Starting device for a single phase induction motor

• US 5,302,885 A
• Filed: 01/29/1992
• Issued: 04/12/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Empresa Brasileria de Compressors S/A Embraco
• Original Assignee: Empresa Brasileria de Compressors S/A Embraco
• Inventors: Berwanger, Egidio, Schwarz, Marcos G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cabeca, John W.
• Application Number:
  US07/827,206
• Time in Patent Office: 804 Days
• Field of Search: 318/786, 318/817, 318/775, 318/781, 318/778, 318/816, 318/812, 318/809, 318/784
• US Class Current: 318/781
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 1/42 for starting an individual single-phase induction motor H02P27/04 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 1/44 by phase-splitting with a capacitor

Abstract

A starting device for a single phase induction motor, of the type having a cage type rotor and a stator having at least one main coil and one starting coil, which is connected in series with first and second terminals of an alternating current source. The starting device comprises a relay (RL) having at least one contact, with one of the terminals thereof being connected to the first terminal (1) of the alternating current source (F), while the other terminal of said contact is connected to the terminal of the starting coil (L2); and a coil (B) for actuating the relay; an electronic timer circuit (T), which is connected to the terminals of the coil (B) for actuating the relay (RL), in order to open the contact of the latter by supplying a current to the coil (B) thereof, thereby finishing the starting operation of the motor (M), after a period of time has elapsed from the motor (M) powering up. In case the motor includes a permanent capacitor (CP), said capacitor will be connected in series with a starting coil (L2) between the terminal of the latter and the first terminal ( 1) of the alternating current source.

Claims

1. Starting device for a single phase induction motor, of the type having a cage type rotor and a stator with at least one main winding and one starting winding connected in series with first and second terminals of an alternating current source comprising:

a relay having at least one contact with a pair of terminals, one of the terminals of said contact being connected to the first terminal of the alternating current source and the other terminal connected to the starting winding;

a coil for actuating the relay;

an electronic timer circuit connected to the coil for actuating the relay to open the relay contact by supplying a current to the coil thereof to end the starting operation of the motor after a period of time has elapsed from the motor powering up, said electronic timer circuit comprising;

a current limiting circuit having a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the alternating current source and a second terminal;

a rectifier circuit with an input connected to the second terminal of the current limiting circuit and an output;

a timing capacitor having its terminals connected between the output of said rectifier circuit and the first terminal of the supply source; and

output terminals respectively connected to the terminals of the timing capacitor and which are in turn connected to the coil for actuating the relay.

2. Starting device, as in claim 1, wherein said relay is of the type having at least one normally closed contact.

5. Starting device, according to claim 1, wherein the current limiting circuit comprises a first capacitor with a first terminal being connected to the second terminal of the alternating current source through a first resistor and with a second terminal being connected to the input of the rectifier circuit.

6. Starting device, according to claim 1 wherein the rectifier circuit comprises:

a first diode with its anode connected to the second terminal of the current limiting circuit and with its cathode connected to the first terminal of the timing capacitor; and

a second diode with its cathode connected to the anode of the first diode and with its anode connected to the first terminal of the alternating current source.

7. Starting device, as in claim 5, wherein the limitation of the current is predominantly provided by said first capacitor.

8. Starting device, as in claim 5, wherein said first resistor limits the current during motor starting.

11. Starting devise, as in claim 1, further comprising a permanent capacitor connected in series between the starting winding and the first terminal of the alternating current source.

12. Starting device, as in claim 1, wherein the relay comprises a bilateral switch.

13. Starting device as in claim 12, wherein the normally closed contact of the bilateral switch connects the starting winding to the first terminal of the alternating current source.

14. Starting device, as in claim 12, wherein the normally opened contact of the relay connects the starting winding to the first terminal of the alternating current source through a permanent capacitor.

15. Starting device as in claim 12, further comprising an external impedance connected between the first terminal of the alternating current course and the normally closed contact of the bilateral switch.

20. Starting device, as in claim 15, wherein the relay comprises a bilateral switch.

21. Starting device as in claim 20, wherein the normally closed contact of the bilateral switch connects the starting winding to the first terminal of the alternating current source.

3. Starting device for a single phase induction motor, of the type having a cage type rotor and a stator with at least one main winding and one starting winding connected in series with first and second terminals of an alternating current source comprising:

a relay having at least one contact with a pair of terminals, one of the terminals of said contact being connected to the first terminal of the alternating current source and the other terminal connected to the starting winding;

a coil for actuating the relay;

an electronic timer circuit connected to the coil for actuating the relay to open the relay contact by supplying a current to the coil thereof to end the starting operation of the motor after a period of time has elapsed from the motor powering up, said electronic timer circuit comprising;

a current limiting circuit having a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the alternating current source and a second terminal;

a rectifier circuit having an input connected to the second terminal of the current limiting circuit and an output;

a timing capacitor connected between the output of said rectifier circuit and the first terminal of the supply source; and

a voltage trigger circuit having input terminals connected to the first and second terminals of said timing capacitor and output terminals connected to the coil for actuating the relay.

4. Starting device, as in claim 3, wherein the voltage trigger circuit comprises:

A first transistor of the PNP type, having its emitter connected to the point interconnecting the output of the rectifier circuit to the timing capacitor, having its collector connected to the base of a second transistor of the NPN type and to the first terminal of the alternating current source through a second resistor, and having its base connected to the collector of the second transistor through a third resistor;

a fourth resistor interconnecting the emitter of said first transistor to the collector of the second transistor;

a fifth resistor interconnecting the collector of the second transistor to the first terminal of the alternating current source;

a third diode having an anode which is connected to the first terminal of the alternating current source, and a cathode, which is connected to the emitter of the second transistor; and

output terminals connected to the emitter of the second transistor and to the first terminal of the alternating current source.

16. Starting device according to claim 3, wherein the current limiting circuit comprises a first capacitor with a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the alternating current source through a first resistor and with a second terminal connected to the input of the rectifier circuit.

17. Starting device according to claim 3, wherein the rectifier circuit comprises:

a first diode, with the anode being connected to the second terminal of the current limiting circuit and with the cathode being connected to the first terminal of the timing capacitor; and

a second diode with the cathode connected to the anode of the first rectifier diode the anode connected to the first terminal of the alternating current source.

18. Starting device, as in claim 3, wherein the relay comprises a bilateral switch.

19. Starting device as in claim 18, wherein the normally closed contact of the bilateral switch connects the starting winding to the first terminal of the alternating current source.

9. Starting device for a single phase induction motor, of the type having a cage type rotor and a stator with at least one main winding and one starting winding connected in series with first and second terminals of an alternating current source comprising:

a relay having at least one contact with a pair of terminals, one of the terminals of said contact being connected to the first terminal of the alternating current source and the other terminal connected to the starting winding;

a coil for actuating the relay;

an electronic timer circuit connected to the coil for actuating the relay to open the relay contact by supplying a current to the coil thereof to end the starting operation of the motor after a period of time has elapsed from the motor powering up, and

an external impedance connected between the starting winding and the terminal of the normally closed contact of the relay.

10. Starting device, as in claim 9, wherein said external impedance is a resistor or a starting capacitor.