A.C. MOTOR DRIVE APPARATUS

摘要

An apparatus for driving an A.C. motor includes a circuit for computing the sum of polyphase A.C. signals used to drive a pulse-width modulation circuit for controlling an inverter, and for limiting the amplitude of a current command when said sum is other than zero. When an imbalance occurs in the polyphase A.C. signals, the current command amplitude is immediately limited in accordance with the state of the imbalance to prevent saturation of a current amplifier that is operable to produce the polyphase A.C. signals by amplifying the outputs of an arithmetic circuit. These outputs are difference currents obtained by computing the difference between polyphase command currents and corresponding ones of detected polyphase currents actually applied to the A.C. motor. Preventing saturation of the current amplifier assures that the polyphase currents actually applied to the A.C. motor will be held in a balanced state at all times.