Control device of elevator

• US 9,242,833 B2
• Filed: 09/06/2010
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Hirabayashi, Kazufumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Salata, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US13/813,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20130126276A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,968 Days
• Field of Search: 187/247, 187/277, 187/293, 187/296, 187/297, 187/391, 187/393, 318/432, 318/400.02, 318/801, 318/811, 318/609, 318/632
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: B66B 1/304 with starting torque control

Abstract

A control device of an elevator improving the speed control performance by performing feedforward compensation. The control device includes a model torque calculating section which calculates, based on a speed instruction value for an electric motor, a model torque instruction value of the electric motor, a storage section which stores the relationship between the speed-dependent loss torque of the electric motor which varies due to variations in the rotation speed of the electric motor and the rotation speed of the electric motor, a speed-dependent loss torque calculating section which calculates, based on a detected value of the rotation speed of the electric motor, a speed-dependent loss torque value correlated to the detected value, and a driving torque calculating section which calculates a torque instruction value by adding the speed-dependent loss torque value correlated to the detected value to the model instruction value.

Claims

1. A control device of an elevator, comprising:

a model torque calculating section which calculates, on the basis of a speed instruction value for an electric motor which drives an elevator, a model torque instruction value of the electric motor which is independent of a rotation speed of the electric motor;

a storage section which stores a relationship between a speed-dependent loss torque of the electric motor which varies due to variations in the rotation speed of the electric motor and the rotation speed of the electric motor;

a speed-dependent loss torque calculating section which calculates, on the basis of a detected value of the rotation speed of the electric motor, a speed-dependent loss torque value correlated to the detected value; and

a driving torque calculating section which calculates a torque instruction value for driving the electric motor by adding the speed-dependent loss torque value correlated to the detected value to the model instruction value.

2. The control device of an elevator according to claim 1, further comprising:

a model speed calculating section which calculates, on the basis of the speed instruction value, the model speed instruction value of the electric motor which is independent of the rotation speed of the electric motor; and

a compensation calculating section which calculates, on the basis of a difference between the model speed instruction value and the detected value of the rotation speed of the electric motor, an error-compensated torque value,

wherein the model torque calculating section calculates the model torque instruction value so that the model speed instruction value follows the speed instruction value, and

wherein the driving torque calculating section calculates the torque instruction value by adding the error-compensated torque value to the model torque instruction value.

3. The control device of an elevator according to claim 1, further comprising:

a temperature detection device which detects a temperature of a rotary body which rotates by following the rotation of the electric motor; and

a temperature-dependent loss torque calculating section which calculates, on the basis of a temperature value of the rotary body, a temperature-dependent loss torque value of the electric motor which varies due to temperature variations of a viscous component utilized in the rotary body,

wherein the driving torque calculating section calculates the torque instruction value by adding the temperature-dependent loss torque value to the model torque instruction value.

4. The control device of an elevator according to claim 1, further comprising:

an estimation section which estimates, on the basis of a detected value of the rotation speed of the electric motor, a temperature of a rotary body which rotates by following the electric motor; and

a temperature-dependent loss torque calculating section which calculates, on the basis of a temperature value of the rotary body, the temperature-dependent loss torque value of the electric motor which varies due to the temperature variations of the viscous component utilized in the rotary body,

wherein the driving torque calculating section calculates the torque instruction value by adding the temperature-dependent loss torque value to the model torque instruction value.

5. The control device of an elevator according to claim 2, further comprising:

a heat source which warms the rotary body in the case where the temperature value of the rotary body is less than a prescribed value.

6. The control device of an elevator according to claim 2, further comprising:

a main control section which drives the electric motor in the case where the temperature value of the rotary body is less than a prescribed value when the electric motor is stopped.