Control system for controlling motors for heating, ventilation and air conditioning or pump

• US 7,795,827 B2
• Filed: 03/03/2008
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bluffton Motor Works LLC (Wpa Participações e Serviços SA)
• Original Assignee: Young-Chun Jeung
• Inventors: Jeung, Young-Chun
• Primary Examiner(s): IP, SHIK LUEN PAUL
• Application Number:
  US12/041,580
• Publication Number:
  US 20090218968A1
• Time in Patent Office: 925 Days
• Field of Search: 318/471, 318/652, 318/400.04, 318/400.16, 318/400.17, 388/811, 235/454, 235/462.48
• US Class Current: 318/400.04
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/085 in a bridge configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/16 Circuit arrangements for detecting position
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/182 using back-emf in windings

Abstract

The present invention discloses a control system for controlling a motor for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) or a pump comprising: an opto-isolated speed command signal processing interface into which a signal for controlling a speed of the motor is inputted and which outputs an output signal for controlling the speed of the motor being transformed as having a specific single frequency; a communication device into which a plurality of operation control commands of the motor; an opto-isolated interface for isolating the plurality of operation control commands inputted through the communication device and the transformed output signal for controlling the speed of the motor, respectively; a microprocessor, being connected to the opto-isolated interface, for outputting an output signal for controlling an operation of the motor depending on the plurality of operation control commands and the transformed output signal for controlling the speed of the motor; a sensor, being connected to the motor, for outputting a rotor position sensing signal of the motor; a logic control circuit, being connected to the opto-isolated interface, the microprocessor, and the sensor, respectively, for adding the rotor position sensing signal and the output signal for controlling the operation of the motor; a power switch circuit being connected to feed electric power to the motor; a gate drive circuit, being connected to the logic control circuit and the power switch circuit, respectively, for driving the power switch circuit; and a power supply device being connected to the logic control circuit, the power switch circuit, and the gate drive circuit, respectively, for feeding electric power thereto.

Claims

1. A control system for controlling a motor for a heating system, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, or a pump, the control system comprising:

an opto-isolated speed command signal processing interface into which a signal for controlling a speed of the motor is inputted and which outputs an output signal for controlling the speed of the motor, the output signal having a specific single frequency;

a communication device into which a plurality of operation control commands of the motor are inputted;

an opto-isolated interface for isolating the plurality of operation control commands inputted through the communication device and the output signal for controlling the speed of the motor, respectively;

a microprocessor, being connected to the opto-isolated interface, for outputting an output signal for controlling an operation of the motor depending on the plurality of operation control commands and the output signal for controlling the speed of the motor;

a sensor, being connected to the motor, for outputting a rotor position sensing signal of the motor;

a logic control circuit, being connected to the opto-isolated interface, the microprocessor, and the sensor, respectively, for using the rotor position sensing signal and the output signal for controlling the operation of the motor;

a power switch circuit being connected to feed electric power to the motor;

a gate drive circuit, being connected to the logic control circuit and the power switch circuit, respectively, for driving the power switch circuit; and

a power supply device being connected to the logic control circuit, the power switch circuit, and the gate drive circuit, respectively, for feeding electric power thereto.

2. The control system of claim 1 wherein the motor is anyone among a 2 phase and 3 phase combined type brushless electronically commutated motor (ECM) where a 2 phase armature and a 3 phase rotor are combined, a 2 phase brushless motor (BLM), a single phase brushless servo (BLS), or another ECM.

3. The control system of claim 2 wherein the control system further comprises a built-in isolation power supply device which is isolated from the power supply device and is used for a power source of an external system through the opto-isolation interface.

4. The control system of claim 1 wherein the sensor for outputting a rotor position sensing signal of the motor is embodied by a Hall sensor.

5. The control system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of operation control commands includes at least one or more of a non-regulated speed control (NRS) command, a regulated speed control (RS) command, a constant torque control command, a constant air flow/constant liquid flow control command, and a clockwise (CW) rotation/counter-clockwise (CCW) rotation control command of the motor.

6. The control system of claim 5 wherein the CW rotation/CCW rotation control command of the motor is inputted into the communication device by a separate on-off switch.

7. The control system of claim 1, wherein the signal for controlling a speed of the motor is a DC voltage signal or a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, and wherein the opto-isolated speed command signal processing interface outputs the output signal for controlling the speed of the motor that has the specific single frequency either in proportion to a voltage rate of the DC voltage signal or in proportion to a pulse width modulation rate of the PWM signal.

8. The control system of claim 5, wherein the signal for controlling a speed of the motor is a DC voltage signal or a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, and wherein the opto-isolated speed command signal processing interface outputs the output signal for controlling the speed of the motor that has the specific single frequency either in proportion to a voltage rate of the DC voltage signal or in proportion to a pulse width modulation rate of the PWM signal.

9. The control system of claim 6, wherein the signal for controlling a speed of the motor is a DC voltage signal or a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, and wherein the opto-isolated speed command signal processing interface outputs the output signal for controlling the speed of the motor that has the specific single frequency either in proportion to a voltage rate of the DC voltage signal or in proportion to a pulse width modulation rate of the PWM signal.

10. The control system of claim 7, wherein the DC voltage signal is a signal having a range of 0-10 Vdc, wherein the PWM signal is a signal having a frequency range of 40-120Hz, wherein the specific single frequency is 80Hz, and wherein the output signal for controlling the operation of the motor is a PWM output signal having a frequency of 20KHz or more.

11. The control system of claim 1, wherein the control system for controlling the motor further comprises:

a current detection circuit for detecting a load current of the motor and feeding the detected load current to the microprocessor;

a temperature detection sensor for detecting a temperature of the motor and feeding the detected temperature to the microprocessor; and

a voltage detection circuit for detecting a voltage being fed from the power supply device to the power switch circuit and feeding the detected voltage to the microprocessor.

12. The control system of claim 11 wherein the control system for controlling the motor further comprises a relay switch into which an output for making a notice of an abnormal operation condition is fed from the microprocessor in the case that the motor is operated in the abnormal operation condition.

13. The control system of claim 11 wherein data information relating to operation current, voltage, speed, and temperature of the motor which are processed by the microprocessor is transmitted to an external system through either the communication device connected to the microprocessor or a separate communication device.