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US 2009/0151362 A1Published application
Motor drive architecture for high frequency ac bus
AssigneesHamilton Sundstrand Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.
InventorsGregory I. Rozman, Kevin Dooley
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Abstract
A motor drive for an electric motor receives high frequency AC current, and delivers this current through a converter which is operable to change the current delivered downstream to an inverter and an electric motor.
Claims4
A motor and associated motor drive comprising:
- an AC power supply delivering three phase current, said AC power supply connected through converter which is operable to change the magnitude of current delivered downstream of said converter;
- an inverter downstream of said converter for controlling the three phases of AC power delivered to stator windings of an electric motor, and a rotor driven by the field set up by the currents in said stator windings.
An aircraft engine and associated systems comprising:
- a gas turbine engine, said gas turbine engine that provides motive power to the generator to generate electric power;
- a plurality of electric motors for driving accessories of said gas turbine engine, and said generator generating electrical power which is delivered to a high frequency AC bus to drive said plurality of electric motors;
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- a control circuit for said plurality of electric motors including a converter which is operable to change the magnitude of current delivered downstream of said converter, and an inverter downstream of said converter for controlling three phases of AC power delivered to stator windings of at least one of said plurality of electric motors, and a rotor driven by said stator windings.
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