Control device for induction motor

• US 6,194,864 B1
• Filed: 05/24/2000
• Issued: 02/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Okuyama, Miho, Sakurai, Hisao, Koyama, Masato, Kinpara, Yoshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): IP, SHIK LUEN PAUL
• Application Number:
  US09/577,322
• Time in Patent Office: 279 Days
• Field of Search: 318/800-839, 318/798, 318/782, 318/432, 187/114, 187/119, 363/37, 363/98
• US Class Current: 318/805
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/12 Stator flux based control involving the use of rotor position or rotor speed sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 21/22 Current control, e.g. using a current control loop

Abstract

An induction motor control device includes a power conversion circuit, a current sensor, a current component calculation circuit for calculating first and second current components, a magnetic flux command calculation circuit for calculating a magnetic flux command value such that the amplitude ratio between a squared value of the first current component and a squared value of the second current component takes a preset value, a voltage component calculation circuit for calculating a primary voltage component command value, and a primary voltage component command calculation circuit. The current component calculation circuit calculates first and second current components in phase and 90° out of phase with the primary voltage component command value, respectively.

Claims

1. An induction motor control device comprising:

a power conversion circuit for generating a variable voltage, variable frequency AC primary voltage for driving an induction motor;

a current sensor for sensing a primary current supplied from said power conversion circuit to the induction motor;

a current component calculation circuit for calculating first and second current components from the primary current and a frequency command value of the AC primary voltage;

a magnetic flux command calculation circuit for calculating a magnetic flux command value such that an amplitude ratio between squared values of the first and second current components has a preset value;

a voltage component command calculation circuit for calculating a primary voltage component command value from the frequency command value and the magnetic flux command value; and

a primary voltage command calculation circuit for calculating a primary voltage command value for the induction motor from the frequency command value and the primary voltage command value and for providing the primary voltage command value calculated to said power conversion circuit wherein said current component calculation circuit calculates first and second current components in phase and 90°

out of phase with the primary voltage component command value, respectively.

2. The induction motor control device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said magnetic flux command calculation circuit includes a limiter circuit limiting at least one of maximum and minimum values of the magnetic flux command value.

3. An induction motor control comprising:

a power conversion circuit for generating a variable voltage variable frequency AC primary voltage for driving an induction motor;

a current sensor for sensing a primary current supplied from said power conversion circuit to the induction motor;

a current component calculation circuit for calculating first and second current components from the primary current and a frequency command value of the AC primary voltage;

a magnetic flux command calculation circuit for calculating a magnetic flux command value such that an amplitude ratio between squared values of the first and second current components has a preset value, and a magnetic flux differentiation command value based on differentiation of the magnetic flux command value;

a voltage component command calculation circuit for calculating a primary voltage component command value from the frequency command value, the magnetic flux command value, and the magnetic flux differentiation command value; and

a primary voltage command calculation circuit for calculating a primary voltage command value for the induction motor from the frequency command value and the primary voltage command value and for providing the primary voltage command value calculated to said power conversion circuit wherein said current component calculation circuit calculates first and second current components in phase and 90°

out of phase with the primary voltage component command value, respectively.

4. The induction motor control device as claimed in claim 3, wherein said magnetic flux command calculation circuit includes a limiter circuit limiting at least one of maximum and minimum values of the magnetic flux command value.