Frequency and current control for fluid machinery

• US 6,350,105 B1
• Filed: 10/25/1999
• Issued: 02/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ebara Corporation
• Original Assignee: Ebara Corporation
• Inventors: Yagi, Kaoru, Kobayashi, Makoto, Yamamoto, Masakazu, Miyazaki, Yoshiaki, Miyake, Yoshio, Iijima, Katsuji, Uwai, Keita
• Primary Examiner(s): TYLER, CHERYL JACKSON
• Application Number:
  US09/402,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20020018721A1
• Time in Patent Office: 855 Days
• Field of Search: 417/44.1, 417/24, 417/366, 318/779, 318/723, 415/70
• US Class Current: 417/44.1
• CPC Class Codes: F04D 15/0066 by changing the speed, e.g. of the driving engine

Abstract

A fluid machinery for generating a pressure by rotating an impeller with a motor has a frequency converter (F) for supplying electric power to the motor, a detector for detecting a frequency and a current value, and a program for specifying in advance the relationship between the frequency and the current value. A frequency and a current value in an actual operation are compared with the specified program, and the frequency generated by the frequency converter (F) is varied so that an operating point of the fluid machinery approaches the specified program.

Claims

1. A fluid machinery for generating a pressure by rotating an impeller with a motor, comprising:

a frequency converter arranged for supplying electric power to the motor;

a detector for determining a current value; and

a controller having a memory storing a program for specifying in advance a relationship between the frequency and the current value;

wherein when the fluid machinery is operated at a certain frequency, the controller is adapted to compare a current value in an actual operation and a current value which is specified on the basis of the certain frequency by the specified program; and

wherein the controller is further adapted to decrease the frequency generated by the frequency converter when the current value in the actual operation is larger than the current value specified by the specified program, and to increase the frequency generated by the frequency converter when the current value in the actual operation is smaller than the current value specified by the specified program, whereby one of a flow rate and a generated pressure of the fluid machinery is controlled so as to be substantially constant.

2. A fluid machinery according to claim 1, wherein said fluid machinery is such a type that a shaft power increases as a flow rate increases at a constant rotational speed, and the flow rate of said fluid machinery is controlled so as to be substantially constant even when a generated pressure varies.

3. A fluid machinery according to claim 1, wherein said fluid machinery is such a type that a shaft power decreases as a flow rate increases at a constant rotational speed, and a generate d pressure is controlled so as to be substantially constant even when the flow rate varies.

4. A fluid machinery according to claim 1, wherein the frequency (Hz) and the current value (A) are related by a unique function and programmed.

5. A fluid machinery according to claim 4, wherein the stored relationship between said frequency (Hz) and said current value (A) is expressed by A=KHzⁿ (where K and n represent positive constants).

6. A fluid machinery according to claim 5, wherein said frequency converter has means for changing values of K and n.