Abstract: A heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system is provided. The system includes an integrated motor including a plurality of operating speeds and an input for selecting one of the plurality of operating speeds. The system further includes a system controller and an adjustment module. The adjustment module includes a plurality of operating modes each associated with one of the plurality of operating speeds and the ability to manually vary associations between the plurality of operating modes and the plurality of operating speeds. The adjustment module selects one of the plurality of operating modes on the basis of control commands received from the system controller and setting programmed or manually entered into and stored in the adjustment module and controls the integrated motor according to the operating speed associated with the selected operating mode.

Abstract: A heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system is provided. The system includes an integrated motor including a plurality of operating speeds and an input for selecting one of the plurality of operating speeds. The system further includes a system controller and an adjustment module. The adjustment module includes a plurality of operating modes each associated with one of the plurality of operating speeds and the ability to manually vary associations between the plurality of operating modes and the plurality of operating speeds. The adjustment module selects one of the plurality of operating modes on the basis of control commands received from the system controller and setting programmed or manually entered into and stored in the adjustment module and controls the integrated motor according to the operating speed associated with the selected operating mode.

Abstract: Brushless repulsion motors are presented, in which rotor coils switching signal detectors are selectively located in spaced angular relationship on the rotor and signaling sources are distributed around all or most of the stator circumference to allow looser tolerances for motor manufacturing and improved controllability of rotor coil actuation during operation. Asymmetric stator poles are also provided for brushless repulsion motors to mitigate torque ripple and vibration, in which the shape of the stator pole tips is tailored by varying the angular length of the pole section.

Abstract: A system for controlling the speed of a brushless repulsion motor having a series of switches mounted on a rotating armature for shorting circumferentially spaced armature coils comprising first stationary signaling means and a plurality of rotating detectors for activating said switches; second stationary signaling means for speed control; a plurality of markers on the rotating armature; a speed detector for detecting the speed of the rotating markers and generating a speed feedback signal; means for generating a speed command signal; an error calculator for comparing the speed feedback and speed command signals and generating an error signal; and a controller for controlling the signaling means based on the error signal.

Abstract: A brushless repulsion motor which includes a stator and rotor rotatably mounted on the stator is provided. The stator and rotor are contained within a first housing, the stator having at least one pair of poles, a field winding on the stator for producing a field on the stator, and a plurality of coils on the rotor adapted to electromagnetically interact with the field of the stator winding. Switches are located on the rotor shaft outside the first housing to selectively short successive ones of the coils when the coils are in a preferred angular position relative to the stator poles. Thus, the stator field is effective to induce a current in the rotor and produce a resultant relative rotation between the rotor and the stator which can be controlled by non-contact signaling means which activate the switches.

Abstract: An armature mounted armature speed control system for a brushless repulsion motor of the type including a series of coil switches on the armature for shorting a succession of armature coils and detectors on the armature for operating each of the switches when the armature coil shorted by a switch is at a selected rotational position, the system comprising: a ring counter with sequentially energized output lines for receiving signals in sequence at a rate controlled by the reference frequency of count pules at the input of the counter, means for operating the switches in sequence by the counter created signals to control the speed of the armature at a set point and a selector switch shiftable upon receipt of a shift signal between a first condition with the signals from said counter operating the coil switches and a second condition with the detectors operating the coil switches.