Inverter control circuit

• US 4,667,116 A
• Filed: 10/30/1985
• Issued: 05/19/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Tooru, Honjo, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ip, Shik Luen Paul
• Application Number:
  US06/793,117
• Time in Patent Office: 566 Days
• Field of Search: 307/64, 307/66, 307/72, 307/73, 307/75, 307/82, 307/85, 307/86, 307/87, 363/74, 363/79, 363/95, 363/96
• US Class Current: 307/64
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/062 for AC powered loads

Abstract

An inverter control circuit for a power supply source comprising an inverter and a commercial power source (reserve power source) and adapted to connect the inverter normally to a load and to change the inverter with the commercial power source uninterruptedly by means of a thyristor switch to supply power uninterruptedly to the load in case the inverter malfunctions. The inverter control circuit comprises a digital PLL circuit for synchronism control, a bias signal, and a parallel connection of a synchronism control circuit and a synchronism detecting circuit, and is capable of uniterruptedly changing the inverter to the commercial power source by being switched to biasing signals by means of the switch at the timing of the synchronism detecting of the synchronism detecting circuit in case the synchronism control circuit malfunctions.

Claims

1. An inverter control circuit comprising:

an inverter which is operated continuously to supply power to a load;

a synchronism control circuit interposed between said inverter and a commercial power source;

a PLL (phase locked loop) circuit is actuated via a control amplifier by a command given thereto by said synchronism control circuit so as to control said inverter;

a first thyristor switch connected in series to said inverter and a second thyristor switch connected in series to said commercial power source;

a synchronism detecting circuit connected in parallel to said synchronism control circuit;

a switch controlled by said synchronism detecting circuit to change the output of said control amplifier with a bias signal when any fault has occurred in said synchronism control circuit.

2. An inverter control circuit according to claim 1, wherein said synchronism detecting circuit comprises waveform shaping circuits and a synchronism decision circuit, and said switch controlled by said synchronism detecting circuit is a gang switch operated by a command provided by said synchronism decision circuit in case said synchronism control circuit malfunctions, to apply a bias to said PLL circuit signal.

3. An inverter control circuit comprising:

an inverter which is operated continuously to supply power to a load;

a synchronism control circuit interposed between said inverter and a commercial power source;

a PLL (phase locked loop) circuit which is actuated by a command given thereto by said synchronism control circuit;

a first thyristor switch connected in series to said inverter and a second thyristor switch connected in series to said commercial power source;

a synchronism detecting circuit connected in parallel to said synchronism control circuit;

a control amplifier connected to said synchronism control circuit;

said synchronism detecting circuit comprising waveform shaping circuits and a synchronism decision circuit; and

a gang switch operated by a command provided by said synchronism decision circuit, in case said synchronism control circuit malfunctions, for applying a bias signal to change the output of said control amplifier.