Control device for diaphragm pump

• US 6,154,605 A
• Filed: 07/23/1999
• Issued: 11/28/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sataco Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sataco Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Aonuma, Saburo
• Primary Examiner(s): Martin, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Leykin, Rita
• Application Number:
  US09/359,133
• Time in Patent Office: 494 Days
• Field of Search: 318/159, 318/40, 318/436, 388/804, 388/811, 388/842, 388/847, 388/815, 388/831, 388/832, 388/829, 417/22, 417/43, 417/45
• US Class Current: 388/829
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 43/04 Pumps having electric drive
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 49/06 Control using electricity regulating by means of floats actuating electric switches F04B49/04

Abstract

A control device for a DC motor driving a diaphragm pump including a pulse generating integral circuit and a variable voltage setting integral circuit. The variable voltage setting integral circuit sets a pulse-base voltage at a level such that the DC motor is not rotated when no pulse is applied, thereby a high voltage overshoot generated at the rising and the falling point of an electrical pulse is restricted. Discharge of the diaphragm pump is accurately regulated by means of modifying frequency, voltage, and duty ratio of the pulse.

Claims

1. A control device for a DC motor rotatingly driving a crankshaft of a diaphragm pump, the DC motor having a brush-type commutator, comprising:

a pulse generating circuit means for generating and supplying an electrical pulse to the DC motor;

a voltage setting circuit means connected to said pulse generating circuit means for setting a variable voltage of the electrical pulse and applying a bias voltage to the DC motor at a level such that the DC motor prevents rotation of the crankshaft of the diaphragm pump when no electrical pulse is applied.

2. A control device according to claim 1, wherein said voltage setting and circuit means sets a pulse-base voltage.

3. A control device according to claim 1, wherein said diaphragm pump has a discharge rate of less than 20 cc/min.

4. A control device according to claim 1, wherein said bias voltage is less than 2 V.

5. The control device recited in claim 1,

wherein said pulse generating circuit means comprises a pulse generating integral circuit including an astable multivibrator,

wherein said voltage setting circuit means includes a voltage setting integral circuit for setting the bias voltage applied to the DC motor,

said control device further comprising:

an amplifying circuit connected between said pulse generating integral circuit and said voltage setting integral circuit.