Brushless DC Electric Motor

• US 20100201296A1
• Filed: 12/04/2008
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oleg Anatolievich Buglaev
• Original Assignee: Oleg Anatolievich Buglaev
• Inventors: Buglaev, Oleg Anatolievich, Bryzgalov, Viktor Alexevich
• Application Number:
  US12/519,994
• Publication Number:
  US 20100201296A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 318/400.270
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/182 using back-emf in windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/20 Arrangements for starting H02P6/08 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention relates to electrical engineering and can be used, in particular, in electric drives of mechanisms used in dental equipment. A brushless DC electric motor comprises an electromechanical converter (1) with a three-section (2, 3, 4) winding and a permanent-magnet inductor (5), an inverter (6), a control unit (7) and three comparators (1^st (8), 2^nd (9) and 3^rd (10)), wherein the terminals of the winding sections of said electromechanical converter are connected to the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd outputs of the inverter (6), respectively, and to the 1^st inputs of the 1^st (8), 2^nd (9) and 3^rd (10) comparators, respectively, said motor additionally comprising an electric motor start-up unit (11); and wherein said control unit (7) is a decoder and comprises six optron transmitters (12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17) with optical outputs, while the inverter comprises six optron receivers (18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23), the optical inputs of said receivers being connected by means of optical coupling to corresponding optical outputs of said optron transmitters (12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17) of the control unit (7), and wherein the outputs of the 1^st (8), the 2^nd (9) and the 3^rd (10) comparators are connected to the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd inputs of the control unit (7), respectively, while the 7^th power input of the inverter (6) is connected to the power source and to the input of the electric motor start-up unit (11), the 1^st output of said start-up unit (11) being connected to the 3^rd input of the 2^nd (9) comparator, its 2^nd output being connected to the 3^rd input of the 3^rd (10) comparator, and wherein the 2^nd inputs of all comparators are interconnected with each other. The present invention provides an increase of operational reliability and stability of the brushless DC electric motor, as well as reduction of the torque pulsations.

Claims

1. A brushless AC electric motor that is connected to a power source and comprises an electromechanical converter with a three-section winding and a permanent-magnet inductor, an inverter, a control unit and three comparators (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd), wherein the terminals of the winding sections of said electromechanical converter are connected to the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd outputs of the inverter, respectively, and to the 1^st inputs of the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd comparators, respectively, characterized in that said motor additionally comprises an electric motor start-up unit, wherein said control unit comprises six optron transmitters with optical outputs, while the inverter comprises six optron receivers, the optical inputs of said receivers being connected by means of optical coupling to corresponding optical outputs of said optron transmitters of the control unit, and wherein the outputs of the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd comparators are connected to the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd inputs of the control unit, respectively, while the 7^th power input of the inverter is connected to the power supply source and to the input of the electric motor start-up unit, the 1^st output of said start-up unit being connected to the 3^rd input of the 2^nd comparator, its 2^nd output being connected to the 3^rd input of the 3^rd comparator, and wherein the 2^nd inputs of all comparators are interconnected with each other.

2. In a brushless AC electric motor having a power source forming an electromechanical converter hand having a three-section winding and a permanent-magnet inductor, an inverter, a control unit and three comparators (1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd ), wherein the terminals of the winding sections of said electromechanical converter are connected to the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd outputs of the inverter, respectively, and to the inputs of the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd comparators, respectively, wherein the improvement comprises:

an electric motor start-up unit;

said control unit comprising six optron transmitters with optical outputs;

said inverter comprising six optron receivers, wherein optical inputs of said receivers are operatively optically coupled to corresponding optical outputs of said option transmitters of said control unit;

wherein the outputs of the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd comparators are operatively connected to the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd inputs of the control unit, respectively, and

wherein a 7^th power input of said inverter is connected to said power supply source and to the input of said electric motor start-up unit, and

wherein said 1^st output of said start-up unit is operatively connected to the 3^rd input of the 2^nd comparator, and

wherein said 2^nd output is operatively connected to the 3^rd input of the 3^rd comparator, and

wherein the 2^nd inputs of all comparators are interconnected with each other.

3. The brushless AC electric motor of claim 2, wherein electric connection between the inverter and the control unit is prevented.

4. The brushless AC electric motor of claim 2, wherein said electric motor start-up unit prevents additional torque pulsations from the operational qualities of the electric motor.