Control apparatus for A.C. elevator

• US 4,987,977 A
• Filed: 11/01/1989
• Issued: 01/29/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nomura, Masami
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Echholdt, Charles E.
• Application Number:
  US07/429,992
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 187/108, 187/119, 187/112
• US Class Current: 187/288
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/32 effective on braking devices , e.g. acting on electrically controlled brakes brake control H02P, lift brakes per se B66B5/02

Abstract

In a control apparatus for A.C. elevator, this invention consists in comprising a current control circuit which compares a current command of a brake coil current generated by a current command generator and an actual current thereof detected by a current detector, so as to control the brake coil current, whereby a riding quality of a cage is improved. This invention further comprises a velocity control circuit which adds a bias corresponding to a load in the cage, to a reference velocity command for the cage generated by a velocity command generator, whereby the riding quality of the cage is improved still further.

Claims

1. A control apparatus for an A.C. elevator having a drive motor to move a cage and a brake wherein a braking force is generated by deenergizing a brake coil to restrain the cage, while the braking force is released by energizing the brake coil in response to a start command signal;

said control apparatus comprising;

a current control circuit having

a current command generator which generates a command for current supplied to said brake coil, which compares the current command with a current value detected

a current detector which detects the brake coil current and produces a signal used by said current control circuit to operate said current command generator and to control the brake coil current, and

a velocity control circuit which produces a velocity command to control torque generated by the drive motor in accordance with the load in the cage.

2. A control apparatus for an A.C. elevator as defined in claim 1, further comprising:

a velocity detector which detects a rotating direction of a motor for moving the cage and a rotating speed of the motor corresponding to an actual velocity of the cage, and

wherein said velocity control circuit includes

a velocity command generator which generates a reference velocity command for the cage,

a load detector supplied with the brake coil current command of said current command generator and the detected outputs of said velocity detector, said load detector sensing a load in the cage and calculating and delivering a bias value added to the reference velocity command,

a sign discriminator which discriminates the sign of the bias value in accordance with a running direction command for the cage,

an adder which adds the bias value supplied from said sign discriminator, to the reference velocity command, and

a velocity controller supplied with an output of said adder and the velocity signal of said velocity detector, for comparing them and for controlling torque generated by the motor according to the reference velocity command biased in accordance with the load in the cage.