivation of a signal representative of the torque by sensing the DC-link current directly, or indirectly, and by dividing the sensed signal by the modulation index of the motor drive to obtain proportionality through the duty-cycle long range succession.