Electric drive apparatus, chopper, DC motor, and electric device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10622876-B2
Application number	US-201716471012-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 26, 2017
Priority date	Dec 28, 2016
Publication date	Apr 14, 2020
Grant date	Apr 14, 2020

Abstract

An electric drive apparatus includes a DC motor for driving the electric device; a DC power source for outputting constant-voltage DC power to the DC motor; and a chopper for converting the constant-voltage DC power into variable-voltage DC power according to a driving signal and providing the variable-voltage DC power to the DC motor. The DC motor has 2j armature winding branches, each of which consists of m windings, 2j×m commutator segments connected to the windings, and two brush sets respectively connected to two power line sets of the DC motor and in contact with the commutator segments.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric drive apparatus, provided in an electric device to drive the electric device, and comprising:
a DC motor, for driving the electric device;
a DC power source, for outputting constant-voltage DC power to the DC motor; and
a chopper, for converting the constant-voltage DC power into variable-voltage DC power according to a driving signal and providing the variable-voltage DC power to the DC motor;
characterized in that:
wherein, the DC motor has 2j armature winding branches each consisting of m windings, 2j×m commutator segments connected to the windings, and two brush sets respectively connected to two power line sets of the DC motor and in contact with the commutator segments;
each of the brush sets comprises j brushes;
each of the power line sets comprises j power lines;
the chopper has k bridge arm portions, and each of the bridge arm portions comprises j bridge arm units connected to j power lines of one power line set in one-to-one correspondence, and each of the bridge arm units provides a current for two armature winding branches through correspondingly connected power lines;
the armature winding branches generate an output torque to drive the electric device; and
both j and m are positive integers not less than 2, and k is 1 or 2.

2. The electric drive apparatus according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
wherein, when k is 2, each bridge arm unit comprises one chopper bridge arm and two freewheeling diodes, the chopper bridge comprises two power switch tubes connected in series, and each power switch tube is connected to one freewheeling diode in an inverse-parallel mode.

3. An electric device, characterized in that it comprises:
an electric drive apparatus,
wherein, the electric drive apparatus is as described in claim 2 .

4. The electric drive apparatus according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
wherein, when k is 1, each bridge arm unit comprises one chopper bridge arm and two freewheeling diodes, the chopper bridge comprises two power switch tubes connected in series, and each power switch tube is connected to one freewheeling diode in an inverse-parallel mode; and

the other power line set is connected to the output end of the DC power source.

5. An electric device, characterized in that it comprises:
an electric drive apparatus,
wherein, the electric drive apparatus is as described in claim 4 .

6. The electric drive apparatus according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
wherein, when k is 1, the bridge arm unit comprises one power switch tube and one freewheeling diode by series-opposing connection; and
the other power line set is connected to the output end of the DC power source.

7. An electric device, characterized in that it comprises:
an electric drive apparatus,
wherein, the electric drive apparatus is as described in claim 6 .

8. The electric drive apparatus according to claim 1 , characterized in that it further comprises:
a controller and a driving portion,
wherein, the controller receives the command signal corresponding to the operation of the DC motor, and calculates and outputs the control signal according to the command signal;
the driving portion generates the driving signal according to the control signal; and
the chopper provides DC power of transformation for the DC motor under the action of driving signal.

9. An electric device, characterized in that it comprises:
an electric drive apparatus,
wherein, the electric drive apparatus is as described in claim 8 .

10. The electric drive apparatus according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
wherein, when the power switch tubes have the same maximum output current I 1 and the maximum current of DC motor is Imax,
the number of 2j armature winding branches meets the following condition:
j>I max ÷I 1 .

11. An electric device, characterized in that it comprises:
an electric drive apparatus,
wherein, the electric drive apparatus is as described in claim 10 .

12. The electric drive apparatus according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
wherein, the DC power source has a DC unit or a plurality of DC units connected to the bridge arm units in one-to-one correspondence; and
the DC unit is a battery or DC power source obtained from AC power source passing through the rectifier and filter.

13. The electric drive apparatus according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
wherein, the connection method of the armature winding is lap winding; and
the DC motor comprises a main pole providing a working magnetic field for the armature winding branches, and the excitation method of the main pole is any one of permanent magnet, separate excitation, series excitation, shunt excitation, and compound excitation.

14. The electric drive apparatus according to claim 1 , characterized in that:
wherein, the armature winding branch is separately installed on one armature winding or a plurality of armature windings;
the armature is the rotor of the DC motor; and
the power switch tube is the semi-controlled or full-controlled device, the semi-controlled device is an ordinary thyristor, and full-controlled device is any one of power MOSFET, GTO, IGCT, IGBT, GTR, and GCT.

15. An electric device, characterized in that it comprises:
an electric drive apparatus,
wherein, the electric drive apparatus is as described in claim 1 .

16. A chopper, respectively connected to a DC motor (driving an electric device and comprising 2j armature winding branches, 2j×m commutator segments, 2j brushes, and 2j power lines), and to a DC power source (outputting constant-voltage DC power to the DC motor); used for converting the constant-voltage DC power into variable-voltage DC power according to a driving signal and providing the variable-voltage DC power to the DC motor; characterized in that it comprises:
k bridge arm portions,
wherein, each of the bridge arm portions comprises bridge arm units connected to j power lines of one power line set in one-to-one correspondence;

each of bridge arm units outputs current for two armature winding branches through correspondingly connected power lines, and the armature winding branches generate an output torque to drive the electric device; and
both j and m are positive integers not less than 2, and k is 1 or 2.

17. The chopper according to claim 16 , characterized in that:
wherein, when k is 2, each bridge arm unit comprises one chopper bridge arm and two freewheeling diodes, the chopper bridge comprises two power switch tubes connected in series, and each power switch tube is connected to one freewheeling diode in an inverse-parallel mode.

18. The chopper according to claim 16 , characterized in that:
wherein, when k is 1, each bridge arm unit comprises one chopper bridge arm and two freewheeling diodes, the chopper bridge comprises two power switch tubes connected in series, and each power switch tube is connected to one freewheeling diode in an inverse-parallel mode; and
the other power line set is connected to the output end of the DC power source.

19. The chopper according to claim 16 , characterized in that:
wherein, when k is 1, the bridge arm unit comprises one power switch tube and one freewheeling diode connected in a series-opposing mode; and
the other power line set is connected to the output end of the DC power source.

20. A DC motor for driving the electric device, connected with the chopper, wherein, the chopper has k bridge arm portions, each bridge arm portion comprises j brid

Assignees

• Univ Of Shanghai For Science And Technology

Inventors

• Jin Aijuan
• Li Shaolong

Classifications

• H02K23/36 Primary

  having two or more windings; having two or more commutators; having two or more stators · CPC title

• H02K23/08

  having series connection of excitation windings · CPC title

• H02K13/10

  Arrangements of brushes or commutators specially adapted for improving commutation · CPC title

• H02P7/292

  using static converters, e.g. AC to DC · CPC title

• H02M3/155

  using semiconductor devices only · CPC title