Power control of a transport system

• US 8,207,631 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2009
• Issued: 06/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Inventors: Jahkonen, Pekka
• Primary Examiner(s): RUTLAND WALLIS, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US12/642,652
• Publication Number:
  US 20100117566A1
• Time in Patent Office: 921 Days
• Field of Search: 307/80, 307/64, 318/376
• US Class Current: 307/64
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 5/4585 having a rectifier with controlled elements
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 3/18 for stopping or slowing an ac motor

Abstract

The power control of a transport system comprises an electric motor for moving the transport appliance as well as a power supply appliance of the motor, which comprises an intermediate circuit. The power supply appliance of the motor is fitted between the power source and the electric motor. The transport system further comprises a network rectifier, which is fitted between the power source and the intermediate circuit of the power supply appliance of the motor for supplying braking power returning from the motor of the transport appliance to the power source.

Claims

1. Power control of a transport system, the power control comprising:

an electric motor for moving the transport appliance;

a power supply appliance of the motor, the power supply including an intermediate circuit and said power supply appliance being fitted between a power source and the electric motor, and

a network rectifier fitted between said power source and the intermediate circuit such that the rectifier is configured to supply braking power returning from the electric motor the power source, the network rectifier being single-phase and including only one choke and only one changeover switch; and

wherein

the network rectifier is fitted to the intermediate circuit via diodes connected to positive and negative intermediate circuit busbars;

the power source is formed of a single-phase or multiphase AC electricity system including a neutral wire,

said choke is fitted between the phase of the AC electricity system and a center point of said changeover switch,

at least two capacitors in series are connected in parallel with said changeover switch, and

said neutral wire is connected to a center point of the capacitors.

3. A control according to claim 1, wherein the transport system is an elevator system.

4. Power control according claim 1 or 2, the power supply appliance further comprising:

a DC rectifier fitted in connection with the power source, and

an inverter fitted in connection with the electric motor and supplying variable amplitude and variable frequency voltage to the electric motor, and

wherein the intermediate circuit is fitted between the DC rectifier and the inverter.

5. Power control according to claim 1, further comprising:

a controllable switch configured to close when an intermediate circuit voltage has reached a pre-determined limit value, said controllable switch being fitted in series with at least one choke.

7. Power control according to claim 4, the network rectifier comprising:

a rectifier control,

measurement of the intermediate circuit voltage,

measurement of the current of the choke; and

measurement of the phase voltage of the power source,

wherein the network rectifier is configured to

generate, based on the measurements of the phase voltage and of the intermediate circuit voltage, a reference value for the phase current; and

adjust the current of the choke according to the reference value with the rectifier control.

8. Power control according to claim 7, the rectifier control including a first and a second limit value of intermediate circuit voltage, of which the first limit value is greater than the second limit value,

wherein the network rectifier is fitted to start power supply from the intermediate circuit to the power source after the intermediate circuit voltage has exceeded the first limit value and to stop power supply from the intermediate circuit to the power source after the intermediate circuit voltage has fallen below the second limit value.

2. Power control of a transport system, the power control comprising:

an electric motor for moving the transport appliance;

a power supply appliance of the motor, the power supply including an intermediate circuit and said power supply appliance being fitted between a power source and the electric motor, and

a network rectifier fitted between said power source and the intermediate circuit such that the rectifier is configured to supply braking power returning from the electric motor the power source, the network rectifier including first and second changeover switches and first and second chokes; and

wherein

the network rectifier is fitted to the intermediate circuit via diodes connected to positive and negative intermediate circuit busbars;

the power source is formed from a two-phase or multiphase AC electricity system,

where the first choke is fitted between the first phase of the AC electricity system and a center point of the first changeover switch, and

the second choke is fitted between the second phase of the AC electricity system and a center point of the second changeover switch.

6. Power control according to claim 2, further comprising:

a connector fitted to positive and negative intermediate circuit busbars of the power supply appliance; and

a connector for electroconductively connecting the network rectifier to the power supply appliance of the motor is fitted in connection with diodes connecting the network rectifier to the positive and the negative intermediate circuit busbars.