Electronically commutated DC motor

US6429615B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Papst Motoren GmbH & Co KG · DE

Inventors

• Fritz Schmider · Hornberg, DE
• Stefan Lukenich · Singen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 2000
• Grant date: Aug 6, 2002
• Expiry date: Dec 4, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H02P6/08
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electronically commutated motor (4) has a permanent-magnet rotor (28) and has a stator (14) that has two winding phases (25, 26). During one rotor rotation of 360° el., firstly current is delivered to the one winding phase (25) within a first rotation angle range via an associated first semiconductor switch (68); and within a subsequent second rotation angle range, current is delivered to the other winding phase (26) via an associated second semiconductor switch (70). The motor further has a commutation apparatus for alternatingly switching ON the first semiconductor switch (68) and the second semiconductor switch (70). This commutation apparatus comprises a bistable multivibrator (FF90) whose switching state is controlled, via at least one comparator (126, 128), by the voltage that is induced by the permanent-magnet rotor (28) in that winding phase (25 or 26) which is currentless at that instant and which, in the instantaneous rotation angle range of the rotor (28), is not being supplied with current via its associated semiconductor switch (68 or 70).