Patents Assigned to Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9347453
    Abstract: A method for controlling air volume output by a motor. The method includes: 1) establishing functional relation formulas for air volume in a low torque interval and a high torque interval; 2) inputting a target air volume into a microprocessor control unit; 3) starting a motor under a torque to enable the motor to reach a steady state; 4) acquiring an adjustment coefficient under the torque, and calculating the air volume; 5) comparing the target air volume with the calculated air volume; 6) re-recording a steady rotational speed after the motor reaches a new steady state under an increased or reduced torque, and recalculating the air volume in the new steady state; and 7) repeating steps 5) and 6) to adjust the torque until the calculated air volume is equal or equivalent to the target air volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ge Hu
  • Patent number: 9306480
    Abstract: A method for controlling an ECM motor to output a constant torque. The method includes: 1) entering a target torque value T0 from an external device; when the motor is in a non-use state, starting the motor, and allowing the microprocessor to acquire an original output voltage value P chopped by a PWM signal; when the motor is in a running state, allowing the microprocessor to acquire a current output voltage value P chopped by the PWM signal; 2) enabling the microprocessor to calculate a target bus current value Itad using the function Itad=F(T,P) according to the target torque value T0 and the output voltage value P chopped by the PWM signal; and detecting a real-time bus current Ibus; and 3) allowing the microprocessor to compare the target bus current value Itad with the real-time bus current Ibus for conducting a closed-loop control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 9306479
    Abstract: A variable speed fan motor, including: a variable speed motor and a motor controller. The motor controller includes a microprocessor, an inverter circuit, a gear detection circuit, and a power supply unit. The gear detection circuit includes a plurality of Hall current sensing units. Each second power input line is connected with a first input end of each of the Hall current sensing units. Second input ends of the Hall current sensing units are connected in parallel, and are connected with a second AC input end of the power supply unit. An output end of the Hall current sensing unit is connected with an input end of the microprocessor. The microprocessor selects operating parameters according to an energized signal of the second power input lines and controls the variable speed motor to operate in accordance with the selected operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunsheng Chen, Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 9276514
    Abstract: A fan motor, including: a variable speed motor and a motor controller. The motor controller includes: a microprocessor, an inverter unit, a gear detection unit, and a power supply unit. The power supply unit supplies power for each circuit. The gear detection unit is connected to a plurality of power input lines. Each power input line receives AC power from an AC power supply. The gear detection unit includes: a plurality of voltage detection circuits, and a plurality of thermal resistors. Each power input line is connected to a thermal resistor in series and matches up with a voltage detection circuit. Each voltage detection circuit includes a thermo-sensitive resistor that is bound to the corresponding thermal resistor via a thermal conductive element. The thermo-sensitive resistor detects a temperature signal of the thermal resistor and adjusts the voltage of the output end of the voltage detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignees: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD., HUBEI QUEEN-OCEAN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE MANUFACTURE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 9270221
    Abstract: A method for setting parameters of an ECM motor, the method including: 1) energizing the motor and measuring the AC input voltage Vac; 2) allowing the motor to run according to recorded rotational direction data and rotational speed data when Vac>Vset1; 3) enabling the motor to enter a programming state of rotational direction data and rotational speed data when Vac<Vset2; 4) conducting the programming state including operating the motor in a rotational speed state, a rotational direction state, or a combined state thereof, with each state lasting for a time of T, respectively; and 5) determining that the programming state is proper when the user turns off the power; and storing the programming state in operation at the moment when the power is turned off as normal operating parameter of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 9231505
    Abstract: A control system for electrical equipment, the system including: a system controller; a motor; and a signal transducer. The system controller outputs a plurality of rotation switch signals, and the rotation switch signals are high-voltage AC signals. The motor is a brushless DC motor or electronically commutated motor (ECM). The signal transducer is connected between the system controller and the ECM, and includes a rotation switch sensing circuit, a microprocessor controller, and an interface signal processing circuit. The rotation switch sensing circuit detects the rotation switch signals output from the system controller, and transmits the rotation switch signals to the microprocessor controller for processing. The microprocessor controller is connected with the ECM via the interface signal processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chuping Lu, Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 9209666
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor, including: a rotating shaft; a rotor assembly; a stator assembly; a casing; a rear cover; and a control box. The rotating shaft is connected together with the rotor assembly. The stator assembly is sleeved outside the rotor assembly. The casing is connected together with the stator assembly. The rear cover includes a rear bearing seat in the middle for receiving a rear bearing. A plurality of support legs protrudes outwards from a wall surface on the outer side of the rear bearing seat, and is supported and installed on a flanged edge folded outwards from an end surface of the casing. One end of the rotating shaft is supported on the rear bearing. The control box is installed on the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiongcheng Wang, Yueqiang Yu, Mingpan Pan, Wenqing Bian
  • Patent number: 9160207
    Abstract: A motor, including: a motor body, the motor body including two ends; a damping ring, the damping ring including a bottom; a mounting bracket; a locking device; a control box; and a connection housing, the connection housing including two ends, and a sidewall. The damping ring is disposed on each end of the motor body. The bottom of the damping ring is supported by the mounting bracket. The damping ring is fixed on the mounting bracket by the locking device. One end of the connection housing is connected to a bottom of the motor body; the other end of the connection housing is connected to a top of the control box. A plurality of heat dissipation holes is arranged on the sidewall of the connection housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chongsheng Zeng, Songfa Tang
  • Patent number: 9088194
    Abstract: A structure for heat dissipation of motors including a heat dissipation component. A plurality of bosses for heat dissipation is arranged at intervals on the bottom of the heat dissipation component and an airflow passage is formed at the periphery of each boss. The heat dissipation component is a motor controller or an end cover. The structure for heat dissipation of motors is simple and reasonable. It features fast dissipation speed and excellent dissipation effects. It uses fewer materials, and is low in cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Songfa Tang
  • Patent number: 9086181
    Abstract: A connecting structure, including: a volute including an air inlet and an air outlet; and a conversion interface. A connecting part is disposed on an outer side of the air outlet. The connecting part includes: a lower plate; a lower lug protruding outward from each end of the lower plate; and an upper flange disposed above the lower plate. The conversion interface includes a sleeve. An upper plate protrudes from a rear part of the sleeve. Two upper lugs protrude outward from two ends of the upper plate, respectively. A lower flange is disposed on the rear part of the sleeve beneath the upper plate. The upper plate is disposed on the upper flange. The lower flange is disposed on a curved convex block that protrudes upward from an outer edge of the lower plate. The upper lug is disposed on the lower lug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: ZHONGSHAN BROAD-OCEAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Lei, Song Jia, Yunyi Luo, Wenbo Yang, Jianhua Zeng, Xianjun Liu
  • Patent number: 8933600
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor structure including a motor body, a controller, and a fan radiator. The fan radiator is mounted between the motor body and the controller to disperse heat from the motor body and the controller. The brushless DC motor structure increases air flow on the surface of the motor body and the controller by the fan radiator and speeds up heat dispersion, and meanwhile effectively controls the operating temperature of the motor body and the controller. Thus, the brushless DC motor structure has an excellent heat dispersion capability, and the failure rate thereof has been largely reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yonggang Liu, Songfa Tang
  • Patent number: 8933656
    Abstract: A blower system, including a permanent magnet motor and a wind wheel. The permanent magnet motor includes a stator assembly, a rotor assembly, and a motor controller. The rotor assembly includes a salient pole rotor including a rotor core and magnets embedded in the rotor core. The motor controller includes a microprocessor, a frequency inverter, and a sensor unit. The sensor unit inputs a phase current or phase currents, a phase voltage, and a DC bus voltage into the microprocessor. The microprocessor outputs a signal to control the frequency inverter which is connected to a winding of the stator assembly. The ratio between an air gap of the motor and the thickness of the magnets ranges from 0.03 to 0.065, and the ratio between the length of a pole arc and the length of the magnets ranges from 0.8 to 1.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zheng Zhang, Jizhong Wang, Mingpan Pan, Yong Zhao, Yiqiao Zhou, Ronghua Bi
  • Patent number: 8934258
    Abstract: A motor controller comprising multiple types of interfaces assigned automatically, including a mother circuit board and a daughter circuit board. The daughter circuit board is plugged into the mother circuit board to form electric connection. The mother circuit board has a power circuit, a microprocessor unit of the mother circuit board, a rotor position sensing unit, a power inverter unit, and an analog sensing unit. The daughter circuit board includes a signal interface circuit. The mother circuit board further has a serial digital communication unit. The signal interface circuit includes a microprocessor of the daughter circuit board, and a serial digital communication unit of the daughter circuit board. The microprocessor unit of the mother circuit board communicates with the microprocessor of the daughter circuit board via the serial digital communication unit of the mother circuit board and the serial digital communication unit of the daughter circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 8885349
    Abstract: A daughter circuit board of a brushless DC motor for interface signal conversion, having circuit units integrated on the daughter circuit and eight ports for communicating with a control system of a user terminal. The daughter circuit board is plugged into a motor controller for signal conversion so that the motor controller communicates with the control system of the user terminal. The eight ports include a signal input port of analog control, a signal port for activating a fan mode, signal ports of speed feedback, a reserved signal port, a port of COM, a port of DC power supply, and a R/T port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Zhao, Xiansheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 8853901
    Abstract: A motor rotor system including: an axis of rotation, a rotor iron core mounted on the axis of rotation, a permanent magnet, a magnetic ring bracket, and a magnetic ring. The permanent magnet, the magnetic ring bracket, and the magnetic ring are mounted on the rotor iron core. The magnetic ring is sheathed on the magnetic ring bracket. The magnetic ring bracket is located at one end of the rotor iron core and connected with an end face of the rotor iron core. The motor rotor system has excellent batch-to-batch consistency, simple structure, and convenient installation. It is suitable for large batch production and can be controlled using sine-wave driving control methods with a position sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mingpan Pan
  • Patent number: 8853913
    Abstract: A mounting structure for slot paper in a motor stator. The slot paper is embedded in stator slots and includes a paper bottom, a paper side, and a paper front. A lug boss is protruded between two adjacent tooth block segments and protrudes from the inner wall of an outer ring. Two ends of the slot paper extend out of each stator slot. Two ends of the paper bottom are locked between the lug bosses respectively arranged on the upper end insulator and the lower end insulator. One end of each tooth block segment is provided with a clip slot and the paper front near the opening is embedded therein. The structure is simple, has a precise slot paper positioning function, does not occupy space of the stator slot, maximizes the slot filling ratio of the slots, and thus improves the overall performance of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Songfa Tang
  • Patent number: 8854031
    Abstract: A clock-detecting circuit, containing at least a microprocessor, a clock circuit, and a zero-cross detecting circuit. The clock circuit is connected to the microprocessor. The input end of the zero-cross detecting circuit is connected to the utility power AC input. The output end of the zero-cross detecting circuit is connected to the input end of the microprocessor. The zero-cross detecting circuit operates to detect zero crossing points of the utility power AC input. The microprocessor operates to count the number of oscillation periods of the clock circuit in a time interval between two adjacent zero crossing points of the utility power AC input and to detect clock precision of the microprocessor according to the counted number. The circuit according to the invention features simple structure and low production cost, and is reliable and easy to be implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong Zhao
  • Patent number: 8853900
    Abstract: A combination of an outer motor and a control box therefor including an upper main body and a lower controller. The upper main body includes a casing, a front end cover, a rotor assembly, and a stator assembly. The controller includes a control box and a control circuit board, and the control box is sheathed in a tail end of the casing. A center of an upper bottom surface of the control box is arranged with a bearing chamber corresponding to that arranged at the front end cover. The control box forms a cavity downwards accommodating the control circuit board. A cover is mounted at the bottom of the control box. A fairlead arranged at an inner wall of the control box extends through the bottom of the motor casing to connect an empty cavity of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chongsheng Zeng, Mingpan Pan
  • Publication number: 20140265957
    Abstract: A method for correcting torque including: presetting rotational speed of each gear by corresponding gear input lines of a microprocessor; providing a mechanism to select one rotational speed set; electing N power points within a range of the rated power, acquiring a set of torque data corresponding to each set of the rotational speed at each power point, and storing a total 2×N sets of torque data; allowing the motor to enter the torque correction mode; recording a steady torque Tadj when the motor operates in a steady state; and comparing the steady torque Tadj with a maximum gear torque Tmax, and selecting the set of torque data to which T[M]max belongs when the steady torque Tadj satisfies the relationship: 110%×T[M?1]max<Tadj?110%×T[M]max, M=1, 2, . . . , N; when M=1, T0max=0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ge HU, Wenqing BIAN
  • Patent number: 8803386
    Abstract: A brushless DC motor including a motor casing, a stator component, and a rotor component. The stator component and the rotor component are respectively arranged inside the motor casing. The rotor component includes a rotor iron core and a rotating shaft supporting the rotor iron core. A shaft extension end of the rotating shaft is arranged with a magnetic ring. One end of the motor casing is provided with an end cover. The center of the outer end surface of the end cover is provided with a groove. The magnetic ring is arranged inside the groove. A Hall induction device is arranged outside the groove and close to the magnetic ring. The motor is reasonably structured, compact, cost-effective, installation friendly, and highly reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Songfa Tang