Ventilation Device Current Detection Across Wide Motor Current Range
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current ventilation devices with DC motors face challenges in maintaining accurate current detection across a wide range of currents, as existing solutions either reduce shunt resistor resistance or operational amplifier amplification, leading to decreased accuracy at low current levels.
Innovation Solution
A ventilation device with a current detector that includes a shunt resistor, a signal amplifying circuit, and a current calculation circuit with switchable voltage-dividing circuits and amplification factor adjustment, allowing for precise current detection by controlling switching elements based on voltage values to maintain accurate calculations across varying current ranges.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If the amplification factor is increased to improve current detection accuracy, then the detection accuracy is improved, but the output voltage may exceed the allowable voltage range of the microcomputer
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the amplification factor based on the detected current magnitude. When the current is large, a lower amplification factor is selected to keep the output voltage within the microcomputer's allowable range. When the current is small, a higher amplification factor is selected to maintain detection accuracy. This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction between achieving high detection accuracy and maintaining output voltage within acceptable limits.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the amplification factor parameter to have multiple discrete values that can be selected based on operating conditions. By providing amplification circuits with different amplification factors and switching between them, the system ensures that the output voltage remains within the microcomputer's allowable voltage range while maintaining the necessary detection accuracy for the current level being measured.
2Device complexity
If a fixed amplification factor is used to simplify the circuit design, then the device complexity is reduced, but the current detection accuracy across the entire current range deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic switching between multiple amplification factors based on the current magnitude. The control circuit monitors the current level and automatically selects the appropriate amplification factor, making the system adaptive to different operating conditions. This dynamic approach improves current detection accuracy across the entire current range while adding manageable complexity through automated control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the current detection range into multiple intervals, each associated with a specific amplification factor. By dividing the wide current range into smaller segments and assigning an optimized amplification factor to each segment, the system achieves high detection accuracy across the entire range. The switching circuit automatically selects which segment is active based on the current magnitude, effectively managing the complexity through structured segmentation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This configuration enhances current detection accuracy across the entire current range, ensuring precise air volume calculation and control in ventilation devices, even with widely varying motor currents.
Implementation Method 1
a shunt resistor that converts the current flowing through the DC motor into a voltage and outputs the voltage
Implementation Method 2
a signal amplifying circuit that amplifies and outputs the voltage output from the shunt resistor
Data Source
AI summary
Controlling a switching element in accordance with a voltage output from a signal amplifying circuit enables adjusting a voltage to be received by a current calculation circuit. Even when a range of a air volume to be used is wide and a range of output of a DC motor is wide, or a current flowing through the DC motor has a wide range, a resistance value of a shunt resistor and an amplification factor of a signal amplifying circuit are not required to be reduced, and thus current detection accuracy of the DC motor can be improved.


