Patent GB-1329596-A (GB)
Title: Improved electric driving system
Inventor: TOEROEK VILMOS
IPC: H02P6/06
Filed: 1970-11-25
Abstract: 1329596 Automatic speed and current control ALLMNNA SVENSKA ELEKTRISKA AB 25 Nov 1970 [26 Nov 1969] 56040/70 Heading G3R [Also in Division H2] A driving system employing a conventional reluctance motor and suitable for high powers, e.g above 0À5 KW, comprises a motor 7 formed of three identical units X, Y, Z mounted on the same shaft with their rotor poles staggered, Figs.6a, 6b, 6c (not shown), a current controller for the winding 8 of each unit, each controller consisting of a semi-conductor converter 10 controlled by a regulator 11 receiving as input the difference between the signal from current senser 19 and a reference signal I RÀY  supplied to a comparator 12, and a switching device 13 which is controlled by a device 20 responsive to the position of the motor 7 and which generates reference signals I RY , I RX , I RZ  for the three controllers in accordance with the positions of the three rotors and with reference values of current I 1 R  and I 2R . Motor 7 is of the type wherein a certain movement of the rotor causes the permeance between a stator pole and a rotor pole to increase from a minimum to a maximum value during half the movement and then decrease to the minimum value during the remaining half, the supply to the winding being controlled to cause the average value of current during the increasing permeance period to be greater than that during the decreasing period. Reference I 1R  is the desired current for the half period of decreasing permeance and is set by a manually adjustable member 14. The value I 1R  + I 2R  is the desired current for the half period of increasing permeance. Reference I 2R  is obtained from a speed control loop comprising a comparator 16 receiving a reference signal of desired speed from an adjustable member 17 and a signal representative of actual motor speed from a tacho-generator 18, the output of comparator 16 feeding a regulator 15 of proportional or proportional-integral type. At starting, the device 20 detects which rotor of the three units is in the pull-in position (excitation of corresponding stator winding produces a clockwise torque) and the device 13 supplies the controller of this unit with the reference signal I 1R  + I 2R  and the other two controllers, whose units are in the pull-out position, with the reference signal I 1R  the latter signal being less than the maximum permitted winding current I max  and the former signal being equal to I max . As successive rotors reach the pull-in position, their controllers receive the signal I 1R  + I 2R  and the motor speeds up until it reaches the stabilized speed condition, when  the regulator 15 reduces the signal I  2R  to a value such that the motor and load torques are balanced. A sudden reduction of the speed reference signal or of the load torque causes the reference signals to be reversed, i.e. the unit in the pull-in position receives the signal I 1R  and those in the pull-out positions receive the signal I 1   R  + I 2R , Figs.7A and 7B (not shown). The motor is thus slowed down by controlled regenerative braking until a new stabilized speed condition is reached. During normal motoring action, power is returned to the supply during the periods of decreasing permeance, and a discussion is given of the way in which the voltage/current characteristic of a reluctance motor can be matched to that of a controlled converter to enable such operation to be obtained, Figs.1 to 4 (not shown). Typical voltage, current and reference waveforms are discussed for driving and braking, Figs.7C and 7D (not shown), including the operation of a phase advancer 23 which modifies the signal from the device 20 to the device 13 at high spesds to maintain correct operation. The converter 10 may comprise a thyristor bridge energized from a single phase A.C. supply, Fig.8 (not shown) or a three phase supply, Fig. 9 (not shown). A converter suitable for energization from a D.C. supply comprises a bridge consisting of two diodes and two thyristors each having two control electrodes respectively energized to turn the thyristor on or off, Fig.10 (not shown). Operation of this converter is described for various operating conditions such as maximum motor speed and the signal I 1 R  equal to zero.