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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles Michael Stephens, Pattersonville, NY (US);
Assignee:
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 3/302 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D06F 3/302 ;
Abstract
A motor control for a clothes washing machine having an electronically commutated motor (ECM). A position-feedback is employed by the ECM to control sinusoidal motion of the washing machine agitator. An agitator position feedback signal is constructed from the motor commutation signals, and is compared to a digitally created sinewave position command signal. The error between the two signals is fed to control system Proportional-integral (PI) block, and the output of the PI block sets the level of motor current command. The control system is implemented in a digital signal processor, which also controls the motor's electronic inverter.