Electronically commutated motor

US6906486B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Hansjörg Berroth · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
• Alexander Hahn · Roetgen, DE
• Frank Heller · Berlin, DE
• Frank Jeske · Tennenbronn, DE
• Arno Karwath · Rottweil, DE
• Arnold Kuner · St. Georgen, DE
• Hans-Dieter Schondelmaier · St. Georgen, DE
• Hermann Rappenecker · Vöhrenbach, DE
• Günther Strasser · Rottenbuch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 21, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 14, 2005
• Expiry date: Dec 21, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H02P2209/07
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An electronically commutated motor has a rotor (108), a stator having a stator winding arrangement (102), and a full bridge circuit (137) for controlling the current (i1, i2) in the stator winding arrangement (102); in the full bridge circuit (137), first semiconductor switches (114, 130) are connected to a first DC supply lead (116) and second semiconductor switches (132, 136) to the other DC supply lead (122), said second switches being bidirectionally conductive of current in the switched-on state. The motor has an arrangement (172, 198, 188) for opening the first semiconductor switches (114, 130) and for closing the second semiconductor switches (132, 136) during a predetermined operating state. An arrangement (202) is provided for monitoring the direction of the current (i1, i2) which flows in the second semiconductor switches (132, 136) when the latter are conductive during the predetermined operating state.