Semiconductor circuit for a DC motor
US5537015A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 13, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jul 16, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 13, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH02P2201/07
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
It is an object of the invention to provide a transistorized full-bridge driving circuit for an electronically commutated collectorless dc motor, in which burnout of the pnp transistors from overvoltage is avoided. This is accomplished by an arrangement with a collectorless dc motor (19) commutated by a semiconductor circuit, with a rectified-current intermediate circuit (13,14) supplied via a rectifier (11) from an AC current network, the intermediate circuit having an input to which is applied a fluctuating rectified current with predetermined maximum values, with a transistor (12, 112) located between the rectifier and the collectorless dc motor, the transistor being driven as a variable resistor, and with limiting means (25-27), for limiting the voltage at the control input of this transistor (12, 112) to a value smaller than the predetermined maximal value of the fluctuating rectified voltage and which control voltage falls within the voltage-tolerance range of the semiconductor driving circuit of the collectorless dc motor. The use of the limiting means, in combination with the transistor operated as a variable resistor, limits the voltage in the rectified-current intermediat…
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