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US 12,401,307 · App. 17/419,790 · Granted Aug 26, 2025

Motor drive device

Inventors: Yasushi Kuwabara (Tokyo, JP); Takamasa Onishi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
H02P27/06H02H5/047H02H7/08H02P29/64
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Patent No.
US 12,401,307
App. No.
17/419,790
Granted
Aug 26, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A motor drive device includes an inverter circuit to drive a motor, an inverter control device to control the inverter circuit, a gate-driving power supply to supply power to be used for driving the inverter circuit, a circuit pattern configured to connect the inverter circuit and the gate-driving power supply, a control power supply connected to the circuit pattern to supply power to be used for driving the inverter control device, and a thermal switch connected to the circuit pattern to interrupt power supply from the gate-driving power supply to the inverter circuit when a temperature of a winding of the motor exceeds a predetermined temperature.

Claims (15)

1. A motor drive device comprising:

an inverter circuit to drive a motor;

an inverter control device to control the inverter circuit;

a gate-driving power supply to supply power to be used for driving the inverter circuit;

a circuit pattern configured to connect the inverter circuit and the gate-driving power supply;

a control power supply connected to the circuit pattern to supply power to be used for driving the inverter control device; and

a thermal switch connected to the circuit pattern to interrupt power supply from the gate-driving power supply to the inverter circuit when a temperature of a winding of the motor exceeds a predetermined temperature,

wherein

the thermal switch is connected to the circuit pattern between the gate-driving power supply and the inverter circuit,

the inverter control device provides a gate drive output for controlling the inverter circuit, and

the motor drive device further comprises:

an overcurrent detection circuit having a function of detecting an overcurrent in a bus current of the inverter circuit to output an overcurrent signal indicating that the overcurrent is detected when the overcurrent detection circuit detects the overcurrent;

a latch circuit having a function of holding therein the overcurrent signal output from the overcurrent detection circuit; and

a buffer circuit to receive the gate drive output provided from the inverter control device, and to stop supply of the gate drive output provided from the inverter control device to the inverter circuit when the latch circuit holds therein the overcurrent signal.

2. The motor drive device according to claim 1 , wherein the thermal switch is attached to the motor.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 30, 2021
From: KUWABARA, YASUSHI; ONISHI, TAKAMASA
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 056715/0250 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220123683A1 · Apr 21, 2022
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