Patent GB-1198980-A (GB)
Title: Control System for a Synchronous Electric Motor
Inventor: GILMORE THOMAS PATRICK
IPC: H02P27/06
Filed: 1969-07-02
Abstract: 1,198,980. Control of A.C. motors. ALLIS CHALMERS MFG. CO. 2 July, 1969 [10 July, 1968], No. 33357/69. Heading H2J. A synchronous motor 10 has a stator winding 11, a solid ferromagnetic rotor 12, and a field winding 14, the stator winding being supplied from a frequency changer 15 comprising siliconcontrolled rectifiers. The frequency of the stator voltage is in synchronism with the speed of the rotor and its phase is advanced as a function of motor speed by the displacement angle between the motor terminal voltage and the excitation voltage, whereby the rotor poles lock with the stator poles. A vector adder 20 has sine and cosine windings 21, 22, associated with rotor 26 and three-phase output windings 24X, 24Y, 24Z, for controlling the converter 15. The desired variations of terminal voltage and displacement angle with speed are represented by the polar co-ordinates VT1, VT2 and DT1, D2, whilst the sine and cosine signals are regulated in accordance with the rectangular co-ordinate y and x. A controller 28 receives a power signal from potentiometer 33 actuated by pedal 34, the effect of change in position of the pedal being to vary the length of the radius vector VT1, VT2, while maintaining the same angle DT1, DT2. A tachometer generator 32 supplies signals to sine function generator 50 which also receives a power signal, the generator comprising a flip-flop which is set by each tachometer pulse and, at the same time, a transistor is turned on to discharge a capacitor. After the pulse ceases, the capacitor is charged to re-set the flip-flop. When the flip-flop is set, a further capacitor is charged to a potential that varies linearly with the tachometer frequency. The power signal on line 52 is blocked by a diode until the voltage across the further capacitor increases to bias the diode forwardly. The rate of rise of voltage across the capacitor then decreases to generate the lower slope portion of the characteristic VS. When the speed reaches a predetermined value, the flip-flop is not re-set after each pulse, the diode conducts continuously, and the potential across the further capacitor remains constant to generate the horizontal portion of the characteristic VS. The output from generator 50 is transmitted through operational amplifier 68 to a modulator 70 associated with oscillator 72. A power amplifier 74 feeds winding 21, feedback being provided through rectifier 76 to summing junction 66. A function generator 78 receives a power signal on line 52 as well as a speed signal on line 51, the generator comprising a flip-flop for transferring the tachometer pulses to a storage capacitor, the magnitude of the stored pulses being regulated by the power signal, Fig. 7 (not shown). The output from generator 78 is applied to junction 92 where it is compared with a signal representing the vectorial sum of the voltages across windings 21, 22. The error signal is transmitted through operational amplifier 94 to modulator 96 associated with oscillator 72. A power amplifier 92 feeds winding 22, feedback being transmitted through phase-shifter 102. Junction 104 adds the output from unit 102 with the signal on line 106, the resultant signal being passed through amplifier 108 and rectifier 110 to junction 92. The threephase output voltages from the windings 24X, 24Y, 24Z are demodulated in discriminator 37 which is connected to a firing circuit 60 generating the gating signals for the controlled rectifiers in the converter 15.