Linear motor automatic control circuit assembly for controlling the operation of a 3-phase linear motor-driven submersible oil pump of an artificial oil lift system

• US 7,795,824 B2
• Filed: 02/29/2008
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yen-Hong Wong
• Original Assignee: Digitek Technologies Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chiang, Chinn-Chann, Shen, Kuei-Hsien
• Primary Examiner(s): Ro; Bentsu
• Application Number:
  US12/073,073
• Publication Number:
  US 20090218963A1
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• Field of Search: 318/135, 318/432, 318/479, 318/481, 318/482, 318/504, 318/621, 318/632, 318/687, 318/722, 318/800, 318/801
• US Class Current: 318/135
• CPC Class Codes: F04B 47/00 Pumps or pumping installations specially adapted for raising fluids from great depths, e.g. well pumps by using positive or negative pressurised fluid medium acting directly on the liquid to be pumped F04F1/00

Abstract

Connected to a 3-phase linear motor of a submersible oil pump of a crude oil production system, a linear motor automatic control circuit assembly is disclosed to include a linear motor power supply circuit, a CPU, an insulated gate bipolar transistor driving circuit, a current detection circuit, a temperature sensor, a fluid depth sensor, a function setting and status display circuit, and a circuit assembly power supply circuit for controlling the operation speed of the linear motor subject to the submergence depth of the linear motor in the oil well.

Claims

1. A linear motor automatic control circuit assembly connected to a 3-phase linear motor that is adapted for driving a submersible oil pump of a crude oil production system to pump crude oil out of an oil well, said linear motor automatic control circuit assembly comprising a linear motor power supply circuit, a CPU, an insulated gate bipolar transistor driving circuit, a current detection circuit, a fluid depth sensor, a function setting and status display circuit, and a circuit assembly power supply circuit, said linear motor power supply circuit being comprised of a 3-phase rectifier, a charging resistor, a filter and three insulated gate bipolar transistors and adapted to provide power supply to said linear motor, said insulated gate bipolar transistor driving circuit being electrically connected between said CPU and said insulated gate bipolar transistors of said linear motor power supply circuit and adapted for controlling on, off and speed of said linear motor, said current detection circuit being electrically connected between said CPU and current transformers at a front side of said linear motor power supply circuit and adapted for detecting the current value at said linear motor and providing the detected current value to said CPU for overcurrent protection control, said fluid depth sensor being electrically connected to said CPU and adapted for detecting the depth of the oil level in said oil well and providing the detected value to said CPU for reference in controlling the operation of said linear motor, said function setting and status display circuit being electrically connected to said CPU for setting system function parameters and displaying the settings and the status of the operation of the system, said circuit assembly power supply circuit providing the linear motor automatic control circuit assembly with the necessary working voltage.

2. The linear motor automatic control circuit assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said linear motor power supply circuit comprises a 3-phase rectifier formed of multiple diodes, a charging resistor, a filter formed of a number of resistors and capacitors, and three insulated gate bipolar transistors, each said insulated gate bipolar transistor being comprised of two switching transistors, and a plurality of resistors, capacitors and diodes, said 3-phase rectifier rectifying 3-phase AC into DC, said three insulated gate bipolar transistors controlling on, off and speed of said linear motor.

3. The linear motor automatic control circuit assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said insulated gate bipolar transistor driving circuit is comprised of three sets of flip flops, a plurality of photocoupling transistors, insulated gate bipolar transistor drivers, resistors and capacitors, said insulated gate bipolar transistor driving circuit being electrically connected to said 3-phase insulated gate bipolar transistors of said linear motor to control on/off of said insulated gate bipolar transistors and to further control on, off and operation speed of said linear motor.

4. The linear motor automatic control circuit assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said current detection circuit is comprised of three operation amplifiers, a plurality of resistors, capacitors and variable resistors, said current detection circuit being electrically connected to current transformers at a front side of said linear motor power supply circuit to detect the current value at said linear motor and to provide the detected current value to said CPU for overcurrent protection control.

5. The linear motor automatic control circuit assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein said circuit assembly power supply circuit is comprised of transformers, three bridge rectifiers each formed of two diodes, and voltage stabilizing transistors, said circuit assembly power supply circuit providing the linear motor automatic control circuit assembly with the necessary DC working voltage.

6. The linear motor automatic control circuit assembly as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a temperature sensor, a buzzer, and a photoelectric relay circuit, said photoelectric relay circuit having one electrically connected to said CPU and an opposite end electrically connected to a cooling fan, a charging resistor bypass solenoid switch and a master solenoid switch, said master solenoid switch being controllable by said CPU to turn off said linear motor.