Combustion control device

• US 9,574,773 B2
• Filed: 10/10/2013
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shizuoka Seiki Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Shizuoka Seiki Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Yoshioka, Shogo
• Primary Examiner(s): Luo, David S
• Application Number:
  US14/050,408
• Publication Number:
  US 20140178826A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,230 Days
• Field of Search: 318/34, 318/558
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F23N 3/082 using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: F23N 5/242 using electronic means

Abstract

A combustion control device includes a combustion fan motor, a control unit, a silicon diode group, a silicon diode, and a combustion-fan-disconnection detecting unit. The control unit is configured to control a combustion state of the combustion fan motor. The silicon diode group includes at least two silicon diodes coupled in series to the combustion fan motor. The silicon diode is coupled in parallel to the silicon diode group with a reversed polarity. The combustion-fan-disconnection detecting unit includes a photocoupler and a resistor. The photocoupler and the resistor are coupled in parallel to the silicon diode group and the silicon diode with the same polarity as a polarity of the silicon diode group side.

Claims

1. A combustion control device, comprising:

a power supply for supplying AC power to said combustion control device;

a combustion fan motor connected to said power supply so as to operate by AC power;

a control unit configured to control a combustion state of the combustion fan motor;

a silicon diode group that includes at least two first silicon diodes coupled in series to the combustion fan motor and said power supply, said first silicon diodes having a first polarity permitting a current flow from said power supply to said combustion fan motor for operation of said combustion fan motor;

at least one second silicon diode coupled in parallel with the silicon diode group between said power supply and said combustion fan motor, said silicon diode having a reversed second polarity that is reversed relative to said first polarity of said first silicon diodes; and

a combustion-fan-disconnection detecting unit that is coupled to said control unit and includes a photocoupler and a resistor, the photocoupler and the resistor being coupled in parallel to the silicon diode group and the second silicon diode with a same polarity as said first polarity of the silicon diode group side.

2. The combustion control device according to claim 1, wherein the silicon diode group includes two or more rows of two or more of said first silicon diodes wherein said first silicon diodes of each said row are series-coupled together in said row.

3. The combustion control device according to claim 1, wherein the silicon diode group includes at least one resistor which is series coupled with a plurality of said first silicon diodes.

4. The combustion control device according to claim 1, wherein said combustion-fan-disconnection detecting unit detects an operating sate of said combustion fan motor relative to a flow of load current between said power supply and said combustion fan motor.

5. The combustion control device according to claim 1, wherein said first silicon diodes of said silicon diode group generate a voltage drop during a forward voltage which defines a generated voltage which operates said photocoupler.

6. The combustion control device according to claim 1, wherein said operation of said photocoupler in the presence of said generated voltage generates a signal to said control unit, and an absence of said generated voltage does not generate said signal.

7. A combustion control device, comprising:

a power supply for supplying AC power to said combustion control device;

a combustion fan motor operable by AC power received from said power supply;

a control unit configured to control a combustion state of the combustion fan motor;

a silicon diode group that includes at least two first silicon diodes coupled in series between and with said combustion fan motor and said power supply, said first silicon diodes having a first polarity permitting a current flow from said power supply to said combustion fan motor for operation of said combustion fan motor by a load current of AC power supplied by said power supply;

at least one second silicon diode coupled in parallel with the silicon diode group between said power supply and said combustion fan motor, said silicon diode having a reversed second polarity that is reversed relative to said first polarity of said first silicon diodes; and

a combustion-fan-disconnection detecting unit that is coupled to said control unit and includes a photocoupler and a resistor, which are coupled together in series and together are coupled in parallel with said silicon diode group and in parallel with said second silicon diode, said combustion-fan-disconnection detecting unit having a same polarity as said first polarity of said first silicon diodes of said silicon diode group side;

said first silicon diodes of said silicon diode group being set to generate a voltage drop during a forward voltage which defines a generated voltage which operates said photocoupler.

8. The combustion control device according to claim 7, wherein said operation of said photocoupler in the presence of said generated voltage generates a signal to said control unit, and an absence of said generated voltage does not generate said signal.

9. The combustion control device according to claim 7, wherein said combustion-fan-disconnection detecting unit detects an operating sate of said combustion fan motor relative to a flow of said load current between said power supply and said combustion fan motor.

10. The combustion control device according to claim 7, wherein the silicon diode group includes two or more rows of two or more of said first silicon diodes wherein said first silicon diodes of each said row are series-coupled together in said row.

11. The combustion control device according to claim 7, wherein said silicon diode group includes at least one series-coupled resistor which is series-coupled with a plurality of said first silicon diodes.

12. The combustion control device according to claim 7, wherein said first silicon diodes define said generated voltage at a same level when said first silicon diodes receive said AC power over a range of supply voltages.