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Circuit arrangement for the actuation of an electric-motor drive, in particular a pump drive, in a large domestic appliance

US6969969B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 16, 2003
Grant dateNov 29, 2005
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Expiry dateJul 16, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH02P5/74
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A large domestic appliance has main and auxiliary drives (17, 24) thereof supplied from the same dc voltage intermediate circuit (19) which is provided only once, by way of change-over switch sets (12), by half-bridge circuits (21, 21′). For that purpose a frequency converter (15) with its bridge circuit (21) for the main drive (17) is switched over in single-pole or multiple mode to the rotary field motor (23, 25) of the auxiliary drive (24) by way of a change-over switch set (12) connected in its output-side motor lines (13); or in the frequency converter (15) two half-bridge circuits (21, 211) which are associated with the main and the auxiliary drives (17, 24) are operated in parallel from the dc voltage intermediate circuit (19).

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