Method for operating a three-phase machine

A method for operating a three-phase machine including a rotor and a stator, connected to a three-phase network including a three-phase stator winding, the stator being connected to the three-phase network via a first semiconductor circuit arrangement for forming a first rotational field rotating in a first direction of rotation in the stator and via a second semiconductor circuit arrangement for forming a second rotational field rotating in a direction of rotation opposite to the first direction of rotation in the stator, the three-phase machine further including a controller for setting the semiconductors of the first semiconductor circuit arrangement and semiconductors of the second semiconductor circuit arrangement, the method comprising:

• controlling, via the controller, the semiconductors of the first semiconductor circuit arrangement and the semiconductors of the second semiconductor circuit arrangement to accelerate the rotor by current pulses of both the first rotational field and the second rotational field in the first direction of rotation, the second rotating field providing additional times for setting the semiconductors of the second semiconductor circuit arrangement, in which the rotor is acceleratable in the first direction of rotation.