WO2004111324A1 - Method for detecting unbalanced conditions of a rotating load driven by a synchronous motor and for controlling said motor - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates, in its more general aspect, to a method for detecting unbalanced conditions of a rotating load driven by a synchronous electric motor and for controlling the activation of said motor.
- this invention relates to a method for detecting load unbalanced conditions in washers, washing machines and similar rotably drum household appliances, wherein the drum is rotation- driven by a permanent magnet synchronous electric motor.
- the method provides to control the motor electric supply in order to drastically reduce vibrations and oscillations as well as the undesired effects of such vibrations like: noise, shaking and operation unevenness.
- domestic washing machines are equipped with a rotably drum which is rotation-driven by an electric motor.
- washing machines mean any kind of household appliance having a rotably drum containing a variable load both for mass and for space arrangement inside the drum.
- EP 71 308 suggests to detect a load imbalance by monitoring only the drum rotation speed by means of a speedometer dynamo. Sudden speed variations are representative of a load imbalance.
- the washing machine rotably drum is rotation-driven by slip-ring universal electric motors designed with an external stator and a slot-winded central rotor, which is constrained to a rotation shaft being integral with a pulley.
- the drum is kinematically connected to the pulley by means of a second pulley and a driving belt.
- washing machines whose rotably drum is driven by a permanent magnet synchronous motor have been marketed only recently. Such a solution is disclosed for example in the US patent no. 6,341,507 to Miele.
- This document relates to a washing machine including a synchronous motor 10 arranged on the drum 6 and comprising single pole windings driven by a frequency converter providing voltage values to supply continuous currents in all strands.
- stator must be split into a larger number of poles.
- the technical problem underlying the present invention is to provide a method allowing an unbalanced mass to be detected quite precisely and rapidly in the load of the rotably drum of a washing machine driven by a synchronous motor with a permanent magnet rotor and a real-time intervention on the synchronous motor driving in order to reduce in real time any oscillation in the bud thus fading out possible subsequent vibration of the whole washing machine structure.
- the solution idea underlying the present invention moves from the premise that a relation exists between the load imbalance and the current absorbed by the synchronous motor and it provides a measure of the current differential at different rotation speeds of the machine drum.
- the method is advantageously applied to a machine equipped with a synchronous motor having an external rotor being kinematically connected to the machine rotably drum with a relatively low driving ratio.
- FIG. 1 schematically shows a washing machine incorporating an external-rotor synchronous electric motor according to the present invention
- Figure 2 is a schematic view of the drum of the washing machine of figure 1 incorporating an eccentric mass producing a static imbalance
- Figure 3 is a schematic view of the effects on the drum of the eccentric mass of figure 2;
- Figure 4 is a schematic view of the drum of the washing machine of figure 1 incorporating an eccentric mass producing a dynamic imbalance;
- Figure 5 is a schematic view of the effects on the drum of the eccentric mass of figure 4.
- Figure 6 is a schematic view of the drum of the washing machine of figure 1 incorporating an eccentric mass producing a combined static- dynamic imbalance
- Figure 7 is a schematic view of the effects on the drum of the eccentric mass of figure 6;
- FIGS 8 and 9 are respective schematic views showing the possible vibration directions of the washing machine drum with an unbalanced load
- Figure 10 shows a diagram showing a linearity relation between the torque generated by the synchronous motor of the machine of figure 1 and the current Iq absorbed by the same motor;.
- Figure 11 is a schematic view of a flowchart showing the operating steps of the method according to the invention.
- Figure 12 is a schematic view of a computing principle adopted for the method of the present invention.
- Figure 13 is a more detailed blocks schematic view of the computing principle of Figure 12.
- 1 schematically shows a washing machine with rotably drum 2 , for which a synchronous electric motor 3 is used, according to the present invention.
- the electric motor 3 is a permanent magnet motor and of the so-called external- rotor type, i.e. of the type in which the rotor 4 is mounted externally to the respective stator.
- the motor 3 is kinematically connected to the rotably drum 2 of the washing machine 1 by means of a belt and pulley connection 5 which can be seen in figure 1 characterised by a relatively low driving ratio.
- the motor 3 drives in rotation the drum 2 with an angular speed w adjusted by an electronic control device, generally a driving inverter circuit, operating on the current Iq absorbed by the synchronous motor.
- an electronic control device generally a driving inverter circuit, operating on the current Iq absorbed by the synchronous motor.
- the current Iq is to be considered as an electric signal proportional to the torque output produced by the motor 3.
- the method according to the invention allows an unbalanced linen mass m inserted in the rotably drum 2 of the machine 1 to be determined.
- Figure 2 shows very schematically the drum 2 containing an unbalanced mass m.
- This imbalance condition will be called hereinafter "static" imbalance Sb in the sense that it mainly occurs at constant rotation speed, i.e. when there is a predetermined and constant motor number of revolutions RPM during the washing step.
- a possible combination of the two types of imbalance, static and dynamic is schematically shown in figure 6 and it concerns a kind of imbalance causing a drum 2 oscillation with a linear combination of the vibration modes according to directions A, B, C, D, E and F.
- the method according to the invention moves from the premise that a relation exists between the load imbalance, whether static or dynamic, and the current Iq absorbed by the synchronous motor. More specifically, the current Iq is obtained according to the transform by Clark & Park to the phase currents of the motor.
- m is the imbalanced mass to be determined and Kl(w) is a known value drawn by an experimental curve obtained for different revolution speeds and for different mass m values.
- the data obtained from said experimental curve are stored in a memory unit and used as a reference to compare the current and speed detected values with reference values.
- the memory unit may be for instance a non volatile programmable memory device not shown in the drawing being of a conventional type.
- the imbalance Sb is drawn by simply detecting the standard deviation ⁇ of the current Iq (in AxIO" 3 ) absorbed by the motor, according to the following relation:
- the following table 1 shows some experimental measures of the static imbalance Sb, as well as static and dynamic, according to the vibration directions and number of revolutions RPM of the drum 2.
- the static imbalance ⁇ (Iq) corresponds to the standard deviation of the static current Iq, which is almost constant if it is measured in the absence of system resonance conditions.
- the static + dynamic ⁇ (Iq) varies, which corresponds to the standard deviation of the static + dynamic Iq.
- Figure 10 schematically shows a diagram showing the torque variation in Nm of the motor 3 according to the absorbed current Iq, in Ampere.
- the several parameters can be determined with a reference washing machine loaded with a low-value known mass and thanks to the high sensitivity of the system represented by the external rotor synchronous motor and by the low driving ratio. This mass is put in static and dynamic imbalance conditions, as shown in figures 6 and 7.
- the dynamical imbalance prevails and it is possible to detect the value Sd always by measuring the standard deviation ⁇ of the current Iq absorbed by the motor.
- the current Iq absorption variation always occurs in relation with a predetermined reference, such as for example an average value of such a current or a predetermined threshold value.
- the method thus provides a constant monitoring of the instantaneous current absorbed by the motor 3 and allows computing each variation ⁇ of said current Iq .
- the unbalanced mass m is thus calculated in real time, on the basis of the standard deviation ⁇ of said current Iq starting from a predetermined reference and by applying the calculation formula (1) or (2).
- the imbalance signal is computed as a difference between the last detected positive peak value of current Iq and the last negative peak value of the same current Iq.
- the imbalance signal is computed as a difference between the last sampled value of the current signal Iq, in the time instant wherein the absolute value of the first derivate of the signal Iq is minor than a predetermined threshold and the second derivate of the same signal Iq is positive, and the last sampled value of the signal Iq in the time instant wherein the absolute value of the first derivate of the signal Iq is minor than a predetermined threshold and the second derivate of the same signal Iq is negative.
- the selection between the first or second step of the inventive method to be applied occurs automatically on the basis of the results of the detection in the current Iq absorption. More specifically, if the control is obtained through a sinusoidal signal the second step is applied, otherwise the first.
- the representative value m of the unbalanced mass being obtained, it is thus possible to feedback and current drive the motor 3 for adjusting the operation thereof and specifically adjusting the angular revolution speed of the motor.
- the method of the invention develops according to the following steps:
- the imbalance Sb is measured at first in a range of drum rotation values comprised between 60 and 80 revolutions per minute. In this range a so-called satellization of the load against the drum walls generally occurs.
- a control step is performed afterwards to check that the imbalance is lower at a predetermined acceptable reference value, for example ⁇ (Iqi)
- a second control step allows to check if the imbalance is lower than a second predetermined reference value, for example ⁇ (Iq2) ⁇
- control method according to the invention solves the technical problem and it achieves several advantages, the first being the fact that the driving of the synchronous motor operating the drum can always occur in optimum conditions being compared with experimental parameters that are representative of the possible unbalanced mass inside the washing machine drum.
- the feedback driving and adjusting of the angular revolution speed of the motor allows to proceed the washing activity slowing down the rotation of the motor but avoiding unnecessary stopping of the synchronous motor that suffers at the start up phase.
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