Overcurrent fault detection device for electrical drive control system

• Main Authors: AKAISHI, YOSHIO, NOTO, YASUO, MYOEN, KOHEI, YAMAI, HIROYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 15.07.2015
• Subjects: CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORSOR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICITY; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS; GENERATION

According to the present invention, an overcurrent fault detection device includes: an inverter 2 converting DC current to three-phase AC currents for driving a motor 3; a DC voltage detector 4; phase current detectors 5-7; a rotational position detector 8 that detects a rotational angle of the motor 3; a control circuit 9 that controls a gate drive circuit 10, which controls the inverter 2 at every predetermined cycle, based upon the phase current values, a motor rotational angle detection value, and a speed command or a torque command from a higher-order control device; and a first decision-making circuit that detects an overcurrent based upon the phase current values at every predetermined cycle, wherein: the first decision-making circuit determines whether or not the phase current values exceed a predetermined amplitude threshold value by frequency detection for any of the phase current values exceeding the predetermined amplitude threshold value, and determines that an overcurrent has occurred upon detecting the frequency.