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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999

Filed:

Jun. 09, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:

Koichi Toda, Yokohama, JP;

Yoshio Ogawa, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
318 66 ;
Abstract

A control device for controlling a plurality of motors of an air conditioner comprises a plurality of power circuits each for supplying a corresponding DC voltage to drive a respective motor. Motor driving circuits, each having a plurality of switches, supply the DC voltage from a corresponding power circuit as an AC voltage to windings of the corresponding motor. A rotational position of each corresponding motor is detected, and a position detecting signal is generated dependent thereon. Switch driving circuits, each receptive of a corresponding driving signal, drives the plurality of switches of each corresponding motor driving circuit. A single microcomputer controls the rotation of each of the plurality of motors by generating the plurality of driving signals. Each driving signal is dependent on a respective position detecting signal to drive the plurality of switches of each corresponding motor driving circuit so that the DC voltage from each power circuit is converted and supplied as an AC voltage to the windings depending on the rotational position of each corresponding motor.


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