Control apparatus for elevator

• US 4,666,020 A
• Filed: 04/21/1986
• Issued: 05/19/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Eiki
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/854,100
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• Field of Search: 187/29 R, 307/64, 307/66, 318/801, 318/802, 318/803, 318/810, 318/811, 363/34, 363/37, 363/38, 363/64, 363/66, 363/41, 363/124, 363/125, 363/126, 363/127, 363/129
• US Class Current: 187/290
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/308 with AC powered elevator drive
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 5/02 responsive to abnormal operating conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 2201/09 Boost converter, i.e. DC-DC step up converter increasing the voltage between the supply and the inverter driving the motor

Abstract

An elevator wherein an electric motor for driving the cage of the elevator is driven by the use of alternating current produced by an inverter, comprising a converter which feeds D.C. power to the inverter and which is so arranged that a plurality of transistors are connected into a bridge corresponding to the number of phases of an A.C. power source connected on the input side of the converter and that diodes are connected to the respective transistors in inverse parallel relationship. In addition, a battery to be used in emergency is connected on the input side of the converter. The converter is controlled in the pulse width modulation in the normal state of the A.C. power source, and the converter connected to the battery is controlled as a chopper during the stoppage of the power source, thereby making it possible to run the elevator at high speed even with the battery of low voltage.

Claims

1. A control apparatus for an elevator comprising a converter which converts electric power of an A.C. power source in a normal state into direct current while the A.C. power source is normal and which has a battery connected thereto and operates as a step- up chopper when the A.C. power source stops, a capacitor which smooths the output of said converter during the normal state of the A.C. power source and which is charged to a voltage double that of the battery during the stoppage of the A.C. power source, an inverter which receives the voltage of said capacitor to invert it into alternating current of variable voltage and variable frequency and which supplies the alternating current to an electric motor for driving the cage of the elevator, and a control device which controls said converter in pulse width modulation during the normal state of the A.C. power source and controls it as the chopper during the stoppage of the A.C. power source.

2. A control apparatus for an elevator according to claim 1 wherein reactors are inserted between said converter and the A.C. power source, and the battery is connected to said converter through said reactors during the stoppage of the A.C. power source.

3. A control apparatus for an elevator according to claim 2 wherein said converter is so arranged that a plurality of transistors are connected into a bridge corresponding to a number of phases of the A.C. power source, and that the respective transistors have diodes connected thereto in inverse parallel relationship.

4. A control apparatus for an elevator according to claim 3 wherein said control device performs a control of turning "on" and "off" one of said plurality of transistors, connected to the battery, at a predetermined period and rapidly during the stoppage of the A.C. power source.

5. A control apparatus for an elevator according to claim 4 wherein said control device performs the on-off control of the selected transistor so as to equalize lengths of a turnon period of time and a turnoff period of time of said transistor.

6. A control apparatus for an elevator according to claim 4 wherein electrical energy is stored in said reactors while the selected transistor turns "on", and the energy stored in said reactors is supplied to said capacitor while said transistor turns "off".