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US 2011/0254480 A1Published application
Control of a brushless motor
AssigneeDyson Technology Limited
InventorsYu CHEN, Tuncay Celik, Stephen Greetham
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Abstract
A method of controlling a brushless motor that includes rectifying an alternating voltage to provide a rectified voltage, exciting a winding of the motor with the rectified voltage for a conduction period over each electrical half-cycle of the motor, and updating the conduction period in response to a zero-crossing in the alternating voltage. Additionally, a control system that implements the method, and a motor system that incorporates the control system.
Claims23
A method of controlling a brushless motor, the method comprising:
- rectifying an alternating voltage to provide a rectified voltage;
- exciting a winding of the motor with the rectified voltage for a conduction period over each electrical half-cycle of the motor;
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- updating the conduction period in response to a zero-crossing in the alternating voltage.
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