Adjustment device for controlling electric drive of an elevator, electric drive of an elevator and method for controlling electric drive of an elevator

• US 8,763,760 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2012
• Issued: 07/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kone Corporation
• Inventors: Stolt, Lauri, Kallioniemi, Antti, Kauppinen, Tuukka
• Primary Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US13/608,502
• Publication Number:
  US 20130015021A1
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• Field of Search: 187/247, 187/290, 187/293, 187/295, 187/296, 187/297, 187391-393, 318/66, 318/68, 318/268, 318/434, 361/33, 361/56, 361/91.1
• US Class Current: 187/293
• 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: H02P 29/0016 Control of angular speed of one shaft without controlling the prime mover
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 29/02 Providing protection against overload without automatic interruption of supply protection against faults of stepper motors H02P8/36

Abstract

An adjustment device for controlling the electric drive of an elevator in connection with a voltage reduction of the supplying network is disclosed. The electric drive of an elevator includes an electric motor and a power supply apparatus of for adjusting the supply voltage of the electric motor. The adjustment device includes a device configured to control the power supply apparatus and also a speed regulator for adjusting the speed of the electric motor. The adjustment device is arranged to determine the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor in relation to the permitted maximum value of the output voltage, and the adjustment device is arranged to interrupt the operation of the speed regulator but to continue the operation of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor when the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor reaches the permitted maximum value.

Claims

1. Adjustment device in connection with an electric drive of an elevator,

which electric drive of an elevator comprises an electric motor;

and which electric drive of an elevator comprises a power supply apparatus of an electric motor for adjusting the supply voltage of an electric motor;

and which adjustment device comprises means for controlling a power supply apparatus of an electric motor;

and which adjustment device comprises a speed regulator for adjusting the speed of the electric motor;

wherein the adjustment device is arranged to determine the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor in relation to the permitted maximum value of the output voltage, and in that the adjustment device is arranged to interrupt the operation of the speed regulator but to continue the operation of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor when the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor reaches the permitted maximum value.

2. Adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment device is arranged to continue the interrupted operation of the speed regulator when the difference between the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor and the permitted maximum value of the output voltage returns to be at least the magnitude of the required limit value.

3. Adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the power supply apparatus of the electric motor comprises a motor bridge, which comprises controllable solid-state switches, which are switched in response to the voltage reference of the motor bridge, and in that the adjustment device is arranged to determine the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor in relation to the permitted maximum value of the output voltage on the basis of the voltage reference of the motor bridge of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor.

4. Adjustment device according to claim 3, wherein the adjustment device is arranged to interrupt the operation of the speed regulator but to continue the operation of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor when the voltage reference of the motor bridge of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor reaches the permitted maximum value.

5. Adjustment device according to claim 4, wherein the adjustment device is arranged to limit the length of the phasor of the voltage reference vector of the motor bridge of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor to the value for the length of the phasor set by the permitted maximum value of the voltage reference of the motor bridge of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor.

6. Adjustment device according to claim 3, wherein the adjustment device is arranged to continue the interrupted operation of the speed regulator when the difference between the voltage reference of the motor bridge of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor and the permitted maximum value of the voltage reference returns to be at least the magnitude of the required limit value.

7. Adjustment device according to claim 4, wherein the aforementioned permitted maximum value of the voltage reference is determined on the basis of the maximum value of the modulator comparator of the adjustment device.

8. Adjustment device according to claim 2, wherein the speed regulator is arranged to adjust the speed of the electric motor towards the value of the speed reference, and in that the speed regulator is arranged to set the initial value of the speed reference to correspond to the speed of the electric motor when the interrupted operation of the speed regulator continues.

9. Adjustment device according to claim 1, wherein the adjustment device is arranged to keep the value of at least one adjustment parameter of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor constant after the operation of the speed regulator has been interrupted.

10. Adjustment device according to claim 9, wherein the adjustment device comprises a current regulator for adjusting the current of the electric motor, and in that the aforementioned adjustment parameter of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor to be held constant is the current reference of the current regulator.

11. Adjustment device according to claim 9, wherein the adjustment device comprises a voltage regulator for adjusting the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor, and in that the aforementioned adjustment parameter of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor to be held constant is the voltage reference of the voltage regulator.

12. Adjustment device according to claim 9, wherein the adjustment device is arranged to set the aforementioned adjustment parameter of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor, which parameter is to be held constant after the operation of the speed regulator has been interrupted, to correspond to the value of the adjustment parameter in question when the operation of the speed regulator is interrupted.

13. Adjustment device according to claim 1, characterized in that wherein the adjustment device is arranged to adjust the current of the electric motor towards the value of the current reference for adjusting the torque of the electric motor.

14. Electric drive of an elevator, which electric drive comprises a hoisting machine, which hoisting machine comprises an electric motor;

and which electric drive of an elevator comprises a power supply apparatus of the electric motor;

wherein the electric drive of the elevator comprises an adjustment device according to claim 1 for controlling the electric drive of the elevator, and in that the electric drive of the elevator is arranged to continue the current supply occurring to the electric motor with the power supply apparatus of the electric motor when the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor reaches the permitted maximum value.

15. Electric drive of an elevator according to claim 14, wherein the power supply apparatus of an electric motor is a frequency converter.

16. Electric drive of an elevator according to claim 14, wherein the electric motor is a permanent-magnet synchronous motor.

17. Electric drive of an elevator according to claim 14, wherein the adjustment device is arranged to interrupt the operation of the speed regulator but to continue the current supply to the stator of the electric motor when the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor reaches the permitted maximum value.

18. Method for controlling an electric drive of an elevator, wherein:

the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor in relation to the permitted maximum value of the output voltage is determined

the operation of the speed regulator is interrupted but the operation of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor is continued when the output voltage of the power supply apparatus reaches the permitted maximum value.

19. Method according to claim 18, wherein:

the interrupted operation of the speed regulator is continued when the difference between the output voltage of the power supply apparatus of the electric motor and the permitted maximum value of the output voltage returns to be at least the magnitude of the required limit value.

20. Method according to claim 19, wherein:

the initial value of the speed reference is set to correspond to the speed of the electric motor, when the interrupted operation of the speed regulator continues.