Power supply appliance of a transport system

• US 8,217,617 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2009
• Issued: 07/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Inventors: Jahkonen, Pekka
• Primary Examiner(s): Masih, Karen
• Application Number:
  US12/609,651
• Publication Number:
  US 20100109596A1
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• Field of Search: 318/722, 318/376, 318/400.3, 318/372, 318/807, 318/801, 318/503, 318/459, 318/468, 363/108, 187/288
• US Class Current: 318/722
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/30 effective on driving gear , e.g. acting on power electronics, on inverter or rectifier controlled motor
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0024 Parallel/serial switching of connection of batteries to charge or load circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/06 with automatic change-over , e.g. UPS systems

Abstract

A power supply appliance of a transport system is provided. The appliance includes a power rectifier of the motor, an AC voltage circuit, a control voltage circuit, a power supply circuit of the safety devices, an AC/DC transformer fitted between the AC voltage circuit and the control voltage circuit to supply power from the AC voltage circuit to the control voltage circuit, and a power shaping circuit.

Claims

1. A power supply appliance of a transport system, the power supply appliance comprising:

a power rectifier of a motor,

an AC voltage circuit,

a power supply circuit of safety devices,

and a power shaping circuit fitted between a DC intermediate circuit of the power rectifier, the AC voltage circuit, and the power supply circuit, the power shaping circuit including

first and second change-over switches fitted as an H-bridge in the DC intermediate circuit,

diodes fitted as an antiparallel circuit in parallel with negative and positive changeover contacts of the change-over switches; and

a transformer having a plurality of windings, of which the first winding is fitted to the H-bridge between the center points of the first and the second change-over switches, the second winding is fitted to the AC voltage circuit, and the third winding is fitted to the power supply circuit.

2. Power supply appliance according to claim 1, wherein the transformer of the power shaping circuit includes a fourth winding, and

the power supply appliance includes

a second energy storage;

and

an inverter,

in connection with a DC voltage part of which the second energy storage is fitted, and

in connection with an AC voltage part of which the fourth winding of the transformer is fitted for supplying power between the energy storage and the power shaping circuit.

3. Power supply appliance according to claim 1 wherein the power supply appliance further comprises a control voltage circuit and an AC/DC transformer, which is fitted between the AC voltage circuit and the control voltage circuit to supply power from the AC voltage circuit to the control voltage circuit.

4. Power supply appliance according to claim 3, the power supply appliance further comprising:

accumulator cells and/or a supercapacitor fitted into the control voltage circuit,

a charging circuit for charging said accumulator cells and/or supercapacitor; and

an inverter,

into a DC voltage part of which is fitted a control voltage circuit, and

into an AC voltage part of which is fitted the second winding of the transformer of the power shaping circuit for supplying power from the control voltage circuit to the power shaping circuit.

5. A power control appliance according to claim 4, where the inverter comprises only an H-bridge.

6. Power supply appliance according to claim 4, the power supply appliance further comprising:

a communication channel, which is fitted between at least the power rectifier of the motor, the control of the H-bridge, the AC/DC transformer, and the inverter such that each of the aforementioned appliances is fitted to read both a start operating command and a stop operating command from the communication channel and to start and stop its operation according to the command.

7. Power supply appliance according to claim 4, wherein the power shaping circuit of the motor, the control of the H-bridge, the AC/DC transformer and the inverter are fitted to send a fault notification to a communication channel when a defect is detected.

8. Power supply appliance according to claim 6, where the communication channel is also fitted to an elevator control system and where the elevator control system is also fitted to read both a start operating command and a stop operating command from the communication channel and to start and stop its operation according to the command.

9. Power supply appliance according to claim 1, the power supply appliance further comprising:

a control of the H-bridge; and

a voltage measurement of the DC intermediate circuit,

and wherein the control is fitted to connect the positive change-over contact of the first change-over switch into a conductive state essentially simultaneously with the negative change-over contact of the second change-over switch as well as the negative change-over contact of the first change-over switch essentially simultaneously with the positive change-over contact of the second change-over switch

such that the positive and the negative changeover contact of the first and the second change-over switches are connected in turn into a conductive state for a pre-defined variable time according to the voltage of the DC intermediate circuit.

10. Power supply appliance according to claim 9, wherein the control of the H-bridge is fitted to connect the positive and the negative change-over contact in the first and the second change-over switches into a conductive state in turn once during a half-cycle of a fundamental wave of the voltage.

11. Power supply appliance according to claim 9 wherein a fundamental wave of the voltage has a frequency of at least 350 Hz.

12. Power supply appliance according to claim 10 wherein at least 350 Hz is fitted as the frequency of the fundamental wave of the voltage.

13. A power supply appliance of a transport system, the power supply appliance comprising:

a power rectifier of a motor,

an AC voltage circuit,

a power supply circuit of safety devices,

a control voltage circuit;

an AC/DC transformer, which is fitted between the AC voltage circuit and the control voltage circuit to supply power from the AC voltage circuit to the control voltage circuit;

and a power shaping circuit fitted between a DC intermediate circuit of the power rectifier, the AC voltage circuit, and the power supply circuit, the power shaping circuit including

first and second change-over switches fitted as an H-bridge in the DC intermediate circuit,

and diodes fitted as an antiparallel circuit in parallel with negative and positive changeover contacts of the change-over switches.

14. Power supply appliance according to claim 13, wherein

the control voltage circuit includes at least a first energy storage,

the AC voltage part of the AC/DC transformer is in the AC voltage circuit and the DC voltage part of the AC/DC transformer is in the control voltage circuit, and

the AC/DC transformer is fitted to supply power from the AC voltage circuit to the control voltage circuit.