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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2000
Jürgen Schöne, Bad Mergentheim, DE;
Hartmut Schneeweiss, Bad Mergentheim, DE;
Wilhelm Reinhardt, Schrozberg-Gütbach, DE;
ebm Werke GmbH & Co., Mulfingen, DE;
Abstract
A tan having a fan wheel and an electric motor driving it, and a control unit for controlling the motor output as a function of fan-specific parameters. An actual-value signal corresponding to an actual rotational speed of the fan is measured and compared with a control signal corresponding to a required speed, and the actual speed is adjusted to the required speed by means of the control unit, wherefore the actual speed and the actual motor current or supply current are measured and conducted to a microcontroller as input signal variables, whereby the fan-specific data such as wheel diameter, density of the conveying medium, fan coefficients, motor coefficients, and a preset artificial characteristic curve p =ƒ({dot over (V)} ) are stored in the microcontroller as default values. The microcontroller generates the required-speed signal, which is a function of the electrical current variables and the actual speed, based on the preset artificial characteristic curve p =ƒ({dot over (V)} ) where p =required operating pressure and V =required volume flow.