Inverter device

• US 6,594,162 B2
• Filed: 02/15/2002
• Issued: 07/15/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
• Inventors: Goto, Masato, Shinoda, Hisanobu, Kayumi, Yoshio, Shigemizu, Tetsuro, Takemura, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Rajnikant B.
• Application Number:
  US10/075,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20020075703A1
• Time in Patent Office: 515 Days
• Field of Search: 363/40, 363/39, 363/41, 363/131, 363/132, 363/97, 363/98, 318/811, 318/810, 318/812, 318/729
• US Class Current: 363/40
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/53873 with digital control
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 27/06 using dc to ac converters or inverters H02P27/05 takes precedence

Abstract

The inverter device includes an inverse conversion circuit which converts a supplied direct-current electricity into a alternating-current electricity having a predetermined frequency, and is designed to drive a motor for a rotary machine, at various speeds, in which the switching control of the inverse conversion circuit is performed by a digital processor. In this inverter device, a timer interrupt process having an independent constant processing cycle which is not directly related to the processing cycle of the system control in the digital processor is assigned. In the timer interrupt process, whether or not switching of the inverse conversion circuit is required is determined, and the switching control is carried out on the basis of the determination.

Claims

1. An inverter device comprising an inverse conversion circuit which converts a supplied direct-current electricity into a alternating-current electricity having a predetermined frequency, for driving a power source motor for a rotary machine, at various speeds, in which the switching control of the inverse conversion circuit is performed by a digital processor, said inverter device characterized in that a timer interrupt process having an independent constant processing cycle which is not directly related to the processing cycle of the system control in the digital processor is assigned and whether or not switching of the inverse conversion circuit is required in the timer interrupt process is determined, and the switching control is carried out on the basis of the determination, thereby controlling the inverter output frequency.

2. An inverter device according to claim 1, characterized in that the constant processing cycle in the timer interrupt process is set shorter than an average processing cycle in the system control.

3. An inverter device according to claim 1, characterized by comprising means for determining whether or not the switching control is required on the basis of a present phase obtained by converting the frequency set value into a phase increment amount to be set in the timer interrupt cycle, and totalizing the set value in the timer interrupt process, thus grasping the current phase.