Energy-saving electricity feedback device and method for an elevator

• US 9,327,939 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2013
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Delta Electronics Limited (Delta Electronics Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Delta Electronics Component (Wu Jiang) Ltd.
• Inventors: Yen, Liangyi, Shao, Shifeng
• Primary Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US13/845,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20140076666A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,142 Days
• Field of Search: 187/247, 187/277, 187/290, 187/293, 187/391, 187/393, 187/289, 187/296, 187/297, 318/375, 318/376, 318798-805
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B66B 1/302 for energy saving
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 3/18 for stopping or slowing an ac motor

Abstract

An elevator electricity feedback device includes a sampling unit, a transmitting unit, and a central processing unit. The sampling unit is electrically connected with an energy supply network of the elevator and the CPU, the transmitting unit is electrically connected with a motor driver of the elevator and electrically connected with the energy supply network through an AC resistor; and the CPU is electrically connected with the transmitting unit. The transmitting unit is electrically connected with the motor driver of the elevator to feed back an energy of the motor driver to the energy supply network when the motor driver is in an energy generating state so that an effect of conserving energy is achieved. In the energy generating state, a DC current produced by the motor driver is converted into AC current which is transmitted to the energy supply network.

Claims

1. An elevator electricity feedback device comprising:

a sampling unit;

a transmitting unit; and

a central processing unit (CPU),

wherein

the sampling unit is electrically connected to an energy supply network of an elevator and the CPU,

the sampling unit is configured to sample alternating current (AC) signals of the energy supply network and to input the sampled AC signals to the CPU,

the transmitting unit is electrically connected to a motor driver of the elevator, and through an AC resistor, electrically connected to the energy supply network, wherein the transmitting unit is configured to transmit an energy provided by the energy supply network to the motor driver if the motor driver is in an energy consuming state, and the transmitting unit is configured to invert a DC current produced by the motor driver into an AC current and to transmit the AC current to the energy supply network if the motor driver is in an energy generating state such that the energy produced by the motor driver is fed back to the energy supply network, and

the CPU is electrically connected with the transmitting unit and configured to input the AC signals obtained by the sampling unit to the transmitting unit.

2. The elevator electricity feedback device of claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit further comprises:

a detector;

a pulse width modulation (PWM) unit; and

a switch,

wherein

the switch is electrically connected with the motor driver,

the switch is electrically connected with the energy supply network through the AC resistor,

the switch is configured to convert the AC current provided by the energy supply network into the DC current which is transmitted to the motor if the motor driver is in the energy consuming state, and the switch is configured to invert the DC current produced by the motor drive into the AC current which is transmitted to the energy supply network, if the motor driver is in the energy generating state,

the detector is electrically connected with the motor driver and the CPU and configured to detect an operating state of the motor driver and to input the detected operating state of the motor driver to the CPU,

the PWM unit is electrically connected with the CPU and the switch, and

the PWM unit is configured to obtains the AC signals of the energy supply network and to synchronize the current transmitted to the energy supply network by the switch and existing current of the energy supply network if the motor driver is energy generating state.

3. The elevator electricity feedback device of claim 2, wherein the detector further comprises:

a capacitor; and

a threshold value judgment unit,

wherein

the capacitor is electrically coupled with the motor drive,

the threshold value judgment unit is electrically coupled with the capacitor and the CPU, and

the detector is further configured to compare a voltage between two ends of the capacitor with a voltage threshold value, and to transmit a control signal to the CPU according to a comparison result.

4. The elevator electricity feedback device of claim 1, wherein the elevator electricity feedback device further comprises:

a communication port electrically connected with the CPU and configured to facilitate reporting operating parameters of the elevator electricity feedback device to a bus.

5. The elevator electricity feedback device of claim 4, wherein the operation parameters comprise operating times, total energy of the energy feedback, and feedback frequency.

6. The elevator electricity feedback device of claim 1, wherein the electricity feedback device further comprises:

an external multifunction terminal electrically connected with the CPU, and configured to control enablement and disablement of the electricity feedback device and to obtain a malfunction code of the electricity feedback device.

7. The elevator electricity feedback device of claim 1, wherein the sampling unit comprises:

a voltage detector configured to sample AC voltage signals of the energy supply network; and

a current detector configured to sample AC signals of the energy supply network.

8. The elevator electricity feedback device of claim 1, wherein the energy generating state of the motor driver corresponds to either an ascending no-load condition or a descending full-load condition of the elevator.

9. An elevator electricity feedback method applied for the elevator electricity feedback device of claim 1, the method comprising:

sampling the AC signals of the energy supply network by the sampling unit;

detecting the operating state of the motor driver by the transmitting unit;

transmitting the operating state of the motor driver to the CPU;

inverting a DC current produced by the motor driver into the AC current if the motor driver is in the energy generating state; and

transmitting the energy to the supply network if the motor driver is in the energy generating state,

wherein the CPU controls the transmitting unit to feedback energy produced by the motor driver to the energy supply network, and a feedback current is controlled by a sampling signal of the sampling unit to ensure that the feedback current and the existing current of the energy supply network are synchronous.

10. The elevator electricity feedback method of claim 9, wherein

the transmitting unit further comprises a detector, a pulse width modulation (PWM) unit and a switch,

the step of detecting the operating state of the motor driver by the transmitting unit further comprises adopting the operating state of the motor driver detected by the detector, and transmitting the detected operating state of the motor driver to the CPU, and

the control method of the feedback current controlled by the signals sampled by the sampling unit comprises obtaining the AC signals from the CPU by the PWM unit, and controlling the AC current transmitted from the switch to the energy supply network to synchronize with the existing current of the energy supply network, according to the AC signals.

11. The elevator electricity feedback method of claim 10, wherein the detector further comprises:

a capacitor; and

a threshold value judgment unit,

wherein the capacitor is electrically coupled with the motor driver of the elevator,

the threshold value judgment unit is electrically coupled with the capacitor, and

detecting the operating state of the motor driver of the elevator by the detector further comprises adopting the threshold value judgment unit to compare a voltage between two ends of the capacitor with a voltage threshold value, and transmitting an operating state signal of the motor driver to the CPU, according to a comparison result.

12. The elevator electricity feedback method of claim 11, wherein the threshold value judgment unit transmits a high level signal to the CPU for representing that the motor driver is in the energy consuming state, and the threshold value judgment unit transmits a low level signal to the CPU for representing that the motor driver is in the energy generating state.

13. An elevator comprising a motor driver, an AC resistor, and the electricity feedback device of the claim 1.