Brushless DC motor having an AC power control device

• US 6,949,899 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2003
• Issued: 09/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine, Ind. Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sunonwealth Electric Machine, Ind. Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Horng, Alex, Cheng, Chung-Ken, Wu, Wen-Chung
• Primary Examiner(s): DUDA, RINA I
• Application Number:
  US10/623,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20050017665A1
• Time in Patent Office: 798 Days
• Field of Search: 318/138, 318/254, 318/439, 318/461, 318/257, 318/268, 388/800, 388/801, 388/803, 388/806, 388/815, 388/822, 388/823, 388/907, 388/907.5
• US Class Current: 318/400.3
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 6/28 Arrangements for controlling current H02P6/10 takes precedence

Abstract

A brushless dc motor includes a conversion circuit and a dc motor drive circuit. The conversion circuit includes a rectifier unit, a pulse-wave-absorbing unit, a filter unit, a voltage-stabilizing control unit and a voltage-stabilizing unit. The rectifier unit, the pulse-wave-absorbing unit and the filter unit are serially connected between an ac power source and the dc motor drive circuit. The ac power source is rectified, stabilized and filtered to thereby supply with a dc voltage to the dc motor drive circuit. The voltage-stabilizing control unit and the voltage-stabilizing unit are serially connected between the rectifier unit and the dc motor drive circuit so as to limit a passage of a high voltage and to allow a passage of a low voltage through the dc motor drive circuit. Thereby, the voltage-stabilizing control unit and the voltage-stabilizing unit are commonly in control of the operation of the dc motor drive circuit.

Claims

1. A conversion circuit for a brushless dc motor connected with a dc motor drive circuit, comprising:

a rectifier unit electrically connected to an ac power source to thereby supply a dc voltage to the dc motor drive circuit;

a voltage-stabilizing control unit electrically connected between the rectifier unit and the dc motor drive circuit, and adapted to detect whether a dc voltage supplied by the rectifier unit to the dc motor drive circuit is a low dc voltage suitable for the brushless dc motor; and

a voltage-stabilizing unit electrically connected between the voltage-stabilizing control unit and the dc motor drive circuit, said voltage-stabilizing unit being controlled by the voltage-stabilizing control unit to supply a stabilized dc voltage to the dc motor drive circuit only if the voltage-stabilizing control unit detects that the dc voltage supplied by the rectifier unit is said low dc voltage;

wherein the dc voltage supplied from the rectifier unit is passed through the voltage-stabilizing control unit controlled by the voltage-stabilizing unit to turn on or off the dc motor drive circuit, said voltage-stabilizing control unit cutting off supply of dc voltage to the dc motor drive circuit when a high dc voltage is detected.

2. The conversion circuit for the brushless dc motor as defined in claim 1, wherein the rectifier unit is selected from the group consisting of a bridge rectifier and a diode.

3. The conversion circuit for the brushless dc motor as defined in claim 1, further comprising a pulse-wave-absorbing unit serially connected between the rectifier unit and the dc motor drive circuit.

4. The conversion circuit for the brushless dc motor as defined in claim 3, wherein the pulse-wave-absorbing unit is a varistor.

5. The conversion circuit for the brushless dc motor as defined in claim 1, further comprising a filter unit serially connected between the rectifier unit and the dc motor drive circuit.

6. The conversion circuit for the brushless dc motor as defined in claim 5, wherein the filter unit is a capacitor.

7. The conversion circuit for the brushless dc motor as defined in claim 1, wherein the voltage-stabilizing control unit includes an operational amplifier, a diode, a first resistor, a second resistor, a third resistor, a first capacitor, a fourth resistor and a second capacitor.

8. The conversion circuit for the brushless dc motor as defined in claim 7, wherein the diode, the first resistor, the third resistor and the first capacitor are commonly provided with a predetermined floating value of a reference voltage input into the operational amplifier for comparing with the dc voltage.

9. The conversion circuit for the brushless dc motor as defined in claim 1, wherein the voltage-stabilizing unit is a Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor.