Transistor control unit for a servo motor

• US 4,399,486 A
• Filed: 05/05/1981
• Issued: 08/16/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/1980
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ASR Servotron AG
• Original Assignee: ASR Servotron AG
• Inventors: Petsch, Johann
• Primary Examiner(s): Tolin, G. P.
• Application Number:
  US06/260,759
• Time in Patent Office: 833 Days
• Field of Search: 363/141, 361/381-384, 361/386-389, 361/399, 361/400, 361/417-420, 174/16 R, 174/16 HS, 165/80 R, 165/80 A, 165/80 B, 165/80 D
• US Class Current: 361/717
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0263 High current adaptations, e.g. printed high current conductors or using auxiliary non-printed means; Fine and coarse circuit patterns on one circuit board H05K1/0293 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/18 Printed circuits structurally associated with non-printed electric components H05K1/0201, H05K1/023, H05K1/0243, and H05K1/16 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09972 Partitioned, e.g. portions of a PCB dedicated to different functions; Boundary lines therefore; Portions of a PCB being processed separately or differently
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10022 Non-printed resistor
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10166 Transistor
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10174 Diode

Abstract

A transistor control unit for a servo motor has its control part and its power part arranged on a single printed circuit element. The control part and a cooling body, power transistors and power diodes of the power part are located side-by-side on one side of the element, the current connections being on the other side. Resistance arrays in flat rectangular housings are mounted end-on on the element with their main surfaces vertical when the element is mounted in position.

Claims

1. A transistor control unit for a servo motor, which comprises:

an electronic control part which in turn comprises components arranged on one face of a printed circuit element, these components including a number of driver transistors for an end state, integrated circuits, and a plurality of resistances, with a printed circuit on the rear face of the element; and

a power part, which is spatially separated from the control part and comprises a number power transistors which are mounted on a cooling body together with associated power diodes, the cooling body, the transistors and the associated diodes being arranged on the same printed circuit element and being disposed on the same side thereof as the components of the control part and to the side of the control part;

the current flow connections leading from the power part to the control part being printed current flow guide paths disposed on the rear face of the printed card;

a number of resistances, the value of each of which is similar or identical, of the control part being arranged as resistance arrays in flat, rectangular housings, which are disposed, on the printed circuit element, with their main surfaces extending vertically, pluralities of rectangular housings being juxtasposed to one another with their main surfaces in mutual abutment so as to form at least blocks of resistance arrays, each block comprising at least two said housings.

2. A control unit according to claim 1, wherein a number of transistors of the control part are arranged as a transistor array in the form of an integrated circuit in a dual-in-line housing.

3. A control unit according to claim 1, wherein, a number of operational amplifiers of the control part are constituted as an integrated circuit in a common dual-in-line housing.

4. A control unit according to claim 1, wherein the power part is arranged in two groups of at least two power transistors and diodes, which groups are separated by cooling ribs which extend transversely of the longitudinal direction of the printed element and, in each group a power transistor, lying on the outer plate edge, and two diodes, which lie side by side in the longitudinal direction of the circuit element, are disposed symmetrically to either side of the centre, longitudinal axis of the circuit element.

5. A control unit according to claim 1, wherein the power part lies between the area of the control part, which area is of approximately the same size as that of the power part, and an appreciably smaller, further area positioned at the other end of the printed circuit element, further components being arranged in this further area.

6. A control unit according to claim 1, wherein the control part occupies a substantially L-shaped portion of the printed circuit element.

7. A control unit according to claim 6, wherein the L-shaped area is bounded by a longitudinal edge of the printed circuit element which is provided with a plug-in device and by one of the short edges of the printed circuit element.

8. A control unit according to claim 6, wherein the power part is constituted by two groups, which are separated by cooling ribs extending in the longitudinal direction of the printed element, each of which groups has at least two power transistors with four diodes arranged between them.

9. A control unit according to claim 6, wherein at least one row of driver transistors is arranged in a part of the L-shaped area which lies contiguously with one of the longitudinal edges of the printed circuit element, and extends parallel to this longitudinal edge.