JPH06311646A - Dc chopper voltage regulating circuit employing thyristor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow voltage regulation over a relatively wide range by a constitution wherein pulses are generated and controlled for a thyristor using three brushes touching the contact piece of a rotary contactor rotating at a high speed. CONSTITUTION:A brush 16 for slip ring is connected with the plus side of a power supply so that a contact piece 19 integrated with a slip ring 17 has a plus potential at all times. A brush 18 for gate or a rotary brush 22 touches the contact piece 19 and when the contact piece 19 is rotating, pulsating current flows through each brush to generate a pulse in the gate brush 18 or the rotary brush 22 for every revolution of a rotary contactor 20 and a pulse signal is delivered to the base of a transistor(Tr) connected with each brush. When a signal current flows into the base of Tr3 connected with the gate 27 side of the thyristor, the thyristor is turned ON. When the knob 26 of the rotary brush 22 is turned to increase the interval between the brushes 18, 22, the current increases and when the interval is decreased, the current decreases.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a DC chopper voltage adjusting circuit using a thyristor, which generates a pulse and turns on and off a thyristor by a brush contacting a contact piece of a rotary contact driven by a motor or the like. Control is also possible, and the DC voltage can be adjusted by a relatively wide range of thyristors.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the voltage adjustment of a DC chopper circuit by a thyristor is mainly controlled by an electronic device such as a transistor, a capacitor, a resistor or the like for sending an ON / OFF pulse signal to the thyristor.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, the generation and control of pulses for turning on and off the thyristor circuit is performed by a brush contacting a contact piece embedded in a rotary contact driven by a motor. By adjusting the rotating brush with the knob, the DC voltage can be adjusted in a wide range.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, in a DC chopper voltage adjusting circuit using a thyristor of the present invention, a slip ring 1 is attached to a cylindrical insulator 21.
A rotary contactor 2 having a narrow contact piece 19 embedded therein
0 is driven by the drive motor 15. As a method of driving the rotary contact, it is possible to drive the rotary contact directly by a motor connected as a load or by a flexible shaft or the like. In this case, the resistance or the like may be temporarily used only at the time of start-up so that the motor is switched to the chopper current when the rotation speed of the motor reaches about 500 times per minute.

The slip ring brush 16 is in contact with the slip ring, the gate brush 18 and the rotating brush 22 are in contact with the contact piece 19 of the rotary contactor, and the slip ring brush is in contact with the slip ring. 16 is connected to the plus 1 side of the power supply, and the gate brush 18 that contacts the contact piece 19 is connected to the transistor 3 connected to the gate side of the thyristor.

Further, the circumference of the rotary contact 20 is approximately 36
A rotating brush 22 which can be rotated by 0 ° so as to come into contact with the contact piece 19 is connected via a sliding brush 24 to a transistor 12 connected to the power transistor 11 side for turning off the thyristor circuit. . The sliding brush 24
Allows the rotating brush to slide on the peripheral edge of the fixed disk 23, and allows the rotating brush 22 to be turned by a knob 26.

The collector 10 of the power transistor is connected to the terminal 9 of the primary coil of the output transformer, and the other terminal 7 of the primary coil is connected to the plus 1 side of the power supply. Also, the terminal 8 of the secondary coil of the output transformer was connected to the cathode 25 of the thyristor, the other terminal 6 of the secondary coil was connected to the terminal 5 of the capacitor, and the other terminal 4 of the capacitor was connected to the plus 1 side of the power supply. Each is connected to the anode 28 of the thyristor. In this way, by rotating the rotary brush that comes into contact with the contact piece of the rotary contactor driven by the motor with the knob, the contact position of the rotary brush is changed, and the contact interval with the gate brush is changed, so that The voltage can be adjusted.

[0008]

As described above, since the slip ring brush 16 is connected to the positive side of the power source, the contact piece 19 which is the same body as the slip ring always has a positive potential. However, when the contact piece 19 is contacted and the contact piece is rotating, the current flowing through each brush becomes a pulse, and a pulse is generated in the gate brush or the rotating brush every one rotation of the rotary contact, A pulse signal is input to the base of the transistor connected to each brush.

At this time, when a signal current flows through the base of the transistor 3 connected to the gate 27 side of the thyristor,
The thyristor turns on and the power transistor 11
When a signal current flows through the base of the transistor 12 connected to the side, the current flows through the power transistor from the plus 1 side of the power supply to the collector 10 through the primary coil of the output transformer, so that the secondary coil of the output transformer flows. Also current flows.

The terminal 8 of the secondary coil is connected to the cathode 25 of the thyristor, the other terminal 6 of the secondary coil is connected to the terminal 5 of the capacitor, and the other terminal 4 of the capacitor is connected to the anode 28 of the thyristor. Therefore, if the magnitude of the current flowing through the secondary coil at this time and the capacitance of the capacitor are appropriate values, the current at this time becomes a commutation current with respect to the thyristor, and the thyristor is turned off.

At this time, the capacitor is charged by the commutation current flowing in the secondary coil. At the same time, the thyristor is turned on again, and at the same time, the charge charged in the capacitor passes through the anode and cathode contacts of the thyristor. After being discharged, the secondary coil of the output transformer is again in a state where a sufficient commutation current can flow. In addition, the control of the pulse signal of on and off of the thyristor is performed by turning the knob of the rotating brush,
If the knob is rotated in the direction of rotation of the rotary contact to increase the distance between the gate brush and the rotating brush, the current increases, and if the distance is decreased, the current decreases. In this way, the voltage can be adjusted by turning the knob and changing the position of the rotating brush.

[0012]

EXAMPLE An example will be described. A power source is a 12V battery and a load is a 12V motor. At this time, the maximum current is about 3A, and the rotary contact 20 has a diameter of 1
4mm width with slip ring on 3mm cylindrical insulator
Of the contact piece 19 is embedded, and the rotary contactor is driven by a motor to generate about 3000 r.p.m. p. Rotation brush 6
As a result of rotating and turning the knob 26, the voltage could be freely adjusted at least from about 3V to about 11V. At this time, a capacitor having a capacity of 200 μF was used.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to generate and control a pulse to a thyristor by means of three brushes that come into contact with the contact pieces of the rotary contactor that rotates at a high speed. By rotating the knob, the voltage can be adjusted in a relatively wide range by the DC chopper, and very stable voltage adjustment can be performed even when an inductive load such as a motor is connected as the load.

[Brief description of drawings]

1] Overall circuit diagram

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Power Transistors 13 and 14 Output Terminals 15 Drive Motor 16 Slip Ring Brush 17 Slip Ring 18 Gate Brush 19 Contact Piece 20 Rotating Contact 21 Cylindrical Insulator 22 Rotating Brush 23 Disc 24 Sliding Brush 25 Thyristor Cathode 26 Knob 27 Thyristor gate 28 Thyristor anode

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A narrow contact piece 19 having a slip ring 17 is embedded in a rotary contact 20 driven by a motor, and a slip ring brush 16 contacting the slip ring 17 is provided on the plus 1 side of a power source. Connect the gate brush 18 that connects and contacts the contact piece 19 of the rotary contact,
Transistor 3 connected to the gate 27 side of the thyristor
, And around the rotary contactor 20 by approximately 360 °.
A rotating brush 22 that can rotate and come into contact with the contact piece 19;
It is connected to the transistor 12 connected to the power transistor 11 side for turning off the thyristor, and the collector 10 of the power transistor is connected to the terminal 9 of the primary coil of the output transformer.
, The other terminal 7 of the primary coil is connected to the plus 1 side of the power supply, the terminal 8 of the secondary coil of the output transformer is the cathode 25 of the thyristor, and the other terminal 6 of the secondary coil is the terminal 5 of the capacitor. , The other terminal 4 of the capacitor, the anode 28 of the thyristor connected to the plus 1 side of the power supply
DC chopper voltage adjustment circuit by thyristor connected to each.