Patent DE-3204587-C2 (DE)
IPC: H02P3/24
Filed: 1982-02-10
Granted: 1988-01-28
Abstract: 1. Circuit equipment for direct current braking of a single-phase alternating current motor (11) with an auxiliary phase consisting of an auxiliary winding (W') and additionally of a reactance (C) or a polyphase alternating current motor (11) in Steinmetz connection or in star connection, which are respectively connected by way of phase conductors with switch-on members (5, 6) as well as a phase conductor (LS or LT ) free of switching members to an alternating current mains and which are respectively connected through a single-phase braking current circuit with the mains, the braking current circuit consists of a first partial current circuit (L'R ) with a thyristor (Th) and at least one rest contact (3), which is operated in opposite sense to the switch-on members (5, 6, 6'), in series connection and connects the phase conductor free of switching members by way of the auxiliary winding of the auxiliary motor phase of a single-phase alternating current motor or of a polyphase alternating current motor in Steinmetz connection with the second mains phase of the single-phase alternating current mains, whereagainst in the case of a polyphase alternating current motor in star connection it connects the star point with a mains phase of the polyphase alternating current mains, to which a phase conductor with a switch-on member is connected, or with the neutral conductor (MP) of the polyphase alternating current mains, a second partial current circuit (L'S ) with the mentioned rest contact (3), a freewheel diode (D) and the auxiliary winding of the single-phase alternating current motor or at least one winding of the polyphase alternating current motor in Steinmetz connection or that winding of the polyphase alternating current motor in star connection, which is connected with the phase conductor free of switching members, a switch-on member (8), which is actuated simultaneously with the switch-on member (5, 6) and in a given case bridged over by a resistor (9), furthermore lies in the current branch of the reactance (C) of the auxiliary phase of a single-phase alternating current motor (M) or of a polyphase alternating current motor operated in single phase in Steinmetz connection or switch-on members (5, 6, 6') are provided in the phase conductors (LR , LS ) of a polyphase alternating current motor (DM) in three-phase operation, of which the switching members (5 and 6) stand in effective connection with a first (s) and the switching member (6') with a second switching equipment (s') and the switch-on members of the first switching equipment are each respectively closed or opened with a time delay after actuation of the second switching equipment (s'), and at least two main windings (w2, w3) of the polyphase alternating current motor in three-phase operation and at least one respective rest contact (3, 3'), which is operated in opposite sense to the switch-on members (5, 6, 6'), of the switching equipments (s, s') lies in series in both the partial braking current circuits (L'MP , L'T ) and the braking thyristor (Th) is connected with the neutral conductor (MP) of the polyphase alternating current mains or with a phase conductor with a switch-on member.