This application is a new U.S. patent application that claims benefit of JP 2014-166920, filed on Aug. 19, 2014, the entire content of JP 2014-166920 is hereby incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to a servomotor control system, and in particular relates to a servomotor control system including a buffer motor with a plurality of windings.
In large-scale machine tools and industrial machines, there are cases where a plurality of servomotors are used to drive axes.
The (M+N) drive motors (M1-1, M1-2, . . . , M1-M, . . . , M1-(M+N)) are driven by respective drive amplifiers (SV1-1, SV1-2, . . . , SV1-M, . . . , SV1-(M+N)) each formed of an inverter circuit. Respectively connected to the (M+N) drive amplifiers (SV1-1, SV1-2, . . . , SV1-M, . . . , SV1-(M+N)) are converter circuits (PS-1, PS-2, . . . , PS-M, . . . , PS-(M+N)). The converter circuits convert alternate current (AC) power from an AC power supply (not shown) into direct current (DC) power to supply the drive amplifiers. The drive amplifiers receive DC power from the converter circuit and convert the DC power into AC power to drive the drive motors.
In the above way, in a large-scale machine tool or industrial machine including a plurality of drive motors, the maximum power consumed by the servomotors is large. Accordingly, when the capacity of the installed power supply becomes insufficient, it is necessary to operate the machine by suppressing the output so as not to consume power or enhance the capacity of the installed power supply.
In order to reduce the power consumption for the drive motors, there has been a proposed technique in which a servomotor (buffer motor) equipped with an inertial body is rotated to store power as rotational energy. In this method, when the drive motors consume power, the buffer motor is retarded to supply energy. On the other hand, when the drive motors regenerate electric power, the buffer motor is accelerated to consume energy. For example, there have been known technologies for a pressing machine using a flywheel as motive power to perform a pressing process in which in order to save energy, the flywheel is accelerated and decelerated in accordance with the power consumed at the servomotor axes (Japanese Patent Application Laid-open 2013-71123 (JP 2013-71123 A) and Japanese Patent Application Laid-open 2010-221221 (JP 2010-221221 A)
This method makes it possible to reduce the capacity of the installed power supply and the capacity of the converter circuits compared to the case where no buffer motors are used.
However, in the case where there are plural converter circuits for supplying power to drive motors as shown in
When, as shown in
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a servomotor control system that includes a plurality of drive motors and a plurality of inverter circuits for driving the drive motors and that does not use any dedicated high-capacity inverter circuits for driving buffer motors and converter circuits.
The servomotor control system according to one embodiment of the present invention is a control system for servomotors for driving axes in an industrial machine or machine tool, comprising: a plurality of first servomotors for driving axes; a plurality of converters for converting AC voltage into DC voltage; a plurality of first inverters that receive DC voltage from the converters and convert the DC voltage into AC voltage to drive the plural first servomotors and also convert the regenerated AC power from the first servomotors into DC power; second servomotors for rotating inertial bodies; a plurality of second inverters that receive DC voltage from the converter and convert the DC voltage into AC voltage to drive the second servomotors and also convert the regenerated AC power from the second servomotors into DC power; and, a servomotor control unit for controlling the plural first servomotors and the second servomotors, wherein the number of the second servomotors is less than that of the plural second inverters, and wherein at least one of the second servomotors includes a plurality of independent windings, and at least part of the plural second inverters are connected to the plural independent windings provided for one of the second servomotors.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be better understood by reading the following detailed description, taken together with the drawings wherein:
Referring to the drawings, servomotor control systems according to the present invention will be described. However, it should be noted that the technical scope of the present invention is not limited by the embodied mode of these but embraces the inventions defined by the claims and their equivalence.
A servomotor control system according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described using the drawings.
Next, the servomotor control system according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail. As shown in
The plural converters (PS-1, PS-2, . . . , PS-M, . . . , PS-(M+N)) convert AC voltage from an unillustrated AC power supply into DC voltage. As shown in
The plural first inverters (SV1-1, SV1-2, . . . , SV1-M, . . . , SV1-(M+N)) are amplifiers for driving the drive motors (first servomotors), and receive DC voltage from the plural converters and converts the DC voltage into AC voltage for driving the plural first servomotors and also convert AC power regenerated from plural first servomotors into DC power. Also with regard to the first inverters, as many inverters as the first servomotors, i.e., (M+N) inverters are provided.
A second servomotor M2 is a buffer motor to rotate an inertia (inertial body) IS. Provision and rotation of the second servomotor with the inertia (inertial body) IS makes it possible to store rotational energy. Further, when the drive motors (first servomotors) are consuming power, the buffer motor (second servomotor) is retarded to supply energy. On the other hand, when the drive motors (first servomotors) regenerate power, the buffer motor (second servomotor) is accelerated to consume energy. In this way, it is possible to reduce the electric power necessary for driving motors.
Plural (e.g., (M+N)) second inverters (SV2-1, SV2-2, . . . , SV2-M, . . . , SV2-(M+N)) are amplifiers for driving the buffer motor, i.e., the second servomotor M2, and receive DC voltage from the plural converters (PS-1, PS-2, . . . , PS-M, . . . , PS-(M+N)) and converts the DC voltage into AC voltage for driving the second servomotor M2 and also convert AC power regenerated from the second servomotor M2 into DC power.
The servomotor control unit (not shown) controls the plural first servomotors (M1-1, M1-2, . . . , M1-M, . . . , M1-(M+N)) and the second servomotor M2. It is preferable that the servomotor control unit is adapted to control the second servomotor M2 so as to reduce the maximum electric power of the plural first servomotors.
The servomotor control system according to the first embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that the number of the second servomotors M2 are less than the plural number (e.g., (M+N)) of the second inverters, and at least one of the second servomotors M2 includes a plurality of independent windings, and at least part of the plural second inverters are connected to the plural independent windings provided for the one second motor.
Further, the example shown in
When, for example, of M second servomotors (M2-1, M2-2, . . . , M2-M), one second servomotor M2-1 has two independent windings, the other (M-1) second servomotors (M2-2, . . . , M2-M) do not need to have plural independent windings. In this case, the single second servomotor M2-1 includes two independent windings, so two second inverters SV2-1 and SV2-2 are connected to two respective independent windings of the second servomotor M2-1, for example.
Similarly, when for example, of M second servomotors (M2-1, M2-2, . . . , M2-M), two second servomotors M2-1 and M2-2 each have two independent windings, the other (M-2) second servomotors (M2-3, . . . , M2-M) do not need to have plural independent windings.
Therefore, as long as, at least, one of the second servomotors includes independent windings, it is possible to reduce the number of second servomotors as buffer motors whiles keeping up the number of second inverters. Accordingly, this configuration contributes to producing the effect of making it unnecessary to use dedicated large capacity second inverters and converters.
Next, a servomotor control system according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in
Further, as shown in
The servomotor control unit 1 is connected to plural first inverters (SV1-1, . . . , SV1-M, SV1-(M+1), SV1-(M+2), . . . , SV1-(M+2N−1), SV1-(M+2N)) and plural second inverters (SV2-1, . . . , SV2-M, SV2-(M+1), . . . , SV2-(M+N)) to control first servomotors (M1-1, . . . M1-M, M1-(M+1), M1-(M+2), . . . , M1-(M+2N−1), M1-(M+2N), and plural independent windings provided for the second servomotor M2, respectively.
In the servomotor control system according to the second embodiment, the numbers of the first inverters, converters and second inverters satisfy the following conditional expression:
The number of first inverters for drive motors (first servomotors)
≧ the number of converters
≧ the number of second inverters for buffer motors (second servomotors)
≧2.
As described above, according to the servomotor control system of the second embodiment of the present invention, even if the drive motors equal to or greater in number than the converters are provided, it is possible to reduce the number of buffer motors having inertia without reducing the number of the second inverters which is the same number as that of the converters. Accordingly, this configuration makes it possible to not have to use dedicated large capacity second inverters and converters.
As has been described heretofore, according to the present invention, since motors including a plurality of windings which each are driven by different inverter circuits that are connected to individual converter circuits, are used as buffer motors, it is possible to produce the effect of making it unnecessary to use dedicated large capacity converter circuits and inverter circuits for driving buffer motors.
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